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advancements in artificial intelligence and tario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, Im- other emerging technologies,” she said. migration Minister Ahmed Hussen, and Lib- Ms. Kuttner graduated with a PhD in eral MP Sven Spengemann also extended Astronomy and Astrophysics from the Uni- their sympathies. versity of California, Santa Cruz in 2019. Mr. Trudeau condemned the “heinous at- Heard on the Hill She will run for the federal seat of tack” and vowed to work with Somalia and Burnaby North-Seymour, B.C., which is international allies to fight the root causes currently held by Liberal MP Terry Beech. of terrorism. by Neil Moss Also running for the seat is former NDP There have been at least 18 journal- MP Svend Robinson, and Conservative ists killed in 2019, according to Reporters candidate Heather Leung, who ran unsuc- Without Borders. cessfully for a Burnaby city council in the past. ‘Sunny’ assistant deputy Paul Dewar’s Youth Action U.S. Congressman Brian Now launches grant program sergeant-at-arms bids Higgins named co- Former NDP chair of Canada-U.S. MP Paul Dewar launched Youth the Hill adieu Interparliamentary Group Action Now months before Falk wrote on Facebook. U.S. Democrat Brian Higgins, a mem- dying from brain Outgoing Ms. Falk—a former ber of the House of Representatives, was cancer. The Hill assistant deputy legislative assistant of named as co-chair of the Canada-U.S. Times photograph sergeant-at- fellow Conservative MP Interparliamentary Group. by Andrew Meade arms Gilles Arnold Viersen—be- The group encourages Canada-U.S. Gervais has been came the federal repre- ties among lawmakers to find points of working on the sentative of Battlefords– agreement and start dialogue where there Hill for 35 years. Lloydminster, Sask., is disagreement. There is an annual meet- He is pictured after a 2017 byelection ing of members, which alternates between outside the room the followed the retire- Canada and the U.S., as well as numerous he said he would ment of longtime Tory trips by Canadian Parliamentarians to the miss most in MP Gerry Ritz. U.S. to visit American lawmakers, as well A youth-supporting organization an- Centre Block— “So [Rosemary Falk] as industry representatives. the Memorial nounced their grant program to provide just had a kick ass Mr. Higgins was eventually placed in young leaders with up to $1,000. Chamber. parliamentary session, the role following the Democratic takeover The Hill Times Youth Action Now was former NDP stood up for her con- of the House in the 2018 midterms. He MP Paul Dewar‘s final community project photograph by stituents, is planning a replaces Republican Bill Huizenga. Andrew Meade before he died of brain cancer at 56 in Feb- killer campaign, oh and The four co-chairs are made up of one ruary. The group seeks to empower young had a baby no big deal,” member of the House of Commons, Senate, people that are committed to change- fellow Conservative U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. making. MP Michelle Rempel Senate. Start Up NOW—Youth Action Now’s fter 35 years, the assistant deputy tweeted. Mr. Higgins has represented New York’s grant program—is aimed at providing sergeant-at-arms, Gilles Gervais, is th A Victoria is Ms. Falk’s and her husband, 26 district since 2013. The district covers funding and resources to youth between calling it a career. Adam Falk’s, third child. Buffalo and Niagara Falls on the Canada- the ages of 15 and 25. “Mr. Gervais has worked on the Hill U.S. border. Youth-led groups can apply each month for more than 30 years. He started out in The other co-chairs are Liberal MP for “micro-grants” of up to $1,000, as well as the 1980s as a constable, then he was a Amita Kuttner revealed Wayne Easter, Conservative Senator to be connected with mentors. sergeant in the galleries, and more recently Michael MacDonald, and U.S. Republican “The idea for the Start Up NOW grants an Assistant Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms,” as Green’s science and Senator Mike Crapo from Iowa. came out of a community check-in we held NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau said of Mr. last fall … Young leaders let us know what Gervais in the House on June 19. innovation critic they were looking for—which was funding “We will all remember his sunny dispo- Politicos mourn Hodan and resources—so we wanted to meet them sition and we will certainly miss his special where they were and support their hopes sense of humour,” Ms. Brosseau said, add- Nalayeh and projects. It’s grassroots and co-created. ing in retirement he will have time to fish This is the true meaning of community ac- and work on sculptures. Political leaders mourned the loss of tion,” said Barâa Arar, a member of Youth Liberal MP Francis Drouin, who is Mr. journalist Hodan Nalayeh and condemned Action Now’s steering group, in a statement. Gervais’ MP, thanked him for his service the attack that led to her death. As of July 8, three groups have been to Parliament in the House of Commons Ms. Nalayeh was killed in a July 12 ter- awarded grants, including a Britannia on the same day, and hoped Mr. Gervais rorist attack in the Somalian coastal city of Woods-area group that meets weekly to had good weather in retirement at his Lac Kismayo. The attack resulted in the killing encourage community development and Gervais cottage. of Ms. Nalayeh, her husband Farid Jama mentor relationships for young people in Mr. Gervais departs shortly after his Suleiman, and at least 14 others. Somalian low-income areas. They also are working main office of Centre Block closed for at journalist Mohamed Sahal Omar was also to address anti-Black racism, as well as least a decade of renovations. Asked last killed in the attack. xenophobia. year what he would miss most about the Born in Somalia and raised in Canada, [email protected] centre of Canadian democracy, he told The Ms. Nalayeh, who was pregnant with her The Hill Times Hill Times the Memorial Chamber topped third child, returned to Somalia in 2018, tell- Green science and innovation critic Amita ing stories on her Integration TV platform. the list. Kuttner recently graduated with a PhD “It was the first room I was introduced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Ms. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the Nalayeh’s work profiled “positive, uplifting, CORRECTION: The Hill Times, July 15 issue to when I started working here as a rookie University of California, Santa Cruz. Photograph constable, because the security staff are and inspiring Somali stories.” courtesy of Amita Kuttner “[She] was a testament to the role of the Re: “Commission to unveil televised responsible for turning the pages on a leaders’ debates in ‘next few weeks,’” daily basis. I remember back in 1985 when free press in broadening people’s perspec- Astrophysicist Amita Kuttner was ap- (The Hill Times, July 15, p.4). The story I started here, within two weeks of being tives and defending diversity and inclu- pointed as the Green Party’s science and incorrectly stated that the televised de- on the staff, I had to perform that ceremo- sion,” Mr. Trudeau said in a statement. innovation critic. bates will be held at the National Arts ny. And I had a Korean War vet who was International Development Minister In the shadow cabinet role, Ms. Kuttner Centre on Oct. 7 and 8, according to working with me. So I was quite honoured and Women and will be keeping an eye on the work of Sci- the request for proposal. In fact, those when after we were done he said, ‘You did Gender Equality ence Minister Kirsty Duncan and Innova- dates and the location are placehold- good, kid. My comrades would be proud of Minister Mary- tion Minister Navdeep Bains. ers and are not set, according to the you.’ Since that moment, I’ve always had am Monsef said Green Party Leader Elizabeth May an- commission. It also incorrectly stated a real passion for this room and what it Ms. Nalayeh was nounced the appointment on July 15. that People’s Party Leader Maxime represents; it’s inspired me and I’m really a gift to Canada, “Amita Kuttner is a brilliant scientist Bernier qualifies for at least one condi- going miss it. We are going to relocate the Somalia, and the whose work in the field of AI will help us tion to participate in the debates. Since books, but it’s not the same.” women’s move- navigate the fast-paced changes in technol- he was not elected under the People’s —with files from Andrew Meade ment. ogy and the workforce,” Ms. May said in a Ontario Party banner in the 2015 election, he statement. Premier does not automatically meet one of the Rosemarie Falk welcomes “The perspective I have gained from Doug requirements. We’d also like to clarify studying the cosmos and surviving tragedy Ford, that the condition on whether a party a new addition leads me to value every day,” Ms. Kuttner On- has a legitimate chance will be based said in a press release. on whether the party’s candidates Conservative MP Rosemarie Falk an- In 2005, a mudslide destroyed her fam- themselves have a legitimate chance nounced on July 11 that she gave birth to a ily’s North Vancouver home. of being elected. That condition will be baby girl. “I intend to work tirelessly to protect based on “recent political context, pub- “Happy to introduce you to the newest the Earth and its inhabitants. I am deeply Hodan Nalayeh is one of at least lic opinion polls and previous general member of our Conservative family. Wel- concerned about the environment, the 18 journalists who have been killed so far in election results.” come to the world Victoria Rose Falk!” Ms. effects of job automation, and the rapid 2019. Photograph courtesy of Twitter THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2019 3

Science and Sport Minister Kirsty Duncan, pictured heading into a cabinet meeting in the hill climbers West Block in May, recently by Laura Ryckewaert bade farewell to her director of operations. The Hill Times photograph by Science and Sport Andrew Meade

