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Big on Talk, Light on Action, Observers Say Heating PM on anti-Black racism: Lisa Van Dusen: Staff Where Watergate changes Big on talk, and Trump’s for light on action, White House Minister Heating Gould observers say hiccups leave collide p. 9 diplomats p. 15 out in Everything you wanted to know about the cold the PCO but were p. 6 p. 4 afraid to ask p. 7 TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 1505 CANADA’S POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2018 $5.00 News Byelections News Harassment allegations Itching to regain Mulcair’s NDP MPs back leader’s decision to ‘symbolic’ Montreal riding investigate caucus colleague Erin Weir from NDP, Hill staff er is The NDP MP has denied harassment complaints and said fi rst in expected crowded he doesn’t know what allegations the party is investigating. Liberal nomination race BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN DP leader Jagmeet Singh’s decision to announce Nthat he had appointed a third-party investigator to look into harassment allegations against NDP MP Erin Weir, and to remove the MP from caucus duties, was a “wise move,” “necessary,” and took the “right tone,” say caucus colleagues, though Mr. Weir has said he doesn’t know what is being alleged and a directly affected complainant had not as of last week come forward. Continued on page 12 News #MeToo & Politics Kinsella’s ‘affi davits’ column prompts speculation, PM, party Rachel Bendayan, pictured in 2015 as the Liberal Party candidate for Outremont, leaders asked about Que., with Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, will again sexual conduct as vie for a nomination in the Publications Mail Agreement #40068926 riding. Photograph courtesy #MeToo hits the Hill of Rachel Bendayan BY JOLSON LIM Rachel Bendayan is trying BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN It’s shaping up to be a “highly symbolic” byelection as the Liberals n response to some criticism that he fanned the to run for the Liberals a cabinet minister’s chief of staff is fi ght to regain their historic strong- Ifl ames of Ottawa’s rumour mill from a column second time, after coming A throwing her name in the ring to hold in Outremont, Que., and the he penned featuring a sensational story of a “very again become the Liberal candidate NDP seek to retain the riding that powerful” politician who used affi davits to silence about 10 points behind to fi ght in what’s expected to be a many credit as the precursor to the victims, Warren Kinsella says his assertions are tight two-way race against the NDP in so-called Orange Wave. true and he received so much reaction from people then-NDP leader Tom former leader Thomas Mulcair’s riding Continued on page 12 Continued on page 4 Mulcair in 2015. once he steps down as MP in June. 2 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2018 | THE HILL TIMES Liberal MP and parliamentary secretary Calling all (Toronto) to the House leader Kevin Lamoureux an- nounced the motion on Jan. 31, which in- journalists, you’ll want to cluded unanimous consent from the House. go to this event “As is consistent with common practice Heard on the Hill in the past, the House will not sit on the Friday before the NDP and Liberal conven- The Journalists for Human Rights tions,” said Sabrina Atwal, press secretary by Shruti Shekar organization will be hosting an event this to House Leader and Small Business and Thursday that will spotlight the importance Tourism Minister Bardish Chagger. of reporters covering human rights issues from across the world. Government The event will be hosted on Feb. 8 from House Leader 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in downtown Toronto at Improv group Bardish the Thomson Reuters headquarters. Chagger’s offi ce Guest speakers will include Al said the House Jazeera’s Owen Watson and Yemeni journal- will not be sitting ist for Alquds Alarabi Khaled Al-Hammadi. monkeys around with on Feb. 16 The journalists will talk about “interna- and April 20 to tional news and forgotten cases, how they accommodate the are underreported, and why it is so vital NDP and Liberal that Canadian media cover these stories to conventions. MP Julie Dzerowicz Canadian and global audiences,” the event The Hill Times announcement said. photograph by Tickets are $25. Andrew Meade Julie Dzerowicz, centre, was a Former Conservative staff er guest this week The NDP convention will take place on the live joins Toronto PR fi rm from Feb. 16 to 18 in Ottawa and the Lib- comedic talk eral convention will take place from April show Monkey Mike Winterburn, the speechwriter to 19 to 21 in Halifax. Toast and had a former prime minister Stephen Harper