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Donner West Block Climbers P.27 Duffy P.9 Deal P.24 Winner P EXCLUSIVE POLITICAL COVERAGE: NEWS, FEATURES, AND ANALYSIS INSIDE HILL MIKE SAUDI ARMS DONNER WEST BLOCK CLIMBERS P.27 DUFFY P.9 DEAL P.24 WINNER P. 25 RENOS P. 28 TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 1335 CANADA’S POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER MONDAY, MAY 2, 2016 $5.00 NEWS TERRORISM NEWS SENATE SPENDING ‘CANADA DOES NOT AND WILL Duffy’s not guilty verdict casts doubt NOT PAY RANSOM TO TERRORISTS on prospects for DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY’: PM legal action against former Senators Sen. Larry Campbell weighs in. BY ABBAS RANA have not paid back $528,000 that Auditor A senior member General Michael Fergu- of the Senate’s power- son fl agged as misspent ful Internal Economy, money, on the grounds Budgets and Admin- that chances of success istration Committee is are less than 50 per cent, questioning the Senate’s given what happened decision to pursue legal in the Mike Duffy trial, action against seven and legal costs could former Senators who surpass what’s owed. Continued on page 26 NEWS POLITICAL FUNDRAISERS Wilson-Raybould’s fundraising activity Canadian John Ridsdel, right, was killed by the Abu Sayyaf, and Canadian Robert Hall, left, remains in captivity in the Philippines. CP offside on many reported last week that the RCMP is investigating the beheading of Mr. Ridsdel to bring his killers to Canadian justice. Image: BNO News/YouTube levels, say critics BY ABBAS RANA the names of dangerous re- areas, they should not expect ous, you are certainly taking gions around the world on Ca- any consular assistance, says matters into your own hands nstead of issuing travel nadian passports and it should a former Liberal MP. and there’s nothing that can Fundraiser attracts heat. Iadvisories online, the federal specifi cally state that if Cana- “If you travel to areas government should identify dians choose to travel to these that are known to be danger- Continued on page 13 BY DEREK ABMA Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) has been facing While political some intense criti- NEWS LOBBYING NEWS LEGISLATION pundits say there is a cism in recent weeks role for politicians in because of a $500-a- party fundraisers, they person Liberal Party Five-year ban on lobbying Budget, assisted-dying, also say the recent fundraiser on April 7 instance of Justice at the Toronto offi ce of excessive, say former RCMP labour bills to take Minister Jody Wilson- law fi rm Torys LLP, for Raybould serving as which the attendance the key attraction at an of Ms. Wilson-Raybould political Hill staffers precedence: LeBlanc exclusive, high-priced (Vancouver Granville, event at the offi ce of a B.C.) was presented as ‘It is a problem,’ says André Albanati. House could sit late nights: LeBlanc. prominent Toronto law the main draw. fi rm was inappropriate While the offi ce of BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT amend the Federal Account- BY ALLY FOSTER consecutive sitting sched- on many levels. Confl ict of Interest and ability Act, in particular to ule so far this year, and The government of Ethics Commissioner Former political staffers reduce the fi ve-year lobbying PARLIAMENT HILL—The Government House Leader Prime Minister Justin Mary Dawson has con- are encouraging the Liberal House is back this week for government to review and Continued on page 15 three weeks, the longest Continued on page 21 Continued on page 22 2 THE HILL TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 2, 2016 FEATURE BUZZ involved in another debate. And we now know what they’ll be arguing—the pros and New senior bureaucrat ON cons of heckling in the House of Commons. announced for HEARD THE HILL Indigenous Affairs BY DEREK ABMA The Prime Minister’s Offi ce announced last week that Diane Lafl eur will become an associate deputy minister at Indigenous and Northern Affairs as of May 9. She is currently an assistant deputy minis- ter at Finance Canada, specializing in federal- Anderson, provincial relations and social policy, a position she’s held since 2013. She has worked in a variety of senior roles at Finance since 1998. Greenspon to debate Ms. Lafl eur will fi ll a job vacated by Hé- lène Laurendeau, who earlier this month moved up the food chain to become deputy minister of Indigenous Affairs. media, democracy Such changes come at a busy time for this department, amid a suicide crisis in the northern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapiskat and a federal budget that at Travers Debates has put an extra $8.4-billion toward native Montreal lawyer Brian Mitchell is one