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By Tim Naumetz which voted Liberals into all 32 by security barrier on Hill House of Commons seats in the A new poll has found Justin region last October, are satis- Trudeau’s Liberal government at fied with the performance of the historic highs in Atlantic Canada, federal government, a quarterly throwing cold water on the fed- survey by Corporate Research eral Conservatives during their Associates of Halifax suggests. foray into Halifax this week in It breaks down to 63 per cent of an attempt to begin rebuilding respondents who were mostly support following the party’s 2015 satisfied and 11 per cent who election defeat in the region. were completely satisfied. Fully 74 per cent of elec- tors in the Atlantic provinces, Continued on page 6

news trade U.S. lobbyists cheesed off over proposed Canadian dairy policy

By Peter Mazereeuw reveal details of the strategy, it is expected to allow producers to Lobby groups in the United sell a concentrated dairy prod- An Exel Contracting Inc. dump truck carrying a trailer full of black metal fencing was hit by a rising barrier on States, European Union, and uct that could compete with the Parliament Hill on Friday, disrupting traffic near the Confederation Building for hours. The cost of the damage is three other countries are leaning diafiltered milk imports from the still unclear, though the truck will be out of commission for at least the next few weeks. For more, read Heard on on their governments to launch U.S. and elsewhere that Canadian the Hill on page 22. The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright trade challenges against Canada, cheesemakers are currently using arguing that proposed changes to in place of Canadian milk. help Canada’s dairy farmers com- ’s dairy sector has already pete with diafiltered milk imports made that change, creating a new news education amount to a violation of trade law. ingredient-pricing class and drawing Canadian dairy producers and the ire of dairy farmers south of the processors are working to ratify border and their allies in Congress, How the universities lobby got $1-billion- a national ingredient strategy for who say the moves are explicitly their sector. While the national intended to cut off U.S. exports. plus from the feds dairy lobby group, the Dairy Farmers of Canada, won’t yet Continued on page 7 By Peter Mazereeuw say some of the key players that its own particular brand of sup- lobbied for the fund’s creation. port for university research. It The $900-million in federal The story of that two-year lob- also serves as a window into the funds doled out to universities bying campaign adds a wrinkle influence of Canada’s university news foreign affairs last week was part of a research to the anti-science reputation sector, one of busiest players on fund green-lit by a Conservative slapped on the Conservative the federal lobbying circuit. government looking for an “out-of- government of , What’s in a name? Canada the-park” scientific success story, which was looking to establish Continued on page 4 switches from Burma to Myanmar, after years of protest news infrastructure By Marco Vigliotti In protest of the military gov- ernment that ruled the country at needs to bolster tracking of infrastructure The Canadian government the time, Canada did not recog- has started calling the south- nize its official name change from dollars to maintain public trust, says former PBO east Asian nation it previously Burma to Myanmar implemented called Burma as Myanmar in in the late 1980s, choosing instead By Marco Vigliotti of infrastructure spending after budget officer Kevin Page. recognition of the country’s tran- to refer to the nation by its his- failing to implement internation- The Liberals promised during sition to democracy after decades torical name, which democracy The federal government must ally recognized accountability the 2015 election campaign to of authoritarian rule, and the par- activists preferred. improve reporting and manag- standards in the 2016 budget, ac- liamentary friendship group for ing standards for the next wave cording to former parliamentary Continued on page 20 the country may soon follow suit. Continued on page 3 2 The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 feature buzz feature diplomatic parties Navy chief honours Colin Robertson on The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia Heard t he Hill By Marco Vigliotti Ex-Grit leadership hopeful heading think-tank

for the West is good for Canada as a whole. Western Canada, however, is grap- pling with seismic political and economic changes brought upon by the steep de- cline in commodity prices over the past few years. After leading Canada in growth and employment for most of the past decade, Vice Admiral Ron Lloyd, right, commander the region is facing surging unemployment of the Royal Canadian Navy, presented and depleted provincial budgets, with lu- Honorary Naval Captain Colin Robertson crative royalty payments from natural re- with his appointment scroll in a ceremony source companies declining precipitously. at Mr. Robertson’s Ottawa home on Sept. 7. Federally, the Liberals won 184 seats in the 2015 vote, though the Conservatives and New Democrats collectively won 74 of the 104 ridings in Western Canada, exclud- ing the three northern territories. Ms. Hall Findlay, though, doubted the election results would dull the influence of the region, noting that many senior gov- ernment MPs represent Western ridings. “I have confidence that the federal government will do its best to make the right decisions for the country, without is the new president and undue influence from, or emphasis on, any CEO of the Canada West Foundation. The Hill region,” she said. Times photograph by Jake Wright Further, on some issues, most notably the pipelines, the Western energy sector ormer Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay didn’t get any further ahead with the last Fis the new president and CEO of the government, so we are “hoping that change Mexican Ambassador Agustín García-López Peter Harder, government Senate leader, Canada West Foundation, a non-partisan will be good,” she added. Loaeza in conversation with Japanese with Catherine Bélanger, wife of the late think-tank based in . Over the years, she said she has learned Ambassador Kenjiro Monji. Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger. Ms. Hall Findlay, who unsuccessfully that there are many issues that people in ran for the Liberal leadership in 2006 and different regions across the country have 2013, announced the appointment in an in common, but there’s often a “lack of email distributed Thursday, saying she is engagement,” and barriers of “perspective honoured to be assuming the post. and incorrect assumptions” between gov- “It’s a great opportunity to devote my ernments, businesses, and communities in full time to public policy, my field of choice,” those different regions. she told The Hill Times in an interview. “There are some issues that are top of “The Canada West Foundation is an mind across the West, and some that are institution that I have had great respect important in different parts of the West for in terms of its focus on evidence-based but which invariably are also important in public policy and action. And I get to work other areas across the country,” she said. with a team of terrific, smart people. How “I hope to help bring more of those could I say no?” people together in finding practical solu- Ms. Hall Findlay represented the sub- tions that benefit everyone.” urban riding of Willowdale in the While Ms. Hall Findlay has stepped House from 2008 to 2011, when she was down from her position with the Univer- narrowly defeated by Conservative candi- sity of Calgary, she said she hopes to find date . “more areas of collaboration between the Chilean Ambassador Alejandro decisively won the riding foundation and the school.” Marisio, right, and his spouse Maria back for the Liberals last fall. Beretta Delgado, greet Israeli Following her defeat, Ms. Hall Findlay Ambassador Rafael Barak, left. started working as an executive fellow Harper takes up new at the ’s School of Public Policy. role with law firm During the past five years with the Former prime minster Stephen Harp- school, she said she fell in love with the er is wasting no time branching out in the city and Western Canada, eventually mov- private sector after resigning his seat in the ing to Calgary last summer. House a few weeks ago. Ms. Hall Findlay said her time in public The ex-Conservative leader has landed a office was “often great,” but she decided in new role as an adviser with Dentons, an inter- 2013 not to run again as an MP because national law firm with offices across Canada. she felt “more comfortable” pursuing good Dentons announced the partnership in policy away from partisan politics, ideol- a statement Monday, saying Mr. Harper ogy, or “some artificial focus on—or fear and his new firm, Harper & Associates of—what might be seen as left or right.” Consulting, will work out of Dentons’ Cal- She described the Canada West Founda- gary office. tion as the “perfect place for me,” and the The ex-prime minister will provide ad- timing of the appointment as optimal in vice to clients on “market access, managing light of her recent move to Calgary. global geopolitical and economic risk, and The Canada West Foundation was how to maximize value in global markets,” founded 45 years ago to provide a voice for according to the statement from Dentons. Western in a time and envi- Mr. Harper, who served as prime minis- ronment when “major Canadian policy ter from 2006 to 2015, stepped down as the decisions were often disproportionately in- MP for Calgary Heritage in August. fluenced by the East,” Ms. Hall Findlay said. The scene where the scroll was The experiences of the past decades, presented, in Mr. Robertson’s she argued, have shown that what’s good Continued on page 22 backyard, among friends. The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 3 news foreign affairs Canada switches from Burma to Myanmar

In 1990, the military gov- an unusual provision that observ- the benefits of a warming rela- Myanmar The parliamentary ernment held elections for the ers accuse the former regime of tionship with the West. leader friendship group composition of a parliament-style implementing specifically to thwart The United States and Canada Aung San body to draft a new constitution, her quest for the office. have both eased long-standing Suu Kyi, for the country may which was won overwhelmingly Nevertheless, she holds the sanctions against the country, pictured in soon follow suit. by the opposition NLD, led by new post of state counsellor and though U.S. Secretary of State John 2012. UN activist Aung San Suu Kyi. is commonly regarded as holding Kerry announced in May that the Photo/Rick The government, however, refused the real power in the government. U.S. wouldn’t remove lingering re- Bajornas Continued from page 1 to honour the results and impris- Mr. Dion met with Ms. Suu strictions until the influence of the oned Ms. Suu Kyi and other critics, Kyi during a visit to the country still-powerful Myanmar military is However, Myanmar has under- drawing widespread condemnation in April, where he referred to her reduced, according to media reports. gone sweeping changes in recent from the international community as the de-facto leader of Myan- In addition to its political might years, including, most prominently, that only served to further isolate the mar, arguing that she was only (representatives appointed by the hosting democratic elections in No- country, commonly regarded as one restricted from assuming the military by law constitute 25 per cent vember 2015 that led to the over- of the poorest in the region. presidency because of a “strange of the House of Representatives) “Since we have had success- whelming victory of the opposition Myanmar has undergone radi- rule” in her country’s constitution, the military continues to serve as a ful democratic elections there, National League for Democracy. cal changes in recent years that reported. major economic powerhouse in the this is a country that has moved As such, using the name of Bur- has allowed the country to begin At the time, a government country’s largely state-run economy. forwarded very rapidly, in a ma “no longer serves a meaning- shedding its pariah status in press release referred to the coun- relative sense, and peacefully to ful purpose,” and the government the international community, and try as Burma (Myanmar) in the Friendship group considering put the nearly 30-year period of has decided to start referring to seek out foreign investment. headline and Burma thereafter. change authoritarian rule behind them,” the country as Myanmar, the legal A new constitution was adopted That same month, Ms. Suu In light of these developments, Mr. Stanton said in an inter- name recognized by the United Na- in 2008, leading to a widely criticized Kyi was quoted by the Associated the Canadian parliamentary friend- view, noting that Myanmar con- tions, said Chantal Gagnon, press general election in 2010 that saw the Press telling foreign diplomats ship group for the country is also tinues to grapple with significant secretary for Foreign Affairs Minis- political arm of the military junta they could call the country either considering changing its name. challenges, namely the myriad ter Stéphane Dion (Saint-Laurent, win a robust majority after the vote Burma or Myanmar. Members of the association, of internal conflicts with armed Que.), in an emailed statement was boycotted by the NLD, citing In 2013, under the former known as the Parliamentary ethnic nationalist groups. The name Myanmar, she added, regressive election laws. regime but still during the transi- Friends of Burma, will gather Mr. Stanton said the parliamenta- is not a new one, and had been “used In subsequent by-elections, tion to democracy, the country’s sometime after Parliament ry group will also consider changing and recognized” by the people of the the resurgent NLD won 43 of the ambassador to Canada called out reconvenes Sept. 19 and vote on its name to reflect the more com- country for hundreds of years. 45 seats up for the grabs in the bi- the Canadian government for not whether to begin using the name mon phraseology for these sort of The military junta that previ- cameral legislature. Ms. Suu Kyi was calling it by its preferred name, Myanmar, according to chair associations, potentially emerging ously ruled the nation changed among those elected for the NLD. Myanmar. At the time, a foreign and Conservative MP Bruce Stan- as the Canada-Myanmar Friendship the name to Myanmar in 1989, a She later led the party to a de- ministry spokesperson said Cana- ton (Simcoe North, Ont.). Group or the Canada-Myanmar year after it violently suppressed cisive electoral victory in the 2015 da was continuing to call the coun- The decision to hold the vote Parliamentary Friendship Group. a popular uprising sparked general election, finally seizing try Burma as it didn’t recognize was made during the group’s The group, he explained, by student protesters. It also power from the military junta. the military government’s decision annual general meeting in June, takes its current name from the changed the name of the coun- Ms. Suu Kyi, however, is banned in 1989 to change the name to and is largely attributable to the anti-authoritarian activist group, try’s most populous city and then- from the presidency under the con- Myanmar. country’s changing political cli- Canadian Friends of Burma. capital Rangoon to Yangon, and stitution because her late husband With its transition to democ- mate and adoption of the name by [email protected] named a new capital, Naypyidaw. and children are foreign citizens, racy, Myanmar has begun reaping , he said. The Hill Times

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The campaign How the for an influx of cash for university universities research projects in the 2013 budget— lobby got presented here by then- finance $1-billion-plus minister , left, and from the feds former PM Stephen Harper— in Canada. The group decided to fell just The Canada First make Mr. Naylor and Ms. Mun- short, but Research Excellence roe-Blum the lead spokespeople would when it came to communicating succeed fund started as an with the government, said Ms. the next idea thrown around Samarasekera. year. The Neither Mr. Naylor nor Ms. Hill Times by a few university Munroe-Blum could be reached photograph presidents. for an interview this week. by Jake The university leaders agreed Wright Continued from page 1 not to undermine the group campaign by pursuing their own interests during any one-on-one The winners are... meetings with government, said The government unveiled the Ms. Samarasekera. 13 winners of the second round The Budget 2013 campaign of awards distributed through the failed, however, for reasons both Canada First Research Excel- political and practical. lence Fund last week. The win- The government was in “aus- ning projects received between terity mode,” trying to prepare to competition for any of the money search Excellence Fund in Budget Those critics had plenty to $33 and more than $93-million, eventually reach its goal of bal- on offer, instead of awarding pre- 2014 marked a major victory for work with. The Harper govern- and included research on ocean ancing the budget by 2015 despite determined pockets of funding the university lobbyists, but their ment earned that reputation by health, brain development, par- the sluggish economy, said Ms. to top universities, or shoring up work continued as the details muzzling government scientists ticle astrophysics, and more. Samarasekera. There were also Canada’s granting council across were ironed out. Much of that who wanted to discuss the results That funding came on top concerns with the initial pitch, the board, said Mr. Toope. work would have to be done of their work publicly, cancelling of $350-million awarded to five say multiple sources involved in “It became clear that if we without the aid of the fund’s most the long-form census, cutting schools last year—the University the campaign, particularly that it wanted to do anything that was powerful champion in govern- funding for science programs, of Saskatchewan was the only could elicit criticism from some going to actually move the dial ment, Jim Flaherty, who died in and failing to make a serious ef- university to win funding in both of the smaller universities that on Canada’s research capacity, April of that year. fort to curb climate change. rounds. Altogether, the funding would be left out of the windfall. that this is the most likely to suc- U15 and Universities Can- Nonetheless, Mr. Harper, Mr. allotted to the program when it was “The last thing government ceed. I think that ultimately was ada representatives met with Flaherty, and others in the gov- announced in 2014 was $1.5-billion wanted was to make a big an- quite a strong argument for many Stephen Harper in May. The ernment wanted to see Canada’s over the next decade, and $200-mil- nouncement and have a whole people,” he said. meeting was, in part, a chance to universities compete on the world lion per year after that. bunch of universities stand up A pitch for an open competition say “thank you” for the creation stage in areas of scientific re- The fund falls under the and say, ‘this is a terrible idea,’” made it easy to get smaller schools of the fund, and also a chance search where they excelled, said supervision of Science Minister said Ms. Samarasekera. onside, said Mr. Davidson. to explore how the government Ms. Samarasekera. Kirsty Duncan (Etobicoke-North, “It really wasn’t that hard, wanted to deliver the cash, said “I think his government got a Ont.) though the decisions on Open competition frankly, provided that the conver- Ms. Samarasekera. very unfair rap,” she said. where the money went were The campaign reset for Budget sation be about open, competitive, Mr. Harper was resolute, she When the federal election made through a series of review 2014. Mr. Naylor and Ms. Munroe- and peer-reviewed excellence. said, that no university would be brought the Liberals to power, bodies outside of government. Blum completed their terms at Where there may have been some “entitled” to funding without win- the lobbying effort continued to The fund was created as part of the head of their universities, and concerns was if something was ning an open competition. ensure the Conservative-created the 2014 federal budget, under the Mr. Toope and Ms. Samarasekera pre-ordained or presumed about That competition was ulti- fund wasn’t scrapped, said Ms. Conservatives, after a lobbying stepped in to help fill their roles where excellence exists,” he said. mately placed in the hands of Corbeil, adding the feedback was effort that began with discussions as the point people for the cam- University leaders also met independent review and selec- positive from early on. between a handful of university paign alongside Suzanne Corbeil, with their local MPs, in part to get tion panels, with the first awards Mr. Rosenfeld, meanwhile, presidents, including Stephen the executive director of the U15 buy-in from the caucus and reas- announced last summer. Political says he did not do any work relat- Toope, then heading the Univer- secretariat. sure the government the fund- hands inside government were ed to the Canada First Research sity of British Columbia, Indira The U15’s advocacy lead at the ing request wasn’t just “the big watching closely to see how the Excellence Fund during his time Samarasekera at the Univer- time was Rob Rosenfeld, a former universities making a play,” while money was split, said Sean Speer, in Ms. Duncan’s office. sity of , David Naylor at StrategyCorp consultant who a few discussed the proposal with who was then a special adviser The Liberals maintained fund- the , and would eventually leave U15 for a Stephen Harper, said Ms. Corbeil. in the PMO and had worked on ing for the second round of the Heather Munroe-Blum, at McGill job as chief of staff to Ms. Duncan Mr. Flaherty in particular was the file as a special adviser to Mr. fund’s competition. The winners University. under the Liberal government. a key figure in helping to shep- Flaherty before that. last week included research pow- All four have now moved on Mr. Rosenfeld now handles com- herd the lobbying effort along, “We didn’t know if we were erhouses such as McGill Universi- from those posts. munications work for Veterans and shaping it into something the going to have a political liability ty and the University of Waterloo, The discussion heated up Affairs Minister Kent Hehr (Cal- government could accept, said on our hands,” he said, using a as well as small schools such as after a 2012 meeting between Ms. gary Centre, Alta.). Ms. Samarasekera. scenario where the majority of the 8,200-student Polytechnique Munroe-Blum and then-finance The U15 also moved to bring “They were looking for a the funding was sent to one elite Montréal. minister Jim Flaherty, who sug- the Association of Universi- game-changing investment that school as a disaster scenario. “These are major projects of a gested the Conservative govern- ties and Colleges of Canada or would lead us to out-of-the-park In fact, the selection board, led magnitude that in some ways are ment was open to supporting AUCC—since renamed Universi- success, things like Nobel prizes,” by former Ontario government game-changing,” said Ms. Sama- some kind of excellence fund for ties Canada—into the campaign. she said. deputy minister Ken Knox, chose rasekera. Canadian schools, said Ms. Sama- The AUCC represented Canada’s A few high-placed public five projects at five universities Mr. Toope also endorsed the rasekera, currently an adviser for smaller universities as well as servants also helped the group across Canada, though the lion’s fund’s work so far, as did Uni- Bennett Jones in Vancouver. the U15 members, and getting it to shape their ask to the govern- share went to Université Laval for a versities Canada’s Mr. Davidson, That sparked the lobby group onside was a way to alleviate the ment’s satisfaction, including multi-sector Arctic research project who noted that the total fund- for Canada’s biggest research government’s political anxieties. then-deputy minister at Finance and the University of Toronto for the ing requested by the 30 projects universities, U15, to start a formal Mr. Toope was concurrently Michael Horgan and Industry study of regenerative medicine. shortlisted for the selection panel push to win funding in the 2013 serving as the chairperson of the Canada deputy minister John was about $2.4-billion, or double federal budget. The result was AUCC board at that time, and Knubley and assistant deputy Harper’s reputation on the amount awarded so far. the ACRE campaign, short for helped to co-ordinate that effort minister Robert Dunlop, said Ms. science ‘unfair’ Those projects will be ready the Advantage Canada Research along with AUCC president Paul Samarasekera. The Canada First Research and waiting if the government Excellence Fund. Davidson. Excellence Fund provides a coun- finds itself with another billion or The pitch was for the govern- The pitch changed as well, after The payouts terpoint of sorts to critics of the so to spend, he said. ment to set up pockets of funding signals from the government that The announcement of the Harper government who say it [email protected] for the top research universities it would only support an open $1.5-billion Canada First Re- didn’t value science. @PJMazereeuw The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 5 news environment