Minister Duncan crew a sailboat for a regatta” from boat owner Minister’s Office, had his travel expenses Mark Bremer, as described in the declaration. and one-night’s accommodation covered “I have sailed competitively for all of my by Laura Foltman, associate director of the adult life and I was invited by two friends, Penn Alumni Regional Clubs for the Uni- both of whom are regular crew on this versity of Pennsylvania, for a roundtrip be- down a director boat, to be part of the crew for this regatta,” tween Ottawa and Toronto to be a keynote stated Mr. Baker in his filing. speaker at a Power of Penn conference in assistant to professor Peter Loewen, when Two staffers to Canadian Heritage Toronto on March 28. Plus, Agriculture Minister he was director of the Centre for the Study Minister Pablo Rodriguez reported receiv- Mr. Thalmann studied political science of the United States. ing tickets to attend the 2019 Juno gala and economics at the University of Penn- Marie-Claude Bibeau has She’s also previously interned for dinner and awards ceremony, which took sylvania. a new policy adviser in her Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes’ 2014 place on March 16 and 17, respectively. PMO senior adviser Elder Marques Senate campaign in Lexington, Ky.—ulti- Senior policy adviser Faizel Gulamhus- reported receiving admission to attend office, Pearson Croney-Clark. mately, Republican Mitch McConnell, now sein and director of communications Louis the Canadian-Arab Business Council’s an- Senate Majority Leader, won the race— Bélanger both received their tickets from nual business forum and dinner from the amongst other past experience noted on the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts council. CABC’s gala dinner was held on and Sciences to accompany and support April 15 at The Four Seasons Toronto and port and her LinkedIn profile. the minister, who presented the award the business forum took place on April 16 Science Dan Lussier is director of policy to the S for Breakthrough Group of the Year. That at the University of Toronto. Minister Kirsty agriculture minister, while Michel-Antoine honour went to Vancouver country music Finally, Dunerci Caceres, executive as- Duncan recent- Renaud is a senior policy and Quebec re- group, The Washboard Union. sistant to PMO chief of staff Katie Telford, ly bade farewell gional affairs adviser, and Oliver Anderson Dovejot Parmar, a special assistant for re- was gifted two tickets to attend former to her director is a senior communications and policy gional affairs in the ministers’ regional office in U.S. first lady Michelle Obama’s book tour of operations, adviser. Alison Porter is chief of staff to Toronto, received a ticket to attend a March 20 event at Montreal’s Bell Centre on May 3, Catherine Loi- Ms. Bibeau. talk on “Leading Toronto Forward” with mayor for her book, Becoming. Ms. Caceres re- acono. John Tory at the Empire Club of Canada from ported receiving the tickets from her “pro- Ms. Loiacono Junos, Obama book tour his friend, Simmer Anand, manager of exter- fessional acquaintance,” Chynna Clayton, first joined Ms. nal relations for Hydro One Networks Inc. Ms. Obama’s executive assistant. Duncan’s office tickets among gifts reported by Brett Thalmann, director of adminis- [email protected] as science min- political staff tration and special projects in the Prime The Hill Times ister in April It’s been roughly five months since Hill 2018 as direc- Climbers last took a dive into the public tor of both declarations of gifts and “other advantages” opera- made by political staffers and posted on tions and the federal conflict of interest and ethics parlia- commissioner’s website, with nine new men- Catherine Loiacono has exited the declarations on the board. tary science and sport minister’s office. Political staff, as with all other reporting affairs Photograph courtesy of LinkedIn public office holders, have 30 days after ac- to the cepting a gift valued at $200 or more to file a minister. In January of this year, she dropped public declaration with the commissioner’s the latter title; Nilani Logeswaran continues office, as set out in the Conflict of Interest to serve as director of parliamentary affairs Act. There’s a further gap between filing and in the minister’s office. when the declarations are actually posted Before joining Ms. Duncan’s team, Ms. online; leaving eight of the nine new declara- Loiacono was director of parliamentary af- tions posted since February for gifts in 2019. fairs to Finance Minister Bill Morneau, start- One declaration is for a gift received in ing in the fall of 2017. She previously spent October 2018, but only posted online as of roughly three years working in the former May 20. That declaration is from PMO senior B.C. Liberal government’s communications adviser Mathieu Bouchard, who reported and public engagement office, and is also a attending an official dinner put on by Arme- former senior director of marketing and com- nian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as part munications with the Independent Contrac- of the Francophonie summit attended by tors and Business Association of B.C., and a Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alongside his former communications and media relations bilateral visit to Armenia Oct. 11 to 13. manager for the Canadian Cancer Society. Julia Van Drie, a special assistant Anne Dawson is chief of staff to Ms. for policy to Small Business and Export Duncan. Promotion Minister Mary Ng, reported Over in Agriculture and Agri-Food Min- receiving partial admission fees, travel, ister Marie-Claude Bibeau’s office, a new and accommodation to take part policy adviser was recently brought on in a faith development study board. course in New York Feb. 14 Pearson Croney-Clark joined Ms. to 17 from Olami, which Bibeau’s team in June, and before describes itself online as then had been in Paris, France, a “global community of working as a public affairs and gov- organizations commit- ernment relations specialist with ted to inspiring young the American Chamber of Com- adults to achieve their merce in France, and as a teaching Jewish greatness.” assistant at Sciences Po, where Michael Baker, a spe- she previously studied for a cial assistant for Ontario master’s degree in European regional affairs to Public affairs. Services and Procurement Ms. Croney-Clark studied Minister Carla Qualtrough, an undergraduate degree in had his roundtrip airfare political science and gov- and accommoda- ernment, American stud- tions covered to ies, at the University of go to St. Peters- Toronto, and at the end burg, Fla., of her degree, in 2015, Pearson Croney-Clark has joined the agriculture Feb. 12 to 18 spent time as a research minister’s policy team. Photograph courtesy of LinkedIn “in order to 4 WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2019 | THE HILL TIMES News Election 2019

emailed statement that Bill C-76 has put in place strict limits on Alberta inquiry into ‘foreign- third parties during both the pre-writ and writ period. These limits include making it illegal for foreign entities to spend money to influence elections and making it funded’ anti-energy industry illegal for organizations to know- ingly sell election advertisements to foreign actors or entities. While third-party spending groups latest chapter in and communications rules do not apply to the activities of provin- cial governments, “any provincial government that wastes public ‘misdirected attacks’, says charity funds and public resources for blatantly inappropriate partisan and electoral purposes will be The provincial NDP campaign.’ But there is certainly Third parties caught breaking wasn’t a surprise and fits with held accountable by its citizens,” the kind of ongoing conflation the rules could now receive a new the creation of Mr. Kenney’s “so- wrote Ms. Jacques. critic says inquiry is and potentially intended confu- fine of up to “five times the amount called energy war room.” sion to join the two organiza- of the funds whose source was a “Both of these initiatives ‘only going to increase tions,” said Ms. Kerr. “I’ve heard foreign entity that were used, or appear to be primarily about Inquiry ‘not best way Premier Kenney refer to us as the the amount of the funds that were continuing to mobilize and rally to develop support’ for opposition to energy affiliate or subsidiary, but we are used to circumvent the prohibition the base of the [United Conser- not at all, and Tides Canada is on using funds whose source is a vative Party] in Alberta,” said energy resources, says development in Alberta,’ completely non-partisan.” foreign entity.” Prof. Adkin, “and to some extent Alberta environment critic with one expert calling Tides Canada was subject The longstanding issue of foreign put a chill on activism across NDP MLA Marlin Schmidt, to multiple audits of its charitable money being used to support third- the country, and particularly in his party’s environment critic, it attempt to put a ‘chill’ status by the Canada Revenue party political actors in Canadian Alberta, that’s directed toward a said although Premier Kenney’s Agency after charges that it was elections came to a head after the phase out of fossil fuels—particu- announcement wasn’t a surprise, on activism in Canada. funnelling foreign funds from 2015 election when some Conserva- larly bitumen extraction—and the as it was alluded to during the politically motivated charities to Ca- tives accused non-governmental campaigns against the pipeline recent election campaign, the nadian advocacy groups opposing organizations operating with Ameri- extensions.” provincial NDP is concerned that BY MIKE LAPOINTE oilsands and pipeline development. can money of torquing the election The energy war room is “part of a Mr. Kenney seems to be focusing Alan Freeman, honorary senior to oust the Harper government. larger stand-up-and-fight-back strat- on demonizing people who object lberta’s inquiry into what its fellow at the University of Ottawa’s to Alberta’s energy developments. Apremier calls a “well-funded Graduate School of Public and “We don’t think that’s the best foreign campaign” against its International Affairs, said he thinks way to work with other Canadi- energy industry is an attempt to what Premier Kenney is really try- ans to develop support for devel- put a “chill” on activism that could ing to do “is rile up environmental- oping Alberta’s energy resources,” spill over into this fall’s federal ists in Canada—outside of Alberta.” said Mr. Schmidt. “He’s just put- election, say academics. “I think Jason Kenney is a fair- ting fuel on the fire this way—he’s Premier Jason Kenney an- ly astute guy,” said Mr. Freeman. only going to increase opposition nounced the launch of the “If he can strengthen the Green to energy development in Alberta $2.5-million public inquiry on Party prior to a federal election, instead of getting rid of it.” July 4, to look into “foreign spe- the best hope he has of getting Mr. Schmidt said it’s no secret cial interests secretively spend- a more friendly government in that Alberta’s oil industry has ing tens of millions of dollars Alberta is to have the Greens and been hurting for the last few to thwart Alberta’s economic the NDP split the vote and have years and there are no easy an- development by land locking the Liberals lose.” swers to fixing it. our energy,” according to a news Mr. Freeman said he didn’t “I think he’s putting this release. know what sort of practical inquiry in place to provide people “For more than a decade, impact this inquiry will have on with a way to focus their frustra- Alberta has been the target of a environmental groups in Canada, tion and anger without actually well-funded political propaganda but said “if anything, if people dealing with the problems,” said campaign to defame our energy hear about this widely, this may Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Environment Minister Sonya Savage talk Mr. Schmidt. industry and to land lock our actually encourage Canadians to reporters in Ottawa in May. Mr. Kenney announced the launch of the According to a June 2019 RBC resources,” said Mr. Kenney at a who are concerned about these $2.5-million public inquiry to look into ‘foreign special interests secretively provincial outlook report, last fall’s July 4 press conference. issues to donate more to Environ- spending tens of millions of dollars to thwart Alberta’s economic development oil price tumble “still reverberates The 2008 anti-oil “tarsands mental Defence or Greenpeace.” by land locking our energy’ on July 4. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade across the Alberta economy.” campaign” developed a “sophis- As part of the Elections Mod- “Not only is provincial oil ticated, multi-pronged strategy,” ernization Act—Bill C-76—that production being scaled back, said Mr. Kenney, saying its “tactics became law in December, new Among the complainants was egy that includes a public inquiry bruised confidence hampers busi- have been disinformation and rules were introduced to limit Conservative MP Michael Cooper into foreign-funded meddling in our ness investment and consumer defamation, litigation, public pro- the use of foreign funding fun- (St. Albert-Edmonton, Alta.), who economy and politics,” according to spending,” according to the report. tests and political lobbying.” nelled to registered third parties. asked the elections commissioner a government press release outlining “The hit will leave a deeper mark Mr. Kenney also said the Third parties are people or in May 2017 to “commence an in- a June 7 meeting between industry than we previously anticipated.” campaign enlisted and financed groups other than a candidate, vestigation into eight third parties stakeholders, Mr. Kenney, and En- Alberta’s Justice Minister dozens of Canadian and Ameri- registered party, or electoral that collectively received nearly ergy Minister Sonya Savage. Doug Schweitzer said the govern- can interest groups, including district association. According to $700,000 from the U.S.-based Prof. Adkin noted that provincial ment will determine next steps the Sierra Club, the Pembina the Canada Elections Act, they Tides Foundation in 2015.” governments are exempt from third- once inquiry commissioner Steve Institute, and the “Tides Founda- have to register with Elections Ms. Kerr also said many envi- party rules about spending on politi- Allan files his report and will take tion and its Canadian subsidiary,” Canada if they incur or intend to ronmental groups are committed cal advertising during federal elec- further action if evidence of ille- among others. Environmental spend more than $500 on election to building a healthy economy tion campaigns, and alluded to the gal activity is found, according to activists have said there is no one advertising. Previously, third par- across Canada. $30-million allocated for the energy the government’s press release. campaign against the expansion ties had to report on their election “I think there’s a mischarac- war room as well as the $2.5-million Mr. Allan is a “leading forensic of the oilsands. advertising spending, includ- terization of the environmental allocated for the inquiry. and restructuring accountant” Joanna Kerr, president and ing all contributions and loans movement that is anti-Alberta or “Throughout the campaign and will submit a final report to CEO of Tides Canada, said it’s received for that purpose, for a anti-economy or anti-jobs,” said Ms. they can continue doing what the government by July 2, 2020, unfortunate that this is the latest period starting six months before Kerr. “Having been part of many they’re doing, and it’s not consid- according to the release. chapter in “misdirected attacks at the writ is dropped, and ending conversations in the environmental ered a form of intervention in the “If, of course, they find that a time when the environment is on election day. movement, no one wants to see the campaign, but effectively it is,” said there is something illegal going facing such a critical crisis.” The law aimed to close the Alberta economy suffer.” Prof. Adkin. “If they’re going to on, then they can probably take Tides Canada was inspired loophole that would allow foreign be financing media campaigns of steps to deal with that illegal ac- by the Tides Foundation and the money to be amassed prior to the various kinds, that’s not counted tivity,” said Mr. Schmidt. “I doubt groups share some of the same six-month deadline for use during Inquiry, war room could as related to the election, but it is that’s the case and I don’t think founders, said Ms. Kerr, “but the election period, by stating that be attempt to put ‘chill effective if people view the issues that they even know what the other than that, we have literally no “third party shall use funds for a around what’s happening with the next steps are.” no financial governance or legal partisan activity, for advertising or on activism,’ says prof oil sands or the pipelines and how Mr. Schweitzer’s office was connections to that organization for an election survey if the source Laurie Adkin, professor with they view the federal government.” unable to respond to inquiries whatsoever.” of the funds is a foreign entity.” The the University of Alberta’s com- Meg Jacques, spokesperson from The Hill Times before press “We are completely two sepa- law also specifies that collusion, or parative politics and environmen- for Democratic Institutions Min- deadline. rate entities, so Tides Canada has workarounds of the foreign-fund- tal studies program, also said that ister Karina Gould (Burlington, [email protected] not been involved in the ‘tarsands ing prohibition, was outlawed. the government’s announcement Ont.), told The Hill Times in an The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2019 5 Election 2019 News Too much party control in ‘highly uncompetitive’

