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News Access to Information News Foreign Aff airs Canadian envoys lack security Liberals won’t training: internal report BY CHELSEA NASH internal report from the foreign ministry. commit to Canadian diplomats abroad A man slammed his SUV need more security training, into pedestrians on Westminster even in so-called safe countries, Bridge in London on March 22 if they are to be better prepared before crashing it into the gates of meeting for the kind of attack that gripped the British parliament buildings, the United Kingdom last week, platform according to a newly released Continued on page 4

promises on Comment Remembering Bill Rompkey transparency Bill Rompkey and me: How a young PC staffer and a Liberal by next MP sparked a 20-year friendship long-time Parliamentarian who passed away last week at the age election of 80, possessed them all. Romp- key was the kind of guy you’d want to grow up to be, or show Conservative MPs called for you the ropes—as he did for me. Rompkey was born in the tiny the Treasury Board president community of Belleoram, N.L. An Tim Powers educator by trade, he was fi rst to explain the delay on access Plain Speak elected to Parliament in 1972, as to information reform to the a Liberal, representing the old OTTAWA—Class, grace, and riding of Grand Falls-White Bay- House Ethics Committee, kindness aren’t often words you Labrador. He went undefeated hear associated with politicians in six subsequent elections and but were voted down by the nowadays. Bill Rompkey, the for- mer cabinet minister, Senator, and Continued on page 10 committee’s Liberal majority.

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Canadians reporting contacting an elected than 25,000 signatures. offi cial themselves. Earlier this month, Government House “Canada is seen internationally as an Leader Bardish Chagger (Waterloo, Ont.) example of a vibrant and well-functioning released a discussion paper on proposed democracy,” Samara executive director changes to House standing orders, ask- Heard on the Hill Jane Hilderman said in a statement. ing MPs to consider changes such as a “However, these grades tell us that U.K.-style question period dedicated to the there’s still room for much improvement. prime minister, the elimination of Friday by Marco Vigliotti Given recent events around the world, sittings, curbing the ability of members to Canadians have reason to remain vigilant, fi libuster committee meetings, and permit- avoid complacency, and redouble their ting MPs to vote electronically. efforts to strengthen their own democracy The major opposition parties, though, and engage more fully with it.” have accused the government of pursuing After brief sojourn At 54 per cent, Canadians gave MPs and unprecedented changes that would curb political parties poor but passing grades the power of individual MPs, and mounted in regards to doing their core jobs, while a brief fi libuster last Wednesday delaying Star diversity in the House of Commons contin- the introduction of the budget in protest. at the , Paul Wells ues to be a challenge, with young people They want the Liberals to agree to and women still “signifi cantly under-repre- not pursue any changes unless they are sented,” Samara found. unanimously approved, while the govern- Despite the uptick in voter turnout, the ment maintains that the discussion paper prepares to return Samara report recorded a one percentage is merely the fi rst step in a conversation point drop from 2014 in those participating about improving Parliament. in a form of activism, as well as a fi ve per- The feud over the proposed changes Maclean’s centage point drop among those who signed has sparked heated meetings of the House to a petition. Procedure and Operations Committee, with Nationally, 71 per cent of Canadians said opposition members last week mount- they were satisfi ed with how democracy ing a fi libuster to protest the prospective Veteran works, though there were regional variances. changes. political At 69 per cent, Albertans and Quebec- The House is on a break this week but columnist Paul ers were least satisfi ed with democracy, will resume sitting on April 3. It will sit un- Wells, pictured while those from Manitoba and Saskatch- til April 13 before breaking for two weeks. alongside ewan and the Atlantic provinces were Alison Uncles, the most satisfi ed, at 80 and 76 per cent, editor-in-chief Shooting hoops for a good cause respectively, according to the report card. of Maclean’s, Parliamentarians and Hill journalists In the most populous province, Ontario, is returning will be hitting the hard-court next month to 70 per cent of respondents reported being to the raise funds for a summer camp for disad- satisfi ed with democracy. newsmagazine vantaged kids. as a senior The call has gone out seeking play- writer after Rempel lashes out against PM ers for the annual Parliament Hill charity less than a basketball tournament, set to be held on in an explicit Twitter post April 30 at Ottawa’s Adult High School in year with the The feud over reforming House proce- Toronto Star. the city’s Little Italy area. dure is spilling over to Twitter. The Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, and The Hill Times Conservative MP Michelle Rempel (Cal- fi le photo Press Gallery will fi eld one team each at gary Nose Hill, Alta.) took to the microblog- the single elimination tournament. The ging site Friday night to call out the Liberals winners of the fi rst two games, played si- for attempting to change House rules. multaneously, advance to the champion- “JT [Justin Trudeau] we are the resis- ship, while the losers duke it out in the tance. Giddyup. Good luck with your shitty third-place game. caucus meeting. We’ve got your number,” The tournament raises funds for Chris- she wrote in a post alongside a screengrab tie Lake Kids, a charity that offers recre- photo of a petition she sponsored urging ational and skill development programs the government to halt any plans to alter at no cost to economically disadvantaged procedural rules without the unanimous children in the Ottawa area. It’s most well- consent of all parties in the House. known for its free summer camp program. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Pap- The camp itself is located southwest of ineau, Que.) hosted a caucus retreat for the Ottawa, near Perth, Ont. governing Liberals on Parliament Hill this eteran political columnist Paul Wells is His book on Stephen Harper, The Lon- The Hill basketball tournament raised past weekend. heading back to Maclean’s. ger I’m Prime Minister, won the Shaugh- $20,000 for the charity in 2016. V As of March 28, the online petition on Mr. Wells announced Friday on Twitter nessy Cohen Prize, the John W. Dafoe [email protected] the offi cial Parliament website had more that he would return to the magazine as a Book Prize, and the Ottawa Book Award. The Hill Times senior writer after less than a year with the Toronto Star. Canada’s democratic Conservative MP Michelle He said he’ll be based in Ottawa and infrastructure nets Rempel took to Twitter to start next week. lambast Prime Minister “This amounts to a personal decision improving grade Justin Trudeau and to about where I feel most at home. I’m look- Canadian democracy has made sub- tout the thousands of ing forward to new adventures at [Ma- stantial improvements over the past two signatures for the petition clean’s],” he posted on Twitter. years largely thanks to increased com- she sponsored calling for “I’m really grateful to everyone at @ munication between voters and politicians the governing Liberals to TorontoStar for being welcoming and ac- and rising voter turnout, though daily can prospective changes to commodating during my time there.” participation remains “disturbingly low,” House rules. The Hill Times When reached by The Hill Times, the according to a new report card on the state photograph by Jake Wright veteran journalist said he’s “grateful for a of democratic infrastructure from Samara chance to work anywhere.” Canada, a charitable group focusing on Mr. Wells spent 13 years with Maclean’s, reconnecting citizens to politics. winning three gold National Magazine In the second-ever assessment, Samara Awards and holding the post of national awarded Canada’s democracy a B-, an im- politics editor. provement over the C it was handed in 2015. He left the magazine last May to join The group cited an increase in two-way the Star. communications between Canadians and Since then, Maclean’s has undergone their leaders, and voter turnout, which signifi cant changes as part of overhaul climbed seven percentage points from 2011 efforts by its owner, telecommunications to 68 per cent in the 2015 federal elec- giant Rogers. tion, the highest since 1993. Furthermore, Starting earlier this year, Maclean’s voter turnout among younger Canadians shifted to a monthly print schedule from its was up sharply to 57 per cent, a striking 18 traditional weekly schedule, while 13 posi- percentage point increase for 18-24 year tions at the newsmagazine were eliminated olds and a smaller but sizeable 12 percent- last month. age point hike for 25-34 year olds. But shortly before Mr. Wells’ re-hiring Samara also reported a modest uptick was announced, Maclean’s began adver- in the percentage of respondents that tising for two new editor positions in its reported having trust in their MPs, but at Ottawa bureau. 47 per cent it remains below the majority Prior to Maclean’s, Mr. Wells worked as mark. And while 88 per cent of Canadians a parliamentary columnist for the National reported being involved in their communi- Post and as a reporter and columnist with ties, only 38 per cent devoted themselves to the Montreal Gazette. political activities, with only 32 per cent of THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 3 News

all 28 members, including the massive United States arsenal, in response. Latvia lobbying other EU member Mr. Rinkevics, responding to this criticism, fl ipped the logic around. “Yes, I do believe that Russia is not going to provoke NATO, because states to follow its lead, ratify CETA there are NATO troops stationed in the eastern fl ank. That’s where the the aspects still under scrutiny by deterrence works,” he said. Latvia was the fi rst EU the individual EU legislatures, not Mr. Rinkevics said a major to be provisionally applied. concern for the NATO troops at country to ratify the Now, Mr. Rinkevics and his the Russian border is not neces- government are actively lobbying sarily physical force, but what he agreement in February. other EU member states to ratify called “hybrid attacks,” meaning the deal as quickly as possible. attacks on cyber-security, infor- BY CHELSEA NASH Primarily, Mr. Rinkevics said mation warfare, and the dissemi- Latvia is working with other nation of misinformation. Latvia’s foreign minister says Nordic-Baltic states to encourage Mr. Kalinin did not respond to the Baltic country is doing its them to ratify. a question asking for his response best to “push for” other European He said he will leave it to the to Mr. Rinkevics’ concern. Union states to follow its lead and individual countries to announce ratify the CETA trade deal with their own ratifi cation plans, but Latvia to spend two per Canada “as early as possible.” he expects some Nordic-Baltic Edgars Rinkevics was in Ot- countries to ratify the agreement cent of GDP on defence tawa last week holding high-level “soon.” meetings to discuss Canada’s by next year “There are countries that will Mr. Rinkevics said United upcoming deployment of troops probably have [a] vote on CETA States President Donald Trump for a NATO mission along Lat- [sometime] next year,” he said. Some has a point when asking fellow via’s eastern edge, which borders countries might take longer due to NATO members to put the full Russia. While that was the main political or legal reasons, he said. two per cent of their respective topic of his talks during the trip, “I think it is very important GDP into defence spending. he also discussed getting the that we continue working with “The American point is fair,” he Comprehensive Economic and those countries and we do our said. Other presidents have said Trade Agreement that Canada best to push for as early as pos- as much over the years, though and the EU signed last October to sible ratifi cation.” perhaps more diplomatically, he the fi nish line. Mr. Rinkevics said he doesn’t said with a laugh. EU institutions have given the have concerns about any one coun- But, “it is important to have po- trade deal the go-ahead, and the try not ratifying the agreement, only litical commitments,” and to fulfi ll Senate Foreign Affairs and Trade that “every country has its national them, he said. The NATO agree- Committee is in the midst of procedures and political reasons. ment to spend two per cent of GDP studying implementing legislation We should respect them, but we also on defence is not a new concept. in Canada. If that legislation is shouldn’t delay CETA for long.” Latvia’s defence spending is cur- approved by the Senate, most of He said Latvia was so quick rently at 1.7 per cent, and will reach the deal can be applied provision- to ratify the agreement because Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics was in Ottawa last week to meet two per cent by next year, he said. ally. But to get the whole thing in Latvian businesses are looking with Canadian offi cials and ministers about an upcoming Canadian-led NATO When asked if he thought place, it has to be ratifi ed by each for alternative markets to Russia. mission in his country, and the progress on Canada-EU trade deal. The Hill Canada should also increase its EU member state. The Latvian agriculture sec- Times photograph by Chelsea Nash defence spending, Mr. Rinkevics Latvia was the fi rst EU coun- tor, which develops products like said Canada has its own specifi c try to ratify the agreement on wheat, barley, and fl ax, has an reservations. Spending is one thing, Feb. 23, something Mr. Rinkevics interest in developing ties with Ca- Russia, with the fi rst troops set the NATO decision to build up its he said, but countries that use their said in an interview with The Hill nadian businesses, as does the food to be on the ground in June. The forces close to Russia’s borders defence capacity, whatever it might Times while in Ottawa last week processing industry, the pharma- mission is part of a larger NATO “does not in any way contribute be, to NATO’s benefi t still might be that he was proud of. ceutical industry, and the IT sector. show of force in the Baltics and to strengthening the security situ- contributing more than other nations “This is about promoting free “We used to have [a] huge Poland against what the alliance ation in Europe.” that spend the full two per cent, yet trade as the kind of model for volume of trade with Russia,” he sees as Russian aggression. “Russia is in no way present- don’t participate in missions. liberal global order. At the same said. But because of an economic ing a threat to anyone. However, Canada currently spends just time, addressing those negative downturn in Russia in recent we see this is a challenge and we over one per cent of its GDP on de- effects we have also seen when Canada, Latvia, and years, “they are experiencing very will fi nd necessary means to re- fence, and would have to boost the it comes to trade agreements. I real problems, and our businesses a stand against Russia spond to it,” the statement reads, budget by billions of dollars to get think this is a good model,” Mr. are very keen to explore new mar- On NATO, Mr. Rinkevics adding the mission is “reminiscent it to two per cent. Government of- Rinkevics said of the deal. kets,” the foreign minister said. maintained that the mission was of Cold War sabre-rattling,” and fi cials have defended Canada’s com- The stickiest part of the deal Trade has faltered between absolutely necessary as a deter- a “complete waste of money and mitment by stressing, as Mr. Rinkev- was a clause allowing businesses Latvia and Russia in part because rent to Russian forces. resources.” ics noted, its contributions to to effectively sue countries for of sanctions from the EU and Russia remains staunchly Some critics have suggested missions such as the recent fi ghts in perceived losses caused by gov- counter-sanctions from Russia, opposed to the deployment of Ca- that the NATO mission is point- Afghanistan and Libya. More than ernment regulation. The two sides stemming from Russia’s annexa- nadian and other NATO member less because Russia wouldn’t 150 Canadian soldiers died during had to rework that part of the deal tion of Crimea in 2014. troops to the Latvian border. likely provoke the Baltics or a decade of participation in a NATO and they say the new investment Canada is deploying troops Kirill Kalinin, a spokesper- Poland militarily, as it has in mission in Afghanistan court they’ve devised makes for a to Latvia to lead a NATO mis- son for the Russian Embassy in Ukraine, because the alliance [email protected] more progressive deal. It’s one of sion there along the border with Canada, said in a statement that would muster the full force of @chels_nash