The waterways left are among Transport Minister the country’s most well-used, in- cluding several located in or near was tasked in his Leave major cities and metropolitan mandate letter regions, such as the Bow, Ottawa with reviewing the and, Humber rivers, which snake previous government’s through Calgary, the Ottawa- changes to the Navigation Gatineau region, and Toronto, Navigation Protection respectively. Act, and restoring The legislation, known as “lost protections,” the Navigable Waters Protection and incorporating Protection Act prior to the Conservative modern safeguards. amendments, had previous- A group representing ly deemed any water body deep Saskatchewan rural enough to float a boat or vessel of municipalities says Act ‘as is,’ say any kind as navigable, and thus it’s planning on deserving of federal protection. lobbying Ottawa This left rural municipalities against making grappling with onerous and im- changes to the Act. municipalities practical regulations that required Hill Times file photo them to seek approval from Ot- tawa before building structures in The Liberals are The committee is expected to sub- even small waterways that have mit its report and recommenda- never hosted marine traffic, Mr. feeling pressure tions to Parliament in early 2017, Orb said. The Conservatives, though, way for two to three years. from environmental said Natasha Gauthier, a spokes- The changes introduced by the made legal changes that elimi- Ms. Lui also pressed the Lib- person for Transport Canada, in Conservatives, he argued, made it nated the requirement for envi- eral government to provide more groups to an emailed statement. “less restrictive” for rural mu- ronmental impact assessments details on how it will solicit feed- The Navigation Protection Act nicipalities to complete important of projects on the waterways that back from the public outside of immediately restore falls under the auspices of Trans- infrastructure projects. fell under the old act. the committee process, calling for the protections port Canada, currently overseen He added that SARM plans on Supporters argue the change robust, inclusive consultations. by minister Marc Garneau (Notre- making a submission to the ad- helps reduce duplication with ex- The Act should also be amend- eliminated under the Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount, Que.). visory body for the consultations isting federal and provincial laws ed to restore the former name, Harper government. In his mandate letter from the on environmental regulations. relating to environmental protec- she added. prime minister, Mr. Garneau was The Conservatives justified the tions, like the federal Fisheries In addition to governments and tasked with reviewing the changes reforms as crucial to cutting bur- Act or the Ontario government’s environmentalists, the legislation to the legislation implemented by densome red tape, and appeared Clean Water Act. has also attracted the interest of By Marco Vigliotti the Conservatives with the purpose to attract support from a diverse “It was never intended to be industry advocacy associations and of restoring lost protections and range of municipalities. an environmental act, protecting major resource companies. group representing rural mu- incorporating modern safeguards. Most notably, the Federation the water. That’s other pieces of Saskatchewan-based uranium Anicipalities in Saskatchewan The Liberals are planning on of Canadian Municipalities, the legislation and other jurisdictions producer Cameco Corporation is is sending representatives to Ot- hosting expansive consultations national advocacy body for local that deal with that,” Michael At- actively registered to lobby on the tawa next month to lobby against with indigenous groups, provinces governments, argued at the time kinson, president of the Canadian Navigation Protection Act, refer- expanding federal authority over and territories, stakeholders, and the that it didn’t see any issue with Construction Association, said of ring in its lobbying filing to the local waterways, as advocates public on the regulations, though allowing respective municipalities the Navigation Protection Act. legislation by the former name. jostle for influence on the future until the review process is complete, to individually weigh the merit of “The changes recently made... In its submission, Cameco said of Harper-era changes to environ- it would be “premature to speculate these sorts of projects. return the Act to what its purpose it’s seeking to “ensure” that any mental regulations. on whether any changes would be But with the Liberals in power, is, and that is to protect commer- environmental legislative or regu- Ray Orb, president of the Sas- made,” according to Ms. Gauthier. the FCM appears to be treading cial navigation. We would want latory modifications affecting re- katchewan Association of Rural Liberal MP Kate Young (Lon- more cautiously, saying it won’t to see the Act remains true to its source development are grounded Municipalities (SARM), said mem- don West, Ont.), parliamentary determine its official position original intent.” in the principles of “science/evi- bers of the organization will travel secretary to Mr. Garneau, said the until the review process begins in The construction lobby group, dence-based decision-making and to the nation’s capital in October committee would proceed with earnest. he added, likely won’t front a efficiency of regulatory process,” to address, among other pressing the review of the legislation and Rather, the group will be close- formidable lobbying push on the including the Navigable Waters issues, potential changes to the decide on what, if any, changes ly following the Parliamentary legislation because the municipal- Act, among others. Navigation Protection Act, which are required “without influence committee review and consult ities and provinces will probably A company spokesperson, regulates developments on travers- from the government.” with members on the proposed lead the charge in Ottawa. however, says Cameco hasn’t able water bodies in Canada. The Liberals asked the com- changes at that time, spokesper- The Council of Canadians, been actively lobbying on the “The federal government, we mittee to review the act to allow son Pamela Foster told The Hill though, argued that the re- Navigation Protection Act nor has understand, is looking at possibly for more comprehensive public Times via email. forms allow pipelines or electric- it determined an official position making changes,” he said. consultations after the for- While the municipalities were ity transmission lines, among on the legislation. “We hope the government mer Conservative government supportive of the Conservative other disruptive projects, to be “We have advised the Office of listens to an organization like ours rammed through amendments reforms, the Liberals are feeling constructed along most water- the Commissioner of Lobbying of and maybe just leaves things as is.” in a massive omnibus bill that pressure from environmental ways in the country without any our interest in the application of SARM is registered with the Of- prevented MPs from thoroughly groups to immediately restore the sort of oversight from Ottawa. the Navigation Protection Act, but fice of the Lobbying Commissioner studying the changes, she said. protections eliminated under the Emma Lui, the advocacy at this point, we haven’t developed to lobby the federal government. “The way the previous govern- Harper government. group’s national water campaigner, a formal position and haven’t met A rural municipality admin- ment handled the changes we “We are on record, along with called on the federal government with any public office holders on isters and provides local govern- believe was flawed; we need to other groups, asking the Trudeau to bring back all water bodies the subject,” Carey Hyndman said ment services to communities allow for public input and consul- government to immediately eliminated from the legislation and in an emailed statement. that are not structured as cities, tations with stakeholders, such restore the lost protections to the restore crucial protections, such as The Canadian Electricity towns or villages, largely oversee- as indigenous groups, and that’s Navigable Waters Protection Act the ability to review the impact of Association, the advocacy arm ing sparsely populated farming what we expect the committee to and Fisheries Act while consul- large infrastructure projects. for electricity utilities, is also areas. They are found in Manitoba do,” she told The Hill Times. tations occur on modern safe- The Conservative reforms registered to lobby on the Act, and Saskatchewan, while Alberta “We’re hoping that this process guards,” said Aaron Hill, execu- shuffled this responsibility to the though it doesn’t represent a has similarly functioning munici- will restore trust in the system.” tive director of Watershed Watch National Energy Board, leaving most major concern for membership, pal districts and counties. Mr. Garneau will study the Salmon Society, which advocates waterways in the country without according to Geoff Smith, who The lobbying push by SARM report produced by the committee for the conservation British Co- regulatory protection, she argued. serves as the group’s director of could hint at unease among mu- and decide whether to proceed lumbia’s wild salmon. “Take Energy East, that cross- government relations. nicipal and provincial governments with whatever recommendations “We are concerned that es nearly 3,000 waterways and “We have listed the [legis- about potential changes to federal are proposed, Ms. Young said. thousands of waterways around right now there’s no assessment lation] as an Act that has the environmental rules that would see Those interested in submitting Canada remain unprotected dur- in terms of the impact on those potential [of] some minor impact Ottawa reassert its presence regu- comments and recommendations ing what could be an extended navigable waters and what En- on waterways where there’s some lating hundreds of waterways. about the act should go through period of consultation on this ergy East could mean for [them], electricity infrastructure, but have The Liberal government an- the committee, she explained. very important laws.” “ she said, citing the controversial found [it] to be relatively low on nounced in June that it would launch The feedback the minister has re- The group is also registered to pan-national oil pipeline pro- the scale in terms of impact on a comprehensive review of Canada’s ceived about the legislation suggests lobby federally with the Commis- posed by TransCanada. the membership,” he said. environmental agencies and regula- the focus of the review will be on the sioner’s office. While proponents say the Act Other groups actively registered tions, including the Navigation listed waterways and whether or not The Navigation Protection should focus strictly on naviga- to lobby on the Act include oil giant Protection Act, after promising more “should be added,” she said. Act, under its former name, was tion, Ms. Lui argued that pollution Shell Canada and the Canadian during the federal election campaign The former Conservative originally passed in 1882 with the and other forms of environmental Energy Pipeline Association, which to restore what it viewed as impor- government introduced sweeping intention of keeping waterways degradation impact the flow of successfully lobbied the former tant protections eliminated during changes to the Act in 2012 that open for marine transportation, marine traffic. government to change the Act and the past decade of Conservative rule. saw the number of water bodies though it expanded over the For example, she cited the streamline environmental assess- It also tasked the House Com- under federal protection drop decades to encompass environ- 2010 oil spill in the Kalamazoo ments, according to reporting by mittee on Transport, Infrastruc- dramatically from thousands to mental considerations, such as River in Michigan, from a pipeline the Canadian Press. ture and Communities with re- just the listed 97 lakes, 62 rivers, outlawing dumping of waste or operated by , that resulted [email protected] viewing the Act starting this fall. and three oceans. earth into waterways. in the closure of parts of the water- The Hill Times 6 The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 news conservative leadership race

Peter MacKay and Poll finds Liberals his wife, Nazanin Afshin- Jam, at his with ‘huge brand retirement party in 2015. He ruled out equity’ in Atlantic a return to politics to run for Conservative as MacKay rules out leadership this week. The Hill Times photograph by Tory leadership bid Jake Wright

Though she’s not eligible ship contest for family reasons after hav- ing served 18 years in Parliament before to run, has he gave up his Commons seat prior to the general election last year. strong support to continue The poll found 20 per cent of Atlan- leading the party: pollster tic Canadians were dissatisfied with the performance of the federal government, Graves. with two per cent neither satisfied nor dissatisfied and three per cent who did not know. Of the 20 per cent, 13 per cent were Continued from page 1 mostly dissatisfied and seven per cent were completely dissatisfied. The just-completed poll of 1,500 voting- While Mr. Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) led age Canadians across the four provinces in a question about voter leader prefer- found the same share of decided respon- ences, with 65 per cent of respondents say- dents, 74 per cent, would vote Liberal if a ing they would most prefer him as prime in Nova Scotia and first ran for a Com- ration by entering the race in the next few federal election were held today, with 15 minister of Canada, Interim Conservative mons seat in the province was preferred weeks at the latest. per cent choosing the Conservative party Leader Rona Ambrose, who is ineligible to for prime minister by five per cent of the Ekos pollster Frank Graves, however, and only seven per cent saying they would run for the permanent leadership post un- respondents. told The Hill Times on Tuesday none of the vote NDP. der the party’s current rules, came second The quarterly survey by Corporate remaining candidates have the stature of Corporate Research Associates provid- at 11 per cent. Research, which has been polling Atlantic Mr. MacKay, save for Ms. Ambrose herself, ed results of the survey to The Hill Times NDP Leader Tom Mulcair was preferred Canadians on government and politi- who has steadily risen in elector esteem on Tuesday, a day after the Conservative as prime minister by only six per cent of cal leanings for more than two decades, following her caucus election to the post of party’s best-known face in the region, respondents, one point below the seven per indicates the Conservative party, whoever interim leader last November. former MP Peter MacKay, announced he cent who said they were undecided. Green wins the leadership vote next May, faces Mr. Graves referred to a recent Ekos would not be entering the party’s leader- Party Leader Elizabeth May, who grew up tough sledding as it struggles to regain lost poll that found Ms. Ambrose the first lead- electoral territory. ership choice for a significant numbers of “Right now, just based on what we see, Conservative supporters even before Ekos there continues to be huge brand equity in and other polling firms began listing her as the Liberal party, and the provincial gov- a potential leader along with the five can- ernments are feeling that as well, with the didates who have registered for the contest exception of Newfoundland; the world’s to this point, and others who have shown a different place right now in Newfound- signs of interest. land,” said Corporate Research president “If you look at our numbers, Rona got Margaret Brigley, referring to a public four or five per cent and she wasn’t even backlash in Newfoundland and Labrador listed as a candidate; that’s huge,” said Mr. against severe Liberal government mea- Graves. sures aimed at balancing the province’s “Her approval rating has more than budget. doubled...I personally believe that the Con- “The federal Liberals continue to enjoy servative party’s best chance of success in The New Volvo S90 historic high levels of satisfaction and voter 2019 would be Rona Ambrose,” Mr. Graves support in the region,” Ms. Brigley said. said. In light of the survey results, Ms. “They have to figure a way to walk Brigley said it would be tough to predict back from this, and from the data I have, whether the Conservative party’s strategy there’s a good chance she’s their best bet,” of holding a caucus session in Halifax Sept. he added. 13 and 14 to boost its image would help the “MacKay was leading, and he’s taken party in the long haul to the next federal himself out; That’s a huge disruption in this election in 2019. and it must give a great boost to people “I’m not sure. I think it’s an interest- like [former Treasury Board president ing move on their part, because they’re Tony] Clement; he’s really not going any- certainly going into an area where the where, in my opinion, he’s well down the Atlantic region itself right now is a Liberal list,” said Mr. Graves. stronghold,” Ms. Brigley said after detailing While Mr. Graves identified Ms. Raitt the poll results in a phone interview with as a potentially popular choice, along The Hill Times. with Ms. Ambrose, he predicted reality TV The annual quarterly survey was to be star Kevin O’Leary would draw attention A new era in design and innovation released this week. 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There seems to be this thing that Although Mr. MacKay finally ruled in this period of economic stagnation, parts himself out of the leadership contest after of the public are really attracted to those several months of weighing family com- people who are really successful, which is mitments against longstanding political part of Trump’s appeal: ‘this guy really fig- ambitions, another MP with roots in Nova ured it out, maybe we’ve got to take some stlaurentvolvo.com Scotia, Cape Bretoner and former trans- lessons from him,’” said Mr. Graves as he port minister (Milton, Ont.), is speculated on Conservative party thinking. St. Laurent Volvo 1300 Michael Street, Ottawa | (613) 749-8658 expected to cap her own months of prepa- [email protected] The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 7 news trade