The Samara Centre for Democracy looked at Canada’s five major parties’ approaches to candidate selection. From left: Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Green Party candidate Leader Elizabeth May, and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and courtesy of Twitter

opening and closing dates for nation candidates,” said Mr. Hann as parties that have formed the nomination contests, and holding by email, also noting some MPs government, drew more candi- selection: contests whenever possible, even faced nomination challenges. date interest, increasing their in ridings held by a sitting MP. The Hill Times reported last year number of contested nominations. The group also suggests parties that seven MPs faced challeng- The NDP and the Green Party, report on the votes at the bal- ers. Four of those incumbents meanwhile, have no nomination lot box, reveal the total number ultimately decided not to run for application fee, which Samara Samara study of people they vetted-out each re-election in 2019, and three said promotes involvement. The election cycle, and have policies MPs will re-offer: Cheryl Gallant Conservative Party has a $1,000 that ensure their slate reflects the (Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, refundable deposit, and Liberal contests analyzed had one person diversity of the country. Ont.), Deepak Obhrai (Calgary Party hopefuls must pay a $1,500 ‘Parties effectively get running, and parties directly ap- In response to those findings, Forest Lawn, Alta.), and Mike non-refundable fee. That cost may pointed more than 2,700 election parties reaffirmed the fact they Lake (Edmonton-Wetaskwin, be a barrier to enter, Mr. Thomas to choose the pool candidates without a nomination consider themselves grassroots Alta.). said. On that criticism, Mr. Caley of people who will process at all. and their nominations open, with The governing Liberals have repeated that the party would Samara found that the vast some saying they would consider the highest proportion of return- review the report, and highlighted become Members majority of candidates arrive the recommendations. ing MPs, noted Liberal spokesper- that it took the “important step” through appointment, or don’t The Hill Times also asked the son Braeden Caley, with at least in 2016 to open its membership, of Parliament,’ says face a nomination challenger, parties how many of their current 162 of the 184 elected in 2015 dropping the fee to $10, which he Paul Thomas, based which Mr. Thomas noted is “not slate faced at least one challenger deciding to go for another term. said “has knock-on effects” for the functionally all that different to get the nomination, but most As of July 12, the Liberals had “internal democracy of a party on Samara’s recent from appointing someone.” Only didn’t have the data available confirmed 213 candidates running that are very important.” 17 per cent of the 6,600 candi- or didn’t respond. The Green under the red banner in 2019. Though candidates must rep- analysis of 6,600 dates studied were found to have Party said 41 of its 208 candi- Mr. Caley said the party is resent the core values of the party candidates between been nominated through competi- dates nominated so far—or 20 per always open to “fresh approaches” they’re running for, it should still tive races. cent—fell into that category. The that would bring more Canadians be possible to have a more ac- 2004 and 2015. That means “parties effectively party expects around 50 more into the party and strengthen cessible, and open approach, the get to choose the pool of people nomination races in the coming grassroots involvement in the Samara report authors suggest. who will become Members of months, which would bump that nomination process. A party’s right to manage its own BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN Parliament,” a reality the report up to 35 per cent. “We always welcome new affairs must also be balanced authors said doesn’t serve democ- As a grassroots party, the ideas to open up the nomination with the public interest. ver the past five elections, racy, and “representation suffers Green Party tries to ensure mem- process even further and to be Mr. Caley cautioned against Ofewer than one-fifth of as a result.” bers “exert the greatest possible able to invite more Canadians viewing single candidates in candidates earned their name on There’s also the fear that level of control over candidate to all aspects of how the party’s nominations “necessarily as an in- the ballot through a competitive such biased nominations make selection,” said spokesperson process operates, whether it’s herently bad thing,” noting there party nomination process, found the winner beholden to certain Rosie Emery. having robust electoral district as- are many reasons that might be a new Samara report, a statistic groups, party leadership, or “Our party strongly supports an sociations, or nomination contests the case. the group says shows candidate “central party elites,” as the report open and transparent nomination or the selection of national and While Mr. Thomas acknowl- selection is “highly uncompeti- puts it. processes and grassroots decision- provincial boards. edged that point, and said it was tive, opaque, unpredictable, and When nomination contests making. We favour contests wher- After 2015, the Liberals intro- raised by parties and MPs dur- centrally controlled” by parties. occurred, Samara found that ever possible,” she said by email. duced community engagement ing research—that strong early In effect, party brass—not women were just as likely to win, While the vetting process is thresholds for its incumbents, organization scared off competi- party members or the Canadian but only made up 28 per cent “strictly confidential” to protect setting out fundraising, door- tion, or a candidate’s status as the public—have the most control of the party-choice pool. That’s potential candidates’ privacy, she knocking, and phone contact party’s preferred option discour- over the people who end up in roughly equal to the 27 per cent said, “we are willing to consider targets which MPs had to meet if aged others to throw a hat in, or Parliament. That runs contrary to of female MPs elected to Parlia- the study’s recommendations” on they wanted to secure their spot, a no-hope riding created little the common belief that most MPs ment in 2015, up from 22 per cent that front. creating the uncontested environ- interest—the proportion suggests first rise to represent their party in 2008. NDP spokesperson Guillaume ment the Samara study questions. a level of centralized control that from grassroots, local competi- “The barrier [for women] Francoeur said the party is proud Mr. Caley said he disputes the gives disproportionate power to tions, where the local community doesn’t seem to be the com- that more than 20 per cent of assertion the MPs are guaranteed the party, rather than members, has considerable influence, sug- petitiveness of the candidates,” its nomination races so far have unchallenged seats when “there to select candidates. That power is gests Paul Thomas, a senior re- observed Mr. Thomas. been competitive. The NDP is at are very clear and robust commu- especially highlighted in strong- search associate with The Samara Instead, with the few com- the back of the pack with less nity engagement standards put in hold ridings where some parties Centre for Democracy. petitive races, timing becomes than a third—115 candidates— place—which is a first.” are all-but-guaranteed wins (e.g. “It was surprising to us to dig an issue, Mr. Thomas said, with named as of July 12. That approach arose out of the Conservatives in Alberta), in and find actually, in a very sub- some contests running mere days The NDP doesn’t appoint “extensive grassroots consulta- and given the low likelihood of stantial majority of cases, that’s while others could last weeks or candidates, he said, and riding as- tion within the Liberal move- independents getting elected— just not what happened,” said Mr. months. The short window and sociations “are required to engage ment,” he said. “And it won’t be less than one per cent in the last Thomas, a Carleton University inconsistent contest dates and no- in a candidate search process that a surprise to many that after 39 years. professor, of the recent study, Par- tification requirements make the encourages competitive races and electing a very strong team that Questions remain, however, ty Favours: How federal election system “closed” and vulnerable to includes women, people of colour, Liberals are pretty keen to see over how local nomination con- candidates are chosen, published manipulation. and members of Indigenous com- much of that team reflected.” tests are managed, because par- July 17. “It seems to be getting munities.” ties are “notoriously tight-lipped” more and more centralized.” The Conservative Party, Unclear ‘to what extent’ about their approaches, said Mr. He helped analyze more than Parties affirm open, which leads parties in confirmed Thomas. 6,600 candidates who ran for grassroots approaches candidates at 320 of 338 ridings, parties are gatekeepers “We don’t know to what extent the Conservatives, NDP, Liber- Much of Samara’s resulting has “completely fair and open One party didn’t necessarily they are serving gatekeepers,” he als, Green Party, and the Bloc recommendations centre on the nominations,” said spokesperson perform better than the others said. Québécois between 2004 and process becoming more predict- Cory Hann. when it came candidate selection, [email protected] 2015. Almost three-quarters, or 70 able, Mr. Thomas said. Those in- “We apply the rules equally Samara found. The Hill Times per cent, of the 3,900 nomination clude having parties set standard across all ridings and to all nomi- The Conservatives and Liberals, 6 WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2019 | THE HILL TIMES Comment

