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Bruce Carson convicted Voters in Ottawa-Vanier of infl uence peddling on to head to the polls in April

appeal A date has been set for the upcoming heard On tHe hill byelection in Ottawa-Vanier. A former adviser to ex-prime minister Voters in the east-end riding will head by Marco Vigliotti Stephen Harper has had his acquittal on to the polls on April 3 to elect a new MP to an infl uence peddling charge reversed. replace the late Mauril Bélanger, who had In a split decision, the Ontario Court of held the seat since winning it in a 1995 bye- Appeal on Friday convicted Bruce Carson lection until his passing from amyotrophic of the offence, reversing the decision of the lateral sclerosis (ALS) last year. lower-level judge that acquitted him in the The Prime Minister’s Offi ce announced NDP leader meets fall of 2015, the Canadian Press reported. the scheduling of the vote on Sunday. The court left the sentencing decision for Federal legislation requires the writ for a the original trial judge at a later date. byelection to be dropped at most 180 days Mr. Carson, a senior adviser to Harper after a vacancy is notifi ed. up with senators from 2006 to 2008, and briefl y in 2009, was The riding is a long-time Liberal strong- charged after, according to testimony in his hold and has never elected an MP for an- trial, attempting to convince employees in other party since it was originally formed in the federal government to buy water-puri- 1935 as Ottawa-East. The name was changed legend while evading fi cation systems for First Nations commu- to Ottawa-Vanier for the 1974 election. nities from a company that employed his The Liberal candidate for the byelec- girlfriend at the time, Michele McPherson. tion is communications consultant Mona Mr. Carson had offered to make use his Fortier, while ex-federal Crown prosecutor mythical terror contacts in the federal government for Emilie Taman will look to bring the riding those purposes if the company, H2O Pros, into the NDP fold. offered a benefi t to Ms. McPherson, the Ms. Fortier has worked on several of Mr. Canadian Press reported. Mr. Carson pled Bélanger’s campaigns, and has served on attacks in sweden not guilty and denied doing business with the Shaw Centre Board of Directors, the the federal government. Provincial Advisory Committee on Franco- After a high-profi le case in Ottawa, phone Affairs, and the Montfort Hospital Superior Court Justice Bonnie Warkentin Board of Directors. found Carson not guilty of infl uence ped- Ms. Taman was the NDP’s candidate in dling, arguing that while he had admitted the 2015 federal election, where she secured to trying to convince government offi cials just under 20 per cent of the vote to fi nish with the former Indian and Northern Af- a distant second to Mr. Bélanger, who won fairs department and cabinet ministers to nearly 58 per cent of the votes cast. purchase the system, they couldn’t sway She is now a law professor at the Uni- First Nations bands to buy the equipment, versity of Ottawa. the Canadian Press reported. Meanwhile, the Conservatives are put- As such, there was “no government ting forward Hill staffer Adrian Papara, business” conducted, she ruled. who is currently the director of operations The crime of infl uence peddling re- for Tory MP Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, quires an individual or group to use real or Alta.), according to his LinkedIn page. presumed connections to obtain favourable The Green Party candidate is Nirmala Doo- treatment in a matter of business relating keran, a high school teacher who unsuccess- to the government. fully ran for the party in the riding in 2015. But in overturning the acquittal, the Byelections are also pending in Cal- Court of Appeal ruled that Mr. Carson had gary Heritage and Calgary Midnapore— indeed broken the law by attempting to in- last held by Conservative heavyweights fl uence the sale of water treatment systems Stephen Harper and Jason Kenney, for the benefi t of his then-girlfriend respectively—and in Markham-Thornhill, “It was understood that, in exchange, and Saint-Laurent. Those seats were held he would attempt to infl uence government by Liberal cabinet ministers John Mc- decisions,” Justice Gladys Pardu wrote for Callum and Stéphane Dion, respectively, the majority in the court’s ruling. until the two veteran MPs resigned last “The essence of the offence is accep- month to accept ambassadorial appoint- tance of a benefi t for exercise of infl uence.” ments. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Janet No dates have been set for any of the Simmons defended Justice Warkentin’s origi- remaining byelections. nal decision as a common-sense interpreta- NDP leader Thomas Mulcair meets up with Ottawa Senators legend Daniel Alfredsson in Sweden. tion of the law that correctly determined the Photo courtesy of the Twitter account of Thomas Mulcair prosecution failed to show how Mr. Carson’s PM announces changes to activities constituted law-breaking. Mr. Carson was fi ned $50,000 last fall the public service utgoing NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair after being convicted of three counts of Ois just as confused as the rest of us Senior Grit staff er joins lobbying while under the fi ve-year pro- The Prime Minister’s Offi ce on Friday about U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim hibition period for former senior federal announced several changes to the senior over the weekend of an ambiguous trag- public aff airs fi rm offi cials in a separate case. ranks of the federal public service. edy/tumult in Sweden. Gavin Liddy will leave his post as as- And he happened to be in the country at Veteran Liberal organizer Gabriela sociate deputy minister of Public Ser- the time. Gonzalez has joined public affairs agency Hill scribe releases new book vices and Procurement Canada (PSAC) to Mr. Mulcair (Outremont, Que.) was in Crestview Strategy as a consultant. become senior advisor to the Privy Council the Nordic country last week as part of a Ms. Gonzales, who spent the past four Freelance Hill reporter Dale Smith will Offi ce. He will be replaced at PSAC by Les state visit with Governor General David years working in Queen’s Park, most commemorate the release of his new book on Linklater, who currently serves as deputy Johnston, and, much like others in the recently as a senior communications and Canada’s political system with a launch party secretary to the cabinet, operations, with country, happily couldn’t verify the de- operations advisor to Ontario’s economic next month at a Metcalfe Street restaurant. the Privy Council Offi ce. bacle Mr. Trump hinted at during a rally in development and growth minister, will Mr. Smith will mark the release of his Conversely, Catrina Tapley, assistant Florida on Saturday. work out of the Crestview’s Toronto offi ce, book, The Unbroken Machine: Canada’s secretary to the cabinet, economic and Instead of tragedy, the NDP leader the fi rm announced in a statement. Democracy in Action, with an event on regional development policy, with the Privy caught a glimpse of a different sight al- Prior to working in the minister’s offi ce, March 7 at the recently opened Le Moulin Council Offi ce, will take over Mr. Linklat- together: Ottawa Senator’s all-time point Ms. Gonzales served as the Toronto re- de Provence Restaurant near the intersec- er’s old position. leader and local idol Daniel Alfredsson. gional advisor with the provincial Liberal tion of Queen Street and Metcalfe. The changes will go into effect on March 6. On Twitter, Mr. Mulcair wrote that it was Caucus Service Bureau. The book sets to explore the “critical Finally, Jonathan Fried, currently the “great to chat and skate” with Mr. Alfreds- She also worked for Premier Kathleen gaps” in public knowledge of Canada’s ambassador and permanent representative son in Sweden, and that he was “happy Wynne in her role as minister of agricul- political system, and show how our demo- of Canada to the World Trade Organization to report,” in tongue-and-cheek fashion, ture and food, and for Minister of Rural cratic system should work if we were to in Geneva, will become coordinator of in- that no one had dropped their gloves to Affairs Jeff Leal. engage it with it as intended. It will be ternational economic relations with Global brawl just yet. Ms. Wynne assumed the ministerial port- available for sale at the event. Affairs Canada on April 18. Mr. Trump caused international be- folio in addition to her premier duties from Mr. Smith has been a member of the In the new position, Mr. Fried will sup- fuddlement when he warned during his 2013 to 2014, while Mr. Leal served exclu- Parliamentary Press Gallery since 2008, port the ministers and deputy ministers of Florida rally over the weekend to look at sively as the rural affairs minister during the and primarily contributes to news service foreign affairs and of international trade, what had happened the previous night span before he was handed the responsibili- Reuters and The Law Times, and writes a according to the PMO. in Sweden, while discussing the need for ties for agriculture and food in 2014. weekly column for website LooniePolitics. In other public service news, associate stricter immigration policies. He later clari- According to her LinkedIn page, Ms. com. He’s also a frequent op-ed contributor deputy minister of national defence John fi ed that he was referring to a segment on Gonzalez spent eight months in 2010 and to the National Post, and has previously Turner has retired. a news program that recently aired about 2011 working as a constituency assistant written for The Hill Times. [email protected] the issues with migrants in the country. and outreach coordinator for an MP. His book is set to go on sale in March. The Hill Times T:10.375” T:13.5”

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It’s still unclear why Vice-Chief of Defence Staff Military vice-chief’s Vice-Admiral Mark Norman has been temporarily removed from his duties, silence could signal he with the Department of National Defence remaining tight- lipped. The Hill Times sees future with forces photograph by Sam Garcia

regarded,” with the dozen or so personnel, and reporters, which he after suspension: analyst people he knows who have worked found strange as Vice-Admiral Nor- for him all having “very compli- man was extended an invitation to mentary things to say about him.” attend by one of the attachés. Questions persist things, at least set the story straight.” strategy. Vice-Admiral Norman “I have never heard anyone “It was the elephant in the Vice-Admiral Norman was was previously commander of the say anything negative about him,” room,” he said. about why the popular, temporarily relieved of his senior Canadian Navy. he said. When reached separately by military position in mid-January in The multibillion-dollar shipbuild- When reached for comment, The Hill Times for their reaction ‘straight shooter’ Vice- an announcement that surprised ing program was announced in National Defence said it had no to the news, a handful of foreign many in the defence community. 2011 as part of an effort to develop additional information to provide defence attachés politely refused Admiral Mark Norman The Department of National a sustainable domestic shipbuild- beyond what the chief of defence to comment because of their Defence did not at the time elabo- ing industry and re-equip Canada’s staff, General Jonathan Vance, had unfamiliarity with the situation, was temporarily rate on the reason for Vice-Admiral navy and coast guard. The contracts already said with regard to releasing saying only that news of the sus- removed from duty Norman’s departure, nor has for the next fleet of combat and no details due to privacy concerns. pension came as a total shock. it done so since, citing “privacy non-combat ships were awarded to Gen. Vance last week at a military Several defence industry lobby- more than a month ago. considerations.” Navy Commander Irving Shipbuilding in Halifax and conference in Ottawa said the day ists and ex-military personnel also Vice-Admiral Ron Lloyd has as- Vancouver’s Seaspan, respectively. he decided to remove his vice-chief refused comment, explaining that sumed the responsibilities of vice- The shipyards have been sprucing from duties was “one of the hardest they were not familiar with the rea- By Marco Vigliotti chief of defence staff in the interim. up their operations to be able to days of my career,” according to the son the vice-chief was suspended. When pressed for details, De- build the new vessels. CBC. He called it “the right thing to Mr. Perry said he doesn’t uspended vice-chief of defence fence Minister Harjit Sajjan (Van- Mr. Taylor, who’s also a The do,” and stressed that Vice-Admiral believe many truly know the Sstaff Vice-Admiral Mark Nor- couver South, B.C.) told reporters Hill Times columnist, said Vice- Norman “is owed the decency of reason for the departure besides man’s persisting silence in the that the removal was not related Admiral Norman has a reputation silence until you know the facts.” the chief of defence staff, defence face of speculation as to why he’s to national security, though re- of being a “total straight shooter,” Rear-Admiral John New- minister, prime minister, and Vice- been removed from duty suggests fused to elaborate further. and the rumours circulating about ton, commander of Maritime Admiral Norman himself. he’s holding out hope of being Vice-Admiral Norman has the reason for his suspension Forces Atlantic, told the Halifax “My sense is that there’s a very reinstated to the second-highest not commented publicly on his “don’t fit” with the person he and Chronicle Herald on the weekend small list of people who know post in the Canadian Armed removal. He did not respond to others had come to know. that Vice-Admiral Norman “de- what’s going on, and they, at least Forces, according to veteran mili- an email from The Hill Times last “It has to be something serious, serves privacy while the allega- publicly, have all said they can’t tary journalist Scott Taylor. week to his government account. but at the same time, no one knows tions are investigated.” talk about it,” he said in an inter- “He’s obviously respecting the He has not been charged with any what it is, and yet none of those Other members of the defence view. “Pretty much everything else decision, and respecting the chain of wrongdoing. things that it could be would seem community have also been hesi- that has been said is speculative.” command, which would imply that With no word from official to match with the character that we tant about commenting publicly or If the matter related to any he thinks he’s still coming back or channels, there have been un- all thought we knew,” he said. privately on his removal, citing the potential concerns on the part of that he can recover from this,” said confirmed media reports citing Dave Perry, a senior analyst absence of credible information. Canadian allies, including nations Mr. Taylor, editor and publisher of unnamed sources saying that the with the Canadian Global Affairs Mr. Taylor said that no one in NATO, they would have most Esprit de Corps magazine, which reason for the admiral’s remov- Institute, a think tank that special- even broached the subject during likely been notified by the govern- focuses on military issues. al is related to an alleged leak of izes in defence and foreign affairs a recent charity hockey game he ment, he added. “Otherwise, it’d be in his best commercial data pertaining to policy, described the admiral as organized featuring foreign de- [email protected] interest to at least give his side of the government’s shipbuilding someone who is “extremely highly fence attachés, Canadian military The Hill Times Ex-diplomats, opposition baffled by Dion appointment

spot as foreign minister. Mr. Dion Canada’s attitude towards the rest eign affairs critic, said Mr. Dion’s Mr. Kent said he’s also heard One ex-Canadian also resigned as an MP. of the bloc: “Are the [rest] chopped knowledge of the top players with- “echoes” that foreign service pro- Mr. Dion in Europe will work liver?” he wrote in an email. in the EU and Germany through fessionals “are not very pleased” ambassador to the EU on “ensuring coherence across the Dan Costello is the current his recent ministerial work might with the dual appointment. Politi- says it’s ‘more than a activities of Canadian missions ambassador to the EU, and has been give him an edge that a normal cal appointments to abroad have and providing strategic guidance in that position since the fall of 2015. public servant wouldn’t have. long been a touchy subject for full-time job,’ on its to the prime minister,” read the Marie Gervais-Vidricaire is Canada’s However, Mr. Kent was also foreign service professionals, who PMO statement. He will spend his ambassador to Germany, appointed skeptical of the reasoning for the spend their entire careers prepar- own. The government time in both Brussels, the EU to the job in August 2013. posting. “If there is a logic to this ing for those same posts. nerve centre, and Berlin. Austin Jean, a spokesperson twin diplomatic posting to Europe, I Michael Kologie, who is presi- declined to respond Mr. Kinsman said he can “as- for Global Affairs Canada, said don’t see it, and the prime minister dent of Professional Association of sure you” being ambassador to “certain specifics and logistical has yet to explain it. I think in the Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO) to criticisms. the EU “is more than a full-time details remain to be determined” terms of Canada’s diplomatic his- diplomats union, said in an email job,” one which is “being superbly when asked where the current tory, it diminishes, or would seem to that “career-diplomats are almost Continued from page 1 done by a professional now.” And ambassadors would go next. Mr. diminish, Canada’s respect for both always the most qualified and he said Germany is such a “decen- Dion’s appointment has yet to be Brussels and Berlin,” he said. experienced candidates for heads Mr. Kinsman was in the foreign tralized” country that any am- confirmed by the EU and Germa- The office of Parliamen- of mission assignments.” service for 40 years, and served bassador there has to do a lot of ny. Mr. Jean said the government tary Secretary Matt DeCourcey But, he said, “In this case, both as Canada’s high commissioner travelling around the country, and is awaiting their responses. (Fredericton, N.B.), referred Mr. Dion and Mr. McCallum, to the United Kingdom and as should be living there full time. Typically, when a new ambassa- a request for comment to the having served as the ministers ambassador to the EU. Ms. Kinsman also said that in dor is announced, an agrément has department. Mr. Jean said the for Global Affairs Canada and Former diplomat Colin Robert- the era of United States President already been reached between the government could not provide a Immigration, Refugees, and Citi- son said “it will be impossible to Donald Trump, who has openly host country and the sending coun- response to the criticisms. zenship Canada respectively, are do justice to both EU and Germa- celebrated Brexit, “the EU is now try. In this case, Mr. Trudeau pub- Slovenian Ambassador Marjan experienced and well positioned to ny with one ambassador, no mat- on the defensive, under pressure.” licly proposed Mr. Dion as ambas- Cencen, who represents an EU serve as Canada’s heads of mission ter how skilled and competent.” So, he said, the “’other North sador to both places before securing member state, said he is not in abroad.” He added that Canada’s In a statement announcing the American’ country proposes to the okay from officials there, which a position to comment on these foreign service officers always appointment Jan. 31, the Prime downgrade its representation to a is a minor diplomatic faux pas. decisions. “This is a legitimate provide advice and support to all of Minister’s Office referred to Mr. part-time ambassador. How does At the time of the email ex- decision of Canada.” Canada’s heads of mission. Dion as becoming the “senior Ca- that look? To the Europeans in change with Mr. Jean, Mr. Dion “We are glad that such an Mr. Kinsman suggested the dual nadian diplomat in Europe.” The worried touch with me, it has come was with the Canadian delegation experienced diplomat is coming to posting appears to be precedent- move came after weeks of specula- across like ‘a lead balloon,’” he said. visiting the EU Parliament and Europe; that’s all I can say,” he said. setting for Canada. “No G7 country tion on Mr. Dion’s next move after While Mr. Kinsman said Ger- Germany last week. “He will be Germany’s ambassador to Can- has ever split an appointment with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau many is the most important player posted in the near future,” he said. ada, Werner Wnendt, was travelling another G7 country,” he said. (Papineau, Que.) removed him ear- in the EU, Mr. Robertson said the Conservative MP Peter Kent outside the country and unavailable [email protected] lier in the month from his cabinet appointment raises questions about (Thornhill, Ont.), his party’s for- for comment this past week. @chels_nash To kick off Canada’s 150th anniversary, a special Confederation Train will travel from Montréal to Ottawa on May 31, 2017. It will be transporting a Prince Edward Island troupe of young actors that will be playing the roles of the Fathers of Confederation at various events in the Capital Region from May 31 to June 4, 2017. Come join the festivities as the train rolls into Ottawa Station, and let the celebrations begin.

