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the anti-government protests in France. It Mr. Bloomberg will speak at the 6 p.m. bills itself as an opposition to the gov- at the Rotman School of Management at ernment’s introduction of a carbon tax the University of Toronto. that is, the group says, selling Canada’s Heard on the Hill sovereignty to the “globalist UN and their tyrannical policies.” Alyson Fair returns to by Neil Moss “This bullshit extremist talk has no place in Canada. We are better than this,” CTV newsroom after Mr. Angus wrote. “As citizens we have a double mastectomy duty to call out this extremist rhetoric and restore civic discourse and debate.” Can Irwin Cotler become CTV’s Power Play producer This just in: Harper goes Alyson Fair returned to work Canada’s second Nobel to India, dons suit and tie last week after undergoing Former Stephen Harper travelled to India a double last week, and met with Indian Prime mastectomy. Peace Prize winner? Minister Narendra Modi. Photograph He greeted the Indian leader wearing a courtesy of nondescript blue seat and red tie, a stark Twitter contrast to some of Prime Minister Justin Irwin Cotler Trudeau‘s get-ups on his now infamous trip Alyson Fair, the well-liked senior producer has been to India. at CTV’s Power Play, returned to work nominated after nine weeks of recovering from a dou- by former Stephen ble mastectomy. prime Harper “After 9 weeks of recovery following my minister with Indian double mastectomy, I am a #previvour and Paul Prime ready to return to work #autoreplyoff,” she Martin for Minister tweeted. “My #BRCA2 journey is behind me the Nobel Narendra and I’m ready for what lies ahead.” Peace Modi. She was welcomed back by Hill journal- Prize. The Photograph ists and pols alike on Twitter, including The Hill Times courtesy of Canadian Press’ Mia Rabson and Huffing- photograph Twitter ton Post Canada’s Althia Raj, as well as by Andrew Conservative MP Erin O’Toole and Liberal Meade MP Marco Mendicino. Ms. Fair has been with the show since 2010. rwin Cotler has been nominated for the “It’s just a shame it didn’t happen INobel Peace Prize by his former boss years ago,” CWA Canada President Mar- Paul Martin. tin O’Hanlon said in a press release. “It Former deputy PBO Mr. Cotler is the founder and chair of the is not hyperbole to say that Godfrey has The two discussed the state of the India- Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, been a disaster for the newspaper indus- Canada relationship and “global trends and Askari joins University of and has a noted history of defending human try in this country.” cooperation among democracies,” accord- rights around the world from fi ghting for “Godfrey has presided over the de- ing to the India PMO. Ottawa’s IFSD the release of Nelson Mandela in the 1980s struction of a once-proud chain, laying off Mr. Harper presented his new book— to currently advocating for the liberty of thousands of staff and leaving decimated Right Here, Right Now—to Mr. Modi. imprisoned Saudi activist Raif Badawi. newsrooms. It has been a nightmare for While in India, Mr. Harper met with “I can personally attest to the fact that workers, bad for society, and damaging to Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Professor Irwin Cotler is relentless in his our democracy,” Mr. O’Hanlon said. Dharmendra Pradha at an event put on by campaign for human rights for all individ- In 2018, Mr. Godfrey was given a the Energy Forum, as well as participated uals. His efforts deserve to be encouraged $1.2-million bonus on top of his $1.2-mil- in a roundtable with former British prime and granting him the Nobel Peace Prize lion salary, in total making more than minister Tony Blair at the Raisina Dia- will have enormous benefi t in the continu- $5-million with the help of stock options. logue, a geopolitical conference, in New ing fi ght for freedom and universal human On criticism that the job cuts were Delhi, where he took shots at Mr. Trudeau. The 22nd Canadian prime minister said rights,” the former prime minister wrote his affecting the newspapers’ quality, Mr. Mostafa Askari, left, pictured on the Hill in 2012 letter of recommendation for Mr. Cotler. Godfrey told Toronto Life in 2017: “Are our “a smart prime minister” builds a good re- lationship with a U.S. president no matter with then Conservative MP Brian Jean, and then Mr. Cotler served in Mr. Martin’s cabi- papers as good as they used to be? No, but PBO Kevin Page. The Hill Times fi le photograph net as justice minister and attorney general they haven’t become unacceptable.” their personality or political leanings. from 2003 to 2006. Mr. Cotler represented Postmedia’s revenue fell by 9.4 per cent “Stephen Harper is in the news (again), Mostafa Askari, the former deputy the Montreal-area riding of Mount Royal since 2017 to $171.3-million in 2018, when this time with advice about how to get parliamentary budget offi cer, joined the for nearly 16 years from 1999 to 2015. Mr. Godfrey took over revenue in the 2009- along with the US President. Recall that University of Ottawa’s Institute of Fiscal The last (and only) Canadian to win 2010 fi scal year for Canwest/Postmedia he couldn’t even get along with Barack Studies and Democracy (IFSD) on Jan. 9 as the Nobel Peace Prize is former prime was over $1.05-billion. Obama,” tweeted Gerald Butts, Mr. the think tank’s chief economist. minister Lester B. Pearson who won the Mr. Godfrey defended his lucrative sal- Trudeau’s principal secretary. A PhD economics graduate of Queen’s prize for his role resolving the Suez Crisis ary, saying, “there are not many people in University, he served as the deputy PBO when he was Canada’s secretary of state Canada who can run a newspaper chain.” Bloomberg to speak for more than a decade from 2008 to Janu- for external affairs where he with the UN Mr. O’Hanlon doesn’t have high hopes ary 2019, after holding posts at Health and Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld for Mr. MacLeod. in Toronto on Jan. 15 Canada and the Department of Finance. pioneered modern peacekeeping. “Unfortunately, there is no indication At IFSD, Prof. Askari will conduct re- that new CEO Andrew MacLeod will be at John H. McArthur search, provide advice, and teach in fi scal any different [than Mr. Godfrey],” he said. and economic areas. Paul Godfrey steps down Mr. MacLeod worked for Blackberry Distinguished Fellow event He is replacing Randall Bartlett leaves from 2004 to 2014, fi nishing his tenure as IFSD after two years to take a role in the as Postmedia president the telecommunication company’s senior Former New York City mayor and fi nancial sector. vice president and regional managing direc- rumoured 2020 U.S. Democratic presiden- Paul Godfrey tor – he should be used to laying people off. tial candidate Michael Bloomberg will give steps the keynote address on Jan. 15 to mark the Separated at birth, eh? down as start of his tenure as the second John H. president of Angus criticizes ‘bullshit McArthur Distinguished Fellow. Postmedia, extremist talk’ around Mr. Bloomberg served as New York’s will continue mayor from 2002 to 2013. He is the founder as executive threats against Prime and head of Bloomberg L.P., a fi nance and chair. media company, where he accumulated his The Hill Minister Trudeau more than $50-billion new worth. Times fi le The former Republican donated more photograph After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received than $100-million to Democratic candi- a number of death threats on a far right dates leading up to the U.S. midterms, as Facebook page last week, NDP MP Charlie well as held meetings with infl uential Iowa After eight years as Postmedia’s head, Angus took aim at the rampant extremism. Democrats creating a wave of speculation Paul Godfrey is stepping down. “I am fed up with the crazy-assed mes- that the billionaire would run for America’s Mr. Godfrey, who is best known for sages I’m receiving from those who say highest offi ce in 2020. Former Ontario MPP and fi nance minister taking home a $1.7-million salary while they will take up arms to defeat ‘Justin,’ or The Asia Pacifi c Foundation fellowship Greg Sorbara, left, and Conservative MP slashing 800 jobs in 2016, is being replaced who claim he is a ‘Jihadist’ who has robbed is named after John H. McArthur who was Richard Martel, right. Photographs courtesy by Andrew MacLeod—previously the com- their rights,” Mr. Angus wrote on Facebook the chair of the think tank and dean emeri- of Ben More Assynt/Flickr and Wikimedia pany’s chief commercial offi cer. on Jan. 8. tus at the Harvard Business School. The Mr. Godfrey will continue to serve as The Facebook group, which calls itself fellowship was previously held by CNN’s [email protected] Postmedia’s executive chair. Yellow Vest Canada, takes its name from Fareed Zakaria. The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 3 Sexual harassment & the Hill News

About 700 how to make Parlia- Liberal ment Hill a respectful Best way parliamentary workplace where and exempt staffers could work ministerial without fear of being to address staffers, sexually harassed. including Ms. Lalonde said some pictured, the Liberal Party in attended the the coming weeks sexual mandatory will collect feedback sexual from staffers on the harassment effectiveness of the training in training and they harassment the John A. will share it with her. MacDonald In order to get the building on maximum advantage on the Hill Wednesday, from this type of Jan. 9. The training, she recom- Hill Times mended that it should photograph by be repeated every six is ‘to raise Andrew Meade to eight months. “Women found it very validating, and the bar’ of sions about the subject. Towards the end, feedback from staffers, including from PMO people of all genders staffers asked her questions about various principal secretary Gerald Butts, and chief really appreciated that it was very practi- aspects of sexual harassment, and how to act of staff Katie Telford. She said staffers found cal and that it was not focused, that the law under different circumstances such as being her training “very practical,” as instead of acceptable a victim or a bystander in a given situation. keeping the focus on law and policy related Continued on page 22 behaviour, Ms. Lalonde said she received positive to sexual harassment, she talked about says leading expert Lalonde

About 700 staff ers, including PMO principal secretary Gerald Butts and chief of staff Katie Telford, attended the sexual harassment training session on the Hill last week.

BY ABBAS RANA

he best way to address the issue of Tsexual harassment on Parliament Hill or in any other workplace is for managers to raise the bar of acceptable behaviour to where everyone is treated as equals, and for bystanders to call out unacceptable behaviour whenever they see it, says Julie Lalonde, an Ottawa-based women’s rights advocate and expert on sexual harassment who is training Hill staffers on the subject. “The key message was to raise the bar, to demand better of our colleagues of our workplaces, of our employers and instead of hiding behind, ‘Well, you know that behaviour is not criminal,’ asking yourself ‘Is it appropriate for the workplace?’” Ms. Lalonde said in an interview with The Hill Times, following her mandatory training session to Liberal parliamentary and ex- empt ministerial staffers last week. Ms. Lalonde conducted two training ses- sions in French and English, each two-hour long last week on the Hill. She told The Hill Times that her training focused on having a broader conversation with staffers on how to make Parliament Hill a workplace where victims feel safe to speak up if they feel they’ve been sexually harassed. Also, she focused on the signifi cance of bystander in- tervention and support for victims, in addi- tion to violence against Indigenous women, violence again women with disabilities, and what to do in those situations. For the training sessions, Ms. Lalonde made her remarks using a power point pre- sentation, followed by small group discus- 4 MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 | THE HILL TIMES Opinion

U.S. President Donald J. would not be free trade agree- Trump and Prime Minister ments (eliminating tariffs sec- Justin Trudeau, pictured torally would be contrary to WTO on Nov. 30, 2018, in rules) but instead agreements Buenos Aires, Argentina, on trade facilitation measures. at the USMCA signing Australia, which has a free trade ceremony. The U.S. goal is agreement with China, would still to isolate China and hamper have an advantage over Canada China’s bid to advance its in commodities and other areas capabilities in advanced where the two countries compete. technologies such as But now two developments, semiconductors, artifi cial both the result of U.S. measures, intelligence, aviation and have created a wide rift between aerospace, clean energy and China and Canada that has pushed biosciences, curbing China’s the relationship into a deep freeze. potential as a globally The fi rst was Canada’s agree- infl uential superpower. ment to include, in the revised In this game of great North American Free Trade power politics, the U.S. is Agreement, a clause clearly putting intense pressure aimed at China. It required on traditional U.S. allies, Canada to give advance notice including Canada, to support of any intent to negotiate a free U.S. polices designed to hurt trade deal with China and also to China. What will Canada submit the text of any proposed do? Photograph courtesy: Canada-China free trade deal to Offi cial White House Photo the U.S. before it is signed—with by Shealah Craighead the U.S. having the right to kick Canada out of North American free trade if it didn’t approve the negotiation or the deal. This would give the U.S. the Trump creates seriously damaging ability to infl uence what Canada could or could not negotiate with China. This clause clearly soured China’s attitude to Canada. rift between Canada and China Then came the December arrest in Vancouver of Meng He has succeeded in creating a Foreign Wanzhou, chief fi nancial offi cer Donald Trump is seriously damaging rift between Affairs of China’s most important tech undermining Canada’s Canada and China, undermining Minister company, Huawei, on an extradi- Canada’s bid to establish closer Chrystia tion warrant from the U.S., with bid to establish economic ties with China, push- Freeland, the risk that one of China’s top ing Canada to take the U.S. side pictured tech executives could end up be- closer economic ties in his aggressive economic and Nov. 27, ing sent to the U.S. for imprison- trade war against China. 2018, ment. Canada could have averted with China, pushing The U.S. goal is to isolate Chi- shortly this extraterritorial extension of a Canada to take the U.S. na and hamper China’s bid to ad- before U.S. law into Canada, by warn- vance its capabilities in advanced appearing ing Meng off since it had advance side in his aggressive technologies such as semiconduc- before the notice of Meng’s arrival date. tors, artifi cial intelligence, avia- Senate There was no need for the U.S. to economic and trade tion and aerospace, clean energy Committee seek extradition other than to use and biosciences, curbing China’s on Foreign it as a tactic in its economic war war against China. potential as a globally infl uential Affairs and with China. superpower. In this game of great International China’s reaction has not power politics, the U.S. is putting Trade on the surprisingly been one of intense intense pressure on traditional Hill. The anger and retaliation. Two Cana- U.S. allies, including Canada, to Hill Times dians are being held in Chinese support U.S. polices designed to photograph jails and any talk of trade or com- hurt China. What will Canada do? by Andrew mercial deals with China are in a To bow to U.S. pressure would Meade deep freeze, with the risk of much show the rest of the world, and worse should Meng end up being China, in particular, that Canada extradited to the U.S. is a vassal of the U.S. It would The Trudeau government is undercut Canada’s trade diver- also under intense U.S. pressure David Crane sifi cation strategy by limiting to align itself with the U.S. Yet to feminism. Canada, Trudeau na- to ban Huawei from supplying 5G resist supporting the U.S. could ively promised, could be a bridge Canada & the 21st Century Canada’s potential in one of the equipment in Canada, a pressure world’s largest economies and undercut Canada’s relationship between China and the West and that has less to do with claims Canada’s second largest trading with its largest trading partner. its “progressive” values. of a national security threat and ORONTO—U.S. President partner. Canada has its own dis- As Trade Minister Jim Carr has Winding up his 2016 visit, more to do with slowing the TDonald Trump couldn’t have agreements with Chinese policies, put it, “as one of the world’s largest Trudeau boasted that “my offi cial growth of Huawei and its superior planned it better. but this doesn’t mean Canada has economies, increased trade with visit to China has placed the 5G technology. Huawei has ex- China continues to be a priority Canada-China relationship on a tensive research and production for Canada as part of our trade renewed and stable track that will operations in Canada and, from a diversifi cation strategy.” In fact, foster greater economic and so- Canadian perspective, has been a Carr has called China an “essential cial benefi ts for both our peoples, good corporate citizen. component” in his trade diversi- especially the middle class.” Canada cannot allow Meng fi cation strategy. But why should But Trudeau’s boastfulness, to be extradited to the U.S. Nor China co-operate with Canada if and his expectation that he could should it ban the use of Huawei’s Canada aligns itself with the U.S. persuade the Chinese to include 5G technology unless a much more economic war with China? provisions on labour, feminism, compelling national security threat To be sure, Trump is not to human right, and other “progres- be demonstrated than has been the blame for all of the Trudeau sive” measures in a free trade case so far. But it is also time for government’s problems with agreement fell fl at, as he found on Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia China. Our own government has a second visit to China in 2017. His Freeland to meet with her Chinese mishandled the fi le, starting with hosts made clear that they wanted counterpart to begin the process of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s an agreement that dealt with trade restoring the relationship. 2016 high-expectations visit to and investment, nothing else. This may be our biggest for- China where an inexperienced As a result, the government eign policy challenge this year. Canadian leader engaged in last year changed its strategy to We will continue to have our bold talk of Canada-China free one of seeking sectoral agree- own issues with China, but they trade, a goal of doubling trade by ments, identifying agri-food, should be addressed our way and 2025, and new consultative ar- energy, tourism, and education as not as part of a U.S. economic rangements including an annual early targets, while still asserting and political war. Trade Minister Jim Carr said, ‘as one of the world’s largest economies, meeting between the Canadian it wishes to pursue a free trade David Crane can be reached at increased trade with China continues to be a priority for Canada as part of our and Chinese prime ministers, agreement at some future date. [email protected]. trade diversifi cation strategy.’ The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade along with jabs at the Chinese on However, sectoral agreements The Hill Times