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Mr. Crosbie said this was one area that needed signifi cant changes, in his opinion. More security training needed for Because there is no common pool of security workers for different departments to draw from, a structure Mr. Crosbie diplomats abroad: internal report recommended, if a security of- fi cer left his or her respective some heads of mission might not department to spend a desig- The report fl oats the be equipped to handle a threat or nated amount of time at Global idea of diplomats’ emergency is if they are posted Affairs, that employee would somewhere “where we have not then lose their seniority at their spouses getting secret anticipated that there would be home department, and may be security threats at the time.” set back in terms of opportuni- security clearance Over the past fi ve years, Mr. ties for promotion. Crosbie said “particularly terrorist The report supported Mr. for safety reasons. It incidents are happening in more Crosbie’s recommendation that comes at a time when places” that were not typically security staff “should be under “where these things occurred, the same umbrella,” as the report departmental spending particularly in Europe.” stated. Additionally, it says “the Ferry de Kerckhove, a former government should provide better is set to be reduced Canadian ambassador, said “train- incentives for professional de- ing has certainly been beefed velopment” for security program in part from mission up” since he was in the foreign managers and mission security service, including a “very serious offi cers. security funding. improvement in the emergency Once security offi cers reach and crisis management team.” the level of security program Continued from page 1 Mr. de Kerckhove was posted managers, “there is really no as ambassador to Cairo from 2008 farther for them to go,” the report to 2011, and saw the beginning said. “This means that many and stabbing an unarmed police qualifi ed people who genuinely offi cer. He was gunned down by of Egypt’s Arab Spring political crisis. He said during that time he enjoy the challenge of resilience other security offi cials, leaving work, either become restless and fi ve dead including himself. The Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. Increased security and resilience training is was on the phone to Global Affairs “about twice a day, and there was leave, or atrophy from the lack of attack was reminiscent of another needed for foreign diplomats due to an increasingly complex security environment, a challenge.” attack on the Canadian Parlia- an internal report from her ministry states. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright about 70 people on the line.” All of them had some role in ensuring a [email protected] ment Buildings in 2014 that left The Hill Times one person dead. This comes after the department includes tailored security training smooth transition as Mr. de Kerck- The foreign ministry re- depleted a 10-year, $643.4-million programs and physical security hove’s posting came to an end. port, dated July 2016 and re- fund to “address security defi cien- upgrades for our overseas mis- Plus, he said ambassadors and leased through an access to infor- cies” in its network of missions sions,” Mr. O’Shaughnessy said other heads of mission are posted mation request, begins by stating abroad that began under the in an email. All of this is done in in that role “because they think that “the challenge to the security previous Conservative government “close collaboration” with “inter- your judgment is good.” 25 most of Canada’s missions abroad is a in 2007. Funding in recent years national partners.” more complex issue than in the has helped to facilitate security According to the Global Af- Should spouses of mission dangerous past.” This increased complexity upgrades at high-risk missions and fairs departmental planning re- train new security program manag- port for 2016-17, “much progress staff have secret clearance? is caused by “threats to missions Another common theme ers for high-threat missions. has been achieved,” in terms of countries in abroad from non-state actors or throughout the report was that The SEMCOP report ana- mission security, “such as the political events” and natural disas- spouses of diplomats and all Can- lyzed previous reports written completion of baseline threat as- the world ters. Threats were once determined ada-based staff at the mission, on embassy security—including sessments for over 170 missions “according to their location in a whether they be immigration or one by audit fi rm KPMG, and one by the end of 2015-16, and the This is ranked, from most developing country or proximity defence ministry offi cials, ought conducted by Reid Morden, a for- deployment of over 150 dedicated dangerous to least, according to to a war zone,” but “events in Paris, to have “secret” security clearance. mer CSIS director—best practices mission security professionals to the Global Peace Index 2016, by Brussels, Tokyo,” etc. contradict the Sonia Hooykaas, who is re- around the world, and 23 inter- high-risk missions.” the Institute for Economics and traditional threat-level hierarchy of ferred to in the report as a deputy views with federal government It also states that “a culture of Peace (the 2015 version of which “developed [versus] undeveloped,” director responsible for regional staff working on mission security. security awareness and the adop- is listed in the internal foreign or “peaceful versus confl ict zone.” operations in the foreign service, Key recommendations in- tion of appropriate security behav- ministry mission-security report). The report, titled the “security was cited in the report as having cluded increased security training, iours by employees at missions Checkmarks indicate where and emergency management com- said she was in Nairobi, Kenya two increased funding for security will be enhanced” by the “timely Canada has a diplomatic mission munities of practice project” (SEM- and a half weeks before a mass training, and a need to share infor- provision of training relevant to or some other form of offi cial COP), calls for the department shooting and grenade attack at the mation within Global Affairs. The security challenges abroad and representation. Xs indicate to boost security and resilience city’s Westgate Mall that resulted in report detailed challenges with the demonstrated security leadership where Canada has no diplomatic training for staff abroad, and tak- the death of an off-duty Canadian way security information, includ- by senior management.” presence. ing that out of funds for security immigration offi cial who was there ing training, is communicated. infrastructure. Specifi cally, it rec- shopping with her spouse. It implied some foreign service ommends that fi ve per cent of all Heads of mission Ms. Hooykaas and Mr. Stevens 1 Syria X offi cers do not receive the basic funding directed towards security both recommended that spouses 2 South Sudan ✔ security training they are sup- sometimes unequipped infrastructure be put towards be given secret clearance, some- ✔ posed to before being sent abroad. for security threats 3 Iraq increased security training for thing the report referred to sev- The report recommends that Some of the recommendations 4 Afghanistan ✔ members of the foreign service. eral times, though it was not part “all property upgrade funding and comments from those inter- 5 Somalia X Canada’s foreign ministry of the fi nal recommendations. The requests contain a fi ve per cent viewed suggest heads of missions supports close to 2,200 employees idea was that if spouses have se- 6 Yemen X component for training of mis- were occasionally unequipped to ✔ from 37 partner agencies, in addi- cret clearance, they will be made 7 Central African sion staff.” It also recommends deal with threats to the mission. tion to 5,500 of its own employees aware of any impending threats Republic specifi c increases in security Dave Stevens, identifi ed in the who work abroad, according to to the mission, and will therefore 8 Ukraine ✔ training depending on the level report as a military police security the government. be able to make more informed ✔ of the foreign service offi cer. For specialist, or MPSS, responsible 9 Sudan The SEMCOP report comes at decisions relating to their safety, instance, the report recommends for the MPSS program at mis- 10 Libya X a time when spending on mission such as when to stay home. foreign service offi cers in security sions abroad, recommended in his 11 Pakistan ✔ security is being curbed some- Mr. Crosbie said any threat program management positions comments that “when [a head of 12 Democratic Republic of ✔ what, after a recent funding push. to any Canadian abroad, not just be required to receive 12 weeks mission] is a problem: [a regional the Congo Global Affairs’ departmental those working at diplomatic mis- of training, including certifi cation. mission offi cer] should discuss ✔ plan for 2017-18 notes that a de- sions, is made public as soon as it 13 Russia Responding to emailed ques- with [the regional assistant deputy crease in overall planned spending is known, and that Global Affairs 14 North Korea X tions about the current security minister]; [assistant deputy minis- on Canada’s network abroad from works closely with its allies such 15 Nigeria ✔ training foreign offi cers receive ter] calls and gives direction.” $753-million this year to $657-mil- as the United States to determine ✔ and whether the department had Military police security 16 Palestine lion in 2018-19 is attributable, in threat levels at any given mission. ✔ part, “to a reduction in funding plans to implement the recom- specialists are sent to Canadian 17 Colombia ✔ for security at missions abroad” mendations from the report, missions from the Department of 18 Lebanon in the amount of $10.3-million. Global Affairs spokesperson Mi- National Defence. Security offi cers lack 19 Turkey ✔ William Crosbie, who retired For the following year, 2019-20, chael O’Shaughnessy said “we do 20 Israel ✔ in 2015 from his position as as- career advancement another decrease in funding for not comment on specifi c fi ndings 21 Venezuela ✔ for operational security reasons.” sistant deputy minister in charge opportunities mission security is mentioned as 22 Egypt ✔ “We maintain a robust security of consular, security, and legal Another common complaint in contributing the overall decrease ✔ system which monitors ongoing affairs at Global Affairs and once the report was that security offi cers 23 India in planned spending. For that year, ✔ the reduction in spending on mis- requirements. We take action worked as Canada’s ambassador lack career advancement opportu- 24 Mexico sion security will be $5.5-million. to respond accordingly. This to Afghanistan, said the reason nities within the department. 25 Philippines ✔ THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 5 News Parliament’s budget nearing $700-million, up almost 18 per cent in Trudeau era Under the If approved, funding for the Senate alone 2017-18 main will rise by $29-million from 2015-16 in estimates, spending on the what staff largely credit to the appointment host of Parliament services will of new members and caucus realignment. surge to nearly $700-million, BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI vember 2015, while the former with $476-million Conservative government made going to the The Trudeau government is 59 appointments over the course House, and planning to increase funding for of its near decade in power. the Senate, Parliament again this year, bring- Ms. Delaney also pointed to pictured, taking ing it close to $100-million higher changes in caucus affi liations as in $103-million. than when the Liberals fi rst cause for the increasing expen- The Hill Times took offi ce, as costs for salaries, ditures. photograph by Jake offi ces, and benefi ts grow along The past year has seen a new Wright with membership in the expanded caucus made up of non-affi liated House and revamped Senate. Senators emerge as the second Money set aside for the Hill, largest bloc in the Upper Cham- including costs for security and ber, outpacing the dwindling research, hit $696-million under ranks of Liberal members and ten fail to include new initiatives cent to $171-million, from $164-mil- 2016. It’s scheduled to take effect the main estimates for 2017-18, nipping on the heels of the lead- announced in the budget because lion in 2015-16, while $304-million on April 1. representing a roughly $5-mil- ing Conservatives. they are prepared in advance. will be allocated to the offi ces of Minutes for BOIE meetings, lion increase from what was allo- The caucus is mostly made up The estimates have to be MPs and House offi cers, the esti- which are closed to the public, are cated for the previous fi scal year, of members appointed under the tabled in the House by March mates show, a $45-million, 17 per often released months later. including the top-ups in the 2016- new process instituted by Prime 1 under the standing orders, cent hike from 2015-16 expenditures. Ms. Bradley said the funding 2017 supplementary estimates. Minister Justin Trudeau (Papine- whereas Budget 2017 was pub- Heather Bradley, director of for security resources and en- It’s also roughly $100-million au, Que.) designed to break with licly revealed on March 22. communications for the speaker of hancements are for the Corporate more than what was spent in 2015- the tradition of awarding party As such, new initiatives con- the House, attributed the funding Security Offi ce (CSO) to address 16, the fi rst fi scal year operating insiders with plum posts in the tained in the annual spending increases to security enhance- gaps in service delivery, initiate with an expanded House of Com- Upper Chamber. plan are mostly included in the ments, the cost of maintaining security improvement projects, mons and under Liberal rule. As a result, Ms. Delaney said supplementary estimates or in buildings and digital infrastructure; to work more effi ciently within The House expanded from 308 the Senate is now funding four next year’s main estimates. increases to member offi ce budgets the integrated security model of to 338 members after the October different caucuses: the govern- The expenditures that are and supplements, and house offi ce the Parliamentary Precinct, and 2015 election, which also brought ment, offi cial opposition (Con- detailed in the main estimates are budgets; and hosting duties for sev- to continue to address specifi c in nearly 200 new MPs. servatives), Independent Senate approved by Parliament through eral parliamentary conferences recommendations made by the The Upper Chamber, however, Group (non-affi liated Senators), either ongoing statutory expen- scheduled in the coming year. Offi ce of the Auditor General. is set to see the biggest increase and Senate Liberals, which has ditures or annually voted appro- Offi ce supplements refer to A large number of employees in relation to its budget size. no formal connection to the Grit priations, which become part of additional funds made available to and their associated budgets were Funding for the Senate will caucus in the House. an appropriation bill. MPs on top of their basic $349,100 transferred from the CSO to the rise by more than $13-million The government caucus is made Despite the forecasted wind- offi ce budget to account for more Parliamentary Protective Service from last year to $103-million up of the three members tapped by fall for the Upper Chamber, the heavily populated or geographically upon its creation in 2015, she said. under the planned allocations in Mr. Trudeau to represent his gov- House is still set to reap the lion’s sprawling ridings, as well as several Following the transfer, Ms. the main estimates. ernment in the Upper Chamber. share of parliamentary funding in mostly large and rural ridings ex- Bradley said additional funding The largest contributor is an The caucus’ $1.7-million bud- the estimates, with the Commons plicitly mentioned in schedule three was requested in order to meet additional $10.8-million ear- get, however, is based on its role allocated $476-million. of the Canada Elections Act. the CSO’s mandate, maintain ser- marked for research and offi ce representing the government, not The Parliamentary Protective The secretive all-party body that vice levels, and “continue to meet expenses for Senators, Senate its size, according to Ms. Delaney. Service (PPS), which coordinates handles internal House business, increasing security demands” caucuses, house offi cers (leaders, Senator Peter Harder (Ontario) policing in the Hill precinct, is the Board of Internal Economy, ap- for security-related activities not whips, and similar postings), and holds the new post of government slated to take in $68.2-million, proved the forecasted expenditures provided by the PPS. the speaker’s offi ce, according to representative in the Senate (replac- while the Library of Parliament for the upcoming fi scal year during There was also $1.5-million fi gures provided by Senate staff. ing the former government leader will receive $47.7-million, a $4.7 a late November meeting. set aside to fund a 20 per cent The remaining $3-million was role), with Senator Diane Bellemare million increase from last year’s According to the minutes of the increase to member’s offi ce budget made up of a $1-million hike in (Alma, Que.) serving as his legis- main estimates. meeting, the largest source of new supplements and $407,511 to cover travel expenses for Senators, a lative deputy, and Senator Grant The speaker of the Senate and spending in this year’s estimates the cost of another infl ation-tied $941,000 hike in basic and ad- Mitchell (Alberta) taking on the du- the speaker of the House of Com- will be the $3.6-million set aside for increase in House offi cers’ budgets. ditional allowances and pensions, ties of government liaison or whip. mons are responsible for the PPS, security resources and enhance- Another $60,256 is set aside to an adjustment to the employee Ms. Delaney also referenced which is under the control and ments, followed by the $2.4-million cover pay raises for parliamen- benefi ts plan that cost $479,000, an increase in Senators’ offi ce management of its director, who allocated for life cycle costs of build- tary pages. $364,000 for international and budgets to allow members to is a member of the RCMP. ing components and connectivity, The BOIE voted in December interparliamentary affairs, and “fulfi ll their responsibilities” The Library of Parliament owes and the $2.3-million earmarked to 2015 to increase member budgets $80,000 for Senate administration under the Upper Chamber’s new its increased budget to a larger cover a 1.8 per cent infl ation-tied by 20 per cent and then in May salaries and operating budgets. commitment to “enhance outreach workload, with research, analysis, hike in member offi ce budgets. 2016 voted to increase the offi ce If the forecast proves pre- and engagement with Canadians.” and reference requests from Par- The rate of the increase was supplements by the same amount. scient, funding for the Senate will It was also designed, she said, liamentarians “signifi cantly higher” determined by the consumer price [email protected] rise by $29-million or nearly 40 to address the gap in funding be- since the start of the 42nd Parlia- index as measured in September The Hill Times per cent over the course of just tween affi liated Senators and ment in November 2015, mostly be- two fi scal years. non-affi liated Senators. cause of the higher number of MPs Senate spokesperson Jacqui However, Ms. Delaney cau- and Senators, according to spokes- Delaney largely credited the tioned that the numbers for person Nancy Durning. growing contingent of Sena- 2017-18 are only estimates, noting The main estimates 2017-18 “The new resources will allow tors for spurring the funding that the Senate “consistently” the library to increase its research, increases, with vacancies in the comes in under budget. Voted expenditures: $102-billion (2016-17 to date total: $103.18-billion) analysis and reference capacity to 105-member Upper Chamber “When we prepare the esti- Statutory expenditures: $155.78-billion (2016-17 to date total: $153.98-billion) serve Parliament and Parliamen- dropping from 22 after the 2015 mates for our upcoming budget tarians, both individually and as election to just fi ve currently. there are still many unknowns members of parliamentary com- Biggest spenders by department, agency, offi ce, “For the fi rst time in many that have to be taken into consid- mittees and associations,” she said and corporation years the Senate has almost a full eration,” she said. in an emailed statement. complement of Senators,” she told “Therefore, we analyze trends Department of Finance: $90.1-billion In the House, funding is slated The Hill Times. to make a budget recommenda- to grow by more than $13-million Department of Employment $57.4-billion “This is a more than 20 per cent tion based on the best assump- from what was initially estimated and Social Development: increase and automatically increas- tions and an assessment of what for last year, and by more than Department of Indian Affairs $10-billion es pretty much every envelope.” is reasonable.” $52-million compared to con- and Northern Development: “It’s sheer numbers.” The main estimates present fi rmed spending totals for 2015-16. Offi ce of Infrastructure of Canada: $7-billion The Trudeau government has the government’s spending plans The budget for House adminis- fi lled 27 vacancies in the Senate for each government organization Treasury Board Secretariat: $6.5-billion tration staff will jump about four per since assuming offi ce in No- for the upcoming year, though of- 6 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 | THE HILL TIMES News

Conservative MP David Yurdiga biggest Yurdiga, right, was the biggest spender spender in the among MPs over the fi rst three quarters of 2016- 17, which House for most he largely attributed to hiring additional of 2016, Speaker staff to assist constituents in the wake of the Regan among devastating Fort McMurray wildfi re last the thriftiest spring. The Hill Times photograph by Conservative David several predominantly sprawl- Andrew Meade ing ridings explicitly mentioned Yuridga expensed in schedule three of the Canada Elections Act. $427,322 during the The expenditure reports break who passed away from ALS in formed by parliamentary staffers. Mr. Fortin has since been down costs by those directly mid-August, recorded $119,643 “For awhile it was just myself on replaced as leader by Martine last nine months of charged to an MP’s individual of- in expenses, followed by former the Hill, and...having to do much Ouellet, a member of Quebec’s 2016, more than any fi ce budget and resources provid- Conservative prime minister of everything myself, I began to provincial assembly. ed by House administration. This Stephen Harper at $122,950. He almost see through time I was so Mr. Yurdiga was also the big- other MP during refers to costs incurred by the resigned his seat in the House busy,” he said with a chuckle. gest spender in the House over House administration to support near the end of August. “I’ve always had an apprecia- the fi rst two quarters of 2016, that span. MPs in their parliamentary func- House Speaker Geoff Regan tion of Hill staff and constituency racking up nearly $293,000 in tions, and travel costs for claims (Halifax West, N.S.) followed at staff but now it is triple the appre- expenses from the beginning of that have yet to be processed. $175,497, though because of his ciation, having to do everything April to the end of September. Continued from page 1 Mr. Yurdiga expensed $349,066 as position he’s entitled to some myself during that time period.” [email protected] part of his member’s budget, while perks that could be responsible He said he lost one staff mem- The Hill Times He also spent $62,652 on another $78,255 in costs were shoul- for lowering his expenses. ber because of a promotion, while offi ce-related expenses, includ- dered by House administration. By virtue of the job, Mr. the other staffer was on tempo- ing $41,792 in constituency offi ce Collectively, taxpayers footed Regan receives a car and driver, rary leave. leases, insurance, and utilities. the bill for $95.69-million in a private apartment in Centre Staffi ng issues aside, Mr. MP offi ce The period captures activities expenses for MPs from April 1 to Block, and access to The Farm, Sheehan said he’s always been from April 1 to Dec. 31, 2016. Dec. 31. the Speaker’s offi cial residence “very conscious” when it comes spending from Mr. Yurdiga said the devastat- At $54.88-million, employee across the border in Chelsea. to spending taxpayer mon- ing wildfi re that swept through salaries were the largest cost, As such, the East Coast MP ey throughout his political career, April 1 to Dec. northern Alberta last spring while $4.16-million was spent didn’t report any secondary resi- including his four terms on Sault helped infl ate his expenses, espe- on secondary residences, dency costs. Ste. Marie City Council prior to 31, 2016 cially staffi ng costs. and $8.15-million for member Liberal MP Terry Sheehan his election to the House in 2015. “The Fort McMurray wildfi re travel, in addition to $1.16-mil- (Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) was the “I recognize the value of the BIGGEST SPENDERS devastated the community,” he lion on designated travellers. thriftiest MP among those in of- taxpayer dollar and it’s important 1 - Conservative David Yurdiga - $427,322 told The Hill Times in a statement. Under House rules, MPs are per- fi ce for the entirety of the three to me to make sure their money is 2 - Conservative Bob Zimmer - $396,323 “There was a surge of casework mitted to allocate some of their quarters and who do not hold an maximized,” he said. 3 - New Democrat Niki Ashton - $385,446 post fi re, I hired more staff so that authorized travel resources for a additional House position, record- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 4 - Conservative Chris Warkentin - $380,541 we could get constituents back on designated traveller (typically a ing $176,183 in expenses. (Papineau, Que.) was the third- 5 - Liberal Yvonne Jones - $369,989 their feet as fast as possible.” spouse or dependant). He expensed $76,491 for em- least expensive MP among those 6 - Conservative Todd Doherty - $366,389 In total, the fi re caused an Mr. Yurdiga expensed roughly ployee salaries, $17,580 on adver- serving the entirety of the fi rst 7 - Conservative James Bezan - $365,919 estimated $3.58-billion in insured $90,815 in travel and accommoda- tising, $5,018 in printing costs for three quarters of 2016-17, racking 8 - New Democrat Randall Garrison - $364,118 damages, ranking as the most tion expenses, including $11,343 household mailers, $1,012 on gifts up $192,691 in offi ce costs. 9 - Conservative Andrew Scheer - $362,548 costly natural catastrophe in Ca- for staff travel, $41,561 for his and hospitality, $16,000 for a second- Location, however, may have 10 - New Democrat Nathan Cullen - $357,395 nadian history ahead of the 2013 own travel, and $23,777 for his ary residence, and $2,891 for service been a factor in driving up costs 11 - Liberal Randeep Sarai - $354,990 fl oods in southern Alberta. designated traveller, his wife contracts: professional, technical, or for Mr. Yurdiga, Mr. Zimmer, and 12 - Conservative Mike Lake - $354,279 The wildfi re began at the start Kathy, as well as money spent on administrative services, or expertise other MPs representing western 13 - Conservative Kelly Block - $351,727 of May and prompted an unprece- accommodations and per diems. provided to members. and remote ridings, specifi cally 14 - Conservative Cathy McLeod $350,733 15 - New Democrat Kennedy Stewart $349,007 dented evacuation of the oilsands He spent $23,284 on secondary He also spent $32,952 on travel those for travel and staffi ng. 16 - Liberal Jati Sidhu $348,752 hub, Fort McMurray. For the most residence costs over the nine- For example, Fort McMurray and accommodation, and rough- 17 - New Democrat Romeo Saganash $348,090 part, residents weren’t allowed month span. ly $23,478 on offi ce expenses, is located approximately 3,700 18 - Liberal John Aldag $347,982 back into the city until June. Conservative MP Bob Zimmer including $15,780 on constitu- kilometres from Ottawa, while 19 - Liberal Bob Nault $346,538 At the end of the third quarter (Prince George-Peace River- ency offi ce leases, insurance, and populous Toronto, home to 25 20 - Liberal Carla Qualtrough - $346,234 of the previous year, 2015-2016, Mr. Northern Rockies, B.C.) was utilities. federal ridings, is only 450 kilo- Yurdiga had expensed signifi cantly the second-biggest spender Mr. Sheehan forked over metres away. LOWEST SPENDERS less: a little more than $258,000. with $396,323 in expenses. Staff roughly $800 on additional print- Furthermore, MPs repre- 1 - Conservative Glen Motz - $44,591 (from Oct. The quarterly expenditure re- salaries were his largest cost at ing expenses, including $207.68 senting larger, more sparsely 26 onward) ports track spending by MPs for $181,775.46, followed by member on so-called ten-percenters, party populated ridings typically have 2 - Liberal Mauril Bélanger - $119, 643 (up until Aug. 19) the purpose of their parliamen- travel at $65,481. political fl yers MPs can mail constituency offi ces in more than 3 - Conservative Stephen Harper - $122,950 (up tary functions, and are processed Mr. Zimmer represents a out at no cost to themselves to one community. until Aug. 26) by House administration staff. sprawling northern B.C. riding that the equivalent of 10 per cent of In fact, the fi ve biggest spending 4 - House Speaker Geoff Regan - $175,497 Those costs include travel be- extends from regional hub Prince households in their constituency. MPs all represent remote, largely 5 - Liberal Terry Sheehan - $176,183 tween their ridings and Ottawa, gifts, George to the Yukon border. Comparatively, Mr. Yurdiga ex- rural ridings, while only two MPs 6 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau - $192,691 hospitality expenses like hosting Conversely, Conservative pensed $5,338 in ten-percenters. in the top 20 represent ridings 7 - Liberal Darrell Samson - $196, 590 town halls, and a secondary resi- MP Glen Motz (Medicine Hat- Mr. Sheehan partly cred- outside of western Canada. 8 - Liberal Bardish Chagger - $197,926 dence, if necessary, close to the Hill. Cardston-Warner, Alta.) posted ited staff turnover in his offi ce for As for the party leaders, interim 9 - Liberal Julie Dzerowicz - $205,500 The Board of Internal Econo- the lowest expenses of any MPs lowering spending totals during Conservative chief Rona Ambrose 10 - Liberal Carolyn Bennett - $205, 988 11 - Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia $207,297 my, the secretive all-party body at $44,591, though he only of- the latter half of 2016. (Sturgeon River-Parkland, Alta.) 12 - Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj - $208,122 that regulates the House like a fi cially took his seat in the House He said he was down a staff posted the largest expenses bill at 13 - Liberal Stéphane Lauzon - $208,397 city council, dictates member in late October. As such, his member in both his Hill and $342,321, followed by Green Party 14 - Liberal Majid Jowhari - $211,623 spending policies. expenses only capture a roughly constituency offi ces for roughly a Leader Elizabeth May (Saanich-Gulf 15 - Liberal René Arseneault - $217,307 It set member budgets for two-month period. month and a half over that period, Islands, B.C.) with $334,964, NDP 16 - New Democrat Daniel Blaikie - $217,617 2016-17 at $349,100, with ad- The next two thriftiest MPs prompting him to assume a larger Leader Thomas Mulcair (Outremont, 17 - Liberal Ahmed Hussen - $219,628 ditional funds made available also weren’t in offi ce for the share of offi ce duties, and in turn Que.) at $273,098, and interim Bloc 18 - Liberal Kyle Peterson - $220,392 for heavily populated ridings, entirety of the reporting period: impart on him a greater appre- Québécois head Rhéal Fortin (Rivière- 19 - Liberal Kamal Khera - $221,124 geographically large ones, and Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger, ciation of the tireless work per- du-Nord, Que.) with $248,343. 20 - Conservative Scott Reid - $221,604 THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 7 News Liberals won’t commit to meeting platform promises on transparency by next election Liberal MPs voted Conservative MPs called for the Treasury down Conservative Board president to explain the delay on access MP Pat Kelly’s motion last week to information reform to the House Ethics that the minister responsible for Committee, but were voted down by the the Access to Information Act, committee’s Liberal majority. Scott Brison, appear before Continued from page 1 through last year, and there was the House Ethics no new money announced for Committee to the commissioner in last week’s explain the pause week, which quoted a statement budget. on proposed from Mr. Brison’s offi ce say- transparency ing changes to the government Changing technology reforms. The Hill transparency regime would be Times photograph postponed without a timeline for drives need for reviews by Peter Mazereeuw completion, to allow time to “get The Liberal government prom- it right.” ised several reforms to the law “We are moving forward to and procedures governing access modernize the act, but again, we to information requests, through will get it right by ensuring that which members of the public can we take into account the privacy obtain government emails, docu- of Canadians, the independence ments, and data, though they are of the judiciary, and the work of often withheld or heavily redact- the public service in terms of its ed through broad exemptions in objectivity,” Mr. Brison told The the Access to Information Act. Hill Times. The Liberals campaigned However, Mr. Brison’s of- on promises to undertake a fi ce, via a written statement, did full review of the Act every fi ve recommit to a two-stage approach years; to make government data to overhauling Canada’s access available in more user-friendly to information regime, including formats; to waive most user fees “initial legislative changes” as associated with requests; to give well as a formal review in 2018. the federal information commis- Mr. Brison announced last year committee chair, Conservative MP “explain himself.” Fellow Conser- Mr. Brison’s offi ce did not clarify sioner the power to compel docu- that the fi rst legislative review Blaine Calkins (Red Deer-Lacombe, vative Matt Jeneroux (Edmonton whether the legislative changes ments from government; and to of the Access to Information Alta.), who did not vote, as per Riverbend, Alta.) made a similar would be completed before next open ministers’ offi ces, the PMO, Act would not begin until next convention. The six Liberals on the pitch to the group. None of the year’s review, or if the review and administrative institutions year. He told The Hill Times last committee defeated the motion, 6-3. Liberals MPs spoke to the motion, would be fi nished prior to the that support Parliament and the week that regular reviews would Mr. Kelly told the commit- nor did NDP MP Karine Trudel election. courts to access requests. ensure the Access to Information tee that Mr. Brison appeared to (Jonquière, Que.), who was there Despite orders from Prime Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Act would never become out of be “on his way” to breaking the as a substitute for Daniel Blaikie Minister Justin Trudeau to make (Papineau, Que.) has also ordered date, as it is now, saying that was government’s promises to reform (Elmwood-Transcona, Man.). government information “open that all government information be “important given the rapidity of the Access to Information Act, [email protected] by default,” Canada’s access to made “open by default” to the public. change of digital information and and said he should be called to @PJMazereeuw information regime is under fi re Mr. Brison has already ordered technology.” from multiple sides. Parliamen- that all fees beyond a $5 initial tarians are still complaining that fi ling fee for requests be waived, they are being denied access and that data be made available Liberals block call to bring to government documents and in user-friendly formats. The re- Brison before committee data. The number of total access mainder of the government’s ac- The Liberal majority on the Status of Bills to information requests is rising cess to information promises have House Access to Information, year over year, and the number of been put on the back-burner. Privacy, and Ethics Committee HOUSE OF COMMONS • C-38, An Act to amend an Act to amend the complaints over slow responses Mr. Brison’s offi ce had told voted down a motion last week • S-2, Strengthening Motor Vehicle Safety for Criminal Code (exploitation and traffi cking in Canadians Act (second reading) persons) (second reading) to requests, or improperly re- The Hill Times just last month that that would have summoned Mr. • C-39, An Act to amend the Criminal Code dacted or withheld documents, is changes to open up ministers’ offi c- Brison to explain his decision to • C-5, An Act to Repeal Division 20 of Part 3 of the rising along with it. The Offi ce of es and the PMO to access requests Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1 (second (unconstitutional provisions) (second reading) postpone the access to informa- reading) the Information Commissioner, would be introduced before the • C-42, Veterans Well-being Act (second reading) tion reforms. • C-7, An Act to amend the Public Service Labour which manages those complaints, winter’s end—a timeline that tech- • C-43, An Act respecting a payment to be made out The motion was put forward Relations Act, Public Service Labour Relations and of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to support a is unlikely to clear a backlog of nically expired last week at around by Conservative MP Pat Kelly Employment Board Act, and others (RCMP union pan-Canadian artifi cial intelligence strategy (second complaints despite a temporary the same time of Mr. Brison’s (Calgary Rocky Ridge, Alta.), and bill) (consideration of amendments made by the reading) infl ux of cash for that purpose offi ce’s statement to the Canadian supported by the NDP and Conser- Senate) • C-12, An Act to amend the Canadian Forces from the Treasury Board mid-way Press dismissing that target. vative members, not counting the SENATE Members and Veterans Re-establishment and • S-3, An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of Compensation Act (second reading) sex-based inequities in registration) (committee) • C-17, An Act to amend the Yukon Environmental and • S-5, An Act to amend the Tobacco Act and the Non- Socio-economic Assessment Act (second reading) smokers’ Health Act (committee) • C-21, An Act to amend the Customs Act (second reading) Liberal campaign promises around access • C-4, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code, • C-22, National Security and Intelligence Committee Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act, to information of Parliamentarians Act (third reading) Public Service Labour Relations Act, and Income Tax • C-23, Preclearance Act (committee) Act (third reading) Promise Fulfi lled? • C-24, An Act to amend the Salaries Act and the • C-6, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (third reading) Financial Administration Act (second reading) Make it easier for Canadians to access information by eliminating all Yes • C-16, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights • C-25, An Act to amend the Canada Business Act and the Criminal Code (committee) fees, except for the initial $5 fi ling fee. Corporations Act, Canada Cooperatives Act, Canada • C-18, An Act to amend the Rouge National Urban Government data and information should be open by default, in Partially. Data is more often available in user-friendly formats, but Not-for-profi t Corporations Act, and Competition Act Park Act, Parks Canada Agency Act, and Canada formats that are modern and easy to use. We will update the Access information is often still withheld from media and Parliamentarians, (report stage) National Parks Act (second reading) to Information Act to meet this standard. and the Act has not been changed. The minister responsible, • C-27, An Act to amend the Pension Benefi ts • C-30, Canada-European Union Comprehensive however, has issued an interim directive strongly encouraging Standards Act, 1985 (second reading) Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act federal offi cials to make information open by default. • C-28, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (victim (committee) surcharge) (second reading) Expand the role of the information commissioner, giving them the Not yet • C-31, Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement • C-32, An Act related to the repeal of section 159 of Implementation Act (committee) power to issue binding orders for disclosure. the Criminal Code (second reading) • C-37, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Ensure that Access to Information applies to the Prime Minister’s Not yet • C-33, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act Substances Act (committee) and ministers’ offi ces, as well as administrative institutions that (second reading) • C-40, Appropriation Act No. 5, 2016-17 (awaiting support Parliament and the courts. • C-34, An Act to amend the Public Service Labour fi rst reading) Undertake a full legislative review of the Access to Information Not yet; promised for 2018 Relations Act and other Acts (second reading) • C-41, Appropriation Act No. 1, 2017-18 (awaiting Act every fi ve years. • C-36, An Act to amend the Statistics Act (committee) fi rst reading) 8 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 | THE HILL TIMES