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Without a doubt, the prime can polarize minister’s social media presence is one that’s been honed to near- perfection. While his Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook pages are voters and obviously curated by staff, with well thought-out captions to pho- tos, and posts always seamlessly appearing in both official lan- guages, his followers don’t expect over-simplify the prime minister to have time to personally update them. The team behind his social presence knows what they’re doing. The dissemina- tion of an Instagram photo of Mr. issues Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) greeting a newly-arrived Syrian refugee at To be effective, politicians should strive for Toronto Pearson Airport was an Selfies have become the modern day autograph, says Mark Blevis, and no one instant “shareable” moment, Mr. does more of them than Justin Trudeau, the ‘selfie prime minister.’The Hill Times authenticity, and avoid canned posts. Delacourt said. “And in many re- photograph by Jake Wright spects, of course there was a level of authenticity there, because we Mr. Blevis said Mr. Clement’s By Chelsea Nash “It used to be that when all knew this wasn’t staged, this 4. Michelle Rempel style on Twitter “is interactive.” you worked in politics you was something that occurred in Twitter: @MichelleRempel “Most MPs, 80 per cent of their he effective use of social tried to reach the squishy real time.” Facebook: @michellerempelmp content would be communications. Tmedia may at one time middle, people who were Instagram: @michellerempel Regular tweets like, ‘look at me, look have given a politician an edge pragmatic about issues,” he 2. Rona Ambrose at me, look at me.’ They’ll retweet over their opponent. But in said. Now, he said there’s Ms. Rempel is as fiery on Twitter and they’ll almost not reply at all. a world where the President quite a bit of “shoot first, ask Twitter: @RonaAmbrose Facebook: @ronaambrose as she is in Question Period. She is an The average MP reply rate is 5 per of the United States Donald questions later” strategy going entertaining politician to follow, since cent. He has about a 40 per cent Trump uses 140-character around on social media. Instagram: @ronaambrose Snapchat: rona.ambrose she doesn’t shy away from a good de- reply rate. He was looking for ques- Tweets to address and an- “They’re doing what Donald bate. “I think people engage and find tions to answer,” Mr. Blevis said. nounce policy issues, and Trump does,” he said, in that After the last election, in the content more useful to them when Justin Trudeau is known as the they put something out that it’s an authentic reflection of the ‘selfie prime minister,’ hav- might enrage most people, but which the Liberals used social 7. Niki Ashton media to their advantage to person,” she said. “There’s a flavour of ing at least a bare minimum caters to their base. me. It’s not a cardboard cutout.” Twitter: @nikiashton presence on social media has “You put out the idea, you encourage the youth vote, the Facebook: @MPNikiAshton practically become a prerequi- may or may not have to apolo- official leader of the opposition 5. Naheed Nenshi Instagram: @nikiashtonmp site in politics. gize,” he said. “The only people knew she had to step up her Twitter: @nenshi “It’s part of our job. That’s who are going to care about the game if she was to keep pace. Every person The Hill Times Facebook: @NaheedNenshi how people communicate,” apology is the opponents.” “Behind the scenes” videos of spoke to pointed to Ms. Ashton Instagram: @nenshi says Twitter aficionado and John Delacourt, a former Ms. Ambrose show her clapping, as one of the best users of social Conservative MP Michelle director of communications laughing, and clapping some media. Mr. Blevis said Ms. Ashton Speaking of Ms. Rempel’s debates, Rempel (Calgary-Nose Hill, for the Liberal Party who now more as she prepares to deliver knows how to use different plat- Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi was Alta.) “You’d be leaving out works at Ensight, said on Face- weekly video updates to her forms for different purposes. one of the latest to get into a sparring a whole cross section of your book and Instagram, “authentic- followers. And arguably, one of “It’s not just about having match with the Calgary Nose Hill MP. community” if you weren’t on it, ity rules.” the best #cdnpoli mannequin popular tools like Facebook, Twit- But dramatic arguments aside, Mr. she said. “There is nothing that just challenges was done by Ms. ter, Youtube, it’s knowing which Nenshi is a good example of knowing Ms. Rempel said she’s used becomes wallpaper quicker Ambrose and her team, showing ones to use, and how,” he said. your brand and staying authentic. It’s various social media platforms than a clip or a shareable that the full official opposition Otherwise, if people follow one of the reasons he was able to get to hear from her constituents is just an MP at a podium office standing still as if turned you on more than one platform, into it with Ms. Rempel in the first on various issues, including delivering an award or to statues. The “mannequin they are getting the same message place. In all likelihood, staff-managed crowd-sourcing opinions on delivering a speech. It looks challenge” is a social media craze blasted to them over and over. accounts don’t get into arguments on M-103, the Liberals’ anti-Is- canned,” he said. What does of filming a room full of people In an interview with Mr. Blevis Twitter. lamophobia motion, which she work well are live videos as frozen in position that took the for his podcast, Ms. Ashton told voted against. direct addresses, or live videos world by storm last year. him that within First Nations com- “It’s given people platforms featuring constituents, because 6. Tony Clement munities, Facebook is very impor- and it’s become a very interest- “in a short video you create a 3. Jagmeet Singh Twitter: @TonyclementCPC tant for staying in touch over long ing [way] to exchange ideas, short narrative,” he said. And, Twitter: @theJagmeetSingh Facebook: @tonyclementpsm distances. So, she uses Facebook but I think it’s also forced us on social media, it all comes Facebook: @jagmeetndp Instagram: @tonyclementcpc specifically for listening to First to sensationalize content,” she down to the story you’re Instagram: @jagmeetsingh Snapchat: tonyclementcpc Nations communities in her riding. said. “You’re looking for that telling, and the brand you’re Snapchat: jagmeetsingh However, one downfall of Ms. 140 characters. Donald Trump delivering, Mr. Delacourt said. For the avid #cdnpoli follower, Ashton’s social media strategy is is a good example of that,” in Mr. Delacourt said one of In the Ontario NDP, Mr. Mr. Clement (Parry Sound-Mus- her use of two separate Instagram that he simplifies “complex the most useful platforms for Singh is making waves as an koka, Ont.) provides a nice depth for accounts. One was created only policy actions.” politicians is Instagram. “Ins- up-and-comer whom we might his audience. Photos and posts often recently, which Mr. Blevis speculated In Canada, and the United tagram has a great deal of po- see a whole lot more of if he come from his point of view, like an could be because she is planning States, Ms. Rempel, who is the tential, and as a way of taking decides to enter the federal NDP Instagram of his guitar, or the snow on creating a more curated image immigration critic for her party, a piece that you do from one leadership race. Mr. Singh was outside his Huntsville home, instead before announcing her run for the said putting immigration policy platform to another,” he said. It recently profiled in GQ Magazine, of a collection of photographs of leadership of the NDP. However, upon “down to 140 character sound- also appeals to younger voters, thanks in large part to his avid him at different events. But, the looking at both Instagram accounts, bite” can be detrimental. who might not be as engaged social media use. Mr. Singh most entertaining part about fol- Mr. Blevis said there was no reason “I’m not sure it’s been the on Facebook or Twitter. updates his followers constantly lowing Mr. Clement is his use of for the two of them to be separated. best thing for public policy,” she The Hill Times took a look on his Snapchat and Instagram Snapchat filters, which add different The content could be merged into said. at the Canadian politicians who accounts. Follow him to get a features to one’s selfie, such as dog one account, and her followers would Mark Blevis, a digital public are leading the way in social glimpse of the life of a polished ears, or a flower crown. Mr. Clement hardly know the difference. affairs specialist with Full media use. While some of them and trendy politician, including said he prefers the thematic ones, [email protected] Duplex, said social media is are better on some platforms selfies, protest photos, and video such as the pizza-slice face for Na- @chels_nash definitely changing the way than others, they all have a messages on issues he cares tional Pizza Day, and the Hello Kitty See more hilltimes.com for politicians seek out support. unique strength. about. one for Valentine’s Day. more politicians you should follow.

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E ditorial Letters to the Editor Conservatives risk losing No consensus on electoral reform? Prove it rime Minister Justin Trudeau, you Psay there is no consensus on demo- their war to win a battle cratic reform. How do you know? Are we to take your word on that? You must here are no doubt many bread-and- Harper ran a government that, on the whole, have thought there was some level of Tbutter Conservative voters who care embraced new Canadians and minority consensus when you made it a campaign little about the rhetoric flying back and Canadians. He even dispatched lieutenant promise? Is that not the whole point of forth over Liberal MP Iqra Khalid’s Mo- Jason Kenney to win over cultural minority the move to proportional representation: tion 103, denouncing Islamophobia. Lower communities to the party, with some success. to get closer to consensus? taxes, smaller government, a strong crimi- Then the party, after nine years in gov- How much consensus-making did you nal justice system—those are ballot-box ernment, began to struggle in the closing do before treating your new minister as if issues for many of the party’s core voters. days of the 2015 election campaign, and she were a flunky and removing the issue But they should care about the debate Mr. Harper forgot about those principles from the mandate of her ministry? People on Parliament Hill on Feb. 11 around M-103, for the same reasons they and rolled out a pledge to set up a “bar- Do you have a consensus to end public protest Justin Trudeau’s decision to break should pay attention to the talk from some baric cultural practices” hotline, an act of discussion on this election promise? his electoral reform promise. The Hill Times of the loudest voices in and around the Con- desperation widely seen as a dog whistle Wouldn’t it be more honest to just say, photograph by Andrew Meade servative Party of Canada about screening to a certain type of voter. ‘Now that I’m elected, I don’t want to talk for Canadian values, or where and when Those voters clearly don’t decide elec- about proportional representation’? Gordon and Jean Bell Canadian women can wear a niqab. tions, but new Canadians and visible minori- Please live up to your ‘honourable’ title. Gabriola Island, B.C. The substance of those suggestions ties—those who may not appreciate the hot- may well have merit to some, but the tone line idea or Mr. Harper’s campaign reference of the debate has been unmistakable and to “old-stock Canadians”—just might. intentional: some Conservatives are court- There are 33 ridings in Canada where ing support from those who don’t share visible minorities make up a majority of More questions on electoral reform the party’s core values of, according to its the population; the Conservatives won constitution, “a belief in the equality of all two of them in 2015, the Liberals, 29. ould we have a Rhinoceros Party ma- with a larger ballot with a spot where a voter Canadians,” freedom of worship, and the After the defeat of 2015, hands were Cjority government with the first-past- could indicate a second choice when there are building of a coalition of conservatives wrung, tears even shed—in the case of the-post voting system? three candidates or more on the ballot? “who reflect the regional, cultural, and Kellie Leitch—by Conservatives over the And should we, then, have a serious voting Marc Williams socio-economic diversity of Canada.” barbaric cultural practices hotline prom- system with run-off elections like in France, or Montreal, Que. One need look no further than the ise. The party brass saw its mistake. disgusting and disturbing comments Until the election of Donald Trump, directed towards Ms. Khalid to see whose and the wave of anti-Muslim and anti- ears are perking up from the latest dog- “other” sentiment that burst online along whistle tactics, including exaggerating the way. Several enterprising Conserva- Shades of Trump in Bernier’s foreign and misleading Canadians over the con- tive leadership candidates clearly took sequences of M-103. note, and many in and around the party aid policy, reader suggests What does this have to do with moder- are climbing onto the bandwagon again. ate, run-of-the-mill Conservative Party It was a mistake before, and it’s a supporters? For starters, they want to win. mistake now. The Conservative Party of hy is it that international aid, much to help develop other countries’ econo- And that sort of rhetoric is not going to Canada, and those who speak from its Wlike music in the schools, is one of mies. We will phase out these develop- help a big-tent party win majority govern- platform, can alienate various sorts of the first things to go when the budget gets ment aids for which there is no moral or ments in Canada. “new stock” Canadians, or they can try to tight? economic efficiency argument.” Under Stephen Harper, the Conservative win majority governments. They can’t do Regarding foreign aid, Conservative That statement has a familiar ring Party knew this, right up until it didn’t. Mr. both. leadership candidate Maxime Bernier has to it, almost like “from now on, it will be said: “Canada has to show solidarity and Canada first, only Canada first.” do its part...however, every year we spend Hmm, not sure that I like that. millions of dollars funding job training, Connie Lebeau technology and infrastructure programs Victoria, B.C.

Do as committees recommend and boost aid budget

he key metric that measures the level Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Tof a government’s assistance to devel- As Julia Sanchez of the Canadian oping countries, official development as- Council for International Co-operation sistance (ODA), was set at a target of 0.7 pointed out last month, the House Foreign per cent of gross national income (GNI) Affairs and International Development by the OECD. Committee and the House Finance Com- According to the report Assess- mittee agreed that the government should ing Canada’s Global Engagement Gap, increase ODA spending to 0.35 per cent Canada averaged between 0.44 per cent over the next three years. and 0.47 per cent of ODA spending for Why doesn’t Prime Minister Trudeau 25 years, beginning with Prime Minister increase Canada’s ODA spending to an Pierre Trudeau in 1968. This reasonable honourable level, as recommended by his level ended with Jean Chrétien’s govern- own party and begun by his father nearly ment, which slashed spending to an aver- 50 years ago, in this year’s budget? age of 0.31 per cent, a level that threatens Marc Aubertin to drop to an abysmal 0.26 per cent under Ottawa, Ont.