6 MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 | THE HILL TIMES News Hill renovations It’s closing time: West Block and Senate Building move-ins pass halfway mark as the Hill readies for return Parliament on the move: Packed boxes are pictured, top right, stacked up in the historic Reading Room (237-C) last week. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Final tweaks and tests are amid installation, but it has delayed tems in the West Block are still to This week, the Parliamentary There’ll be a week still wrapping up in both build- other work required to prep the go ahead of the House’s return on Press Gallery, the parliamentary between the end of ings. Late-stage changes include space. Jan. 28, according to PSPC. boutique, security, and House adding new acoustic panels and “The testing, the adjusting of All MPs and Senators are offi cers (party whips, House the move and the dampers inside both the House equipment … all of that we’re now cleared out of Centre Block. leaders, and opposition lead- of Commons and Senate interim behind by a couple of weeks, but Due to limited space in the newly ers) will make their move, with House’s offi cial return Chambers. that’s okay, we’ve given ourselves renovated buildings, MP offi ces the boutique headed for the new Windows have also been enough time that we’re very con- relocated to the Confederation Visitors’ Welcome Centre. Only to unpack and get added to the thick oak doors that fi dent that we’ll have all that stuff Building, Justice Building, and some press gallery staff from the lead from the government and working perfectly by the time we Wellington Building, and Sena- Centre Block’s ‘Hot Room’ will fi t acclimated in the opposition lobbies into the House get back,” said Sen. Tannas. tors relocated to either the East in the West Block, with report- West Block, on top Chamber in the West Block after A new acoustics damper also Block or the Chambers Building. ers relocating to offi ces in the whips’ staff fl agged the need in had to be installed in the interim Furniture from the House National Press Building at 150 of all the usual work the fall after touring the space. House Chamber late last year to Chamber began moving into the Wellington St. Along with enabling staff to peak address a “fl utter echo” identifi ed West Block as soon as the House The Library of Parliament’s to prep for a new into the Chamber from the lobby, during testing, said Mr. Lessard. rose on Dec. 13; that work, along primary collection has been relo- the windows will presumably The damper is comprised of “two with the relocation of digital ser- cated to the interim main branch session, the fi nal help to avoid instances of MPs layers of fi lm,” made of a trans- vices and multimedia staff, was at 125 Sparks St., with the rest of one before the next hitting colleagues with the door lucent material, and hangs over completed by Christmas. the collection from Centre Block as they head in and out of the the Chamber. Public Services and The extended desk rows that now moving into storage. federal election. This House. were added to accommodate the Among the House offi cers, the 30 new MPs added to the House Liberal Whip and House Leader impending time- in 2015 didn’t make the move, and are fi rst up on Jan. 14, and are are set for storage. Instead, 22 headed for the third fl oor of West crunch is causing new oak double desks were craft- Block. The Conservatives move on ed by House trade services for the Jan. 17 and are taking over offi ces some stress. interim Chamber, costing $25,000 on the western fourth-fl oor hall, in all. The House Speaker’s chair and on Jan. 18 the NDP moves also didn’t make the move due to into offi ces in the south and east BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT its size, with an old chair used by halls of the fourth fl oor. former Speaker Edgar Rhodes A fi nal, “master dry-run” test of Ps, Senators, and the PM (1917-1921) is being used in the the building—from the Chamber Mhave all cleared out of Centre interim. to committee rooms—will happen Block—with House offi cers among Almost everything being on Jan. 16, said Mr. Lessard. A those on the move this week—as moved from Centre Block to the similar test-run will take place in the West Block and Government West Block is heading through the new Senate building on the Conference Centre get ready for the tunnel that connects the two same day. the start of the new session. buildings. The House clerks’ Ann Marie Kelley, chief of “Things are going well. We’re table was an exception due to staff to Conservative Whip Mark happy with the state of the build- its size, with special contractors Strahl (Chilliwack-Hope, B.C.), ing. … We’re looking forward to brought in to wrap and move the who’s been working in Centre the January 28th opening,” said massive heritage piece, said Mr. Block since 1996, said while West Dominic Lessard, deputy director Books are loaded to move from the Government House Leader’s Offi ce in Lessard. Block may be smaller and have of real property for the House of Centre Block on Jan 10, 2019. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade Over the winter break and fi rst a different feel than the historic Commons, who’s been in charge week of January, House main- Centre Block building, she ex- of coordinating the big move. Procurement Canada said the tenance and material handling pects “everyone will be used to it Centre Block’s upcoming reno- Work to add new acoustics pan- cost of this addition was covered services, cafeteria, parliamentary in a month.” vation will take at least a decade els over the gallery and translators’ “within budget allocations.” restaurant, and printing and “For anybody who’s been to complete, with a total estimat- booth to address acoustics issues With the damper and system postal services were all moved. working in Centre Block for a ed cost still yet to be announced. identifi ed in the interim Senate of louvres installed to control Last week, the House health long time, it’s time to get out of Renovations to the West Block, Chamber after a Nov. 30 dress light within the $115-million glass and safety unit, procedural staff, here. Like, will I miss being freez- the House of Commons’ interim rehearsal was completed on Jan. roof that tops the old West Block including the journals branch ing in the winter, dying of heat in home, took roughly seven years 3, said Conservative Senator Scott courtyard space, “very little natu- and pages program, the clerks, the summer? Will I miss mouse and $863-million to complete, Tannas, chair of the Senate’s Long- ral light” will ultimately make it the Speaker, and the Sergeant-at- droppings on the fl oor? No,” she while the Senate’s interim home, Term Vision and Plan subcommit- into the interim House Chamber, Arms (and their deputies) moved said. the Government Conference Cen- tee. This work prompted the Senate said Mr. Lessard. into the West Block. The Prime “It’s an old building, it [renova- tre, took roughly four years and to push back the start date for the Along with training and fi nal Minister’s third fl oor offi ce was tion] needs to be done.” $219-million. The building has new session, from Jan. 29 to Feb. rehearsals, paint touch-ups, door also relocated into its new home 19. Furniture from Centre Block’s temporarily been renamed the adjustments, and tweaks to the in the Mackenzie Tower starting Continued on page 7 Senate of Canada Building. Red Chamber was moved over heating, cooling, and lighting sys- Jan. 10. THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 7 Hill renovations News

All moves into the West Block will be completed by Jan. 21. On the same day, the Liberal caucus will give the West Block an early inauguration, with a meeting scheduled in the (not-so-snappily named) Room 025B, located on one of the build- ing’s new base- ment levels. The move out of Centre Block also includes the relo- cation of dozens of Move in Progress: pieces of artwork A look at the Senate Speaker’s corridor in Centre Block on and sculptures, Jan. 9; previously this hallway was lined with portraits of past Speakers. The much of which is Hill Times photograph by Laura Ryckewaert headed for the new buildings, with the rest set for storage. NDP lobby offi cer Anthony Salloum, pictured in the NDP Whip’s Offi ce suites last week. Cages Strolling the are being used to hold and move odd-shaped items, like bubble-wrapped pictures. The Hill halls last week, Times photograph by Laura Ryckewaert The Hill Times noted that all the Continued from page 6 desks where the NDP caucus will prime ministerial soon sit—convenient, given her portraits in Centre Block have Along with being fi t-up with role includes ensuring MPs show modern technologies and equip- been taken down—except for the up for House duty and votes. portrait of former Progressive ment, West Block will most “I like the idea of being able to certainly have air conditioning, Conservative prime minister Joe look into the House from some of Clark. On the Senate side, all the among other conveniences. the offi ces, that’s very cool,” Ms. Ms. Kelley’s son is among the pictures of past Senate leaders Boutin-Sweet told The Hill Times. and Senate Speakers’ portraits House maintenance and material Questions remain over the handling staff who are actually were down, as were all but four of layout, furniture, and technology the portraits of past monarchs. moving over the many trollies of that will be available for staff boxes and bubble-wrapped pieces The Senate’s move was a little in the opposition lobby, noted more than 50 per cent complete packed up by individual offi ces; Ms. Boutin-Sweet, including, for Former prime minister Joe Clark’s portrait is the only one left hanging on the whether he’d be involved in mov- as of last week, and is scheduled example, whether a TV will be to fully fi nish by Jan. 30, said Sen. House side of the Centre Block building. If portraits could talk, would his be ing her offi ce was unclear. installed at the desk to enable singing Bette Midler? ‘I am all alone. There is no one here beside me…’The Packing in the NDP Whip’s Tannas. lobby offi cers to watch House Some late-stage offi ce real- Hill Times photograph by Laura Ryckewaert offi ce suites on the fi fth fl oor of proceedings. Centre Block was in full swing location had to happen to make The Hill Times Concern has been raised over space for the leadership of the when stopped the fact that both the offi ce for by last week. Among the pieces Independent Senators’ Group— the NDP House Leader and the which swelled from roughly heading to the West Block is a parliamentary leader, which are four-seater couch fi rst used by 15 Senators in late 2016 to the both located in the tower-like current count of 54, making it the CCF-turned-NDP MP Stanley sections that jut out from West Knowles, but better known as largest group in the Upper Cham- Block’s façade, can only be ac- ber—with some Senate adminis- Tommy Douglas’s old couch. NDP cessed by a set of stairs, with no lobby offi cer Anthony Salloum trative staff offi ces bumped over ramp available, said Mr. Salloum. to the Chambers Building. said Mr. Douglas was well known Other NDP-allocated offi ce space for sleeping in his offi ce. While the The Senate Thrones are the in West Block is instead being only furniture pieces from the green velour couch doesn’t fi t with prepped to accommodate meet- today’s standardized House furni- old Chamber that haven’t been ings with individuals with acces- moved over, they’re lined up for ture aesthetic, the offi ce pushed to sibility needs. ensure it made the move. heritage restoration work (after There’ll be a week between the which they’ll go into storage), “That couch has been like a end of the move and the House’s sanctuary,” said Mr. Salloum, not- and new thrones gifted by Queen return to unpack and get accli- th ing it’s been a refuge for sick MPs Elizabeth II to mark the 150 an- mated in the West Block, on top niversary of Confederation will and staff needing a place to rest of all the usual work to prep for their heads, and during late-night be used in the interim. the new session, the last before The green velour couch. The small printed picture posted right above it features the sittings. Relocating the Senate Speak- the next federal election. This couch’s original owner, Stanley Knowles, with a very young Daniel Blaikie, now an NDP Whip Marjolaine Boutin- ers’ suites is still to go, and impending time-crunch is said to NDP MP, and his sister, former NDP president Rebecca Blaikie, both of whom are Sweet’s (Hochelaga, Que.) new among the items to be moved be causing some stress. out in the coming weeks are the children of former NDP MP Bill Blaikie. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade offi ce in West Block will have an The House of Commons will interesting new view: her win- large wooden doors adorned have staff on hand in the early with the crests of Canada’s dows look into the interim House weeks to support MPs and staff Chamber, facing the block of provinces and territories that getting lead into the Senate Chamber in familiarized Centre Block. They’ll be care- with the new fully taken down, moved, and building and remounted on a wall outside the to tackle any interim Chamber, bringing “a “bugs” or little bit of our history over,” said issues that Sen. Tannas. emerge, said He said the plan is to have Mr. Lessard. Centre Block entirely cleared “They’ll out by the end of June, at which know who point it’ll be fully handed over to contact; to PSPC for construction in July. there’s a ten- The last public tour takes place ant services on Jan. 25. line should The eight large paintings com- there ever be memorating the First World War any issues,” that hang in Centre Block’s Red he said. Chamber will be among the last The carved wooden doors leading to, and from, the Senate “Everyone’s items to come down in June, and Chamber (where it was still Christmas last week) will be putting their are headed for the War Museum. making the move over to the new building. 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Editorial Letters to the Editor MPs should remember honour, Government must ensure Crown privilege of being a federal corporations protect, respect human rights e: “Better to help improve than shun a With harms of such a serious nature, it’s Rcompany trying to recover after CSR not just expectations that are at stake. The lawmaker, no matter where they are challenges,” (The Hill Times, Nov. 28, p. 16). Canadian government’s compliance with In a recent op-ed, Export Development international human rights law is also in efore the House adjourned last month, gions from all over the world, our veterans, Canada’s CEO Benoit Daignault broaches play. For this reason, a recent Senate report BMPs took a group photo in the Cham- the LGBTQ2, the wealthy, the poor, the a subject that’s eliciting mounting public called for the inclusion of human rights ber. Liberal, Conservative, NDP, Bloc, disabled, the rebels, the young, the moth- concern: how EDC handles human rights, requirements in EDC’s governing statute. Green, and Independent MPs, along with ers, and grandmothers. On Feb. 3, 1916, the environmental and corruption risks. With Mr. Daignault argues that EDC can all the House clerks, assembled together old Centre Block burned to the ground, but EDC’s governing legislation under review, infl uence an erring company to improve by at the south end of the Chamber and the very next day, Parliament resumed in the subject merits careful examination. “leveraging its fi nancial relationship.” The faced north looking up for the photogra- the Museum of Nature. For wherever free Mr. Daignault explains that the EDC rationale is unclear. By signing a deal with a pher. It was a historic picture. Canadians exist, so will their democracy, engages with companies that have had “issues” fi rm that’s causing ongoing harms, doesn’t Most of these people may never step the rule of law, the freedom to dissent, and related to social responsibility, employing EDC signal from the outset that poor perfor- foot in Centre Block again since the the right to elect their representatives and dialogue to improve outcomes. The nature of mance is not a barrier to receiving support? entire building will be closed for what’s their Parliament to preserve the privilege those issues is critical. In recent years, EDC It’s up to the government to ensure that expected to be at least a 10-year renova- of freedom and equality for all,” said Yukon has supported fi rms blacklisted by other inves- Crown corporations protect and respect hu- tion. It’s the country’s most famous build- Liberal MP Larry Bagnell. tors on ethical grounds, under investigation or man rights. It should bar EDC from supporting ing. Everyone smiled for the photo, which Said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: prosecution for corruption, and sanctioned by fi rms involved in abuses, subject the agency to was also a reminder of the true respect “Democracy does not reside here, courts and other public authorities for human judicial oversight, and expand the auditor gen- that most MPs do have for the institution however. It resides in the actions of all rights violations and environmental offences. eral’s mandate on EDC. As the review of the and for the privilege to represent 338 Canadians and those of their MPs who Since 2015, EDC has issued fi ve loans to Export Development Act proceeds, it’s critical ridings across this country. MPs routinely work every day to build a better Canada, a fi rm that’s seen almost 200 of its workers that a parliamentary committee study these speak generously and across party lines a better world.” and contractors killed in fi res, explosions, and other reforms recommended by Above either when a veteran and respected MP Said Conservative Leader Andrew and collapses in the past decade. Beginning Ground and 16 other civil society groups in resigns or after an MP dies. But this rare Scheer: “More than just a building, it is the in 2014, it provided fi ve loans to a company our submission to the government. generous spirit is lost in the daily grind embodiment of all of Canada’s strengths whose actions led to the “elimination of an Karyn Keenan of Question Period and in the bloodsport and weaknesses. It has been burned to ethnic community,” according to the Brazil- Director, Above Ground of politics. It would be nice if MPs were the ground and risen from the ashes, seen ian state agency called INCRA. Ottawa, Ont. more generous across party lines, or tragedy, and heard the greatest and most smarter, or wittier, or more candid, or stirring words of our leaders.” more real. There have been great Ques- Said NDP parliamentary leader Guy For the sake of peace, Canada must tion Periods and great debates in the Caron: “This Parliament is both the stage House, but this House needs to do better. for our history and a witness to the pas- address Palestine, Israel issue On Dec. 12, 2018, MPs spoke eloquent- sage of time.” t the UN, Ottawa usually sides with the He effectively killed the two-state solution ly about the temporary closure of Centre MPs should remember what an abso- AU.S. and Israel (alongside a couple of through West Bank colonies. But as several Block, but they could just have easily lute honour it is to be a federal lawmaker, U.S. protectorates like Micronesia, Palau, former Israeli prime ministers have warned, been talking about the importance of be- no matter where they are. But if need to and the Marshall Islands) against practically the alternative to a two-state is a one-state ing a member of the House. be reminded, a few billion dollars will the entire world. A CBC report suggested solution, destined either to an end of a “Our democracy is not an edifi ce. It lives be spent renovating these Parliament both Conservatives and Liberals ignored the Jewish majority or full-fl edged apartheid in the hearts and minds of the representa- Buildings when all is said and done, so Jewish National Fund’s apparent violation of (already existing in the West Bank). Since it tives who inhabit it, who refl ect the face they should do the buildings justice and Canadian laws regarding charities (“Cana- is inconceivable that the self-declared “Jew- of Canada: Indigenous people, the French, elevate the level of national debate in the dian charity used donations to fund projects ish state” would allow the former, it is clear the English, citizens from cultures and reli- House. linked to Israeli military,” Jan. 4). When issu- Israel is willing to live with the latter. For ing an apology for Canada’s refusal to admit the sake of peace, Palestinians, and Jews, a boatload of Jewish refugees in 1939, Justin Canada must begin seriously addressing Trudeau took a swipe at the BDS movement. this issue. True friends don’t let their bud- Benjamin Netanyahu prided himself dies drink and drive. in preventing Israel’s borders from being John Dirlik delineated by the international community. Pointe Claire, Que. Canadians must unite for immigrants and refugees says Saskatchewan reader ecent yellow-vested protesters have been 25,000 members, blaming Roman Catholics Rseen in small pockets across the country. In and immigrants for society’s problems. 2019, let’s resolve to remember Saskatchewan’s The same blame game is happening motto: From Many Peoples Strength. today, while most ignore the fact that Sas- Along with the federal carbon tax, one of katchewan has the lowest minimum wage the key talking points of the group is a non- in the country and among the worst plans binding United Nations agreement, which is be- for the environment. ing used as a dog whistle to spread conspiracy We must oppose what Dr. Martin Luther theories and stoke fear about immigration. 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A third political resource I’d like to mention is people, as in a party’s grassroots base. The NDP needs a strategic genius And when it comes to this resource, both the Conservatives What the NDP thought out, well-targeted com- and Liberals are in a good place, munication strategy. as their respective bases are really requires is a In fact, what the NDP really likely energetic and mobilized. requires is a strategist with the The NDP’s base meanwhile, strategist with the cunning of Sun Tzu, the aggres- given the party’s lacklustre show- siveness of Julius Caesar, and the ing in public opinion polls, given cunning of Sun Tzu, tactical prowess of Napoleon. its poor fundraising numbers, and Why do I say that? given Singh’s inability to gain the aggressiveness Because the fewer resources a traction, is likely demoralized. of Julius Caesar, and party possesses, the more impor- Yet all that bad news doesn’t tant a strategic plan becomes. necessarily mean the NDP is the tactical prowess And certainly the NDP suffers completely out of the picture. from a scarcity of resources, at The party, after all, still has of Napoleon. least when compared to its Lib- one resource it can potentially eral and Conservative rivals. exploit: intelligence. For instance, one key resource In other words, even if it in politics is leadership. can’t outspend or out-charisma And let’s be honest, the NDP’s its opponents, the NDP can still leader—Jagmeet Singh—hasn’t compete if it can come up with a exactly caught fi re with the theory to punch above its weight. Canadian public; indeed, some And this brings us back to pundits are openly wondering if strategists. The NDP needs a smart poll- Singh can even win an upcoming It’s showtime: Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, pictured Dec. 4, 2018, ster who can capture an exact federal by-election. on the Hill addressing party staff from across the country. The Hill Times reading of public attitudes; it By contrast, the Liberal leader, photographs by Andrew Meade Gerry Nicholls Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, needs a smart media consultant Post Partisan Pundit has charisma in spades and is still That makes the Liberal In practical terms this relative who can use that pollster’s data relatively popular. strategy simple: put Trudeau on a poverty puts the NDP at a disad- to craft the exact right message; it Plus, on top of that, Trudeau stage, surround him with ador- vantage, since it limits how many needs a smart campaign manager AKVILLE, ONT.—More than has another resource at his dis- ing fans, arrange a cute photo-op, polls it can commission, how who can take those ads and run Oanything else, Canada’s NDP posal—power. and voila, you instantly have an many TV ads it can run and how them in the exact right area to the needs brilliant strategists. As prime minister, he gets to image-driven, winning message. many consultants it can hire. exact right demographic group, Of course, that should go with- set the agenda, he gets to hand Another resource in politics is It also means the NDP will so the party can get the biggest out saying since all political par- out goodies, he gets to perform on cold, hard, cash. lack the ability to experiment; bang for its limited buck. ties need skillful tacticians, but both a national and international Here again, the New Demo- having money allows a cam- In short, the NDP’s best hope is the point I’m making here is that stage, all of which reinforces his crats trail their opponents as both paign the luxury of taking risks to be smarter than the other guys. the NDP, more than the other par- leadership credentials. the Liberals and Conservatives with its communication strategy; Gerry Nicholls is a communi- ties, desperately needs fi rst-rate So essentially, Liberal strate- are, according to media reports, if ads aren’t working, you can cations consultant. generals, people who can concoct gists don’t need to convince vot- way ahead of the NDP when it afford to scrap them and try www.gerrynicholls.com and then implement a carefully ers Trudeau is a leader. comes to fundraising. something else. The Hill Times