and taste of what it former Progressive Conservative On- Tom Mulcair says there was like to share tario premier Mike Harris, now works for the stage with Toronto-based public affairs fi rm, Brown & may be other endeavours an improv group. Cohen Communications & Public Affairs. The Hill Times A Jan. 24 press release indicated he will on his plate fi le photograph be an account director. Mr. Winterburn was in Mr. Harper’s offi ce from 2008 to 2012, Former leader of the NDP Tom Mulcair will and later was the director of communica- be a visiting professor at Université de Mon- iberal MP Julie Dzerowicz landed ance over the years. Ellie and I extend our tions to the transport minister. He was in tréal as soon as he fi nishes his role as an MP, Lherself a spot as a celebrity guest on sincere condolences to the entire Barrett Mr. Harris’ offi ce from 1999 to 2001. but he says he has “other offers on the table,” the Canadian live comedy show Monkey family,” B.C. Premier and NDP leaderJohn which “will be announced in due course.” Former Toast after a chance encounter with its Horgan tweeted on Feb. 2. Until those announcements though, he speechwriter and host David Shore. Mr. Barrett was fi rst elected in 1960 to the said his primary work would be at the uni- Conservative staffer “I thought he was a local resident and B.C. legislature and made history when he de- versity, teaching in the school’s new master Mike Winterburn he happened to be the host,” Ms. Dzerowicz feated W.A.C. Bennett’s fi ve-term Social Credit of environment and sustainable develop- has joined a said of the encounter last year while visit- government in 1972. ment program and in the master of public public affairs fi rm ing a farmer’s market in a park located in He led the province for only three years and international affairs program. as its account her riding of Davenport, Ont. “He liked my from 1972 to 1975 but in that time he was Mr. Mulcair said he was drawn to the director and will be sense of humour and how genuine I was… able to pass bills that protected agricultural role because it’s at “Quebec’s premier re- based in Toronto. and asked if I would be on [an episode].” land, introduced public automobile insur- search university” and he “couldn’t be more Photograph courtesy During the monthly live stage show, Mr. ance, provided affordable prescription drugs, thrilled” to work with the “top notch” people of LinkedIn Shore interviews a celebrity guest and fol- and created an ambulance service for the he’s met at the institution. lowing the interview segment, the Monkey province. “Frankly, it’s just such a wonderful Toast improv actors use the interview to opportunity to work in my favourite fi eld create various improvised scenes. Former B.C. He also was director of communications which is environment and sustainable Throughout the show, the focus goes premier Dave for other ministers covering portfolios such as development,” said Mr. Mulcair in an inter- back and forth between the interview and Barrett died labour, revenue and western diversifi cation, view with The Hill Times Monday. the actors improvising scenes. on Feb. 2 and Indigenous affairs, from 2006 to 2008. The university is in the riding he’s held Ms. Dzerowicz appeared on the show after suffering over the last decade, Outremont, which is in on Feb. 3, which was hosted at The Social Alzheimer’s Montreal, and Mr. Mulcair recounted learning Capital Theatre in Toronto. disease. The New food industry lobby of the plans many years ago to turn the for- The improv actors for her show Hill Times fi le group takes a seat at the mer rail yards into a “magnifi cent” campus. were Lisa Merchant, Marty Adams, Jan photograph On Jan. 11, Mr. Mulcair also became the Caruana, Jim Annan, Liz Johnston, table chairman of the board of directors of Earth and Kerry Griffi n. Mr. Barrett was also a federal NDP MP Day, a charitable organization that helps She said when she accepted the invitation, from 1988 to 1993 and represented the Food & Beverage Canada is a new associa- people and organizations to reduce their she wasn’t aware that there was going to be an riding of Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, B.C. His tion created to better represent smaller play- carbon footprint. improv group that would riff off her responses, area of focus was international trade. ers in the industry as they tackle the federal He was fi rst elected as an MP in 2007 but said she enjoyed it and would appear on “His sense of humour and ability to com- government’s discussions on food labelling, and became the leader of the NDP in 2012, the show again if she had the chance. mand a room with his oratory was legendary.
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