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even the most outrageous of his NATO partners paying an equal guarantees an increase in actual and peacekeeping missions, often By his logic, we’ll election promises. share towards the alliance’s defence capability. While it may placing our troops in the most Within a week of his inaugu- collective defence. That magical seem that Canada is a shirker dangerous environments. be a better NATO ration, he had issued an execu- number is the already existing in ponying up for defence,th we During our deployment to tive order in an attempt to block and agreed-to NATO objective are currently the 17 biggest Afghanistan, for instance, Canada member if we keep entry to the U.S. for all citizens that member states must spend spender in terms of total military spent six years based in the our soldiers at home, of seven predominantly Muslim two per cent of their GDP (gross budgets, by country. volatile Kandahar sector, and as a countries. Although this edict domestic product) on defence. In terms of military budget result suffered one of the highest double salaries, and was subsequently overturned by This is a fi gure that the Cana- as a percentage of national GDP, ratios of casualties per capita of what Trump labelled a “so-called” dian military booster clubs and Saudi Arabia allocates an aston- all the allies in theatre. buy high-tech arms judge in the Federal District Court cheerleaders have long pointed to ishing 13.7 per cent to defence. According to the Trump two-per- in Seattle and by judges in the when lobbying successive Liberal Broken down in spending per cent-of-GDP theory, we would have we’ll never use. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Conservative governments capita, the Saudis actually spend been a better NATO member if we the president has vowed to issue to increase the defence budget. the most in the world— nearly 3.5 had kept our soldiers at home, dou- a similar executive order to ban To put this in perspective, Canada times what the U.S. spends per bled their salaries, and purchased an entry for Muslims. currently spends around $20-bil- person—and yet Saudi Arabia arsenal of high-tech weaponry that No ground has been broken lion on the military and that may not be even considered a we will never employ. yet in its construction, but Trump equates to less than one per cent regional military powerhouse. If spending an arbitrary is equally adamant that he will of our GDP. To get to the Trump/ I maintain the opinion that percentage of a nation’s GDP on build a southern border wall and NATO goal of two per cent, we the Canadian Armed Forces are defence simply for the sake of make the Mexicans pay for it. would need to fi nd an additional not among the best in the world, spending that percentage is the For Canadians, it would seem $21-billion per year, approximate- they are the best in the world. goal, then NATO should simply that our place as a favoured trading ly, from the federal coffers. There may be militaries that fi eld bring Saudi Arabia into the alli- partner will remain, even if Trump you do not need to be an econo- more state-of-the-art weapons ance to balance the books. scott taylor pushes forward with a renegotiated mist to realize that this represents and technology, but when you However, if it is demonstrable Inside Defence North American Free Trade Agree- a heck of a lot of funds being factor in the training, discipline, military effi ciency and willing- ment. Where we do need to be drawn from potential health-care, experience, and ethos of our ness to commit our forces that concerned, however, is on the issue education, and infrastructure bud- professional soldiers, they stand Trump/NATO really want in a TTAWA—Now that United of our defence spending. gets in exchange for more weapons second to no one. partner, then we are already do- OStates President Donald The Trump administration, and uniformed personnel. Despite our natural isolation by ing more than our share. Trump has fully assumed the including Secretary of Defense Then there is the fact that the virtue of geography, Canada has Scott Taylor is editor and pub- reins of offi ce, it appears that he General (ret’d) James “Mad Dog” two per cent of GDP is simply an also been quick to deploy our mili- lisher of Esprit de Corps magazine. remains intent on implementing Mattis, is sticking to its guns on arbitrary number that in no way tary resources to far-fl ung confl icts The Hill Times

Ontario Premier Kathleen Want to stop populism? Try Wynne is expected to launch a pilot program to universal basic income test universal basic income is that it can “bring the jobs back.” minute walk from my house, and this year in Automation is a It doesn’t even admit where they I’m in there almost every day to the province. really went. pick up something or other. Over The Hill Times bigger threat to jobs Indeed, in the 2016 presi- the years I have got to know most photograph by dential campaign in the United of the people at the check-out Jake Wright than outsourcing States, neither candidate ever counters, at least enough to chat a overseas. mentioned the ghost at the feast. bit. And now the familiar faces are Donald Trump promised to bring disappearing, one or more every the jobs back from the foreign month, to be replaced by automat- countries that had apparently ed self-checkout stations. It is also dawning on the own- come from ending all existing stolen them, mainly by ending And don’t be fooled by the ers and chief executive offi cers of government social payments: if free trade, while Hillary Clinton fantasy that computers create major enterprises that if half the you are getting UBI, you don’t need promised “a full-employment equal numbers of new jobs when population are impoverished by unemployment pay or an old-age economy, where everyone has a they destroy old ones. When you long-term unemployment, they will pension. But heavy taxes on fi nan- job that pays enough to raise a lose your secure, well-paid job to not be able to buy the goods and cial services and on automated fac- family and live in dignity.” Neither a machine, you may end up with a services that the capitalist econo- tories and services would certainly of them mentioned automation. minimum-wage McJob if you are mies produce. That could lead to be needed as well. This is curious, because the lucky, but you are just as likely to the collapse of their whole business The biggest question is how gwynne Dyer great killer of jobs throughout the end up with no job at all. model, so the right wing is now many people would still choose to developed world for the past two It is the anger of millions of starting to look into UBI too. work if everybody was getting the Global A airs decades has been automation: people in this situation that broke The principle of universal universal basic income. If 47 per computer-controlled machines normal voting patterns and provided basic income is that every citizen cent of today’s remaining jobs are ONDON, U.K.—There’s a new replacing human workers. the extra votes that gave the Brexit gets a basic income that al- being done by automated ma- Lidea that might be the solu- Hundreds of thousand of ATMs campaign victory in last June’s lows them to maintain a decent chines in 20 years’ time, then 53 tion to runaway populism. Well, (automated teller machines) have referendum in Britain and made standard of living, whether they per cent of today’s jobs will still it’s not that new, really—it has replaced hundreds of thousands of Donald Trump president in the U.S. are employed or not. They may need to be done by people. been kicking around in left-wing human bank tellers. Seven million election in November. As automation also choose to work in order raise Finding the answer to that circles for a least a quarter-cen- industrial jobs in the United States continues to spread, the anger (and that standard of living, and that question is one of the main pur- tury—but it has suddenly gone have been eliminated in the past 35 the reckless lies of populist politi- income would be taxed (probably poses of the new pilot programs. mainstream. It’s called universal years in large part due to automa- cians) will only get worse. quite heavily), but it would still be They are getting underway this basic income (UBI), and pilot pro- tion, while factory production has The estimated impact of au- possible to get rich. This is about year in Canada (in Ontario), in grams to see if it really works in actually doubled. And the self-driv- tomation over the next 20 years saving capitalism, not ending it. the city of Utrecht in the Nether- practice are being launched this ing cars that are now being road- includes the loss of 47 per cent Why do it this way, rather than lands, and in Finland. Others are year in four different countries. tested will eventually destroy most of all existing jobs in the United just giving the unemployed some being considered in Scotland and It’s populism that gave us of the 4.5 million driving jobs—long- States, 57 per cent in Europe, money? Because that is humiliat- in Italy. Something big may be Brexit in Britain and President distance trucks, taxis, and delivery and a stunning 77 per cent of ing for them, and the humiliation starting to happen. Donald Trump in the United vans—in the United States. manufacturing jobs in China. That feeds the anger. If everybody gets Gwynne Dyer is a United States. It could soon give us Presi- I can watch what automation is could mean a lot more anger, a lot it, there is no shame in taking it. Kingdom-based independent dent Marine Le Pen in France. But doing in my own neighbourhood. more populism, and conceivably Where would the money to journalist. the fundamental lie of populism There’s a big supermarket a fi ve- even the collapse of democracy. fund UBI come from? Part would The Hill Times 10 WEDNESDAy, FEBRUARy 22, 2017 | THE HILL TIMES comment Trump’s antics no cause for schadenfreude

lying repeatedly and accusing oth- Between earlier revelations Donald Trump is not an im- a mission to make themselves, If Donald Trump ers of dishonesty, tried to rewrite of Russian hacking and an orgy becile and, as he made a point of their boss, and the country look keeps fuelling chaos, history by deleting Jews from the of Putin-fawning so brazen on making a point of for 14 seasons dishonest, incompetent, and Holocaust, trivialized the epically Trump’s part that it spawned a on The Apprentice, he doesn’t frightening. people might start to intractable Middle East peace pro- cavalcade of late-night bromance hire imbeciles. He knows how to Trump’s regular Saturday cess by shrugging it off as a coin jokes, an iconic Lithuanian mural spend a day at the offi ce without sideshow last weekend was un- wonder why. toss, and re-cast the media as the of the two men making out, and generating panic, shock, and dis- leashed by his cryptic comment “enemy of the...[p]eople” in order to Beck Bennett’s shirtless Putin- gust. He also knows the value of at a Florida rally about “what’s portray himself as the champion of Trump Svengali on SNL, it now a brand, and that “president of the happening last night in Sweden” a public he insults and disrespects. appears that an American election United States” is one of the most (sic), where nothing scarier had After weeks of scenery-chewing campaign so relentlessly disheart- enduring and valuable brands in happened than a horse named operatics even by the standards ening and demoralizing that it the world, complete with rituals, Biscuit being rescued from a well. of the reality-television culture seemed like a democracy-discred- behavioural norms, and standards While it inspired some excellent that disgorged him into this role, iting intelligence operation may to maintain on an hourly basis #lastnightinsweden and #jesu- Donald Trump last week took his have actually been a democracy- that were left perfectly intact at isIKEA Trump-related comedy, systematic degradation of the of- discrediting intelligence operation. least by his immediate predeces- it was also illustrative of the fi ce of the presidency to a new level This is of concern to Canada sor if not by all of them. president’s fear-mongering and by behaving during a rambling, not just because of the hourly At a certain point, if he projection habits. “They’re having lisa Van Dusen ridiculous, and nasty 77-minute content updates feeding the trope keeps using iconic White House problems like they never thought What Fresh Hell White House news conference in a that “America has a crazy presi- backdrops and customs to make possible,” he said of the Swedes. way that would have seen a foreign dent,” but because of how this America look belligerent and No, Mr. Trump, that’s not the leader forcibly removed. political and governance disaster cheap and democracy look Swedes. That’s the Americans. ONTREAL—Does the fact The news conference was held developed. The unbelievable nar- deeply undesirable, people might Lisa Van Dusen, associate Mthat something happens in the day after Trump and his staff rative that propelled a candidate start to wonder why he’s doing it. editor of Policy Magazine, was the White House, just by sheer spent a day dodging incoming fi re who shamelessly presented If he and his staff keep hijack- a Washington columnist for The dint of location, normalize it? over the New York Times story himself as empirically unelectable ing the news cycle with the daily Ottawa Citizen, Washington In the fi rst 30 days of the previ- that campaign aides had “repeated by normal standards but won diversionary gambit of fuel- bureau chief for Sun Media, and ously unimaginable (now we know contacts” with Russian nationals anyway into the most powerful ling chaos, denying chaos, then international news writer for why) Trump administration, the known to U.S. intelligence not just offi ce in the world isn’t cause for blaming the media for accurately Peter Jennings at ABC World new president of the United States during the transition but during the schadenfreude, it’s an interna- covering the chaos, people might News Tonight, as well as an editor has, among other violations of 2016 election campaign—a story tional crisis whose security impli- start wondering why they’re the at AP in New York and UPI in convention, precedent, and taste, the White House has denied and cations can’t be reasoned away by fi rst political operation in Ameri- Washington. attempted to redefi ne truth by the Times stands by. populism or anti-globalization. can history apparently driven by The Hill Times

come slowly, but political timetables are never predictable. In this regard, Cubans are Treading water in the Caribbean hoping historic steps by Barack Obama and Raul Castro to de- escalate the standoff between Cubans struggle Havana’s Havana and Washington will not tourism be quashed by Donald Trump. on amid post-Fidel sector is As on abortion, Trump, who fl ourishing, considered investing in Havana unknowns. but Cuba hotels not too long ago, changed is still his tune on Cuba to curry favour struggling with conservatives, particularly to grow its the anti-Castro Cubans who have economy, for years had a disproportionately writes Les large infl uence on U.S. policy. Whittington. The president continues to court Photograph this group and has threatened to courtesy of reverse Obama’s rapprochement Pixabay with Cuba unless the current government in Havana embarks on human rights reforms. les whittington It is widely agreed that the one Need to Know thing that could reverse the desire for political change in Cuba would be a renewal by Washington of AVANA—The line-ups are an aggressive, bellicose stance Hlonger than ever to get into meant to guarantee its Caribbean La Bodeguita del Medio, the hole- neighbour’s ongoing isolation. in-the-wall bar in Old Havana Such a move would likely propel that has been thriving for decades Cubans into a unifying upsurge in on its reputation as an Ernest nationalistic pride and renewed Hemingway favourite. resistance to the U.S. colossus. The throngs of tourists waiting has as president since 2006 are involved in an internal brain its worst economic stages since The resulting hardships would be to sip a mojito in the graffi ti- brought a more pragmatic ap- drain toward tourism, where the recession it faced in the 1990s nothing exceptional here. festooned bistro are swollen now proach to dealing with the coun- there is access to enormously after the collapse of its Soviet The opening up of Cuba’s with Americans as well as Cuba’s try’s stagnant, centrally-planned valuable hard currencies. Union patrons. closed society to foreign busi- long-time tourism standbys—Ca- economy. The tourism industry Cubans benefi t from universal At the same time, political dis- ness people, investment, technol- nadians and Europeans. has been encouraged and private health care and free education, sent or non-Fidelist commentary ogy, more internet connectivity, Cuba’s tourism industry has sector activity has been stimu- a huge advantage when com- continues to be crushed in Cuba’s and millions of visiting Cuban- been booming, with four million lated by allowing some non-state pared to the situation of average one-party police state. Americans and other tourists visitors last year. And, a growing sales of food products, com- residents of many other Latin Personally, Cubans exude a can only broaden the country’s proportion of the visitors have mercial exchange of houses, and American countries. But the Cu- weary, resigned attitude—smiling horizons and hasten political, been coming from the United privately-run restaurants, B&Bs, ban standard of living remains through their perpetual wariness economic, and human rights States as a result of the Obama taxis, and other services. dismal, with most workers earn- and lack of hope. reforms. Choking off this interac- administration’s easing of the But, while this has put more ing salaries of about $29 a month. But there is every reason to tion with the rest of the world is Cold War-era ban on travel to the money in the pockets of some Housing is crumbling, agricul- believe Cubans are eager for change likely to be counter-productive Caribbean island. residents, it has led to further tural production falls way short, now that Fidel’s half-century hold for anyone hoping to see Cuba’s The surge in tourists stands social and economic distor- and aspirations for improvement on his fellow citizens has come to an rulers fi nally begin to undertake a out amid a series of changes tions. Non-basic food items have seem elusive. end. It’s not hard to see the country badly needed dismantling of their under way in a country that saw become too pricey for locals, the Battered by the continuing moving toward a more liberalized totalitarian state. little variation in its state-con- country’s tourism infrastruc- U.S. trade embargo and a loss in economic model in an effort to de- Les Whittington is an Ottawa trolled communist model for half ture is overwhelmed, and many aid from ally Venezuela, which velop a sustainable economy; it’s just journalist and a regular contribu- a century under Fidel Castro. publicly educated Cuban profes- has been badly hurt by lower oil a question of how long it will take. tor to The Hill Times. Raul Castro, Fidel’s brother, sionals and skilled technicians prices, Cuba is in the midst of one Indications are that reforms will The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAy, FEBRUARy 22, 2017 11 comment The good and bad of family dynasties in politics Ches Crosbie, son of former federal cabinet heavyweight John Crosbie, is testing the waters of a Newfoundland PC leadership bid.