nitely down but not out. The New Democrats have bled But the Grit focus on pipelines resignations in the past year, and Brison’s departure a wake- in the West has left their longtime that is usually a portent of dimin- supporters wondering what is in ishing electoral expectations. it for them. If Jagmeet Singh is not suc- Brison was a senior minis- cessful in the upcoming byelec- up call for Atlantic Liberals ter in Atlantic Canada. With his tion, the party will undoubtedly resignation, the region has lost see more departures. Scott Brison, a national heavyweight but that As for the Tories, Andrew pictured in this will be addressed this week. Scheer has a bounce in his step fi le photo at With the exception of Dominic and his team appears to be solidly the National LeBlanc and Lawrence MacAulay, gearing up for the fi ght. Press Theatre other Atlantic ministers are junior Brison’s decision may be a in Ottawa, has in rank and experience. Some in the solitary one. But if more Liberals always had a party are complaining that the re- decide to leave, there is a message great political gion is underrepresented in cabinet. in that as well. antenna and, With election year kicking in, One of the challenges of the while he said it is tough to point to a visionary new fi xed date election system is Sheila Copps his decision eastern project that will excite that the campaign is already off Copps’ Corner was family- voters in the next campaign. and running even though the date based, his While the country is deeply is Oct. 21. refl ection had involved in the government’s Every decision is now seen Continued from page 1 to include a attempt to facilitate a western through an election lens. The Bri- review of the pipeline, there does not seem to son story has the potential to move Brison was a great minister party’s political be a similar Atlantic agenda. from a single resignation to that of and MP, continually re-elected popularity Having made a British Co- a potential eastern narrative. and popular in Ottawa and his meter in Nova lumbian breakthrough in the last Trudeau delivered on the mari- constituency. Scotia, writes campaign, Prime Minister Justin juana promise, and Nova Scotia is He posted seven successive Sheila Copps. Trudeau undoubtedly wants to actually the biggest benefi ciary of election victories and served as The Hill Times hold onto his gains. that decision. a capable, no-nonsense minister photograph by But in the down and dirty world But the party’s electoral hopes in two Liberal governments. He Andrew Meade of electoral politics, the most im- in Atlantic Canada could go up in also found time to build strong portant supporters are those who smoke if they don’t have anything hometown ties, fathering two year, election after election.” of the next election. have been with you longest. more to offer. daughters with his partner Max- Brison has always had a great The Liberals have nowhere Atlantic Canada has been a A carbon cheque will not cut ime Saint-Pierre. The retirement political antenna and, while he to go but down. And unlike most bastion for Liberals even during it, as people will be happy to cash will not doubt provide more time said his decision was family- other parts of the country, the big- tough times. in and vote for the competition. to spend with his growing family. based, his refl ection had to gest benefi ciary of Liberal losses And they might be feeling a The reality is that most regions As Brison’s social media post include a review of the party’s will be the Conservative Party. little taken for granted. do not decide on what govern- said “now is the time for others political popularity meter in Brison’s own riding was Brison said all the right things ment did yesterday. They want to to walk that path, and I pass the Nova Scotia. always blue until he decided to about his support for the party know what is coming tomorrow. baton knowing that Canadians In the last election, Liberals cross the fl oor and the constitu- and his intention to help win the Atlantic Canada is waiting. will always collectively make swept Atlantic Canada with Bri- ents entrusted their confi dence next election. Sheila Copps is a former Jean the wise, democratic choice that son garnering 70 per cent support in him. But by voting with his feet, he Chrétien-era cabinet minister and puts good women and men in the in his riding. It goes without say- Tory popularity is on the rise becomes the fi rst Liberal to leave a former deputy prime minister. Parliament of Canada, year after ing that will not be the outcome in the East. The Liberals are defi - on the eve of an election. The Hill Times 10 MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 | THE HILL TIMES Opinion

Taking it to the Elected band councils, a creation of the streets: Protesters 1868 Indian Act, are also “a colonial relic” took to the (in Trudeau’s words)—a non-Indigenous streets in Ottawa governing system imposed on Indigenous and across the people. Those band councils are accepting country on Jan. 8 money from the company mostly because in solidarity with their communities are poor and need help— Indigenous people and funding from government is insuffi - who were arrested cient, or tangled in bureaucratic delay. No at Wet’suwet’en one is blaming them for capitulating, but camp in northern their desperation is an indictment of de- British Columbia. cades of federal neglect and incompetence. The 14 protesters Nor is the federal government living up who were arrested to guidelines in the United Nations Decla- have been trying to ration on the Rights of Indigenous People— prevent a natural a declaration it endorsed—which, among gas pipeline other things, calls for “free and informed company from prior consent” before any development going through their project proceeds on Indigenous lands. traditional territory. Pipeline supporters argue that the 1997 The Hill Times SCC decision does not apply to the particulars photograph by of the Wet’suwet’en situation and that another Andrew Meade expensive and lengthly court appeal would be required to settle the matter. But who will pay for that and who will wait for that? Not the pipeline company, not B.C. Premier John Horgan, a full-throated fan of the LNG project, notwithstanding its signifi cant environmental impact. And not Trudeau, whose claims that the environment and the economy must proceed hand in hand Trudeau’s ‘reconciliation’ (whatever inconveniently located Indigenous communities think) ring increasingly hollow. The contradiction was most obvious in the prime minister’s steadfast commitment translates to Indigenous surrender to expanding the existing Kinder Morgan pipeline. Despite Trudeau’s double-speak, Prime Minister Justin concerns of Indigenous nations once again Trans Mountain pipeline from the Alberta “jobs”—at least, in the oil patch—defi nitely being dismissed. oilsands to Vancouver harbour. First, it is a gas take precedence for this government, as Trudeau calls it As the week ended, the Wet’suwet’en pipeline, and leaks—while still dangerous— they have for all governments before them. hereditary chiefs, who are leading opposi- are less environmentally pernicious than And if Indigenous groups along the route reconciliation. But until tion to the pipeline, agreed to dismantle their leaks from oil pipelines, or, worse, than spills don’t agree, Trudeau has opted to “consult” barricade and let some pipeline company from ocean-bound tankers. However, con- them into submission, rather than resorting Indigenous voices are vehicles on to their land—primarily, they struction of the $6.2-billion project—intended to the cruder methods of the past. truly heard, it looks said, “as a safety measure,” to ensure no pro- to bring fracked gas from northern B.C. to a After the fi rst round of consultations on testers are hurt by police and so that the 14 new, $40-billion LNG plant in Kitimat—runs Kinder Morgan, for example, the National more like the same old people arrested last week could return home. right through the land of the Wet’suwet’en Energy Board concluded that government But they re-iterated that they are not giving First Nation near Houston, B.C. efforts to reach out to the many bands bribery and bullying. permission for the pipeline to be built. “It will never be the same out there,” along the route were cursory and insincere. That this is happening under Justin protester Carla Lewis told reporters. “A These consultations consisted of federal Trudeau’s watch is particularly bitter. The huge camp and construction activity for offi cials taking notes, saying nothing, prime minister seemed so sincere when, long years in an area that’s usually quiet and and, eventually, doing nothing to answer ago, he declared that “no relationship is more pristine.” She, and the nation’s hereditary complaints—including complaints that important” than the one between Canada’s chiefs, strongly oppose the line because of were relatively minor and fi xable. So they First Nations and non-Indigenous Canadi- the immediate, and long term, impacts on are back consulting again—being careful ans. There was no obvious political upside: the environment. (Liquifi ed natural gas is, not to impose a deadline, but still unwilling Indigenous votes only count in a handful like oil, a fossil fuel and the energy-inten- to abandon the pipeline (which they have of federal ridings and, while many liberal- sive Kitimat plant will blow a hole in B.C.’s now purchased for $4.5-billion.) minded Canadians are shamed by the de- greenhouse gas reduction targets.) Meanwhile, most of the country’s old- plorable living conditions on many reserves, Underlying the confl ict is disagreement economy, environmentally-damaging re- Susan Riley that concern seems to diminish when jobs over who speaks for the Wet’suwet’en nation. source projects happen far from media and Impolitic (usually short term) are on offer, or in peril. Some 20 band councils along the pipeline political centres in Ottawa and Toronto. At a fi ery town hall in Kamloops, B.C., route, lured by the promise of $625 million Many non-indigenous Canadians count on last week, Trudeau again deplored the “long for social services and short-term construc- front-line warriors at the distant barricades HELSEA, QUE.—The dispute between a and terrible history” between Canada and tion contracts, have signed agreements with to stop projects that contribute to the cli- Cgiant resource company and a northern the fi rst people, a history marked by pa- the TransCanada Corp. subsidiary that is mate change that hurts us all. The last few British Columbia Indigenous nation over a ternalism and “the colonial relic that is the building the project. But, unlike the heredi- years have been educational for everyone, proposed gas pipeline is multi-layered, and Indian Act.” He spoke again of the need for tary chiefs, who are stewards of traditional too, as the horrors of the residential school important details are contested, but the im- First Nations to “take control of your land, lands and title according to court rulings, system, of murdered and missing ab- ages were simple and provocative: Indig- to control your destiny.” the elected chiefs are like mayors who are original women, of continuing poverty on enous protesters, peacefully trying to protect Just not yet, apparently. The process will responsible mainly for services on reserves. northern reserves claim headlines. their traditional land, hauled away by RCMP take time, said Trudeau, as frustrated Indig- Trudeau has been more than willing to But others are seduced by the prom- at the behest of a powerful corporation and enous people berated him from the stands exploit this division. He told the Kamloops ise of jobs above all—jobs that last only its federal and provincial enablers. for authorizing the RCMP action. “I can audience there are Indigenous leaders who as long as the resource, on projects that This does not look like reconciliation. understand your impatience,” said the prime support the pipeline, adding, with feigned enrich domestic and foreign corporate In fact, it looks like a continuation of minister, often speaking over the barely-au- virtue, “it is not for the federal government executives more than anyone. this country’s long history of over-riding dible protests. (He alone was holding a mi- to decide who speaks for you.” In fact, that Trudeau calls it this unholy process rec- Indigenous concerns when they clash with crophone). But he was the one who sounded decision was made by the Supreme Court onciliation, but it appears to mean, for the the ambitions of resource-hungry corpora- impatient with arguments he has heard, of Canada in 1997, when it declared that Wet’suwet’en and others, that they must tions. The government’s tone may be less but apparently not deeply listened to, many hereditary chiefs of B.C.’s many Indige- reconcile themselves to loss. Striped of the imperious these days, the attempts to con- times. He didn’t sound quite as sincere any nous nations—almost of all of whom never lofty rhetoric, it looks more like the same sult with, or buy agreement from, affected more—and not only to Indigenous ears. signed treaties ceding their land—are the old bribery and bullying. populations more sophisticated, but does The controversy over the disputed pipeline ultimate custodians of their culture and Susan Riley is a veteran political colum- anyone doubt how this story will end? It in northern B.C. is both similar to, and differ- way of life. That decision has since been re- nist who writes regularly for The Hill Times. will end with a pipeline being built and the ent from, the fi ght over the expansion of the enforced by two subsequent court rulings. The Hill Times