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Editorial Letters to the Editor South Sudan deserves Turkey’s take on the confl icts in your attention its neighbourhood outh Sudan, the world’s newest coun- in the House. And the Liberals later asked e: “Trump must choose a side in the try, is in crisis, and not many people about it too, lobbing a softball question to S Sunni-Shia war” (The Hill Times, are paying attention. the international development minister R March 22, p. 9). I would like to note that The landlocked African country broke so she could tout a recent announcement on July 19, 2015, Executive Council Co- apart from Sudan after decades of war in of $120-million to provide food, drinking Chair of the Kurdistan Workers Party 2011. But within a couple years, innocent water, and health care. (PKK) (which is listed as a terror orga- civilians were once again stuck in a country That’s commendable. But Canada can nization in Canada) Cemil Bayık stated in full-fl edged confl ict, this time between do more. that: “All our people must arm, train, and political and ethnic factions internally and Back around the turn of the millen- organize themselves. In all cities and vil- not between it and its northern neighbour. nium, then-foreign minister Lloyd Axwor- lages, underground systems, tunnels, The confl ict has now led to famine, the thy was involved in trying to broker peace and fi ghting positions should be estab- fi rst declared anywhere in the world in between the then-warring Christian and lished against all kind of attacks from all close to six years. The country has oil and animist south of Sudan and the Muslim forces.” Western support to succeed, but its insti- north. Liberal Senator Mobina Jaffer was Between July and December 2015, 205 tutions are in their infancy and politicians appointed a special envoy to the peace members of the Turkish police, gendar- are bitterly fi ghting for power. process in Sudan in 2002. merie, and military and 80 civilians were It’s a man-made disaster, and one polit- Yes, it’s a complex problem and the killed; 1,002 security personnel and 436 ical leaders are accused of creating. United peace process in South Sudan has run in civilians were wounded; and 14 secu- Nations offi cials say soldiers are blocking fi ts and starts. But Canada could work with rity personnel and 110 civilians were kid- roads into places where aid is needed, governments in the region to offer its help as napped by the PKK terrorist organization. Turkish Ambassador Selçuk Ünal. The Hill Times asking for money and sometimes forcing a mediator, if need be. It could urge the war- Being part of the International Coali- photograph by Sam Garcia the aid convoys to turn back. The famine- ring factions to respect aid workers (several tion against Daesh (also known as ISIL stricken region is opposition-controlled. of whom have been killed amid the fi ght- and ISIS) since its inception, Turkey has deported almost 3,500, as well as arrested Refugees have been pouring into neigh- ing). And it could do work with aid groups supported the moderate opposition in another 1,000 terrorists. bouring Uganda and to a lesser extent to devise ways to help the South Sudanese Syria. With Turkish support, members of Unfortunately, the article makes no Ethiopia and Kenya. Close to 1.6 million people to the fullest extent possible. It could the moderate opposition have liberated reference to the total number of Syrians people have fl ed the country since the con- also provide aid to those who’ve fl ed to 2,200 square-kilometres and more than living in Turkey which has reached over fl ict heated up in December 2013. neighbouring countries. 250 towns, including Jarablus and al-Bab, 2.7 million; 300,000 people also came Yet this refugee crisis has received scant It’s a complex problem, but one Canada from Daesh in the last six months. from Iraq. The total amount spent by Tur- headlines. Aid organizations have been try- should care about. The fi rst couple para- As part of Turkey’s ongoing efforts in key since the beginning of the crisis has ing to drum up interest in any way they can. graphs of a weekend Globe and Mail story the fi ght against international terrorism reached almost US$25-billion. But crises like this one, man-made and said it all: there’s “mounting evidence that and Daesh, Turkey has banned 38,000 Selçuk Ünal confusing to explain, don’t easily provoke an oil-rich regime is using the brutal tactic foreigners with ties to terrorist organiza- Ambassador of Turkey to Canada a person to reach for their wallet and give of deliberate starvation to crush a revolt by tions from entering Turkey, caught and Ottawa, Ont. to those in need. its own citizens. For politicians in Canada, too, there’s not “Yet...there is little sign of any urgent much incentive to pay attention. The South response by the world’s most powerful Sudanese community in Canada is fairly leaders. Instead there are growing fears small, so the pressure from voters is not hot. that political apathy and U.S. budget cuts In the last month, since the UN de- will make the catastrophe even worse.” Time to fully cut fossil fuel subsidies clared that South Sudan was in the midst There’s ample room for the Liberal of a famine, the Conservatives, to their government to prove its usefulness on the ow can Canadians pretend to be ad- lars that are spent fuelling a poisonous credit, have asked about the situation once world stage here. Hdressing their responsibility around industry cannot be redirected to support global warming (in other words, the renewable energy. Step up, please. There destruction of our only planet) while the is so little time left. government continues to subsidize the It is possible to build a clean economy fossil fuel industry? This is unacceptable. that will create jobs across the country, It’s time to put an end to fossil fuel and at the same time reduce the fl uctuat- subsidies completely. I understand that ing cycles in the energy sector that are this industry now supports certain Cana- causing certain Canadian regions to suffer. dian communities. But I don’t understand Denise Markhame why the hundreds of millions of dol- Val des Monts, Que.

Vital bee colonies shouldn’t be killed by pesticides, says reader

e understand “down under” that less destructive means of controlling com- WCanada is soon to debate and then mon pests without causing death to the bees? decide whether bee-killing pesticides will We fi ght a similar battle in Australia be allowed to continue killing vital bee where the pesticide lobby is probably colonies. Should the pesticides remain, equally vocal and belligerent, but they then we stand to lose many of the fruits must be confronted and subdued. and vegetables that depend upon bees for With hopes for the continuing buzzing pollination. of our vital bees, Can we not turn off the pesticides, ban Fred Orr them, and fi nd more ecologically suitable and Sydney, Australia

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“political suicide” has apparently sian Bank. She has praised least a candidate campaigning in taken hold in France. both Putin and Trump. She has a context in which the outcome is Marine Le Pen, The photo-op was perfectly excoriated the EU, whose demise unknown—should or shouldn’t do timed last Friday to coincide with she predicted again on Sunday, to optimize the odds of victory. He the arrival of European Union for having “mistreated” Putin. characterized at least one element delegates at the weekend’s Rome And she vowed, using the same of this unprecedented phenomenon the New World summit marking the 60th anni- twisted populism as Trump, to to Time magazine in its “Is Truth versary of the besieged political tear up the proposed U.S.-EU Dead?” cover as a sort of special and economic union. There was trade deal. Neglecting to mention prediction power unique to 70-year- France’s Front National Leader that the global power realignment old former casino-owning beauty Order’s mercenary Marine Le Pen shaking hands with she espouses would be achieved pageant impresarios with question- Russian President Vladimir Putin over democracy’s dead body, she able taste in hair management. “I’m during a mini-break in Moscow in has predicted that “the Europe a very instinctual person,” he said. the lead-up to the French presi- of peoples will be constructed Elsewhere in the newly ex- dential elections this spring. against globalist dissolution.” posed confl ict between pro- and Marianne Some political handshake photo- She’s the aspiring New World anti-democratic forces, thousands ops are more important than others. Order’s mercenary Marianne. took to the streets in Russia to For historic signifi cance: Neville In the photo, she and Putin are protest Putin’s corruption, and Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler both looking directly at the camera, in England to protest this week’s Europe is living through a parallel degradation in 1938, Richard Nixon and Mao not at each other, possibly because triggering of Article 50 to begin Zedong in 1972, Yitzhak Rabin and her expression essentially says, Brexit, which will weaken both narrative that’s beginning to make America’s Yasser Arafat in 1993, and Anwar “Va te faire foutre” (or “fuck you” in Britain and the EU while the U.S. look orderly. Sadat and Menachem Begin in 1979. French) and his pretty much says, is being weakened by Trump. For pure entertainment value: Nixon “Poshel na khui” (or “fuck you” in Meanwhile in Rome, the EU, and Elvis Presley in 1970; and the Russian) but in a more impish way. in the words of European Com- Trump’s United States presidency entire, excellent Trump/world leader (The Guardian described Putin’s mission President Jean-Claude has been sucking most of the handshake gallery so far. The Le expression as “a knowing smirk of Juncker, renewed its vows to “re- oxygen out of the earthly politi- Pen-Putin handshake photo belongs epic proportions.”) affi rm our commitment to an un- cal atmosphere lately, Europe is in the historic category. The geopolitical message of divided and indivisible union.” In living through a parallel degrada- Their previously unannounced the shot is not so much, “Here we the words of Napoleon’s mother, tion narrative that’s beginning to bilateral meeting was held in the are in the Kremlin, having a full “Pourvu que ça dure.” make America’s look orderly. Kremlin. It unfolded against the and frank discussion about how Lisa Van Dusen, associate editor Just as Trump basks in the backdrop of an FBI investigation to solve the world’s problems,” as of Policy Magazine, was a Wash- triumph of his apparently suc- into Russia’s interference in the just giving the rest of the world— ington columnist for The Ottawa cessful decoupling of character 2016 U.S. presidential election except perhaps Trump, Steve Citizen, Washington bureau chief Lisa Van Dusen from electoral politics (if not in and amid mounting concern that Bannon, Nigel Farage, and Geert for Sun Media, and international What Fresh Hell the triumph of his deal-making Putin may similarly interfere in Wilders—the fi nger. news writer for Peter Jennings skills over congressional free will the French election. Which squares perfectly with at ABC World News Tonight, as on the killing of Obamacare), the In 2014, Le Pen’s party Trump’s systematic obliteration well as an editor at AP in New York ONTREAL—While the same disregard for the traditional, received a multi-million-dollar of all the conventional political and UPI in Washington. Mrolling car-wreck of Donald pre-Russian-hacking defi nition of loan from the First Czech Rus- notions of what a candidate—at The Hill Times IRA violence might not die with McGuinness

sovereignty” over Northern Ireland observers agree that he remained a As the leader of Sinn Fein, the ment of both goods and people. Brexit could infl ame by the United Kingdom and the senior IRA operational commander IRA’s political wing, in Northern That would greatly anger the Irish Republic, then there may be at least down to the end of the 1980s. Ireland, McGuinness became the Catholics of Northern Ireland, and tensions if the border some more blood spilled before the As such, he was probably respon- deputy fi rst minister of the province, if Sinn Fein goes on refusing to ap- end. That would not have bothered sible for such IRA innovations as sharing power with the biggest Prot- point a deputy prime minister then hardens between McGuinness, for all his latter-day “human bombs” (not to be confused estant party, the Democratic Union- no new power-sharing government Northern Ireland and reputation as a man of peace. with suicide bombs). ist Party (DUP). He was seen as a is possible either. As a Catholic born in Derry, In 1990, for example, Patsy calm, constructive politician during There was an unscheduled the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland’s second-largest Gillespie, a Catholic civilian who his 10 years in offi ce—but he never election early this month that city, McGuinness grew up believ- worked as a cook at a British lost sight of his ultimate goal. produced no movement from Sinn ing that Britain must be driven out army base, was abducted by the When he resigned in January, Fein, and another may be called of Ireland and that the Protestant IRA and strapped into a van he had two excellent pretexts soon. But there is no sign that majority in Northern Ireland must packed with 450 kilograms of for doing so. First, he knew that either Sinn Fein or the DUP will be forced to accept unifi cation with explosives. While his family was he was dying (from a rare heart budge, and in the end Britain may the Irish Republic. But the burning held hostage, he was ordered to condition). Second, First Minis- be obliged to re-impose “direct issue when he was a young man drive the van to a British army ter Arlene Foster, leader of the rule” from London on North- was the oppression of Northern Irish checkpoint, whereupon the bomb DUP and his partner in offi ce, ern Ireland, which would anger Catholics by the Protestant majority. was detonated, killing Gillespie was entangled in a profoundly Catholics even more. The initial Catholic protests and fi ve British soldiers. embarrassing energy scandal McGuinness was probably against that in the mid-1960s were In all, the IRA killed 1,781 but was stubbornly refusing not hoping for a return non-violent, but McGuinness (aged people during the period when Mc- to step aside. to violence, but he was Gwynne Dyer 21) was already the second-in-com- Guinness was a senior commander, However, McGuinness undoubtedly open to it Global Aff airs mand of the Provisional Irish Re- including 644 civilians, and Mc- was also well aware that if necessary. Solving the publican Army in Derry at the time Guinness was probably involved Britain’s decision to leave border issue will require of Bloody Sunday in 1972, when 14 in the decision-making on half of the European Union in last creative thinking all ONDON, U.K.—Martin McGuin- civil rights protesters were killed in those attacks. Fintan O’Toole, a col- June’s referendum created round, and could lead to Lness, who began as a terrorist the city by British soldiers. umnist in the Irish Times, recently new possibilities in Northern outcomes the IRA and and ended up as deputy fi rst minis- The Provisional IRA exploited called him a “mass killer.” Ireland (which voted heav- Sinn Fein would ter in Northern Ireland’s power-shar- atrocities like that to convert the But if so, he was a pragmatic ily to stay in the EU). welcome, like ing government, died peacefully in Catholics’ non-violent struggle for mass killer. When it became clear in The open border joint British- hospital last week at age 66. His ca- civil rights into a guerilla war em- the 1990s that the campaign of vio- between Northern Irish sover- reer spanned almost fi ve decades in ploying terrorist tactics and aiming lence was not delivering the results Ireland and the Irish eignty over the history of that small but troubled for unifi cation with Ireland. McGuin- McGuinness had hoped for, he was Republic depends Northern place. By resigning from the power- ness was one of the foremost advo- open to peaceful compromise, at on both countries Ireland. sharing government in January, he cates of violence, and quickly rose to least until circumstances improved. being part of the Gwyn- began a new and possibly fi nal act in become the IRA’s chief of staff. He played a key role in persuading EU. When Britain Martin McGuinness, an IRA leader ne Dyer is a that long-running drama. He claimed to leave the IRA in most of the more dedicated IRA leaves it will almost turned deputy fi rst minister in United King- If it really is the last act in the 1974 in order to enter politics (which killers to accept the power-sharing inevitably become Northern Ireland’s power-sharing dom-based Northern Irish tragedy, leading made it possible for him to talk to government embodied in the 1998 a “hard” border that government, died last week at age independent eventually to some form of “joint the British authorities), but all local Good Friday Agreement. controls the move- 66. Photograph courtesy of Sinn Fein journalist. 10 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 | THE HILL TIMES Comment Remembering Rompkey, a class act

