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RCMP, union stand behind plan to deploy Top 100 Transport body-worn cameras p. 36 policy briefing pp. 15-27 lobbyists in 2021 p. 29-33 Rose LeMay p.11 Michael Susan Harris Riley p.12 p.10 THIRTY-SECOND YEAR, NO. 1803 CANADA’S POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2021 $5.00 News News News Conservative Coming Party’s national Liberals need to ramp months will council rejects be a race Sloan’s appeal up vaccines and detail to run under to beat the its banner in recovery plans in ‘most ‘third wave’ next election of COVID-19, BY ABBAS RANA important budget of a say experts he Conservative Party’s na- BY MIKE LAPOINTE Ttional council rejected the ap- peal of booted Conservative MP xperts are sounding the alarm Derek Sloan on Thursday night generation,’ say politicos Ethat a ‘third wave’ of the pan- to be allowed to run as a party demic may be headed our way as candidate in the next election, variants of the COVID-19 virus have according to senior Conservative Prime Minister been detected across the country, sources. Justin Trudeau, while some regions are easing Mr. Sloan (Hastings-Lennox pictured Feb. lockdown restrictions and Canada’s and Addington, Ont.), who now 16, 2021, on sluggish vaccine rollout continues Parliament Hill. to dominate news headlines. Continued on page 37 The Liberal government Continued on page 35 is losing its support in public opinion News polls because of the recent News disruption to Rebel Media the vaccine rollout. The Get on with it: Hill Times lawsuits target photograph by Andrew Meade Senate cuts a journalists, year off feds’ chill speech, deadline for says reporter new oil rig regs Publications Mail Agreement #40068926 facing litigation BY PETER MAZEREEUW BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN he Senate has chopped in half Tan extension the government wo lawsuits launched by Reb- proposed to give itself for mak- Tel Media against media outlets ing permanent health and safety have been dismissed under regulations for offshore oil and Ontario’s anti-SLAPP law, a sign BY ABBAS RANA ID-19 vaccines to stem the loss of which will be the “most impor- gas platforms. that the law is working to protect public goodwill for the govern- tant budget of a generation,” say Senators and oil industry ex- press freedom, say journalists still rime Minister Justin ment and should outline the spe- political insiders. ecutives have expressed concern PTrudeau’s Liberals need to cific details of the recovery phase Continued on page 4 ramp up the delivery of COV- in the upcoming federal budget, Continued on page 34 Continued on page 6 2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2021 | THE HILL TIMES Journal, while Ms. Gray-Smith noted that B.C. Senator as a mother of two children, working as, Yuen Pau and relying on, “giggers” carries a certain Woo, pictured appeal with more flexible hours and work- in 2017, ing conditions. will offer his Heard on the Hill The two are currently recruiting for thoughts on graphic designers, social media experts, the Canada- and copywriters, according to the outlet. China file by Palak Mangat While the two are currently working from this week. home, they’re “chomping at the bit” to The Hill Times one day meet people in person, said Ms. photograph by Douglas. Andrew Meade Ms. Gray-Smith is the daughter of the late Herb Gray, who was a Liberal MP for New biography of Windsor West from 1962 to 2002 and was Canada’s first Jewish federal cabinet min- ister. He was also once the deputy prime minister. former NDP leader Ms. Douglas is chair of the board at “Instead of celebrating half a century of Bruyère Research Institute and a director bilateral ties, both countries have insisted with the Ottawa Board of Trade. that the other is at fault for the deterio- rating relations,” it adds. “It is critical for Canada to revisit its policies and examine Alexa McDonough, Changes at Globe’s Ottawa, opportunities for pragmatic engagement.” Toronto offices Hosted by the Institute for Peace & Diploma- Veteran reporter Ian Bailey will be join- cy, those interested can register online to tune in ing The Globe and Mail’s Ottawa bureau. via Zoom on Feb. 24, beginning at 7 p.m. who ‘walked the Mr. Bailey, who is coming from Vancou- ver and has covered political and general New political podcast boasts news, said the upcoming move is an excit- ing one. “I will miss #BC, including my experienced line up excellent colleagues in The Globe’s #BC Three veteran political observers and walk,’ now available players are teaming up to launch a new bureau, but am looking forward to joining The Globe’s outstanding #Ottawa team,” he podcast and radio show from SiriusXM. A book tweeted. detailing