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Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, Trudeau’s remaining provincial cousins are all slipping Is Justin Trudeau defeating himself? in opinion polls. In his 2015 election platform, Justin Trudeau’s himself? His opponents certainly separatism and terrorism. When “slanderous Russophobic hysteria.” Trudeau promised to give Canadi- shouldn’t keep him up at night. you examine the elder Trudeau’s And, in China, Canadian citizens ans “a tax break” and “make taxes nearly four years Most Canadians couldn’t pick An- fi rst majority term, it is astonish- continue to be held hostage. more fair.” Small business, however, drew Scheer out of a police lineup. ing how much was accomplished Trudeau promised the West revolted against the tax changes the in power will be He’s remarkably unremarkable. in a relatively short period of time. pipelines to get oil to market. Liberals proposed for them in 2017. And his social media—the main But, despite all that, Pierre After he became Liberal leader, And Trudeau’s carbon tax (which, remembered for way in which political parties com- Trudeau was still reduced to a Trudeau told Calgary’s Petroleum in fairness, was clearly part of his municate with voters these days— minority in 1972. Club that pipelines were “in the election platform, too) has stirred Chewbacca socks, looks like it was put together by a His son, meanwhile, doesn’t national interest,” quote, unquote. up another revolt, among Conserva- baby-balancing, and bunch of giggly teenagers. have much to brag about, legisla- But since then, Keystone XL still tive premiers and governments. A Jagmeet Singh is the worst tively. Legalization of cannabis, hasn’t happened, Energy East carbon tax—what Trudeau calls a the Griswolds go to federal party leader since Stock- and … that’s it. Justin Trudeau’s was allowed to die, and one of price on pollution—will now be at well Day. He has led his party to nearly four years in power will Trudeau’s fi rst acts as prime min- the very centre of the 2019 cam- India, writes Warren historic lows in public opinion. be remembered for Chewbacca ister was to kill Northern Gate- paign. There will be blood. And his political instincts—as seen socks, baby-balancing, and the way. His “social licence” became a With 280 days to go before the Kinsella. in his caucus relations, his policy Griswolds go to India. But not licence to kill—the energy sector. 43rd federal election, all of that stands, and his byzantine approach many legislative achievements, During the last federal elec- remains Justin Trudeau’s biggest to securing a seat in the House of because there haven’t been any. tion, Trudeau promised “a true problem. What he said he’d do, he Commons—are non-existent. It’s been all social media sizzle, partnership between the federal mostly hasn’t. What he said he’d So, given all that, should Justin but no policy steak. government and the provinces.” achieve, he generally didn’t. His Trudeau worry? Disappointments, however, It hasn’t worked out that way. He fi ne-sounding words from a few Yes. Justin Trudeau should we’ve had more than a few. and his government are reviled years ago are so much ashes now. worry. And he doesn’t have to Trudeau promised better rela- on the Prairies—and more un- Broken promises and voter go very far to fi nd compelling tions with a hostile world. In 2014, popular in Alberta than his father disappointments: they’re not pre- evidence. he said that “it’s especially impor- ever was, post-NEP. Every provin- dicaments unknown to incumbent From 1968 to 1972, when his tant to talk to regimes you disagree cial leader with whom Trudeau governments, true. Dad was prime minister and pro- with.” But our relations with those enjoyed positive relations is gone Waren Kinsella But, if there’s enough of them, tected by a strong parliamentary regimes with which we disagree or a goner—replaced by antago- they’re why those governments Th e War Room majority, lots of things were done: have seldom been worse. Despite nists in every region. get defeated. the Just Society, universal health all his diplomatic fl attery, Trudeau In fact, by the time the October Warren Kinsella is a former care, regional development, par- has been called “very dishonest 2019 election takes place, there Jean Chrétien-era cabinet minister ORONTO—Governments defeat liamentary reform, bilingualism, and weak” by the U.S. president. may be not one Liberal Party and a former provincial and federal Tthemselves, as everyone knows. multiculturalism, pro-NATOism, The Russians have attacked him provincial government in Canada. election campaign war roomer. So is Justin Trudeau defeating multilateralism, staring down for “confrontational rhetoric” and In Nova Scotia, Prince Edward The Hill Times Will there be a defi ning moment in the 2019 campaign? by the candidate or someone in A week is a long time in his or her entourage. politics and the events U.S. presidential elections, in particular, have become known for that will determine their decisive attack ads. The false, misleading claims in the Willie the outcome of Horton ad in the George H. Bush versus Michael Dukakis (1988) the next election campaign and the Swift Boat ads in the George W. Bush versus John haven’t happened Kerry (2004) U.S. elections were yet. So buckle up. instrumental in leading both the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Green Party Leader Elizabeth Bushes to victory. May, People's Party Leader Maxime Bernier, and Bloc Québécois Mario Beaulieu. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade Attack ads in Canada have had mixed results. The 1993 cam- The campaign to cast Justin 2000—Stockwell Day’s gaffe paigns had a standard answer for paign ad suggesting Jean Chré- Trudeau as a person who was “too on the direction of the Niagara those who asked him to predict tien’s facial deformity made him inexperienced, but had nice hair” Falls. That election also featured the outcome of an election. First, unsuitable to be PM turned out to did not work as planned. Warren Kinsella’s “Barney, the Di- he would quote Harold Wilson’s be a major liability for the Pro- While attack ads can be nosaur Caper,” on CTV’s Canada dictum, “A week is a long time in gressive Conservatives. However, decisive, it is often the words or AM, which turned the spotlight politics.” Then he would say, “The they had more luck with their actions of the candidates or their on Day’s Creationist beliefs. events that will determine the efforts of negative branding with handlers that have done them in. 2006—Liberal staffer Scott Re- outcome of the election haven’t subsequent Liberal leaders. As Examples from past federal elec- id’s disastrous attack on the Con- happened yet.” soon as Stéphane Dion was elect- tions would include: servatives childcare policy: “Don’t So what, if anything, could John Chenier ed leader of the Liberal Party, a 1974—Robert Stanfi eld’s fa- give people 25 bucks a week to prove to be a determining factor From Policy to Politics series of Conservative ads proved mous football fumble. blow on beer and popcorn.” in 2019? Given the current state very adept at defi ning him by his 1984—Brian Mulroney’s (Note to newbie campaign junk- of international and domestic “What am I to do?” Gallic shrug challenge to John Turner in their ies: reference to these incidents affairs, the prospects for an TTAWA—Many an election which painted him as indecisive, televised debate: “You had an op- and more can easily be found with election-shaping event over the Ohas been decided or sig- unsure, and “Stéphane Dion is tion, sir.” your favourite search engine.) next 10 months seem limitless. nifi cantly infl uenced by a single not a leader.” When the Liber- 1993—Kim Campbell’s disas- As we get deeper into 2019, All we know for certain is that it factor. Sometimes, it is a particu- als replaced Dion with Michael trous statement: “An election is no speculation on election outcomes hasn’t happened yet. larly nasty attack ad that strikes a Ignatieff, the Conservatives were time to discuss serious issues.” will increase dramatically. My John Chenier is the co-founder chord with the electorate. In other quick off the mark, successfully 1997—The picture of Gilles friend and former colleague, a and former editor of Inside Ot- cases, it’s a misstep by word or framing the new Liberal leader as Duceppe wearing a hairnet while veteran reporter, observer, and tawa and The Lobby Monitor. deed in the midst of the campaign one who was “just visiting.” touring a Quebec cheese factory. participant of many political cam- The Hill Times 12 MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 | THE HILL TIMES Opinion Brexit chicken where the government is planning Theresa May’s deal to park 4,000 big trucks if a ‘no-deal is almost universally Brexit’ happens on March 29 leads to new customs checks on trucks disliked. The heading for Europe. Every extra two minutes’ delay at customs, say Remainers hate it the experts, would mean another 15 km of trucks backed up on the because they don’t roads leading to the cross-Channel want to leave the EU terminals. So the drivers parked their at all, and the Brexit trucks on the airfi eld, then drove down to the port in convoy while hard-liners in her own the traffi c-control experts mea- sured … what? This wasn’t the So what will really happen when the British Parliament starts voting later this month? There will almost certainly be more party hate it because 10,000-truck gridlock jamming than one vote, as the 650 members of the House of Commons, no longer constrained by party loyalty—it’s too important it keeps Britain too the roads that might happen in for that—swing this way and that. But there may not be a majority for any specifi c course of action, in which case late March. It was a single fi le of Parliament will probably end up voting for a second referendum, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia closely tied to the EU. 89 trucks driving sedately along an uncrowded road. It looked The opposition to her deal legal alternatives except her deal is the worst of all worlds haven’t like an exercise in pure futility, a in Parliament is so strong that or a catastrophic no-deal Brexit, understood how bad things might Potemkin traffi c-jam. she cancelled a scheduled vote but she just doesn’t convince as a get,” Hague concluded. As May Yet it did have a rational on it a month ago because she suicide bomber. Indeed, there was a herself admits, a no-deal Brexit is purpose—a political purpose. It was bound to lose it. She is now vote in Parliament on Monday night “uncharted territory.” was being staged to persuade the committed to holding the vote on that blocked the government’s abil- So what will really happen British public, and especially the Jan. 15—but she still doesn’t have ity to make tax changes connected when Parliament starts vot- British Parliament, that Prime the votes. So she is threatening to with a no-deal Brexit without par- ing later this month? There will Minister Theresa May’s Conserva- jump off a bridge, and take every- liament’s “explicit consent.” almost certainly be more than tive government really will take body else with her, if they don’t That doesn’t actually mean one vote, as the 650 members of the United Kingdom out of the EU back her deal. It has become a that it cannot happen, unfor- the House of Commons, no longer Gwynne Dyer without ANY deal if Parliament game of Chicken. tunately. Parliament can block constrained by party loyalty—it’s does not accept HER deal. The charade in Kent is part her deal, but unless it can agree too important for that—swing Global Aff airs May’s deal is almost univer- of a government show-and-tell on some other course of action this way and that. But there may sally disliked. The Remainers campaign to prove that she really Brexit happens automatically on not be a majority for any specifi c hate it because they don’t want to means it. So are the predictions March 29—without a deal. And course of action, in which case ONDON, U.K.—There’s no leave the EU at all, and the Brexit that the chaos at the Channel ports that really would be nasty. Parliament will probably end up Lneed to practise bleeding, as hard-liners in her own party hate will be so bad that Britain will have How nasty? William Hague, a voting for a second referendum. the soldiers say, but the Brit- it because it keeps Britain too to charter planes to bring scarce former leader of the Conservative May has sworn that she will ish government didn’t get the closely tied to the EU. medicines in, and that supermar- Party, summed it up well in The never allow that, because it would message. On Jan. 7, it paid 89 Never mind the details—they ket shelves will be bare (Britain Daily Telegraph: “I don’t know be a betrayal of the 52 per cent truck-drivers £550 each ($930) to are almost theological—but the imports 30 per cent of its food from what will follow a rejection of who voted ‘Leave’ in the fi rst ref- simulate the immense traffi c jam upshot is that May cannot get the EU), and that zombies will rule [May’s] deal … a constitutional erendum in June 2016. But in the that will happen in Kent if Britain Parliament to pass the exit deal the streets. (I made that one up, but shambles, a second referendum end she probably will allow it, be- crashes out of the European Union she made with the EU, which you get the picture.) shambles, a no-deal exit sham- cause she is not a suicide bomber. without a deal at the end of March. would at least keep the trade The problem is that nobody be- bles, a Corbyn [Labour govern- Gwynne Dyer’s new book is The drivers had to bring their ve- fl owing. She just doesn’t have the lieves her. May has manipulated the ment] shambles. I just know that ‘Growing Pains: The Future of hicles to Manston, a disused World votes. And she can’t get the EU to parliamentary rules and schedules it will be an abysmal shambles. Democracy (and Work)’. War II-vintage airfi eld in Kent, amend the deal either. to make it appear that there are no “People who say that the deal The Hill Times

erwise respectable institutions. scenario where any of these acts Here is a good example. The are deemed okay. Citizen Lab at the University of Preposterous stories like these We have to stop seeing Toronto’s Munk School of Global are not helpful. Need I remind Affairs does really good work everyone and especially the folks as far as I am concerned, but a at the Citizen Lab that CSIS is recent report in The Toronto Star subject to enormous oversight had me scratching my head. In and must act in accordance with our intelligence noting that CSIS was seeking all Canadian laws. Yes, it prob- to hire a “network exploitation ably has to get more aggressive analyst” to assist the agency in in doing what it can to keep us “cyber investigative activities,”— safe from terrorists and for- agencies as evil actors i.e. a hacker—the director of the eign spies—hence the fl ier for a Lab, Ronald Deibert, expressed hacker—but it sure as heck is not I can understand that. For what concern since “practically speak- going to fi x elections or hood- CSIS would not it is worth, I have been advocat- ing, CSIS hacking could include wink Canadians. ing for slightly more openness computer network interference I concur that we, as Canadi- interfere in foreign for years and I am happy that the in a foreign election process, ans, must hold CSIS to the high- elections or create fake new director, David Vigneault, has compromising the integrity est standard of oversight, given given at least one speech on what of important digital tools that what it does and how it does it. online personas to keeps him up at night (he spoke Canadians rely on for everyday I do think we do that fairly well, at the Economic Club of Canada privacy and security, creating although there is always room spread disinformation. on Dec. 4 last year): here’s hoping fake online personas and using for improvement. Nevertheless, there are more to come. them to spread disinformation some things must always remain I worked there for a Phil Gurski The lack of transparency and more.” beyond the knowledge of the Really? CSIS would interfere average Canadian, including the Terrorism leads on occasion to some pretty decade-and-a-half wacky theories about what CSIS in foreign elections and create hardworking souls at the Citizen and, although I have actually does though. I recall fake online personas to spread Lab (sorry guys!), but we can call TTAWA—I realize that CSIS hearing colleagues tell me about disinformation? Has CSIS sud- for a few more peeks into the been gone for fi ve Ois not well understood by the times when ‘visitors’ to our denly become like the Russian national security infrastructure. most Canadians and this is of headquarters had to be gently spy agencies? Am I missing But if you are still uncon- years, I am pretty sure course partly by design. It is, after convinced that no, CSIS was not something here? I worked there vinced by my assurances, I am all, an intelligence service and it reading their thoughts and that for a decade-and-a-half and sure I can fi nd a nice aluminum those are not activities has secrets that it does not want the organization was not the although I have been gone for fi ve foil hat for you. Phil Gurski is a former stra- to disclose. What intelligence devil incarnate. years I am pretty sure those are tegic analyst at CSIS and the CSIS has engaged in, agency fl ings its doors open for Nevertheless, you still come not activities CSIS has engaged president/CEO of Borealis Threat all to gawk? across some very strange ideas in, is engaging in, or will ever is engaging in, or will and Risk Consulting in Ottawa. This is undoubtedly frustrat- about CSIS’ activities and some engage in. Never say never, but I The Hill Times ever engage in. ing to many in our fair land and of these are found within oth- am really struggling to imagine a THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 13 Opinion

NDP Leader meet Singh to lead the rebuild. He is still Jagmeet knee deep in rubble. Singh, The NDP is confronting an electoral abyss. pictured In 2015, the party stood on the brink of win- in this fi le ning the government. Entering 2019, there is a photograph possibility it could lose party status. on the On the fi nancial side, the party has lost Hill, is nearly half of its fundraising dollars since fi ghting for 2014 and a quarter of its donors. a byelection If money is the mother’s milk of politics, seat he the NDP could prove to be the undernour- can’t afford ished toddler of the 2019 campaign. The to lose—his party ended 2017 $3.1-million in the red. own. The If there is enthusiasm for Singh’s lead- Hill Times ership, you would never know it from re- photograph cent byelection results. The party has done by Sam poorly in all eight byelections held since Garcia Singh became leader, failing to pick up a single seat. It is not just that the party lost, but that it wasn’t particularly competitive. And then there is the “jump-ship” factor. Out of a caucus of 40 MPs, 20 per cent won’t be seeking re-election. That is not a ringing endorsement of the NDP’s new helmsman. This lack of enthusiasm for the Singh era by incumbent MPs, dutifully disguised as the desire to spend more time with the family, is shared by the public according to political surveys. A recent Nik Nanos poll had the NDP at 14 per cent, with a meagre 5.6 per cent of respondents believing Singh would make the best prime minister. Those are not Singh-mania numbers. The fact is that no party that loses 59 seats and 11 per cent of its vote is a happy party. The NDP is no exception. Singh’s leadership haunted Some members are so unhappy, they have started a campaign to bring back Tom Mulcair. The chair of that campaign, former NDP candidate Dale Jackaman, ar- gues that dirty pool, not democracy, sealed by the ghost of a leader past Mulcair’s fate in Edmonton. Jackaman, a former private investigator, Though Jagmeet Singh iconic predecessor, Mulcair was expected Others blamed “Smiling Tom,” that jolly wrote a formal report, alleging that Mulcair to fi nish the job and lead the party to pow- impersonator who took over from “Angry was ousted by a dubious delegate-selection should hold Burnaby er for the fi rst time in its 57-year history. Tom,” during the election. His rictus grin process that resulted in Alberta being over- That not only didn’t happen, but fl ashed on and off like a malfunctioning represented at the Edmonton convention. South for the NDP, it won’t Mulcair, measured by the cold calculus of neon sign, suggesting not so much genial- With Mulcair ready to support the LEAP electoral results, slammed the Batmobile ity as poor acting. manifesto if the party endorsed it, Albertans be easy, especially now into reverse. After 2015, the NDP returned The adult version of the history of that were the smallest contingent in his fan club. to third-party status, losing stars like period has yet to be written. No one in the Notley camp had the slightest that he says in the event Megan Leslie, Paul Dewar, Peggy Nash, Pat So after fi ve years as leader, Thomas interest in endorsing a federal leader who of losing, his troubled was ready to strand oil assets in the ground for the good of the planet. leadership will continue. I don’t know if Jackaman has it right about the hanky-panky or if Mulcair was the victim of petro-politics in Wild Rose Country. But speaking confi dentially on background, two independent sources close to the party told me that shortly before the Edmonton convention, Tom Mulcair received a visit from a senior member of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s administration. They say that Mulcair was told that if he supported measures like a moratorium on pipelines, he would face consequences at the convention. One of the sources said Michael Harris that Mulcair viewed this personally deliv- Harris ered message as a “threat.” When I contacted Mulcair in his new incarnation as a professor at the University ALIFAX—Finally, Jagmeet Singh is of Montreal, and asked him if the story Hfi ghting for a byelection seat he can’t was accurate, I received this reply from his afford to lose—his own. assistant: Chantale Turgeon said that Mr. Though he should hold Burnaby South The recent leadership of the NDP has been haunted by a formidable ghost: the late Jack Layton, Mulcair was now a full-time political com- for the NDP, it won’t be easy, especially right. Now, Jagmeet Singh must exorcise an apparition of his own—Thomas Mulcair, left. The Hill mentator and professor and that “he will now that he says in the event of losing, his Times photographs by Andrew Meade and fi le photograph not be commenting on these matters.” troubled leadership will continue. That neither confi rms nor denies what The recent leadership of the NDP has Martin, and Peter Stoffer in the process. Mulcair met his Waterloo during a week- I had been told. But if the story was false, been haunted by a formidable ghost: the Worse, Mulcair was blamed for lurching end of cold stares and cold shoulders at the why not just say so? late Jack Layton. Now, Singh must exorcise to the right at exactly the wrong moment NDP’s convention in Edmonton. At least that way, Jagmeet Singh’s lead- an apparition of his own—Thomas Mulcair. in the 2015 campaign, allowing a young Everyone was thunder-struck by the ership wouldn’t be haunted by the ghost of As Mulcair learned, it is tough work to upstart to carry the day. The traditional vote for a leadership review, no one more a leader past—the way Mulcair’s was. battle legendary spirits. champions of unadulterated progressiv- so than Thomas Mulcair. Michael Harris is a writer, journal- It was Layton who created the expec- ism, on the cusp of winning power, had With good reason. ist and documentary filmmaker. He was tation of an NDP national government, been bested by a son of celebrity whose Mulcair had done well with the obliga- awarded a doctor of laws for his “unceas- taking the party from 37 to a stunning 103 best asset was his last name and Stephen tory “listening tour” after the 2015 defeat. His ing pursuit of justice for the less fortunate seats in the general election of 2011. For Harper’s unpopularity. offi ce had polling showing that Mulcair had among us.” His nine books include Justice the fi rst time in history, the NDP was the To some, the NDP never made it to the risen from 40 to 57 per cent support during Denied, Unholy Orders, Rare Ambition, offi cial opposition. Promised Land because Mulcair aban- the period between the electoral loss and the Lament for an Ocean and Con Game. His Further mythologizing that feat was doned Layton’s social democratic vision. party’s 2016 convention. And no one in his work has sparked four commissions of the fact that Layton pulled off his break- Those people clearly overlooked things party or any other was as good on his feet in inquiry and three of his books have been through while battling a second bout of the like Mulcair’s defence of Muslim women, the House of Commons as Mulcair. Edmon- made into movies. His book on the Harper cancer that eventually claimed him—just and their right to wear the niqab during ton was something of an enigma. majority government, Party of One, was a 11 weeks after his fi nest hour in public life. their citizenship oath—regardless of how But it was also adios to Mulcair. By the No. 1 bestseller. Having been handed the torch from his that played in Quebec. fall of 2017, the party had turned to Jag- The Hill Times 14 MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 | THE HILL TIMES News Election 2019 & Ontario