producers to sell a product like diafiltered milk at market prices, and compete with in- U.S. lobbyists cheesed off over ternational imports. The DFO is not calling on the government to block imports of diafiltered milk or to change the way cheese content standards are applied, said Graham Lloyd, a proposed Canadian dairy policy spokesperson for the organization. The changes to ingredient pricing in Ontario and at the national level don’t im- pose any requirements on dairy processors The latest call for a to buy Canadian product, or any restric- trade challenge against tions on imports, he said, and so do not violate Canada’s trade obligations. Canada’s dairy sector Liberal MP Francis Drouin (Glengarry- comes as producers, Prescott-Russell, Ont.), who represents a riding with several hundred dairy farmers, processors work towards said he believes leaders in the dairy indus- a new strategy to compete try are working to ensure the new national strategy meets all legal requirements. with American imports. Nonetheless, the U.S. National Milk Producers Federation believes the new ingredients strategies for Canada and Continued from page 1 Ontario were created in order to replace dairy product being imported from the U.S. Dairy lobby groups in the U.S., EU, with Canadian product, and that makes Mexico, , and New Zealand sent them grounds for a trade challenge, said a joint letter to their federal trade depart- spokesperson Shawna Morris. ments Sept. 12 calling on them to launch The Dairy Farmers of Canada, U.S. a trade challenge in the WTO against Trade Representative, and U.S. Department Canada over the national ingredient strat- of Agriculture did not respond to requests egy. The letter says that strategy will allow for comment. Canadian producers to sell their product at The Liberals voted down an NDP mo- below market value, providing them a com- tion in the House in May calling on the petitive advantage. Canada’s dairy lobby government to essentially stop allowing groups emphatically deny that is the case. diafiltered milk to be used towards cheese The joint letter builds on a concerted standards. Agriculture Minister Lawrence effort by dairy lobby groups in the United MacAulay said at the time that negative States, and their allies in Congress, to put language about free trade in the mo- pressure on the U.S. Trade Representative tion made it “impossible” to support. to take Canada to task for the new ingre- Canadian dairy producers haven’t been dient strategy and other industry rules, producing a lot of diafiltered milk, since which they allege violate Canada’s WTO Supporters of supply management demonstrate on the street in front of Parliament Hill last year. the predetermined pricing system built and NAFTA trade obligations. U.S. Demo- The Hill Times photograph by Peter Mazereeuw into supply management has not tradition- cratic Senators Charles Schumer of New ally accounted for the use of diafiltered York and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin milk in cheese, and so has not allowed sent a letter to the USTR and U.S. Depart- them the right to sell a certain amount of producers don’t lose out to American the producers to sell diafiltered milk at an ment of Agriculture asking that they “ramp product, and foreign producers looking imports, whether it means taking action at attractive price. Ontario’s new ingredients up all available resources to investigate to enter the Canadian market are often the border or using another strategy, said class changed that, as could the National new Canadian dairy trade policies that charged high tariffs. Mr. Warkentin. Ingredients Strategy—potentially raising could hurt dairy farmers in Upstate New This latest international press against “Frankly, I don’t care what the govern- the pressure on political leaders in some of York,” according to a press release from Mr. Canada’s dairy sector adds another chap- ment has to do,” he said. the northern states that have come to rely Schumer issued Sept. 1. ter to a political controversy in Canada The Dairy Farmers of Ontario, however, on dairy exports to Canada. Four Congressmen from northern states over imports of diafiltered or ultrafiltered believe they already have their solution. The [email protected] sent a letter to Canada’s ambassador to the milk from the U.S., a type of milk concen- new ingredients class will allow Ontario dairy @PJMazereeuw United States, David MacNaughton, at the trate that Canadian cheesemakers have be- end of May warning that they would also gun to use to make their products in place The Week Ahead in parliament “urge the U.S. Trade Representative’s office of more expensive Canadian milk. to take every possible action to respond to Diafiltered milk falls into a crack of these barriers.” sorts in the regulatory regime around Monday, September 19 Sarah Brown; University of British Columbia professor, epidemiologist, and The Virginia-based National Milk Pro- The House resumes sitting on Monday. harm reduction lead at the BC Centre for Disease Control Jane Buxton. It international trade and Canada’s supply- will then do clause-by-clause consideration of the bill. ducers Federation and U.S. Dairy Export managed dairy sector. The Canada Border • The House Committee on Government Operations and Estimates will meet 3:30 to 6 p.m. in Room 237-C, Centre Block, in • The House Public Accounts Committee will meet 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Council have led the campaign in the Unit- Services Agency has classified diafiltered in Room 112-N, Centre Block, in an private meeting to consider a draft ed States. The NMPF raised the national milk as an “ingredient” that falls outside of a televised meeting (3:30-5:30 p.m.) to discuss the Phoenix payroll system. Witnesses to be determined. It will then meet in private to report on Detecting and Preventing Fraud in the Citizenship Program, of ingredients strategy with the Congressio- the trade barriers erected as part of supply discuss committee business from 5:30 to 6 p.m. the Spring 2016 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada. nal House Ways and Means subcommittee management, and so it can be imported • The House Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs will • The House Government Operations and on trade in June, and the two lobby groups freely. However, the Canadian Food Inspec- meet 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Room 253-D, Centre Block in private to discuss Estimates Committee will meet 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 253-D, issued a joint press release on the issue tion Agency has decided that cheesemak- committee business, including a briefing with Independent Senator Centre Block in a televised meeting on Canada Post. Witnesses: Task during the North American Leaders’ Sum- ers can use diafiltered milk to meet the Murray Sinclair (3:30-5 p.m.) and talk about e-consultation, travel Force on Canada Post Corporation president Françoise Bertrand, and members Krystyna T. Hoeg, Jim Hopson, and Marena McLaughlin. mit that month. dairy content threshold that must be met to budget, and planning for future business (5-5:30 p.m.). • The Senate Transport and Communications Committee will sell a product as cheese. • The Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications will meet 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. (local time) at the meet at 9 a.m. (local time) to continue its study on the transport of crude Millions at stake The switch by cheesemakers to diafil- oil in Canada. It will be at the Marquis Room, Mezzanine, The Fairmont Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland (Uni- Matrix Hotel, , Alta., to study the transport of crude oil in tered milk began in earnest about two Canada. Witnesses: Alberta Enterprise Group president Josh Bilyk; Pallister , 133 9th Ave. Southwest, Calgary. Witnesses: Alberta Chambers versity-Rosedale, Ont.) is staying out of the years ago, according to the influential CanmetENERGY research scientist Heather D. Dettman; Alberta of Commerce CEO Ken Kobly, National Energy Board executive vice dispute. An emailed statement from her Dairy Farmers of Canada, and has cost Enterprise Group vice-president of communications and policy David president, regulatory, Sandy Lapointe, chief economist Shelley Milutinovic, office noted that the National Ingredients MacLean; Edmonton Chamber of Commerce board of directors chief environment officer Robert Steedman, chief operating officer Josée Canadian producers millions. Touchette, and chair and CEO Peter Watson, as well as Kinder Morgan Strategy “was industry-driven; the govern- member Scott McEachern; senior adviser to the president of the Edmonton Economic Development Corporation Adam Sweet. Canada Inc. senior director, legal and aboriginal affairs Peter Forrester, ment was not party to the negotiations.” Challenge ‘ridiculous’: Warkentin and Calgary Chamber of Commerce director of policy, research and “The government supports the efforts by Canada’s House Trade Committee held • It will hold another meeting later that day at 1:30 p.m. Witnesses: government relations Justin Smith. Capital Regional Board CEO Malcolm Bruce, Alberta’s Industrial Canadian dairy stakeholders to find long- a rare summer meeting to deal with com- Heartland Association’s director of stakeholder relations Pam Cholak; • The committee will meet again at 1:30 p.m. to hear from Canadian term, sustainable solutions to industry chal- plaints over imports of diafiltered milk. John Falcetta; Mayor of Red Deer Tara Veer. Energy Research Institute CEO Allan Fogwill, Young Pipeliners lenges, consistent with Canada’s internation- The Dairy Farmers of Canada has called on Association of Canada CEO Tran Mah-Paulson, and Association of • The Senate National Security and Defence Committee will Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta professional al trade obligations,” the statement said. Canada’s government to do something to ad- meet 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Room 2, Victoria Building, to study engineer (as an individual) Michael Priaro. The pressure applied by the U.S. politi- dress disjointed regulations that are allowing issues related to the Defence Policy Review. Witnesses: Director of the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies at the University of • The Senate National Security and Defence Committee will cians, with vocal support from the U.S. foreign competition into what is supposed to meet 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Room 2, 140 Wellington St. (Victoria Building), dairy lobby, further complicates the politi- be a Canadian-managed dairy industry. Calgary David Bercuson; Lieutenant-General (Ret’d) Charles Bouchard; Associate Dean of Arts at the Royal Military College of Canada Jane to study issues related to the Defence Policy Review. Witnesses: Major General cal picture of Canada-U.S. trade, which The U.S. attack on the new pricing pro- Boulden, Adjunct Professor, Pacific Studies, at the University of Victoria (Ret’d) and chairman of the Royal Canadian Legion’s defence and security is already coloured by high-stakes nego- gram in Ontario and the national ingredient James A. Boutilier; Lieutenant-General (Ret’d) the Honourable Roméo committee Richard Blanchette; Lieutenant General (Ret’d) and special advisor tiations over softwood lumber, question strategy is “ridiculous,” said Conservative Dallaire; Lieutenant-General (Ret’d) and Canadian Global Affairs Institute with the Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association Louis Cuppens; Auditor General of Canada Michael Ferguson; Secretary of the Royal Canadian marks around the Trans-Pacific Partnership agriculture critic Chris Warkentin (Grande fellow D. Michael Day;Professor and Chair, Master of Defence Studies Programme, Royal Military College of Canada and Canadian Forces Legion’s Defence and Security Committee Charls Gendron; Ambassador of trade agreement, and protectionist rheto- Prairie-Mackenzie, Alta.), who called the the Kingdom of Norway to Canada Anne Kari Hansen Ovind; Major (Ret’d) ric from presidential candidates Donald College Walter Dorn; Navy Captain (Ret’d) Harry Harsch; Lieutenant- strategy a “free-market solution” by Canadian Colonel (Ret’d) David Last; Vice-Admiral (Ret’d) Drew Robertson. and national president of the Canadian Association of Veterans in United Trump and Hillary Clinton. producers let down by their government. Nations Peacekeeping Wayne Mac Culloch; Major General (Ret’d) Lewis Tuesday, September 20 Canada’s supply-managed dairy, Imports of diafiltered milk violate the Mackenzie; Former special representative of the Secretary General and Head chicken, turkey, and egg industries, centred • The House Health Committee will meet 8:45 to 10:45 a.m. in Room of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Burundi Carolyn McAskie; “spirit” if not the letter of Canadians laws 268, Valour Building, 151 Sparks St., to discuss Bill C-224, An Act to amend Brigadier General (Ret’d) Gregory Mitchell; Coordinator and Consultant, in vote-rich Ontario and , maintain protecting the supply-managed dairy sec- the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (assistance — drug overdose). Somalia Initiative, Kwezi Mngqibisa; Principal with the Office of the Auditor well organized lobby groups with a lot of tor, and the federal government should Witnesses: Street Health Centre (Kingston) physician Meredith MacKenzie; General of Canada Gordon Stock; Ombudsman for the Department of political clout. Farmers buy quota, giving find some way of ensuring Canadian dairy Centretown Community Health Centre (Ottawa) harm reduction worker National Defence and the Canadian Forces Gary Walbourne. 8 The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016

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Editorial consular affairs Letters To The Editor Feds should do all they can to Playing to the home crowd on China

e: “Trips to China are mostly about play- The Chinese are very personable. For release Homa Hoodfar from Ring to the home crowd,” (Sept. 5, p. 16). them, emotional connections based on ac- Because of the negative image communist tions and attitude are important in creating countries have in the “West,” a trip to China trust. They are sensitive to the fact that a notorious Iranian prison plays to a select home crowd. Not many visit to their country may put in question Americans liked Prime Minister Pierre El- a foreigner’s patriotism. Raising human liott Trudeau’s friendship with Chinese Pre- rights issues is one way for a Western leader oma Hoodfar’s imprisonment in Iran they sent her. Her family released a mier Zhou Enlai and Cuban President Fidel to maintain nationalistic bona fides while His frightening. statement in August noting that she was Castro. A minority of Canadians probably making business deals. Unfortunately She was arrested and detained on hospitalized because of “rapidly declining share the sentiments of peoples in develop- friendly policies towards China still have June 6 and thrown in Iran’s notorious health.” ing countries that China’s approach to them few Canadian fans. Evin Prison. Iranian-born Canadian pho- Yesterday, her family said a judge is preferable to colonial exploitation and Andrew Romain tojournalist Zahra Kazemi was allegedly refused her lawyer and chose another one enslavement. Gatineau, Que. tortured and sexually assaulted there by for her without her consent. Iranian officials before dying in the Teh- Her niece, who has been speaking on ran prison in 2003. her case to reporters in Canada, said the Ms. Kazemi’s death caused a deep rift academic went to Iran in February want- in diplomatic relations between Canada ing to reconnect with her roots. Postal banking services worth considering and Iran. Academics in Canada and beyond are This time around, there are no ties to speaking out for Ms. Hoodfar. This week, he post office can deliver more than world, including New Zealand, France, cut—the previous Conservative govern- The reported 21 former Tmail. The government should adopt the and Italy, have profitable and successful ment ended diplomatic relations with Iran UN special rapporteurs on human rights Delivering Community Power proposal, postal banking services. There’s no reason in 2012 and though the current Liberals urged Iran to release her. which calls for postal banking, services why we can’t too. have started official talks toward re- The Canadian government should be for seniors, and coast-to-coast charging Do the right thing for Canada newing them, they don’t appear to have doing all it can to ensure she is released. stations for electric cars, among other Chris Graham borne much fruit yet. One has to wonder When it comes to sticky consular ideas. Dozens of countries around the Gatineau, Que. how the lack of formal diplomatic ties cases, the government often prefers to say could hinder Canadian advocacy for Ms. little to the public about what it’s doing to Hoodfar, a retired Concordia University achieve a person’s release from detention, professor. choosing not to risk upsetting delicate Ms. Hoodfar has been indicted on un- negotiations. Fair enough. Dr. Jim Yong Kim: a pro-child banker known charges, though reports from Ira- We may not know everything Canada nian news sources allege she is suspected is doing to secure her release, but we urge In 1994, Dr. of “collaborating with a hostile govern- the government to do its utmost to free Jim Yong Kim ment, propaganda against the state, and Ms. Hoodfar before her health weakens blamed the ‘dabbling in feminism.’” further. World Bank’s Her work involves gender and sexual- Even if the charges, whatever they are, austerity ity in Islam. have merit, there’s no excuse for letting measures for Her family is most concerned about a prisoner’s health decline to the point worsening her health. They say she’s been held in of hospitalization or refusing to let them poverty and solitary confinement and suffers from a work with the lawyer of their choice. epidemics. He serious neurological condition but they We don’t want another Canadian dead later become aren’t sure she’s getting the medicine in Evin Prison. the bank’s president. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

n 1994 when he treated tuberculosis today: malnutrition, negligence, stress, and Ipatients in Peru, Dr. Jim Yong Kim blamed lack of responsive care and of preschool Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori’s and education. The consequences for individu- the World Bank’s austerity measures for als and societies are immense and often worsening poverty and epidemics. While permanent. posted at the World Health Organization, he Yet, there are proven programs that sought to provide even the poorest AIDS pa- ensure early child development, and these tients with treatment. He negotiated lower should be available to all children. There- prices for antiretrovirals. That was a game fore, at the fall meetings of the bank, he will changer. call on all finance ministers and heads of Since 2012, he leads the very World Bank state and government to invest in what is he had blamed, and has restructured it to quite possibly the most important infra- some people’s discontent. But, to those who structure to prepare the future: the brains of don’t think fighting Ebola and epidemics is the world’s children. the World Bank’s business, he answers that I call on Prime Minister , diseases are a major threat to economic Finance Minister Bill Morneau, and Minister development, therefore, they are the bank’s of International Development Marie-Claude business. Bibeau to be among the most eager support- This doctor-banker is also deeply preoc- ers of Dr. Kim’s early child development goal. cupied by all that hinders the brain develop- Pamela Walden-Landry ment of 200 million children in the world , Que.