The late ship with this political titan says more Liberal MP He was a 38-year about him than me. and Senator Parliamentarian and a In the early ‘90s, Bill and I both ended Bill Rompkey, up in the small community of Makkovik, with then- consummate gentleman. Labrador, at a meeting of the Combined Swedish Councils of Labrador, a key municipal Ambassador leadership group for the region. We were Ingrid Iremark, Continued from page 1 both given the opportunity to speak to the and Mr. group about regional issues and our par- Rompkey’s served in the cabinets of Pierre Trudeau ties’ approaches to them. spouse, and John Turner. He was appointed to the As a little-shit staffer, part of a govern- Carolyn Pike, Senate in 1995 by Jean Chrétien. His roles ment in decline, Bill could have easily in 2012.. The there included whip and deputy leader ripped me to shreds. In fact, he did the Hill Times fi le of the government, as well as chair of the opposite. He thanked me for coming and photograph Fisheries Committee. When he retired in showing an interest in Labrador. Rather 2011 at the age of 75 he had completed al- than picking my words apart, he pointed to most 40 years of service on Parliament Hill. the positives in them. Instead of wiping the I got to know Bill when I was a young fl oor with me, he elevated and encouraged staffer working for Progressive Conserva- me. In the hothouse atmosphere of New- tive cabinet minister John Crosbie. How a foundland and Labrador politics, where then-young political staffer for a different bloodying an opponent is often rewarded, political party had a 20-year-plus friend- he was the consummate gentleman. We spent a lot of time talking the rest of that weekend in remote Labrador. I saw

What a lesson I learned from his behaviour: don’t let the small politics of partisanship stop you from being fundamentally decent and respectful to people who might wear a diff erent political jersey.

how well regarded Bill was by all who were there. I saw how he cared for them and loved the diversity of the place he rep- resented. He was so generous to me that he gave me a helicopter ride—when taking them wasn’t a hollering offence—back to Goose Bay. He had a picture taken of us and asked if he could put it in his house- holder, which went to all the residents in his district. Weeks later, a copy arrived at my offi ce in Ottawa with a pleasant note from Bill. THIS WEEK Throughout the years after, he became for me one of my biggest champions and Turkey: With presidential mentors. He may have been a proud Lib- eral partisan and I a young-buck Conser- powers on the rise, is vative, but he never let that get in the way of him being a fi rst-class person. What a democracy on the decline? lesson I learned from his behaviour: don’t let the small politics of partisanship stop you from being fundamentally decent and respectful to people who might wear a dif- ferent political jersey. Bill led a full and good life. Though that does not ease the pain his fantastic wife Carolyn and their children are feeling now. He made massive contributions to my home province, not the least of which were his writings on Labrador. But we live in time when we need more people of the character and political approach of Bill Rompkey. Leading with decency and showing respect were hallmarks of Bill’s leadership style. Our world could do with more of that now. Tim Powers is vice-chairman of Summa .ca Strategies and managing director of Abacus Data. He is a former adviser to Conservative political leaders. The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 11 Comment 1981 budget a good lesson for Liberals

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal govern- budget for MacEachen, a Cape Another Trudeau ment to tread warily when it comes Bretoner who had long been on government tried to reforming what are technically the left of his party. called tax expenditures. While no one talked publicly ending lucrative That’s the fact the Liberals about this, some MacEachen fans tried this once before, with disas- saw his budget as a potential tax breaks for trous political consequences. The springboard for a leadership bid year was 1981. Justin Trudeau’s should Pierre Trudeau ever resign. the rich, with father, Pierre, was prime minister. What the Liberals forgot, how- disastrous political The economy was in a slump. ever, was that for every tax loophole The government’s aim was to they wanted to close, an interest consequences. fund infrastructure projects that group existed. And the budget pro- could make the economy work posed to end or tighten 163 of them. more smoothly without adding to The uproar began almost im- the defi cit. At the same time, the mediately. government proposed changes in the Investors were angered by the income tax system that would put tightening of the federal dividend tax more of the burden on the rich and credit. Workers were angered at the Finance Minister Bill Morneau, left, ought to refl ect on Allan MacEachen’s give the middle class a break. government’s proposal to tax em- train-wreck 1981 budget before he pulls the plug on tax breaks, writes The vehicle was to be fi nance ployee medical and dental benefi ts. Thomas Walkom. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright, Hill Times fi le photograph minister Allan MacEachen’s Novem- Small business was apoplectic. ber budget. He called it the budget of The head of the country’s main restraint, equity, and renewal. small-business lobby called the bud- MacEachen began to back- from one major tax reform prom- Within weeks, it was unoffi cial- get “a bag of snakes.” The reaction pedal furiously. ised in that platform. They have Thomas Walkom ly labelled the budget of shame. of big business wasn’t any friendlier. Within a month, the most also made it clear they have no ap- Inside Politics On paper, the budget looked Even charities were miffed. contentious tax reforms were petite for taxing employee benefi ts. good. Tax breaks, many of which Professional hockey players scrapped. Within a few months, In last week’s budget, Mor- favoured the rich, had been threatened to move to the U.S. the budget was in tatters. neau moved only incrementally ORONTO—It is sometimes held allowed to grow helter-skelter. in order to keep an obscure tax Within a year, MacEachen was on the tax front. But he’s already Tthat Finance Minister Bill Mor- MacEachen’s idea was to elimi- break that favoured them. no longer fi nance minister—al- coming under criticism for one neau backed away from a promise nate or reduce them and use the Public relations were night- though he did continue in govern- relatively minor change: his deci- to end lucrative tax breaks for the money saved to fund two things. marish. A few days after de- ment, fi rst as minister of external sion to end a tax break for those well-to-do in last week’s budget First he would reduce general livering his “restraint” budget, affairs, later as a senator. who use public transit regularly. because of Donald Trump. income tax rates for all. Second, MacEachen invited select report- Somewhere along the way, he Still, he is hinting at more. With the mercurial Trump oc- he would spend on infrastructure ers to a seven-course lunch at hired a bright, young spark from “[Our government] will have cupying the White House, the theory without increasing the defi cit. a posh Ottawa-area hotel. The Cape Breton named Gerald Butts more to say on this [tax breaks] in goes, Morneau fi gured it would be In theory, his approach was reporters drank his wine and ate to work for him. Butts is now Jus- the near future,” he said last week. foolish to fi ddle with the Canadian both progressive and sound. his food. Then they savaged him. tin Trudeau’s principal secretary. And perhaps it will. But if the tax system. Better to wait until It would make the tax system In the Commons, opposition It’s hard to know if this crop Liberals remember their own his- American intentions become clearer. simpler. It would go partway to MPs accused the fi nance minister of Liberals is still serious about tory, they will move very carefully. Indeed, the Trump factor may meeting the goal of treating all of being a leftist dupe. Even some reforming the tax expenditure sys- Thomas Walkom is a national have played a role in Morneau’s forms of remuneration equally, in- of his fellow ministers were pub- tem. In their 2015 election platform, affairs columnist for The Toronto caution. stead of putting most of the load licly critical. The prime minister they predicted revenue gains of up Star. This column was fi rst re- But there is another, more com- on wage and salary earners. declared some of the tax reforms to $3-billion a year by doing so. leased on March 27. pelling reason for Prime Minister And it would be a fi tting “ill-advised.” But they have backed away The Hill Times

There are many examples, but Newfoundland’s let’s start with history. From the own This Hour Has Newfoundland world-renowned fossils at Mis- 22 Minutes star taken Point to Innu settlements Mark Critch with in Labrador, from the presence of Don Martin, host the Vikings at L’Anse aux Mead- of CTV’s Power and Labrador: ows to the arrival of Sir Hum- Play. Canadian phrey Gilbert in 1583, Canadian culture would history has been transformed by be a shadow of these moments in time. itself without the a gift to last Geography has also played a contributions part. The fi rst transatlantic wireless of countless signal by Marconi from Signal Newfoundlanders tive of Confederation. While it Hill, St. John’s, in 1901 is claimed and Labradorians, A refl ection on the represented a new beginning as a Canadian event, even though writes Andrew rock’s impact, after as a province of Canada, it also it took place 48 years before St. Caddell. The Hill marked the end of its citizens’ John’s was in Canada. Similarly, Times photograph by joining Canada 68 aspirations of again being an Canada claims the fi rst-ever non- Jake Wright independent country. stop transatlantic fl ight when John years ago this week. Although joining with Canada Alcock and Arthur Brown fl ew led to many accomplishments and from St. John’s to Ireland in 1919. Great Big Sea to Hey Rosetta!; There are many more ex- fi nancial security for the people of Where did the United Nations in television, from Codco to This amples of why we are so fortu- the province, it came with a certain and the post-war world get their Hour Has 22 Minutes to Frontier; nate to have Newfoundland and price: the disdain of other Canadians, beginnings? In Placentia Bay, and in literature, from E.J. Pratt Labrador as our other “distinct a cycle of dependency, and the per- now Canada, when United States to Lisa Moore to Wayne John- society.” In short, all of Canada is petually derogatory “Newfi e jokes.” President Franklin D. Roos- ston. No doubt, Canadian culture enriched by it and the contribu- Newfoundland and Labrador evelt and British Prime Minister would be a shadow of itself with- tions it continues to make to our does not deserve this treatment, Winston Churchill drafted the out the contributions of countless national life. not the least at a time when Atlantic Charter in 1941. Newfoundlanders and Labrador- In this year of Canada 150, things are not easy on “the rock.” And geography has endowed ians and those who depict it in let us celebrate the country, but The role Newfoundlanders Canada with great riches, in the their work. consider for a moment the “gift Andrew Caddell and Labradorians have played form of the fi shery, massive Lab- And fi nally, Newfoundland to last” on our eastern coast, and Canada 150 in Canada is reminiscent of a rador mineral fi nds, hydroelectric and Labrador shines through think of how much we gained television series many years ago power, and oil in the offshore, none the strength and character of when Newfoundlanders and Lab- starring Gordon Pinsent, called of which would be Canadian had its citizens. With the success on radorians saw fi t to join us almost TTAWA—On March 31, New- A Gift to Last. the province not joined in 1949. Broadway of Come From Away, the seven decades ago. Ofoundland and Labrador will When Newfoundland and The culture of Newfoundland world now knows of the immense Andrew Caddell was previous- celebrate 68 years since it joined Labrador joined Canada, it brought and Labrador is everywhere: generosity of Newfoundlanders ly the director of communications Canada, the last province to do a wealth that now belongs to all of in the art world, from Maurice and Labradorians, when the people to the premier of Newfoundland so. In this 150th year of celebra- us, a wealth that without the deci- Cullen to Christopher and Mary of Gander and area welcomed and Labrador. He now lives in tion, it is worthwhile to examine sion to join Canada in 1949 would Pratt to David Blackwood; in stranded passengers from 9/11 into Ottawa. our youngest province’s perspec- have belonged to a foreign country. music, from Rufus Guinchard to their homes and their hearts. The Hill Times 12 wednesday, march 29, 2017 | the hill times The Hill Times | wednesday, march 29, 2017 13 Comment Comment Jumping the gun British, Canadian on terrorism, again attacks show For accuracy’s terrorists come in sake, we owe it to ourselves to be a little more patient. all forms gunned down in front of the parlia- It’s impossible to ment buildings, Canadians naturally defend against drew a parallel to the Oct. 22, 2014 attack in Ottawa by homegrown attackers using terrorist Michael Zehaf-Bibeau. Like Masood, Zehaf-Bibeau was a lifetime common items like a criminal. He was a drug addict who Mourners gather at the gates outside the British parliament buildings where shot and killed Corporal Nathan flowers lay in memory this week by those killed on March 22.Photograph car and knife to kill Cirillo at the Tomb of the Unknown Reporters scrum Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale last year. Reporters courtesy of Les Whittington unsuspecting civilians. Soldier memorial before launching and analysts engaged in ‘instant analysis’ is worrisome because a story at his solo charge into the Parliament the outset may not be the whole picture, suggests Phil Gurski. The Hill Times Buildings. Like Masood, Zehaf-Bi- Phil Gurski Khalid Masood had a string of photograph by Jake Wright beau was gunned down by security convictions before his London Terrorism guards. There was no evidence that attack. Photograph courtesy of the London Zehaf-Bibeau had ever been in direct Metropolitan Police contact with Daesh, and even those TTAWA—I know that in evildoers claimed only that their Oa world of 24/7 news and the United States. Many said movement had inspired the suicidal intense competition to be first it was symptomatic of a rise in rampage of violence in Ottawa. with a breaking story that time anti-Semitism and was probably That incident was nonetheless is of the essence. Individuals the work of a right-wing extrem- rightfully declared an act of terror- and news outlets feel that they ist with a hatred of Jews. What ism, as was the deliberate vehicular do not have the luxury to wait then do we make of the arrest in Scott Taylor manslaughter of a Canadian soldier, to publish, for fear that another Israel of a 19-year-old computer Inside Defence Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, in individual or outlet will scoop hacker who authorities believe Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu two days them. In their haste, there is sel- was responsible for the threats? prior to Zehaf-Bibeau’s attack. dom ample opportunity to allow If true, the criminal doesn’t TTAWA—Last Wednesday’s That attack was also perpe- facts to be collected, let alone exactly match the profile some Odeadly attack in London was a trated by a homegrown nut-job, verified and corroborated. As a were so sure of, does it? shocking act of violence resulting in Martin Couture-Rouleau, who had result, mistakes are made. Lastly we return to the attack five deaths and around 40 innocent tried to head to the Middle East, Complicating matters is our in London last week in which bystanders being injured along the presumably to join Daesh, but who tendency to read and believe four people died as well as famous Westminster Bridge and on was instead stopped by Canadian things that already match our the attacker, and dozens were the grounds of the British parliament authorities. After killing Vincent worldviews (confirmation bias) wounded when Khalid Masood buildings. It was also immediately and injuring another soldier with as well as the overarching and directed his vehicle at pedestri- Mourners placed flowers at the Parliament gates in memory of the police Big Ben stands above flowers at the gates of the British parliament buildings in London this Security at the gate attacker Khalid Masood entered appears to have been deemed an act of terrorism and the his car, Couture-Rouleau was in- predominant narrative through ans before attempting to rush officer, Keith Palmer, who was stabbed to death and three others killed by week, after the March 22 attack there and on the Westminster Bridge that left five people stepped up since last week’s killings outside the British parliament buildings. Western world sent messages of volved in a high-speed chase with which many of us filter facts and Parliament. Masood has already Khalid Masood on March 22, 2017. Photograph courtesy of Les Whittington dead. Photograph courtesy of Les Whittington Photograph courtesy of Les Whittington solidarity to Britain in our common Quebec police. After losing control events. been labelled a lone wolf, as if fight against radical Islam. of his vehicle and rolling into a Three recent cases brought there was enough evidence to The weapons employed by ditch, Couture-Rouleau was shot as this to the fore for me lately. In make that analysis. There is a a stunning breach of security and selves on their tough gun-control anti-terrorism to the secrecy guar- Khalid Masood were nothing more he exited the damaged car. each case, reporters and “ex- problem with this hypothesis, a symbolic attempt to menace the laws, but it seems likely that more anteed users of messaging services than a rental SUV, two knives, and The standard line in labelling perts” engaged in what I call however. Unfathomable jihadist country’s most important demo- armed guards will be seen around such as WhatsApp. his own fanatical beliefs. Masood those two incidents as acts of terror “instant analysis,” a trend that I The (now dead) terrorist was cratic institution. Westminster now. British authorities are demand- drove through a crowd of pedestri- was that Cpl. Cirillo and Warrant Of- find worrisome and only slightly in a variety of places over the In the days after the incident, ing access to encrypted communi- ans on the famous bridge and was ficer Vincent were targeted because more problematic than “alterna- years where he could have been police and intelligence agents un- Less shock, more anger, cations from Masood’s WhatsApp in the process of stabbing a police- of the uniform they wore and, in tive facts.” in touch with those who radi- forces Britain to leashed an extensive investigation account from moments before his man to death when he was fatally turn, what that uniform symbolizes. The three occurred in differ- calized him and incited him to to try to find out what was behind defiance attack. shot by Metropolitan Police body- Conversely, this year we had ent countries, but all involved act. He was in prison on several the attack. In particular, people While people were horrified and Also, it is becoming increas- guards for the defence minister. a mass shooting at a mosque in leaping to unwarranted conclu- occasions and visited Saudi Ara- wanted to know how Masood, who repulsed by the senseless tragedy ingly clear that security and intel- In the hours following the Quebec City on the evening of Jan. sions, at least for the time being. bia multiple times, all of which spent most of his life in cities and on March 22, Britons seemed less ligence agents need to find better tragedy, Daesh evildoers (from the 29. In that attack, six people were Should forthcoming information could easily have influenced confront ever-changing towns other than London, knew in shock than following the 2005 ways, within the law, to keep track militant group also known as ISIS, killed and another 19 wounded by turn out to support the initial him and inspired his decision how to enter the parliamentary terrorist bombing. Instead, the of small-time crooks and thugs ISIL, and Islamic State) announced lone gunman Alexandre Bisson- findings, some will use this to to act last Wednesday. The “lone grounds at the weakest point in response was more one of anger, who may been exposed to Muslim that Masood was acting upon their nette. Following his arrest, Bisson- claim superior analysis. I, for wolf” term is used so carelessly the entire security zone around defiance, and unity. extremism in jail. While Masood recent call for radicalized Muslims nette was charged with six counts of one, still maintain that a true and usually with no forethought terror threat Westminster. There appears to be a grim was older than the average jihadist to rise up in Western countries. first-degree murder, but not an act expert insists on more rather or real analysis such that it is This was a gate usually left recognition that, whereas the U.K. convert, he shared many of the There is no evidence that Masood of terrorism. Legal experts opined than less data before making meaningless and of no help in As in Ottawa, last ONDON, U.K.—When terrorists of extremist violence mounted in open because of the high volume may be able to separate itself from similarities—a criminal record, was an actual Daesh foot-soldier that it would be difficult for Crown any definitive statement. understanding terrorism. Lstruck in London in the sum- continental Europe, with hundreds of delivery trucks and MPs’ cars some of the trials and tribulations unconventional family life, and or that he ever had direct contact attorneys to prove that this case met The first incident was an I know that I am asking for week’s London mer of 2005, the United Kingdom being killed in recent years in needing access to the parliamen- affecting European neighbours, anti-social resentment—that are a with that group, but Daesh’s claim the criteria for a terrorist act under attempt by a man to grab a gun the impossible when I suggest was plunged into shock of the kind France, Germany, Belgium, and tary precinct. After crashing his terrorism cannot be held back common set of characteristics of of responsibility for the attack was the Criminal Code of Canada. from a French soldier at Orly that we need to exercise caution attack has that reverberated across the United other countries. SUV, Masood ran through this gate, indefinitely. recent terrorists. good enough for the news media How is that possible? These Airport in Paris. When reports before making links that may or States after 9/11. Here, the security services have fatally attacked the unarmed police In the past week, much has Masood was on MI5’s radar to grant the group what it sought: people were gunned down in their noted that the individual shout- may not be there. After all, that prompted a review Tony Blair, who as prime minis- foiled numerous terrorist plots—13 officer there and headed for the been made here of the latest shift about seven years ago as someone to spread the unfounded myth that place of worship, while observing ed that he wanted to “die for is how the news cycle works. ter was hosting world leaders at the in the past three years alone, ac- Members’ entrance to the Commons in terror strategies. This is the trend with links to a group of Islamic Daesh is everywhere and able to their religious faith. What could Allah” many said, “Aha! Another At best, we draw wrong of parliamentary annual G8 summit at Gleneagles cording to the police. before being shot and killed—not among would-be terrorists to turn to extremists who were jailed after strike us on home soil at any time. be more symbolic than that? terrorist attack in France.” conclusions and correct our security. golf resort in Scotland, hastily But time ran out last week when by parliamentary security person- vehicles to carry out easily planned, admitting they had planned to blow For the record, Khalid Masood To be fair, both Prime Minister While that assessment would mistakes later. At worst, bad abandoned the conference to fly a British-born, 52-year-old psycho- nel but by bodyguards of a cabinet hard-to-detect individual plots to up a British army base. was born in Britain in 1964 and the Justin Trudeau and Quebec Pre- be consistent with what has analysis feeds bad decisions. For back to London to deal with the path went on a rampage in a rented minister who was passing nearby. run down innocent bystanders. But officials decided his activities name he used to go by is Adrian mier Philippe Couillard did label been happening in that country the sake of not making mistakes, emergency. SUV, killing four, including an As in Ottawa, the attack in Trying to find ways to combat this fell outside the category of those seen Russell Ajao. By his late teens, he the mosque shooting as an act of for several years, it turns out we owe it to ourselves to be a Subway and bus bombs set off unarmed police officer who tried to London has prompted an intense strategy, which is promoted by the as potential threats—an increasingly had embarked upon a lifetime of terror, but those words are hollow that the alleged terrorist was little more patient. by young Islamic extremists killed stop Khalid Masood from running review of an outdated and vulner- Islamic State militant group (also common security issue that can leave violent crime and later converted to when our courts do not apply the under the influence of cocaine, Phil Gurski is the president 52 people, making the July 7, 2005, through the grounds of Parliament able security system around Parlia- known as ISIL, ISIS, and Daesh) as everyone with no answers. Islam. He is the quintessential home- law evenly. cannabis, and alcohol at the and CEO of Borealis Threat and attack the worst terrorist atrocity in brandishing two large knives. ment that suffered for years from a prime means of violence for “lone- Any explanation for Masood’s grown nut-job who just proved to us I’m sure the victims who were time of his attack. This is very Risk Consulting Ltd. He worked Britain’s history. Like the attack on Parliament inaction on the part of House of wolf” attackers, will tax the ingenu- actions, a senior police officer noted once again that no matter what se- in the mosque that night were rare for a real Islamist extrem- as a senior strategic analyst at Ever since that incident, known in Ottawa in 2014, where a rifle- Commons authorities. ity and determination of the world’s on the weekend, “may have died curity measures we take against ter- just as terrified as the innocent ist. It casts doubt on whether he CSIS and is the author of West- here as 7/7, the British have been toting Michael Zehaf-Bibeau got It was reported that permanent security services. with him.” rorism, there is no possible defence bystanders on the Westminster was indeed a terrorist. ern Foreign Fighters: The Threat hoping against hope that their secu- into a hallway in the Centre Block armed guards were removed from One expanding focus in this Les Whittington is an Ottawa against suicidal attackers using such Bridge last Thursday. Terrorists rity services could prevent another near where Prime Minister Stephen The second case involved a to Homeland and International Les Whittington the gate in question after MPs ongoing struggle appears to be an journalist and a regular contribu- common items as a car and a knife come in all colours. series of bomb threats made to Security. major act of terrorism in the U.K. Harper was in a caucus meeting, objected to the intimidating display effort to force internet giants to tor to The Hill Times. to kill unsuspecting civilians. Scott Taylor is editor and pub- Jewish centres in Canada and The Hill Times Need to Know All the while, the toll of this brand Masood’s assault was seen here as of weapons. Britons pride them- make exceptions in the cause of The Hill Times Since Masood ended up being lisher of Esprit de Corps magazine. 14 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 | THE HILL TIMES Opinion