issues such as income inequality and fi ghting climate change have more importance. He said the block of vot- Polls show tight race between ers open to switching between the NDP and Liberals is larger compared to the number of vot- ers who are open to changing between the Conservatives or Grits and Tories in Ontario Liberals, but NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is still an “unknown” for many voters. That works better for the Liberals who worry about a vote split. to start 2019, with 905 set for “If this comes down to a showdown between a progressive option and a conservative option, that works actually pretty well for the Liberals in Ontario,” he said. another election showdown Mr. Bricker said it’s not known yet whether the NDP fi gures will Oshawa. Aurora-Oak Ridges- He noted that Campaign management. translate into seats taken away With the federal Richmond Hill has since been Research’s March 2018 poll found Campaign Research’s March from the Liberals. The NDP cur- Liberals doing well fl ipped to the Conservatives, after that having a carbon pricing poli- 2018 poll also found government rently have eight seats in On- MP Leona Alleslev crossed the cy was not a strong vote driver in accountability and cutting gov- tario. Traditionally, the NDP have in Toronto and fl oor in September. and of itself, suggesting it would ernment waste to be top vote driv- had success in the inner core of More recently, the Ontario be unwise for Prime Minister ers, an issue on which Ms. Wynne Toronto, northern Ontario, and in the Conservatives Progressive Conservatives were Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) to polled the worst among leaders historic union cities of Windsor, elected to a majority government craft an election message primar- by far. Mr. Yufest said if those is- Hamilton, and London. successful in rural in June 2018, winning 24 out of 28 ily focused on it. sues continue to drive voter intent As it stands for the Liberals, Ontario, ridings in suburban GTA ridings, along with He said Andrew Scheer’s in the federal election in Ontario, “it’s a very strong lead in the 11 ridings in Toronto. (Regina-Qu’Appelle, Sask.) Con- then the Conservatives would 416, basically tied in the 905, and Toronto’s suburbs A breakdown of Cam- servatives would have an advan- likely have an advantage. losing in the rest of the province,” paign’s Research polling numbers tage if carbon pricing is primar- The Tories have criticized the Mr. Bricker said. are set to be the key show the federal Conservative ily framed around the issue of Liberals on their multi-billion dol- Meanwhile, Abacus Data’s support is strongest in the GTA, affordability. The federal Tories, in lar government spending practices Dec. 21 poll shows the Liberals Ontario battleground with 43 per cent Tory support to an alliance with conservative pro- after the party broke its election with 39 per cent support to the the Liberals’ 36 per cent. vincial politicians including Mr. promise to run modest defi cits Tories’ 37, while the fi rm’s Dec. 28 this year. Four Liberal cabinet mem- Ford, have depicted the federal and eventually return to balanced poll found 46 per cent approval bers represent ridings in the carbon pricing system as a job budgets. Mr. Bricker noted that the of the Trudeau government in the Continued from page 1 region: Jane Philpott (Markham- killer that will drive up the cost of Conservatives poll better on the province compared to 37 per cent Stouffville, Ont.), Mary Ng living for households. issue of economic management who disapprove. Weekly Nanos Research poll- (Markham-Thornhill, Ont.), “If the dominating issue in but are more or less even with the CBC’s weighed polling average ing throughout December 2018 Karina Gould (Burlington, Ont.), this year’s election is affordabil- Liberals on tax policy. as of Jan. 8 showed the Liberals found Conservative support had and Navdeep Bains (Mississauga- ity, then that narrative speaks with a narrow lead at 40 per cent swung ahead of the Liberals in Malton, Ont.). well to calling it [specifi cally] a NDP number one to compared to the Conservatives Ontario. Campaign Research’s In Toronto, the Liberals had carbon tax,” he said, adding that at 37 per cent and NDP at 17 per poll from Dec. 18 also found a 44 per cent to 29 per cent lead if the environment is a dominant watch cent. It translates into 61 projected Conservatives’ support at 37 per against the Conservatives, with narrative, then the Liberals have Ipsos’ Dec. 20 poll, meanwhile, seats for the Liberals, 49 for the cent, ahead of the Liberals’ 36 the NDP polling only at 16 per the edge with messaging on car- shows the Liberals ahead with Tories, and 11 for the NDP. per cent. cent. The Tories also saw 37 per bon pricing. 39 per cent support to the Tories’ Mr. Yufest said it’s likely the A Nanos poll from Dec. 28 cent support elsewhere in On- Mr. Nanos said “bread and 33 per cent. The NDP polled at 22 Liberals will lose seats in Ontario, showed 45 per cent of the prov- tario, which includes rural swaths butter” issues such as jobs and the per cent. but that can be offset nationally if ince would support the Conserva- of the province, compared to the economy would determine results Although the NDP poll rela- the party picks up seats in Quebec tives, ahead of the Liberals, who Liberals’ 31 per cent. in the swing regions of Ontario, tively well, Mr. Bricker said the from the NDP, which has seen its received 37 per cent support. Eli Yufest, CEO of Campaign meaning both the Liberals and progressive vote in the province support in the province drop since Another Jan. 4 poll, however, Research, said he’s observed a Conservatives have to craft a vision has largely consolidated around it won 59 out of 75 seats in 2011. showed the Liberals back on top “steady decline” for the Liberals for economic prosperity in 2019. the federal Liberals, particularly [email protected] with 40.5 per cent support to the throughout 2018 that has now put “Ontario is critical for the Con- in the the city of Toronto, where The Hill Times Tories’ 38 per cent and NDP’s 15 the GTA back into battleground servatives because it has one of per cent. The Liberals had led in territory after a Liberal near- the highest upside potentials for Nanos polling in Ontario from sweep in 2015. the Tories,” Mr. Nanos said. “Tradi- Ridings in the Greater Toronto Area July to November. “It’s the 905 where elections tionally, the Conservatives do not Party Margin of 2018 Ont. “Similar to the numbers from are typically won,” he said. win government unless they do No. Riding with seat MP elected victory in 2015 election most of our colleagues, we have well in the province, which is why 1 Burlington Liberal Karina Gould 2,450 PC 2 Milton Conservative Lisa Raitt 2,347 PC basically a horse race in the Cost of living to be No. 1 these numbers are so interesting province of Ontario,” said Nanos right now.” 3 Oakville North-Burlington Liberal Pam Damoff 2,366 PC Research CEO Nik Nanos, who issue in 905 In 2011, the Conservatives won 4 Oakville Liberal John Oliver 4,480 PC 5 Mississauga-Lakeshore Liberal Sven Spengemann 3,710 PC added that despite lead changes For the 905 region—the name 73 out of 106 available seats in On- 6 Mississauga-Erin Mills Liberal Iqra Khalid 5,836 PC between the two parties, their often given to the area just out- tario. The party swept all 21 seats numbers still fall within the mar- 7 Mississauga-Streetsville Liberal Gagan Sikand 4,069 PC side of Toronto based on its area but one in the 905 region and also 8 Mississauga Centre Liberal Omar Alghabra 11,431 PC gin of error. code—Mr. Yufest said polling done picked up nine seats in Toronto. But Mr. Nanos said the month 9 Mississauga East-Cooksville Liberal Peter Fonseca 9,735 PC in the lead up to the June 2018 These regions have a high 10 Mississauga-Malton Liberal Navdeep Bains 14,333 PC of December was not a good one election victory of the Progressive number of ethnic and immigrant 11 Brampton South Liberal Sonia Sidhu 7,752 PC for the federal Liberals, who had Conservatives showed the issue communities, as well as a large 12 Brampton West Liberal Kamal Khera 11,180 PC to deal with the surprise an- of affordability to be the biggest number of middle income, private 13 Brampton Centre Liberal Ramesh Sangha 5,932 NDP nouncement that the General Mo- driver of voter intent. sector-working, home-owning 14 Brampton North Liberal Ruby Sahota 7,422 NDP tors plant in Oshawa was set to Affordability was a broad families, according to Ipsos CEO 15 Brampton East Liberal Raj Grewal 13,010 NDP close, resulting in the likely loss issue in the campaign that could Darrell Bricker. Given that socio- 16 Vaughan-Woodbridge Liberal Francesco Sorbara 2,484 PC of 2,500 manufacturing jobs. have accounted for a variety of economic profi le, affordability is 17 King-Vaughan Liberal Deb Schulte 1,768 PC “We should not underestimate different policy planks, includ- the number one issue in the 905. 18 Thornhill Conservative Peter Kent 13,526 PC the psychological impact that a ing now-Premier Doug Ford’s “They’re not looking at 19 Newmarket-Aurora Liberal Kyle Peterson 1,454 PC major closure like that has on the promise to dismantle the prov- what’s leading the news,” he 20 Aurora-Oak Ridges- Conservative Leona Alleslev* 1,061 PC political mood in Ontario,” he said, ince’s cap and trade program. said. “They’re looking at what’s Richmond Hill noting that the plant is located in The poll found most people as- happening in their own personal 21 Richmond Hill Liberal Majid Jowhari 1,757 PC the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), sociated policy proposals related paycheques and then looking at 22 Markham-Thornhill Liberal Mary Ng** 2,355 PC 23 Markham-Unionville Conservative Bob Saroya 3,008 PC a key battleground region for the to affordability with Mr. Ford, what’s happening in the commu- 24 Markham-Stouffville Liberal Jane Philpott 3,854 PC Liberals and Conservatives. compared to Liberal Leader nity and outside the front door.” 25 Pickering-Uxbridge Liberal Jennifer O’Connell 7,026 PC In the 2015 federal election, Kathleen Wynne or NDP Leader Mr. Bricker also said as long the Liberals won 80 seats in 26 Ajax Liberal Mark Holland 11,972 PC Andrea Horwath. as the Conservatives don’t create 27 Whitby Liberal Celina Caesar- 1,780 PC Ontario, taking all 25 ridings in Mr. Yufest said the core issue of a situation where they appear to Chavannes Toronto and 24 of 28 in the GTA. affordability will also apply to the be unwelcoming of new immi- 28 Oshawa Conservative Colin Carrie 3,823 NDP The Liberals also picked up every federal election for the 905, where grants, they can appeal to ethnic seat in the Toronto’s outer sub- questions of the impact of national and immigrant communities urban region but four: Thornhill, carbon pricing are set to be dis- based on a core message around *Switched parties, originally ran as Liberal Markham-Unionville, Milton, and cussed in the election campaign. lower taxes and better economic **Won in 2017 by-election THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 15 Opinion

eight-year funding agreement with each government contributing $50-million. La Cité has been a great success and a Ford should do the right win-win for both governments. It offers more than 90 programs annually to some 5,000 full-time francophone students from Ontario and from other parts of Canada and from foreign countries. Looking back, thing, show people he cares I’m very proud of what both governments accomplished working closely together. The federal government and Ontario promised French university in Toronto. (in a 3-0 decision)…. In putting the brakes had sizeable defi cits at the time, but with Doug Ford should Legislation establishing the university was on what it views as a thoughtlessly bureau- goodwill, commitment, and creativity, they adopted by the Ontario Legislature on Dec. cratic plan…the court powerfully affi rmed made things happen. When there is a will, reconsider cuts to French- 14, 2017. And it was scheduled to open its and expanded French-language rights.” there is a way. In other words, if Ford truly language services aff ecting doors and receive its fi rst students in 2020. Some of Ford’s predecessors are remem- wants to do something, if he is determined I hate to say this, but this unfortu- bered as the people who sought to close enough, he can fi nd a way to achieve what Ontario’s 600,000 nate situation is a reminder of the 1912 French schools in Ontario or the Montfort he wants, even if it’s very diffi cult. Desire Ontario government regulation banning Hospital. and determination are what it takes for a francophones, including French in elementary schools for almost a Does Ford want to be known as the French-language university in Toronto and generation. On Jan. 29, 1916, francophone premier who cancelled plans for a French- a French theatre in Ottawa. the cancellation of plans mothers outside an Ottawa elementary language university in Toronto and closed It also helped me personally and my school prevented inspectors from entering down Ottawa’s French theatre company? staff that prime minister Brian Mulroney to create Ontario’s fi rst to judge whether French was still being Trampling minority rights is not worth the cared deeply and understood fully the French-language university taught in classrooms, by brandishing their savings. importance of language and education long hatpins as weapons. These women Some 30 years ago, I was deputy min- in keeping our country together. Thanks in Toronto, a promise he were resisters. ister of the Department of the Secretary largely to his support, we concluded at the time other groundbreaking language ser- renewed during his recent vices agreements across Canada including in Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Colum- election campaign. bia, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island. Finally, Ford should speak with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about French edu- cation and language services in Ontario. I would also advise that Ford’s Minister of Francophone Affairs, Caroline Mulroney, meet early with federal Offi cial Languages Minister Mélanie Jolie to discuss areas of joint cooperation, including the funding of a French University in Toronto and of a French theatre in Ottawa. Education being a matter of provincial responsibility, Caro- Jean T. Fournier line Mulroney would be expected to take Opinion the initiative here. Ford might want to discuss with Jean Chrétien Sec. 23 of the Canadian TTAWA—Ontario Premier Doug Ford Charter of Rights and Freedom which Oshould do the right thing and show guarantees minority education rights to people he cares. He should reconsider French and English communities in Can- cuts to French-language services affecting ada. Chrétien was one of the architects of Ontario’s 600,000 francophones, includ- the Charter and of Sec. 23, in particular, ing the cancellation of plans to create and so was Ontario premier Bill Davis. Ontario’s fi rst French-language university Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Caroline Mulroney, Ontario's attorney general and minister Ford should also ask Chrétien how he in Toronto (a promise he renewed dur- responsible for francophone affairs. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade balanced the budget in 1996-97, after only ing his recent election campaign) and the three years in offi ce and nearly 30 years rescinding of a $3-million grant to Ottawa’s This is still remembered as the “Battle of State (now Heritage Canada) whose of consecutive federal defi cits. He did this French theatre company, “La Nouvelle of the Hatpins.” Franco-Ontarians fought responsibilities included education, offi - without cutting French or English language Scene.” He has alienated in a short time a long and hard to keep their schools open, cial languages, and the funding of French or education services across the country. large number of francophones and many and won. Regulation 17 failed and was and English services across Canada. At Balancing a budget is not easy. I was an as- anglophones from coast to coast to coast. scrapped in 1927, although it remained on the time, Lucien Bouchard was the federal sistant deputy minister in the Department Thousands demonstrated recently in the Statute book until 1944. minister and Lyn McLeod was Ontario’s of Finance in the 1980s. We tried to balance Ottawa and elsewhere against his gov- Years later, thanks to the hard work minister of Colleges and Universities. the budget at the time and failed miserably. ernment’s cuts. Ford should know that and commitment of premier John Robarts, They worked together to create La Cité Ford should talk to Chrétien. He will not language matters in our country. Canada’s education minister Bill Davis and Roland Collégiale in Ottawa, Ontario’s fi rst regret it. I know him well. Constitution is clear: “English and French Bériault, the foundation of a full-fl edged francophone community college. Then- It’s never too late to do the right thing. are the offi cial languages of Canada.” We French-language school system in Ontario prime minister Brian Mulroney and Ford should reconsider the cuts and show have a bilingual Parliament, a bilin- was laid, including primary and secondary premier David Peterson were both very people he cares. gual federal government, bilingual federal education. French schools were under- supportive. McLeod’s deputy minister, Jean T. Fournier is a former assistant courts, a bilingual capital city and the funded for years, but there are currently Bernard Shapiro, and I, and our respec- deputy minister in the Department of Fi- world’s largest bilingual university. French 12 French-language school boards, more tive offi cials worked behind the scenes to nance and the former Senate ethics officer. and English are spoken everywhere; from than 450 French-language schools and make this happen. We negotiated an The Hill Times St. John’s to Vancouver Island and to the over 100,000 students receiving a fi rst class North Pole. I know, I landed there 46 years French education. There are now nearly ago! 612,000 francophones living in Ontario. Education matters greatly as well. There Ford should build on what has been ac- are French-language schools in every prov- complished over the last 50 years and ince across Canada, even in the Yukon, not go back in time. Francophones have the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. not forgotten premier Mike Harris’ cruel My granddaughter and grandson went to a and insensitive attempt to close the Mont- French school in Yellowknife for 10 fort Hospital in Ottawa in 1997, the only years before returning to Ottawa and con- French hospital in Ontario. Franco-On- tinuing their education in French. More- tarians fought and won again. Harris lost over, there are three English-language face and people’s respect. Nearly 20 years universities in Montreal (McGill, Concor- after it was nearly closed, Montfort is now dia, and Bishop’s). There are also nine a fi rst-class hospital and a reminder of English-language school boards and 10 the enduring vibrancy and determination Certificate & Advanced Certificate in Lean for the public sector colleges in Quebec. The system has roughly of Ontario’s francophone community. It 100,000 English-speaking students located delivers services in French and English to in schools throughout the province. more than 1.2 million residents in Easter Alpen Path Solutions Ford’s decision to abruptly cancel On- Ontario. tario’s fi rst francophone university is a To quote from the Dec. 1, 2008, Globe Lean Training Centre & Micro Lab and Mail serious setback for the development and : “The Ontario government set out alpenpathsolutions.com/training • 613.680.2953 vitality of Franco-Ontarians and for all mi- to gut the province’s only French-language nority language communities, French, hospital without regard to the vital role it and English, across Canada. Much work plays in the Franco-Ontario community, the OVER 25 YEARS OF GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE went into creating the blueprint for the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled yesterday 16 MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 | THE HILL TIMES News Election 2019 & Liberals