Ches Crosbie, top left, and, counterclockwise from bottom left, his father and former cabinet minister John Crosbie, Toronto city councillor Mike Layton; his father, former NDP leader and Toronto city councillor Jack Layton; former NDP MP Bill Blaikie; and his daughter, former NDP president tim Powers Rebecca Blaikie. The Hill Times fi le and Jake Wright photos, and courtesy of chescrosbie.ca Plain Speak ince are different, the world of politics and its infl uences is smaller. Ches and TTAWA—While elements of the his team are making a calculated gamble OAmerican and British electorate seem that being a Crosbie in Newfoundland Université du Québec repulsed by elites in politics and em- and Labrador brings more political cred- powered by their rejection the Canadian ibility than baggage. While his father environment is still different. If anything, John was a much beloved and a historic political dynasties remain very much alive fi gure who helped modernize the prov- A Leader in Research in Canada. ince, he has not held an elected offi ce A second Trudeau is our prime minis- for 24 years. Times have changed in that ter and another man named LeBlanc is span. yet Ches Crosbie boldly promotes Université du Québec is a network a senior minister in his government. We on his website that “Ches learned much of ten universities that together boast: have had two Ghizs serve as premiers of about politics from his parents, Hon. Prince Edward Island. We have had mem- John and Jane Crosbie.” • Nearly 2,900 research professors bers of the Blaikie family play prominent Justin Trudeau most certainly didn’t run roles in the NDP. Laytons and Fords have away from the fact that he was Pierre’s • More than 470 research groups, dominated city councils in Toronto. And son; he tactically embraced it from time to laboratories, and chairs now in Newfoundland and Labrador time. What he did do, though, was bring in • Over $200 million a year in grants and we have another Crosbie seeking a top his own team of advisers. Ches Crosbie, on research contracts, with $109.3 million political job. the other hand, seems to be taking a differ- America eventually tired of this, having ent approach. He has a few members of his from granting agencies in 2015–2016 had enough of Bushs and Clintons. Will father’s team around and a lot of family. Canada eventually suffer from the same fa- While they are all good people, a very tigue? Ches Crosbie, son of former federal different dynamic can play out. That may Saguenay Rimouski cabinet heavyweight John Crosbie, will be the only place where the Crosbies and Rouyn-Noranda UQAC soon fi nd out. Crosbie, the younger, has Trumps align. UQAR UQAT announced his intention to begin an initial Ches Crosbie has lots of success in his Québec TÉLUQ pursuit of the leadership of the Progressive own right. He was a top litigator work- INRS ENAP Conservative Party of Newfoundland and ing on many class-action suits for diverse Labrador. He hasn’t formally declared as groups in need. He has done much philan- Trois-Rivières he is on a “listening tour,” but he will all but thropic work at home. His greatest political Outaouais UQTR certainly be in. asset is that Stephen Harper rejected him UQO Full disclosure here: Ches is a cousin of as a candidate for the federal Conserva- mine and I worked for his father. But I have tives in 2015. Newfoundlanders and Lab- Montréal www.uquebec.ca no role in Ches’ campaign and wish him radorians by and large still haven’t found UQAM well. Though, like any good family, we will a fondness for the former prime minister. ÉTS likely agree to disagree on a few things. Ches Crosbie is most certainly his own per- What is fascinating to me about Ches’ son, but he seems more inclined to transact initial campaign roll-out is how in some politics from the dynasty perspective. ways he is going against the prevailing This is the fi rst test of political roman- wind of political success. He is playing up ticism and the relevancy of the political family and family history. While it is true establishment in Canada since the U.S. you can’t run from it, and he most certainly election. It will be interesting to watch. has much to be proud of, hoping to push Never mind how I now have just changed UQAM – Université du Québec à Montréal UQAT – Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue the message of continuing the “family the dynamic of family dinners. UQTR – Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières INRS – Institut national de la recherche scientifique business” of politics has not gone over well Tim Powers is vice-chairman of Summa UQAC – Université du Québec à Chicoutimi ENAP – École nationale d’administration publique in other jurisdictions recently. you get la- Strategies and managing director of UQAR – Université du Québec à Rimouski ÉTS – École de technologie supérieure belled as entitlement-minded, and that can Abacus Data. He is a former adviser to – Université du Québec en Outaouais – Télé-université be a political killer. Ask the Clintons. Conservative political leaders. UQO TÉLUQ While the dynamics of my own prov- The Hill Times 12 WEDNESDAy, FEBRUARy 22, 2017 | THE HILL TIMES opinion Feds need to revisit lottery for sponsoring parents, grandparents

that was causing excessively This change removes the pres- A points-based long wait times. The government sure on sponsors to rush applica- system, like the one lifted the suspension in 2014 and tions to secure a spot. Further, allowed 5,000 sponsorship ap- it makes the process fairer. The used in the federal plications under the parent and revised procedure allows a much grandparent program. The cap larger number of persons to enter skilled workers of 5,000 applications was for the the preliminary selection round. fi rst 5,000 completed applications Random selection ensures ev- category, would be received by the government. The eryone an equal chance of being cap was reached within the fi rst selected instead of the fi rst 10,000 fairer. few days of the starting date. applications received by IRCC. Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen speaks to reporters in the foyer of the Following the 2015 election, While the revised procedure House of Commons last week. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright the Liberal government doubled eases the selection process, it the number of entry applications still falls short of meeting the for parents and grandparents objectives of fairness and “family those in the country of origin. In should be assigned for charac- as immigrants, increasing the reunifi cation.” Leaving the deci- such cases, getting a parent and teristics of the sponsored such cap to 10,000 a year from 2016. sion of such an important issue to grandparent ‘super visa’ would be as, among others, age, gender, Prospective sponsors had to chance by “random” selection has a better option. marital status, offspring by place submit applications starting at the drawbacks: • The selection process does of residence, and profi ciency in beginning of the year. This again • This process overlooks how not take into account characteris- an offi cial language. Eligibility to led to applicants having to rush long an applicant may have been tics of the sponsored. For example, enter the selection process should to be among the fi rst 10,000 to be in the country and gives fi rst-time the age of the sponsored relative be based on a minimum weighted ghazy Mujahid selected. The cap was once again applicants the same chances as is of relevance. Older ones should aggregate, and the 10,000 hav- Immigration reached within two or three days repeat applicants. get some priority as they would ing the highest scores above the of the starting date. • The procedure does not less likely be able to travel when minimum eligibility score would To ease these hardships, Im- consider varying family circum- required under a super visa. be asked to submit completed ISSISSAUGA—Family migration, Refugees, and Citizen- stances of sponsors. For example, To make the selection process applications. This would improve Mreunifi cation is an objective ship Canada (IRCC) announced prospective sponsors who are the fairer and bring it more in line fairness and better serve family of Canada’s immigration system. revisions starting this year. only child stand the same chances with family reunifi cation, the reunifi cation. Citizens and permanent residents Prospective applicants were given of being selected as those having government should introduce a Ghazy Mujahid, a former have been eligible to sponsor 30 days to fi le online a form to siblings with whom sponsored points system like the one used United Nations population policy family members including par- indicate their interest in sponsor- elders can live in the country of for determining eligibility of adviser, serves on the board of the ents and grandparents. ing a parent/grandparent. From origin. Moreover, migrating to applicants in the federal skilled Ontario Society of Senior Citizens’ In 2011, the Conservative those fi ling online forms, IRCC Canada on a permanent basis for workers category. Canada pio- Organizations and is a research government at the time decided to would randomly select 10,000 to people in the latter category could neered the points system in 1967, associate with York University’s freeze parent/grandparent appli- be invited to submit a sponsor- even be viewed as “family dis-uni- which was later adopted by Aus- Centre for Asian Research. cations to clear a massive backlog ship application. fi cation” from the perspective of tralia and New Zealand. Points The Hill Times Canada needed to help push Washington to maintain Russian sanctions tional existence and a matter of ity in Syria? Cyber interference tion worthy of Genghis Khan. sanctions and lethal weapons for They’ve been the life and death. in America’s elections? Disregard True, Ukraine has repelled Ukraine to defend itself. only effective To date, the only effective for international law and order? the Russian-backed rebels’ latest As a further reaction to weapons democracies have Canada’s message to the White terror in Avdiyivka (Avdiivka), President Trump’s ambiguity, six weapons provided Ukraine in its stand House has been clear. In her but rumours are fl ying that the Republican and Democratic sena- against Russia’s aggression—as recent trip to the United States, pro-Russian side has some 35,000 tors are sponsoring the Russia democracies have seen through Russia’s annexa- Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland troops on the ready. Sanctions Review Act designed, tion of Crimea and invasion of expressed “very strong support” yet President Trump fails to according to CNN, “to push back given Ukraine in Donbas—have been economic for Ukraine. At a meeting with her hold President Putin to account. against the White House if it its stand against sanctions. It is vital that they counterpart, Secretary of State Rex He vacillates on sanctions. White eased sanctions before Russia continue or, better yet, expand Tillerson, she condemned the re- House national security adviser pulls out of Ukraine.” They are Russia. until Russia reverts to behaving cent escalation of Russia’s attacks Michael Flynn resigned because confi dent that it will withstand a like a normal, law-abiding state. and underscored that “the invasion of his calls with Russia’s am- presidential veto. Until then, they must remain to and annexation of Crimea is illegal bassador in Washington about Such moves instil hope that underscore democracies’ commit- and a threat to the international sanctions. America’s democratic way has ment to the rule of law and world order.” This White House sense of not capitulated to expediency or order. Ukraine needs them as a Hopefully Canada’s strong reality and judgment is danger- autocratic bullying. But global moral support for its three-year voice and reputation as a fervent ous. The free world is reeling with support is needed. heroic stand. supporter of democratic values questions: will America embrace a In Washington, last week, To be effective, the sanc- and so fl edgling democracies will despot? Is Putin calling the shots? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tions must have the backing of balance misguided calls for the Fortunately, there is strong missed an opportunity to under- the leader of the free world, the removal of sanctions in the inter- pushback from democracies such score yet again the importance United States president. It’s not est of expediency. as Canada and other NATO mem- of supporting democratic values oksana Bashuk hepburn clear where President Donald Today, the need to stand up for bers, but most importantly from by dealing properly with abus- Ukraine Trump stands on the issue now. territorial integrity, rule of law, inside the ruling Republican Party. ers. Neither Russia’s threat to There is no ambiguity about inclusivity, and individual rights Senator John McCain wrote peace and security nor sanctions his wish for better relations with and freedoms is being challenged the president an angry letter re- against it were mentioned, as if he muddled messages from Russia or his admiration for Rus- globally. Russia leads the pack. minding him that Russia’s aggres- the need didn’t exist. Tthe White House concern- sian President Vladimir Putin. To do so, it employs psychologi- sion in Ukraine escalated the day Oksana Bashuk Hepburn is ing Russia and its disregard of The question is at what cost? Will cal and cyber warfare widely. In after his and Putin’s telephone formerly a senior policy adviser to international law should gravely Trump tolerate Russia’s escala- Ukraine, it has added guns. The conversation. He is “test[ing] you Canada’s government and presi- concern democratic states. In tion of aggression against a sov- cost is some 10,000 lives, displace- as commander in chief,” the letter dent of a consulting fi rm. Ukraine, this is a matter of na- ereign country, Ukraine? Duplic- ment of 1.5 million, and destruc- stated and bluntly asked for more The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAy, FEBRUARy 22, 2017 13 opinion

would employ more people than auto manufacturing does today. The upcoming federal budget can ensure On climate change, can Trudeau Canada gets more than our share of the market. The U.S. has successful programs we can learn from. The Cyclotron Road pro- gram in California links entrepreneurs to go where Trump says no? the might of the U.S. national labs. We have dozens of labs of comparable calibre. We might look at the U.S. Department Trudeau must continue reduce payroll or income taxes, it’s a mis- ing innovative clean-tech solutions than of Energy’s model for providing critical take to see carbon pricing as a cash grab. we ever will by cutting our own emissions, support in the form of low-cost debt for to make the case that And it won’t hurt the economy; the impact, especially if we export to emerging econo- early commercial deployments of capital- according to Craig Alexander, chief econo- mies where energy systems are still being intensive technology. That program was Canada that can go it mist at the Conference Board of Canada, is developed. Low-cost Canadian energy profi table to the U.S. government, and ac- “relatively modest.” storage projects in India, for example, or celerated the likes of Tesla into the market. alone on climate issues— Therein lies the rub. While well-inten- next-generation cellulosic ethanol plants Successful as these programs were, they tioned and politically palatable, Canada’s in China have far more economic and en- are in jeopardy under Trump, which spells and benefi t economically modest carbon price is not enough. It won’t vironmental potential than similar efforts opportunity for us. from doing so. come close to meeting our climate targets. at home. Policies that accelerate clean-tech The Trump administration’s repudiation Nor, by itself, does it position Canada to exports align our economic self-interest of climate science offers Canada the chance gain economic advantage. How to square with climate action. to re-affi rm the moral basis of global the environmental need for more aggres- Critics are fond of pointing out Canada citizenship in the 21st century. And if the sive action with the political impossibility of is responsible for less than two per cent U.S. wants to back off clean tech, let’s eat imposing a carbon price that gets us there? of global greenhouse gas emissions. Flip their lunch. Canada has the capacity to take The key is to understand the link be- that argument on its head: if our clean-tech more than its fair share of the market. tween Canada’s economic self-interest and sector took just two per cent of the global Tom Rand is a senior adviser on clean tech- global emissions. Canada can move the clean-tech market—already hundreds of nology at MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. needle on climate risk far more by export- billions of dollars and growing rapidly—it The Hill Times

tom rand Clean Technology What does De quoi ORONTO—Justin Trudeau’s priority Tin meeting Donald Trump was to fi nd the world le monde common ground with the unpredictable United States president. The prime min- need tomorrow aura-t-il besoin ister wants to ensure Canada doesn’t feel that we don’t have demain qu’il n’a pas the lash of Trump’s protectionist stance on trade. So, it’s not surprising that Trudeau today? aujourd’hui? seems to have avoided bringing up the awkward subject of climate change. Few issues divide Ottawa and the new Let’s see what’s in the lab. Voyons ce que renferme White House as starkly as the risks of le laboratoire. our warming world. While the Trudeau government has made carbon pricing a centrepiece of its environmental and eco- nomic agenda, Trump and the Republican- controlled Congress are notoriously blasé about climate risk. The prime minister has previously said that a United States that steps back from climate action would leave an “extraordi- nary opportunity” on which Canada could capitalize. Though he didn’t say it in Wash- ington, back home Trudeau must continue to make the case that Canada that can go it alone on climate issues—and benefi t economically from doing so. Climate change is as much economic opportunity as regulatory burden.

The prime minister has faced intense pressure from the fossil-fuel lobby and oth- ers who claim climate action is now econom- ically untenable for Canada in the light of Trump’s policies. They argue we must align our environmental regulations with those of the U.S. or put our competiveness at risk. The smart money, however, says other- wise. Climate change is as much economic opportunity as regulatory burden. Not only should Canada act on greenhouse gas emissions with a carbon price, but also Trump has handed us a perfect opportunity to double down with a complementary and aggressive clean energy technology (clean tech) strategy. Mitigating climate change is certainly a moral issue, and Canada has a long his- tory of standing on the right side of the great moral questions of the time. There’s every reason to think Canadians have the stomach to go some way alone on climate. And what the Liberals proposed—a federal fl oor on carbon pricing that maxes out at $50 a ton—is hardly radical or overly bur- densome. Since provinces can re-distribute the funds any way they see fi t, including to

