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Laura With Navdeep Bains Brian Masse David Lametti Stone is getting out Elizabeth May Martha Crago Molly Shoichet Paul of Dodge Davidson Ted Hewitt & Robert Haché pp. 21-37 p. 39 Heard on the Hill p.2 TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 1571 CANADA’S POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2018 $5.00 Elections & privacy News Election 2019News Cannabis News Nomination Political parties race spending Questions still abound set to testify limit doubles about data for 2019 election with only few weeks use, collection campaign, eff orts at creating barrier to House Aff airs recruiting female before pot legalization, Committee candidates, say MPs BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT massive policy shift epresentatives from Canada’s BY ABBAS RANA Rtop federal political parties Critics say there’s still uncertainty around whether Canadians will are set to testify before the House he spending limit for federal encounter greater scrutiny when crossing the U.S. border. There’s also the Access to Information, Privacy, Tparties’ nomination con- and Ethics Committee about how testants in the 2019 election question of when the government will implement its cost-recovery regime. they use and collect data, as part of an ongoing study into the Cam- Continued on page 19 bridge Analytica-Facebook data Canada’s federal breach and the privacy concerns Border Security it’s raised. Minister Bill Blair Nominations has been the de facto Continued on page 6 News spokesperson on cannabis throughout Alberta federal the legislative process when he served Trans Mountain Conservative as parliamentary News secretary to both the nomination voting health and justice ministers. All eyes Grits in unusual in Yellowhead will be on Canada later this month place of being during work hours when recreational marijuana will be attacked on could ‘marginalize’ legalized. The Hill Times fi le photo by both sides for riding association Andrew Meade members, say controversial Conservative Trans Mountain candidates pipeline project, Publications Mail Agreement #40068926 BY ABBAS RANA say strategists, candidate who’s seeking the pollsters Afi ercely contested Conserva- BY BEATRICE PAEZ has done the necessary ground- process when he served as par- tive nomination in the coveted work ahead of this massive policy liamentary secretary to both the BY NEIL MOSS riding of Yellowhead, Alta., is ques- ecreational pot will be legal- shift. health and justice ministers. He tioning why the party is holding Rized across Canada in a few Canada’s federal Border Secu- was formally tasked with leading he federal Liberals are being voting at two of the six locations weeks, but industry observers and rity Minister Bill Blair (Scarbor- the fi le when he was appointed to Tattacked from all sides on the during working hours on week politicos say there are still a host ough Southwest, Ont.) has been cabinet in mid-July. controversial Trans Mountain of unknowns, though they are di- the de facto spokesperson on can- Continued on page 40 vided on whether the government nabis throughout the legislative Continued on page 15 Continued on page 17 2 MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2018 | THE HILL TIMES Not a Sim: a hologram of interactive virtual pop star Maya Kodes Heard on the Hill was projected at the CMF’s annual event by Neil Moss last week. The Hill Times Photograph by Putin in ‘most dangerous’ Andrew Meade mid-life crisis in history, says Tom Nichols Russian President Vladimir Putin is nostalgic for the world as it was in 1975, when the U.S. was at its lowest point after Watergate and the resignation of Richard Nixon, a Anna Hopkins, left, and Franco Lo Presti, actors in humiliating defeat Evan Stern from CraveTV’s Letterkenney the upcoming season of Bad Blood, and New Metric in Vietnam, and is pictured at the event. The Hill Times Media’s Cassie Kraemer. The Hill Times photograph by economic recession, photograph by Andrew Meade Andrew Meade said U.S. professor Tom Nichols at a recent Macdonald- Tickets are $100 for Canadian Club sub- Laurier Institute The Canadian Media scribers, and $110 for non-subscribers. United Nations talk. Mr. Harper was the 22nd Prime Minister, photograph by Mark Fund throws a party serving from 2006 to 2015. Before then, the Garten with TV stars, producers, former Calgary MP was leader of the Conser- vative offi cial opposition from 2004 to 2006, and a hologram and leader of the former Canadian Alliance he goal of Russian interference and Nichols said Mr. Putin is not so much a Rus- party from 2002 to 2003. He’s currently is misinformation in Western democra- sian nationalist as a Soviet nostalgist. T On Sept. 26, the Canadian Media Fund the chairman of the International Democrat cies is to decrease