reaffirmed his commitment to his Premiers’ meeting sheds light on the real province’s carbon pricing system. Bizarrely, Kenney responded with his newfound disruptive populist persona, raising the spec- dimensions of Canada’s energy politics tre of national discord. “The level of frustration and “We look forward to meeting Right-wingers, in the form else a victim of falling oil prices alienation that exists in Alberta It may have been with Premier Hogirth…” replied of Kenney and federal Conser- and opposition in Quebec. right now towards Ottawa and the Ford. vative leader Andrew Scheer, Conspicuously, the premiers federation is, I believe, at its high- unintentional, but Nearby, Alberta Premier Jason have built an entire anti-Ottawa huddling under the banner of the est level, certainly in our country’s Kenney prompted: “Horgan.” campaign around their claim that Council of the Federation July modern history,” Kenney said. the premiers helped Ford apologized and went on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 9-11 were as divided as ever on He took particular aim at define some issues to say how the other premiers is to blame for this lack of new energy politics. Legault. “Quebec receives about readying for their annual get- pipeline capacity that would help Horgan said he got nowhere $13-billion a year in equalization that Canadians need together hoped to work co-oper- Canada sell more crude. explaining the success of his prov- payments—almost all of that comes atively with B.C.’s John Horgan. Those concerned about how ince’s carbon tax. He said other pre- from Alberta,” Kenney asserted. “We to sort out before the “He understands that when the misinformation will impact the miers are angry at Ottawa for not expect all provinces that benefit rest of the country booms, B.C. coming federal election can listening to them on fighting climate from our energy wealth to help us Oct. 21 election. will boom,” Ontario’s premier start right here. Kenney blames change. Translated, this means Ford, actually develop that wealth.” observed. Trudeau for the demise of the Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, For those who cared to listen, the B.C., of course, has a carbon proposed Northern Gateway pipe- and others challenging the federal premiers from the South also got tax, something that Ford and line. But that proposal, designed carbon tax in court want Trudeau a wake-up call from their northern some of the other 13 provin- to carry oil through some of the to lift it and give way to province- counterparts on the need to do more cial and territorial leaders who continent’s most valued natural made environmental plans. This, on climate change than relying on gathered in Saskatoon adamantly areas in B.C. for transfer to tank- despite the obvious fact that most of vague regulatory schemes with no oppose. And B.C. is fighting the ers in the treacherous, spill-prone the provincial plans echo the Trump concrete emissions reduction targets. expansion of the Trans Mountain waters on the northern B.C. coast, approach based on the chimera that “Every jurisdiction, everybody pipeline to carry more Alberta was killed by massive opposition no society-wide price on carbon is who wants to run for political crude to a tanker port near years ago, despite the Harper needed because business will magi- parties right across this nation, Vancouver—a position that has Les Whittington government’s strenuous efforts to cally harness technology to solve they better have a succinct plan set Alberta and B.C. against each save it. the whole problem for us. for climate change,” Yukon Pre- Need to Know other in potentially the worst in- The Trans Mountain expansion B.C. is not budging on its op- mier Sandy Silver said. terprovincial standoff in decades. has been slowed by widespread position to the Trans Mountain Intentionally or not, last week’s The inability to get pipelines opposition, not least from the B.C. expansion. As for the Energy East premiers’ meeting helped define TTAWA—With Doug Ford completed to pump more Western government’s court challenge. The pipeline to take oil from Alberta to the real dimensions of some of the Ogoing on about how the Canadian oil to export markets federal government had to buy the refineries in New Brunswick, Que- energy and environmental issues increasingly conservative lineup is at the root of the anger and project, no less, to make it viable. bec Premier François Legault didn’t that Canadians need to sort out of provincial leaders is a driver of frustration that has flared in Al- And, contrary to Scheer’s hesitate to poke a hole in Scheer’s before the Oct. 21 election. concerted Canada-wide action, a berta since the world oil market repeated accusations that the and Kenney’s oft-repeated fantasies Les Whittington is an Ottawa reporter at a premiers’ press con- underwent a significant shift in federal Liberals killed the now- about reviving Energy East. “There’s journalist and a regular contribu- ference asked the Ontario premier supply and an accompanying defunct Energy East pipeline no social acceptability in Quebec” tor to The Hill Times. if British Columbia fits that mould. price collapse four years ago. plan, it was as much as anything for an oil line, he said. Legault also The Hill Times

However, the war continues to rage in that country and there Honouring our fallen is a noble is no longer even any talk of a possible victory. The Taliban now control more territory than at any exercise—but so is questioning the fight point since the U.S. declared them “toppled” back in 2001. More importantly, the U.S. is people to the fact that there had Lt.-Col. Mark Chinner now seemingly giving up on the Looking beyond a been no media advisory, no media lays a wreath during a corrupt regime, which they installed present, and, most importantly, no 2016 Remembrance in Kabul to replace the Taliban. That cenotaph, if Canada inclusion of the families of the fallen. Day ceremony at the would be the same corrupt regime really wanted to Naturally enough this sparked Afghanistan Memorial that those 161 Canadian names on outrage, and in the face of the pub- at 12 Wing Shearwater, the Kandahar cenotaph died while honour the soldiers, lic backlash Prime Minister Justin N.S. Controversy over the attempting to prop up. Trudeau vowed to get to the bottom location and dedication of In recent peace talks held in we would conduct of this blunder. Ironically, Defence the repatriated Kandahar Qatar, it was announced that the Minister Harjit Sajjan—who had cenotaph in Ottawa has U.S. are close to a deal with the a full parliamentary attended the private ceremony raised other questions Taliban. The basis for this deal inside DND’s Nortel campus—was about how the government would be the withdrawal of U.S. inquiry into how we standing behind Trudeau as he honours fallen soldiers, forces in exchange for a Taliban were drawn into an made his statement to the media. writes Scott Taylor. DND pledge not to allow Afghanistan While responsibility for this photograph by LS Brad to become a safe haven for for- unwinnable war. error in judgment would not be Upshall eign terrorists. much of a mystery, the decision Not included in these talks are has now been made to hold anoth- Lake. Personally, I still think it these were Canada’s brave sons either President Ashraf Ghani or er dedication ceremony, only this would be best suited for permanent and daughters who went into his ridiculously titled sidekick, time they will invite the families. placement at Beechwood, Canada’s harm’s way on the orders of the “chief executive officer” Abdullah The plan is now for DND to pay national military cemetery. Canadian government. Abdullah, the dubious duo that the travel expenses for up to six However, in the end—possibly Beyond simply honouring ostensibly rule Afghanistan. family members of each of the 161 owing to the inability to get all their sacrifice, it is also incum- This signals the U.S. is giving Canadian soldiers and civilians involved governmental agen- bent upon us as citizens to ques- up on them and realizes that commemorated on the cenotaph. cies to agree to a single plan—it tion whether the price paid was without U.S. troops in theatre, the The original structure at the was decided to place it inside the worth the cost. In the First World Taliban will eventually prevail. NATO airfield in Kandahar, DND Nortel campus. War, Canadian soldiers helped de- Since this will bring us full Scott Taylor Afghanistan, had begun as a sort This remote site is not central feat the German kaiser and pre- circle to the situation back in of impromptu tribute to fallen 2001, how can anyone justify the Inside Defence to Ottawa, and, as a functioning served the British Empire. In the comrades. Regretfully, it contin- military headquarters, only acces- Second World War, Canada and expenditure of so much blood and ued to grow in size and scope sible by military personnel and the Allies defeated Nazi Germany gold over the past 18 years? TTAWA—Back in mid-May, the as Canadian casualties steadily DND civilians. and Imperial Japan. Those who If Canada really wanted to hon- ODepartment of National Defence mounted. Following the cessation Following the clamour raised fought in Korea successfully kept our the fallen, we would conduct a blew up a media storm of controver- of Canada’s combat role in 2011, back in May, arrangements were the south free from communism. full parliamentary inquiry into how sy when they held a private dedica- the cenotaph was crated up and made to allow the public to set up The war in Afghanistan was and why we were drawn into a war tion ceremony for what had become repatriated to Canada. pre-arranged, escorted visits— not a victory. It was Canada’s we could not, and did not, win. known as the Kandahar cenotaph. Plans were tossed around for a which I’m sure is not without its longest war to date. We ended Scott Taylor is the edi- Three days after the May 13 dedica- suitable public location in Ottawa, own administrative hurdles. the combat mission in 2011 and tor and publisher of Esprit de tion, DND simply posted up some including one proposal to place it at Commemorating the fallen is concluded our military training Corps magazine. photos on social media, alerting the Navy Reserve facility at Dow’s a noble and necessary exercise as mission in the spring of 2014. The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2019 7 Comment

spectable conduct, whether mak- ing a racist remark (that he later Green Party engaging in politics of apologized for) about “cat meat” at a Chinese restaurant in 2009, or mocking Stockwell Day’s faith in 2000 by tossing around dinosaur bygone era with new war room hire props on TV. Kinsella is truly the Ezra Levant of whatever side of the not seem to bother the Green groups and anything to the con- Maybe the Greens figure the political spectrum Kinsella’s If the Greens are Party that Kinsella appears to trary is a Liberal smear campaign way into the big time is to get you on today, since loyalty isn’t his have been too toxic for even the (“Dishonest Trudeau campaign a political hack of your own. Our hustle. truly looking to make Liberals to keep around. Not to against Scheer must stop,” To - advice: no need for the Liberals’ Truth be told it’s just the last inroads, they should mention that, according to the ronto Sun, May 29, 2019). Sounds and Tories’ sloppy seconds. For in a string of poorly thought-out website of his communications like this guy really knows what their part, the Greens say Kinsel- schemes from May. Just six weeks not be soliciting tired company, the last successful cam- he’s talking about. la’s role is strictly in the back- ago, May offered to quit as Green paign he worked on was Dalton Party leader if Jody Wilson-Ray- advice from politicos McGuinty’s. Green Party Leader bould wanted it. She didn’t. Who But that’s old news. The man Elizabeth May says would with that level of thirst? of yesteryear. has been a political strategist for Warren Kinsella In addition, she called for an end years, surely he has expertise isn’t running to foreign oil imports and in the to share. In fact, he’s offering it their campaign same breath called for a pivot to up for free as recently as July 12 and committed Albertan oil. Way to take a Con- on the Toronto Sun’s website, if, to keeping to the servative position, Liz. But that’s that is, you’re a Tory looking to party’s values of what the Greens are: Conserva- “stop Trudeau’s rising popularity.” respect. That sounds tives in tree pose. There are plenty of great nug- like a Herculean Elizabeth May is not interested gets of wisdom too: “say [you’ll] task, write Erica Ifill in changing the existing oil-based represent every Canadian, in and Amy Kishek. economic structure—much less every region and every province!” The Hill Times the existing social structure—and Genius. (Kinsella is also a regular although she touts the importance Erica Ifill & Amy Kishek photographs by columnist in The Hill Times.) Andrew Meade of women in politics, when push Bad+Bitchy And to think, this grand po- came to shove she turned to a litical baby boomer wisdom was mediocre white guy to advise her hiding in plain sight. At first blush it’s puzzling ground for research and that he’s political strategy. TTAWA—What is Elizabeth Kinsella, who—or someone why the Green Party, which not running the party’s campaign If the Greens are truly look- OMay thinking? with the same name, according to purports to distinguish itself or crafting policy. May even went ing to make inroads, they should Bob Fife tweeted that Warren Elections Ontario records—made on its principles, is relying on so far as to say that the famously not be soliciting tired advice from Kinsella, former Liberal surro- a political contribution to Doug advice from the likes of Warren unleashable Kinsella had commit- politicos of yesteryear. A man gate, will be joining the war room Ford’s party in 2019, has been Kinsella, gun for hire. It’s almost ted to living by the party’s “values like Kinsella who is so daft as to of the Green Party for the 2019 cheering on Andrew Scheer all enough to make you believe of respect,” which seems anti- believe Scheer is tough on white election. year, all but explicitly endorsing in the conspiracy theory that thetical to Kinsella’s entire raison supremacy is too daft to appreci- Kinsella made a name for him, and running to his defence Kinsella’s support of the Greens d’être, but maybe you can teach ate the issues of the day. himself as part of Jean Chrétien’s in The Sun every chance he gets. is merely an effort to split the an old dog new tricks. Erica Ifill and Amy Kishek co- campaign team more than two This includes trying to convince Liberal vote in favour of the Con- Let’s be real: Kinsella has not host the Bad+Bitchy podcast. decades ago. Somehow it does us that Scheer’s tough on hate servatives. Almost. lived up to any modicum of re- The Hill Times