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Liberal interference Status of government bills House of Commons • C-32, An Act related to the repeal of section 159 • S-2, Strengthening Motor Vehicle Safety for of the Criminal Code (second reading) Canadians Act (second reading) • C-33, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act • C-5, An Act to Repeal Division 20 of Part 3 of the (second reading) undermines committee Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1 (second • C-34, An Act to amend the Public Service Labour reading) Relations Act and other Acts (second reading) • C-7, An Act to Amend the Public Service Labour • C-36, An Act to amend the Statistics Act Relations Act, Public Service Labour Relations (committee) and Employment Board Act, and others (RCMP • C-38, An Act to amend an Act to amend the union bill) (consideration of amendments made Criminal Code (exploitation and trafficking in independence: Tory MP by the Senate) persons) (second reading) • C-12, An Act to Amend the Canadian Forces Members and Veterans Re-establishment and Conservative MP Compensation Act (second reading) Senate • C-17, An Act to amend the Yukon Environmental • S-3, An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination Kelly Block says the and Socio-economic Assessment Act (second of sex-based inequities in registration) reading) (committee) manner in which • C-18, An Act to amend the Rouge National Urban • S-5, An Act to amend the Tobacco Act and the Park Act, Parks Canada Agency Act, and Canada Non-smokers’ Health Act (second reading) the House transport National Parks Act (third reading) • C-4, An Act to Amend the Canada Labour Code, • C-21, An Act to amend the Customs Act (second Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations reading) Act, Public Service Labour Relations Act, and committee has Income Tax Act (third reading) • C-22, National Security and Intelligence been functioning is Committee of Parliamentarians Act (report stage) • C-6, An Act to Amend the Citizenship Act (committee) • C-23, Preclearance Act (second reading) ‘unhealthy.’ • C-16, An Act to amend the Canadian Human • C-24, An Act to amend the Salaries Act and the Rights Act and the Criminal Code (second Financial Administration Act (second reading) reading) Continued from page 1 • C-25, An Act to amend the Canada Business • C-30, Canada-European Union Comprehensive Corporations Act, Canada Cooperatives Act, Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, and Act (second reading) “Committees are the masters Competition Act (committee) of their own destiny. We do not • C-31, Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Conservative MP Kelly Block, left, is accusing the federal Transport • C-27, An Act to amend the Pension Benefits Implementation Act (awaiting first reading) work on behalf of the minister Standards Act, 1985 (second reading) of transport, the government of Department, led by minister Marc Garneau, right, of interfering in the House • C-37, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Transportation Committee’s study of the Navigation Protection Act. The Hill • C-28, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (victim Substances Act (second reading) Canada,” she said in an interview. surcharge) (second reading) “We feel this process is Times photograph by Jake Wright and photo courtesy of the office of Kelly Block undermining the committee’s autonomy.” other agencies and departments of missions, and instead were tapping Transport Canada and the the government of Canada. into funding made available for the House Transport, Infrastructure, Transport Canada has made department’s consultations. and Communities Committee are funding available for groups that She said she withdrew her mo- T he week ahead both in the process of studying the wish to participate in its study to tion after she had her questions Navigation Protection Act, which prepare submissions. answered and the committee was Wednesday, Feb. 22 • The House Committee on Indigenous and regulates development on travers- Ms. Block said her office able to engage in a debate about • The House Finance Committee will meet at 3:30 Northern Affairs will meet at 8:45 a.m. in room able water bodies in Canada. exhaustingly reviewed all 256 interference in the study process. p.m. in room 237-C, Centre Block to study Bill 415, Wellington Building, on the supplementary submissions received by the com- “It was really to get on the C-240, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (tax estimates (C) 2016-17: votes 1c and 10c under the Amendments enacted by the credit-first aid). It will hear from the bill’s sponsor department. Minister of Indigenous and Northern former Conservative govern- mittee for the study and found at record again how we feel this Liberal MP Bryan May; as well as officials from Affairs Carolyn Bennett is appearing before the ment in 2012 sharply reduced the least 22 briefs that made some ref- process is undermining the com- Finance Canada, then consider the bill clause by committee, followed by officials from the department. number of waterways covered by erence to receiving or waiting for mittee’s autonomy,” she said of clause. It will then go in camera to deal with the • The House Committee on Fisheries and Oceans the act, drawing howls of pro- funding from Transport Canada. the purpose of the motion. draft report on its study of Canadian real estate will meet at 8:45 a.m.in room 228, Valour tests from environmental groups, During debate on the mo- Liberal MP and committee market and home ownership. Building. It will hear from witnesses including indigenous communities, and tion, Liberal MP and committee member Ken Hardie (Fleetwood-Port • The House Environment Committee will meet Liberal MPs Yvonne Jones of Labrador and Scott at 3:30 p.m. in room 228, Valour Building. It Simms of Coast of Bays-Central-Notre Dame, opposition parties. member Vance Badawey (Niag- Kells, B.C.) argued that the motion will meet in camera to consider its draft report N.L., and Independent MP Hunter Tootoo of The Liberals promised during ara Centre, Ont.) said 142 of the was withdrawn after it became “clear” on its study on federal protected areas and Nunavut, for its study on Bill S-208, An Act the 2015 election campaign to groups that submitted briefs to that the authors of the briefs—mostly conservation objectives. respecting National Seal Products Day. restore the environmental protec- the committee received govern- if not exclusively First Nations • The House Citizenship and Immigration Committee • The House Committee on Industry, Science and tions they viewed as being weak- ment funding. groups—were not receiving depart- will meet at 3:30 p.m. in room 410, Wellington Technology will meet at 8:45 a.m. in room 410, ened by the Harper government. When asked why this appar- ment funding as Ms. Block feared, Building, to consider draft reports on its family Wellington Building. It will meet in camera for In his mandate letter from the ent overlap was problematic, and instead had been provided with reunification and modernization of client service a briefing on Bill C-36, An Act to amend to delivery studies. It will meet in camera. Statistics Act, from Francis Lord, a Library of prime minister after the elec- Ms. Block said it was because resources to participate in the sepa- Parliament analyst. It will also consider a draft the government was interfering • The House Veterans Affairs Committee will tion, Transport Minister Marc rate Transport Canada review. meet at 3:30 p.m. in room 240, Wellington report for its study on the manufacturing sector. Garneau (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce- with the ability of members to Once the committee started its Building, to study mental health and suicide • The House Committee on Official Languages Westmount, Que.) was tasked wholly represent the interests of own study of the act, the groups prevention among veterans. It will hear from will meet at 11:00 a.m. in room 410, Wellington with reviewing the changes to the their constituents by directing the repurposed their reports for the officials from the department of National Building, in camera to discuss committee business legislation implemented by the course of the study. department study for the commit- Defence, including Captain Marie-France and a draft report on the Translation Bureau. Conservatives with the purpose “We are members from all par- tee, he told The Hill Times. Langlois, director of casualty support • The House Committee on Procedure and House management, and Commander Sean Cantelon, of restoring lost protections and ties who have an opportunity to Mr. Hardie also defended his Affairs will meet at 11:00 a.m. in room 112-N, director general of Canadian Forces Morale Centre Block. The meeting will be in camera, and incorporating modern safeguards. bring forward those issues that are party against accusations of ex- and Welfare Services. the committee will consider a draft report on the But Ms. Block (Carlton Trail– important to our constituents that ecutive overreach, saying the com- • The House Committee on the Status of Women will Chief Electoral Officer’s report on recommendations Eagle Creek, Sask.), a member of we believe are emergent issues mittee was operating free from meet at 6:30 p.m. in camera in room 237-C, Centre following the 42nd general election. the House committee, alleges that across the country,” she told The external influence, and accused Block to consider its draft report on violence against • The House Health Committee will meet at the Liberals are blurring the lines Hill Times, adding that the manner the Conservatives of sowing dys- young women and girls in Canada. 11:00 a.m in room 237-C, Centre Block, as between Parliament and the execu- in which the committee has been function at the committee table. part of its study on the development of a tive branch by advertising the study functioning is “unhealthy.” Mr. Hardie said the Conser- Thursday, Feb. 23 national pharmacare program, before moving to committee business. being undertaken by the committee Ms. Block had previously voiced vatives were embarrassed that • The House Government Operations and concerns about executive overreach Estimates Committee will meet at 8:45 a.m. • The House Committee on Transport, on the Transport Canada website, they were caught not doing the in room 425, Wellington Building to receive Infrastructure, and Communities will meet at and encouraging potential partici- after a Transport Canada spokes- proper outreach and consulta- a briefing on the use of national security 11:00 a.m. in room 415, Wellington Building. pants to submit briefs. person told The Hill Times that the tions during the original overhaul exceptions. It will hear from officials from the It will head from Bob Bratina, the Liberal MP She put forward a motion at Transport Committee would un- of the Navigation Protection Act, Department of Public Works and Government for Hamilton East-Stoney Creek for its study on the Feb. 7 meeting of the Trans- dertake a review of the Navigation especially with First Nations com- Services; Shared Services Canada; Royal water quality before moving in camera to discuss port Committee calling for the Protection Act before the commit- munities, and dismissed claims Canadian Mounted Police; and the Canadian committee business. Security Intelligence Service. • The House Committee on Justice and Human body to not consider any briefs tee agreed to do so, and provided a from the Tories that the Liberal • The House Status of Women Committee will meet Rights will meet at 3:15 p.m. in room 253-D, received for its study on the timeline for its completion. committee members only agreed at 8:45 a.m. in room 237-C, Centre Block to study Centre Block, in camera. It will hear from a act as evidence until it can be The committee eventually to undertake a study of the leg- Bill C-309, An Act to establish Gender Equality witness from the Ottawa Police Service in determined whether any of the agreed to undertake the study islation because they were being Week. It will hear from the bill’s sponsor Liberal its study on Bill C-305, An Act to amend the organizations that submitted late last year after they received a ordered to by the minister’s office. MP Sven Spengemann, as well as from officials Criminal Code (mischief). briefs received funding from the request from Mr. Garneau. The study, he said, was neces- from the Office of the Co-ordinator, Status of • The House Committee on Access to Information, However, Ms. Block withdrew sary to catch up on the work avoid- Women. It will then conduct a clause-by-clause of Privacy and Ethics will meet at 3:30 p.m. in federal government to support the the bill. This meeting will be televised. room 420, Wellington Building. It will continue production of those briefs. her motion at the same committee ed by the previous government. • The House Foreign Affairs Committee will meet its study on Personal Information Protection and In introducing her motion, Ms. meeting after a lengthy discussion “I think that’s extremely useful at 8:45 a.m. in room 253-D Centre Block, Electronic Documents Act. Block said many of the briefs the that saw committee chair and Lib- work and the Conservatives blew in camera, to consider a draft report on the • The House National Defence Committee will committees received were “solicit- eral MP Judy Sgro (Humber River- an opportunity to make a better statutory review of the Freezing Assets of Corrupt meet at 3:30 p.m. in room 410, Wellington ed” by Transport Canada, and their Black Creek, Ont.) clarify that none contribution,” he added. Foreign Officials Act and the Special Economic Building to discuss suicide mortality in the production was at least partially of the presenters to the committee [email protected] Measures Act. Canadian Armed Forces. funded by the department and had received money for their sub- The Hill Times The Hill Times | wednesday, february 22, 2017 15 Feature This just in: ex-Hy’s bartender DiPietrantonio now at Métropolitain

Michael Ottawa and a long-time customer at Hy’s, remembers it being “quiet DiPietrantonio is and dark”—a place where you could have conversations. expecting a packed “It was quite literally a gather- ing spot for all of the political- first budget night type people in Ottawa. Any night of the week, you’d walk in there at the Sussex Drive and run into someone you knew,” watering hole, as he says. Of all its gatherings, the most Hillites search for memorable at Hy’s was federal budget night, perhaps. Annually, a new post-Hy’s the restaurant would clear its furniture from the floor to accom- hangout. modate the customer onslaught. Mr. Balfour says the Hy’s customers celebrated like it was a By Maureen McEwan “Roman cocktail party.” Don Newman was another usk settles in Ottawa and the long-time customer at Hy’s. The Métropolitain Brasserie, “The D former journalist used to work Met,” is abuzz. Staff bustle from across the street at the CBC and table to table, preparing for the parked in the Hy’s building. He Valentine’s Day dinner crowd. recalls the annual budget nights Michael DiPietrantonio arrives vividly, suggesting that Paul for his night shift. Fellow night Martin started the celebrations staff smile and wave to the bar- when he was finance minister in tender as they pass the surround- the 1990s and early 2000s. When ing red-leather booths. A full the Conservatives took over, Jim house is expected at the French Flaherty continued the Hy’s tradi- brasserie for the holiday evening. tion. On any given budget night, Mr. DiPietrantonio is unfazed, Michael DiPietrantonio started at the Met as a bartender last May after spending 15 years at Hy’s, once a top watering the minister would arrive later in despite never having worked a hole for politicos. The Hill Times photograph by Maureen McEwan the evening, typically. When they Valentine’s Day at the restaurant. did, Mr. Newman says it was like “I’ve been doing it long the waters parted at the restau- Club, and Riviera have each “For the twins, when they were cial official budget party follow- enough that I’m not going to rant: the minister was the star. been considered as the popular first born, I couldn’t remember ing the Hy’s closure. panic,” he says. “You never panic.” “It was like Superbowl Sunday, restaurant’s successor by differ- things. Like if you ordered a While budget night was The confidence is easily justi- you know. It was a great party,” ent customers. However, the Hy’s drink, I would have to turn from always active, the Hy’s overflow fied. Before starting at the Met in Mr. Newman says. culture may have been a unique the computer back to you [and filled the Met wall to wall, opera- May, Mr. DiPietrantonio worked Mr. DiPietrantonio says that effect of location and time. say] ‘Sorry, what did you order?’” tions and finance manager Sarah on Queen Street for 30 years as a Hy’s budget night may have “It was a very, very handy he says, laughing. Chown says. This year, the restau- bartender, greeting Hill customers started “on the tail end” of the place. And that’s probably really Mr. DiPietrantonio and his wife rant has a tent coming with heat- at their respective watering holes. Chrétien era, when Martin was what made it,” Mr. Newman says were “crisscrossing” their shifts ers to expand room onto the patio In that time, Mr. DiPietrantonio minister. When it first started, he regarding the restaurant’s appeal. in those days to manage. Both for customers. Finance Minister has seen the governments of says it was only a larger group of “Once the people started going worked in the industry at the time Bill Morneau (Toronto Centre, Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, regulars that would come in. there, then the people that went and altered their day and night Ont.) was a no-show last year, but Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, and “Every year it was just more there made it. But the location, I shifts when their children were Ms. Chown thinks he could attend Stephen Harper come and go. and more and more and more,” think. Like real estate: ‘location, younger. Now he laments the pas- this season. A self-taught server, Mr. DiPi- he says. Mr. DiPietrantonio location, location.’” sage of time, like all parents. “Finance ministers of past etrantonio has been working in “They’re growing really fast. definitely showed up at Hy’s. So the Ottawa industry since he was They’re fun. They’re good friends here’s hoping he shows up this 14 or 15, he estimates. When he and the best of enemies,” he says, year with his fancy new shoes,” began working on Queen Street, smiling widely. Ms. Chown says, joking. he was first at the Mayflower II Despite the inheritance of the Restaurant & Pub. Mr. DiPietran- Settling in at the Met budget-night revelry, Ms. Chown tonio worked for 15 years as a In May, Mr. DiPietrantonio says that the Met maintains its bartender at the former British- returned to work, starting at the own atmosphere as a restaurant. style pub that was located at 201 Met as a bartender. Aside from “We’re very different from Queen St. Crossing the street, the commute from Queen Street, Hy’s. We’re not the same. We he then worked at Hy’s Steak- the transition has been going well don’t aspire to be the same,” she house & Cocktail Bar on Queen. for him. says. He worked another 15 years at “It takes me another, like, five In the coming weeks, Mr. the upscale establishment, even- more minutes, five-10 minutes DiPietrantonio will experience tually becoming a head bartender. just to get here from home,” Mr. his first budget night on Sussex DiPietrantonio jokes. “It’s a bit of Drive. At the Met, he often sees H y’s on budget night: a trek, but manageable.” former customers from Hy’s and Tucked in on Sussex Drive Mayflower II. When asked about ‘It was like Superbowl at Rideau, the Met is located his talent for names, Mr. DiPi- Sunday’ between the Hill and the ByWard etrantonio laughs. Since opening in the mid- Market. The restaurant opened its “No! I’m just good with faces 1980s, the fine-dining spot was a This budget night, the Met has a tent coming with heaters to expand room doors in 2005 and has welcomed and drinks. Never with names. I well-known haunt for politicians, onto the patio for customers. The Hill Times photograph by Maureen McEwan the political and tourist crowds couldn’t even tell you your name journalists, lawyers, and lobbyists since then. A sizable yet cozy right now,” he says. alike. Mr. DiPietrantonio says the considered it “just another night,” Mr. DiPietrantonio was at Hy’s restaurant, the Met has a playful, “A name is great, but it’s a face relationships that the Hy’s staff though, because he knew his until the end. After the Steakhouse’s classic atmosphere. Red leather and a drink is what I remember. I formed with their regulars was regulars’ drinks, making the eve- closure, he took a few months off to booths line the walls and busts remember you and a drink.” “special.” ning manageable. relax. The bartender’s other full-time donning sunglasses surround the After all his years on Queen “The customers were amazing; A year ago this month, Hy’s occupation is his family. With a bar. The Met caters to its political Street, the bartender continues to you’d get your doctors, lawyers, shut its doors. Last February, it 12-year-old, 11-year-old, and a pair of customers with its fall “House- learn the craft and engage with politicians, everybody; actors, closed following a lease renewal nine-year old twins, Mr. DiPietran- warming Party” when Parliament his customers. musicians would come in, every- disagreement, much to the cha- tonio is always busy. For some of returns from the summer break, “I love it. That’s why I still do thing,” Mr. DiPietrantonio says. grin of the political community. the years during the Hy’s heyday, he and its daily “Hill Hour” happy it. I enjoy it.” Andrew Balfour, vice-presi- Restaurants like the Met, South remembers it being very hectic, with hour featuring deals on oysters. [email protected] dent at the lobby firm Ensight in Block, Madisons, the Shore very little sleep. 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She also criticized the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for failing to refer yazidi genocide victims to resettled yazidis to be kept from Canada for resettlement over the past few years. “It’s diffi cult to talk about this day as a victory for the yazidi people,” she said. “The international community needs to wake up public eye, say liberals to their plight.”