civic engagement, says a “We’re dealing with a man that is hav- Union, an international coalition of centre- former cold warrior. ing the most dangerous mid-life crisis in (CMF) hosted its third annual showcase honouring the work of Canadian televi- right political parties, and has launched his Speaking at a talk on ‘Russia’s Chal- history,” he told the room full of current own fi rm, Harper & Associates Consulting. lenge to North American and European and former politicians, soldiers, and dip- sion and digital media at the Sir John A. Macdonald Building. [email protected] Security’ put on by the Macdonald-Laurier lomats. Conservative MP Erin O’Toole, his The Hill Times Institute on Sept. 27, Tom Nichols, a Sovi- party’s foreign affairs critic, was spotted “The Canada Media Fund helps us support, stimulate and promote Canada’s etologist and professor at the U.S. Naval sitting in the front row. CORRECTIONS: Sept. 26 issue College, said Russian President Vladimir Mr. Putin dreams of the days of 1975, creative sector, both at home and abroad. Putin’s interference in the West is increas- Prof. Nichols said, when the U.S. was at its Today, it is giving us the chance to build Re: “Access to capital, government red ingly approaching an act of war. lowest point after Watergate and the res- relationships with key players in the tape among top barriers cited by biotech “The goal is not to promote a Russian ignation of Richard Nixon, a humiliating television, fi lm and video game industries. fi rms, survey fi nds,” (The Hill Times, line,” Prof. Nichols said of the interference. “I defeat in Vietnam, and economic recession. Our government is proud to support our Sept. 26, p. 15). This story stated that the think Putin’s goal, and the Russian goal, is “This is a guy that tears up when he hears creators, producers and cultural entre- Industrial Research Assistance Program not to convince Western societies of some- the Soviet national anthem,” Prof. Nichols said. preneurs by helping them access markets belongs to Natural Resources Canada thing, it is to convince them of nothing. It is There can’t be a government solution to here and internationally, so that they can (NRCan). IRAP actually belongs to the to paralyze them.” fi ghting Russian misinformation. He said he compete with the best productions from National Research Council (NRC). The Russian dissemination of disinfor- found it “appalling” as a small-government around the world,” said Canadian Heritage • mation makes people question all informa- conservative to hear talk of any government Minister Pablo Rodriguez of the CMF at Re: “‘The conditions are ripe’: industry tion, both factual and false, he said. potentially censoring social media. the event. says it’s time for feds to consider a national “This is the goal of the Russian effort, “Just as during the Cold War, we cannot Stars from both English and French tele- bioeconomy strategy,” (The Hill Times, Sept. to completely annihilate the civic engage- become the thing we’re fi ghting against,” vision were on hand, including from Citytv’s 26, p. 16). This story in print referred to Shei- ment of a coming generation of young Prof. Nichols said. Bad Blood and CraveTV’s Letterkenney. la North as Canada’s former auditor general people in democracies,” said Prof. Nichols, The MacDonald-Laurier Institute talk was Also making an appearance was Maya when it should have said Sheila Fraser. who is also a former defence aide to the sponsored by the Latvian Ministry of Defence. Kodes, an interactive holographic pop star • late U.S. Senator John Heinz. “It is to make The Secretary of State at the Latvian Minis- created by Montreal’s Neweb Labs. Re: “MPs among thousands showing their them pull away from public life and civic try of Defence Janis Garisons also spoke at the warrior spirit for annual Army Run,” (The engagement and to throw up their hands event; his position is equivalent to the deputy Ex-PM Harper to speak Hill Times, Sept. 26, p. 2). Marco Mendicino and say ‘nothing matters, anything could minister of national defence here in Canada. and Sherry Romanado were mistakenly be a lie, anything could be true.’” Latvia is currently investigating allegations about his new book at labelled as the parliamentary secretaries for The objective, he said, is to make the that its banks were used as a way for Russian justice and veterans, respectively, when they Russian government seem not as bad as its funds to used for political interference, in Lat- Canadian Club of Toronto in fact cover infrastructure and seniors. human rights record would indicate, as Mr. via and beyond, among other things. • Putin can be seen as being equally as bad, Mr. Garisons said there is nothing new Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper Re: “I have no ‘mechanisms of lever- or equally as good, as Western leaders.