Yet Canadian farmers are also hurt by supply management, since it deprives them of access to billions How to make NAFTA great again of consumers around the world. This means that they have not been able to benefi t from increased global food Justin of the economic ills affl icting his consumption, which is ongoing. Protections for Trudeau country, it is true that NAFTA The countries that opened up and supply-managed could be improved. to international trade will have Donald The growth of Canada-U.S. a clear path to increase their Trump at industries and trade was rapid in the years fol- domestic production. The OECD the White lowing its signing, such that it expects Australia to increase House on softwood lumber are now totals over $880-billion, or dairy product exports by 13 per Feb. 13. blocking the growth about $2.4-billion a day. Yet trade cent, New Zealand by 18 per cent, has stagnated since the turn of Photograph and the European Union by 50 of Canada-U.S. the millennium, due to the trade courtesy per cent. The example of New barriers that persist. of Donald Zealand speaks volumes. That trade. Exempting Canadian softwood Trump’s country nearly tripled its produc- lumber from tariffs and open- Twitter tion after having liberalized its ing up the agricultural sectors dairy industry. In comparison, under supply management (dairy, Canada’s milk production hasn’t eggs, and poultry) to American budged since the 1960s. producers are two examples of lumber by-products, historically tion of such a high tariff would raise Trade barriers have never made measures that would be benefi cial excluded from agreements, could the average price of a new home by more than a small minority of to consumers, and that would be subject to these new tariffs. nearly $1,300. This would have led to people richer, at the expense of the breathe new life into the econom- These tariffs would hurt the additional costs for homebuyers on vast majority. Eliminating those ic partnership between the two Canadian forestry sector since the order of $1-billion just for single- that persist in the agricultural countries. they would reduce exports to family homes built in the United sectors under supply management Such reforms would provoke the American market. Under States in 2016. and in the softwood lumber sector, Alexandre Moreau an outcry from certain producers the last softwood lumber deal, and making sure not to erect new who want to preserve a situation ones, would be good both for con- Canada-U.S. trade Canadian producers lost about that benefi ts them at the expense $2-billion between 2006 and A captive market sumers and for producers. of consumers on both sides of the 2015. Today, over 24,300 jobs and On the Canadian side, it is farm- Ultimately, the renegotiation ONTREAL—During the border. $7.6-billion in exported softwood ers under supply management who of NAFTA is an opportunity for

MAmerican election cam- lumber are directly connected to are fi ghting tooth and nail to de- Canada and the United States to paign, Donald Trump criticized Beware the tariff s American market conditions and fend the tariffs and quotas that re- broaden their economic partner- the North American Free Trade Currently, the U.S. Depart- the decision that the Department strict Canadian consumers’ options. ship and contribute to its durabil- Agreement on several occa- ment of Commerce is evaluating of Commerce will make. According to OECD estimates, ity. That opportunity should be sions, going so far as to call it “a the possibility of imposing tariffs Unsurprisingly, American soft- this system costs households $258 seized without hesitation. disaster,” and he clearly stated on Canadian softwood lumber wood lumber producers would be the a year, for a total of $3.6-billion Alexandre Moreau is a public his intention to renegotiate it. imports that could go as high as big winners of a return to protection- a year for Canadian households. policy analyst at MEI, the Mon- Although the new president is 25 per cent. Lumber from New ist measures, as was the case with Other estimates fi nd costs of up to treal Economic Institute. wrong to target it as the source Brunswick and certain softwood the last agreement. But the imposi- $6.1-billion. The Hill Times

few as two or three in rural and of the votes to win a seat. The elected representatives share the northern areas. voter’s fi rst choice defaults to load, and take on differentiated In a group of fi ve ridings, for their second choice if their fi rst- portfolios of issues so they can Feds should take instance, we would elect fi ve choice candidate is at the bottom develop a deeper understanding members to represent the whole of the count and has no chance of and expertise of the big issues. multi-member riding. The parties winning We need electoral reform now, could each run fi ve candidates in If their fi rst-choice candidate before we get to another elec- another look at the election, if they wanted, and already has enough votes to win tion that gives us a false majority nominate a more balanced slate a seat, then any surplus votes are led by another ideologue who that includes women and minor- redistributed according to their represents only themselves and ity candidates. Independent can- second choice. The third, fourth, the power elites. Without elec- electoral reform didates, or well-known and liked and fi fth choices continue to toral reform in time for the 2019 local candidates from smaller be transferred in the same way federal election we run the risk of whether a party list would be parties would have better chances until all the seats have been fi lled Kevin O’Trump running Canada, It’s worth required, and whether they would of winning a seat. based on candidates being the and that’s really scary. considering a PR still have representation by some- All of these changes would fi rst, second, or third, etc. choice There is still time for Elections one they could connect with in improve the diversity of voices in of a suffi cient number of voters. Canada to develop and implement system, beyond their local riding. the government, leading to better This ensures that very few a system of multi-member ridings The government chose to can- decisions that serve the full spec- votes are wasted, unlike our cur- and single transferable votes be- mixed-member cel the whole effort and keep us trum of interests. Even if far-right rent fi rst-past-the-post system, fore 2019. We don’t have to re-draw trapped in the nineteenth century or other fringe parties gained where the difference of a small the ridings, just group existing proportional. rather than look at other alterna- popularity, they would probably number of votes can elect a candi- ridings in a fair way. The mecha- tives. never be able to steal the whole date with marginal approval. nism for calculating preferential There are many different government, as is the case now. This system would engender a ballots is well researched and easy ways to make elections and From the voters’ perspective, more real link between the riding to implement without further delib- government more representa- not much changes; they still get a and its representatives. It would erating (read: delaying). tive and more democratic. My single ballot but they can rank the no longer be suffi cient to parrot The political parties will adapt, current favourite is a system candidates. They can choose the party platitudes or count on the as they always have, and will be with multi-member ridings and party they like, but also choose party leader to pull the vote in a compelled to come up with strong ranked ballots. This system would the candidate they like, who may local riding. There would be more candidates who actually refl ect involve single transferable votes be from another party, or an incentive to campaign on local the interests of the ridings they (which the Liberals like), and independent, and make a third, and regional issues. wish to represent. This is the type would not require re-drawing the fourth, and fi fth choice. It would In addition, if candidates know of democracy Canadians deserve. Katie Oppen riding boundaries (which sitting make strategic voting unneces- that they can win a seat based on We need proportional rep- Voting systems MPs would like). In this system, sary, and save us from another being the second or third choice resentation to protect us from the percentage of votes cast for false majority like the Liberal of a suffi cient number of voters, un-democratic control of our a party would be roughly pro- government’s win in the 2015 the campaign discourse becomes governments by corporate and TTAWA—The government’s portional to the number of seats anything-but-Harper election. It more about the issues and less wealthy power elites, like what is Oreasons for not putting in it wins (which most Canadians would also eliminate the need to about attack ads and negative happening all over the world now, place a proportional represen- would like). There’s no party list cast your single vote for a candi- campaigns. not only in the United States. We tation system included their and people would have multiple date you do not like, just because In our current system, the sin- need to give all Canadians a real assertion that the House Electoral local representatives to contact they are from the party that you gle party representatives elected voice in the decisions that shape Reform Committee failed to pro- when they needed help (which align with. don’t refl ect the full diversity of our future together. pose an actual, detailed system local activists and voters would To get elected, candidates need their constituents. With fi ve seats Katie Oppen is an Ottawa- for Canada. like). to reach a set share of the votes, in a riding, voters would be able based activist who volunteers While the mixed-member The multi-member riding determined by the number of to connect with one or more of with Fair Vote Canada and the proportional system got a lot of would be a group of existing rid- positions to be fi lled. In a fi ve- the fi ve representatives who most Professional Institute of the Pub- attention during the hearings, ings—maybe fi ve or more ridings member riding, they would need closely refl ect their own views lic Service. people were concerned about together in an urban area, and as to get approximately one-sixth and values. We might fi nd that the The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 15 Opinion

Agriculture complicates The week ahead in committees WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29 Board of Canada Secretariat. The • The Senate Ethics and Confl ict of committee will then go in camera to Interest for Senators Committee will consider a draft agenda for future Trump’s trade bluster meet at 9:00 a.m. in Room 356-S, business. Centre Block, to consider an inquiry • The Senate Committee on Transport Canada was the top report of the Senate Ethics Offi cer. The and Communications will meet at 6:45 destination for U.S. meeting will be held in camera. p.m. in Room 2, Victoria Building. It agricultural exports in • The Senate Human Rights Committee will hear from three witnesses for its 2015. The chart shows will meet at 11:30 a.m. in Room 9, study on the regulatory and technical the exports in U.S. Victoria Building. The meeting will be issues related to the deployment of dollars. Chart courtesy of televised. connected and automated vehicles. The the USDA • The Senate Subcommittee on Veterans meeting will be televised. Affairs will meet at 12:00 p.m. in • The Senate Committee on Aboriginal Room 2, Victoria Building, to work on Peoples will meet at 6:45 p.m. in Room creating a defi ned professional and 160-S, Centre Block. It will hear from consistent system for veterans as they members of the Indian Residential leave the Canadian Armed Forces. The School Survivor Committee for its committee will hear from Guy Parent, study on the new relationship between the veterans ombudsman. Canada and First Nations, Inuit and • The Senate Modernization Committee Métis peoples. (Special) will meet at 12:00 p.m. in Room 257, East Block, to continue THURSDAY, MARCH 30 to consider methods to make the • The Senate Committee on Agriculture Senate more effective within the and Forestry will meet at 8:00 a.m. in current constitutional framework. The Room 2, Victoria Building to hear from committee will hear from Gary O’Brien, witnesses for its study on the potential former clerk of the Senate. The meeting impact of the effects of climate change will be televised. on the agriculture, agri-food, and • The Senate Subcommittee on Diversity forestry sectors. will meet at 2:30 p.m. in Room • The Senate Internal Economy, 172-E, Centre Block. It will examine Budgets, and Administration the fi ndings contained in the fi fth for Trump, but those states are the Committee will meet at 8:00 a.m. China, Canada, of transnational corporations that report of the Senate Administration’s most likely to be harmed if China in Room 160-S, Centre Block for have replaced farm co-operatives Advisory Committee on Diversity and and Mexico impose retaliatory consideration of fi nancial and and Mexico are in Canada. Accessibility and issues of diversity trade measures against the U.S. administrative matters, pursuant to Looking elsewhere for trading in the Senate workforce. It will hear Around one-third of U.S. farm in- rule 12-7(1). The meeting will be the U.S.’s top partners is a more likely ap- from four witnesses, including Robert come is derived from agricultural partially in camera. proach. China and Mexico are McSheffrey, director general of the agricultural export trade. Canada, China, and Mexico • The Senate Committee on Energy, the eyeing Brazil and Argentina as personnel psychology centre at the are its largest agricultural trade Environment, and Natural Resources potential sources for maize and Public Service Commission of Canada. markets. Trade partners, accounting for 44 per will meet at 8:00 a.m. in Room 257, soy. Mexico is also seeking a The committee will then go in camera cent of the $140-billion a year that East Block. It will hear from the skirmishes with trade deal with Europe. Canada to consider a draft agenda for future the U.S. earns from its agricul- Cement Association of Canada and has already signed a trade deal business. them could spell tural exports. with Europe, and is considering Canada’s Ecofi scal Commission for its Any disruption to agricultural deals with Japan and China. • The Senate Committee on Banking, study on the effects of transitioning to disaster for many trade between the U.S., China, Another option is to strengthen Trade and Commerce will meet a low carbon economy. The meeting and Mexico is likely to have domestic agricultural production at 4:15 p.m. in Room 9, Victoria will be televised. U.S. farmers. implications for Canada, which and markets. Mexico’s self-suffi - Building. It will conduct a clause-by- • The Senate Committee on Fisheries is the largest agricultural export ciency in maize fell from 98 per cent clause consideration of Bill S-224, An and Oceans will meet at 8:30 a.m. in market for the U.S. Canadian to 77 per cent under NAFTA, as Act respecting payments made under Room 9, Victoria Building for its study agriculture is likely be a target millions of small-scale famers lost construction contracts, and then on Bill S-203, An Act to amend the in a renegotiated NAFTA, as the their livelihoods when subsidized consider a draft budget for its study Criminal Code and other Acts (ending U.S. has already made it known U.S. maize imports poured in. on the current and emerging issues captivity of whales and dolphins). of the banking sector and monetary that it wants to pry open supply- Many Mexicans are now • The Senate Committee on Banking, managed sectors, such as dairy. boycotting U.S. food products in polity of the United States. It will be televised. Trade and Commerce will meet Meanwhile, China, as the response to Trump’s threats, cre- at 10:30 a.m. in Room 9, Victoria second largest importer of U.S. ating a political context in which • The Senate Committee on Foreign Building to study the development agricultural products, purchases revitalization of domestic food Affairs and International Trade will of a national corridor in Canada to almost 30 per cent of all U.S. production might take hold. meet at 4:15 p.m. in Room 160-S, facilitate commerce and internal trade. Jennifer Clapp soybean production. Mexico is Although Chinese imports Centre Block. It will conduct a clause- It will meet in camera. by-clause consideration of Bill S-219, NAFTA the third-largest importer of U.S. of soybeans have ballooned in agricultural products, including recent decades, it subsidizes its Non-Nuclear Sanctions Against Iran • The Senate Committee on Foreign large quantities of maize, soy- domestic soy producers, and Act. The committee will then go in Affairs and International Trade will meet at 10:30 a.m. in Room 160-S, uestions are swirling around beans, dairy, and meat. Trade skir- could shift to support them even camera to consider a draft agenda for Centre Block. The televised meeting the direction of United States mishes with any of these partners more if supplies are disrupted. future business. Q will feature an appearance from trade policy now that Donald could spell disaster for many U.S. Canada produces far more • The Senate Committee on Social Affairs, International Trade Minister François- Trump is in the White House. farmers, who are already hurting food than it consumes and has Science and Technology will meet at Philippe Champagne who will speak He came out swinging against from low commodity prices that fully embraced the expansion of 4:15 p.m. in Room 2, Victoria Building. to Bills C-30, An Act to implement the Mexico and China for what he have prevailed in recent years. agricultural trade. But in the face It will hear from two medical doctors Comprehensive Economic and Trade perceives to be the theft of Ameri- Canada, China, and Mexico of uncertain global markets, it for its study on the role of robotics, 3D Agreement between Canada and can manufacturing jobs. He is have to weigh the pros and cons could do much more to support printing and artifi cial intelligence in the the European Union, and Bill C-31, considering a 20 per cent border of different options in the face of small-scale farmers that serve do- healthcare system. The committee will An Act to implement the Free Trade tax on imports from Mexico as a this delicate situation. mestic markets, an approach that then go in camera to consider a draft Agreement between Canada and way to pay for his promised bor- Waiting and hoping for the promises both social and environ- agenda for future business. Ukraine. der wall, has threatened a 45 per best is not really an option. Trump mental benefi ts at home. • The Senate Committee on Legal and • The Senate Committee on Legal and cent tariff on Chinese imports, is taking a mercantilist line, For all the bluster around the Constitutional Affairs will meet at and is seeking a renegotiation of trying to maximize U.S. exports question of manufacturing jobs as Constitutional Affairs will meet at 5:15 p.m. in Room 257, East Block. 10:30 a.m. in Room 257, East Block, NAFTA. while minimizing imports. This Trump settles into his presidency, It will hear from Health Minister Jane Canada, as one of the largest approach threatens to up-end agriculture is likely to make his to hear from witnesses on Bill C-37, Philpott, and other witnesses from An Act to amend the Controlled trading partners of the U.S., is what is now relatively free trade trade negotiations that much more Health Canada, for its study on Bill right to be nervous about the ef- in agricultural goods under NAF- complicated. There is nothing natu- Drugs and Substances Act and other C-37, An Act to amend the Controlled Acts. fects of a looming trade war. But TA (albeit with a few exceptions, ral about current agricultural trade Drugs and Substances Act and other while Trump’s trade threats have such as supply management for patterns, and much could change Acts. The meeting will be televised. • The Senate Committee on Social been focused mainly on restoring Canada’s dairy sector). in the coming years as U.S. trade Affairs, Science, and Technology will manufacturing jobs in the U.S., True, there are huge problems policy under Trump unfolds. • The Senate Committee on National meet at 10:30 a.m. in Room 2, Victoria agricultural trade is likely to com- with NAFTA that a renegotiation Jennifer Clapp is a professor Finance will meet at 6:45 p.m. in Building to continue its study on the plicate the picture considerably. could possibly fi x. But it is unlike- and the Canada Research Chair Room 9, Victoria Building, for its role of robotics, 3D printing, and Many U.S. farm groups are ly that any new deal will revital- in Global Food Security and study on federal estimates and on artifi cial intelligence in the healthcare scratching their heads at the pres- ize the small-scale farming sector Sustainability at the University government fi nance generally. It will system. It will also consider a draft ident’s trade threats. Most U.S. that was devastated in Mexico of Waterloo. hear from Andrew Gibson, director of budget. farm states overwhelmingly voted under NAFTA or curb the power The Hill Times expenditure analysis at the Treasury 16 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 | THE HILL TIMES Opinion