Immigration Victims of genocide Hundreds have already Minister Many yazidis are especially at risk Ahmed because they have fled from their homes arrived, but the government Hussen in northern Iraq to camps that are still has faced within Iraq’s borders. As a result, they will be going to ‘some pressure do not technically qualify as refugees from the day under the mandate of the office of the lengths’ to keep the he entered United Nations High Commissioner for traumatized victims of cabinet to Refugees, but rather are considered move quickly “internally displaced persons” (IDPs). Daesh out of the spotlight. to help Yazidi The UNHCR is not able to provide IDPs women in with same kind of assistance it does for Iraq. The refugees. Continued from page 1 Hill Times The government’s commitment to bring photograph by in 1,200 people persecuted by Daesh will who have been persecuted by Daesh, also Jake Wright not require an increase to its annual target known as ISIS, Islamic State, and ISIL, for resettling refugees, said David Mani- this year. A large portion of them would com, an associate assistant deputy minister be internally displaced yazidi people from in IRCC, during Mr. Hussen’s press confer- northern Iraq, and most would be women ence. and girls, he said. The annual target of 25,000 refugees However, unlike the Liberal govern- was made with an allowance to run as high ment’s highly publicized resettlement of ity, many of whom live in northern Iraq. ma, many are worried about being labelled as 30,000 or as low as 20,000, he said. Syrian refugees, some of the details of yazidis have been terrorized by Daesh as victims, and some are concerned that Canada’s government dispatched a fact- the resettlement effort, and the resettled militants in recent years, leading all parties their families still in Iraq could be targeted fi nding team to northern Iraq in October to people themselves, will be kept from the in the House to formally recognize that if they were identifi ed, said Ms. Edlund. ascertain how it could help yazidis there in public. persecution as a genocide, after prodding For that reason, the government will not danger of further persecution. “We will be going to some lengths by Conservative MP Michelle Rempel (Cal- grant the media opportunities to interview Offi cials from several federal depart- to protect the privacy of these individu- gary Nose Hill, Alta.). yazidi women and the resettled people, nor will details of ments told the House Immigration Com- als,” said Dawn Edlund, Immigration, Refu- girls have been systematically enslaved when and where they are arriving or being mittee in November they were ready to gees, and Citizenship Canada’s associate and sexually abused by Daesh militants, housed be made public, she said. support a yazidi resettlement effort. assistant deputy minister of operations, at while many of the men have been killed. “We’re being very cautious with this Internally displaced yazidi communities the press conference. Almost all of those being resettled by population, as opposed to the more open are currently divided among four different yazidi people are a religious minor- the government experienced severe trau- approach that we used with the Syrian provinces in Iraq, Emmanuelle Lamoureux, operation,” she said. director of Global Affairs Canada’s Gulf States division, told the committee. Northern Iraq remains a dangerous hundreds already in canada place for military members and civilians, The government has quietly resettled with confl ict between regional groups and NOW AVAILABLE about 400 yazidis, mostly from outside of Daesh terrorist attacks expected to rise as Iraq in the past few months, according to Daesh is weakened militarily in the area, CanCon Contributions & Quotas In a Digital Age Mr. Hussen. Stephen Burt, the assistant chief of defence It did so even while opposition crit- intelligence in the Department of National A complete guide to the regulations on the ics blasted its lack of action on the fi le. Defence, told the committee. table in Heritage Canada’s review Mr. Hussen and his proxies in the House One of the yazidi communities—in Sin- declined to provide details on numerous jar—is “off limits” to Canadian government occasions when asked by staff due to the dangerous Ms. Rempel how many conditions, but another, CanCon Contributions & yazidis had been brought to in the Dohuk province, Quotas In a Digital Age Canada. is accessible, said Ms. As recently as the end of Lamoureux. last week, Mr. Hussen’s of- “Though costly, this fi ce declined to provide any type of travel does not details about the resettle- present a signifi cant ment plans, citing concerns threat to the safety of our over “operational security.” mission staff, and suitable Mr. Hussen’s announce- accommodation is avail- ment came the day before able in Dohuk should the expiry of a 120-day there be a need to remain deadline to provide asylum for more than a day,” she to persecuted yazidi women told the committee. and girls, which the govern- The German govern- ment committed to when it ment had successfully supported a motion on the Conservative MP Michelle resettled more than 1,000 A complete guide to the regulations topic by Ms. Rempel on Oct. Rempel has pressed the persecuted women and on the table in Heritage Canada’s review 25. government in the House and girls, most of them yazidi, The government will not Immigration Committee to from northern Iraq in 2015 exclusively target yazidi move faster to help internally and 2016, as part of a co- people in northern Iraq for displaced Yazidi women. The ordinated effort with the In a constantly changing industry where companies can be streaming services, resettlement, but any in that Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright regional Kurdistan govern- ISPs and traditional broadcasters and TV service providers all at once, the region persecuted by Daesh, ment, the head of the Ger- said Mr. Hussen. However, impact of such changes will be complex. We cover the issues of Heritage man project told the House he added that, given the reality on the Immigration Committee in November. Canada’s review of Canadian content in a digital age such as the “Netflix Tax.” ground there, the majority would be yazidi. However, Kurdistan’s government This report is the most comprehensive primer you’ll find on the subject. The government would focus on reset- indicated that same day it was against tling women, and children of both genders, “any organized attempt to mass migrate he said. members of its community” by Canada, the Ms. Rempel, the driving force in Parlia- CBC reported. Kurdistan is an autonomous ment for action to help yazidis, downplayed region in northern Iraq. BOOKS the importance of the 120-day deadline in a Mr. Hussen told reporters Tuesday that press conference following Mr. Hussen’s. both the Iraqi and Kurdistan governments hilltimes.com/HT-books “I hope that today’s announcement were prepared to co-operate with its re- emboldens the international community to settlement effort. For more information, please contact Mark I [email protected] I 613-688-8821 prioritize yazidi survivors of genocide and [email protected] of ISIS in their refugee programs,” she said. @PJMazereeuw THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAy, FEBRUARy 22, 2017 17 News Feds spent $33-million on ads, axed stimulus promotion in fi rst year under Liberals

the new signs, as they would be Finance Canada optional—typically at the discre- slashed its tion of the municipal partner in a project—and paid for through ad spending the budget for each individual infrastructure project. The signs dramatically, while would cost a few hundred dollars each, depending on their size, she ads for the census said, and would be considered by the government to be infrastruc- and Canada-150 ture spending, not advertising. campaigns drove The government sees advertising as paid messages placed in media costs in the such as newspapers, TV, radio, internet, and theatres. top-spending Conservative MP Dianne Watts, (South Surrey-White Rock, departments. B.C.) her party’s infrastructure critic, said it was “premature” for Continued from page 1 the Liberal government to draw up promotional signs for the After promising to end infrastructure projects, given that partisan-tilted government adver- the vast majority of the money tising campaigns in the run-up to promised for infrastructure in the 2015 election, the Liberals in last year’s budget has yet to be their fi rst year in power slashed matched to real projects. government spending on promo- The Parliamentary Budget tion of a stimulus program started Offi ce found that only $4.6-billion under the former Conservative of the $13.6-billion promised for government, and have no plans to projects between 2016-2018 in last replace it with ads for their own year’s federal budget had been economic stimulus scheme, said allotted to specifi c projects so far, spokesperson Kate Monfette. according to a report issued Feb. 2. You can expect to see signs like this pop up next to construction projects in urban areas funded by the Liberal Finance Canada spent just The Liberals have also moved government’s infrastructure program. The government has slightly different designs for projects in rural or northern to defer the spending of $828-mil- $29,809 on ads between the time communities. Image courtesy of the offi ce of the transport minister the Liberal cabinet was sworn in lion on infrastructure from 2016- in November 2015 and the begin- 2017 to 2017-2018, the Canadian year, which was split between the Canadian passports to enter Defence spent more than $3-mil- ning of December 2016, according Press reported. current Liberal and previous Con- Canada under the ETA system. lion on a digital ad campaign to to documents tabled in the House “I think their primary focus servative governments, Statistics Canadian Heritage also spent recruit men and women to in- of Commons, one of the smallest should be on getting these projects Canada spent $6-million prepar- about $4-million preparing an ad demand jobs in the military. ad-spending totals among govern- built to create jobs, and only then ing the census ad campaign, ac- campaign to promote the Cana- [email protected] ment entities during that time. worry about signs,” said an emailed cording to an annual government da-150 celebrations, and National @PJMazereeuw In the fi rst eight months of 2015, statement from Ms. Watts’ offi ce. report. under the previous Conservative Immigration, Refugees, and Infrastructure government, the department had tourists targeted Citizenship Canada followed Minister spent $5.9-million on ads promot- behind Statistics Canada, hav- Amarjeet Sohi ing the Economic Action Plan, in international ad ing spent or signed off on about is overseeing a multi-year stimulus program campaign $4.8-million worth of contracts a 10-year rolled out in the wake of the 2008- Advertising campaigns urg- during the fi rst year of the Liberal plan to pour 2009 recession. ing Canadians to sign up for the government. That fi gure covers money into The Finance Department had military, complete the census, and almost all of the ad spending by infrastructure spent $33.4-million on TV, print, celebrate their history drove the the department in 2015-2016 as projects radio, and internet ads promoting federal government’s ad spend- well as the spending planned for around the Economic Action Plan over ing during the fi rst year under the 2016-2017, according to spokes- Canada. The the previous three years. Liberal government. person Nancy Chan. Hill Times The Liberals axed Economic The feds spent or signed off on IRCC ran an international photograph by Action Plan ads immediately upon more than $33.3-million for ad cam- ad campaign during that time Andrew Meade taking offi ce, even removing them paigns between the time the Liberal to raise awareness of the new from government websites. The cabinet was sworn in and early Electronic Travel Authorization then-opposition Liberals and oth- December 2016, according to docu- (ETA) program, which requires ers had criticized the Conserva- ments made public in response to an foreign nationals from almost all tives for running those ads, some MP’s question tabled in the House. visa-exempt countries to fi ll out of them in Tory blue, accusing That fi gure covers money set an online form and pay $7 to gain them of shoring up public support aside for some ad campaigns that entry to Canada by air. Canada’s for their government, instead of are still in progress. The spend- tourism lobby had warned the trying to inform the public about ing fi gures are also split over two government that tourists from government programs or services fi scal years, and follow a pre- other countries may be caught off they could access. election pause in government ad guard by the new requirement. The Liberals have, how- spending that makes direct com- IRCC ran ads from February to ad contracts by department: ever, drawn up new signs to run parisons to previous years tricky. March 2016 in the top 10 source alongside infrastructure projects Statistics Canada led all gov- countries for visitors to Canada: funded by their own stimulus ernment bodies in spending on the United Kingdom, France, Nov. 4, 2015 to Dec. 5, 2016 program. advertising during that period, at Germany, Australia, Japan, South The new signs aren’t particu- $7.6-million. The agency bought Korea, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Department or agency Value of contracts larly educational either, but were ad space on television, radio, in Italy, and the United States designed without an emphasis print media, social media plat- (where citizens are exempt from Statistics Canada $7,672,502 on party colours or any one level forms, on the internet, and at the ETA requirement, but perma- Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship $4,809,660 of government. The sign designs transit stations as part of a cam- nent residents are not), accord- Canadian Heritage $3,987,920 include a government of Canada paign to raise awareness of the ing to department spokesperson National Defence $3,139,038 logo alongside logos for provin- census, encourage Canadians to Johanne Nadeau. Veterans Affairs $2,427,296 cial and municipal partners in the complete it online, and to recruit The department ran another RCMP $2,382,510 projects. The Economic Action census staff across the country, digital ad campaign about the Public Safety $1,768,450 Plan signs had only advertised the according to a spokesperson. ETA from October of last year federal government’s contribution. The agency runs ad campaigns up until this February, which also Parks Canada $1,749,691 Ms. Monfette said she could in the lead-up to the census every targeted Canadian dual citizens Employment and Social Development $1,130,763 not provide a total cost for all of fi ve years. In the 2015-2016 fi scal to remind them to use only their Health Canada $953,472 18 wednesday, february 22, 2017 | the hill times News Feds set aside $545-million to finance new contracts reached with big unions

several smaller unions, collec- The Liberals are Public Service Alliance of Canada tively representing thousands of looking to hammer out national president Robyn Benson, civil servants, typically in highly pictured addressing a rally last specialized fields, also remain in deals with remaining spring calling for improvements to contract talks with the govern- the embattled Phoenix pay system, ment. smaller bargaining has seen four of her union’s five The Union of Canadian Cor- bargaining units reach new deals rectional Officers will head back units. Thousands of with the government that include to the bargaining table in April pay raises and no changes to the for two weeks of scheduled talks civil servants remain existing sick leave regime. The Hill as negotiations on a new deal Times photograph by Andrew Meade approach their third year, with no without contracts end in sight. nearly three years after Union president Jason Godin expressed deep frustration with most expired in 2014. the failure to make any headway with the government, calling the pace of talks “extremely slow,” Continued from page 1 and “pretty worrisome.” The union, which represents Alain Belle-Isle, a spokes- 7,300 corrections officers, is cur- person for the Treasury Board rently bargaining with both the Secretariat, said in an emailed Treasury Board and Corrections response to questions this week Canada on pay and non-monetary that the government has now issues. The most recent contract concluded tentative settlements expired at the end of May 2014. with 12 of 27 bargaining units The major sticking point in representing over three-quarters talks, according to Mr. Godin, is of public service employees for the failure of Treasury Board to which Treasury Board is the recognize correctional officers employer, and hopes to reach new are vastly different than other deals that are “fair and reason- PSAC collectively represents the CRA, have separate employer also committed to tabling pay civil servants, and have this re- able” for both employees and 180,000 public sector workers, status and are able to engage in equity legislation for federally flected in a new contract. Canadians through “respectful and was among the most vocal collective bargaining directly regulated workplaces by the end He said the union is asking and good faith negotiations.” opponents of the Conservative with employees, independent of of 2018, he added. the government to institute a fair He noted that the supple- government’s sick-leave overhaul. the Treasury Board. Ms. Daviau said PIPSC delib- discipline process for guards that mentary estimates tabled by the The border services unit’s most The two PIPSC bargaining erately “didn’t want to complete” would see an end to suspensions government earlier this month recent negotiating session ran from units that remain in negotiations negotiations for a new deal with without pay pending investiga- included $545-million to ensure that Jan. 31 to Feb. 3, according to the with Treasury Board are mostly the former Conservative govern- tions and to commit to arming all retroactive payments and salary Treasury Board website, at which made up IT workers and engi- ment because of its inflexible inmate escorts from medium or increases are available, some dating point talks reached an impasse. neers, and are the union’s “most negotiating stances on wage in- maximum security institutions, back two years, in the event that The Professional Institute of militant” as they won’t settle until creases and curtailing sick leave. among other proposals. tentative agreements reached late the Public Service of Canada, the their demands are met, she said. After the Liberals took over Meanwhile, the Canadian Fed- last year are ratified by March 31, second largest union for federal “They are prepared to stand up in November 2015, she said it eral Pilots Association says the the end of the current fiscal year. civil servants, was the first to for themselves if they don’t get fair took six months before the new major stumbling block in talks Supplementary estimates lay reach a deal with the government wage increases,” said Ms. Daviau. government “was in any position with the government is a change out funds for parliamentary ap- back in December. It features “They are organized. They to bargain meaningfully at the to the licencing regime for pilots. proval in addition to the bulk of the same pay hike as the PSAC are ready to fight if they need to. table,” though the union was able The union bargains on behalf the budget funds contained in the deal, and applies to four of its six That’s why they are [still out- to make progress after a series of of the 450 pilots who work for main estimates. bargaining units. standing].” meetings in the summer. Transport Canada, the Transpor- The Public Sector Alliance of The pact also includes an agree- The IT workers unit is one of Ms. Daviau said this led to the tation Safety Board, and NAV Canada, the largest of the federal ment for the union and govern- the union’s largest, representing “breaking of the logjam” on issues Canada on aviation inspections, unions, reached a four-year deal in ment to study a new employee roughly 15,000 employees, while like sick leave, contracting out flight testing, licence enforcement, December covering 68,000 mem- wellness and support plan that will the other unit has 1,500 members. work, and preserving scientific certifying operators and aircrafts, bers that will see a 1.25 annual in- be negotiated in a different process Ratification votes for the units integrity—an important consider- air navigation system design, and crease to base salaries, retroactive during the next round of contract that have reached tentative agree- ation for a union that represents safety analysis and promotion. to June 2014, and an extra 0.5 per talks, the Citizen reported. ments are running for the next many scientists and researchers. According to the union, cuts cent market adjustment increase. The proposed plan would re- four weeks, and results should be She added that the union’s by the Conservatives in 2011 Market adjustments are typically move the 13-week waiting period known by the end of March. overall relationship with the drastically limited the ability of defined as increases in wages for workers before they qualify But even with the agreements government has “improved sig- federally-employed pilots to fly to reflect broader salary growth for long-term disability, while ratified, labour peace may be nificantly,” and members feel like government aircraft, thus jeopar- in the external marketplace. It dropping the number of sick days short-lived. they are “definitely being heard.” dizing their licence eligibility. also maintains the existing sick to nine. Employees would be able The labour agreements for the The Canadian Association of This is because, at the time, leave program that the former to bank no more than three sick PIPSC bargaining units, and for Professional Employees, which pilots in Canada couldn’t legally Conservative government threat- days from year to year, though many other unionized public sec- represents around 13,000 employ- operate an aircraft unless they ened to replace with a short-term- that would end when the new tor workers, originally expired in ees of the federal public service of had served as a captain or co- disability plan, the Ottawa Citizen plan is introduced. 2014, while the tentative pacts are Canada, has seen its two bargaining pilot for a flight within the past reported. The existing sick plan re- for four years. units both reach tentative agree- five years or completed a flight Currently, public servants get mains in effect until a new pact is If approved, the deals would go ments with the Treasury Board. review with an instructor. 15 days of sick leave a year, and reached. into effect retroactively, starting Voting on the deals started on But in the fall of 2016, Trans- unused days are banked from The bargaining units collec- from when the previous agreements Monday, and will run for a two- port Canada changed the rules to year to year. The Conservatives tively represent some 20,000 fed- expire, meaning they will all lapse week period. allow pilots to retain their licence proposed eliminating banked days eral workers, including research- by the middle or end of 2018. CAPE membership is com- as long as they underwent testing and replacing the sick-day regime ers, scientists, auditors, and those Mr. Belle-Isle said the govern- posed of analysts and research in a flight simulator. with a disability plan. The Liberal in medical occupations. ment is “committed to promoting a assistants at the Library of Parlia- The union, though, argues this government began negotiations However, another 30,000 work- culture of respect for, and within, ment, and translators, interpreters, decision jeopardizes public safety, with that proposal on the table, but ers under the PIPSC umbrella the federal public service,” and has terminologists, economists, and as the skills necessary to operate refused to legislate it into force as remain without a deal, including taken important steps to accom- social science services employees an aircraft deteriorate without the Tories originally envisioned. 11,000 at the Canadian Revenue plish this, including working to in the federal public service. regular use. The new deal covered four of Agency, most of whom are em- repeal laws relating to financial CFPA’s most recent contract PSAC’s five bargaining units, with ployed as auditors, and thousands disclosure for unions and union Smaller unions still with the government expired in border services employees being the more at the National Research certification, and legislation im- January 2015. The next negotia- sole hold-out to remain in talks with Council and the Canadian Food posing a new sick leave system on seeking agreements tion session is scheduled for this Treasury Board, the organizational Inspection Agency, according public servants that were unpopu- While PSAC, PIPSC, and month. arm of the federal government that to union president Debi Daviau. lar with labour unions. CAPE represent a large share of [email protected] acts as the official employer. Some federal organizations, like The Liberal government has federal workers across Canada, The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAy, FEBRUARy 22, 2017 19