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this border territory, Daesh would their supply lines cut by the Turks, from 2003 to 2011, the Sunnis fields, which they seized in 2014 With the Sunni- no longer be able to bring in sup- the Daesh garrison in Mosul will and Shiites waged a bitter civil when Iraqi security forces fled Shiite divide in Iraq plies and fresh volunteers to join be hard pressed to resist the al- war against each other and those from Daesh. its ranks. lied offensive that is expected to scars remain deep and fresh. Fol- The Canadian-trained Kurd- deep, and Kurdish This sounds like a reason to be launched in earnest sometime lowing the successful recapture ish fighters have no incentive independence celebrate, but given that Turkey this fall. of Ramadi and Fallujah, the Shiite to risk their lives recapturing does not need to enter Syria to Again, to the casual observer militia engaged in murderous and garrisoning Mosul; in true movement bubbling seal the border, it raises the ques- this would sound like very reprisal killings against suspected Middle East-style diplomacy, they up, victory there is tion: why was Daesh allowed to welcome news. The good guys Sunni Daesh supporters. will have negotiated something use this conduit through Turkey will defeat the evildoers, Daesh Then there are the Kurdish mili- tangible towards their statehood far off. up until now? will be eradicated from Iraq, the tias. They are fighting to create an in exchange for providing the For those who still view this citizens of Mosul will be free, independent Kurdistan and have ground forces to eliminate Daesh. complex regional and, by proxy, and our troops can be home by no intention of ever again submit- This in turn will not sit well with international conflict as a simple Christmas. ting to a central Iraqi regime in the Baghdad regime and its Shiite fight of good versus evil—with The problem with this script Baghdad. In a very controversial militias, which Canada’s foreign Daesh being pure evil—the recent is that there are no good guys attempt to form a bond with policy purports to support. Turkish military intervention will in this scenario, only less evil their Kurdish trainees, Canadian Given that our NATO ally Turkey be seen as a plus. perpetrators and victims. The special forces trainers have been has been battling Kurds inside Syria scott taylor Over the past few months population of Mosul is comprised wearing the flag of Kurdistan on to prevent them from consolidating Daesh has been defeated and mainly of Sunni Arabs who had their uniforms. In a post-Daesh an independent territory, things are driven out of several of its self- been effectively marginalized by Iraq, this seemingly petty, sym- going to get very interesting. TTAWA—It was reported on proclaimed caliphate’s key urban the Shiite Arab governing regime bolic gesture will take on a far The elimination of Daesh as OSept. 4 that Turkish troops centres. Following the recapture in Baghdad. That was why many greater significance. Canada’s the evil focal point will not end and their Syrian rebel allies of Ramadi and Fallujah, Iraqi Mosul residents had welcomed stated foreign policy is to support the conflict; it will simply make had successfully pushed Daesh security forces and Shiite militia the Daesh horde when it first a unified Iraq, and that includes it far more complex. And in the evildoers from their last strong- members have been pushing captured their city in the spring the three Kurdish provinces. middle of all this chaos are some holds along the Turkish-Syrian northwards in an effort to isolate of 2014. They saw Daesh as the There have already been earnest Canadian trainers foolish- border. Turkish Prime Minister Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city lesser of the evils and their only clashes between Kurdish militia ly wearing the flag of Kurdistan Binali Yildirim proudly told the and Daesh’s last major bastion hope for prosperity. and the Iraqi security forces, even on their sleeves. media that the seizure of this in Iraq. At the same time, Kurd- They will not see themselves as they jointly battle the common Scott Taylor is editor and 91-kilometre stretch of territory ish militia members, many of as being liberated by the Iranian- enemy, Daesh. There is no way publisher of Esprit de Corps would deal Daesh (also known them trained by Canadian special led Shiite militia, which now ef- that the Canadian-trained Kurd- magazine. as Islamic State, ISIS, and ISIL) forces, have been encroaching fectively besieges Mosul from the ish fighters will give up Kirkuk [email protected] a serious blow. Without access to upon Mosul from the north. With south. During the U.S. occupation and the lucrative Baba Gurgur oil The Hill Times

global affairs nuclear test

North Korea’s paranoia is also misplaced, because nobody in the South dreams of reunifying the Parsing Korean rhetoric and reality peninsula by war either. In fact, most people in South Korea would South Korea’s not welcome reunification now Sixty-six years of president, Park even if it happened non-violently. intense hostility Geun-hye, pictured I happened to be in Seoul in 2014, accused interviewing somebody in the Ko- have bred an North Korean rean Central Intelligence Agency extreme brand of leader Kim Jong- building on the day in 1996 when un of ‘maniacal the death of North Korea’s founder, rhetoric on both recklessness’ after Kim Il-sung, was announced. The sides of the border. its most recent scene that followed reminded me nuclear test. The of the old naval adage: “When in But the reality is it’s Hill Times photograph danger or in doubt, run in circles, by Sam Garcia scream and shout.” But the domi- a cold conflict. nant emotion was certainly not joy. It was fear that the North Korean regime would collapse, and that newly prosperous South Korea, having dragged itself out of poverty by two generations of sacrifice, would inherit 25 million impoverished North Koreans with gwynne dyer few skills relevant to a modern economy, and have to start all over again. Twenty years on, it’s almost ONDON, U.K.—Japanese gov- missiles and high-explosive shells” between the two Germanies. But nuclear weapons in the Korean certain that a majority of South Lernment spokesman Yoshihide if North Korea even thinks of why does North Korea need nucle- peninsula if there is a war. Koreans still feel like that about it. Suga said that North Korea was launching a nuclear attack on the ar weapons to carry out its threats? This does not justify what North So there really is little risk of the “neighbourhood outlaw” after South. The city will be “reduced to It’s perfectly capable of destroying Korea is doing—United Nations war, which is just as well, be- Pyongyang’s fifth nuclear weapons ashes and removed from the map,” Seoul with “ballistic missiles and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon cause there is also little chance test on Friday. Barack Obama said said the official— and districts of high-explosive shells” too. denounced the latest nuclear test of diverting Pyongyang from its that “The United States does not, Pyongyang thought to be hiding The centre of Seoul, a city of 11 as a “brazen breach” of UN resolu- course. Another round of sanctions and never will, accept North Korea the North’s leadership will be par- million people, is only 50 kilome- tions—but it does explain it. will not do the trick—on Sunday as a nuclear state.” Even China ticularly targeted in the attack. tres from the North Korean border. So Kim Jong-un, like his father Pyongyang said that the threat of voiced its “firm opposition” to the So much for restraint. Sixty- Ordinary artillery could take out and his grandfather before him, “meaningless sanctions” was “high- test. And South Korea’s president, six years of intense hostility have the northern half of the city, while wants the ability to make nuclear ly laughable”—because the country Park Geun-hye, accused North bred an extreme brand of rhetoric short-range missiles dealt with the attacks on America’s main Asian is almost completely cut off from Korea’s Dear Leader Kim Jong-un on both sides of the border that southern half. (North Korea has ally, Japan, for a start, and later on the global economy already. of “maniacal recklessness.” sounds quite demented to the ears 21,000 artillery pieces and thou- the United States itself. Regretta- Putting a THAAD anti-ballis- So far, so restrained—in of outsiders. Germany was divided sands of Scud missiles.) Pyong- bly, that’s how deterrence works. tic-missile unit in South Korea, as stark contrast to the berserk for 44 years, and hundreds were yang’s nuclear weapons must be The North Korean regime is Washington has promised to do, threats and fulminations that are killed on the heavily fortified bor- for something else. almost uniquely awful, but the will make the South Koreans and the usual fare in North Korea. der between them, but you never North Korea’s strategic problem strategic logic would be exactly the Japanese feel a bit safer, but (Promising to obliterate Seoul, the heard this kind of invective coming is that it has no allies, while South the same if it were run by much everybody is just going to have to South Korean capital, in a “sea of out of the mouths of East or West Korea is allied to the world’s nicer people. And although the live with the problem. They prob- fire” is a familiar favourite.) German officials. leading nuclear power, the United regime is completely paranoid, it ably won’t die from it. But then a military spokesman Maybe it’s just a stylistic thing, States, which has never promised is not crazy. It has not started a Gwynne Dyer is a United of the South Korean government but it does suggest that the possi- not to use its nuclear weapons first. war in the past six decades, and Kingdom-based independent promised that Pyongyang “will be bility of a real war between the two Pyongyang needs some means there is no reason to think that it journalist. completely destroyed by ballistic Koreas is higher than it ever was of deterring the use of American is planning one now. The Hill Times 10 The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 need to know donald trump

or other protectionist measures One of the obvious possibilities would send shock waves through would be a significant expansion A Trump victory would the business community. The Ca- of spending on public transit, trade nadian economy, which is already corridors, and other infrastructure struggling to rebound from the that could help improve the coun- oil price crunch, would almost try’s persistently low productivity. threaten Canada’s entire certainly go into recession. Other possibilities for a major And, even if the Liberal govern- pro-growth agenda would include ment got lucky and Trump for some increased commitment by gov- modern-day economy reason did not move quickly on ernment and the private sector his pledge to gut NAFTA, the very to invest in research and devel- prospect of a forced overhaul of opment, skills training, green A possible Trump Americans assumed the racist, her lack of stamina to be U.S. the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade deal technology, efforts to diversify inflammatory, and brain-dead cam- president. A Trump victory could would be a huge negative here. Canada’s exports, and targeted presidency means paign that helped Trump capture the lead, as in Britain, to a fair bit of Business investment in new ma- child care support to bring more Republican nomination would never buyer’s remorse come Nov. 9. But chinery and equipment—a key to women into the workforce. the time to reform play well with the wider electorate Americans in growing numbers the country’s economic strength— Federal leadership to quickly the economy is now. once the presidential battle ensued. appear ready to believe that the is already abysmally weak in implement a meaningful internal But so far that has turned out worst of his destructive traits and Canada, ostensibly because of un- free-trade deal among provinces to be wishful thinking. Trump instincts could probably be tem- certainty about how well the U.S. would also be critical. Right now has proven the gaffes, missteps pered by U.S. institutions. and global economies are perform- the Trudeau government is coast- and flip-flops that would have Leaving aside the potential for ing. The unknowns arising from a ing along. The phrase, “an easy destroyed the credibility and elec- calamity internationally, the elec- Trump threat to NAFTA could only act to follow,” comes to mind. toral prospects of any previous tion of Trump under the current make this worse. And with both opposition parties candidate for the White House circumstances could be disastrous On top of that, there is the casting about for leaders, there’s les whittington matter not a bit to his supporters. for Canada. likelihood that Trump’s trade little urgency for the Liberals to While the U.S. Electoral Col- His promise to renegotiate protectionism, coupled with fiscal expand their somewhat innova- lege arithmetic still favours Clin- NAFTA—or failing that, to quit policies that would drive up the tive and popular agenda. rime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ton, there are hints that more U.S. the pact—is at the heart of a cam- U.S. debt, would also lead to a re- But the combination of an econ- Pgovernment needs to start voters than expected could pull paign in which he blames open cession in the American economy, omy stuck in low gear and the pos- thinking seriously about the a Brexit, taking a leap into the commercial borders for most of another negative for Canada. sibility of a Trump administration in impact of an election victory by unknown and voting for a radical the problems in recent years in There are no easy answers on Washington may means it’s time for Donald Trump, whose protection- shake-up out of frustration and the U.S. economy and its employ- this for policymakers in Cana- the feds to stand back, take a long ist mentality could lead to an the urge to stick it to those they ment picture. This makes coun- da. But the prospect of a rupture look ahead and start thinking about economic crisis in Canada. blame (probably mistakenly) for tries like Canada, Mexico, and in the country’s key commercial a once-in-a-generation, Canada-wide Even before Hillary Clinton’s the socio-economic woes beset- China the enemy in the minds of relationship might provide an campaign to overhaul the economy health mishap on Sept. 11, it had ting their country. Trump’s believers. opportunity for the federal gov- in a time of daunting change. become apparent that Trump could And now Clinton’s bout of For Canada, which sends ernment to toss out the current Les Whittington is an Ottawa win the U.S. presidency on Nov. 8. pneumonia—and the way it was three-quarters of its exports south playbook and think about ways to journalist and a regular contribu- He has once again confounded kept secret—has lent credibility of the border, any move to rejig revamp and expand its economic tor to The Hill Times. the conventional wisdom. Many to the pro-Trump myths about NAFTA by imposing new tariffs growth strategies. The Hill Times

opinion immigration

As a co-host of President Families from Obama’s Leaders’ Summit on Syria and the Global refugee Refugees, Canada must come region that to the table with concrete and are part of ambitious pledges for refugee Canada’s refugee resettlement and to help those resettlement summits: our who are forcibly displaced but for program are whom resettlement in welcoming seen at the countries is not an option. Catholic Centre Canada is well placed to share for Immigrants lessons on resettlement policy in Ottawa earlier generation’s UN with other member states. Around this year. the world, governments have ex- photograph by Evan pressed keen interest in learning Schneider legacy moment about Canada’s successful private sponsorship program. However we must also ensure I was honoured to be a part of While essential, resettlement that women and girls are not the planning discussions for the of war in Syria. This suffering is is only part of the solution. We considered and treated simply as meetings in New York and there Two gatherings not limited to the Syrian crisis. also need to continue delivering passive recipients of aid. has been much talk that these next week in New More than 65 million people are humanitarian support to the mil- Women play critical roles in summits will provide a legacy displaced around the world today. lions of refugees that will never emergency situations, clearly moment for President Obama. York will give Omran and Alan’s plights reach the safe shores of Canada. shown in the Syria crisis, where While this is true, they are Canada the chance highlight the inability or unwill- According to UN statistics, 86 they are leading relief and recov- much more. This is an opportunity ingness of global powers to put per cent of refugees are hosted in ery efforts, and taking on increas- for us all, as a global community. to show longer-term an end to the conflict. developing countries. With crises ing responsibilities inside and For Canada this is an opportu- leadership on the On Sept. 19 and 20, world lead- dragging on for decades, many outside of the house. nity to use our respected voice to ers will gather in New York for two states are struggling to support Amidst the most trying cir- ensure the new global framework issue. major summits on the global refugee both their own people and refu- cumstances imaginable, emergen- holds all countries accountable crisis, the first is the NU General As- gees, leading to increased social cies offer a unique opportunity to for sharing responsibility for sembly focused on the large move- tension and higher risks of ex- support shifts in gender dynamics refugees. It’s an opportunity to ments of refugees and migration, the ploitation. Canada’s humanitarian and enable women and girls to be demonstrate longer-term leader- second is hosted by United States funding needs to ensure refugees real agents of change. ship, by the Canadian govern- President Barack Obama, who is and their host communities can But to do so, we need to hear ment offering to host a follow-up inviting world leaders to pledge thrive together, not just survive. their voices. to the summit in two years where increased support for refugees. Women refugees must be global leaders will be asked to KEVIN DUNBAR These high-level meetings mark Women’s voices needed active participants in the dia- measure their success against the the beginning of a process for devel- Structural gender inequalities logues at the summits as well as commitments made. oping a Global Compact on Refu- mean women and girls are the throughout any humanitarian Ultimately, any global approach he images of bewildered and gees and Migrants to be adopted in most affected in emergencies, and response or peace process. And to managing a refugee crisis re- Ttraumatized five-year-old 2018, the first of its kind. This collec- women’s livelihoods are hit the their concerns must not only be quires world powers to display the Omran Daqneesh pulled from tive international effort to strengthen hardest. As a country committed heard, they need to be acted upon, political will to end conflicts and the rubble in Aleppo shocked our refugee protection and assistance is to implementing a feminist agen- through accountability, funding climate change, the root causes global consciousness. more critical than ever. da, Canada must show leadership commitments, and changes in of displacement and preventing Just like the photos of Alan The Canadian government by strengthening its commitment how agencies operate. people from returning home. Kurdi a year ago—the Syrian tod- has shown leadership over the to assist, protect, and empower A tangible starting point is to This isn’t just Obama’s mo- dler whose lifeless body washed last year on the issue of refugees displaced women and girls. This increase funding for humanitar- ment; this is our generation’s up on a Turkish beach—it was and displaced people, not least means increasing prioritization of ian actors to work in partner- legacy. another grim reminder of the tens the commitment to resettle 25,000 humanitarian programming that ship with local, women-led civil Kevin Dunbar is director of of thousands of children killed, Syrian refugees. But we must do addresses the particular vulner- society groups—which are both CARE Canada’s humanitarian as- families displaced, and lives more, both in terms of resettle- abilities and challenges they face closer to, and more trusted by, sistance and emergency team. uprooted during the five years ment and global refugee policy. in a refugee crisis. communities. The Hill Times The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 11 plain speak conservative leadership race

that you matter to them can be a Former powerful aphrodisiac. As in any Conservative Peter MacKay profession, when you feel you are MP Peter having success or that you have MacKay, more to do or to challenge you, centre left, stepping away can be difficult. looks on as made the right What likely would have been his wife, harder for Peter MacKay would Nazanin have been to step away from his Afshin-Jam, young family for long periods plays with decision of time, as this leadership race their son, would have demanded. Having Kian, at his been both the child of a high pro- farewell party It’s not clear who prosecutor. Most of his adult life file politician and a former party last year. has been in service of others. That leader, Mr. MacKay was more The Hill Times will be the next doesn’t make him a hero, as many aware than most what that does photograph by others do the same thing, but it to the spirit and the soul. Jake Wright Conservative leader. does demonstrate the pull public Spend any time with Peter and That is both the office has on him. you hear him speak with great Over the last number of pride and love for his wife and most terrifying and months I ran into Mr. MacKay children. Anyone who knows him exciting thing about on a few occasions. Each time knows how core family is to his I connected with him, I saw the being. After years of making poli- this contest. thorough deliberation process he tics his focus, sometimes at the was putting himself through. If cost of his own personal circum- you have occasion to watch him stances, it was time to love what in a public setting, as I often did, he loves. You have to respect that, you would see people coming up particularly knowing it wasn’t a to him and encouraging him to convenient political excuse. pursue the leadership of the Con- Mr. MacKay is still a young servatives. None of what I saw vigorous man. He is only 50. He tim powers was contrived, it was very real. can always come back into poli- this point, anyone can win. This sent back to the drawing board, Among many there was an enthu- tics when his children are a little creates a natural regeneration you must do that. siasm for a MacKay candidacy. older, and I wouldn’t be surprised process. Political parties need Frankly, it is not clear to me eter MacKay made the right Public polls have also constantly if he did. He’ll be a better politi- that. The Conservatives most who will be the Conservative Pdecision for him and his fam- reflected that reality. cian for making a choice parents certainly require it. leader when votes are tallied ily by not entering the Conserva- Mr. MacKay had recently writ- in families across the country New leaders now get to come next May. So far, that is both the tive leadership race. Sometimes ten about his concerns for Atlantic constantly make. to the forefront and make their most terrifying and exciting thing it is harder to say no than it is to Canada and the country given In a strange way, with neither case for why now is their time. about this contest. say yes. Such was the case here. the policy choices of the Trudeau Peter MacKay nor They are compelled to develop Tim Powers is vice-chairman Whether you are a MacKay government. You could see in those in the leadership race, they have new approaches to connecting of Summa Strategies and manag- fan or not, it is difficult to chal- writings that the passion for politi- done a service to the Conserva- with Canadians. In this age where ing director of Abacus Data. He is lenge his commitment to public cal debate and desire be a big part tive Party and created an opportu- disruption is king and is wel- a former adviser to Conservative service. He served as a Member of the national discourse remained. nity for all leadership candidates. comed, the Conservatives have a political leaders. of Parliament from 1997 to 2015, For public figures, that con- No prohibitive favourite means decent opportunity to retool. And [email protected] and prior to that he was a crown nection with the public and sense an open contest that arguably, at when you lose elections and are The Hill Times