Ashlyn Harris, Megan Take a lesson, premiers: Rapinoe, and Ali Krieger of the U.S. women’s women’s soccer leading the soccer team, pictured with the FIFA Women’s charge on gender equality World Cup trophy. Photograph TTAWA—If you only followed credible communicator the sports courtesy of While Canada’s Olast week’s Council of the Fed- world has seen in a long time. U.S. Soccer’s eration meeting, you might believe Rapinoe and her teammates, Facebook premiers were at a that political gender equality and who have won multiple world equity were in retreat. The annual championships, have made it a prostates-only party premier’s meeting was notable constant mission of theirs to throw in Saskatoon and not for its pronouncements, but the world of sports, first, and the Then, on July 14, American So while the premiers were at for its pictures. Each shot featured broader world, second, upside corporate behemoth Proctor & a prostates-only party in Saska- Donald Trump was male leaders, as, for the first time down when it comes to equality and Gamble proclaimed its support for toon and Donald Trump was being in a number of years, there are no equity. Women in sport have rarely equal pay in a full page ad in the Donald Trump, the U.S Women’s being Donald Trump, female first ministers present, as had an equal voice or an equal pay New York Times. The company went National soccer team was disrupt- none hold the top job in our prov- package when compared to their on to donate $529,000 U.S. to the ing all manner of cultural norms. the U.S Women’s inces and territories. male counterparts. Team U.S.A. has women’s national team’s players as- Change was happening in real If that politics barometer used the platform afforded them by sociation, which has been challeng- time. Global corporations weren’t National soccer team depressed you, turn south of the winning the world’s most popular ing, through legal and other means, resisting, they were enlisting. FIFA, was disrupting all border for inspiration. No, not sporting title not to bask in their the inequality they experience. In the world’s governing body of soc- U.S. President Donald Trump’s own glory, but push the global agen- the ad, Proctor & Gamble said: “In- cer, had also already committed to manner of cultural offensive comments toward four da with more potency than even the equality is about more than pay and double the prize money for the next congressional women of colour, most seasoned political leader. players. It is about values.” This has Women’s World Cup. It is still below norms. telling them they should go back Rapinoe is sick of the argument been Rapinoe’s constant refrain. the men’s, but change is happening. to the “broken and crime-infested common in sport, that revenue goes Rapinoe’s current clout extends Rapinoe doesn’t look like she countries” they come from. Trump’s to male sports because that is where well beyond the soccer pitch. As is running out of steam any time bile is being disrupted by the force the audiences are. Except that is the Times ad appeared, she was soon. And given the current political and might of Megan Rapinoe. now potentially changing. on the iconic political and current climate in the United States, she and Some might still be asking, The Women’s World Cup that affairs program Meet the Press her teammates have astutely sensed “who is Rapinoe?” Well unless you just finished in France enjoyed (NBC). Speaking of the actions of the moment is now to smash as many and your smartphone were hidden record viewership. For the final Proctor & Gamble, she said: “These societal structural barriers down as under a rock that blocked cellular game, in the U.S. alone, a combined are some of the most powerful they can. Let’s cheer them on. service, you should know Rapinoe 15.3-million people watched the corporations, not just in sports but Tim Powers is vice-chairman is the co-captain of the World Cup game live. That also was the highest in the world, and have so much of Summa Strategies and manag- Champion U.S. women’s soccer audience of the weekend for U.S. weight they can throw around. ing director of Abacus Data. He is Tim Powers team. She is arguably one of best television. It even beat the U.S. audi- And I think that they just need to a former adviser to Conservative soccer players, female or male, on ence for the 2018 Men’s World Cup. get comfortable with throwing it political leaders. Plain Speak the planet and the most effective, That sat at 11.3-million for the final. around.” Go, Megan, go! The Hill Times 8 WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2019 | THE HILL TIMES

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Editorial Letters to the Editor Address methane leakage from LNG Trudeau’s self-muzzling operations if serious about reducing on Trump is a bad look greenhouse gas emissions, says reader e: “Feds say clean fuel standard can Alberta or Saskatchewan. And there is f Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were to standing up for the marginalized and op- Rmake LNG ‘more efficient than coal’, resistance from the fossil fuel industry to Ireact to every single revolting thing said pressed. despite report’s warning,” (The Hill Times, regulations, specifically those requiring by U.S. President Donald Trump, it would Speaking to reporters in Petawawa, July 10, p. 13) It isn’t clear from the monitoring. The problem is pernicious, end up being his full-time job. Ont., on July 15, Mr. Trudeau said: “I think government website that the clean fuel and possibly insolvable. No one wants that. Mr. Trudeau has Canadians, and indeed people around the standard would make natural gas cleaner In the Hill Times article, the Cana- better things to do, and it would be wholly world, know exactly what I think of those than coal. The clean fuel standard focuses dian Association of Petroleum Producers disappointing if the head of our govern- comments.” mainly on carbon dioxide emissions and (CAPP), who often appear to be our real, ment were constantly playing peanut But do we? Yes, “a Canadian is a Ca- has little to say about liquefied natural albeit unofficial, opposition party, did not gallery to our southern neighbour. nadian is a Canadian,” but how does that gas. address the problem of fugitive leaks, But it’s equally disappointing that translate into being a leader on the global Methane, the major component of preferring to divert attention on LNG when Mr. Trump says something particu- stage? When Mr. Trump reportedly called natural gas and LNG, is more potent facilities. larly egregious, Mr. Trudeau is noticeably Haiti and African countries “shitholes,” than C02 as a greenhouse gas over It also appears that CAPP uses the circumspect. Mr. Trudeau also refused to say anything the short term. And we must reduce same team of professional slanderers as In his latest round of nastiness, the more damning than repeat how welcom- our GHG emissions in the short term. the Conservative Party of Canada, call- U.S. president took aim at a quartet of ing a place Canada is. Methane has been found to leak from ing Global Energy Monitor “a foreign- outspoken rookie congresswomen—all After the tumultuous G7 summit in natural gas wellheads and even outside funded activist organization [attempting] four women of colour—in a Twitter tirade, Charlevoix, Que., last year, Mr. Trudeau the bore holes of wellheads in fracked to discredit the Canadian oil and natural telling them they should “go back” to the famously got in front of the cameras to wells. It happens in orphaned gas wells gas industry,” thereby contributing “totally broken and crime-infested places” proclaim, in response to Mr. Trump’s Air and in working wells. There don’t appear mightily to Canada’s greenhouse gas from whence they came. Force One Twitter missives, that Canada to be thorough provincial regulations emissions. Ignoring of course the completely won’t be pushed around. requiring the monitoring and report- Linda Leon irrelevant fact that they’re all citizens But the message that’s coming from ing fugitive methane emissions in B.C., Whitehorse, Yukon and the majority of them were born in Mr. Trudeau now, by refusing to say the U.S., the racist dog whistle was heard boo to Mr. Trump so as to not rock the far and wide, and most reasonable folks Canada-U.S. boat, is that as long as we’re could see it for what it was: racism. not directly involved, everyone else is on Sure, the president claims that his their own. That doesn’t align with the sen- tweets weren’t racist and used the favoured timent that “Canada is back” on the world It’s time for the media to ask some chestnut of not having “a racist bone” in his stage. We can’t be puffing out our chest body, but it’s not like this is the first time and loudly condemning leaders and gov- tough Trans Mountain questions he’s said the quiet part out loud. ernments on the other side of the world, For his part, the prime minister also yet meekly saying “no comment” when the lease make a point of asking or 4. Tell Trudeau to cancel Trans Moun- went for the anatomical, biological U.S. is involved. Prather demanding the government for tain and end fossil fuel subsidies. He response, inviting Canadians to break Getting trampled by the neighbouring answers to our questions about the Trans should free up billions in public money to out their MRI and CAT scan machines, elephant is a real threat, sure, espe- Mountain pipeline. Your readers, and we, invest directly in clean energy. There is no or perhaps crystal balls, to find out how cially nowadays, but what good is going as Canadians, have a right to know. proof the project will ever turn a profit, he feels—because saying something that through our days as a mouse? 1. We need to know the costs of what and plenty to suggest that taxpayers might irk the Mr. Trump is far worse than The Hill Times has already been spent and what are the could be on the hook for big losses. costs of the proposed expansion. We need Since Trans Mountain was bought by a more transparency. Crown corporation, it’s gone dark about 2. Ask some tough questions about the the spiralling costs of the project, how hoped-for Asian markets and the high we’re going to pay for it, and just how prices they are going to pay. the federal government plans to get our 3. If Kinder Morgan couldn’t raise the money back from a project so risky that money to fund the expansion and walked even Big Oil wouldn’t bet on it. away from a toxic investment, what Private investors wouldn’t put up with makes the government believe they will this, and neither should we. be able to find a buyer, or will taxpayers Valerie Proctor be left holding a stranded asset? Ottawa, Ont.

Nuclear weapons have storied history in film

e: “U.S. joint chiefs release alarming children will be able to resurface. Rnuclear operations document,” (The Another interesting film is the 1999 Hill Times, July 1, p. 11). In a 1964 film, Dr. release Blast From The Past. A 1950s fam- Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop ily have a bomb shelter in the backyard of Worrying and Love The Bomb), an ex-Nazi their Los Angeles home, there is an alarm scientist recruited by the United States, tells warning of danger so they go underground the American president and the joint chiefs and a U.S. fighter jet crash lands on top of of staff how their country can survive the them. After 30 years, the family comes out just-started nuclear war. The plan is to use to find their city unrecognizable because mine shafts as underground bomb shelters, of social change, not nuclear war. and Dr. Strangelove estimates that after 100 Andrew Romain years, the survivors’ children and grand- Gatineau, Que.

