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PPhil Ontario PCs Strong methaneane Gwynne GGurski still favoured rules will bring health,ealth, Dyer to win p. 13 job, environmental pp. 15 Kinsella benefi ts p. 19 p. 15 Revenue minister hires a new press secretary p. 38 TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 1510 CANADA’S POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2018 $5.00 News Pipelines & politicsNews Ontario PC leadership race News Ontario election Trans Mountain Unlikeable PC pipeline support Brown team changing gears leader could will cost Liberals from crisis management to be a ‘pathway in 2019, but how to victory’ for much remains to formal leadership campaign the Ontario be seen: pollsters mode with lightning pace NDP: Bricker BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT BY PETER MAZEREEUW he federal Liberal government Pollster Greg Lyle says it’s not possible to predict if Patrick Brown has a will pay a political price over T realistic shot at winning the Ontario PC leadership because it’s unknown how orget about Kathleen Wynne’s its support for the $7.4-billion Liberals. It’s the Ontario NDP Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain the party membership at large feels about the cloud of controversies over Mr. F that stands to gain if the public pipeline expansion among First Brown’s head. Caroline Mulroney, meanwhile, said the party is in ‘crisis.’ doesn’t support the winner of the Nations and B.C. voters in the leadership brawl for the front- next election, say pollsters, but running Progressive Conservative how high a cost remains to be party in Canada’s biggest prov- seen. ince, says pollster Darrell Bricker. Continued on page 34 Continued on page 33 News Legislation Opinion Punjabi politics & Canada Liberals head In perilous world into fi rearms of Punjabi politics summit with in Canada, the promised gun way to the fi nish law changes yet line is riddled to be introduced with potential Publications Mail Agreement #40068926 landmines BY PETER MAZEREEUW It’s on: The Ontario Progressive Conservatives will choose their new leader on March 10. Five candidates are vying for the party’s top job, including Patrick Brown, Tanya Granic Allen, Christine Elliott, Doug Ford, and Caroline Mulroney. BY SHEILA COPPS he Liberal government is The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, fi le photo and campaign handout Theading into a planned sum- TTAWA—Most Canadians mit on gun crime and safety next BY JOLSON LIM & ABBAS RANA Feb. 16, three weeks after quit- Ms. Mills, who joined the team Odon’t know a kirpan from month, but still hasn’t introduced ting the job, Patrick Brown and assembled to help revive Mr. Khalistan. some of its promised reforms to ontroversially green-lit to run his team of consultants are now Brown’s political career in early But in the world of Canadian re- The Hill Times fi rearms laws, more than halfway Cin the Ontario Progressive moving from managing a crisis February, told in alpolitik, Sikh organizers can mean through its mandate. Conservative leadership cam- to organizing a formal leadership an interview Feb. 22 that they the difference between winning paign after stunningly entering campaign, says his public spokes- Continued on page 35 Continued on page 30 Continued on page 16 the race at the eleventh hour on person Alise Mills. 2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2018 | THE HILL TIMES Former prime minister Stephen Harper was elected on Heard on the Hill Feb. 21 as the new by Shruti Shekar chairman of the International Democrat Union. The Hill Times Métropolitain’s the place photograph by Andrew Meade to be Tuesday night after federal budget He succeeded Sir John Key, the former time working in the government to illus- prime minister of New Zealand, who was trate there are checks on the prime minis- Shortly after the chair for the past four years. ter’s control over his or her party, caucus, Finance Minister Shortly after leaving politics, Mr. cabinet, Parliament, the public service, and Bill Morneau Harper joined law fi rm Dentons and he is the policy agenda. tables the 2018 currently the CEO of Harper & Associates. Mr. Brodie is budget there will also a former ex- be multiple after- Marieke Walsh leaves ecutive director parties, so make of the Conserva- sure you head on Global, joins iPolitics tive Party. over to relax and McGill- unwind. The Hill Queen’s Uni- Times photograph versity Press by Andrew Meade published the 200-page book. Another new book that de- mystifi es the de- bate on health- care in Canada was published this month. In Treating Health Care: How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better, author and health policy scholar Raisa Deber offers readers an understanding of what’s happening to uesday is the federal budget day which Canada’s