Team Trudeau 2019 nominations unteers made time to go out door and we’re ready for that.” Some Liberals process resulted in Liberal volun- knocking in the riding, she said. Christie Boyd, the Ottawa West- teers starting well over one million Ms. McKenna won the last Nepean Liberal riding association new conversations with Canadians election by a margin of only four president, said in an interview that in 2018, and hosting more than 600 per cent of the votes. In 2015, she although her MP Anita Vanden- concerned volunteer engagement events,” Mr. bested then-incumbent NDP MP beld was elected by a comfortable Caley wrote in an email to The Hill Paul Dewar by winning 42.6 per margin of about 26 per cent of the Times. “2018 saw the Liberal Party cent of the votes. Ms. McNair said votes in 2015, the MP and the riding party hasn’t of Canada’s largest-ever volunteer she’s confi dent Ms. McKenna will association volunteers went door mobilization outside of an elec- win this riding again in 2019. knocking on a regular basis. She tion year, and Liberal supporters “Yes, we’re more than ready, and said the riding association also kept also recently realized our party’s it’s been a non-stop process right a close eye on the last provincial yet named top strongest-ever third quarter for from the get go,” said Ms. McNair. election when the riding changed grassroots fundraising outside of a “I have every confi dence in not hands from the Liberals to the Pro- campaign. Entering 2019, the Lib- only Catherine as the candidate gressive Conservatives. Ms. Boyd eral Party also now has more active and the hard work she’s been said that she and other members of campaign offi cers, grassroots monthly donors than at doing up to now, but also our sup- the riding association have attended any time in the party’s history.” porters and volunteers. …We’re campaign-training sessions that the Because of the fi xed date elec- going to work just as hard, if not party has been offering and every- compromising tion law, the next federal election even harder, because we don’t one found them very helpful. is scheduled for Oct. 21, unless take any vote for granted. We [email protected] Prime Minister Trudeau (Pap- know it’ll be a tough campaign The hill Times ineau, Que.) chooses to go early. election readiness Recently, he has said that the next election will happen on the sched- 70 Ridings Won By 5% Margin or Less in 2015 uled date. According to the par- But Liberal Party election. It appears that almost all liamentary calendar, the House of Riding, MP (margin of victory %) the incumbent MPs will be nomi- Commons is scheduled to adjourn 1. St. John’s East, N.L., Liberal MP Nick Whalen (1.4%) spokesman Braeden nated again. But, Liberal sources for the summer recess on June 2. Fundy Royal, N.B., Liberal MP Alaina Lockhart (3.8%) said it’s important that the party 21, and will return only after the 3. Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou, Que., NDP MP Romeo Saganash (4.9%) Caley denies election recruit top-quality candidates in election. This means the campaign 4. Beloeil-Chambly, Que., NDP MP Matthew Dubé (1.7%) readiness is being the 154 ridings held by other par- will go in full swing when MPs go 5. Chicoutimi-Le Fjord, Que., Liberal MP Denis Lemieux (1.4%) ties, as the governing party will back to their ridings for the sum- 6. Drummond, Que., NDP MP Francois Choquette (3.9%) lose some of the ridings it holds, mer recess, and depending on the 7. Hochelaga, Que., NDP MP Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet (1.0%) aff ected because the 8. Jonquière, Que., NDP MP Karine Trudel (0.7%) and must win unheld ridings to election outcome may or may not 9. La Pointe-de-l’Île, Que., Bloc MP Mario Beaulieu (5.0%) national campaign make up the difference. Having return when Parliament resumes even one or two candidates with 10. Lac-Saint Jean, Que., Conservative MP Denis Lebel (4.8%) after the election. 11. Laurentides-Labelle, Que., Liberal MP David Graham (2.4%) committee has not been questionable backgrounds, or who Both Mr. Trudeau and Con- 12. Longueuil-Saint-Hubert, Que., NDP MP Pierre Nantel (1.2%) appointed yet. He said make uncalled-for mistakes, could servative Party Leader Andrew 13. Mirabel, Que., Bloc MP Simon Marcil (1.4%) derail the whole national cam- Scheer (Regina-Qu’Appelle, 14. Montarville, Que., Liberal MP Michel Picard (4.1%) the party has already paign, sources said. Sask.) have said the next election 15. Montmagny-L’Islet-Kamouraska-Riviere-du-Loup, Que., Conservative MP Bernard Généroux (0.6%) nominated candidates “It could be in a riding that campaign is going to be the nasti- 16. Pierre-Boucher-Les Patriotes-Vercheres, Que., Bloc MP Xavier Barsalou-Duval (0.4%) you never thought you are going est in history. Based on polling 17. Québec, Que., Liberal MP Jean-Yves Duclos (1.9%) in more than 160 to win anyway, because you are numbers, the two national parties 18. Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, Que., Liberal MP Linda Lapointe (2.9%) going to get six per cent of the are running neck and neck in 19. Riviere-du-Nord, Que., Bloc MP Rhéal Fortin (1.9%) held ridings, and fi ve votes,” said the former senior public support. 20. Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot, Que., NDP MP Brigitte Sansoucy (1.1%) Liberal. “But, whose judgment are According to the Nanos 21. Saint-Jean, Que., Liberal MP Jean Rioux (4.1%) in unheld ridings. they going to question? They’re Research’s weekly tracking, the 22. Salaberry-Suroit, Que., NDP MP Anne Quach (1.3%) going to question prime minis- Liberals were leading the Conser- 23. Terrebonne, Que., Bloc MP Michel Boudrias (5.0%) 24. Trois-Rivières, Que., NDP MP Robert Aubin (1.6%) Continued from page 1 ter’s judgement. The media is vatives with a six-point margin, not going to say, ‘Hey, you guys with 39 and 33 per cent support 25. Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill, Ont., Liberal MP Leona Alleslev (2.1%) Times on not- for-attribution weren’t going to win it, so we respectively, last week. The NDP 26. Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte, Ont., Conservative MP Alex Nuttall (0.2%) 27. Burlington, Ont., Liberal MP Karina Gould (3.5%) basis. “The formalization has not know you didn’t care and that’s had the support of 17 per cent of 28. Cambridge, Ont., Liberal MP Bryan May (4.5%) occurred. ‘The Centre’ [the prime why you put that person in.’” Canadians and the Green Party minister and the PMO] has to sign Sources said it’s also important 29. Carleton, Ont., Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre (3.1%) was at six per cent. In mid-De- 30. Flamborough-Glanbrook, Ont., Conservative MP David Sweet (4.3%) off on who will be the members of that the party has top-notch can- cember, according to the Nanos 31. Hamilton Mountain, Ont., NDP MP Scott Duvall (2.4%) the national campaign committee.” didates in all provinces to prove to Research’s weekly rolling poll, As of last week, the Liberal 32. Chatham-Kent-Leamington, Ont., Conservative MP Dave Van Kesteren (4.5%) Canadians that the Liberal Party is the Liberals and Conservatives 33. Davenport, Ont., Liberal MP Julie Dzerowicz (2.9%) Party had its national election plat- truly a national party. were in a statistical dead heat 34. Hastings-Lennonx and Addington, Ont., Liberal MP Mike Bossio (0.5%) form committee in place, consist- “Sometimes you recruit people, with 34.1 per cent and 34.8 per 35. Kenora, Ont., Liberal MP Bob Nault (1.6%) ing of Public Safety Minister Ralph not because you are going to win, cent support nationally. 36. King-Vaughan, Ont., Liberal MP Deb Schulte (3.2%) Goodale (Wascana, Sask.), rookie but you can point out you have In early December, a Forum 37. Kitchener-Conestoga, Ont., Conservative MP Harold Albrecht (0.5%) Liberal MP Mona Fortier (Ottawa- people in every province that are Research poll of 1,541 Canadians 38. Milton, Ont., Conservative MP Lisa Raitt (4.9%) Vanier, Ont.), and, Chris MacInnes, strong candidates whether they win predicated that, according to a 39. Newmarket-Aurora, Ont., Liberal MP Kyle Peterson (2.6%) who is listed as the party campaign or not win,” a second source said. Nov. 28-29 survey, if an election 40. Niagara Centre, Ont., Liberal MP Vance Badawey (4.2%) chair on the party website. Braeden Caley, senior director of were held then, the Conservatives 41. Nickel Belt, Ont., Liberal MP Marc Serré (5.0%) However, the Liberals have not communications to the Liberal Par- would win a convincing majority 42. Northumberland-Peterborough South, Ont., Liberal MP Kim Rudd (3.0%) appointed their national campaign ty, disagreed the delay in appointing government. The poll found the 43. Oakville North-Burlington, Ont., Liberal MP Pam Damoff (3.4%) director, campaign co-chairs the national campaign committee is Conservatives had the support of 44. Ottawa Centre, Ont., Liberal MP Catherine McKenna (4.1%) nationally or in the provinces, or affecting the party’s election readi- 43 per cent of respondents, while 45. Parkdale-High Park, Ont., Liberal MP Arif Virani (1.8%) 46. Parry Sound-Muskoka, Ont., Conservative MP Tony Clement (4.4%) any other members of the national ness. He said the party would make the Liberals had the support of 34 47. Richmond Hill, Ont., Liberal MP Majid Jowhari (3.6%) campaign committee. the national campaign structure an- per cent, the NDP had the support In interviews with The Hill nouncements in the next “number of 48. Simcoe North, Ont., Conservative MP Bruce Stanton (3.7%) of 11 per cent, and the Green Par- 49. Toronto-Danforth, Ont., Liberal MP Julie Dabrusin (2.2%) Times, Liberal sources said it’s weeks,” but did not specify exactly ty had the support of six per cent. 50. Vaughan-Woodbridge, Ont., Liberal MP Francesco Sorbara (4.9%) critical to have the full campaign when. He said the party has already The poll had a margin of error of structure in place well in advance of 51. Whitby, Ont., Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes (2.9%) nominated candidates in more than plus or minus three percentage 52. York Centre, Ont., Liberal MP Michael Levitt (2.9%) the start of the campaign, especially 160 held ridings, and fi ve in unheld points, 19 times out of 20. 53. Churchill-Keewatinook Aski, Man., NDP MP Niki Ashton (3.0%) when the incumbent government is ridings. Mr. Caley said the party Meanwhile, some Liberal riding 54. Elmwood-Transcona, Man., NDP MP Daniel Blaikie (0.1%) expecting a tough and nasty fi ght has been busy providing online association presidents told The 55. Kildonan-St. Paul, Man., Liberal MP MaryAnn Mihychuk (2.8%) in the upcoming election scheduled and in-person training to Liberal Hill Times that they were satisfi ed 56. Desenthé-Missinippi-Churchill River, Sask., NDP MP Georgina Jolibois (0.3%) for Oct. 21. They said campaign riding association presidents, riding with their election readiness, and 57. Regina-Lewvan, Sask., NDP MP Erin Weir (0.3%) chairs make important decisions in campaign managers, local orga- are optimistic their MPs will be 58. Calgary Centre, Alta., Liberal MP Kent Hehr (1.2%) the recruitment of new candidates, nizers, and other grassroots party re-elected in the October election. 59. Calgary Confederation, Alta., Conservative MP Len Webber (2.4%) and provide input into campaign members. The party is providing They also said their riding execu- 60. Edmonton Centre, Alta., Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault (2.2%) strategy and all issues involved in this training on a variety of aspects tives are making use of the training 61. Edmonton Mill Woods, Alta., Liberal MP Amarjeet Sohi (0.2%) running a winning campaign. of running an effective campaign courses that the party is offering. 62. Burnaby South, B.C., NDP MP Kennedy Stewart (1.2%) In the 2015 election, the such as fundraising, get out the Karin McNair, the Liberal 63. Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola, B.C., Conservative MP Dan Albas (2.4%) Trudeau Liberals won a majority vote, and building a message for riding association president for 64. Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam, B.C., Liberal MP Ron McKinnon (3.3%) 65. Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo, B.C., Conservative MP Cathy McLeod (4.5%) government by winning 184 of the conversations with constituents. On Ottawa Centre, told The Hill 66. Kootenay-Columbia, B.C., NDP MP Wayne Stetski (0.4%) 338 ridings across the country. The top of this, Mr. Caley said the party Times that Environment Minister Liberals are essentially protect- volunteers and MPs have also been 67. Mission –Matsqui-Fraser Canyon, B.C., Liberal MP Jati Sidhu (2.3%) Catherine McKenna—who was 68. Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge, B.C., Liberal MP Dan Ruimy (2.5%) ing all incumbent MPs by offering active in community engagement elected as the MP in 2015—and them easy-to-meet targets for fun- 69. Richmond Centre, B.C., Conservative MP Alice Wong (2.8%) across the country, and holding the riding association volunteers 70. South Surrey-White Rock, B.C., Conservative MP Dianne Lynn Watts (2.5%) draising and membership that will volunteer engagement events. never stopped door knocking allow them to be acclaimed as the “The community engagement since the election. Each month —Compiled by Abbas Rana party’s candidate in the October work taking place as part of the Ms. McKenna and the riding vol- THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 17 Legislative agenda News Senate to work on shortened schedule in pre-election spring session There is an agreement among Senate The Senate Environment Committee Construction delays in the leaders to meet on Mondays and Fridays will set to work on C-69 on Feb. 5, said to make up for some of the lost time, and Conservative Sen. Michael MacDonald Senate and an extra break some Senate committees will begin meet- (Cape Breton, N.S.), the committee’s week for both Houses will ing before the Chamber opens for business. deputy chair. The meeting is scheduled to Senators agreed late last year to post- be held in camera. Sen. MacDonald said keep Senators out of their pone doing business in their new Chamber he believes C-69 was the most important in the renovated (and since renamed) Gov- bill currently before the Senate for study. new Chamber for much of ernment Conference Centre on Wellington Bill C-69, an omnibus bill, overhauls the The Senate Speaker's parade marks the start of Street after a problem with the acoustics environmental assessment process for each day in the Senate Chamber. The Senate the next few months. was discovered, and further construction natural resource projects. Conservative will take a hard look at some of the government's deemed necessary. The start date for Sen- Party Leader Andrew Scheer (Regina- signature pieces of legislation during a short ate business in the Chamber was pushed Qu’Appelle, Sask.) called the bill a “death spring session beginning in February, the last Continued from page 1 from Jan. 29 to Feb. 19. knell” for investment in Canada’s natural before the next federal election. The Hill Times The acoustic repairs were completed as resource industry last year. photograph by Andrew Meade Status of Government Bills of last week, and Senate staffers were play- Sen. MacDonald said the entire Senate study of the bill. Sen. MacDonald told The ing the role of Senators in the Chamber to Environment Committee would be meeting Hill Times that controversy was “much ado HOUSE OF COMMONS test how a real Senate debate there would to plan out its study of C-69. “This is too im- about nothing” and has said there had been Senate bills awaiting first reading: sound. Further testing on electronics, portant a bill and too important a subject” a confl ict in his schedule. • S-6, Canada-Madagascar Tax Convention Implementation including microphones for each Senator, is to plan the study through the steering com- Sen. Tannas said he believes Bill C-48 Act, 2018 underway, and will likely be fi nished by the mittee, he said, adding the committee could to ban oil tankers from the northern B.C. Second reading: fi rst week of February if no major prob- meet during break weeks if need be. Coast and Bill C-68 on fi sheries will also • C-5, An Act to Repeal Division 20 of Part 3 of the Economic lems are found, Conservative Senator Scott Members of the Independent Senators require serious review in the Senate. 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Tannas said the leaders • Coordinate the management of CREA’s online gov- • Work with the Communications Group to contribute animal fi ghting) of the Senate’s groups have agreed to sit ernment relations advocacy portal (REALTOR® Action to overall communications efforts through writing and Report stage: on Mondays and Fridays to make up for Network). distributing digital and social content, blog posts, news- • C-77, An Act to amend the National Defence Act to make some of the lost time. • Act as a liaison between CREA and Parliamentarians and letters and web content. related and consequential amendments to other Acts “I think there will be enough time. It their staff. • Undertake other projects/duties as assigned by the • C-78, An Act to amend the Divorce Act, the Family Orders will, as it always seems to, get compressed • Develop and maintain relationship with Political Action Director, Government Relations. and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act, and the Garnish- into May and June,” he said. Committee Representatives (PAC Reps) and provide ment, Attachment, and Pension Diversion Act A spokesperson for the government’s necessary support. People Priorities • C-83, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional representative in the Senate, Sen. Peter • Monitor and advise management on daily activities on • Communicate with colleagues of all levels effectively. Release Act and another Act Harder (Ottawa, Ont.), confi rmed that an Parliament Hill. • Support a culture of excellence. • C-85, An Act to amend the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agree- agreement had been reached. • Coordinate the activities of the Federal Affairs Committee • Adhere to CREA’s policies and procedures. ment Implementation Act and to make related amendments Most of the bills on the Senate’s plate by organizing quarterly meetings. to other Acts now are at the committee stage, and some • Consideration of Senate amendments: • Work with the Communications group to develop Financial Priorities Senate committees will begin meeting at the member-focussed communications materials in support of • Maximize value to REALTOR® members. • C-57, An Act to amend the Federal Sustainable Development end of this month and early next, includ- Act federal affairs initiatives. ing the Environment Committee, which is • C-64, Wrecked, Abandoned or Hazardous Vessels Act • Work with the Marketing group to promote grassroots QUALIFICATIONS: tackling the government’s controversial advocacy with membership at conferences, events, and • Minimum 3 years experience in a policy, political and/or SENATE environmental assessment reform bill, C-69. other member-focused opportunities. advocacy environment Second reading: The criminal justice reform bill, C-75, • Keen interest in government, public policy and public • C-75, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth and accessibility bill, C-81, are the only REALTORS® Association Community Priorities relations Criminal Justice Act, and other Acts, and to make consequential bills awaiting debate in the Senate Cham- • Liaise with real estate boards and associations and • Outstanding communication skills, both written and amendments to other Act ber right now. The House of Commons will Political Action Committee Representatives to strengthen verbal • C-81, An Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada get back to the business of sending more relationship with CREA. • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills Committee: bills to the Upper Chamber two weeks • Strong understanding of Information Technology (IT) • C-48, Oil Tanker Moratorium Act before the Senate reconvenes, however. Internal Priorities • Ability to work independently on multiple projects with • C-55, An Act to amend the Oceans Act and the Canada There are 11 government bills now in the • Provide operational support to CREA’s Government time sensitive deadlines Petroleum Resources Act House of Commons that are likely to move Relations program. • Ability to analyze, summarize and effectively present in a • C-58, An Act to amend the Access to Information Act and forward to the Senate. The government • Review the requirements for CREA’s online government professional manner the Privacy Act and to make consequential amendments to will also likely introduce new legislation other Acts relations advocacy portal and work with Information • Excellent organizational skills and a high level of atten- in the House in the spring session to check Technology (IT) to address gaps. tion to detail • C-59, An Act respecting national security matters off remaining campaign promises before • C-68, An Act to amend the Fisheries Act • Assist with the planning and preparation of CREA’s • Flexible, cooperative and able to take initiative the next election campaign. Those could advocacy conference (PAC Days) and grassroots lobbying • Superior interpersonal skills • C-69, An Act to amend the Impact Assessment Act and the include a bill on Indigenous languages and Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation campaign. • Bilingual (English/French) legislation to make changes to the Parlia- Protection Act • C-71, An Act to amend certain Acts and Regulations in ment of Canada Act to recognize non- relation to fi rearms partisan groups in the Senate, such as the To apply, please forward your resume by January 15, 2019, by email to [email protected]. Independent Senators Group. 18 MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 | THE HILL TIMES News Election 2019 & Quebec