Program come to Ottawa for placements on the supervisor Hill, run by Trinity Western University, Stephen a Christian university based in Langley, Azzi speaks B.C., which has also seen many of its grads with former land on the Hill. While not a university, the Progressive Calgary-based Manning Centre, named Conservative after Preston Manning, also now offers prime minister political training courses. Joe Clark The program caused controversy when during a class it launched in 2011, when Carleton initially talk in 2015. refused to make public details of a donor Photograph agreement with the Clayton H. Riddell courtesy of Foundation, causing some to question the Hyungcheol program’s academic freedom and account- (James) Park ability as a result. Carleton’s MPM pro- gram has since been building a reputation for churning out informed grads, who say from instructors to classmates, it’s a non- partisan experience. The program’s current faculty includes associate professor Paul Wilson, a former director of policy to Conservative PM Ste- phen Harper; assistant professor Jennifer Robson, a former Liberal staffer under Jean Chrétien’s government; and associ- ate professor André Turcotte, a longtime conservative pollster. There’s also a number of program fel- lows who variously teach courses, give talks, mentor students, help fi nd practicum placements, or otherwise help shape the program curriculum. They include: former NDP adviser Robin Sears, now with the Earnscliffe Strategy Group; former Liberal MP and House of Commons Speaker Peter Milliken; former and current Toronto knowledge. Many of them had BAs in Star writers Susan Delacourt and Paul political science, but had no idea how Par- Wells; Liberal strategist and lawyer Rob liament worked, so we all made it up, we Silver (who’s married to current PMO chief learned on the job and we blundered our of staff Katie Telford); former Conservative way through,” he recalled. “It would have cabinet staffer Chris Froggatt, now a man- been great for me to actually have had the aging partner at National Public Relations; hill climBerS opportunity to actually learn what I was and Scott Reid, a former communications doing before I arrived in the job.” director to Liberal PM Paul Martin and by laura ryckewaert Along with core curriculum and elec- now a principal at Feschuk.Reid, among tive courses during the regular academic others. year, the year-long political management Guy Giorno, a former chief of staff to master’s program includes a six-week Mr. Harper as PM, is another fellow, and practicum placement, typically done from teaches a course on political campaigns carleton’s political May to June, with a “written assignment that Prof. Azzi said “is probably the most that comes out of that, which is the fi nal popular course that our program offers.” hoop you have to jump through to get the Abacus Data CEO David Coletto also degree,” said Prof. Azzi. teaches a polling course with the program. “It’s sort of the capstone of the program. Ashton Arsenault, who graduated management program After you’ve learned in the classroom you from the program in 2013 and went on to go out and put it into practice in the work- work for then-national revenue minister place...it’s one of the most valuable parts Gail Shea, said he was working for the of the program. A lot of students turn their Progressive Conservative offi cial opposi- has churned out hill practicum placement into full-time employ- tion in his home province of P.E.I. when ment,” he said. he heard about the program, and saw “Every year we generate [typically] 25 it as a “good way to get yourself in the alumni, about half of them stay in Ottawa,” door,” in Ottawa, “which is exactly what I staff ers aplenty said Prof. Azzi. was able to do.” A maximum of 25 people are accepted From media training, to practice with each year, with alumni including interna- briefi ng-note prep, to “mock issues man- “The mission is to improve democracy tional students—among them, diplomats agement simulations,” to studying the Launched in 2011, the in Canada by providing training and ethics from the United Arab Emirates and the Lobbying Act and Confl ict of Interest Act, and...producing potential staffers who can United States, and students from Nigeria he said he found what he learned “was ac- master’s program is work in a professional way,” Stephen Azzi, and Barbados. Prof. Azzi said the small tually highly applicable to the work I was helping to shape a pool a supervisor of Carleton’s political man- number allows for “a lot of individual doing in that [Ms. Shea’s] political offi ce.” agement program and a former Liberal Hill attention to the students,” and keeps the “It certainly played a large role in my of ‘professional’ potential staffer himself, told Hill Climbers. program elite. ability to be comfortable going into that of- “It started with Clayton Riddell, who’s The program has evolved since its fi ce as young as I was at the time,” said Mr. staff ers, says one of its the donor, and with Preston Manning, the inception, shaped in part by feedback from Arsenault, now a consultant at Crestview former [Reform Party] leader of the op- alumni who’ve joined political work, said Strategy in Ottawa. leaders, Prof. Stephen Azzi. position, and they shared a concern about Prof. Azzi. Other former grads who’ve worked the quality of the character of Canadian “We’re very much in touch with people on or around the Hill include: Innovative politics...that ethical standards were too low on the Hill wanting to know what they Medicines Canada government affairs ith fi ve cohorts of alumni to date, and that political staff weren’t professional.” need from staffers, and I’m in touch with director Sarah Douglas; former Harper WCarleton University’s unique political Learning the ropes of working in politics, alumni too. Once you get a job: what didn’t PMO issues manager Laura Kurkimaki, management master’s program has seen whether on Parliament Hill or at provincial we prepare you for? What more can we do now at Hill + Knowlton; current Conser- many of its grads land jobs on the Hill, ev- legislatures, can feel a bit like trying to drink to get you ready?” he said. vative OLO communications offi cer Saro erywhere from the Prime Minister’s Offi ce from a fi re hose at times for new staff trying “I used to teach one of the courses Khatchadourian; former press secretary to cabinet and opposition offi ces, with oth- to grasp working dynamics across offi ces on strategic communications. A former to Kellie Leitch as labour and status of ers working in government relations and at and departments, layers of rules and proce- student called me one day and said, ‘you women minister Andrew McGrath, now a other levels of government. dures, policy minutiae, and more. know, nobody ever taught us about libel communications manager at the Insur- Under the current Liberal government, That lack of understanding among new law, our students are going off and speak- ance Bureau of Canada; former Harper that list includes Cameron Wilson, a general hires was something Prof. Azzi said he ing to the media and they don’t know libel PMO issues manager Michael Seccarec- assistant for public appointments in the PMO; noticed fi rst-hand starting out as an aide law.’ Great, we’ll add a lecture on libel law.” cia; Amalgamated Dairies Ltd. market- Alex Kohut, an advertising and research ana- to Liberal MPs on the Hill after the 1993 Teaching happens outside the class- ing manager Jamie MacPhail, who was lyst in the PMO; Joel Tallerico, a legislative federal election. That election saw the Pro- room as well, said Prof. Azzi, and students executive director of the P.E.I. Liberal assistant to Public Services and Procurement gressive Conservatives almost wiped out have had the chance to be briefed twice by Party up until earlier this month; former Minister Judy Foote; Laura LeBel, a senior of the House of Commons Chamber and Senate Speakers in the Senate Chamber Democracy Watch co-ordinator Tyler special assistant for parliamentary affairs the NDP seriously diminished, with almost itself, and have heard from the House of Sommers, now an economist at Natural and operations to Democratic Institutions 200 seats changing hands to the benefi t Commons Clerk and the House law clerk Resources Canada; and current director Minister Karina Gould; and Megan Buttle, of the Liberals, the Bloc Québécois, and the on the Hill. of communications for the B.C. Liberals who has been working as a policy adviser to Reform Party. It’s a unique program in Canada, with Emile Scheffel, to name a few. the parliamentary secretary to Trade Minister “There were hundreds of staffers on the closest equivalent being the Laurentian [email protected] François-Philippe Champagne. Parliament Hill who had no training and Leadership Program, which sees students The Hill Times 20 WEDNESDAy, FEBRUARy 22, 2017 | THE HILL TIMES conservatives face off against liberals in charity hockey game They battled it out Feb. 16 at the Canadian Tire Centre, with the Tories winning 9-3.

The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Mr. Miller and fellow Liberal MP Adam Vaughan take to the ice.

Conservative team members and MPs Alex Nuttall and Blaine Calkins talk with Liberal MP Marc Miller before the match.

Conservative team members MP Mike Lake and former MP James Rajotte get dressed.

Crowd donations are going to cancer research through the Terry Fox Foundation. The event Liberal MPs Will Amos, Michel Picard, and Don raised close to $6,000. Rusnak.

Mr. Miller, in goal, Mr. Lobb, and Liberal player Neil Ellis.

Liberal MP and House Speaker Geoff Regan heads to the ice, in the Conservative MP Ben Lobb, Mr. Calkins, and Mr. Nuttall chat before home of the Ottawa Senators. the friendly charity hockey match.

Conservative team captain MP Gord Brown and Liberal MPs Darren Fisher and Matt DeCourcey suit up. Speaker Regan is introduced playing the fi rst period with the Conservative team. his colleagues get ready. THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017 21 HILL TIMES CLASSIFIED

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Israeli Ambassador Nimrod Barkan stands in front of photos and personal collections from his career in the DiPlOmatiC cirCleS foreign service in his Ottawa offi ce. The Hill Times photograph by Chelsea Nash

by chelsea Nash israel’s ties with liberals ‘peachy,’ friendship maintained from conservative days, says envoy Diplomats dress to the nines for ottawa Diplomatic association ball “Maybe she wanted to stress the friend- ‘We see the same level of ship between Israel and Canada,” said the am- The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia bassador. She also encouraged him to work bipartisan friendship from on the completion of the updated free trade agreement between Canada and Israel, he the Liberal government’ said, which is part of Trade Minister François- Philippe Champagne’s mandate letter. as the previous Mr. Barkan said he is working on a date for a visit by Mr. Champagne to Israel to Conservatives, he says. sign the agreement, as well as a date for Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale. Mr. Goodale was supposed to visit in Janu- sraeli Ambassador Nimrod Barkan is dis- ary, he said, but the visit was delayed for Imissing any suggestion that the Liberal logistical reasons. government has somehow distanced itself Mr. Barkan said he has also been busy from the steadfast position on Israel that meeting MPs, including those in the par- became somewhat of a trademark of for- liamentary friendship group for Israel, and Carol Chatoor, with her spouse Garth mer Conservative prime minister Stephen those who have travelled to Israel before. Chatoor, high commissioner of Trinidad and Harper’s years in power. One of the fi rst things those meeting Tobago, share a dance at the Feb. 13 event “Everything is peachy,” the ambassador him might notice about Mr. Barkan is his Speaker of the Senate George Furey with his spouse said in an interview last week, with a grin. sense of humour. When asked if he had any hosted at the Hilton Lac-Leamy in Gatineau. Karen Furey. The Israeli envoy arrived in his new Canadian ties, he responded he had lots of home of Ottawa on Dec. 1, taking over ties, but they were all at home. Perhaps some from his predecessor, Rafael Barak, who of them were made in Canada, he said. recently fi nished his posting after three For the past two and a half months, years in Canada. he has been here alone, with his children Mr. Barkan is a well-travelled lifelong grown, and his wife deciding not to retire diplomat, who already has some knowl- early in order to join her husband. He said edge of North American life, gained she will defi nitely be coming to Ottawa to primarily through his eight and a half visit over the next year, and that by the end years on a posting in the United States, and of the year, she may retire and join him Guyanese High Commissioner visiting his wife’s family in Toronto. permanently. Clarissa Sabita Riehl, with Liberal Mr. Furey and Pakistani High “Certainly, I see a bipartisan continua- Mr. Barkan has two daughters, one living MP Yasmin Ratansi. Commissioner Tariq Azim Khan. tion of the friendship towards Israel that in California, and the other in Israel. The one we saw under the previous government. We in Israel is the mother to his only grand- see the same level of bipartisan friendship daughter. Asked if it was hard to leave his from the Liberal government,” he said. only grandchild behind, Mr. Barkan said, Mr. Harper’s government expressed “yeah. But, of course, that’s why they in- ottawa welcomes new austrian envoy strong support for Israel amid the years- vented WhatsApp video calls. We talk every long confl ict between Israelis and Palestin- day on the phone with a video call.” ians. The Harper government voted with Israel at the United Nations on sensitive resolutions about the confl ict, and sought Nicaragua opens new embassy to stop the Palestinians from gaining state- in ottawa like status in international clubs. The fi rst resident ambassador of Nica- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has ragua in Canada presented her credentials sent signals that he wants Canada’s posi- to Governor General David Johnston on tion on the matter to be more “balanced” Feb. 8. Natalia Quant Rodriguez is the fi rst Spanish Ambassador Carlos Gomez-Mugica Sanz and his and moderate. Canada has continued representative of her country to be posted spouse, Maria de la Rica Aranguren, welcome newly arrived to vote against what some see as either to Canada, given that the Nicaraguan am- couple Debra Pehringer and her spouse, Austrian Ambassador pro-Palestine or anti-Israel motions at the bassador to the United States used to also Stefan Pehringer. United Nations. Earlier this month, Canada be responsible for Canada and based in called out Israel in a statement, saying it the U.S. The embassy in Canada does not was “deeply concerned by [an] announced appear yet to have an address listed on the expansion of settlements and...retroactive foreign ministry’s website. legalization of settlers’ outposts, which are Mr. Johnston received credentials from illegal under international law.” Israel’s three other heads of mission earlier this deputy foreign minister has said: “The month, including new Austrian Ambassa- Bosnia and Herzegovina Ambassador current government of Israel was elected dor Stefan Pehringer, who hosted a recep- in order to build in all parts of the land of tion last Thursday to celebrate his arrival. Koviljka Spiric and Croatian Israel.” Vietnam also sent its new top represen- Ambassador Marica Matkovic at the When Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia tative, in the form of Ambassador Nguyen DM of international development Peter Boehm, with Norwegian Austrian ambassador’s residence on Freeland took over the fi le just last month, Duc Hoa, and Brazil’s new envoy is Denis Ambassador Anne Kari Hansen Ovind, Swedish Ambassador Per Feb. 16. He presented his credentials Mr. Barkan said she called him, and made Fontes de Souza Pinto. Sjogren, and Danish Ambassador Niels Boel Abrahamsen. to start work in Canada Feb. 8. a point of letting him know that he was the [email protected] fi rst ambassador she spoke to. @chels_nash The Hill Times | wednesday, february 22, 2017 23 Events Feature