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dent for whom “location, location, age such shenanigans due to the After 30 years location” is more than a cliché? number of skater dudes who’ve The Canadian Embassy at 501 broken bones failing to ollie “The as Canada’s Pennsylvania Ave. turned 30 this Canadian,” as it’s known. (Take year. Over those three decades, heed, Beto O’Rourke.) architectural avatar the best-located chancery in the Diplomacy is, arguably, 40 on ‘America’s capital of the free world has gone per cent preparation and 60 per from mystery monument to local cent representation. The differ- Main Street,’ the landmark to popular social, cultural, ence between having an embassy and political attraction. There’s no that’s one of dozens on Embassy Canadian embassy shortage of Washington pols and Row (anchored by the diplomatic journos who’ve never had five behemoth of the British chancery in Washington has minutes of business to do in the and residence compound, which, become part of the embassy’s offices (we’re not that recent turbulence aside, would troublesome) but who’ve attended still be a draw if it were located local furniture. the annual Fourth of July party on in a strip mall) and one between the sixth-floor terrace because it the White House and the Capitol offers the best view in town for the as an unavoidable reminder of The Embassy of Canada to the United States in Washington, D.C., is the fireworks. Or Inauguration Day Canada is that the building itself best-located chancery in the capital of the free world, and over the past 30 events because of its front-row seats does some of the representational years has gone from mystery monument to local landmark to popular social, for both the ceremony and parade. heavy lifting. cultural, and political attraction, writes Lisa Van Dusen. The Hill Times Controversially assigned to Which is not to diminish the photograph by Neil Moss architect Arthur Erickson (who importance of the less tangible also designed the Trump Inter- aspects of diplomacy. I also national Hotel in Vancouver) in signed for the sort of events, pub- As embassy staff, Washing- learned during my time serving 1981 by prime minister Pierre lic and private, that keep relations tonians, Canadian visitors, and Canada’s representational inter- Trudeau, the neoclassical bilateral between Canada and the United other tourists gradually lived ests, by thankfully avoiding any Lisa Van Dusen beachhead was opened in 1989 by States (generally) belligerence- in and around the building, it major embarrassments, that the What Fresh Hell prime minister Brian Mulroney. free. It’s open but serious, elegant became part of the local furniture. hard work of the people in the of- I got to know the embassy and but welcoming, and Canadian in Its open courtyard evolved into an fices never stops, no matter what its stellar staff as a diplomatic a way you can’t quite put your unabashedly public space, with the building looks like. ho could have known, when spouse during the early 90s, when finger on, which adds to its aura. both Bill Reid’s hulking Spirit of Happy Birthday, 501 Pennsyl- Wthe government of Canada my ex-husband, now virtual-office And inevitable small-talk lulls are Haida Gwaii sculpture and the vania. purchased an abandoned Wash- ex-spouse, friend and editor of much easier to fill when you’re Rotunda of the Provinces becom- Lisa Van Dusen is associate ington, D.C., lot a stone’s throw Policy Magazine (I’m associate sitting in a conversation piece. ing magnets for kids and now, editor of Policy Magazine and from the U.S. Capitol for $5-mil- editor), L. Ian MacDonald, was ap- “It’s very big and it’s very odd and selfies. As CBC reported in 2015, was a Washington and New lion in 1978, that one day, owning pointed by Mr. Mulroney as minis- in many ways, very powerful and the building’s facade staircase York-based editor at UPI, AP, a piece of prime real estate could ter of public affairs in Washington. very beautiful,” Washington Post is now known as “Washington’s and ABC. She writes a weekly be a diplomatic advantage during It was already clear by then architecture critic Benjamin For- gnarliest skateboard jump,” column for The Hill Times. the roller-coaster reign of a presi- that the building was perfectly de- gey once said about the building. though embassy staff discour- The Hill Times

end justifies the means,” he did When the art of the possible is an write “it is better to be feared than loved.” This philosophy is under- mining the philosophical under- pinnings of liberal democracy—a impossible dream, demagoguery takes hold liberal democracy repeatedly mocked by the current strong fore, the Coalition Avenir Québec they want,” nor will it be the last. advantages, as well as in its flaws. men of the world, Xi Jinping, In this age of extreme government had passed Bill 21, As readers of this column may I recall the first political science Vladimir Putin, and Trump. Like forbidding people in authority recall, I previously wrote about class I attended, in which the Isaiah Berlin’s hedgehog, these views in social media (including teachers, police, and the impact of Bill 21 and specu- professor wrote the words “Poli- men know “one big thing”—pow- judges) from wearing cloth- lated that if governments endorse tics is….” on the blackboard, and er. And they will use whatever and cynicism in the ing with a religious orientation. discrimination via legislation, asked us to finish it. A spirited tactic to hold on to it. body politic, the Anyone wearing a hijab, a turban, it might give license or encour- discussion followed. Finally, the In the turbulence of our times, or a yarmulke need not apply for agement to the population to be professor completed the sentence: the general public’s lack of un- idea of honourable those jobs. openly bigoted. Now I look at it “Politics is the art of the possible.” derstanding of the intricacies of In the chats around the room, from the other side of the coin: if In this age of extreme views in democratic government is fright- compromise seems to I happened upon a journalist and the people don’t like a measure, social media and cynicism in the ening enough. The ignorance a Liberal Member of the National will politicians then pander to body politic, the idea of honour- of legislators and leaders of its have died. Assembly. They were struggling their most base instincts and offer able compromise, or the “art intellectual heritage is a genuine with Quebec Premier François to do away with it, even if it might of the possible,” seems to have threat to its viability. Legault’s explanation that Bill 21 be for the public good? died. As has accepting another’s The Spanish-American philos- reflected “what the people of Que- Democracy was famously de- point of view as valid, within the opher George Santayana famous- bec want.” The discussion led to scribed by Winston Churchill as “the context of freedom of speech, ly said: “Those who do not learn speculating on what might be the worst form of government, except thought, and belief. history are doomed to repeat it.” logical extension of that approach: for all the others.” The word comes There have been demagogues Unless liberal politicians and the elimination of taxes, the reduc- from the ancient Greek words in democracies before: the rise philosophers produce a stronger tion of government, or the lack of demos (people) and kratos (power), of fascism in Germany and Italy rationale for a healthy democratic penalties or speed limits on the but Athenian democracy was really in the 1930s carried with it the system and educate the public to streets and highways. Because this an exclusionary system; it took rise of Oswald Mosely in Britain, its advantages, we may be turning is what “the people want.” millennia for the word to mean the White Berets and Adrien to a darker age in which the “one Andrew Caddell While there was a certain cre- participation by all the people. Arcand in Quebec, and Louisiana big thing” dominates. Andrew Caddell is retired from With All Due Respect ative absurdity to the discussion, Demagoguery, on the other hand, governor Huey Long, the “King- it made me think that in this era means “the principles and practices fish,” who was assassinated in Global Affairs Canada, where he of Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, of a political leader who tries to 1935 as he prepared a run for the was a senior policy adviser. He ALIFAX—I recently went to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Doug get support by making false claims presidency. Each leader perceived previously worked as an adviser Ha book launch in Montreal in Ford, and Legault, demagoguery and promises and using arguments government and politics as an to Liberal governments. He is a a local synagogue, at which many is now a feature of our demo- based on emotion rather than rea- obstacle, was ruthless with oppo- fellow with the Canadian Global prominent citizens attended. The cratic debate. son.” Effectively, using democracy to nents, and appealed to the basest Affairs Institute and a principal of atmosphere of civility inside was I acknowledge Bill 21 is not undermine the public good. prejudices of his supporters. QIT Canada. He can be reached in stark contrast to the political the first time legislators in Can- For democracy to flourish, While the philosopher Nic- at [email protected]. climate outside. A few days be- ada claimed to “give people what citizens need to be educated in its colò Machiavelli never said “the The Hill Times 10 WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2019 | THE HILL TIMES News National Defence Opposition MPs skirt top soldier, place blame for DND ‘chaos’ on Trudeau, Sajjan an Forces. He added that improving Continued from page 1 morale could be done quickly if the Defence because of Liberal politi- Conservatives form government cal interference [into the Norman after the October election, as he affair],” said Conservative MP said the issue falls at the feet of Mr. James Bezan (Selkirk-Interlake- Sajjan and Mr. Trudeau. Eastman, Man.), his party’s defence critic. Gen. Vance’s tenure as Conservative and NDP MPs are withholding blame of Cana- chief of the defence staff da’s top soldier, General Jonathan likely nearing end Vance, chief of the defence staff, Gen. Vance’s tenure as chief of in the midst of senior military the defence staff is expected to be leadership departures. in its closing days, since as of July “Gen. Vance has been a good 17, he will have served as Cana- soldier. He’s taken his direction da’s top soldier for four years. from Sajjan and the PMO,” Mr. As his post near its conclusion, Bezan said, adding that there are the Armed Forces has a group of questions over the direction that new senior commanding officers. Gen. Vance has been given by the A new vice-chief of the defence government, which Mr. Bezan staff was appointed on July 12. said reflects on Mr. Sajjan. The commander of the Canadian In May, breach of trust charges Army, Lt. Gen. Jean-Marc Lan- were stayed against Vice-Admiral thier, was named as Lt.-Gen. Wyn- Norman following a lengthy crim- nyk’s replacement. He had been inal investigation that included a the army’s commander for just un- RCMP raid on his house, and his Conservative MP James Bezan says the military leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Defence Minister der a year, a post that is typically suspension as vice-admiral by his filled for more than two years. childhood friend Gen. Vance. Harjit Sajjan is creating ‘chaos’ in the Armed Forces. The NDP MP Randall Garrison says he has ‘complete confidence’ in Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade Gen. Jonathan Vance. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade Lt.-Gen. Wayne Eyre will take over Vice-Admiral Norman was as the Army’ s top commander. accused of leaking cabinet secrets In June, Vice-Admiral Art McDon- around the threatened delay of also had a telephone conversation that’s not easy,” he said. “The instabil- from the way he exited in Navy ald was named the newest command- procurement of a much-needed with Mr. Trudeau to inform him of ity we’ve seen in the senior military circles,” he said. er of the Canadian Navy. Lt.-Gen. Al $688-million Navy supply ship the situation. leadership is caused by the prime Mr. MacKay said the govern- Meinzinger, the commander of the procurement. The project went Gen. Vance testified in court minister and the minister’s vendetta ment put Gen. Vance in “a very diffi- Canadian Air Force, was appointed to ahead and the civilian-military that he never wrote down any against [Vice-] Admiral Norman.” cult, perhaps impossible, position.” the post in May 2018. converted MV Asterix now is notes in those meetings. Mr. Garrison said he has heard Gen. Vance was twice the com- David Perry, defence analyst and the only resupply ship that the Asked to respond to claims complaints from his constituents mander of Canada’s forces in Af- fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Canadian Navy has. It was most that Gen. Vance was used as a over the treatment of Vice-Admi- ghanistan in 2009 and 2010 when Institute, said he has little concern recently accompanied by the scapegoat by the government, over Gen. Vance’s replacement. Halifax-class frigate HMCS Re- Todd Lane, Mr. Sajjan’s press sec- “By and large, the organiza- gina as it participated in Opera- retary did not directly answer. tion does a good job of providing tion NEON, ensuring compliance “We continue to implement our senior officers with the training to to UN sanctions on North Korea. ambitious Defence Policy, Strong, become the chief of staff one day,” Gen. Vance said he wasn’t pres- Secure, Engaged. We owe it to our he said, adding there is a greater sured by the Mr. Trudeau or Mr. Saj- women and men in uniform at issue with the replacement for the jan to suspend Vice-Admiral Norman. home and abroad to ensure they vice-chief of the defence staff, as “The prime minister did not are well supported so they can it is more about resource manage- pressure me to suspend him, okay? help keep Canadians safe. That is ment and not operational com- My decision, my decision alone our mission and the minister, the mand, which is where more of the because of the code of service dis- deputy minister, the chief of de- senior officer training is devoted. cipline in the Queen’s regulations fence staff, and the entire defence Mr. MacKay said despite every- and orders. Not the prime minister, team are focused on that job,” he thing that’s happened he doesn’t not the minister, me. I own it,” Gen. said in an email. envision there will be difficulty Vance said in May, according to a Following his high-profile trial, in the upcoming decisions to find CTV report. Vice-Admiral Norman reached an Gen. Vance’s eventual replace- Mr. Bezan said Gen. Vance agreement with the government ment, suggesting planning for the has “just been following orders,” to leave the Department of Na- next chief of the defence staff will including the decision to suspend tional Defence, which triggered his likely begin at about this time. Vice-Admiral Norman. replacement in the post from the Mr. Bezan told The Globe and “All [the orders] were orches- time of his suspension, vice chief Mail last week that the Liberals trated by Trudeau, the PMO, and of the defence staff Lt.-Gen. Paul should not be able to select Gen. Sajjan,” he said. Wynnyk, to resign from his post. In Vance’s successor given the fast- The fault for having three vice a letter sent to Gen. Vance, obtained approaching October election. chiefs of the defence staff and two by Global News, Lt.-Gen. Wynnyk Despite Gen. Vance being acting vice chiefs of the defence outlined Gen. Vance’s previous deci- tapped for the top post in the final staff leave, as well as the ongoing sion to have Vice-Admiral Norman days of the Harper government, issues retaining fighter pilots lies return to the job, putting him out of Mr. Bezan differentiated the sce- at the top with the defence minis- the position, before it was re-offered narios in a July 10 tweet saying ter, Mr. Bezan said. in light of Vice-Admiral Norman’s the Harper government wasn’t Peter MacKay, a former de- settlement with the government. dealing with a “[self-]induced Gen. Jonathan Vance has been Canada’s chief of the defence staff for four years, fence minister from 2007 to 2013 “While I appreciate the change scandal, nor experiencing an exo- suggesting his tenure is near its end. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade in the Harper government, said of heart, I respectfully decline and dus of senior flag officers.” there was “a bit of scapegoating” intend to take my release from the “There is a growing feeling out of Gen. Vance by the government, Canadian Armed Forces as expedi- there that Gen. Vance [is] near the citing the decision to suspend tiously as possible,” Lt.-Gen. Wynnyk ral Norman—his federal riding Mr. MacKay was defence minister. end of his time,” Mr. Bezan told Vice-Admiral Norman and “un- wrote, according to Global News. covers CFB Esquimalt, Canada’s Mr. MacKay said the Cana- The Hill Times. savoury” meetings between Gen. NDP MP Randall Garrison Pacific coast naval base—but dian public doesn’t know enough A DND spokesperson told The Vance and senior PMO officials. (Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke, B.C.), he didn’t think it has led to a about what happened during the Hill Times that Gen. Vance does not On Jan. 9, 2017, Gen. Vance his party’s defence critic, echoed decrease in morale among those Norman affair, which “casts a have a planned retirement date. had two separate meetings with Mr. Bezan’s comments and said that spoke with him. shadow” over Gen. Vance. The chief of the defence staff Mr. Sajjan, and with PMO chief he has “complete confidence” in “I represent a Navy town. There “So that’s unfortunate,” Mr. doesn’t have a fixed term, instead of staff Katie Telford and then- Gen. Vance, and put blame for the will always be concern about the MacKay said. “It doesn’t reflect serving at “Her Majesty’s pleasure.” principal secretary Gerald Butts, “instability” on Mr. Trudeau and poor treatment of [Vice-] Admiral well on, not only the military, but Mr. Lane did not respond to a the same day that he was told Mr. Sajjan. Norman and the stain on his very also our entire country.” question on whether Gen. Vance will of the RCMP investigation into “He’s been given a hand to play distinguished career. I don’t think Mr. Bezan said a change in gov- be replaced before the election. Vice-Admiral Norman, according by the cabinet and the prime minis- that will ever go away, and I think ernment would go “a long way” to [email protected] to an Ottawa Citizen report. He ter and the minister, and sometimes there will always be a lot of regret fixing morale issues in the Canadi- The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2019 11 Nunavut anniversary News