former NDP Hill reporter MP and party Bill Curry, leader Alexa pictured with McDonough, Reuters’ David pictured in Ljunggren 2018, and in 2019, is her rise in the deputy the political bureau chief ranks is now for The Globe available. The and Mail. The Hill Times file Hill Times photograph photograph by Abacus Data’s Bruce Anderson and veteran Andrew Meade Toronto Star columnist Chantal Hébert, pictured in 2014, make up two-thirds of a new political podcast that will launch this week. The Hill Times file photograph Chantal Hébert, a political affairs Before joining The Globe, Mr. Bailey columnist at The Toronto Star and f you’re itching to read more about the succeeded by Mr. Layton who led the party reported from Toronto and St. John’s for L’Actualité; Peter Mansbridge, the former Ilife of former NDP leader Alexa Mc- from 2003 to 2011, Nycole Turmel the in- The Canadian Press, and spent some time longtime host of CBC’s The National; and Donough, you’re in luck. terim leader from 2011 to 2012, Tom Mulcair with The Province and The National Post. Bruce Anderson, a longtime politico who Alexa! Changing the Face of Canadian from 2012 to 2017, and Mr. Singh since 2017. The addition of the U.K.-born, Toronto- heads up polling firm Abacus Data, will Politics, chronicling the rise of Ms. Mc- raised and educated reporter, who will join forces to launch Good Talk. Donough as she became one of the few Savvy duo launch new be the lead writer of the outlet’s politics “I’m really looking forward” to the launch, female federal politicians in Canada during newsletter, is just one of the changes at tweeted Mr. Anderson on Feb. 18, noting the the 1980s, can now be pre-ordered. consulting firm the paper. three will sometimes be joined by a guest to Running 286 pages and written by Two familiar Ottawa faces have teamed Bill Curry, a Hill Times alum, is now talk shop of the week’s national political news. University of King’s College journalism up to help businesses and national associa- deputy bureau chief under the head hon- “Ditto,” concurred Ms. Hébert. Mr. professor Stephen Kimber, the book sells tions get shit done—a mantra so prominent cho, Bob Fife. Mr. Curry, who joined the Mansbridge already hosts a podcast called for $32.95 and has been reviewed by the in their strategy, they’ve named their firm Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1999, says The Bridge, and all three are longtime likes of former Ontario premier Kathleen after it. he learned how to break exclusive stories fixtures of the federal political scene and Wynne, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, and at The Hill Times. Mr. Curry also worked often appeared together on CBC News The former Progressive Conservative prime for the National Post and the Canwest National’s At Issue panel. minister Kim Campbell. It will be officially News Service before he started at the [email protected] published by Goose Lane Edition on April Globe in 2005. The Hill Times 21. Chris Hannay, previously The Globe’s Mr. Kimber writes of “the changing at- assignment editor in Ottawa, who created CORRECTIONS: titudes towards women in politics” that Ms. the newsletter, is moving to the newspa- The Hill Times McDonough experienced, through her time per’s Toronto office after seven years of ed- Re: “Conservative Fund’s lack of over- as a lone female MLA in Nova Scotia’s leg- iting. “My focus is small businesses in the sight emerging as key issue in lead-up islature, to her critic post in the late former pandemic: the crisis and challenges, but to next month’s policy convention,” (The NDP leader Jack Layton’s shadow cabinet. also (hopefully!) telling stories of recovery Hill Times, Feb. 15) mistakenly called “In the process, she transcended party and rebuilding,” said Mr. Hannay. affiliation and gender to become simply Robert Batherson, a member of the ‘Alexa’ to Canadians across the country,” Elizabeth Gray-Smith, right, and ex-iPolitics Conservative Party’s national council, reads a promo of the book. deputy publisher Sally Douglas, standing, are John Batherson. His name is Robert Ms. McDonough led the federal NDP in launching a new venture. iPolitics exec Heather Senator talks Canada-China file Batherson. The same story was also Independent B.C. Senator Yuen Pau 1995 and was elected as an MP in the Hali- Bakken is pictured left. Photograph courtesy of updated on Feb. 15 to clarify that Mr. fax, N.S., riding in 1997, before she stepped Sally Douglas’ Twitter Woo will take part in a panel this week on Batherson supported the amendment down in 2003. Before that, she served in the Canada-China relations. in 2018 calling for an oversight of the provincial legislature from 1981 to 1994.
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