inside politics parti québécois Tories can learn from PQ’s charter bungle

an electoral ace up its sleeve that Many charter supporters had alienated two of the fastest-grow- The charter-of- it declined to reach out to the op- never actually encountered a pub- ing contingents of Quebec voters. values saga features position parties for a consensus. lic servant/teacher/nurse/doctor Among allophone Quebecers, When the other parties sought a who wore a religious ornament the sovereigntist project has al- striking similarities middle ground with the government, other than a crucifix. For more ways been a hard sell. The natural to the nascent the PQ doubled down on its civil than a few of them it was not re- allegiance of most immigrants to service ban of religious garb instead. ally a ballot-box issue. Quebec is to Canada, the country Conservative The rest is history. Marois As it turned out, those who op- to which they swear their citizen- debate. made the charter and its coercive posed the charter and the imposi- ship oath. measures a centrepiece of her tion of a secular dress code were Still, in the past, the PQ had re-election platform and led the often more motivated to fight it made some inroads in the French- party back to opposition after by voting out the PQ than the speaking cultural communities. only 18 months in power. reverse. If that sounds familiar it But many of more recent French- Three years later, the PQ is is because the federal Conserva- speaking newcomers to Quebec still dealing with the fallout from tives encountered some of the are Muslims. the adventure. same dynamics with the niqab in They felt they were in the chantal hébert At a time when some are mak- the 2015 election. crosshairs of the charter. And then, ing the argument that the federal The charter bid exposed ir- support for the project declined Conservatives should similarly reconcilable differences within precipitously as one went down the ONTREAL—Three years ago become the self-appointed keepers the sovereigntist movement, with age cohorts. A decisive majority of Mthis fall, the Parti Québécois of Canadian values through proac- elder statesmen such as former younger voters opposed it. set out to affirm Quebec’s secular tive measures, the PQ saga features leader Jacques Parizeau publicly Instead of dissipating the no- Former Parti Québécois premier character through a so-called striking similarities to the nascent disavowing the project. In one of tion that the PQ was a party past Pauline Marois made the so-called charter of values and the imposi- Conservative Party of Canada his last interviews—given shortly its prime, the project fortified it. values charter a centrepiece of her tion of a secular dress code on the debate and offers some sobering before his death, but after the Some of the charter fallout re-election platform and led the province’s public service. lessons for those who would look PQ’s return to opposition—the was on exhibit last week when party back to opposition after only It was the sovereigntist party’s to that avenue for electoral growth. late premier described the party the candidates for the succession 18 months in power. The Hill Times most ambitious identity-related Here are a few of them. he once led as “a field of ruins.” of Pierre Karl Péladeau gathered photograph by Ally Foster project since the introduction The PQ could never produce Over the past week, the conten- at Université de Montréal for in the late 1970s of the French- data to back up its assertion that tion by Conservative leadership their first leadership debate. made up of grey heads. Today, the language charter, a legislative coercive measures were required contender that would- Among the 300 students in demographics are reversed. framework that to this day enjoys to preserve Quebec’s secular be immigrants to Canada should attendance, one would have If anything, the failed PQ support right across the party character. The plan remained a be subject to ideological vetting been hard-pressed to find much venture unto the shifting sands lines in Quebec. solution in search of a problem. has similarly brought to the sur- evidence of the diversity that of post-9/11 values has driven it The hope was to repeat that The only data it did have in face divisions among high-ranking is otherwise so manifest on the further into the wilderness. success and, in the process, bring hand were polls that backed its Conservatives on a scale not seen campus of Canada’s largest Chantal Hébert is a national the increasingly scattered sover- conviction that it was popular. in public since Stephen Harper French-speaking university. affairs writer for The Toronto eigntist forces back to the PQ. But what the polls did not reunited the right under one party. At the time of the last 1995 Star. This column was first pub- So convinced was Pauline measure was the depth of the Far from expanding the PQ’s referendum, it was the federalist lished Sept. 10. Marois’s government that it had convictions of the respondents. electoral base, the charter bid camp whose audience was mostly The Hill Times 12 The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 opinion canada and china To prosper in China, innovate at home

forward-looking strategy to align that year but 1.8 per cent most security, deep undersea stations, air and soil pollution. China is Canada lacks with China’s future ambitions, recently, meaning Canada is deep space exploration along probably engaged in the biggest a credible and and, because Canada lags as an moving in the wrong direction). with service and maintenance infrastructure development in all innovation nation, our own suc- China’s goal is to move from systems for spacecraft, innova- human history. forward-looking cess in China will depend on our innovation based on imported tion in agriculture, clean coal, But China is short of the strategy to align success in becoming a much more technologies to innovation from smart grids, integrated space-land talent, expertise, technologies innovative nation. developing more of its own tech- information networks, big data and capabilities to accomplish with China’s future China is now busy imple- nologies. According to the Global analytics, smart manufactur- its innovation ambitions on its ambitions. menting its 13th Five-Year Plan, Innovation Index, China ranks ing and robotics, new materials, own, which is why it is seeking running from 2016 to 2020. Its 25th (Canada is 15th). The leaders environmental management and partners who can help it. This is overriding goal is to make China are Switzerland, Sweden, Brit- healthcare. where Canada needs to focus its a much more technologically ain, the U.S., and Finland, with Then there is its ‘Made in China relationship—but this will competitive economy through Singapore, Ireland, Denmark, the China 2025’ strategy, which aims depend on Canada’s own ability significant investments in scien- Netherlands, Germany, and Korea to embrace Industry 4.0, the next to develop talent and technology tific research and innovation for not far behind. industrial revolution of smart that is ahead of what China can next-generation industry, along “We will pursue an innova- manufacturing. It is seeking to produce domestically. david crane with massive spending on what tion-driven development strat- rapidly adopt robotics and other China’s new focus on inno- it calls “new style” urbanization egy to create stronger growth elements of the digital world as vation can also be seen in the and infrastructure, a key focus on drivers,” Chinese President Xi its rising labour costs and aging shift in its foreign investment anada wants a deeper re- climate change and new energy Jinping told a business audi- society force it to adopt advanced activities. Until recently, Chinese Clationship with China. This technologies, and expanding its ence at the recent G20 summit in technologies. China is anxious enterprises prowled the world, was the core message that Prime global reach through the Silk Hangzhou. “We are keenly aware to reduce its dependence on for- snapping up oil and gas and min- Minister Justin Trudeau took with Road Economic Belt and the 21st that many sectors of China’s eign high-tech components and ing companies. Today, the focus him on his recent trip where he Century Maritime Silk Road, the economy are not strong or materials, to upgrade traditional is on tech. While China invested met with the top Chinese leader- hugely ambitious Belt and Road competitive enough despite their industries and to develop more $40-billion in Canadian energy ship. But if Canada is to succeed, initiative to link China with Rus- big sizes. Over the years they Chinese known brands. It is assets between 2005 and 2015, then it has become a much more sia, , and Central Asia. have depended on input of re- seeking to boost industries of the its interest today is much more innovative nation, because that is To continue on its road to an sources, capital and labour force future, including next-generation focused on talent and technology. where China is headed. advanced economy, China must to achieve growth and expand information and communications This is where a China strategy A deeper relationship depends reinvent its economy, making the scale.” But, Xi said, “this model technologies, electric and fuel cell and an innovation strategy fit to- on Canada’s ability to help China transition to a new economy of is no longer sustainable. China vehicles, biotechnology and the gether. The opportunities in China meet its ambition to become a high-productivity growth based now faces the challenging task application of genomics, low- will be significant for countries modern and green economy, one on innovation, the encouragement of changing its growth drivers carbon technologies, advanced and companies that can help Chi- that has shifted from low-cost la- of what it calls mass entrepre- and growth model and adjusting manufacturing systems, and na meet its own grand ambitions. bour and low-value-added goods neurship, a huge new investment its economic structure. To make nuclear technology. But unless Canada can develop its and services to an innovation-led in infrastructure and redevelop- China an innovative country and China will also be investing own grand ambitions in innova- economy, based on science and ment of its cities, and a much a leader in science and technol- heavily in transitioning to a low- tion and the future economy, then technology that supports a rising greater focus on foreign take- ogy is what China must do now carbon economy, with a big focus it will fail to achieve a deeper middle class. overs and global markets. in pursuing development.” on clean-tech, and on massive Canada-China relationship. China’s investments in smart It aims to increase research Under its Scientific Innovation investment in infrastructure, both David Crane is an award-win- infrastructure, a low-carbon and development from 2.1 per 2030 Initiative, China is launching for “new style” urbanization and ning journalist with special inter- economy, and an advanced manu- cent of GDP now to 2.5 per cent six scientific and technological to link its many urban clusters ests in the economics of global- facturing powerhouse will create by 2020 and 2.8 per cent by 2030, projects and nine other major with improved highways and rail ization, innovation, sustainable significant opportunities for coun- when it hopes to become an in- projects, targeting aviation engine access, as well as aviation. It faces development, and social equity. tries and companies that can help novation leader. (In 2001 China and gas turbines, quantum com- big challenges in clean water, He can be reached at crane@ meet these high-priority needs. spent 0.9 per cent of its GDP on puters and communications, neu- sanitation and efficient use of wa- interlog.com. Yet Canada lacks a credible and R&D; Canada spent two per cent roscience and the brain, cyber- ter, along with the need to reduce The Hill Times opinion energy

Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux Partisanship should not accuses Environment Minister Catherine block getting Western McKenna, pictured, of vilifying Western Canadians back to work industries. The Hill Times Empty words are when it comes to coping with the ern industries and implementing a photograph by current economic reality. These national ; from the federal Sam Garcia not enough. The companies are the backbone of natural resources minister, who has our communities, and many are no clear vision with regards to the government must struggling to simply survive to future of the oil and gas industries; respond concretely the next month. and from the prime minister, who Regardless of the very real simply repeats his rehearsed talk- to Western economic challenges they are facing, not one ing points that his child-tax-benefit concerns. of these businesses has been in my revamp is the answer. office asking for handouts. Some Quite frankly, these empty suggest regulation changes, some words are not enough. Imagine desire temporary measures to stave you are a company looking to off their need to downsize. But they invest millions of dollars into our are all unanimous in simply asking Western economy. Would these for support: for the provincial and empty words be enough to reas- me they are simply deciding to ing our industries in a way that federal governments to work with sure you that the government is invest elsewhere. defends our crucial Western CONSERVATIVE MP them to find solutions. doing everything it can to ensure It’s now time for all levels of industries, utilizes our wealth of MATT JENEROUX My Conservative colleagues and that the bottom doesn’t com- government, but particularly the natural resources, and protects I have stood up relentlessly stressing pletely fall out from underneath federal Liberals, to put parti- our environment. If this is done, t’s no secret that Western Cana- the impact that the government’s the West? Would you invest in sanship aside and step up to I will be the first to stand and Ida is feeling the pressure of the current plan of doing nothing is hav- us while the government dithers support Western Canada. It is applaud—because the people of downturn in the economy. As the ing on our fellow neighbours, con- on key Western industries and not about choosing between oil Western Canada need us to. Conservative opposition critic for stituents, and hard-working Western refuses to clearly state whether and the environment; it is about Matt Jeneroux is the Member of Western economic diversification, Canadians. We have been met with it plans to pull the plug on them encouraging companies to use Parliament for Edmonton Riverbend, I have been meeting with many partisan responses from: a federal all together? Would you take that the skilled labour in the West and Alta. and official opposition critic for small, medium, and large busi- environment minister whose only risk? The answer is no, and that is invest in our communities. It is Western economic diversification. nesses to discuss their strategies priority seems to be vilifying West- exactly why companies have told about innovating and diversify- The Hill Times TheDiplomatic

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‘Diplomacy is Affairs Canada responsible for their within the PMO, but the new ones that not only know best, but Don’t forget federalism region, the diplomacy doesn’t stop government is more open and in every government structure, Sure, Canada’s federal minis- the art of letting there. Olivier Nicoloff, for instance, accessible, particularly to the same in ours, and same in prob- ters are prominent, well-known, someone else have used to be Slovenian Ambassador diplomatic community. For a dip- ably many others, those are also and can be instrumental in mov- Marjan Cencen’s main point of lomat of a smaller country, such the ones who would shape the ing bilateral agendas along. But, your way,’ says contact at Global Affairs before he as Mr. Yeganian, meeting former policy in those fields and would they’re also not the most easily was posted as Canada’s ambassa- PM Stephen Harper was “almost also prepare the necessary docu- accessible demographic. That’s veteran Canadian dor to Belgium. Mr. Cencen is still impossible.” But, Prime Minister ments for the Canadian govern- where Canada’s many provincial diplomat and awaiting word of his replacement, Justin Trudeau is much easier to ment, if and when a decision on and territorial governments come but for the time being, he might get get to. their part is called for,” he said. in, according to Mr. Boehm, Mr. public servant Peter in touch with Thomas Balint, the “It’s not that you can get to his Peter Boehm, a career Cana- Cencen, and Mr. Nobs. Boehm. deputy director for Western Europe. office every other day. But when dian diplomat and the current Mr. Nobs, who actually attend- It was a well-known fact in he is available, he makes himself deputy minister for international ed the University of British Co- Ottawa that under previous prime available for longer periods of development, said he would lumbia before coming to Ottawa By Chelsea Nash minister Stephen Harper’s gov- time. So you know, you can talk recommend diplomats don’t focus as a diplomat, said the provinces ernment, if you wanted something to him, you can discuss real is- entirely on the political side of play a “substantial and prominent or an ambassador, high com- done, you had to get the Prime sues,” he said. Plus, Mr. Trudeau contacts. Don’t expect to call up a role in many political fields.” Fmissioner, or any other diplomat Minister’s Office on your side. and his cabinet have made an minister’s office and get a meet- “I, as someone hailing from a new to a posting, there are certain Now, according to Armenian effort to get out to diplomatic ing right away, he said. Instead, federal state, know exactly how things about a political landscape Ambassador Armen Yeganian, at events, Mr. Yeganian added, which wait to run into ministers at those federal entities appreciate that can only be learned through least, things are more evenly dis- sets a good example for everyone events, where they will be entirely being approached by ambassa- experience, trial and error, and persed between the PMO and the in government. focused on socializing and getting dors residing in Ottawa. It gives months of schmoozing. department of Global Affairs. “It does affect the relations of to know people. you direct access to them, and That’s why after the summer “Concentration of power under course. It makes it more quick, “There are a lot of people who you understand by doing so, the shuffle,The Hill Times asked three [the] previous government was more effective, I would say. It observe what goes on in govern- country much better,” Mr. Nobs veteran ambassadors, as well as a visible. Little visits and things, does spill off into the branches of ment, who are the commentators, said. prominent departmental insider, everything had to be approved by the government. They all see the the media, and many of them are Ot- One of the first pieces of advice what tips and tricks diplomats new PMO, which was normal, but I had style of the new leader.” tawa centric. Seek them out,” he said. Mr. Boehm gave for diplomats was to the capital need to know to get a a feeling that it was a little bit over- However, Swiss Ambassador But if you are intent on get- to travel the country. First of all, for head start on their mandates. done, that there should have been Beat Nobs stressed that the best ting in touch with the politicos, the nature, the culture, and gaining more freedom on the issues that point of access is through the Christopher Berzins in Foreign the true sense of the country, but Where’s the power? are not dangerous, or just regular, department of Global Affairs. Minister Stephane Dion’s office, also, “if you’re meeting with our While a diplomat’s main point daily, routine issues,” he said. “It’s always really good advice is a good contact for facilitating minister of fisheries, you might, in of contact will generally be the Now, it’s not just that there to be talking to the ones who are discussions with the minister, director or desk officer in Global is less concentration of power leading on a file. Those are the says Mr. Yeganian. Continued on page 15 The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 15 diplomatic newcomer

Global Affairs Canada top-level organizational structure Deputy Minister Deputy Minister Deputy Minister of of International of Foreign Affairs International Trade Development Ian Shugart (USS) T. Christina Hogan Peter M. Boehm (DME) Associated Deputy (DMT) Minister of Foreign Affairs Danie Jacovella (DMA)

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ADM Steering Committee on Security Resource Management Committee Programs Committee Policy Committee Corporate Management Committee

ADM Human ADM ADM Corpo- ADM Public ADM ADM Global ADM ADM ADM ADM Trade ADM ADM Sub- ADM Europe, ADM ADM Asia Resources International rate Planning, Affairs Strategic Issues and International Partnerships International Agreements Consular, Saharan Middle East, Americas Pacific Francis Trudel Platform Finance and IT Kenneth Policy Development Security and for Business and Security and Africa and Maghreb David Morrison Graham Dan Danagher Arun Thangaraj MacKillop Vincent Rigby Sarah Fountain Political Affairs Development Development Negotiations Legal Leslie Norton Shantz (A) and Chief Trade Alex Smith (A) Mark Innovation Commissioner Kirsten Andrea Hugh Adsett (A) Bugailiskis Gwozdecky (A) Elissa Goldberg Susan Bincoletto Hillman (A)

HR Corporate Client Financial Development International International Non- Engaging Trade AADM Trade Consular West and Europe- North Southeast Strategies and Relations Planning and Communications Assistance Humanitarian Proliferation Canadians Portfolio Agreements Policy Central Eurasia America Asia Operational and Mission Management Fiona Nelson Envelope Assistance and Security Ariel Delouya Strategy and and Beatrice Maillé Africa Leigh Sarty Strategy Ian Burchett Services Operations Shirley Caruthers Management Heather Jeffrey Threat Coordination Negotiations J. Goosen Martin Sheila Tenasco- Leslie Scanlon (A) Nicole Giles Reduction Stéphane Steve Verheul Benjamin Banerjee (A) Heidi Hulan Lambert