Conservative Senator Dennis Lack of Inuit Patterson said during the Senate's study of the language Indigenous Languages Act, it became 'very clear' that Inuit supports a 'had been overlooked in consultations' by the key concern Liberals. Photograph courtesy of the Senate of for advocates Canada

qualified, bilingual teachers, said ritory’s unique reality and needs, of the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, Premier Joe Savikataaq, and it even at the federal level. now ITK. 20 years after can’t force people to speak the The vision of Nunavut for Inuit “Now, we’re in a different language and become teachers. was to have “more control of our phase again, 20 years later,” she “We have obligations we have destiny,” said Mr. Savikataaq, and said, with important roles as lob- to meet, but when you don’t have to a degree that has happened. by groups pushing the territorial Nunavut formed control on one part of the equa- “But you can’t have indepen- and federal governments to live tion, then it’s very hard to get to dence without financing [coming] up to the agreement first signed the sum,” he said in an interview, with it,” he said, and while the 26 years ago. while also stressing the govern- federal government has become While that doesn’t change, Nunavut communities where ment is committed to keeping the more responsive to the unique “how we achieve what we’re Fostering use of that’s important, there are many language “alive and thriving.” needs over the years, he said determined to achieve” has communities where Inuktut is still Part of the solution, he said, there needs to be “a little bit more shifted over the years, noted Ms. Inuit languages was spoken. The Inuit Tapiriit Kana- “starts at home,” long before flexibility” from Ottawa. Karetak-Lindell, who praised Ms. a key aim in creating tami (ITK) was also critical of the a child enters the school sys- Sometimes the requirements Kotierk and Natan Obed of the bill for lacking any Inuit-specific tem: “Parents have to take respon- attached to funding “are too rigid,” ITK (who declined an interview Nunavut, but 20 years measures. sibility, too.” he said, making it difficult to request) for the work they do. Though use of Inuktut as a take full advantage, especially in In October 2018, NTI’s board later, NTI president mother tongue is declining among the context of a single shipping passed a resolution to look into the territory’s population—from 72 A voice in Ottawa season that can set projects back models for Inuit self-government Aluki Kotierk says per cent in 2001 to 65 per cent in Having territorial representa- if bureaucracy gets in the way. outside of the current territorial there’s been a ‘failure’ 2016—a significant portion of the tion at the federal level has made a Nunavut is “so lacking and far government system, amid ques- population still have it as their first measurable difference for Inuit liv- behind” when it comes to infra- tions raised by residents over the when it comes to language. The Liberals “missed an ing north of 60, said Sen. Patterson. structure “that we’re not even at territorial government’s record. opportunity where they could have “Without having our own the starting line,” said Mr. Savi- Even as more Inuit are elected providing essential been bold, and committed to pro- territory and our own govern- kataaq, adding the federal gov- to the legislature, it may not be viding the appropriate resources,” ment, I think it would have been ernment “has to do some nation- the right model if it continues services to the public and recognized it as an original, more difficult to draw attention to building.” to “perpetuate systems that are founding language of Nunavut so the unique issues impacting the Independent MP Hunter not based on Inuit culture,” Ms. in Inuktut. that it could be “viewed equitably” people of Nunavut,” he said. Tootoo, who was elected to rep- Kotierk said. compared to French and English, Before the change, the North- resent the territory as a Liberal “We’re still a cog in that sys- Continued from page 1 said Ms. Kotierk. west Territories made up about in 2015, was not available for tem,” she said. “It’s not any one comment. His riding predecessor person’s fault, it’s the governance be taught in schools as set out ITK president was former Conservative MP and system.” when Nunavut was created. (In Natan Obed, minister Leona Aglukkaq, who But Sen. Patterson said he wor- 2006, NTI filed a lawsuit, alleging pictured with is running to retake Nunavut for ries some of the spirit from two the federal government breached Prime Minister the Conservatives in October. decades before has been lost, and its contract, which Ottawa settled Justin Trudeau, Ms. Aglukkaq, who could not be he hopes he can help revive it. in 2015 after agreeing to pay was vocal in reached for comment, became the “That unity and common $255-million.) criticizing first Inuk to be sworn into cabinet purpose seems to have eroded While the federal government the Liberal in 2008 when she was named somewhat in more recent years,” will often point to territorial government’s health minister; she later added said Sen. Patterson, and while he jurisdiction for such matters, Ms. Indigenous on oversight of the Canadian understands the frustration, he Kotierk said Ottawa’s historic and Languages Act for Northern Economic Development hopes the issues can be addressed “very active role in diminishing lacking Inuit- Agency and Arctic Council to through co-operation. Indigenous languages” through specific measures. her portfolio, and then served as “It was that unity of purpose the residential school program The Hill Times environment minister from 2013 that gave us Nunavut and I think and its stated intent to ‘kill the photograph by to 2015. it needs to be revived,” he said, Indian in the child.’ Andrew Meade The distinction of serving and as “one of the few people “The federal government as the territory’s first MP was a around today who were involved has a responsibility to invest in As one of the few Indigenous one-third of Canada, geographi- “great honour,” said Ms. Karetak- in that era” it’s his job to respect- the school system, invest in the languages “that has a chance to cally. Now, Nunavut covers one- Lindell. She said at the time of fully remind today’s leaders “that language, to the same extent that survive,” former Nunavut Liberal fifth. It contains 28 villages or Nunavut’s creation, most involved there is strength in unity.” they invested to diminish our MP Nancy Karetak-Lindell said communities—all fly-in—and all didn’t realize the significance of There’s always more that can language,” she said. more funds should be dedicated but one are coastal, noted Ms. changing Canada’s map. be done, said Ms. Karetak-Lindell. Successive governments have to its support. Karetak-Lindell. While most countries see She said she places great trust in failed on that front, and both she “Our country has a role to play “I would like to think we’re their borders redrawn in the face the younger generation, who are and Sen. Patterson said they see in that, the same way French is able to speak with one voice for of conflict, “we did this peace- “more aggressive and more aware the Liberal government’s recent recognized as an official lan- many issues, even though we fully, with negotiations,” said Ms. of our rights.” People need to Indigenous languages bill, C-91, guage,” said the four-term MP, have our regional differences,” Karetak-Lindell. remember the territory is only 20 as yet another lost opportunity. first elected in 1997, who was the said Ms. Karetak-Lindell, one years old, she added. During the Senate commit- territory’s first representative of the three MPs to represent “All these things take time. We tee’s examination of the Indig- in the House and the first Inuk the young territory since it was Territory entering ‘a need to be allowed to make mis- enous Languages Act, Sen. Pat- woman to become a Member of formed. different phase again’: takes because this has never been terson said it became “very clear” Parliament. The territory continues to done before,” she said, recalling that Inuit “had been overlooked Nunavut’s government has fight “to be on the same level first Nunavut MP the 1995 commission report look- in consultations” and the result- said it will take 20 more years playing field” for all the services As an MP during the transi- ing at establishing the territory, ing bill “fell short” in dealing with to fulfill language targets for its that Canadians take for granted, tion, her role represented “an titled Footprints in New Snow. the specific needs of language school system, which were set out she said. administrative phase,” building “That really says it all. We’re and preservation enhancement when Nunavut was created, Nun- Mr. Savikataaq, who became off of the work of those, includ- blazing a trail that no one has for Inuktut. The focus was too atsiaq News reported last month. premier in 2018, said he often ing her uncle, Tagak Curley, done before,” she said. much on language revitalization, The territorial government has feels his role is to “keep educating who fought for Inuit recogni- [email protected] he said, and while there are some had a tough time getting enough and re-educating” about the ter- tion. He was the first president The Hill Times 12 WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2019 | THE HILL TIMES CLASSIFIEDS Information and advertisement placement: 613-688-8822 • [email protected]