against Tom Mulcair and Jack Lay- ton,” said Mr. Nanos. Mr. Singh won’t have the Scheer, Singh yet to dent Trudeau’s luxury of spending years as the NDP leader before he contests the federal election. His NDP could attract left-leaning voters turned big Liberal lead in Quebec, polls show off by Mr. Trudeau’s endorsement of the Trans Mountain pipeline, ‘Listening’ tour or not, byelection in Chicoutimi-Le Fjord. Quebec as a result of the Orange Nanos, an endorsement of Jack though Quebec voters could also If the Conservatives can boost Wave of 2011, when it rose to be- Layton, who had built himself turn to Elizabeth May’s (Saanich- Conservative Leader their popular support to around 27 come the offi cial opposition after a strong brand in Quebec over Gulf Islands, B.C.) Green Party as per cent, they could pick up sev- winning 58 seats in the province. years as the NDP leader. a “protest vote,” said Mr. Nanos. Andrew Scheer’s eral more seats, said Mr. Bourque. That NDP victory was “largely “The challenge for Jagmeet [email protected] Mr. Scheer, however, could be personality-based,” said Mr. Singh is that he will be measured @PJMazereeuw positions on the fi ghting an uphill battle for sev- eral reasons, observers say. His Quebec MPs in this Parliament environment are one of strong stance in favour of build- Political Margin of several vulnerabilities ing oil pipelines and supporting Member of Parliament Constituency Province Affiliation Start Date End Date Victory Western Canada’s oil and gas in- Moore, Christine Abitibi — Témiscamingue Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 11.9% for him in La Belle dustry won’t do him any favours Joly, Mélanie(Hon.) Ahuntsic-Cartierville Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 16.8% in environmentally-conscious Iacono, Angelo Alfred-Pellan Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 20.5% Lauzon, Stéphane Argenteuil -La Petite-Nation Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 18.5% Quebec, said Nanos Research Province, pollsters say. Massé, Rémi Avignon — La Mitis -Matane — Matapédia Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 18.5% chair Nik Nanos, though the Lib- Bernier, Maxime(Hon.) Beauce Quebec People’s Party 2015.10.19 36.6% eral government’s support for the Continued from page 1 Boucher, Sylvie Beauport — Côte-de-Beaupré — Île d’Orléans — Charlevoix Quebec Conservative 2015.10.19 6.6% Trans-Mountain pipeline could Clarke, Alupa Beauport — Limoilou Quebec Conservative 2015.10.19 5.1% showed the Liberals had 47.7 per hurt them in Quebec as well. Plamondon, Louis Bécancour — Nicolet — Saurel Quebec Bloc Québécois 2015.10.19 15.7% cent support in Quebec, a 30 point The Liberals have positioned Blaney, Steven(Hon.) Bellechasse — Les Etchemins — Lévis Quebec Conservative 2015.10.19 30.2% advantage in Canada’s second themselves as a champion of a Dubé, Matthew Beloeil — Chambly Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 1.7% most populous province over the national carbon tax, however, Brosseau, Ruth Ellen Berthier — Maskinongé Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 16.4% second-place NDP’s 17.6 per cent, something Quebec has provin- Dubourg, Emmanuel Bourassa Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 36.9% the Bloc Québécois’ 12.2 per cent, cially, but conservative leaders Paradis, Denis(Hon.) Brome — Missisquoi Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 19.4% and the Conservative Party’s 12.1 across the rest of the country Mendès, Alexandra Brossard — Saint-Lambert Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 25.7% per cent fi gure. The weighted have railed against. Paul-Hus, Pierre Charlesbourg — Haute-Saint-Charles Quebec Conservative 2015.10.19 19.0% poll of 1,000 respondents had a Quebecers living on the shores Shanahan,Brenda Châteauguay — Lacolle Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 14.7% margin of error of plus or minus of the St. Lawrence River have Lemieux, Denis Chicoutimi — Le Fjord Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 2017.12.01 1.4% 3.1 percentage points, 19 times witnessed the effects of climate *Martel, Richard Chicoutimi — Le Fjord Quebec Conservative 2018.06.18 23.3% out of 20. change fi rsthand, said Liberal MP Bibeau, Marie-Claude (Hon.) Compton — Stanstead Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 9.5% The Nanos polls show the Grits Rémi Massé (Avignon-La Mitis- Dhillon, Anju Dorval — Lachine — LaSalle Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 33.3% Choquette,François Drummond Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 3.9% with an advantage of 20 percent- Matane-Matapédia), his party’s Lebouthillier, Diane (Hon.) Gaspésie — Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 6.2% age points or more over their clos- Quebec caucus chair. MacKinnon, Steven Gatineau Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 27.2% est rival—alternating between the “Almost every year we see Boutin-Sweet, Marjolaine Hochelaga Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 1.0% Bloc, NDP, and for a short window houses that are being damaged, Rodriguez, Pablo (Hon.) Honoré-Mercier Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 40.1% the Conservatives—for most of the because the storms are getting Fergus, Greg Hull — Aylmer Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 19.9% time since the 2015 election. stronger,” he said. Ste-Marie, Gabriel Joliette Quebec Bloc Québécois 2015.10.19 5.1% Quebec polling fi rm Léger Infrastructure and a labour Trudel, Karine Jonquière Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 0.7% found the Liberals had 37 per shortage are also top issues for Beaulieu, Mario La Pointe-de-l’Île Quebec Bloc Québécois 2015.10.19 5.0% cent support in the province in voters in the province, and the Poissant, Jean-Claude La Prairie Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 10.2% its last poll in late November, government’s Canada Child *Hébert, Richard Lac-Saint-Jean Quebec Liberal 2017.10.23 4.8% compared to 23 per cent support Benefi t, and the fact that Prime Lebel, Denis(Hon.) Lac-Saint-Jean Quebec Conservative 2015.10.19 2017.08.09 13.6% for the Conservatives, 16 per cent Minister Justin Trudeau (Papine- Scarpaleggia, Francis Lac-Saint-Louis Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 46.7% for the Bloc, 15 per cent for the au, Que.) hails from the province, Lametti, David LaSalle — Émard — Verdun Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 14.9% NDP, and four per cent for each have helped the Liberals in Que- Graham, David de Burgh Laurentides — Labelle Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 2.4% the Green Party and Maxime bec, said Mr. Massé. Laverdière, Hélène Laurier — Sainte-Marie Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 9.6% Bernier’s People’s Party. The federal Conservatives El-Khoury, Fayçal Laval — Les Îles Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 27.9% If those fi gures hold up until have not yet received a boost in Gourde, Jacques Lévis — Lotbinière Quebec Conservative 2015.10.19 28.4% the October election, “probably the polls from the right-leaning Romanado, Sherry Longueuil — Charles-LeMoyne Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 8.4% Nantel, Pierre Longueuil — Saint-Hubert Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 1.2% this would mean, potentially some Coalition Avenir Quebec’s victory Lightbound, Joël Louis-Hébert Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 7.7% seat gains for the Liberals,” said in the provincial election last fall, Deltell, Gérard Louis-Saint-Laurent Quebec Conservative 2015.10.19 29.0% Christian Bourque, the executive as some had hoped, and there are Gill, Marilène Manicouagan Quebec Bloc Québécois 2015.10.19 11.9% vice-president at Leger. few direct connections between Robillard, Yves Marc-Aurèle-Fortin Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 17.4% Quebec has 78 seats in the Mr. Scheer and CAQ leader Fran- Berthold, Luc Mégantic — L’Érable Quebec Conservative 2015.10.19 7.3% House of Commons. The Liber- cois Legault, said Mr. Bourque. Marcil, Simon Mirabel Quebec Bloc Québécois 2015.10.19 1.4% als currently hold 40 of them, the On the other hand, Toronto Picard, Michel Montarville Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 4.1% NDP 15, the Conservatives 11, the Star columnist Chantal Hebert Thériault, Luc Montcalm Quebec Bloc Québécois 2015.10.19 9.3% Bloc 10, and Maxime Bernier and has speculated that Quebecers Généreux, Bernard Montmagny — L’Islet — Kamouraska — Rivière-du-Loup Quebec Conservative 2015.10.19 0.6% his People’s Party the last. Former may associate Mr. Scheer with Housefather, Anthony Mount Royal Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 12.5% NDP leader Thomas Mulcair’s Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Garneau, Marc(Hon.) Notre-Dame-de-Grâce — Westmount Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 35.9% vacant seat in Outremont will be “I do think that would be detri- Mulcair, Thomas(Hon.) Outremont Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 2018.08.03 10.6% contested in a Feb. 25 byelection. mental,” said Mr. Bourque, adding Trudeau, Justin(Right Hon.) Papineau Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 26.1% Nationwide, the Conservatives that, accurate or not, Mr. Ford is Barsalou-Duval,Xavier Pierre-Boucher — Les Patriotes — Verchères Quebec Bloc Québécois 2015.10.19 0.4% are within striking distance of the perceived by many in Quebec as Baylis, Frank Pierrefonds — Dollard Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 38.7% Liberals, with the Jan. 4 Nanos “the Canadian Trump.” Amos, William Pontiac Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 32.0% poll showing them with 33.3 and Social conservatism—a label Godin, Joël Portneuf — Jacques-Cartier Quebec Conservative 2015.10.19 21.9% 38.7 per cent support respectively. at times associated with Mr. Duclos, Jean-Yves(Hon.) Québec Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 1.9% Pauzé, Monique Repentigny Quebec Bloc Québécois 2015.10.19 7.4% Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer—is not popular in Quebec, Rayes, Alain Richmond — Arthabaska Quebec Conservative 2015.10.19 6.9% Scheer (Regina-Qu’Appelle, said Mr. Bourque. Caron, Guy Rimouski-Neigette — Témiscouata — Les Basques Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 15.1% Sask.) launched what he called However, perhaps the bigger Lapointe, Linda Rivière-des-Mille-Îles Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 2.9% the Listening to Quebecers Tour problem for Mr. Scheer is one he Fortin, Rhéal Rivière-du-Nord Quebec Bloc Québécois 2015.10.19 1.9% last spring, spending weeks in the shares with NDP rival Jagmeet Boulerice, Alexandre Rosemont — La Petite-Patrie Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 28.1% province and dispatching some of Singh: making himself known to Sansoucy, Brigitte Saint-Hyacinthe — Bagot Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 1.1% his Quebec MPs to tour the regions voters, said Mr. Bourque. Rioux, Jean Saint-Jean Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 4.1% around their riding and hold town Neither man is particularly Dion, Stéphane(Hon.) Saint-Laurent Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 2017.02.06 42.1% hall-style events for residents, led well known in Quebec, he said. *Lambropoulos, Emmanuella Saint-Laurent Quebec Liberal 2017.04.03 39.6% by Quebec lieutenant Alain Rayes Building a brand is diffi cult for Di Iorio, Nicola Saint-Léonard — Saint-Michel Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 49.9% (Richmond-Arthabaska). federal politicians in Quebec, Champagne, François- Saint-Maurice — Champlain Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 20.7% The Conservatives picked up where provincial politics domi- Philippe(Hon.) seven additional seats in Quebec nates the news, he said. “It’s hard Quach, Anne Minh-Thu Salaberry — Suroît Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 1.3% in 2015 in what had been NDP to break through.” Breton, Pierre Shefford Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 15.3% and Bloc territory, but were not The best strategy for the Con- Dusseault, Pierre-Luc Sherbrooke Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 7.6% competitive in much of the prov- servatives, said Mr. Nanos, would Boudrias, Michel Terrebonne Quebec Bloc Québécois 2015.10.19 5.0% ince, winning two of the 22 races be to fi eld candidates who are al- Ayoub, Ramez Thérèse-De Blainville Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 5.4% decided by fi ve percentage points ready well known in their riding, Aubin, Robert Trois-Rivières Quebec NDP 2015.10.19 1.6% Schiefke, Peter Vaudreuil — Soulanges Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 24.3% or fewer, and failing to fi nish as as they did with Mr. Martel. Miller, Marc Ville-Marie — Le Sud-Ouest — Île-des-Soeurs Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 27.4% runners up in any of the other 20. Mr. Singh, meanwhile, could Nassif, Eva Vimy Quebec Liberal 2015.10.19 25.2% However, they picked up another have a tough time recreating * Byelection winner seat when Richard Martel won a the support his party enjoyed in THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 19 Events Feature Bloomberg to speak in Toronto on Jan. 15 at Rotman School of Management