Assignments Physical Financial Public Affairs Foreign Economic Stabilization Sustainable Trade Trade Consular Southern Middle East- North North Asia and Executive Resources Operations Charles Mojsej Policy Development and Economic Commissioner Negotiations Operations and Eastern Maghreb America and Oceania Management David Sophie Peter Lundy Patricia Peña Reconstruction Growth Service - David Usher Lisa Helfand Africa Mark Glauser Advocacy Sarah Taylor Philippe McKinnon (A) Bainbridge Task Force Partnerships Operations Leslie Norton (A) and Beaulne Larisa Galadza Joshua Tabah Duane Operations McMullen (A) Jim Nickel

Canadian Foreign Grants and Corporate Development Food International Social Trade North Security and Pan-Africa Europe- Latin South Asia Foreign Service Contributions and E Policy Security and Security Development Sectors America and Emergency Lisa Middle East America and Heather Service Directive Management Communications Planning Environment and Partnerships Cameron Investment Management Stadelbauer Programming Caribbean Cruden Institute Mia Yen Mark Lusignan Mark Stokes Deirdre Kent Caroline Intelligence Louise Holt Mackay Martin Moen Reid Sirrs (A) Dave Metcalfe André Frenette Roxanne Dubé Leclerc David Drake

Workplace Locally Information Trade International Health and Human Investment Market Trade Law Latin Strategic Relations Engaged Staff Management Communications Economic Nutrition Rights, and Access Robert America and Planning, and Andrew Stirling and Latifa Policy Amy Baker Freedom and Innovation Martin Brookfield Caribbean Ops Dev and Corporate (A) Technology Belmahdi Marc-Yves Inclusion Louis Marcotte Hildebrand Development TRIGR Health Martin Loken Bertin Richard Isabelle Bérard Stuart-Andrew Claude Houle Arbeiter Smith

Platform Procurement Office of the Social Regional Trade Chief Air Legal Affairs Geographic Corporate Asset Senior Arctic Development Operations Negotiator, Hugh Adsett Coordination Services Management Official Nancy Smyth and Inter- Intellectual and Mission Dominique Tony Varriano Vacant governmental Property and Support Bélanger (A) Relations Services Trade S. Savage Michael Danagher Bruce Christie

Corporate Planning, International Office Trade Mission Performance Organizations of Chief Controls Security and Risk Wendy Drukier Economist Wendy Reid Sirrs Management André Downs Gilmour Cheryl Urban

Legend Executive Chief Audit Inspector Corporate Chief of (A) Acting Director Executive General Secretary Protocol ADM Assistant Deputy Minister and General Brahim Tamara Guttman and Director Roy Norton Lighter colour boxes denote director generals and executive Counsel Achtoutal General directors Isabelle Jacques Rouben Khatchadourian Source: Global Affairs Canada, updated Sept. 9 (A)

erings as possible. That way, he can In terms of social hangouts for thrown by the governor general in The definition of diplomacy Continued from page 14 establish relationships with col- diplomats outside of the recep- January, he said these events are that Mr. Boehm subscribes to? leagues and counterparts without tion circuit, Mr. Nobs says that a “token of appreciation that the “Diplomacy is the art of letting a meeting with him, be able to say, necessarily needing a reason to go might be a younger man’s game government is going out of their someone else have your way.” ‘I’ve been out to New Brunswick, to their office to have a meeting. for other diplomats within the way to make foreign diplomats In a more strategy-oriented and I’ve visited there.’ These are Mr. Nobs said this is especially missions. “I myself would rather feel at home,” and so that must be way, Mr. Yeganian said that to kinds of tips for getting the access important in the beginning of host a dinner party or be invited recognized in return. make Armenian issues stand out, you want.” your mandate. to [one],” he said. he promotes Armenian culture, Meeting with ministers at a “Diplomats are people that work That being said, there are a Stand out from the crowd history, and the successful dias- provincial level can be important too, in contact with international part- number of clubs one might try to Authenticity is key, said Mr. pora of Armenian-Canadians. especially if you are promoting in- ners, are always very open and easy join, said Mr. Cencen, noting the Boehm, to make yourself stand “You can’t compete eco- vestment and trade, said Mr. Boehm. to talk to. That’s the fundamentals. Rideau Club as one that is good for out from your colleagues and nomically with the Netherlands, And, don’t forget the mayors, who From there, you just sort of learn the high-power social interactions. peers, regardless of the size or which is [a] small country, Euro- can also be valuable contacts. ropes. Establish your own network. Mr. Nobs added that whenever power of your country. While pean, [the] size of Armenia, but, Countries are different. It’s impor- there is a major event organized there are some general “miscon- it is [the] number two investor Party on tant for you to understand who you by the federal government for ceptions” about good diplomatic in [the] Canadian economy. It is Socializing is Diplomacy101, need to be able to talk to and, like the diplomatic community, it is practice, being authentic in the incredible. You cannot compare but don’t underestimate the in any other human interaction, if “highly recommended” to partici- way you are representing your to Germany or France just on power of it, say these experienced you know someone it’s easier to pate. Whether it is the Christmas country, the views of your gov- that front, but you really can on diplomats. approach them, and it’s easier to also reception organized by the prime ernment, and the way you are culture,” he said. Mr. Cencen said he makes it his get information that you might want minister, the Canada Day fete at conveying this to Canadians is [email protected] prerogative to go to as many gath- to get for your own reporting.” Global Affairs, or the reception “the bottom line,” he said. @chels_nash 16 The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 diplomatic newcomer feature media How to work with the Canadian press

We break down who to press-support members, according to its website. Its head office is in the so-called pay attention to in the Hot Room in Centre Block on the Hill, but it has a second in the National Press Build- Ottawa media bubble and ing, across the street at 150 Wellington St. how to get your country What and who to pay attention to on their radar. Hill watchers tend to pay attention to daily news sources including The Globe By Kristen Shane and Mail, , Toronto Star, CTV, CBC, , Canadian So you’re new to Canada and want to Press, Global, The Hill Times, Maclean’s, get your country’s message out to Canadi- and iPolitics. Other international media ans. How do you do it? agencies with reporters in Ottawa include The following is a guide to understand- the Huffington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, ing and working with Canadian journalists, and The Wall Street Journal. with a focus on those on Parliament Hill. Several news agencies such as The Hill Times, iPolitics, and the Globe offer daily Ownership email briefings (sometimes for subscribers Canada has a free press, though the only) with a quick rundown of what’s mak- owners’ and advertisers’ interests are al- ing news that day. ways in the background. Politicos often watch weeknight politi- Aside from public broadcasters like the cal shows Power and Politics hosted by CBC (Radio-Canada in French) and TVOn- Rosemary Barton on the CBC and Power tario (with its flagship current affairs show Play hosted by Don Martin on CTV. Like The Agenda with Steve Paikin), most me- in the United States, there are also Sunday dia organizations are privately owned and morning political shows: The West Block operated. Canadian media ownership is with Tom Clark on Global News and CTV’s largely concentrated in the hands of a few. , hosted by Evan Solomon, In Ottawa, for instance, both the Ottawa formerly of Power and Politics. CBC also Citizen and Ottawa Sun daily newspapers has a political radio show that airs Satur- are owned by the same company, Postme- day mornings called The House, hosted by dia, which also owns both The Vancouver Chris Hall, and it hosts several political Sun and Vancouver Province, Edmonton pundits every Thursday night during The Journal and Edmonton Sun, Calgary Her- National newscast’s At Issue panel. ald and Calgary Sun, , Then there’s CPAC, the Cable Public In 2015, the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery had about 350 full-time members and 30 and National Post. Affairs Channel. Similar to C-SPAN in the press-support members. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright Other big names in print include Torstar, United States, it provides live and taped which owns the Toronto Star daily as well gavel-to-gavel broadcasts of unfiltered par- as the Metroland group of community liamentary proceedings, including the daily users whose collective feed you can follow, tive bunch; we like exclusivity). But give newspapers, the Metro chain of free daily House of Commons Question Period (in including its heads of mission and missions them a deadline: if you don’t hear back in newspapers in seven Canadian cities, in- the weeks when the House is sitting, that abroad, and more than 300 diplomats in its three business days, tell them you’ll shop cluding Ottawa, and the Chinese-language is), committee meetings, press conferences, GAC at Home & Abroad list. it elsewhere. Or, if you’re in a time crunch, paper Sing Tao. and scrums. Started in 1992 by a consor- Canadian federally-focused English- send the piece to multiple outlets at once In Quebec, Quebecor owns the French tium of cable companies, the channel is language foreign affairs reporters whose and tell them directly that the first one who dailies Le Journal de Montréal and Le Jour- commercial free and not for profit. coverage is worth paying attention to agrees to publish gets the piece. nal de Québec, as well as the TVA televi- Amalgamating all this news in one include: Lee Berthiaume, Mike Blanchfield, Don’t be afraid to go out for lunch sion network and Videotron cable, phone, place is National Newswatch (national- and Stephanie Levitz with the Canadian with a journalist to get to know them and and internet provider. newswatch.com), an online political news Press; Peter Mazereeuw, Chelsea Nash, and establish a rapport and a level of trust, es- The other big national daily paper (it aggregator that Hillites pay attention to. Marco Vigliotti with The Hill Times; Steve pecially if you’re likely to encounter them publishes in print every day except Sun- Whatever’s in the top box will likely come Chase, Campbell Clark, and Michelle Zilio over and over through your work. days), The Globe and Mail, is owned by the up in Question Period. with The Globe and Mail; BJ Siekierski Thomson family, one of the richest fami- For breaking news and if you’re looking and Amanda Connolly with iPolitics; David Ethics lies in Canada, which is also the majority to see what the Press Gallery types are Ljunggren with Reuters; Marie-Danielle When it comes to working with Cana- owner of Thomson Reuters, which runs the paying attention to, follow the action on Smith and John Ivison with The National dian journalists, though, you should know Reuters global business newswire. Twitter. Use a program like TweetDeck to Post; and Mercedes Stephenson with CTV. that many won’t accept gifts or anything In TV, Bell Media owns CTV and a number view the chatter on multiple timelines and For analysis and opinion on foreign af- of much monetary value, including paid- of specialty channels including CP24 and the trending hashtags using one customized fairs, a good website is opencanada.org, a for trips sometimes called junkets. And Business News Network (BNN), as well as be- interface through your internet browser. publication of the Canadian International many also won’t send questions before an ing a cable, internet, and phone provider. Follow the #cdnpoli stream and key Council, the Waterloo-based Centre for interview or allow sources to look over text It competes with Rogers, another tele- journalists like David Akin (@davidakin), International Governance Innovation, and they write before it’s published or aired. com giant that owns magazines Maclean’s Rosemary Barton (@RosieBarton), Kady the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary In-person exclusive interviews are gener- and Chatelaine and the TV stations Omni O’Malley (@kady), and others. International History out of the University ally preferred, though teleconferences and and City, among other properties including Several top political players also tweet of Toronto. in-person press conferences are often the radio stations and sports teams. regularly. Following their accounts pro- norm on a hot topic. Each newsroom has Global Television is effectively con- vides good insight into their thinking, and How to get your message out its own code of conduct or ethics policy, trolled by the Shaw family, which runs the what they say on Twitter sometimes makes So you’ve got a delegation coming to some of which are publicly available. telecom company Corus Entertainment. news, like when Conservative MP Michelle town and want some media attention? Be sure that if you talk to a journalist, The Canadian Press (La presse cana- Rempel (@MichelleRempel) criticized a A press release to be distributed to the you’re clear about what’s quotable. Estab- dienne in French) is a national newswire CBC comedian for a post on the 2014 Par- Parliamentary Press Gallery can be sent to lish this at the beginning of the conversa- jointly owned by The Globe and Mail, liament Hill shooting. Ms. Rempel’s feed is [email protected]. tion. Assume whatever you say is on the Torstar, and Gesca Ltée, which runs the one to watch, as well as those of Conserva- But keep in mind that reporters may get record if you haven’t explicitly said (and French paper La Presse. tive MPs Jason Kenney (@jkenney), Tony hundreds of press releases each day from the they’ve agreed) to make it off the record. The Hill Times is owned by Hill Times Clement (@TonyclementCPC), and the gallery and other sources. If you really want Be clear if you prefer to go “off the Publishing, a family-run, private company, prime minister’s principal secretary Gerald a journalist to take notice, it may be best to record,” on “deep background,” “back- which also runs The Lobby Monitor, Par- Butts (@gmbutts). call them directly. Their newsroom phone ground,” “not for attribution,” or use the liament Now, and The Wire Report, all of On the foreign affairs side, Canadian numbers are listed on the gallery website. “Chatham House Rule,” and explain what which cover federal policy from Ottawa. diplomats have recently jumped onto Twitter When thinking of which journalist or you think the term means so everyone’s Most of the big Canadian news organi- in a big way. And while many watch without news agency to contact, keep in mind their on the same page. Often, a source may say zations have reporters on Parliament Hill posting, or retweet tame government- audience, reach, and coverage areas. they want to go “off the record,” but in fact who are members of the Canadian Parlia- account posts, some are avid users who post Same goes for publishing an op-ed. One they mean the journalist can quote them mentary Press Gallery, a 150-year-old self- more personal messages and photos, giving rule of thumb is to reach out to an indi- as long as they’re attributed generally as a governing accreditation body supported insight into their daily work. Global Affairs vidual outlet and offer it exclusive content, “source” and not by name. by staff employed by Parliament. In 2015, Canada (GAC, on Twitter @CanadaFP) rather than offering the same thing to [email protected] it had about 350 full-time members and 30 maintains several Twitter lists, groups of multiple outlets at once (we’re a competi- @kristenshane1 The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 17 diplomatic newcomer feature events Six steps to host a solid national day

Even when the House is sitting, the day If you don’t know French well, start and Tips and tricks from a of the week matters. Monday to Thursday, end with a few simple lines in the language seasoned diplomatic you’re usually safe, though the House has and stick to English for the rest. tended to sit late on Wednesdays for votes. Don’t be afraid to use humour, if you partygoer. Fridays are bad because MPs typically feel comfortable doing so. hightail it back to their ridings on Thursday And if you’re going to give a toast, By Kristen Shane nights unless they have House duty Friday. make sure you’ve got the glass of bubbly/ Keep in mind that the Senate doesn’t nor- wine at your fingertips before you start the national day is a country’s time to mally sit Mondays or Fridays. speech, so there’s not that awkward dash Ashine. If you’re new to Ottawa, here of an assistant darting up to the podium to are a few tips to make your event run 2. Weed your guest list give you a glass as guests wait. smoothly and professionally so you and We at The Hill Times still get national- your guests are happy and the day is day invitations for reporters who’ve long 4. Guests, keep the reception line memorable. since left us. And I’m talking people moving Mexican Ambassador Agustín García-López who’ve been gone for two to five years. When there’s a long line of guests Loaeza greets Japanese Ambassador Kenjiro 1. Set the date strategically If you don’t want a bunch of no-shows or waiting to greet the ambassador and VIPs Monji at a reception the Mexican Embassy Want VIPs to show up? Pick a day when randoms at your event, weed your guest list before entering the party, don’t spend for- hosted earlier this year. The Hill Times photograph they’ll be free. That means looking at the thoroughly every year. ever with the hosts. If you want to talk with by Sam Garcia national-day calendar to see which other While you’re at it, ensure you’ve got the them, pin them down later. They’ll be there missions could be holding theirs at the right honorific. I chuckle every time I re- till the end. 6. A little pizzazz pays off same time as yours and co-ordinating with ceive an invitation addressed to Mr. Kristen Guests should always be courte- The same crowd tends to go to a lot them so that they’re not conflicting. Shane (for the record, I’m a Ms.). ous and gracious with their hosts and of national-day parties. It can get a little Want a big-name minister and parlia- remember that it’s a privilege to be monotonous for them over time. mentarians to attend? Watch the parlia- 3. Keep speeches short and sweet invited. Don’t eat the food until after To make your event stand out, make mentary calendar (available on the parl. No one wants to hear an ambassador the speech. And go easy on the food and sure there’s some element unique to your gc.ca website) to ensure your event is ramble off a list of trade statistics for 10 min- drink (though I must confess I’m guilty culture: a signature dish or drink (Peru has scheduled when the House and Senate are utes as they bake in a suit in the hot sun. of the heaping-plate syndrome, as some given all guests a glass of pisco sour with sitting. Typically this means September to Remember the golden rules of writing: of it is just too delicious to pass up). which to toast), a giveaway (Ecuador once June, excluding the Christmas break and short sentences that you can read in one Keep track of time and don’t overstay gave guests their ironically-named Panama other holidays like the weeks of Thanks- breath; plain language; use statistics spar- your welcome. hats), or a surprising experience (Estonia giving, Remembrance Day, March Break, ingly, to make a point; and anecdotes and brought in a singing troupe whose mem- Easter, and Victoria Day. Note that the stories are gold. 5. If you want to keep costs down bers started their performance embedded end of June is usually silly season, when Try not to read it, if you can. The more Have the party in the afternoon. Guests within the crowd among guests). Even an legislators may sit late to pass what the you have memorized, the more you’ll be won’t drink as much alcohol if they know out-of-the-box venue will do the trick. government wants to make law before the able to make eye contact with guests and they have to go back to work. Ditto for [email protected] summer break, so all bets are off. keep their attention. lingering too long. @kristenshane1