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tests against the project antici- dent” it has “taken the necessary for a reported 34 hours in a tree pated and in the aftermath of the steps to get this right.” on the site, and in 2018 for the Majority of damaging SNC-Lavalin scandal, Tsleil-Waututh Nation Chief same (16 hours, that time). it’s become another drip in the Leah George-Wilson said she’s Meanwhile, the feds are “steady drip, drip, drip of prob- “feeling confident” the court will engaging Indigenous groups on lems” that could sink the Liberals, hear the review. potential equity ownership or rev- Canadians may said Ms. Kurl. Asked about the potential for enue sharing on the project, with While she said it’s unlikely for renewed protests in the coming meetings in August in Victoria, any protest actions in the coming weeks, she said her community Vancouver, Kamloops, B.C., and months to flip opinions, renewed is focused on pursuing its “legal Edmonton on the table. support TMX, opposition could encourage proj- tools,” in opposing the project, Project Reconciliation, an ect opponents to mobilize elector- but said she understands it’s “an Indigenous-led organization, is ally, and could help solidify the emotional topic” and that “there proposing to buy 51 per cent of opinions of those undecided—26 are people that are really invested the pipeline. but the project per cent among NDP supporters in being on those frontlines.” D’Arcy Levesque, vice-pres- and 21 per cent among Greens. Dustin Rivers, a spokesperson ident of public and government for the Squamish Nation council, affairs for the group, said they’ve Appeals filed, protests said he thinks “a lot of First Na- reached out to 340 First Nations remains an tions” have a “pretty strong case” and Métis communities in B.C., expected to make in criticizing the govern- Alberta, and Saskatchewan, invit- Multiple groups have sought ment’s consultation re-do, which ing them to become “unit holders” electoral risk for leave for the Federal Court of he said did not constitute mean- in the project, with the prospect Appeal to review the federal ingful engagement. of seeing hundreds of millions in government’s June 18 project re- As for news of protest plans, proceed shares. He declined to approval. Mr. Rivers said he expects “a lot specify how many had signed on Liberals: pollsters In their July 8 filing, Ecojustice of leaders and a lot of commu- to date, but said they’re “con- lawyers, on behalf of the Living nities are going to stand up for tinuing to make progress,” and Oceans Society and the Raincoast their rights” when it comes to the confirmed outreach includes to the Liberals are aiming to cast Conservation Foundation, argue pipeline’s construction, and it’ll all Indigenous communities along It’s up to the prime Conservative Leader Andrew that cabinet failed to comply with be up to the government to decide the pipeline route. Scheer (Regina-Qu’Appelle, its responsibility to assess and “what kind of image and rela- “The best way to de-risk this minister to decide if Sask.)—and with him, Alberta mitigate adverse effects on the tionship Trudeau wants to have,” project is to have Indigenous he ‘wants to go into Premier Jason Kenney and On- critically endangered Southern and whether “Trudeau wants to owners at the table, along with tario Premier Doug Ford—as the Resident killer whales under the go into the next election arrest- the federal government.” the next election “them,” for left-of-centre voters. If Species at Risk Act in re-approv- ing Indigenous communities and protests kick off and participants ing the project. leaders.” Construction schedule arresting Indigenous are seen being arrested, it risks A group of First Nations ap- Stand.earth international the government instead becom- plicants in B.C.—including the program director Tzeporah still unknown communities and ing the “them,” said Mr. Lyle, “and Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Squamish Berman confirmed the group is Construction on the project that’s bad for the Liberals.” Nation, Ts’elxweyeqw tribes, “working with Indigenous lead- halted last summer after the Fed- leaders,’ says the eral Court’s ruling and has yet to Squamish Nation Natural Resources officially resume. Minister Amarjeet Sohi Trans Mountain Corp. CEO Ian council’s Dustin and Prime Minister Anderson has said shovels could Justin Trudeau, pictured be in the ground by September. Rivers. June 18 announcing the But asked about the construc- government’s re-approval tion schedule and estimated cost of the Trans Mountain last week, the Crown corporation Continued from page 1 pipeline expansion project. didn’t indicate timing, and said it connect its Edmonton Terminal to At the announcement, would “be in a better position to tidewater at the Westridge Marine Mr. Trudeau said the feds provide an update on the project Terminal in Burnaby, B.C. The would begin reaching schedule and cost and the con- federal government purchased out to Indigenous groups tributing factors to any changes” the pipeline from Kinder Mor- interested in buying the once it has a better sense of the gan in late July 2018, just before project and are open to regulatory process. approval was quashed by the Fed- selling 100 per cent of it Recent estimates peg the cost eral Court. In its ruling, the court to such investors. The Hill of the project’s construction at ordered the feds to redo Indig- Times photograph by Andrew $9.3-billion, up from previous enous consultations and order the Meade estimates of $7.4-billion. National Energy Board to redo On June 21, the NEB issued the its environmental assessment, certificate required to build the taking into account the impact of In its own poll of 1,842 forum Shxw’owhamel Nation, Coldwater ers to plan protests and organize project, and it’s expected to soon project-related marine shipping. members June 18-20, Angus Reid Indian Band, and Stk’emlupsemc civil disobedience training” over issue a decision on its approach to In an online poll of 2,515 found 56 per cent think the gov- te Secwepemc Nation—are also the pipeline, along with support- resuming the regulatory process respondents conducted between ernment made the right decision seeking a judicial review, citing “a ing groups like the Secwepemc around the project, including the June 28 and July 8, Innovative in re-approving the project, while number of constitutional viola- Tiny House Warriors “who are status of prior decisions around Research found 51 per cent sup- 24 per cent said it was the wrong tions and regulatory legal errors,” planning their own protests.” She condition compliance and route port the government’s decision, decision, and 21 per cent were including inadequate consultation said Stand is “closely tracking approvals. The government ap- up from 46 per cent in September unsure or couldn’t say. with impacted First Nations. In its construction plans and timelines” proved the project subject to 156 2018, while 16 per cent said they Shachi Kurl, executive direc- press release, the Tsleil-Waututh and plans to “soon” release a conditions, of which 94 include neither supported nor opposed, 20 tor of the Angus Reid Institute, Nation Sacred Trust notes that a report identifying “key hotspots pre-construction requirements to per cent were opposed, and 13 per agreed that much of the coming court decision on whether to hear for construction of the pipeline, be met, ranging from 30 days prior cent didn’t know. election hinges on whether a the judicial review is expected by including the plan to drill into to six months prior. At the time of But on the question of whether “single left-of-centre party can co- September. Burnaby Mountain and under the the Federal Court’s 2018 ruling, the government’s decision would alesce a majority of left-of-centre In the release, the group Fraser River.” 64 of the 156 conditions had been win it votes, Mr. Lyle said look- voters,” which poses a challenge says that the redone Indigenous In February, the B.C. Supreme “fully satisfied” and 20 were “par- ing at the net impact score—the for the Liberals when it comes to consultations “once again” were Court upheld a court injunction, tially satisfied.” difference between those who the pipeline. “primarily a one-way street first granted in March 2018, to While no project-related con- said they were more likely to vote NDP and Green Party voters rather than a two-way dialogue,” prohibit protests within five me- struction is currently underway, Liberal because of the pipeline are “far more likely”—at 36 per and that “a number of specific tres of Trans Mountain worksites the project is showing some signs and those who said they were less cent and 43 per cent, respective- and focused concerns remained in B.C. Between March and Au- of life: some materials that were likely—the only positive score ly—to think the Trudeau govern- unresolved.” It also states that the gust 2018, the RCMP arrested 227 ordered and in transit before Au- is among self-identified Liberal ment’s re-approval of the project federal government’s decision people for alleged disobedience of gust 2018 are being delivered and supporters: “What we’re seeing was the wrong one, she said. And to buy the $4.5-billion pipeline the injunction. stored for future use. here is pretty standard confirma- while Conservative voters and the in May 2018 gives “rise to new On July 10, the RCMP arrested “To date, approximately 30 per tory bias.” party’s own base largely see the legal arguments around bias and a 71-year-old protestor, Terry cent of pipe material has been While the issue isn’t “shaking” government’s decision as the right conflict” in its re-approval of the Christenson, for the third time for delivered,” said the company in an the Liberals’ base, it is offering up one—at 76 per cent and 65 per expansion project. breaching the court injunction at email. a “rationale for centre-left voters cent, respectively—Conservatives In response to The Hill Times, the Westridge Marine Terminal As well, archaeological testing … not to vote for the Liberals,” he aren’t likely to switch allegiances Vanessa Adams, press secretary site, this time while attempting to and mitigation work required “so said, a constituency that’s “criti- over the issue, and the Liberals to Natural Resources Minister climb a construction crane on a that construction may proceed in cal” for the party to win another need to pick up votes beyond their Amarjeet Sohi (Edmonton Mill barge to hang a protest banner. the fall and winter of 2019” was majority in October. base to win back a majority gov- Woods, Alta.), said she could not He’s alleged to have entered the expected starting July 15 at sites It boils down to an “us versus ernment this October. comment specifically “on matters site from the water using snorkel along the route. them” narrative, he said. With no Three months out from the being considered by the court,” gear. Mr. Christenson was ar- [email protected] Harper factor this time around, next election, with further pro- but that the government is “confi- rested in April after camping out The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2019 15 Events Feature

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