and 2002 was the initial effort by George W. Bush and Jean Chré- tien. This was followed by the Security and Prosperity Partner- ship of 2005, which included the Mexicans. At the time of partner- ship, the true intentions of the United States were demonstrated by the associated unilateral West- ern Hemisphere Travel Initiative. It was not an initiative for travel but an initiative to restrict travel. These efforts to produce a silk purse out of the sow’s ears saw full fruition with the 2011 joint declaration called Beyond the Bor- der: A Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Economic Competi- tiveness. In its over-the-horizon visionary expectations, the decla- ration stated that Canada and the United States intended to “pursue a perimeter approach to security, working together within, at, and away from the borders of our two countries to enhance our security and accelerate the legitimate fl ow of people, goods and services between our two countries.” Even amateur optometrists recognized this was more myopia than vision. Today, the government is not immune to the false hope of such agreements with the United States. The new initiative is to expand the Liberal ministers Navdeep Bains, left, authority and power of American Chrystia Freeland, right, and Ralph border and security offi cials in Goodale, second from right, met with Canada who administer the pre- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary clearance of Canadians intending John Kelly, second from left, earlier to travel to the United States. The this month in Ottawa. The Hill Times expanded authorities are being photograph by Jake Wright marketed by the government as being minor and while facilitating travel by Canadians, would be gov- erned by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other Canadian laws. Nothing could be further from Canadian offi cials complicit the truth. The enhancement of the power of American border offi cials from within Canada is part of the price Canadians have been paying in U.S. border troubles since 9/11 to “lessen the thickening” of the border for goods and ser- vices. The history of these efforts Growing ‘pre-clearance’ authorities for U.S. border agents that ignored internal policies that demonstrates that what is conced- killed more Americans annually ed today becomes the foundation in Canada will be the foundation for future concessions. than all of these wars combined. for further concessions tomorrow. Today the over-simplifi cation The American national secu- sustained peace and security will can border. The ease of serious and self-delusional pronounce- rity state is now in full fl ower and be at hand anytime soon. disruption was in full fl ight in the ments of President Trump give no “Making America Great Again” is While former U.S. president days after 9/11, when the move- comfort whatsoever that things will not a bootstrap operation. It is in Barack Obama sought to reduce ment of trucks and people came to change in the coming four years. its crudest form an operation of direct American involvement in a virtual standstill. That standstill In the days after 9/11, the initial self-denial where foreigners or in these confl icts, there are few signs demonstrated the power of the reaction by many—fed by promi- the quaintness of American law, today that he achieved much. The Americans over all aspects of the nent, opportunistic politicians— aliens, are to blame. confl icts show few signs of abat- Canadian economy. It remains the was that the hijackers had arrived As media reports over the past ing, and with President Donald nightmare of all of Canada’s politi- that morning from Halifax. The two months indicate, Canadians Trump in power there can be ev- cal and economic leaders. silliness of that assertion has been are affected. In all of this, Canadian GAR PARDY ery expectation American involve- Associated with Canadian matched successively by others offi cials are complicit, and it is left ment will expand in ways we only Security involvement in the American initi- over the years, with an earlier sec- to the Girl Guides to establish some now dimly perceive. Increasingly, ated wars was the expectation this retary of homeland security stat- measure of common sense by stay- the United States is now a state would buy leverage in Washington ing that she wanted the northern ing home rather than coping with TTAWA—It has now been where national security is the start for Canada’s economic relation- border considered the same as the the idiosyncrasies of American Omore than 15 years since that and end of all policy. ship. But the past 15 years have border with Mexico. She wanted it border offi cials who see themselves fateful day on Sept. 11, 2001 when Canada has been a major demonstrated it has been fragile known that “this is a real border.” as the right hand of a malevolent the centres of American society participant in many of these wars leverage that has to be refought The secretary, Janet Napolitano, and ignorant president. and government were attacked. and accompanying national secu- and re-bought every few years. was from Arizona, and demon- Equally, the Canada Border And like July 28, 1914 and Sept. 1, rity initiatives. As with many oth- In the days after 9/11, the pat- strated little understanding of the Services Agency and other se- 1939, the world changed. ers, Canada is and will continue tern was established and it con- respective borders. curity agencies of the Canadian The government and people of to be adversely affected by their tinues. Rather than being seen as Gone were the hopes expressed government remain free to act as the United States, in a fi t more of consequences. a trusted ally, many in the Ameri- by the U.S. trade representative, supporting agents for American anger than sound policy, embarked Canada’s involvement was in can government saw the northern Clayton Yeutter, in the aftermath madness. The CBSA is the sole on a series of wars that are still part driven by its military allianc- border as one as dangerous to its of the signing of the 1994 NAFTA national security agency that is with us. Many now refer to these es involving the United States and ill-perceived wellbeing as the one that: “We can essentially open the without independent oversight; as the Long War, although given its the countries of western Europe. with Mexico. And this even from doors between Canada and the the other agencies such as the nature it might equally be called In the initial phases of these wars offi cials within the Obama admin- United States. The economic ben- RCMP, CSIS, and CSEC remained the Circular War. there was signifi cant public sup- istration, who were expected to efi ts of that are just awesome to seriously under-sighted. Canadi- The War on Terror, the inva- port, but with the lack of appre- have some measure of support for contemplate as we move into the ans deserve better. sions of Afghanistan and Iraq and ciable success, support has largely or understanding of the bilateral next century.” Gar Pardy is retired from the intervention in Libya, and major disappeared. Today’s involvement relationship. Since 9/11 there has been Canadian Foreign Service and roles in the civil and proxy wars is based more on hope than any The willingness and comfort a series of smoke-and-mirror comments on issues of foreign in Syria and Yemen have dominat- expected positive result. of seeing foreign hands and lands agreements meant to suggest the and public policy from Ottawa. ed much of the world’s discourse. But not far from our proclaimed as directly affecting the domestic border doors were opening. The In 2008 he wrote a report for the The unintended consequences of alliance motives was the primor- security of Americans not only Shared Border Accord and its Rideau Institute on Canada-Unit- these wars keep on giving and dial need to keep the trucks and dominated but distorted all in the associated Smart Border Decla- ed States border relations. there are few signs that victory, or people moving across the Ameri- search for ephemeral security ration and Action Plan of 2001 The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 17 Opinion

will get the most bang for its buck These are centres for creating city also has the University of To- by concentrating on a handful of startups in tech and creative indus- ronto, the country’s top research Ottawa’s urban centres. tries. Vancouver’s startup sector institution. Although Canada as a whole is valued at $12-billion. And more Many Canadian cities have lags in research and development than 2,000 tech startups are based created business improvement ar- spending, our cities are leaders in the Toronto-Waterloo corridor, eas, which promote companies lo- innovation for innovation. Canada is one of the highest concentration of young cally and try to attract customers only two countries other than the companies in Canada. with measures like streetscape United States to have more than That’s no coincidence: urban improvements. What our cities one entry on this year’s Startup density is the fuel for today’s need now is to create business in- Genome ranking of the top 20 innovative industries. It takes a novation areas. These could bring strategy should “startup ecosystems,” with Van- critical mass of talent, capital, together the physical assets that couver and the Toronto-Waterloo and institutions to spark creativ- startups need—such as affordable corridor making the list (the other ity, and a constant fl ow of new offi ce space, access to research country is China, with Shanghai ideas to nurture the fl ame. facilities, and proximity to univer- focus on cities and Beijing). But these cities are playing on sities—with access to government A recently published study from a crowded fi eld. The MaRS report support for new businesses. The feds will be tempted to spread money MaRS Discovery District suggests shows that North American and Creating these areas would why: Canada is benefi ting from an European cities are creating in- take the efforts of all three levels widely, but they’ll likely get more bang for international shift in where innova- novation districts more rapidly than of government. Ottawa and the tive activity is happening. ever as they seek to attract jobs and, provinces have major roles to their buck by concentrating on a handful Entrepreneurs and researchers perhaps, create the next Apple. play in directing funding toward are migrating away from isolated To compete, Canada’s innova- such areas and also making of urban centres. research parks and setting up in tion strategy should recognize investments in training to ensure resurgent urban neighbourhoods. that our economy is smaller than workers have the skills tech start- invest in late-stage companies, a Today’s disruptive products are those of some key competitors, so ups need. package worth $2.2-billion to sup- those that cut across different ar- we have to be more strategic in But good municipal-level city port clean technologies, and new eas of expertise, such as technolo- our investments. The government building is also vital to attract investments in talent develop- gies that allow people to manage could aim to create the conditions and retain the best and brightest. ment to help Canada attract the their fi nances or health data from for breakthroughs to happen and Young, highly skilled workers best and brightest. their smartphones. These aren’t startups to thrive. That means en- want to live and set up companies One of the most eye-catching born in eureka moments in a lab; couraging the growth of innova- in areas that have coffee shops, measures was extra funding for they’re the product of collabora- tion clusters in the places where restaurants, and venues for music the government’s plan to cre- tion between experts from differ- talent, investors, and research and art. ate industry “superclusters.” Up ent economic sectors. institutions are already found. Creating a vibrant startup scene Joe Greenwood, Joeri Van Den to $950-million is now available Canada is well placed to capi- Toronto will be particularly goes hand in hand with creating Steenhoven to develop innovation hotspots talize on this trend. Canada may important. It’s the only Cana- vibrant cities. Such an approach 2017 Budget in industries such as advanced be a vast and sparsely populated dian city with the size necessary could help Canada take its place manufacturing, digital technol- country, but it’s one of the most ur- to compete with global leaders in the top tier of innovation leaders. ORONTO—There was plenty ogy, and biosciences. banized nations in the world: more like London, New York, and San Joe Greenwood is lead execu- Tof good news for Canadian The government will be than 80 per cent of Canadians live Francisco. Six million people rub tive for data and Joeri van den tech companies in the Liberals’ tempted to spread this fi nancial in urban areas. Almost one-third shoulders in the Greater Toronto Steenhoven is vice-president for innovation-heavy budget. There largesse widely and try to create of the population is crammed into Area. More large corporates systems innovation at the MaRS was $400-million for the Business clusters around the country. But the three largest cities: Toronto, are headquartered there than Discovery District in Toronto. Development Bank of Canada to there’s growing evidence that it Montreal, and Vancouver. anywhere else in Canada, and the The Hill Times

ing world order. We are con- fronted with increasingly more complex and sophisticated global Canada and the EU can shape economic, political, and security challenges. The EU and Canada have recently signed the Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA), globalization together which offers the framework to ad- dress these very challenges. This is exactly the time when At a time when of the 20th century could not be Chrystia Freeland, the world needs a strong Euro- greater. Two catastrophic wars in formerly Canada’s pean Union. A strong European many are seeking Europe between 1914 and 1945 trade minister, Union is indispensable not just left millions dead, and a continent and Martin to Europe, but also to its neigh- to build walls, devastated, divided, and prostrate. Schulz, then the bours and partners. The European For countries that had long been EU Parliament’s Union needs a strong partner like the Atlantic at war, European integration has president, helped Canada, just as Canada needs a been the most successful peace to fi nish off the strong EU. partners can show project in our history. Canada-EU trade Together, we can shape glo- leadership. Last weekend, thousands took agreement last balization and show leadership to the streets across Europe in a year, and the deal as progressive, outward-looking show of support for the EU, while was approved global players. It is this strong the leaders of 27 European Union by the European strategic partnership we are cel- member states renewed their Parliament ebrating on this dual anniversary pledge to the European integra- in February. year 2017—Canada’s sesquicen- tion project and to addressing, Photograph courtesy of tennial and the 60th anniversary in the words of a joint statement the European Union of the Treaty of Rome. from the leaders, “the challenges The European Union is and of a rapidly changing world and will continue to be a strong, coop- to offer to our citizens both secu- people’s freedom to move is the has achieved a strong position erative, and reliable power. Our rity and new opportunities.” solution to our problems. by acting together with one voice partners know what we stand for. In today’s changing times, it In these unpredictable times, on the global stage, by playing a We stand for multilateralism, for Marie-Anne Coninsx is no surprise we are marking the 60th anniversary of the Rome key role in removing barriers to human rights, for international Treaty offers an opportunity not trade as a member of the World Global politics this anniversary year with mixed cooperation. We stand for sustain- feelings. U.K.’s looming exit from only to reaffi rm our commit- Trade Organization, as well as able development and inclusive the EU, the migration crisis, and ment to the values and objectives concluding bilateral trade deals societies. TTAWA—On March 25, the continued terrorism threats have on which the European proj- with many important partners Whatever events may bring in OEuropean Union marked 60 certainly cast a shadow across ect is founded, but also to take around the world, such as the re- the future, one thing is certain: years since the signature of the the continent and beyond. pragmatic and ambitious steps cent EU-Canada Comprehensive the EU will continue to put pro- Rome Treaty and the creation of The world is going through forward. The European Union will and Economic Trade Agreement moting international peace and the European Communities. It a time of great uncertainty: the be an increasingly vital power (CETA). security, development coopera- was a defi ning moment in the his- global balance of power is shift- to preserve and strengthen the The success of CETA sends a tion, human rights, and respond- tory of European integration that ing and the foundations of a global order. strong signal that only by build- ing to humanitarian crises at the ushered in an era of unprecedent- rules-based international order The EU is the second-largest ing bridges—not walls—we can heart of its foreign and security ed peace, prosperity, and security are too often being questioned. global economy. We are the larg- face the challenges confronting policies. that citizens of EU member states The world is going through a time est single market in the world and our societies today. Marie-Anne Coninsx is the have enjoyed ever since. when many feel shutting borders, the leading foreign investor in Together, the European Union ambassador of the European The contrast to the fi rst half building walls, and restricting most parts of the globe. The EU and Canada are facing a chang- Union to Canada. 18 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 | THE HILL TIMES Feature

LISA RAITT KEVIN O’LEARY Dean Allison Conservative MP Guy Lauzon Conservative MP Phil McColeman Conservative MP Percy Mockler Conservative Senator Conservative Bruce Stanton Conservative MP Karla MacFarlane Nova Scotia Progressive Judith Seidman Conservative Senator Conservative MLA Scott Armstrong former Conservative MP Julian Fantino former Conservative MP Keith Ashfield former Conservative minister Tim Uppal former Conservative MP John Carmichael former Conservative MP Bernard Valcourt former Conservative MP Rob Clarke former Conservative MP Ken Hughes former Progressive Conservative MP and Alberta PC Kerry-Lynne Findlay former Conservative minister MLA and minister leadership race Marjory LeBreton former Conservative Senator Robert Goguen former Conservative MP Gary Goodyear former Conservative minister of state Mike Harris former Ontario Progressive Conservative premier Dick Harris former Conservative MP Rick Perkins former Conservative candidate Ted Menzies former Conservative MP Erika Barootes former political staffer to the former Alberta PC Who’s supporting whom Darrel Stinson former Conservative MP government Alfie MacLeod Nova Scotia PC MLA Andrew Boddington former Ontario Progressive Conservative Lisa MacLeod Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Party executive director Sources: Media reports, The Hill Times archives, and candidate/supporter communications. Note: This list is limited to former and current political staffers, elected Eddie Orrell Nova Scotia PC MLA Erinn Broshko former federal Conservative candidate politicians, and candidates. Compiled by Kristen Shane and Chelsea Nash Mike Cluett Halton regional councillor Jim Burnett adviser to the Ontario PC Party leader Cecil Clarke mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, former John Capobianco former federal Conservative candidate Conservative candidate Mike Coates former Conservative staffer, current Hill & Knowlton vice-chair Gordon Krantz mayor of Milton, Ont. Erin Chutter former political staffer Michel A. Plourde mayor of Danville, Que. Amanda Galbraith former Conservative staffer and ANDREW SCHEER ANDREW SAXTON Keith Bain former Nova Scotia PC MLA spokesperson for Toronto Mayor John Tory Ari. S. Laskin former Ontario PC staffer Ziad Aboultaif Conservative MP Currie Dixon former Yukon Party MLA John Duncan former Conservative MP Phil Gillies former Ontario Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Sara MacIntyre former Conservative staffer John Barlow Conservative MP John Fraser former House Speaker and Amy Mills former Conservative staffer Luc Berthold Conservative MP John Snobelen former Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Progressive Conservative minister Case Ootes former deputy mayor of Toronto Peter McQuaid former party president of P.E.I. Progressive Conservatives Kelly Block Conservative MP Noël Kinsella former Senate speaker and Henry Lau former Conservative Party candidate Naresh Raghubeer former aide to a former Ontario Progressive Sylvie Boucher Conservative MP Conservative Senator Adam Rodgers former Conservative Party candidate Conservative MPP Ted Falk Conservative MP Elaine Allan former Conservative candidate Jana Regimbal former Conservative staffer Patrick Robert former Conservative staffer Garnett Genuis Conservative MP Paul Seear former Conservative staffer Brooke Timpson former Conservative staffer Chris Rougier former Conservative staffer Marilyn Gladu Conservative MP Brock Stephenson former Conservative staffer Doug Schweitzer former CEO of the Manitoba PC Party Matt Jeneroux Conservative MP Lesli Tomlin former Conservative staffer Tom Lukiwski Conservative MP Norm Vocino former Conservative staffer Pierre Paul-Hus Conservative MP PIERRE LEMIEUX Alain Rayes Conservative MP STEVEN BLANEY Scott Reid Conservative MP Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu Conservative Senator Gerry Ritz Conservative MP Jean-Guy Dagenais Conservative Senator RICK PETERSON Bob Saroya Conservative MP Daniel Gaudreau former federal Bill Clarke former Conservative MP Kevin Sorenson Conservative MP Conservative candidate Jeff Bridge 2013 campaign manager for Mark Strahl Conservative MP Pierre-Luc Jean former Conservative staffer the B.C. Conservatives Shannon Stubbs Conservative MP DEEPAK OBHRAI Christophe Lavoie Hill staffer Karen Mortfield former press secretary to a Arnold Viersen Conservative MP Corneliu Chisu former Conservative MP former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Cathay Wagantall Conservative MP Joe Daniel former Conservative MP Mark Mullins former adviser to federal and Ontario PCs, Mark Warawa Conservative MP former Fraser Institute director Chris Warkentin Conservative MP CHRIS ALEXANDER Bob Zimmer Conservative MP Denise Batters Conservative Senator Yuri Shymko former Progressive Norman Doyle Conservative Senator ERIN O’TOOLE Conservative MP and Ontario PC MPP MICHAEL CHONG Dennis Patterson Conservative Senator Alexandra Day former Conservative staffer Harold Albrecht Conservative MP Don Plett Conservative Senator Paul Egli former Conservative nomination candidate Peter Kent Conservative MP Mel Arnold Conservative MP David Tilson Conservative MP Carolyn Stewart Olsen Conservative Senator James Bezan Conservative MP Scott Tannas Conservative Senator Victor Oh Conservative Senator John Brassard Conservative MP Mike Wallace former Conservative MP David Tkachuk Conservative Senator Blaine Calkins Conservative MP Terence Young former Conservative MP Betty Unger Conservative Senator Colin Carrie Conservative MP MAXIME BERNIER Erminie Cohen former Progressive Conservative Senator David Wells Conservative Senator Michael Cooper Conservative MP Ted Arnott Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Garry Breitkreuz former Conservative MP Gérard Deltell Conservative MP Dan Albas Conservative MP Ted Chudleigh former Ontario PC MPP Paul Calandra former Conservative MP Kerry Diotte Conservative MP Alupa Clarke Conservative MP Gary Mar former Alberta MLA, cabinet minister Royal Galipeau former Conservative MP Todd Doherty Conservative MP Tony Clement Conservative MP John McDermid former Progressive Conservative MP, minister of state Bal Gosal former Conservative MP Jim Eglinski Conservative MP Jacques Gourde Conservative MP Réjean Savoie former New Brunswick MLA Bryan Hayes former Conservative MP Ed Fast Conservative MP Tom Kmiec Conservative MP Devin Baines Conservative staffer Costas Menegakis former Conservative MP Randy Hoback Conservative MP Alex Nuttall Conservative MP Nathan Caranci Conservative staffer Tilly O’Neill-Gordon former Conservative MP Robert Kitchen Conservative MP Lynn Beyak Conservative Senator Yaroslav Baran former Conservative staffer LaVar Payne former Conservative MP Ron Liepert Conservative MP Nicole Eaton Conservative Senator Susan Elliott former PC national director Peter Penashue former Conservative minister Larry Maguire Conservative MP Stephen Greene Conservative Senator Catherine Keill former staffer to then-Alberta Progressive Conservative Kyle Seeback former Conservative MP Kelly McCauley Conservative MP Leo Housakos Conservative Senator premier Jim Prentice and former Progressive Conservative MPs Devinder Shory former Conservative MP Cathy McLeod Conservative MP Ghislain Maltais Conservative Senator Harry Near former PC national campaign director, adviser to PC leader Chuck Strahl former Conservative MP Blake Richards Conservative MP Larry Smith Conservative Senator Geoff Norquay former Conservative staffer Jeff Watson former Conservative MP Jamie Schmale Conservative MP Derek Fildebrandt Alberta Wildrose MLA Chisholm Pothier former Conservative staffer Wayne Anderson Alberta Wildrose MLA Martin Shields Conservative MP Steven Fletcher Manitoba PC MLA, ex-federal Conservative Bram Sepers former Conservative staffer Steven Bonk Saskatchewan Party MLA Bev Shipley Conservative MP cabinet minister William Stairs former Conservative staffer Robert Sopuck Conservative MP Bill Boyd Saskatchewan Party MLA Laura Ross Saskatchewan Party MLA Adam Taylor former Conservative staffer Karen Vecchio Conservative MP Fred Bradshaw Saskatchewan Party MLA Rick Casson former Conservative MP Peter White former principal secretary to Progressive Dianne Watts Conservative MP Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney Greg Brkich Saskatchewan Party MLA Russ Hiebert former Conservative MP Kevin Waugh Conservative MP Jay Hill former Conservative whip and House leader Jennifer Campeau Saskatchewan Party MLA Nancy Greene Raine Conservative Senator Jeff Carr New Brunswick Progressive Conservative MLA Ryan Leef former Conservative MP Diane Ablonczy former Conservative MP Gary Lunn former Conservative minister Lori Carr Saskatchewan Party MLA Laurie Hawn former Conservative MP Pat Perkins former Conservative MP BRAD TROST Nathan Cooper Alberta Wildrose House leader and MLA Ed Holder former Conservative MP John Reynolds former Conservative MP and B.C. MLA Herb Cox Saskatchewan Party MLA Leon Benoit former Conservative MP Gerald Keddy former Conservative MP Kevin Falcon former B.C. Liberal MLA Dan D’Autremont Saskatchewan Party MLA Joseph Ben-Ami former operations director Wladyslaw Lizon former Conservative MP Brian Storseth former Conservative MP Terry Dennis Saskatchewan Party MLA Ted Opitz former Conservative MP to Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day Lawrence Toet former Conservative MP Mike Patton former Conservative staffer Larry Doke Saskatchewan Party MLA Bernard Trottier former Conservative MP Gerry Weiner former Progressive Conservative federal minister David Hanson Alberta Wildrose MLA David Wilks former Conservative MP Michel Rivard former Conservative Senator Larry Harrison Progressive Conservative Nova Scotia MLA Bob Runciman Conservative Senator George Richardson former Canadian Alliance party president Jeremy Harrison Saskatchewan Party MLA John Hamm former Progressive Conservative Novia Scotia premier Heather Forsyth former Alberta MLA and Wildrose Party interim leader Bob Bailey Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP KELLIE LEITCH Warren Kaeding Saskatchewan Party MLA John Hastings former Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Jamie Baillie Nova Scotia MLA, leader of Progressive Conservative Greg Lawrence Saskatchewan Party MLA Fred Bamber councillor, municipal district of Bonnyville no. 87, Alberta Ben Lobb Conservative MP Party of Nova Scotia Don MacIntyre Alberta Wildrose MLA Matt Whitman deputy mayor of Halifax Peter Van Loan Conservative MP Lorne Coe Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Monte McNaughton Ontario PC MPP Babu Nagalingam senior adviser to the Ontario Progressive David Yurdiga Conservative MP Vic Fedeli Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Hugh Nerlien Saskatchewan Party MLA Conservative leader Consiglio Di Nino former Conservative Michael Harris Ontario MPP Greg Ottenbreit Saskatchewan Party MLA Jeff Callaway former Alberta Wildrose Party candidate, current Senator Kevin Phillips Saskatchewan Party MLA Brian Macdonald New Brunswick Progressive Conservative MLA Ronald Atkey former Progressive Conservative minister Norm Miller Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP party president Doug Steele Saskatchewan Party MLA David Artemiw former Progressive Conservative Queen’s Park staffer Rick Nicholls Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Nathan Giede columnist, former B.C. Conservative party candidate Warren Steinley Saskatchewan Party MLA Trent Blanchette former Conservative staffer Randy Pettapiece Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Marie-Claude Godue former federal Conservative candidate Lyle Stewart Saskatchewan Party MLA Richard Ciano principal at Campaign Research, former Ontario Laurie Scott Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Phil Green former Conservative candidate Christine Tell Saskatchewan Party MLA Lisa Thompson Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Adam Richardson former Canadian Alliance candidate and staffer Progressive Conservative party president Carl Urquhart New Brunswick Progressive Conservative MLA Bill Walker Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Robert Strickland former Conservative candidate Michael Diamond director of operations for ex-Toronto mayor Glenn van Dijken Alberta Wildrose MLA John Yakabuski Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Steven Barrett former Conservative staffer Rob Ford, Manitoba Progressive Conservative caucus staffer Randy Weekes Saskatchewan Party MLA Jody Mitic Ottawa city councillor Éric Duhaime newspaper columnist, former Canadian Alliance adviser Tannis Drysdale former northern VP for the Ontario Progressive Shayne Saskiw former Alberta Wildrose MLA Dave Myette Saugeen Shores, Ont. councillor Aaron Gairdner former Conservative staffer Conservative Party Joan Baylis Conservative staffer Brad Vis Conservative staffer Emrys Graefe deputy director for the Conservative Party’s 2015 campaign Jan Dymond former political staffer Kenzie Potter Conservative staffer Daniel Lindsay former Conservative leadership candidate Maxime Hupé former Hill staffer Stephanie Gawur constituency assistant Nancy Bishay former Conservative staffer Fred DeLorey former Conservative candidate and staffer Mark Johnson former Conservative staffer Sander Grieve former Progressive Conservative Hill staffer Georganne Burke former Conservative Party outreach manager James Dodds former chief financial officer for the federal Leif Malling former Conservative staffer Stanley Hartt former chief of staff to prime minister Brian Mulroney and organizer Progressive Conservative Party Tony Oliver former vice president of the Progressive Conservative Nick Kouvalis former chief of staff to Toronto mayor Rob Ford, Mike MacDonell former Conservative staffer John MacDonell former Conservative chief of staff Party of Newfoundland principal at Campaign Research Hamish Marshall former Conservative PMO and party staffer Dan Mader former Conservative chief of staff Dan Robertson former Conservative staffer Dany Renauld former federal Progressive Conservative Party Marc-André Leclerc former Conservative Party staffer Tausha Michaud Hill staffer Dean Tester former Conservative staffer organizer in Quebec Stephen Taylor former Conservative nomination contestant, Mike Murray former Conservative staffer, candidate Mark Whiffen past president of the Progressive Conservative John Simcoe chief financial officer, Ontario PC Fund ex-director of the National Citizens Coalition Dave Pierce former Conservative staffer Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Mitch Wexler voter-data expert and a principal at Politrain Consulting THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 19