Last 100 Days, on view at the museum. The conference Canada’s by the Canadian Study of Parliament Group. Jan. 18. 8:15 will explore various aspects of the First World War and Chief Electoral a.m.-12:15 p.m. Sir John A. Macdonald Building, 144 its enduring legacy. On Jan. 17, MacMillan, a specialist Offi cer Wellington St., Room 100. $150 for members or $200 for Parliamentary in British imperial history and modern international non-members. A buffet lunch is included in the price. For history, will explore the perilous transition from war to Stéphane more info, see: studyparliament.ca, or contact the CSPG Calendar peace in the opening keynote address. Other speakers Perrault will Secretariat at 613-995-2937 or [email protected]. include: Canadian military historian David Bercuson, be speaking SATURDAY, JAN. 19 author Norman Hillmer, and Canadian military historian at a Canadian Jeff Keshen. Full conference program and registra- Study of Liberal Winter Caucus Retreat—The federal Liberals will tion: warmuseum.ca/event/country-shaped-by-war-can- Parliament meet for a winter caucus retreat on the Hill from Jan. 19-21. ada-1919. Tickets to the MacMillan lecture can also be Group seminar On Saturday, Jan. 19, the Women’s Caucus will meet from bought separately. 1-5 p.m. in Room 430 Wellington Building; on Sunday, Jan. on Jan. 18 FRIDAY, JAN. 18 20, the Atlantic Caucus will meet from 10 to noon in Room about the 330 Wellington Building; the Quebec Caucus will meet from Seminar: Gearing Up for the Next Election—With the 2019 federal 10 a.m. to 12 noon in 306 Valour Building; the Ontario 2019 federal election on the radar, political parties and election at Caucus will meet from 10 a.m.-12 noon in Room 430 other stakeholders have been quietly undertaking the the Sir John Wellington Building; the Pacifi c Caucus will meet from 10 MONDAY, JAN. 14 preparations necessary to be in full electoral mode before A. Macdonald to noon in Room 9 Victoria Building; the Rural Caucus will the writs are dropped. This seminar will group together Building, 144 meet from 10 a.m.-noon in Room 325 Wellington Building; Cabinet Shuffl e—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is current and former Parliamentarians, political operatives, the National Caucus will meet from 1 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. in expected to shuffl e his cabinet on Monday in Ottawa electoral offi cials, and others involved in the electoral Wellington St., 025B West Block. There will be a social for MPs, spouses, after Treasury Board President Scott Brison resigned process to discuss the preliminary groundwork essential to Room 100. and staff at the Métropolitain Brasserie at 5 p.m. On Mon- from cabinet on Jan. 10. For more information, call the a general election campaign and the changes that have oc- The Hill Times day, Jan. 21, the National Caucus will be held between 8:15 PMO Press Offi ce at (613) 957-5555. curred to our electoral process since the last general elec- photograph by a.m.-11:45 a.m. in Room 025B West Block, followed by a House Is Not Sitting—The House is adjourned for six tion. Speakers: Stéphane Perreault, chief electoral offi cer Andrew Meade lunch from 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. in Room 035B West Block. weeks until Jan. 28. It will resume sitting on Jan. 28 and Yves Giroux, parliamentary budget offi cer. Presented The National Caucus will meet again from 1 p.m. to 4:30 and will only sit for a total of 14 weeks over the next p.m. in Room 025B West; the Northern and Prairie Caucus six months before the next election is expected to be will hold a working dinner from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. and the Indig- called in mid-September for the Oct. 21, 2019, federal enous Caucus will hold a working dinner from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. election. The House will sit weekdays from Jan. 28-Feb. FROM THE HILL TIMES’ PHOTO ARCHIVES: in Room 320 Wellington Building. For more information, call 8, will break for one week (Feb. 11-18), will resume TH Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia, chair of the national Liberal sitting again on Feb. 19, and will sit again for two weeks HILL LIFE & PEOPLE, 30 YEAR IN PRINT caucus, at (613) 995-8281. (Feb. 19-March 1). It will break for two weeks and will sit only one week in March, from March 18-March 22. MONDAY, JAN. 21 It will break again for one week (March 25-March 29). Bilateral Visit—The Canada-United Kingdom Inter- It will sit for two weeks, from April 1-12, will break for Parliamentary Association will take part in a bilateral visit two weeks (April 15-April 26), will sit from April 29-May on Jan. 21, 2019, in London, U.K., and Brussels, Belgium. 17, will break for one week (May 20-May 24), and will sit for the fi nal four-week stretch from May 27 to June WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23 21 before the next election. Meanwhile, the occupants Queen’s Model Parliament 2019—The Queen’s Model of Centre Block are being moved to the West Block, the Parliament is the oldest and biggest model Parliament that Senate of Canada Building, and other buildings in the takes place in Canada. For the past 72 years, 350 students Parliamentary Precinct. The Centre Block is expected to from all faculties and departments from Queens University be closed for 10 years for a massive rehabilitation and travel to Ottawa for three days to have the chance to take renovation project, so that’s until at least 2029, folks. on the role of being a member of parliament and debate The Senate will resume sitting on Feb. 19 at its interim bills. It used to be held in the House of Commons, but this location at the Senate of Canada Building (formerly year due to renovations it will be held in the Sir John A. known as the Government Conference Centre). MacDonald Building from Jan. 23-25. The biggest event TUESDAY, JAN. 15 to date yet will be held at the National Gallery of Canada on Jan. 23, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. There will be a wine and Bloomberg to Speak in Toronto—Sponsored by the cheese where all the delegates will be present to network Asia Pacifi c Foundation of Canada and the John H. with past Queen’s alumni, Canadian politicians, scholars, McArthur Distinguished Fellowship, Michael Bloomberg, and governmental fi gures. For more information, con- founder of Bloomberg LP, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and tact [email protected] or by phone at 514-978-2237. former mayor of New York City, will launch his tenure as the second John H. McArthur Distinguished Fellow at MONDAY, JAN. 28 the Rotman School of Management in Toronto on Tues- House Resumes Sitting—The House will resume on day, Jan. 15 and will speak at 6 p.m. Invitation only. Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, at 11 a.m. It will sit Jan. 28-Feb. 8 and will take a one-week break from Feb. 11 to Feb. 18. Sponsored by the Asia Philippe Gigantès, pictured in 1990 in Hill offi ce. The Hill Times photograph by Kate Malloy It will resume sitting on Feb. 19 and will sit until March 1, Pacifi c Foundation followed by a two-week break from March 4-March 15. It will of Canada and the sit for one week, March 18-March 22, will break again for hen-Quebec Liberal Senator Philippe Gigantès, pictured in his Victoria Building offi ce in Ottawa in John H. McArthur one week, March 25-29. The House will resume sitting April 1990, may go down in Canadian political history books as one of the top fi libusterers ever. During the Distinguished T 1-12 and will take a two-week break from April 15-26. It will GST fi libuster in the Senate in 1990, he talked for 17 hours and 45 minutes and read one of his entire books Fellowship, Michael sit again on April 29 and will sit for three consecutive weeks, into the record. Claire Hoy later wrote that Gigantès did so in order to get it translated into French. Gigantès April 29-May 17. The House will break again May 20-24, Bloomberg, former was a colourful character. He was a World War II veteran of the British Royal Navy, a journalist for the and is then scheduled to sit from May 27-June 21, four con- mayor of New York London Observer, a war correspondent, and a prisoner of war during the Korean War, a British spy catcher, secutive weeks before the House adjourns and Parliament is City, will launch his an author of 15 books, a television commentator, and a former Greek minister of culture. Also a former dissolved for the October 2019 election. tenure as the second The Parliamentary Calendar is a free events listing. Montreal Gazette editorial writer, Gigantès was appointed to the Upper Chamber by prime minister Pierre John H. McArthur Send in your political, cultural, diplomatic, or governmental Trudeau in 1984. Distinguished Fellow event in a paragraph with all the relevant details under the He was born Gerassimos Theodoros Christodoulos Comninos-Svoronos-Gigantès in Salonica, Greece, at the Rotman School subject line ‘Parliamentary Calendar’ to news@hilltimes. in 1923, and, according to The Globe and Mail, he was christened on a battlefi eld by his father who was com by Wednesday at noon before the Monday paper or by of Management in a decorated war hero. After the First World War, Gigantès ended up killing a man when he was only 12 Friday at noon for the Wednesday paper. We can’t guaran- Toronto on Tuesday, during a right-wing coup in Athens after his father had been “bound and gagged, smeared with excrement tee inclusion of every event, but we will defi nitely do our Jan. 15 and will speak and pushed into a mob.” Gigantès hit the man over the head with a rock, killing him. When he was 17, he best. Events can be updated daily online too. at 6 p.m. Invitation The Hill Times stabbed a German soldier who had killed a young Greek boy in the street for stealing bread, according to The only. Photograph Globe and Mail. courtesy of Wikipedia Gigantès left Greece and joined the Royal Navy in World War II and was on the Murmansk run from Extra! Extra! England to the Soviet Union. After WWII, he was a journalist for the London Observer and was sent to cover the Korean War, but was also enlisted as a spy catcher for the British until 1963. He was a prisoner of war in RReadead the full WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16 North Korea for 33 months where he was tortured and was released in 1953. He later worked for the Lon- don Observer The Globe and Mail Cabinet Retreat—The Trudeau cabinet is set to meet in Washington, D.C., and for as a special correspondent at the UN. While ParliamentaParliamentaryry in Sherbrooke, Que., Jan. 16-18, in order to take stock he was in Washington, he met journalist René Lévesque who eventually introduced him to Pierre Trudeau before Parliament returns on Jan. 28 for the last stretch who became his lifelong friend. CCalendaralendar before the legislature breaks for a fall election. For more He once told The Hill Times that he decided to become a Canadian citizen because of the Canadians information, call the PMO Press Offi ce at 613-957-5555. he met during the World War II. “They were not tortured by the British social system, not tortured by the online THURSDAY, JAN. 17 French narcissism, not offensively patriotic like the Americans who, at the drop of a hat, would squeeze their left boob and recite the pledge of allegiance.” Conference-Canada 1919: A Country Shaped by Power and Greed: A Short History of the World War—The Canadian War Museum is hosting experts, His book, , was a bestseller. including award-winning historian Margaret MacMillan, He served in the Senate until his 75th birthday in 1998 and would sometimes drop into The Hill Times’ during this bilingual academic conference, Jan. 17-19, newsroom on Sparks Street in Ottawa for impromptu visits. 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Émilie Audy is now a special assistant to Mr. Benjamin Sparkes has joined the veterans affairs Morneau. Photograph courtesy of LinkedIn minister’s offi ce. Photograph courtesy of LinkedIn

in business law at Laval University, and Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus worked as a lawyer with Langlois avocats O’Regan has a few new staffers in his min- in Montreal before coming to Ottawa to isterial offi ce. work on the Hill. Ms. Audy is also a former Benjamin Sparkes has moved over Quebec Liberal staffer, and a former youth from Mr. O’Regan’s Hill offi ce, where until vice-president for Eastern Quebec for the recently he’d been busy as an executive federal Liberal Party. assistant to the MP for St. John’s South- Ben Chin is chief of staff to Mr. Mor- Mount Pearl, N.L. since July 2017, to join neau. his ministerial offi ce as a special assistant for communications and operations. Tétreault joins the Prime Previously, Jessica Eritou was Mr. O’Regan’s executive assistant; she exited Minister’s Offi ce to join Mr. Duclos’ ministerial offi ce in The communications team in the Prime October. Minister’s Offi ce (PMO) recently swelled A former Senate assistant, Mr. Sparkes by one, with the addition of a new special has also previously spent time as a Privy assistant, and secondary photographer for Council Offi ce analyst, and spent almost the PM, Alex Tétreault. a year-and-a-half starting in January 2015 working as a proceedings and verifi cation offi cer for the House of Commons. Over the summer of 2015, he was tour guide for Infrastructure Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured on March 1, 2018, in a Hill scrum. Veterans Affairs Canada posted at the Vimy Pierre-Yves Bourque was recently hired on as the minister's new director of communications. The Ridge and Beaumont-Hamel war memori- Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade als in France. According to his LinkedIn profi le, Mr. Bibeau’s offi ce. He’s also a former Hill as- Sparkes was also a photographer for now- Photographer Alex Tétreault sistant to then-Liberal MP Stéphane Dion, former N.B. Liberal premier Brian Gallant and a former Quebec Liberal staffer. during the recent provincial election. has joined Prime Minister During the 2015 election, he worked Cameron McNeill has been hired on as Justin Trudeau’s offi ce. on the Liberal campaign’s tour coordina- a special assistant for Ontario regional af- tion in Quebec, having fi lled a similar role fairs to Mr. O’Regan. during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s A former assistant to Liberal MP Julie anada’s federal Infrastructure and successful 2013 bid for party leadership, Dzerowicz, he studied a bachelor’s degree CCommunities Minister François- amongst other experience noted on his in political science at Queen’s University. Philippe Champagne is starting the new LinkedIn profi le. While at the school, he spent a year as co- year with a new director of communica- Ann-Clara Vaillancourt is press sec- president of the political studies depart- tions: Pierre-Yves Bourque. retary to Mr. Champagne and Alexandra mental student council and as assistant Howell is a special assistant for communi- editor of the school’s newspaper, Queen’s cations. Leslie O’Leary is the chief of staff Tartan, and was previously involved in its to the minister. alma mater society. Along with standard Finance Minister Bill Morneau bade Alex Tétreault has joined the PMO. Photograph fi rst aid and CPR training, Mr. McNeill farewell to one of his senior policy advisers courtesy of Facebook also has an automated external defi brilla- late last year, with Alyx Holland making tor certifi cate, according to his LinkedIn her exit as of Dec. 14. Mr. Tétreault marked his fi rst offi - profi le. Now in Paris, France, Ms. Holland had cial day working for the PMO on Jan. 3. Victoria Dempster also recently joined been working in Mr. Morneau’s offi ce Previously, he was busy shooting for the Mr. O’Regan’s offi ce as the minister’s new since June 2018, and before then was a National Observer, through which he was executive assistant. senior policy adviser to Public Safety and a member of the Parliamentary Press Gal- Ms. Dempster was previously busy at Emergency Preparedness Minister Ralph lery. He’s also owner of Al.t Photography. work as a correspondence writer in the Goodale. Now in the PMO, he’ll be working close- PMO, having been hired on full-time after A former government relations adviser ly with Mr. Trudeau’s offi cial photograph, interning in the offi ce, as part of the corre- for the Canadian Electricity Association Adam Scotti, to catalogue the PM. Also spondence team, over the summer of 2018. and former researcher offi cer for the focused on image-gathering in the offi ce is She’d also previously interned in the PMO Institute on Governance, she’s also previ- videographer Mathieu Sly, who was hired over the summer of 2017, and in Health Pierre-Yves Bourque is now director of ously worked for the federal Liberal Party, on early last fall. Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor’s offi ce communications to Infrastructure Minister including as a campaign mobilization All three organizationally come under as the Liberal MP for Moncton-Riverview- François-Philippe Champagne. Photograph strategist from 2013-2014. the PMO’s communications and plan- Dieppe, N.B. over the summer of 2016, courtesy of Facebook Dev Saxena remains in place as a se- ning unit, which is overseen by executive and has been active in the New Brunswick nior policy adviser to the fi nance minister. director Kate Purchase, who returned from Liberal Association. Mr. Bourque exited his previous post Also part of the minister’s policy team are: maternity leave last week. Jean-Luc Marion is manager of corre- as a special assistant for parliamentary Justin To, deputy chief of staff and direc- Katie Telford is PMO chief of staff. spondence for the PMO, and now oversees affairs to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia tor of policy; Ian Foucher, deputy director Families, Children, and Social Develop- writers Maria Browne, Joshua Clarke, and Freeland and offi cially started at work in of fi nancial sector policy; policy advisers ment Minister Jean-Yves Duclos has hired Munavvar Tojiboeva. Mr. Champagne’s offi ce on Dec. 17. Allie Chalke and Emily Yorke; and Amitpal Sébastien Beaupré-Huot to serve as a Cyndi Jenkins is chief of staff to Mr. He replaces Kate Monfette as com- Singh, special assistant for policy. special assistant for operations and stake- O’Regan. munications director to the minister. She’s In other offi ce news, Émilie Audy has holder relations in his offi ce. In other news, Public Services and Pro- on maternity leave as of this month, and joined Mr. Morneau’s ministerial team as a Mr. Beaupré-Huot was last working as curement Minister Carla Qualtrough bade has been communications director to the special assistant. a special assistant to Transport Minister farewell to assistant Renée Desjardins, federal infrastructure minister since De- Until recently, Ms. Audy had been busy Marc Garneau. Previously a parliamentary who has since joined the public service, cember 2015, starting under then-minister at work as a special assistant for Quebec assistant to Mr. Garneau as the Liberal back in November. Amarjeet Sohi. regional affairs to Immigration, Refugees, MP for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount, Ms. Desjardins had been at work as Mr. Bourque had been working for Ms. and Citizenship Minister Ahmed Hussen Que., he joined Mr. Garneau’s ministerial executive assistant to the minister’s chief Freeland since July 2017 and before then since October 2017. offi ce in December 2017. of staff, Gianluca Cairo, since the summer was a legislative assistant and assistant She’s got a background in law, having Mike Maka is director of operations and of 2017. to the parliamentary secretary in Interna- studied a bachelor’s degree in civil law at strategic planning to Mr. Duclos. Olivier [email protected] tional Development Minister Marie-Claude the University of Montreal and a master’s Duchesneau is chief of staff to the minister. 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