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A number of social groups exist Diplomatic resources to help heads of mission and their families learn A quick guide to of Canadian life. Activities have Other resources more about included snowshoeing, curling, and and enjoy start off on the right visits to museums and galleries. International Development NGOs their time foot in your Ottawa Participation is open to all Aga Khan Foundation Canada in Canada. diplomats, their spouses/partners, CARE Canada The Hill Times posting. and families. It is not limited to Oxfam Canada/Quebec photograph by women-only events, according to Amnesty International (Canada) Sam Garcia information from spokesperson World University Service of Canada By Kristen Shane Elizabeth Wilfert. Cuso International It’s opening its season with a Canadian Red Cross Support for diplomats and welcome breakfast Sept. 23. Canadian Foodgrains Bank their families To be included on its mailing Micronutrient Initiative list or for more information, con- Farm Radio International Carleton University Initiative for tact diplomatichospitality@gmail. Forum of Federations Parliamentary and Diplomatic com or 613-728-7979. Inter Pares Engagement Kairos Started in 2011, this program Ottawa Diplomatic Association Humanitarian Coalition Innovative Research Group L’Actualité offers a yearly half-day orienta- This is the most well-known club Plan International Canada Mainstreet Research Huffington Post Canada tion session for newly arrived for foreign diplomats in Ottawa. It World Vision Canada ThreeHundredEight.com (aggregator, poll tracker) Diplomat and International Canada diplomats every fall. This year’s organizes social and cultural events Save the Children Canada session is scheduled for the for members, which in the past have RESULTS Canada Unions Government/Parliament morning of Sept. 22. It’s free and included a tennis tournament, plane Project Ploughshares Unifor Government Electronic Directory Services (GEDS) open to newly arrived diplomats rides over the national capital re- World Federalists Movement - Canada Public Service Alliance of Canada Parlinfo (biographical information on Parlia- and spouses. It includes informa- gion, and an annual charity ball. It’s WaterAid Canada Canadian Association of Professional Employees mentarians past and present) tion about family integration, run by a small executive committee Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Professional Institute of the Public Service Parl.gc.ca (Parliament of Canada site) the Canadian private sector, and that changes yearly, typically made Borders Canada of Canada LEGISinfo (information from Parliament on legisla- parliamentary system. up of heads of mission. Its president Parliamentary Centre Professional Association of Foreign tion, including related speeches and meetings, It’s run by Maureen Boyd, a is now Saudi Ambassador Naif Bin Service Officers votes, and easy-to-digest legislative summaries pillar in the Ottawa diplomatic Bandir AlSudairy. Business groups and membership Canadian Union of Public Employees from the Library of Parliament) community alongside her hus- There’s a one-time fee of $60 to associations Canadian Labour Congress List of Associations and band, former Canadian diplomat become a member, according to the Canadian Association of Defence Canada’s Building Trades Unions Interparliamentary Groups Colin Robertson. Ms. Boyd is a se- group’s website. odacanada.org and Security Industries ParlVu (watch live and on-demand webcasts nior fellow at Carleton’s Norman Canadian Chamber of Commerce Indigenous groups of parliamentary proceedings) Paterson School of International Heads of Mission Spouses As- Business Council of Canada Assembly of First Nations Lobbying Commissioner of Canada registry Affairs. carleton.ca/parldiplo sociation Canadian Federation of Independent Business Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami HOMSA aims to bring diplo- Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters Indigenous Peoples’ Assembly of Canada Think-tanks Canada for the Diplomatic Com- matic spouses together to build Universities Canada (indigenous peoples living off-reserve) Canada West Foundation munity friendships and to learn about Colleges and Institutes Canada Native Women’s Association of Canada Canadian International Council This is a book updated annu- cultural and social life in Canada. Dairy Farmers of Canada Métis National Council OpenCanada.org ally with practical resources for It’s divided into six regional groups Canadian Cattlemen’s Association Canadian Global Affairs Institute newly arrived diplomats, pub- with the executive consisting of Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance Media Fraser Institute lished by Andjelka Vidovic, owner two members from each. It often Canadian Federation of Agriculture National Newswatch Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives of Embassy Services. Offered for works closely with the Parliamen- Forest Products Association of Canada iPolitics Pearson Centre for Progressive Policy free in hardcopy and online, it tary Spouses Association, a similar Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers Hill Times Canada 2020 features information on housing, group for spouses of MPs. Government Relations Institute of Canada National Post Broadbent Institute driving, taxes, health care, educa- Every year, HOMSA hosts Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Globe and Mail Manning Centre tion, and other everyday needs. three main events: 1) a welcome Association Global News Rideau Institute Information is not limited to Ot- for new spouses, taking place this Federation of Canadian Municipalities CTV Institute for Research on Public Policy tawa; it covers Montreal, Toronto, year at the end of October; 2) a Prospectors & Developers Association of CBC/Radio-Canada C.D. Howe Institute Calgary, and Vancouver. embas- charity event in February; and Canada Canadian Press/La Presse Canadienne Conference Board of Canada syservices.org 3) a cultural event in May. Sub- Mining Association of Canada CPAC Centre for International Governance Innovation groups are encouraged to hold Canadian Bankers Association Ottawa Citizen Canada’s Public Policy Forum International Women’s Club of their own luncheons and meet- Canadian Life and Health Insurance Frank Magazine (satire) Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Ottawa ings to welcome newcomers. Association Toronto Star Institute of Public Administration of Canada This is a club aimed at in- The group’s president is Flor- Canadian Medical Association Maclean’s Macdonald-Laurier Institute troducing international women ence Liautaud, wife of the Haitian Innovative Medicines Canada TVA —Note: This is not an exhaustive list, but a temporarily living in the Ottawa ambassador. Canadian Council for International La Presse snapshot of some large, key groups with a area to Canadians and their way Last year, HOMSA celebrated Co-operation Le Devoir foreign-affairs focus. of life. It includes a number of its 20th anniversary with a char- sub-groups that meet regularly ity ball attended by 300 people, Lobbying, public affairs, and consulting from September to June to cook, including the wife of the chief of firms by the numbers play mahjong, and play bridge, defence staff and foreign min- Earnscliffe Strategy Group among other activities held at ister, that raised $22,000 for the Summa Strategies Canada Foreign diplomatic corps community centres and members’ education-focused group Let’s Hill+Knowlton homes. It includes many spouses Talk Science, said Ms. Liautaud in StrategyCorp of foreign diplomats. an interview. Capital Hill Group 8,000 New members are accepted Bluesky Strategy Group The approximate number of foreign diplomatic agents stationed in Canada throughout the year and there Community Liaison Officer Group Navigator is no membership fee for inter- Diplomats in charge of wel- Tactix national members, according to coming new colleagues to their Crestview Strategy 129 information provided by group embassies last year started a Number of diplomatic missions accredited to Canada and based in the country Dawson Strategic president Lia Mazzolin. monthly meet-up to exchange Global Public Affairs Contact Nermine Fahmy information and advice. NATIONAL Public Relations 54 ([email protected]) for more A group of these official Fleishman-Hillard Canada Number of diplomatic missions accredited to Canada and based elsewhere, such as New York information. iwcottawa.com welcomers has met every month, or Washington usually in the last week at 2:30 Pollsters Canadian Federation of Univer- p.m. at a different embassy from Environics 490 sity Women-Ottawa: Diplomatic September to June. Guest speak- Nanos Research Total consular posts in Canada, in places as far afield as Whitehorse, Yukon, and Rimouski, Que. Hospitality Group ers present on topics such as how EKOS This service group says it to open a bank account in Canada Angus Reid “promotes Canada to foreign or get a credit card or mortgage. Ipsos 26 International organizations and other offices hosted in Canada, such as those of the United diplomatic guests in the spirit of There are no fees to join. CROP Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat, and head- fun and friendship.” The organizational board is Leger quarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization It organizes events from Septem- headed by Andjelka Vidovic, who Abacus Data ber to June demonstrating aspects runs Embassy Services. Forum Research —Source: Global Affairs Canada Office of Protocol website The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 19 political staffers

He’s already a graduate of the Conservative University of New Brunswick, interim where he studied a bachelor of leader Rona Hill Climbers business administration focused Ambrose, on economics with a minor in po- pictured, By Laura Ryckewaert litical science. During his under- recently grad, he spent five weeks in the hired two summer of 2014 studying environ- staffers mental economics at the Univer- to join sity of Cologne in Germany. her team, In 2015, Mr. Poirier was an headed by Two new staff academic tutor at the University chief of staff of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Garry Keller. before spending three months The Hill Times during the summer as a global photograph by join Ambrose’s content intern with U.S.-based Jake Wright company Amber Road, which describes itself online as “a lead- ing provider of on-demand Global team ahead of Trade Management solutions,” and gave him some experience in navigating trade agreements and compliance processes. She started off working for took to the road as the press gal- Parliament’s return Brian Clow is chief of staff to the broadcaster, now owned by lery’s news pool lifeguard,” read Ms. Freeland as minister, and other Bell Media, in the 1980s and an email announcing the good- senior staff include Owen Teo, di- joined CTV’s Washington news bye party, sent to press gallery Official opposition as indicated by her online profile. rector of policy; Vincent Garneau, bureau as a senior field producer members. During the 2011 federal election, director of parliamentary affairs; and reporter in 1989, according “We will be saying farewell, at leader Rona Ambrose she volunteered on Conservative and Anne-Louise Chauvette, direc- to her LinkedIn profile. In 1994, least [until] we run into her at the MP, and former minister, Steven tor of communications. she moved over to CTV’s news next summit.” has a new tour Blaney’s re-election campaign bureau in London, again as a Joyce Napier is CTV Ottawa manager, and a in Lévis-Bellechasse, Que. Mr. CTV’s Skinner joins Global senior field producer and report- bureau chief and is being sup- Blaney is now the MP for the re- Affairs Canada er, before taking on the role of ported in the interim by field new outreach and constituted riding of Bellechasse- The Parliamentary Press Gal- manager of news production for producer Phil Ling. communications aide. Les Etchemins-Lévis. lery last week held a farewell CTV in 1997. “She was great to work with. I Anthony Farrow, meanwhile, bash for CTV’s Patricia Skinner, Ms. Skinner took over as direc- only have good things to say,” said joined the Conservative official who recently left the broadcast- tor of CTV’s Ottawa news bureau Ms. Napier last week. head of the fall House of opposition staff team the week er’s Ottawa News bureau to start in 2005 and until recently, had been The Trudeau government is ACommons sitting, set to start before last to help with ethnic a new chapter working in Global there ever since, including as a showing it’s keen on hosting a on Sept. 19, there are a couple outreach and communications. Affairs Canada’s protocol office member of the press gallery. string of international summits, new, though familiar, faces now Another former staffer under last month, Hill Climbers has On Sept. 9, former colleagues including the North American working on the official opposition the Harper government, Mr. Far- learned. and gallery members gathered to Leaders’ Summit in Ottawa in the leader’s team, led by interim Con- row started off as a departmental Ms. Skinner officially started bid her well. summer, and the Global Fund Re- servative leader Rona Ambrose. policy assistant in the office of as Global Affairs Canada’s new “CTV’s Ottawa bureau regrets plenishment Conference to fight Rebecca Rogers is no lon- then-Conservative aboriginal and chief of media operations for to announce it has lost its adult AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria ger serving as manager of tour northern affairs minister Bernard the summits and official events supervision. For 14 hours most this week in Montreal. for Ms. Ambrose, with Semhar Valcourt before joining the politi- division on Aug. 22, after roughly days, Patricia Skinner was our air [email protected] Tekeste having stepped into the cal staff ranks in 2015 as a special three decades working for CTV. traffic controller and regularly The Hill Times role during the summer. assistant for policy to the minis- A former staffer under the ter, as previously reported by Hill Harper Conservative government, Climbers. Cabinet communications chart Ms. Tekeste was a special ad- After the Liberals became viser to then-minister for natu- the governing party last fall, Mr. cabinet chiefs, directors of communications, press secretaries ral resources up Farrow was quick to find his feet Minister Portfolio Chief of Staff D. Comms Press Secretary Main OfficeTelephone until the Liberals were sworn as a pension policy analyst in Trudeau, Justin Prime Minister, Katie Telford Kate Purchase Cameron Ahmad, 613-957-5555 into government last year. She Ontario’s legislative assembly in Intergovernmental Affairs, Youth Andrée-Lyne Hallé joined Mr. Rickford’s staff team Toronto in January, according to Bains, Navdeep Innovation, Science and Elder Marques Pauline Tam Philip Proulx 343-291-2500 in March 2015, and before that his LinkedIn account. Economic Development was director of parliamentary He’s previously also worked Bennett, Carolyn Indigenous and Northern Affairs Rick Theis Carolyn Campbell Sabrina Williams 819-997-0002 affairs and stakeholder relations for D+H, a financial technology Bibeau, Marie-Claude International Development and Geoffroi Montpetit Louis Bélanger Bernard Boutin 343-203-6238, La Francophonie (PS) 343-203-5977 to then-Conservative immigration provider based in Toronto, and Brison, Scott Treasury Board Sabina Saini - Jean-Luc Ferland 613-369-3170 minister Chris Alexander. for Unisource Capital Corp., an Carr, Jim Natural Resources Janet Annesley Laurel Munroe Alexandre Deslongchamps 343-292-6837 Ms. Tekeste started off as a American equipment leasing Chagger, Bardish Small Business and Tourism Rachel Bendayan James Fitz-Morris Vahid Vidah 343-291-2700 staffer on the Hill in the summer company, in Calgary, Alta., as House Leader Vince MacNeil - Sabrina Atwal 613-995-2727 of 2009, according to her Linke- indicated by his online profile. Mr. Dion, Stéphane Foreign Affairs Julian Ovens Joe Pickerill Chantal Gagnon 343-203-1851, (D.Comm) 343-203-5938 dIn account, as a special assistant Farrow graduated with a bachelor Duclos, Jean-Yves Families, Children and Josée Duplessis Mathieu Filion Emilie Gauduchon 819-654-5546 for issues management, parlia- of arts in political science and his- Social Development mentary affairs, and communica- tory from the Royal Military Col- Duncan, Kirsty Science (acting) Chris Ethier Michael Bhardwaj Véronique Perron 343-291-2600 tions to then-minister of state for lege of Canada, which is located Foote, Judy Public Services and Procurement Gianluca Cairo Annie Trépanier Jessica Turner 819-997-5421 status of women Helena Guergis. in Kingston, Ont. Freeland, Chrystia International Trade Brian Clow Anne-Louise Chauvette Alexander Lawrence 343-203-7332 Garneau, Marc Transport Jean-Philippe Arseneau Marc Roy Delphine Denis 613-991-0700 Less than a year later, in Feb- Garry Keller is chief of staff Goodale, Ralph Public Safety and Marci Surkes Dan Brien Hilary Peirce* 613-991-2924 ruary 2010, she moved into the to Ms. Ambrose as interim leader, Emergency Preparedness Conservative Whip’s office, a role and Martin Bélanger serves as Hajdu, Patty Status of Women Monique Lugli Nadège Adam - 819-997-2494 then held by former Conserva- director of caucus services, policy, Hehr, Kent Veterans, Associate Defence Christine Tabbert Rob Rosenfeld Sarah McMaster (Veterans) 613-996-4649, tive MP Gordon O’Connor, first and research for the Conservative (Associate Defence) caucus’ research bureau, which is 613-996-3100 as a committee co-ordinator and Joly, Mélanie Canadian Heritage Leslie Church Christine Michaud Pierre-Olivier Herbert 819-997-7788 later moving up to senior lobby also known as the Conservative LeBlanc, Dominic Fisheries, Oceans and the George Young Mike Murphy Patricia Bell 613-992-3474 co-ordinator. In that capacity, Resource Group (CRG) and is Canadian Coast Guard Ms. Tekeste played a central role located at 131 Queen St. in down- Lebouthillier, Diane National Revenue Josée Guilmette Cédrick Beauregard Chloe Luciani-Girouard 613-995-2960 organizing and tracking ongo- town Ottawa. MacAulay, Lawrence Agriculture and Agri-Food Mary Jean McFall Guy Gallant - 613-773-1059 ings in the House of Commons, McCallum, John Immigration, Refugees (acting) Bernie Derible Bernie Derible Felix Corriveau *** 613-954-1064 and Citizenship to ensure MPs were up to speed Freeland hires summer McKenna, Catherine Environment and Marlo Raynolds Frédérique Tsai-Klassen Caitlin Workman 819-938-3813 on upcoming business and in intern as exempt aide Climate Change their seats for important votes or International Trade Minister Mihychuk, MaryAnn Employment, Workforce Matthew Mitschke Carlene Variyan - 819-654-5611 debates, for example. Chrystia Freeland recently hired Development and Labour Shortly after a mini-cabinet her summer intern, Marc-André Monsef, Maryam Democratic Institutions Ali Salam (acting) Jennifer Austin Jean-Bruno Villeneuve 613-943-1838 Poirier, to work full time as an Morneau, Bill Finance Richard Maksymetz Daniel Lauzon Annie Donolo 613-369-5696 shuffle in July 2013, Ms. Tekeste Philpott, Jane Health Geneviève Hinse David Clements Andrew MacKendrick 613-957-0200 switched offices yet again, mov- exempt staffer in her ministerial Qualtrough, Carla Sport and Persons with Disabilities Matt Stickney Sherri Moore-Arbour Ashley Michnowski 819-934-1122 ing into the role of director of office at Global Affairs Canada’s Sajjan, Harjit National Defence Brian Bohunicky Renée Filiatrault Jordan Owens 613-996-3100 parliamentary and caucus affairs headquarters in the Lester B. Pear- Sohi, Amarjeet Infrastructure and Communities John Brodhead Kate Monfette Brook Simpson 613-949-1759 to then-heritage and official lan- son Building on Sussex Drive. Wilson-Raybould, Jody Justice Lea MacKenzie - Joanne Ghiz** 613-992-4621 guages minister . Mr. Poirier became a special * communications officer. ** senior communications adviser. *** senior adviser, strategic communications. assistant for Atlantic regional A graduate of the University of Prime Minister’s Press Office: 613-957-5555 Ottawa, Ms. Tekeste was an event affairs to Ms. Freeland earlier this Kate Purchase, director of communications planner for former prime min- month and at the same time is Olivier Duchesneau, deputy director of communications ister Stephen Harper’s leader’s studying law at the University of Cameron Ahmad, press secretary tour during the Conservative Ottawa, set to graduate in 2018, as Andrée-Lyne Hallé, press secretary Party’s 2015 election campaign, indicated by his LinkedIn profile. —Updated on Aug. 30, 2016. 20 The Hill Times, wednesday, september 14, 2016 news infrastructure