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by Laura Ryckewaert Innovation Minister Bains hires new press secretary Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains is pictured speaking with members of the press last year with his former press secretary Philip Proulx behind him on the left. With Mr. Proulx now working in the PMO, Mr. Bains recently hired a new press secretary. The Hill Times Photograph by Jake Wright The minister has also hired Minister Duclos hires policy He’s also previously worked for the United a new special assistant adviser, while LeBlanc adds Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Ministers Joly, in recent years has been a freelance writer for communications to senior assistant for a number of publications, including The Lebouthillier welcome Toronto Star, The New York Times and The work in his offi ce. Families, Children, and Social Develop- Montreal Gazette, among others. In 2011, he new aides ment Minister Jean-Yves Duclos has hired claimed the Canadian Association of Journal- A number of staffi ng changes have nnovation, Science, and Economic De- Andrew ‘Stobo’ Sniderman to work as a ists’ Print Features of the year award for a policy adviser for strategic communica- piece for the Gazette on Canada’s Truth and recently taken place in Canadian Heritage Ivelopment Minister Navdeep Bains has a Mélanie tions in his offi ce, starting on March 13. Reconciliation Commission. and Offi cial Languages Minister new press secretary on his ministerial staff Joly Mr. Sniderman was previously a policy Mathieu Filion is director of communi- ’s offi ce, including the departure of team, after his old one, Philip Proulx, was Angad Dhillon adviser for human rights to the federal cations to Mr. Duclos as minister, Emilie special assistant for policy . scooped up to work as a special assistant A former staffer in the Liberal Research in the PMO’s senior adviser unit. foreign affairs minister, starting last June Gauduchon is press secretary, and Josée under former minister Stéphane Dion. He Duplessis is chief of staff. Bureau, Mr. Dhillon joined Ms. Joly’s Karl W. Sasseville offi cially started on political staff team last June. He was of- the job as press secretary to Mr. Bains on exited the offi ce shortly after new minister Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc has Chrystia Freeland was shuffl ed into the a new senior special assistant in his min- fi cially listed as under post-employment March 20. Previously, he was director of status on the confl ict of interest and ethics communications and press secretary to role on Jan. 10. isterial offi ce, with Samuel Yorke offi cially A former Rhodes Scholar, Mr. Sniderman stepping into the role on March 20. commissioner’s online registry as of March Quebec’s deputy premier Lise Thériault, 3. During the 2015 federal election, Mr. who is also the minister responsible for has experience working in aboriginal law Annie Sherry, who had briefl y been as an articling student at Toronto-based fi rm posted as an exempt aide in Mr. LeBlanc’s Dhillon was a fi eld organizer for the party small and medium enterprises, regulatory in Ontario’s Peel region. streamlining, and regional economic devel- Olthuis, Kleer, Townshend LLP and spent offi ce as support staff for a few weeks, is opment, among other responsibilities. about half a year as a law clerk to Justice now headed to work in his Hill offi ce as the Originally from Montreal, Mr. Sasseville Edwin Cameron at the Constitutional Court Liberal MP for Beauséjour, N.B. Continued on page 21 has been active with the Quebec Liberal of South Africa in Johannesburg. Vince MacNeil is chief of staff to Mr. LeBlanc. Party, including working as a political adviser and speechwriter for its youth commission following the 2014 provincial election. He’s also previously been an aide Cabinet chiefs of staff , communications staff to then-Quebec minister for culture and communications Hélène David and studied Minister Portfolio Chief of Staff D. Comms Press Secretary Main Office Telephone political communications and philosophy Trudeau, Justin Prime Minister, Intergovernmental Affairs, Youth Katie Telford Kate Purchase Cameron Ahmad, 613-957-5555 Andrée-Lyne Hallé at the Université de Montréal, graduating Bains, Navdeep Innovation, Science and Economic Development Elder Marques Pauline Tam Karl W. Sasseville 343-291-2500 in 2013. Bennett, Carolyn Indigenous and Northern Affairs Rick Theis James Fitz-Morris Sabrina Williams 819-997-0002 Mai Habib has also recently joined the Bibeau, Marie-Claude International Development and La Francophonie Geoffroi Montpetit Louis Bélanger Bernard Boutin 343-203-6238, innovation minister’s offi ce as a special (PS) 343-203-5977 assistant for communications starting on Brison, Scott Treasury Board Sabina Saini Bruce Cheadle Jean-Luc Ferland 613-369-3170 March 15. Carr, Jim Natural Resources Janet Annesley Laurel Munroe Alexandre Deslongchamps 343-292-6837 Ms. Habib was most recently an Champagne, Francois-Philippe International Trade Julian Ovens Joe Pickerill Chantal Gagnon 343-203-7332 executive and communications assistant Chagger, Bardish Small Business and Tourism Rachel Bendayan Jonathan Dignan Marie-Emmanuelle Cadieux 343-291-2700 House Leader Rheal Lewis Mark Kennedy Sabrina Atwal 613-995-2727 to Ottawa Centre Liberal MPP Yasir Duclos, Jean-Yves Families, Children and Social Development Josée Duplessis Mathieu Filion Emilie Gauduchon 819-654-5546 Naqvi and is a former news anchor and Duncan, Kirsty Science (acting) Chris Ethier Michael Bhardwaj Stephanie Power (intern) 343-291-2600 host with Ottawa’s 580 CFRA news-talk Foote, Judy Public Services and Procurement Gianluca Cairo Annie Trépanier Jessica Turner 819-997-5421 radio station. She’s also previously been Freeland, Chrystia Foreign Affairs Jeremy Broadhurst - Alexander Lawrence 343-203-1851, a reporter for Rogers Communications’ (D.Comm) 343-203-5938 1310 News in Ottawa, for Corus Enter- Garneau, Marc Transport Jean-Philippe Arseneau Marc Roy Delphine Denis 613-991-0700 tainment in Cornwall, Ont., and spent Goodale, Ralph Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Marci Surkes Dan Brien Scott Bardsley 613-991-2924 Gould, Karina Democratic Institutions Rob Jamieson John O’Leary Byrne Furlong 613-943-1838 much of 2011 as a chase and presentation Hajdu, Patty Employment, Workforce Development and Labour Matthew Mitschke Carlene Variyan Matt Pascuzzo 819-654-5611 producer for CTV News. Hehr, Kent Veterans, Associate Defence Christine Tabbert Rob Rosenfeld Sarah McMaster (Veterans) 613-996-4649, She studied radio and television at (Associate Defence) Toronto’s Ryerson University, where she 613-996-3100 was involved with both the school’s radio Hussen, Ahmed Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Ali Salam Bernie Derible Camielle Edwards* 613-954-1064 station, CKLN 88.1 FM, and RUtv, among Joly, Mélanie Canadian Heritage Leslie Church Christine Michaud Pierre-Olivier Herbert 819-997-7788 other things. Her Twitter profi le indicates LeBlanc, Dominic Fisheries, Oceans & Coast Guard Vince MacNeil Kevin Lavigne Laura Gareau 613-992-3474 she’s studying a master’s at Carleton Lebouthillier, Diane National Revenue Josée Guilmette Cédrick Beauregard Chloe Luciani-Girouard 613-995-2960 MacAulay, Lawrence Agriculture and Agri-Food Mary Jean McFall Guy Gallant Oliver Anderson 613-773-1059 University’s Norman Paterson School of McKenna, Catherine Environment and Climate Change Marlo Raynolds Frédérique Tsai-Klassen Caitlin Workman 819-938-3813 International Affairs. Ms. Habib also has Monsef, Maryam Status of Women Monique Lugli Philippe Charlebois Alex Wellstead 819-997-2494 a French language certifi cation from St. Morneau, Bill Finance Richard Maksymetz Daniel Lauzon Annie Donolo 613-369-5696 Lawrence College, according to her Linke- Philpott, Jane Health Geneviève Hinse David Clements Andrew MacKendrick 613-957-0200 dIn profi le. Qualtrough, Carla Sport and Persons with Disabilities Matt Stickney - Ashley Michnowski 819-934-1122 Pauline Tam is director of communica- Sajjan, Harjit National Defence Brian Bohunicky Renée Filiatrault Jordan Owens 613-996-3100 tions to the minister, while Elder Marques Sohi, Amarjeet Infrastructure and Communities John Brodhead Kate Monfette Brook Simpson 613-949-1759 is chief of staff. Other senior political aides Wilson-Raybould, Jody Justice Lea MacKenzie David Taylor - 613-992-4621 * senior special assistant, communications to Mr. Bains include: David McFarlane, director of policy; Vandana Kattar-Miller, Prime Minister’s Press Office: 613-957-5555 director of policy affairs for regional Kate Purchase, director of communications economic development; Marc Gervais, Olivier Duchesneau, deputy director of communications director of parliamentary affairs and issues Cameron Ahmad, press secretary management; and Claude Thibault, senior Andrée-Lyne Hallé, press secretary special assistant. —Last updated on March 24, 2017. 20 THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 CLASSIFIEDS Information and Advertisement Placement: 613-232-5952 • classifi [email protected]

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While in Canada, he hopes to have Continued from page 19 some weekends to himself to write, and to take advantage of living in Rockcliffe Park, Mehalan Garoonanedhi recently joined where he feels surrounded by nature. the minister’s offi ce as a new legislative Books are actually what inspired Mr. assistant and a liaison to the minister’s Swarup to enter the foreign service in the parliamentary secretary for multicultural- fi rst place. He grew up in a small town in ism, Liberal MP Arif Virani. India called Allahabad, which now boasts a He was previously a legislative assis- million residents. tant to Liberal MP Arnold Chan, starting “I grew up at a time where there was no in 2014 during the last Parliament after internet, no cable television. So the only leading Mr. Chan’s federal Liberal nomina- pastime for me was reading. Reading those tion campaign in Scarborough-Agincourt, books really created a desire in my mind to Ont. Mr. Garoonanedhi was also campaign see those places. Experience what a scone manager to Mr. Chan during the 2015 is, and what is this castle, and what is this federal election. prairie, that kind of a thing.” But the inspiration for his own writing always comes from life in India. The inspira- Revenue tion for Q&A for instance, a book about a Minister poor orphan who happens to know all the Diane answers on India’s Who Will Win a Billion? Lebouthillier game show, but is imprisoned because he is has also believed to be cheating, came from “the fact made that ordinary folk in India possess so much changes to her staff Vikas Swarup is the knowledge, common sense, and wisdom, recently. author of the book Q&A, which we tend to discount,” he said. The Hill Times which was adapted into The story then goes through the differ- photograph by the award-winning fi lm ent life experiences of the young man, Ram Jake Wright Slumdog Millionaire. The Mohammad Thomas, as he recounts to his Hill Times photograph by lawyer how he came to know the answer to Chelsea Nash each question. “What I wanted to show was the great- est teacher in the world is life itself,” Mr. Swarup said. As well, he served as campaign director Mr. Swarup likes to explore the “every- for the 2014 Liberal nomination cam- day struggles in India of ordinary folk,” and paigns of Liberal MP Ahmed Hussen, who his lead motif is “ordinary people confront- represents York South-Weston, Ont. and is ed with extraordinary situations.” now also the immigration minister, and of When Mr. Swarup’s book was trans- Liberal MP Gary Anandasangaree, who formed into the global success Slumdog Mil- represents Scarborough-Rouge Park, Ont., lionaire, he said he felt like he had played a as indicated by his LinkedIn profi le. part in the diplomacy of Bollywood. Mr. Garoonanedhi has volunteered on “It was really quite an amazing experi- a number of other Toronto-area Liberal Diplomatic Circles ence,” Mr. Swarup said. “I was fortunate campaigns in the past, including for Ms. enough to be invited to the Oscars, and when Freeland’s 2013 by-election campaign in I went there...I had a feeling that India had Toronto Centre, Ont., and studied political arrived on this global entertainment stage.” science at McMaster University. by Chelsea Nash His wife, Aparna Swarup, is also a Rachel Rappaport, who had been work- creative mind. Ms. Swarup is a painter and ing as an assistant to the minister’s parlia- photographer. While posted abroad, she mentary secretary, is now a communica- likes to maintain a blog of portraits of the tions adviser to Ms. Joly. Ms. Rappaport people she meets, called “Shot Stories.” joined the minister’s staff team in February Indian high commissioner The couple have two sons, one of whom 2016 and was previously a parliamentary attended McGill University while the assistant to Ms. Freeland in her capacity as couple was posted to Japan. a Liberal MP. remains ‘hopeful’ She’s also a former parliamentary intern Two trade deals on the horizon to Liberal MP Judy Foote, who is also the Canada and India are working towards minister for public services and procurement, two new trade deals: a Canada-India For- and spent almost half a year as an intern with pulses trade spat will be eign Investment Promotion and Protection the Quebec team for Prime Minister Justin Agreement (FIPA) and a Comprehensive Trudeau’s 2013 leadership campaign. Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). Mathieu Genest, who had been focused Mr. Swarup admitted the trade negotia- on coordinating strategic communications resolved before deadline tions aren’t moving very fast, though there for the minister since last summer, is now have been several rounds of discussions. working under the title of issues manager He said when Canada’s Trade Minister in the offi ce. Vikas Swarup arrived on ning of March in an effort to procure the François-Philippe Champagne recently visited Leslie Church is chief of staff to the new relaxation, but was unsuccessful. The India (at the same time as Mr. MacAulay), he minister, and other senior staffers in the Feb. 28 and has already department said at the time that discus- and his Indian counterpart, Nirmala Sithara- offi ce include: Ben Carr, director of parlia- sions were still ongoing. man, agreed they should put in place a dead- mentary affairs; Caroline Séguin, direc- met with several ministers. line for negotiations, “so that becomes a goal, a tor of policy; Christine Michaud, director The diplomat who writes target, and all the ministries work together.” of communications; and press secretary ndia’s new high commissioner, Vikas You might know Mr. Swarup’s name While the deadline has not yet been set, Pierre-Olivier Herbert. ISwarup, says he is hopeful that India will from somewhere else. He is the author of Mr. Swarup said it will coincide with a fu- Meanwhile, earlier this month National renew its six-month relaxation period on the book Q&A, which inspired the Oscar- ture visit of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier, Canada’s pulse exports. winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. He to India, and will likely be at the end of this who is also the Liberal MP for Gaspésie- “I can only remain hopeful” he said. “It has written two other books, including Six year, or early next year. Les-Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Que., has hired eventually depends on what comes out of Suspects, and The Accidental Apprentice. Another hiccup in Canada-India rela- one of her MP offi ce assistants to serve as India. But the conversations I’ve had lead “Some people think I’m an author mas- tions has been change to the Temporary a political aide. me to go in a positive direction.” querading as a diplomat. I always prefer to Foreign Worker Program. Some Indian Vanessa-Aimée Martin now working as India is Canada’s biggest export market think of myself as a diplomat who writes,” companies felt the program was restricting an assistant for the regional affairs desks for peas, lentils, and other pulses, but is at Mr. Swarup told The Hill Times in an inter- intra-company transfers, and their ability in the minister’s offi ce. Viki Ozell-Landry risk of losing that market if the trade issue view at his residence last week. to gain the best talent from abroad. is currently listed as a member’s assistant cannot be resolved. Mr. Swarup, who has been in the foreign Mr. Swarup said he has already met with in Ms. Lebouthillier’s Hill offi ce, while India usually requires its importers to use service for 31 years and arrived in Ottawa Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, and Pierre Huot, Marie-Michelle Cyr, Sylvio a certain type of pesticide on those pulses: on Feb. 28, says he is a “weekend writer,” Mr. Bains assured him that the Liberals’ new Lebreux, Caroline Lelièvre, and Jerôme methyl bromide. But Canada has been trying and only ever writes when he is posted program, the Global Skills Strategy, “will make Alexandre Lavoie are all listed as con- to phase out the chemical, both because it is abroad. Q&A was written when he was it very easy for Canadian businesses to hire stituency assistants on the government’s damaging to the ozone layer, and it doesn’t posted as a diplomat in London between global talent,” Mr. Swarup said. The program electronic directory service. always work in colder temperatures. 2000 and 2003. will be rolled out in June. “I already feel that Ms. Martin previously worked for Every six months, India reinstates a “At headquarters, you really don’t have could be a game changer,” he added. Regus, an international offi ce space rental relaxation period for Canadian imports of the luxury of creating stuff and doing While diplomacy is obviously the main agency, and was briefl y an intern in the of- pulses to its country, exempting it from the something with it because life is just so goal for Canadian offi cials and Mr Swarup, fi ce of then-Quebec health and social ser- pesticide requirement. But, due to a recent hectic,” he said. Most recently, Mr. Swarup his skills as an author are not lost on many. vices minister Réjean Hébert, as indicated problem with pests in India, there has been was the offi cial spokesperson for India’s One of Mr. Bains’ staffers brought a copy by her LinkedIn account. concern that the relaxation period would Ministry of External Affairs. He said he of Q&A along with him to their meeting for Josée Guilmette is chief of staff to Ms. not be renewed. It expires on March 31. would often still be communicating with Mr. Swarup to sign. Lebouthillier. Canada’s Agriculture Minister Law- journalists and members of the media late [email protected] [email protected] rence MacAulay visited India at the begin- into the nights. @chels_nash The Hill Times 22 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 | THE HILL TIMES Feature Events