of three issues over the next fi ve years. people who are so far running for president of the federal Conservative party. Photograph courtesy Trudeau government sure of Brian Mitchell likes that Barber guy Mr. Feschuk and Ms. Brosseau have been assigned to support the merits of allowing heckling from MPs being paid a minimum of $170,400 a year to discuss and decide the laws of this country, while Ms. Simpson and Mr. Cuzner will take the other side. The fourth annual Travers Debates are set for the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on the evening of Tuesday, May 17. Tickets cost $125 each and are on sale at Travers- Debates.ca. Money raised goes toward the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship, named after journalist James Travers who died in 2011. Conservatives have three candidates for president, so far Three people have so far put their names forward for the presidency of the Conservative Party of Canada, to be de- cided in early June. Michael Barber is again meeting with senior The candidates are Brian Mitchell, Kara members of the Canadian government. Johnson, and Louis Charles Fortier. As many Photograph courtesy of Michael Barber’s LinkedIn as four more candidates are expected to come forward, according to one party insider. In order for any of these candidates to be- Another cabinet retreat and the Prime come president, they must be elected to a seat Minister’s Offi ce has again delivered to on the party’s national council at the party’s ministers an appearance from British gov- convention at the end of this month, and all ernment guru Michael Barber. are running in contested regions. The newly Mr. Barber joined the Trudeau cabinet last elected national council is to elect the president week in Kananaskis, Alta., to talk up his phi- at its fi rst meeting, which is scheduled for the losophy of “deliverology.” He caught up with fi rst weekend after the convention. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and friends Mr. Mitchell, a Montreal lawyer, con- back in January as well, when cabinet was fi rmed to The Hill Times that he recently on retreat in Andrews-by-the-Sea, N.B. resigned his seat on the CBC/Radio-Can- Mr. Barber’s role is to stress to our leaders ada board of directors in order to run that it’s not enough just to know how to make for this party position. He had been on the pizza; you have to know how to deliver that the board for the last eight years, which pizza as well—and to the right address. he said he “thoroughly enjoyed,” but that Mr. Barber was a key player in the gov- Pictured top to bottom right to left, Bruce Anderson and Edward Greenspon are set to face off against “some people asked that I use my talents in ernment of former British prime minister each other in this year’s Travers Debates. The second debate that night will feature, Maclean’s Scott service of our party.” Tony Blair between 2001 and 2005, holding Feschuck, NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau, Katie Simpson, and Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner. The Hill Times Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Fortier are among the title of chief adviser on delivery. photograph by Jake Wright/photograph courtesy of Public Policy Forum and photographs courtesy of Travers Debates seven people competing for three positions He told reporters last week that the Lib- on the council to represent Quebec. Others eral government has shown “real progress” on governing in a deliverology-like way, he upcoming Travers Debates will fea- Mr. Greenspon will argue that this is are Marc-Olivier Fortin, Svetlana Litvin, with members of cabinet “thinking of ways ture Abacus Data chairman Bruce An- indeed a threat to democracy while Mr. An- Serge Marcotte, Jimmy Yu, and Richard Yufe. T they can help each other, challenges they derson and Public Policy Forum president derson will oppose this notion. Ms. Johnson is one of seven people face, and how to get this whole results-and- Edward Greenspon discussing whether the As previously reported in this space, Ma- looking for fi ll four spots on the council delivery agenda moving along.” current mainstream-media landscape that clean’s Scott Feschuk, former CTV reporter form Ontario. Others are Ghina Al-Sewaidi, is seeing scores of journalists laid off is a Katie Simpson, Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner, Cheryl Bannier, Jai Bhatti, Matthew John, Continued on page 35 threat to democracy itself. and NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau will be Joe Preston, and Matthijs Van Gaalen. Finding resolution outside of the courtroom. INFORMATION. ADVICE. GUIDANCE. 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