health-care system and clari- is the most important day on the Hill, fi es “which proposed changes are likely to T Marieke Walsh will be moving to Toronto. She improve it—and which are not.” but it also means there will be after-parties will be leaving Global News Halifax and joining lined up in downtown Ottawa. The book discusses the organization of iPolitics to cover Ontario politics. Photograph health-care systems, and the funding that Like last year, HOH has learned there courtesy of Twitter will be a big shindig hosted at one of Ot- goes towards it, and compares it to how tawa’s favourite watering holes, the Métro- other countries manage their health-care systems. The book also delves into the roles politain Brasserie, and is being sponsored Marieke Walsh, a political reporter by the Earnscliffe Strategy Group. of stakeholders and discusses issues such at Halifax’s Global News, decided it was as access to health care, wait times, and The party is pretty well open to anyone time to leave the East Coast and move to who has worked for months putting the payment models. Toronto. University of Toronto Press published budget together, reporting on the budget, “I am thrilled to announce that I am or following it as a stakeholder. the book and it runs 224 pages. moving to Toronto to cover the e#onpoli Next to watch out Last year Robert Asselin, then the election for @ipoliticsca. This is a dream director of policy for Finance Minister Bill for is a book on public come true and only possible because of the safety and security of Morneau, and Brian Clow, director of amazing opportunities I’ve had at @global- Canada-U.S. relations at the Prime Minis- the Muslim culture in Former Conservative staffer Josh Zanin news. I am forever grateful to the team and Canada, set for release ter’s Offi ce, made appearances. Edmonton joined Environics as a new account director. my #nspoli press gallery crew,” Ms. Walsh Mayor Don Iveson and Liberal MPs Julie in June. Photograph courtesy of Environics tweeted on Feb. 20. In Protecting Mul- Dzerowicz, Kyle Peterson, James Maloney, Ms. Walsh has been with Global News ticulturalism: Muslims, and Don Rusnak were also among the since 2012 as a producer for The West But his expertise in the federal govern- Security, and Integra- crowd. Block based in Ottawa, and later as a tion in Canada The Finance Department also hosted ment comes from working as a Conserva- , author broadcaster since 2014 in Halifax. John McCoy interviews a private party last year at the Riviera on tive ministerial staffer. Prior to Global, she was a reporter at Sparks Street. He worked as the press secretary for religious leaders and CBC News as the associate producer for policy offi cials and HOH was chatting with a few Hillites then-defence minister Peter MacKay from Power & Politics from 2011 to 2012. and learned that the party was only for 2010-2012, as communications director for includes statistical data, Finance and PMO staffers in the begin- then-minister of state for foreign affairs Di- which points “out the ning, and even MPs weren’t allowed into it, ane Ablonczy in 2012-2013, as communi- Book alert: three books successes, pitfalls, and sometimes counter- which caused a bit of a stir. cations director for then-veterans affairs worth a look vailing effects of government measures on HOH heard that making the party minister Julian Fantino in 2013-2014. Muslims in Canada.” private and closing it off to specifi c people Greg MacEachern, senior vice-president Mr. McCoy digs deeper into social was a bad judgment call by Finance Minis- of government relations at Environics, said Ian Brodie, for- integration and national security, which ter Bill Morneau. Mr. Zanin will be providing senior coun- mer chief of staff to are two topics “at the heart of the crisis of The party was opened up to MPs later sel, media relations advice, and strategic former prime minister multiculturalism.” in the evening, and Environment Minis- guidance for the company’s corporate and Stephen Harper, has McGill-Queen’s University Press pub- ter Catherine McKenna, and then-Health fi nance public relations team, led by senior penned a book to be lished the book, which clocks in at 296 minister Jane Philpott were spotted in vice-president Melody Gaukel. released later this year pages. attendance. in May. Stephen Harper new chair At the Centre of Continued on page 12 Government: The Former Conservative of International Democrat Prime Minister and the Limits on Political THE HILL TIMES: Clarifi cation staff er joins Environics Re: “Close to 500 politicos schmooze, Union Power argues against feast, and celebrate Canadian Agricul- the perception that ture Day,” (The Hill Times, Party Central, Environics Communications has hired Former prime minister Stephen Harper Canada’s prime min- on Joshua Zanin as a new account director.