Former PBO Mostafa Askari. Parliamentary The office will present these budget officer plans during an appearance be- Kevin Page fore the House Finance Commit- is urging tee on Sept. 28, he said. the Liberal “We’re essentially going to government tell them what we’re planning to improve to do rather than what we have how it tracks done because, as far as we know, spending on nothing really has been done infrastructure significantly in terms of the projects, disbursement of funds [relating expressing to infrastructure],” Mr. Askari disappointment explained. with the failure The office, he added, currently to include IMF- doesn’t have “enough information” recommended on how the money is being spent, reporting though it is requesting details from standards in the the departments responsible for 2016 budget. the infrastructure programs. The Hill Times file Despite the push for better ac- photo countability standards, an Infra- structure Canada spokesperson maintains that the department al- ready has in place strong report- ing and tracking standards. The department’s programs are designed with “various controls and monitoring require- ments for projects” to ensure pay- ments to recipients are made on eligible project costs, with bind- ing funding agreements reached with partners, Michael Wronski said in an emailed statement. The agreements outline the contractual obligations the recipient must follow in order to receive funding for their projects and require recipients to regular- ly report, he said, while payments from the department to recipients are linked to the submission and review of these reports. The department also retains the right to undertake a compli- ance audit, if necessary, for all projects, he added. The vast majority of projects supported by the department are helmed by the provinces and mu- nicipalities, who, like the federal government, have “accountabil- ity to citizens for spending, and report publicly on those expendi- tures,” Mr. Wronski said. The department, however, has The second phase of the to the provinces, municipalities, “not requested an independent spending package remains in the and First Nations. body to track funding” as there development and consultative Although this poses unique re- are already “rigorous” systems in Ottawa must stage, though Budget 2016 prom- porting challenges, Mr. Page cited place, including internal recipient ises it would boost transportation the tracking features introduced audits relying on random sam- and “deliver fast, efficient trade by the former Conservative gov- ples, he said. corridors.” It could also include a ernment in its late 2000s stimulus Those audits are undertaken bolster tracking federally-maintained infrastruc- package as a step in the right by an external consulting firm ture bank. direction and urged the Liberals that works directly with the Mr. Page, who now holds the to improve on it going forward. recipient and the department, Mr. Jean-Luc Pepin research chair “I think the Conservative Wronski explained. of infrastructure on Canadian government at the government made some positive Infrastructure Canada is then University of Ottawa, said the inroads on infrastructure track- provided with the final report. Liberals were wise to divide ing with the implementation of Furthermore, the Office of the infrastructure spending because Budget 2009 stimulus funds,” Auditor General of Canada audits dollars to focusing the first spurt on fixing he said, citing the introduction of the Public Accounts of Canada on existing assets allowed them to quarterly reporting and high-level an annual basis, which includes move more “expeditiously” after performance analysis. Infrastructure Canada’s transfer the election. “It is now up to the Liberal payment transactions, Mr. Wron- maintain public However, he chastised the government to raise the standard ski said. government for failing to in- on phase two.” In this audit, the auditor gen- clude baseline reporting and Mr. Page said it’s important eral reviews payments made by management standards recom- for the federal government to get Infrastructure Canada to provinc- trust: ex- PBO mended by the International the “management and reporting es, territories and municipalities, Monetary Fund in the budget right” on what was a signature he said. public transit, green infrastruc- tabled in the spring. campaign initiative because the Mr. Wronski explained that Infrastructure ture, and social infrastructure, “I think the case can be need is substantial and the risks these consistent and routine Canada, however, are in addition to the spending made that reporting on phase- are “high.” audits of Infrastructure Canada commitments made by the previ- one spending is disappointing. He also stressed that it’s “es- programs ensure compliance, and maintains that it ous Conservative government, It fails to meet the basic require- sential” the funds are properly ensure that projects align with the already has robust pushing the total federal budget ments outlined by the IMF,” he managed to preserve “public terms and conditions of the fund- for infrastructure to roughly told The Hill Times. trust,” while hailing the spend- ing agreements. auditing procedures. $125-billion over the next decade. “Let’s hope the government is ing commitment as provid- The department also supports In the 2016 budget, the Liber- working on raising the standards ing great opportunities. open and transparent information als vowed to spilt infrastructure on phase two; let’s hope we see The office of the Parliamen- sharing by posting project infor- Continued from page 1 spending into two distinct phases, the performance management and tary Budget Officer is actively mation online, and providing da- with the first $12-billion, rolled reporting system in Budget 2017.” planning how it will track the tasets related to projects funded as part of the government’s open spend an extra $60-billion over 10 out over five years, to focus on While most federal spending billions earmarked as part of data initiative, he added. years on infrastructure. recapitalization and fixing exist- is utilized by government depart- the government’s infrastructure [email protected] The funds, to be split between ing assets. ments and agencies, infrastruc- plans, though could not disclose ture funds are largely disbursed details at this stage, said assistant The Hill Times The Hill Times, Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 14, 2016 21 hill times classified information and advertisement placement: tel. 613-232-5952, fax 613-232-9055

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on Slovakia celebrates national day Heard t he Hill The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia By Marco Vigliotti Construction truck impaled by security barrier on Hill

A construction truck carrying a trailer full of black fencing was impaled by a rising barrier on Parliament Hill on Friday. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Georgian Ambassador Wright Alexander Latsabidze and his wife, Tea Uchaneishvili, with Daniela Drobova, wife of the Slovak ambassador, at Slovakia’s national day reception Sept. 8 at Continued from page 2 Ontario Liberal the embassy. A hulking construction truck tow- celebrates birth of child ing a trailer was pierced by a ground-level A artistic display of cold cuts security-barrier pole on Parliament Hill Liberal MP Ahmad and other hors d’oeuvres. Friday afternoon in a doozy of a colli- Hussen took to social sion that disrupted traffic at the Bank media to celebrate Street entrance for hours. the birth of his son, The vehicle, owned by Ottawa-based posting this photo of Exel Contracting Inc., was skewered by the the newborn grasping black security blockade as it drove from the his finger. Photo Hill toward the Bank Street exit at a security courtesy of the Twitter checkpoint, rendering it immovable. account of Ahmad Hussen One of the tires was blown flat. Alex Bugailiskis, Global Affairs Canada The dump truck, carrying a trailer ADM for Europe, the Middle East, and loaded with black fencing, was then towed Maghreb, toasts with Ms. Drobova. away from the scene, temporarily halting Liberal MP Ahmed Hussen (York traffic in and around the intersection of South-Weston, Ont.) is welcoming a new Bank and Wellington streets. addition to his family. Traffic was being redirected to the The Toronto MP announced on social one open lane coming off the Hill, while media last week that his wife had success- a police car temporarily blocked the way fully given birth to a healthy boy. He is from Bank Street into the parking lot by named Saalim Hussen, and weighed seven the Confederation Building, which houses pounds and three ounces at birth, Mr. Hus- many Parliamentarians’ offices. sen’s office told The Hill Times. The cost of the damage remains un- On his Facebook page, Mr. Hussen known, though the truck will be out of com- wrote: “Daddy daycare begins today! Wel- mission for at least the next few weeks, Exel coming the newest addition to the family. dispatcher Kevin Lackey told The Hill Times. Mother and baby boy are doing well.” The incident, he said, happened as the Mr. Hussen was elected to the House for truck was being waved through by security the first time in the 2015 election. to proceed past the protective barriers, A lawyer by profession, Mr. Hussen is a which rose up to impale the front end, in former national president of the Canadian Konstantin Zhigalov, ambassador of an unfortunate accident. Somali Congress. Kazakhstan, Russian Ambassador There were no injuries reported. —with files from Kristen Shane Alexander Darchiev, Ms. Bugailiskis, and Construction on the Hill, focused on [email protected] Slovak Ambassador Andrej Droba. West Block, is ongoing. The Hill Times The Low Tide Cocktail Hour Buck-a-Shuck Oysters I $2 Prawns I $3 Low Tide Sliders $5 Draught Beer Specials I $7 Wines by the Glass

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2019, to support the fund in fighting three of the world’s NDP Leader Parliamentary most deadly diseases. Canada has pledged $785 million, Tom Mulcair for 2017 to 2019. Sept. 16. Hyatt Regency Hotel, 1255 speaks to Rue Jeanne-Mance. All media representatives must regis- Calendar ter online for the conference by Sept. 9. reporters outside of SATURDAY, SEPT. 17 his caucus Canadian Press/CBC Parliament Hill Open—Mont Cas- chamber in cades Golf Club, Cantley, Que., (30 minutes from Ot- April 2015. tawa). Tee times start at 11 a.m.; best-ball format, with The NDP prizes for first place, second place and “most honest” caucus is scores, plus closest-to-the-pin and long drive prizes for both men and women. Sign up as a complete foursome meeting until or as a single or pair. Cost: $95, includes green fee, Sept. 15 in power cart, and steak dinner. Email CP Ottawa’s James Montreal. McCarten ([email protected]) or The Hill Times the CBC’s Paul MacInnis ([email protected]) for photograph by more information or to hold your space, or reach James Andrew Meade NDP, at 613-231-8602 or 613-794-0848 and Paul at 613- 288-6611 or 613-293-3494. Conservative Fifth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host this world summit in Montreal. to Speak in Toronto—Canadian Verschuren (former CEO of Home Depot). Thurs., Sept. caucus retreats The leaders’ conference will be held on Sept. 17, Club Toronto presents “An Ambitious Plan to Unleash 22. 12 p.m. Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen at the International Civil Aviation Organization, 999 Canada’s Productive Forces,” a speech by Conservative Street W., Toronto, Ont. Dominion Ballroom. $85-$95. Robert-Bourassa Blvd. The conference aims to help leadership candidate Maxime Bernier as he outlines But tickets via canadianclub.org wrap up raise US$13 billion, for 2017 to 2019, to support fiscal and spending reforms he says will make Canada Trade Minister to Speak on CETA to EU Trade Min- the fund in fighting three of the world’s most deadly a haven for investors and entrepreneurs. Tues., Sept. isters—Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland will discuss diseases. Canada has pledged $785 million, for 2017 20. 12 p.m. Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen the EU-Canada trade deal CETA on Sept. 22 with all to 2019. All media representatives must register online Street W., Toronto, Ont. Grand Ballroom. $85-$95. But the EU trade ministers on Sept. 22 in Bratislava, Slova- WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14 for the conference by Sept. 9. tickets via canadianclub.org kia. For more info, media may contact Global Affairs Toronto Global Forum—The International Economic Trudeau to Attend Global Citizen Concert—Interna- Discussion on Digital Government—The Institute of Canada: 343-203-7700, [email protected]. Forum of the Americas presents this annual summit on tional advocacy organization Global Citizen in support Public Administration of Canada, National Capital Region, FRIDAY, SEPT. 23 topics including finance, innovation, energy, trade and of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and presents “Delivering on Digital Government for Canadi- infrastructure. Confirmed speakers include: Interna- Malaria is hosting Usher, Half Moon Run, Metric, ans” from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Rideau Club in Ottawa, Canada-India Innovation Conference—The Canada- tional Monetary Fund managing director Christine Grimes, and Charlotte Cardin for a free-ticketed concert 99 Bank St., 15th floor. It will feature the federal govern- India Centre for Excellence will be hosting the Canada-India Lagarde, Finance Minister Bill Morneau, Infrastructure on Sept. 17. Bell Centre, 1909 avenue des Canadiens- ment deputy chief information officer Jennifer Dawson Innovation Conference at Carleton University from 9 a.m. Minister Amarjeet Sohi, Ontario Premier Kathleen de-Montréal, Montreal. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and William Eggers, executive director of the Deloitte to 4:30 p.m. The conference will bring together experts Wynne, Canadian Ambassador to the United States and Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Government Insights. Dress code: suit jackets, from academia, private sector and government to identify David MacNaughton and his U.S. counterpart Bruce Foundation, are set to attend as special guests. The collared shirts, and ties for men, Free event, but online policy, technology, and business collaboration opportunities Heyman, Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi, Guinea event will celebrate progress in global health and devel- registration is required at https://digigov.eventbrite.ca. between the two countries, and how Canadians can build President Alpha Condé, and the CEOs/presidents of opment. Earn the chance to win tickets by following the WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21 long-term relationships with their Indian counterparts. For companies including Suncor, CAE, Monsanto, and steps via globalcitizen.org/canada. more information, visit http://carleton.ca/india/cu-events/ UPS. Until Sept. 14. Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front SUNDAY, SEPT. 18 Liberal Caucus Meeting—The Liberals will meet in canada-india-innovation-conference. It is free to attend. St. W., Toronto. forum-americas.org/toronto/2016. Room 237-C Centre Block on Parliament Hill. For more Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi—The Pearson Conservative Caucus Retreat—The Conservatives will Canada Army Run—This event raises money for injured information, please call Liberal Party media relations at Centre for Progressive Policy presents Ontario Attorney hold a two-day summer caucus retreat Sept. 13-14 in and ill soldiers and military families in need. It welcomes par- [email protected] or 613-627-2384. General and Ottawa MPP Yasir Naqvi, who will speak Halifax. For more information, contact Cory Hann, di- ticipants from across Canada and the world as they run, walk, Conservative Caucus Meeting—The Conservatives will about his priorities in the job and take audience ques- rector of communications, Conservative Party of Canada and roll across Ottawa. The half-marathon is 94 per cent sold meet for their national caucus meeting. For more informa- tions. Sept. 23. 12-1:30 p.m. Tickets $29-$79. Buy via at [email protected]. out, while the 5K is already at 79 per cent sold out. The Com- tion, contact Cory Hann, director of communications, Con- eventbrite. Lord Elgin Hotel, 100 Elgin St. Pearson Room. NDP Caucus Retreat—The NDP are gathering Sept. mander’s Challenge, a new addition this year, is sold out. For servative Party of Canada at [email protected]. 13-15 in Montreal. Please call the NDP Media Centre more information, including how to register, visit armyrun.ca. NDP Caucus Meeting—The NDP caucus will meet SATURDAY, SEPT. 24 at 613-222-2351 or [email protected]. MONDAY, SEPT. 19 from 9:15 a.m.-11 a.m. in Room 112-N Centre Block, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Visit B.C., The Global Progress Summit—Organized by Canada on Wednesday. Please call the NDP Media Centre at Yukon—The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are set 2020, it will bring together Prime Minister Justin House Resumes Sitting—The House resumes sitting 613-222-2351 or [email protected]. for their second official Royal Tour to Canada, Sept. Trudeau, the U.S. labour secretary, founders of Google on Sept. 19 at 11 a.m. after a 13-week break. The Consiglio Di Nino Honours Dinner—The former 24-Oct. 1. They will visit five communities in British and LinkedIn, mayors of New York City and London, House adjourned June 17. senator is to be honoured at this dinner. Albany Club, Columbia and two in Yukon. In B.C.: Victoria (Sept. U.K., and Canada’s ministers of health, trade, and envi- Trade Minister to Address Germany’s Social Demo- 91 King Street E., Toronto. albanyclub.ca/events. 24, 27, 29, Oct. 1), Vancouver (Sept. 25), Bella Bella ronment. Until Thurs., Sept. 15. Ritz Carlton Montreal, cratic Party—Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland will The Authenticity Paradox: Is the Public Losing Faith in Ex- (Sept. 26), Kelowna (Sept. 27), and Haida Gwaii (Sept. 1228 Rue Sherbrooke O. Live webcast available. discuss the EU-Canada trade deal CETA on Sept. 19 in perts?—Does Canada have an authenticity problem? What 30). In Yukon: Whitehorse (Sept. 27, 28) and Carcross canada2020.ca/events/globalprogress2016 an address to the party conference of Germany’s Social does ‘authenticity’ even mean in today’s complex landscape (Sept. 28). An official welcome to Canada and British Development Drinks—This event returns after a Democratic Party in Wolfsburg, Germany. For more info, of ‘sound bite democracy’ and face-value understanding? Columbia will be held on Sept. 24 in Victoria, includ- summer hiatus. It’s a monthly networking event for media may contact Global Affairs Canada: 343-203- Further, in a post-factual world has the demand for expert ing an honour-guard review and speeches. A public international development professionals. Sept. 14, 7700, [email protected]. opinion from governments and leaders changes and what celebration will be held on Sept. 28 in Whitehorse. 2016, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Atomic Rooster, 303 Bank St. Canadian Urban Transit Association Policy Forum— does this mean for fields of research, communications, and Free admission, but attendees pay for own food/drinks. Hear from some of Canada’s top transit experts on the policy development? Speakers: Earnscliffe Strategy Group’s TUESDAY, SEPT. 27 Register through Eventbrite. future of Canadian urban mobility. Includes keynote Allan Gregg; CBC/Radio Canada’s ; Toronto Senate Resumes Sitting—The Senate is expected UN General Assembly 71st Session Opening—World from MP Pablo Rodriguez, parliamentary secretary to Star and iPolitics’ Susan Delacourt; and N.L. Jamieson to resume sitting on Sept. 27 at 2 p.m. The Senate leaders will flock to New York for the opening of the 71st the minister of infrastructure, and remarks from Ottawa Strategic Consulting Ltd.’s Nancy Jamieson. Presented by adjourned June 22. regular session of the United Nations General Assembly Mayor Jim Watson. Delta Hotel, 101 Lyon St., Ottawa, the Market Research and Intelligence Association. Sept. ICAO Triennial Assembly—The International at the UN headquarters. General debate will begin Tues., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Register at cuta.ca. 21, 4-6 p.m., Rideau Club, 99 Bank St., Ottawa, $50. Civil Aviation Organization, a UN specialized agency Sept. 20. 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