FRIDAY, FEB. 24 Conservative Party Parliamentary Ontario’s Energy Future—The Economic Club of Canada presents Ontario Energy Minister Glenn leadership Calendar Thibeault. 7:45-9 a.m. Fairmont Chateau Laurier, 1 candidates Rideau St., Ottawa. Breakfast will be served. $110 Lisa Raitt, Erin +HST for individual seat (members $89 +HST). Tickets O’Toole, and and info: economicclub.ca. Andrew Scheer. Parliamentary Press Gallery AGM—The Parliamentary The Manning Press Gallery AGM will be held on Feb. 24 at the National Centre has Press Theatre, 150 Wellington St., Ottawa, at 12:30 p.m. Gallery members will discuss the president’s report; invited them treasurer’s report; results of officers elected; nomination and the rest of directors and voting; life and honorary memberships; of the 14 new business; and results of directors elected. candidates to a MONDAY, FEB. 27 debate Friday between 3 and Tory leadership House Not Sitting—The House rises for the week, re- 5 p.m. at the turning to work on March 6 for one week before another week-long break, returning to work again March 20. Shaw Centre in candidates The Senate sits this week and next, and is off the week Ottawa. Tickets of March 13 for two weeks before returning March 27. are $20. The Hill Who Needs Canada?: Canada’s Role in the World— Times photograph to face off at Catch the official launch of Simon Fraser University’s by Jake Wright Public Square’s 2017 Community Summit, bringing together prominent foreign policy experts Roland Paris Manning Centre (University of Ottawa, former senior adviser on global affairs and defence to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau), Conference this Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Canadian Inuit activist, Nobel Peace FRIDAY, MARCH 3 Engineers Canada 2017 Hill Day—Engineers Prize nominee), Senator Yuen Pau Woo, and former senior Canada is hosting a reception to celebrate the work policy adviser to the Harper government Shuvaloy Majum- FOI Friday with the Canadian Taxpayers Federa- of professionally licensed engineers, students, and week dar. Panel will be moderated by CBC correspondent Laura tion—Join the Canadian Association of Journalists’ volunteers from across Canada. March 9. 238S Centre Lynch. Feb. 27. 7-9 p.m. Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Ottawa chapter to learn how to improve your use of the Block, Parliament Hill. 3:15-5 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres and Hamilton St., Vancouver. Summit events continue until federal Access to Information Act. Ahead of budget refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by Feb. 10 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22 March 8. Details: http://www.sfu.ca/publicsquare.html. day, Jeff Bowes, research director for the Canadian to [email protected]. 613-232-2474 Liberal Caucus Meeting—The Liberals will meet in Join Senator André Pratte and Jonathan Kay to cel- Taxpayers Federation, will explain how to use ATIP to ext. 215. ebrate their book, Legacy: How French Canadians Shaped follow the money and test the effectiveness of federal Room 237-C Centre Block on Parliament Hill. For more SUNDAY, MARCH 12 information, please call Liberal Party media relations at North America—Monday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m., followed programs. This session is free and open to anyone [email protected] or 613-627-2384. by a reception and book signing. Massey College at interested in ATIP (no parliamentary pass needed). NDP Leadership Debate—The first of the NDP lead- Conservative Caucus Meeting—The Conservatives will the University of Toronto, 4 Devonshire Place, RSVP to March 3, 12 to 1 p.m., National Press Building (150 ership debates begins in Ottawa. It will be bilingual. meet for their national caucus meeting. For more informa- [email protected]. Wellington St.), sixth floor. Bring your lunch. A new leader will be selected no later than Oct. 29, tion, contact Cory Hann, director of communications, Con- TUESDAY, FEB. 28 MONDAY, MARCH 6 2017. servative Party of Canada at [email protected]. MONDAY, MARCH 13 NDP Caucus Meeting—The NDP caucus will meet National Access Cannabis and PhytoSciences joint House Sitting—The House returns to work for one from 9:15 a.m.-11 a.m. in Room 112-N Centre Block, Panel Discussion—National Access Cannabis with Phy- week before a week-long break, returning to work again House Break—The House breaks March 13-17. on Wednesday. Please call the NDP Media Centre at toSciences Consultants and the Peace Naturals Project March 20. The Senate sits this week and then rises for It resumes sitting March 20-24, breaks again March 613-222-2351 or [email protected]. invite you on Tuesday, Feb. 28 for a discussion about two weeks before returning March 27. 27-31 and then sits again April 3-13. It breaks again Bloc Québécois Caucus Meeting—The Bloc Québé- their recently launched harm reduction study on the Inclusion and Diversity: Building a Modern and In- April 14-28 and resumes sitting May 1-19. The Senate cois caucus will meet from 9:30 a.m. in the Fran- potential use of cannabis as a substitute for prescrip- novative Public Service for All—The Institute of Public does not sit this week or next. It resumes sitting March cophonie room (263-S) in Centre Bock, on Wednesday. tion opiates. Guest speakers include Dr. Pritesh Kumar, Administration of Canada hosts a discussion on the 27-April 13 and is then off until May 1, at which point For more information, call press attaché Julie Groleau, Ph.D. and Dr. Shelley Turner. Fairmont Chateau Laurier, tangible steps that organizations and leaders should it will sit until May 19. 514-792-2529. 1 Rideau St., Macdonald Room, Mezzanine Level, 6 take to realize a truly inclusive federal public service. Forum for Young Canadians MP Receptions—The Forum p.m. All Parliamentarians and departmental officials March 6, 5-7:30 p.m. There is no cost to attend but MONDAY, MARCH 20 For Young Canadians will be celebrating Canada’s 150th are invited. Industry representatives and physicians will online registration is required at IPACinclusion.event- House Sitting—The House is sitting March 20-24, th anniversary by welcoming 350 secondary students from also be in attendance. Please RSVP to angelo.muscari@ brite.ca. Rideau Club, 99 Bank St., 15 floor. it breaks March 27-31 and then sits again April 3-13. across Canada to Ottawa in 2017. Main Room, Sir John nationalaccesscannabis.com. TUESDAY, MARCH 7 It breaks again April 14-28 and resumes sitting May A. Macdonald Building, 144 Wellington St., Ottawa, Fourth Conservative Leadership Debate—The fourth 1-19. The Senate does not sit this week. It resumes Feb. 22, 6-8:30 p.m. RSVP by email to ssawers@forum. party-sanctioned debate will be held on Feb. 28 at Ma- Canadian Home Builders’ Association—Join the Ca- sitting March 27-April 13 and is then off until May 1, ca or by phone at 613-233-4086. The Forum for Young clab Theatre in Edmonton, and will be the second bilin- nadian Home Builders’ Association and leading home at which point it will sit until May 19. Canadians will hold another reception on Tuesday, March gual debate. Tickets on sale from Jan. 24. Debates will builders, renovators, and developers from communi- 7 at the Marriott hotel on 100 Kent St. in the rotating res- be streamed live online for all party members and all ties across Canada at a reception and culinary tour of TUESDAY, MARCH 21 Canadians to see. All debates are open to Conservative taurant, 6-8:30 p.m., and a third reception Wednesday, Canada to mark the CHBA’s Forum For Growth 2017. OEA/CABE 2017 Spring Policy Conference—The Party members to attend. Debate moderator: Conserva- March 22, 6-8:30 p.m. also at the Marriott. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Drawing Room, Fairmont Chateau Ottawa Economics Association and the Canadian As- tive candidate for Calgary Midnapore Stephanie Kusie. Parliamentary screening and discussion—A docu- Laurier, 1 Rideau St., Ottawa, Ont. RSVP: Samuel sociation for Business Economics invite you to their an- Themes include: crime and safety, and the Conservative mentary screening of Little Gandhi: The Lost Truth of Lafontaine (Earnscliffe Strategy Group), forum@chba. nual spring policy conference, titled Pardon the Disrup- Party of Canada, its membership, its governance, and the Syrian Uprising. This 90-minute film is a moving ca, 613-563-4455. tion: Embracing the Headwinds of Economic Change. its future. The Conservative Party leadership election portrait of peace activist Ghiyath Matar, who earned Book Launch: The Unbroken Machine—Dale Smith Speakers include: Craig Alexander, senior VP and chief will be on May 27, 2017. the nickname of Little Gandhi in the early days of the will host the launch of his book, The Unbroken Ma- economist, Conference Board of Canada; Robert Hardt, Syrian revolution, when resistance was still unarmed. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 chine: Canada’s Democracy in Action, Tuesday, March president and CEO, Siemens Canada; and many more. Movie in Arabic with English subtitles; discussion in 7, 7 p.m., Le Moulin de Provence, 30 Metcalfe St., Members: $350 early bird until Feb. 17/$450 regular English and French. Feb. 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. Room Bank of Canada Release—The bank is expected to Ottawa. Light refreshments wil be served. Book will be after Feb. 17; non-members: $450/$550; student/re- 200, Sir John A. Macdonald Building. All Parliamentar- make its latest interest rate announcement. 10 a.m. available for sale. Published by Dundurn Press. tiree rate: $195 (all rates exclusive of HST). Tue., Mar. ians and staff are welcome. Please RSVP: Raj.Grewal. Senate Social: Where Politics and Media Meet and WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8 21, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Chateau Laurier Hotel. Program [email protected] by Monday, Feb 20. Tweet—The Senate of Canada in partnership with details and registration via cabe.ca. Diplomatic Hospitality Group: Canadian Heritage—The Twitter Canada presents a Senate Social. Parliamentary Liberal Caucus Meeting—The Liberals will meet in Transparency for the 21st Century—More Canadian Federation of University of Women’s Diplo- Press Gallery members are invited on March 1 to the Room 237-C Centre Block on Parliament Hill. For more than 200 Canadian and international experts and matic Hospitality Group in Ottawa invites diplomats, Sir John A. Macdonald Building, 144 Wellington St. information, please call Liberal Party media relations at advocates in access to information, open govern- their spouses/partners, and their families to this event. for this “meet and tweet.” Featuring a panel discussion [email protected] or 613-627-2384. ment, and government transparency will meet in Wednesday, Feb. 22. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Museum of on Politics via Social Media with journalists Bob Fife, Conservative Caucus Meeting—The Conservatives will Ottawa March 21-23 at the Library and Archives History + IMAX, 100 rue Laurier, Gatineau, Que. A Marie Vastel, and Waubgeshig Rice. Doors open at 5:15 meet for their national caucus meeting. For more informa- Canada for a two-day conference. With participation nominal fee will be charged to help cover costs. p.m. RSVP required: [email protected]. tion, contact Cory Hann, director of communications, Con- from the Office of the Information Commissioner of servative Party of Canada at [email protected]. THURSDAY, FEB. 23 THURSDAY, MARCH 2 Canada, the Department of Justice, Treasury Board of NDP Caucus Meeting—The NDP caucus will meet Canada Secretariat, and Library of Archives Canada Federal Budget 2017 Panel with Canadian Fiscal and Visions for Canada, 2042: Imagining a future from 9:15 a.m.-11 a.m. in Room 112-N Centre Block, in collaboration with the Canadian Committee for Tax Policy Experts—The Ottawa Economics Association Canada—This interdisciplinary conference will explore on Wednesday. Please call the NDP Media Centre at World Press Freedom, the Canadian Commission invites you to a luncheon event featuring Michael Hor- the ways innovative collaboration among researchers 613-222-2351 or [email protected]. for UNESCO, the Library of Parliament, and with a gan (senior adviser, Bennett Jones), Peter van Dijk (na- and the community may be the most effective response Bloc Québécois Caucus Meeting—The Bloc Québé- Canadian leading expert in open government. The tional tax policy leader, PwC Canada), and Sahir Khan to Canada’s future challenges. Civil servants, non-gov- cois caucus will meet from 9:30 a.m. in the Fran- conference themes will look at key issues and how (executive vice president, Institute of Fiscal Studies ernmental organization reps, university faculty, graduate cophonie room (263-S) in Centre Bock, on Wednesday. they affect a wide range of Canadians including and Democracy). Against the backdrop of heightened students, and alumni from across the ‘civic’ disciplines For more information, call press attaché Julie Groleau, aboriginal peoples, journalists, historians, librarians, global economic uncertainty the Trudeau government are all invited to participate in this three night, two-day 514-792-2529. youth, and national security experts. http://transpar- will outline in its budget its highly anticipated innova- conference in which they will discuss research and ideas Constitution 150 Charter Conference—This confer- encyconferencetransparence.ca. tion agenda. The budget will also reveal the results of that help imagine Canada’s future in 2042. The confer- ence is subtitled: The Charter and Emerging Issues Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs: Parliamen- the government’s sweeping tax expenditure review. Join ence is free to attend with the exception of two ticketed in Constitutional Rights and Freedoms: from 1982 tary Reception—Fire Chiefs from across the country the OEA for a thoughtful and lively panel discussion on opening and closing events. Highlights include a closing to 2032. Speakers line-up includes Supreme Court will descend on Parliament Hill for their advocacy Budget 2017. Members: $50 prepaid online/$80 at dinner gala at the Shaw Centre featuring Environment of Canada Justice Richard Wagner. Sponsored by the week. House Speaker Geoff Regan and the Canadian the door; non-members: $75/$100; student members: Minister Catherine McKenna. Purchase tickets via University of Ottawa’s Public Law Group as part of Association of Fire Chiefs invite MPs to the Speaker’s $25/$30 (online prices are exclusive of HST). 11:45 carleton.ca/fpa/visions for the March 2 film screening and Constitution 150. Until March 10. For more info and to Salon where they will be hosting a cocktail reception. a.m., Chateau Laurier Hotel, Drawing Room, 1 Rideau March 4 closing gala dinner. Conference runs March 2-4. register visit Constitution150.ca. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Speaker’s Salon, Room 216-N, Centre St. Details and registration via cabe.ca. All on-campus events will take place on the second floor THURSDAY, MARCH 9 Block, Parliament Hill. March 21. 2017 Manning Centre Conference—Feb. 23-25. In of Richcraft Hall (formerly the River Building), Carleton The Parliamentary Calendar is a free events listing. addition to the usual line-up at this annual gathering of University, 1125 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa. Bacon & Eggheads Breakfast—The Partnership Send in your political, cultural, diplomatic, or govern- conservatives in Canada (panel discussions, networking Ottawa Italian Women’s Filo—During International Group for Science and Engineering presents a talk, mental event in a paragraph with all the relevant details opportunities, and training sessions) this year the confer- Women’s Week, the Ottawa Italian Women’s Filò will ‘Can I Help You? The Future of Socially Assistive under the subject line ‘Parliamentary Calendar’ to ence will host a debate featuring those who are running be holding its 15th annual awards gala to pay homage Robots in Healthcare’ with Goldie Nejat, University [email protected] by Wednesday at noon before the for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (with a to the outstanding contribution that Italian-Canadian of Toronto. Thursday, March 9, 7:30 a.m. Parliamen- Monday paper or by Friday at noon for the Wednesday unique debate format). Debate: 3-5 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24, women have made to the social, cultural, and economic tary Dining Room, Centre Block. No charge to MPs, paper. We can’t guarantee inclusion of every event, but $20 (online or at the door; included in conference admis- life of Ottawa. The dinner is taking place on March Senators, and media. All others, $25. Pre-registration we will definitely do our best. sion). Shaw Centre, Ottawa. To register for the conference, 2 at the Centurion Conference and Event Centre. For required by Monday, March 6 by contacting Donna [email protected] please visit manningcentre.ca/conference. tickets, you can contact [email protected]. Boag: [email protected] or call 613-991-6369. The Hill Times AC TING TO DAY CAN PREVENT AN ACCIDENT TOMORROW.

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