Parliamentary France hosts reception marking 100th Calendar anniversary of Vimy Ridge battle Photographs courtesy of Cynthia Münster

Japanese Then-foreign minister Stéphane Dion, Japanese Ambassador and sake samurai Kenjiro Monji, Ambassador and and Canada-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Group co-chairs Senator Paul Massicotte, and MP Terry French Ambassador Nicolas Chapuis with NDP Sheehan toast with sake at a celebration of the ‘sake samurai’ Japanese emperor’s birthday last November. Leader Tom Mulcair at the March 22 event hosted Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson and The ambassador is leading a sake tasting at at the French Embassy. Mr. Chapuis. Kenjiro Monji the Museum of Nature on April 1. The Hill Times to lead April 1 photograph by Sam Garcia Five Byelections—There will be fi ve byelections held today in: Ottawa-Vanier, Ont.; St-Laurent, Que.; and tasting Markham-Thornhill, Ont.; Calgary Midnapore, Alta., and Calgary Heritage. For more information, media may call the PMO Press Offi ce at 613-957-5555. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29 Reporting The Refugee Crisis—A conversation with some of Canada’s top journalists about their experiences and Governor General to Present Ingenious in Toronto— challenges reporting on the refugee crisis. CBC’s Europe Governor General David Johnston will be in Toronto on correspondent Margaret Evans; Globe and Mail’s Mark MacK- Wednesday, March 29 with co-author Tom Jenkins to pres- innon; Foreign Policy and OpenCanada contributor Michael ent their new book Ingenious, at MaRS Discovery District, Petrou; Toronto Star national security reporter Michelle 101 College St. During an on-stage conversation hosted Shephard; and freelance writer Naheed Mustafa will be talk- by Bell Media broadcast journalist Marci Ien, the governor ing at the Canadian War Museum, Barney Danson Theatre, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, Sharon Johnston and her spouse, Governor General David Johnston, Canada general and Mr. Jenkins will speak about their book. The 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, April 3, 5:30-7 p.m. Reception to Post CEO Deepak Chopra, and Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr, with the newly unveiled commemorative conversation will be followed by a question period and follow. Register via cigionline.org. Canadian Vimy stamp. the evening will conclude with a book-signing. 5:30 p.m. Faithkeepers Film Screening—The Parliamentary Press Free. Seating is limited. Book tickets via eventbrite.com/e/ Gallery is invited to an exclusive Parliament Hill screen- ingenious-in-conversation-tickets-32600108803. ing of Faithkeepers, a documentary fi lm about the violent THURSDAY, MARCH 30 persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East. Seating is limited, please RSVP to info@ Greek culture on display at Lansdowne Ikebana 2017: The Art of Japanese Floral Design— onefreeworldinternational.org. 6-9 p.m., April 3. Sir John A. Ikebana International Ottawa Centennial Chapter 120 Macdonald Building, room 100, 144 Wellington St., Ottawa. The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia will present its annual Ikebana Exhibition from March Film screening and speakers reception. Featuring speakers: 30 to April 2 at the Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 Rev. Majed El-Shafi e, Raheel Raza, Conservative MP Tony McLeod St., Ottawa. Entry to the exhibition included in Clement, Rabbi Reuven Bulka, and Jennifer Breedon. regular museum admission. Exhibition: Jewish Soldiers on the Isonzo Front—The WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 Slovenian Embassy in co-operation with the Wallenberg Liberal Caucus Meeting—The Liberals will meet in Citation Initiative and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Room 237-C Centre Block on Parliament Hill. For more Affairs presents this exhibition dedicated to Jewish information, please call Liberal Party media relations at soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian army who fell on the [email protected] or 613-627-2384. Croatian Ambassador Marica Isonzo Front of the First World War in the territory of Conservative Caucus Meeting—The Conservatives will Matkovic, with Bosnian Ambassador present-day Slovenia. Ottawa Public Library, 120 Met- meet for their national caucus meeting. For more informa- calfe St., second fl oor. Open until March 31. tion, contact Cory Hann, director of communications, Con- Koviljka Spiric, celebrating Greek Independence Day. FRIDAY, MARCH 31 servative Party of Canada at [email protected]. NDP Caucus Meeting—The NDP caucus will meet The Relationship Between Parliament and the Agents from 9:15 a.m.-11 a.m. in Room 112-N Centre Block, of Parliament—Agents of Parliament are meant to be on Wednesday. Please call the NDP Media Centre at independent from the government, but it is the govern- 613-222-2351 or [email protected]. ment that gives and sometimes diminishes their power, Bloc Québécois Caucus Meeting—The Bloc Québécois their independence, and their funding. Some say that caucus will meet from 9:30 a.m. in the Francophonie room we have too many agents of Parliament, and others say (263-S) in Centre Bock, on Wednesday. For more informa- that we need more. This seminar will bring together tion, call press attaché Julie Groleau, 514-792-2529. Dancers perform for guests and members of the public at current and former agents of Parliament, Parliamentar- The 15-Year Experiment: An Update on the Afghanistan Vassiliki Tsirou, spouse of the Greek ians, and academics who will share their views on that Reconstruction Effort—The University of Ottawa presents a the March 21 event hosted at the Horticulture Building at ambassador, with NDP MP Niki Ashton, mysterious relationship between Parliament and agents conversation with John Sopko, SIGAR (Special Inspector Lansdowne Park. a Greek-Canadian. of Parliament. This half-day seminar is presented by the General for Afghanistan Reconstruction) for the United Canadian Study of Parliament Group. 8:15 a.m.-12:15 States. April 5. 1-2:30 p.m. 120 University Pvt., Faculty p.m. Sir John A. Macdonald Building, 144 Wellington of Social Sciences University of Ottawa FSS 5028. St., room 100. Buffet lunch included. $150 for mem- Famous 5 Speaker Series—Gina Wilson, Public Safe- bers, $200 non-members. For more information, visit ty Canada’s associate deputy minister, the most senior Global Aff airs and Chinese Embassy team up studyparliament.ca, or contact the CSPG Secretariat at First Nations woman in the government of Canada, will 613-995-2937 or [email protected]. be celebrated as a nation builder. Wednesday, April 5, for fi rst-ever Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival Nature Nocturne: Picture Perfect—Friday, March 31, 5:30-7:30 p.m., the Rideau Club, 99 Bank St., Ottawa. 8 p.m. to 12 midnight. The not-to-be missed event on Tickets $25, plus GST. eventbrite.ca/e/an-evening-with- every Hill staffers’ social calendar celebrates the Junos gina-wilson-tickets-32701616415 Photographs courtesy of Ulle Baum this month. On the theme of Picture Perfect, the evening The Harper Factor, Panel Discussion and Book Signing— includes a mix of eclectic activities, photo booths, selfi e Co-editors Jennifer Ditchburn and Graham Fox will read stations and more, with a bit of natural science mixed in. from their book, The Harper Factor, on Wednesday, April Plus, last chance to experience the Reptiles: Beautiful and 5, at 7 p.m. in the MacOdrum Library at Carleton Univer- Deadly, special exhibition and sneak preview of ikebana, a sity, 1125 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa, as part of the Ottawa fascinating display of traditional Japanese fl ower arrange- International Writers Festival. The panel discussion will ment. Tickets and information available at: nature.ca. be hosted by professor Susan Harada, associate director Zhuang Letian, son of a political SATURDAY, APRIL 1 of Carleton’s school of journalism. She will be joined by panellists Derek Antoine, instructor at Carleton’s school counsellor at the Chinese Embassy, Nature Tastes - Sake: Kampai!—Get a taste of the history of journalism and Paul Wilson, associate professor with shakes hands with Matt Smith, and natural science that goes into Japan’s iconic spirit, sake. Carleton’s political management program. president of Dragon Boat Canada. World-renowned Sake Samurai and Ambassador of Japan to THURSDAY, APRIL 6 Canada Kenjiro Monji will lead the tasting. Presented by the Canadian Museum of Nature in collaboration with the em- Bacon & Eggheads Breakfast—The Partnership Group bassy of Japan. Saturday, April 1, 6 p.m. doors open, 7 p.m. for Science and Engineering presents a talk, ‘Building event starts. Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod St. a Climate-Smart World: How Development Research Tickets: 50$ plus tax. For more information, please consult Helps the Global Population Adapt to Climate Change,’ the embassy of Japan’s website: http://www.ca.emb-japan. with Robert Hofstede, International Development go.jp/itprtop_en/index.html. Research Centre. Thursday, April 6, 7:30 a.m., Parlia- Craig Stewart, chair of the Ottawa MONDAY, APRIL 3 mentary Dining Room, Centre Block. No charge to MPs, Senators, and media. All others, $25. Pre-registration The Polar Panda team, made up of offi cials from Global Dragon Boat Festival board. The event House Sitting—The House is sitting April 3-13. It required by Monday, April 3, by contacting Donna Boag, Affairs and the Chinese Embassy, kicks off their race. Sixty hosted 60 dragon boat teams and raised breaks April 14-28 and resumes sitting May 1-19. The PAGSE [email protected] or call 613-991-6369. teams from Canada and the U.S. competed on Dow’s Lake $16,000 for charity. The Ottawa Dragon Senate sits until April 13 and is then off until May 1, at on Feb. 18. Masters won fi rst prize. which point it will sit until May 19. Continued on page 23 THE HILL TIMES | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 23 Events Feature

NDP Caucus Meeting—The NDP caucus will meet from 9:15 a.m.-11 a.m. in Room 112-N Centre Block, Parliamentary on Wednesday. Please call the NDP Media Centre at 613-222-2351 or [email protected]. Calendar Bloc Québécois Caucus Meeting—The Bloc Québé- cois caucus will meet from 9:30 a.m. in the Fran- cophonie room (263-S) in Centre Bock, on Wednesday. For more information, call press attaché Julie Groleau, 514-792-2529. Bank of Canada Release—The bank is expected to make its latest interest rate announcement as well as publish its quarterly Monetary Policy Report. 10 a.m. Former Parliamentarians—The Canadian Associa- tion of Former Parliamentarians’ 12th annual Douglas C. Frith Dinner will take place on Wednesday, April 12 in the ballroom of the Fairmont Château Laurier hotel from 6 to 9:30 p.m. The guest speaker, Pierre Top journalists Pettigrew, will speak about “The future of Globalization and Canada’s Place in the Emerging World Order.” For additional information, please call the CAFP offi ce at to share 613-947-1690. Day of Pink Gala—Celebrate queer and trans women at the Day of Pink Gala, hosted by the Canadian Centre experiences for Gender and Sexual Diversity. Award presenters and hosts include MPs Randall Garrison, Sheri Benson, Hedy Fry, Catherine McKenna, Randy Boissonnault, covering refugee and others. April 12. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Horticulture Building, Lansdowne Park, 1525 Princess Patricia Way, crisis Ottawa. Free. RSVP via ccgsd-ccdgs.org. FRIDAY, APRIL 21 Some of Canada’s top journalists are set to speak about their experiences reporting on the refugee crisis at the Canadian War Museum on April 3, 5:30-7 p.m. They will include OpenCanada Diplomatic Hospitality Group—The Canadian Federa- contributor Michael Petrou, left, and Toronto Star national security reporter Michelle Shephard, Continued from page 22 tion of University of Women’s Diplomatic Hospitality Group in Ottawa invites diplomats, their spouses/ right. The Hill Times fi le photographs THURSDAY, APRIL 6 partners, and their families to this event. Enjoy a day of history and nature in the Ottawa Valley. This outing will Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) invites all Parlia- Film Festival, who will participate in a panel session on Investing in Canada: A Long-Term Infrastructure Plan feature a visit to the Diefenbunker Cold War Museum mentarians and staff to come celebrate Canadian music what it takes to be a top employer in Canada. The sym- to Build the Canada of the 21st Century—The Economic and Aquatopia Lunch. 3929 Carp Rd., and 2710 talent at a reception on May 16 on Parliament Hill. posium invites participation from the public, private Club of Canada presents Infrastructure Minister Ama- March Rd., Carp. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. A nominal fee will be 5:30-8:30 p.m. The event will showcase music perfor- and academic sectors. June 7 and 8, Shaw Centre, rjeet Sohi. Thursday, April 6. 7:45-9 a.m. Chateau charged to help cover costs. mances from English and French top-chart artists. 55 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa. For more information: apex. Laurier, 1 Rideau St., Ottawa. Breakfast will be served. SATURDAY, APRIL 22 WEDNESDAY, MAY 24 gc.ca/en/services/symposia Members $89 per seat; guests $110. economicclub.ca. SATURDAY, JUNE 10 Broadbent Institute Progress Summit—The Broad- Earth Day 2017 with David Suzuki, Ian Hanington, and Bank of Canada Release—The bank is expected to bent Institute will host its annual conference, with the Leanne Betasamosake Simpson—The Ottawa Interna- make its latest interest rate announcement. 10 a.m. NDP Leadership Debate—The party will hold a theme “Change the Game.” Speakers include journalist tional Writers Festival presents this talk Saturday, April debate in Halifax. 3:30-5 p.m. Mount St. Vincent and activist Desmond Cole; Sandy Hudson, co-founder 22, at 6:30 p.m., Christ Church Cathedral, 414 Sparks THURSDAY, MAY 25 University, 166 Bedford Hwy. In order to vote for the of Black Lives Matter-Toronto; and more. April 5-7. St. Tickets: general $35; reduced $20; and free for Diplomatic Hospitality Group—The Canadian Federa- leader, you need to become a member of the NDP no Delta Ottawa City Centre, 101 Lyon St. N. For registra- members ($5 more at the door). writersfestival.org. tion of University of Women’s Diplomatic Hospitality later than Aug. 17. Online voting begins Sept. 18 and a tion details, see: broadbentinstitute.ca/summit2017. TUESDAY, MAY 2 Group in Ottawa invites diplomats, their spouses/ leader will be announced no later than Oct. 29. FRIDAY, APRIL 7 partners, and their families to this event, with the FRIDAY, JULY 7 Vision Forum—May 2. To celebrate the launch of theme Historic Ottawa. It will feature a visit to the Breakfast Invitation: Future of News—Following the release Vision Health Month, visit the Vision Health Forum for Billings Estate Historic Site, 2100 Cabot St., Ottawa. G20 Leaders’ Summit in Germany—Germany holds of The Shattered Mirror in January, the Public Policy Forum some light refreshments, interactive displays, and mini 10 a.m.-noon. A nominal fee will be charged to help the G20 presidency in 2017 and will host the Leaders’ continues the conversation on the future of news and democ- vision expo. The Canadian Association of Optometrists, cover costs. Summit in Hamburg on July 7 and 8. Prime Minister racy with a breakfast session on Friday, April 7, with Emily Bell, Canadian Council of the Blind, Foundation Fighting Justin Trudeau is likely to attend. founding director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Blindness, and the Canadian National Institute for the SATURDAY, MAY 27 University. She will be interviewed by Edward Greenspon, Blind will be hosting the Vision Forum. 4-8 p.m., Room Conservative Party Leadership Convention—The WEDNESDAY, JULY 12 president of the PPF, about her new research on the rise of 256-S, Centre Block. For questions or to RSVP, contact Conservatives will elect their next leader on May 27, Bank of Canada Release—The bank is expected to the fake news ecosystem, the role of Facebook’s algorithmic Laurence Therrien: [email protected] or 613-241- 2017. The party is urging Conservative Party members make its latest interest rate announcement as well as changes and the surge in AI-based misinformation campaigns. 6000, ext. 226. to buy memberships or renew them in order to vote. publish its quarterly Monetary Policy Report. 10 a.m. The interview will be followed by a Q&A session. 7:45-9 a.m. WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 For more information, contact Cory Hann, director of Centre Block Room 256-S, Parliament Hill. $20-$35. Register communications, Conservative Party of Canada, at WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6 via: eventbrite.ca/e/the-future-of-news-and-democracy-in-can- Diplomatic Hospitality Group—The Canadian Federa- 613-697-5614. Bank of Canada Release—The bank is expected to ada-breakfast-event-tickets-32962832720. tion of University of Women’s Diplomatic Hospitality SUNDAY, MAY 28 make its latest interest rate announcement. 10 a.m. SATURDAY, APRIL 8 Group in Ottawa invites diplomats, their spouses/part- ners, and their families to this event, with the theme NDP Leadership Debate—The party will hold a debate SUNDAY, SEPT. 17 2017 CFHS National Animal Welfare Conference—The Bountiful Canada. It will feature a visit to the Canada in Sudbury. 2-3 p.m. Cambrian College. In order to vote NDP Leadership Candidate Showcase—Leadership annual Canadian Federation of Humane Societies Na- Food and Agricultural Museum and the Experimental for the leader, you need to become a member of the NDP candidates will have one last chance to pitch to voters tional Animal Welfare Conference features speakers and Farm. 901 Prince of Wales Dr., and 960 Carling Ave. no later than Aug. 17. Online voting begins Sept. 18 and before voting begins tomorrow. Toronto, Ont. dozens of different animal welfare topics, helping to 10 a.m.-noon. A nominal fee will be charged to help a leader will be announced no later than Oct. 29. MONDAY, SEPT. 18 further professionalize the sector, build knowledge and cover costs. WEDNESDAY, MAY 31 set the agenda for Canada’s humane movement for the WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 Online Voting Begins in NDP Leadership Race—The year to come. April 8-11, 2017. The Westin Ottawa, 11 CANSEC 2017—This is an annual showcase of tech- fi rst ballot results announcement will take place Oct. 1, Colonel By Dr. conference.cfhs.ca. Politics and the Pen—Politics and the Pen, the an- nology, products, and services for land-based, naval, and subsequent ballot results each following week until MONDAY, APRIL 10 nual fundraiser that brings together federal politicians, aerospace, and joint forces military units. Organizers a winner is determined. A new leader will be selected writers, diplomats, and notable arts and business lead- say this two-day event is the largest and most important no later than Oct. 29. House, Senate Sitting—The House and Senate are ers to support the Writers’ Trust’s mandate to advance defence industry event in Canada. Until June 1. EY sitting April 10-13. They break April 14-28 and resume and celebrate Canadian writers and writing will happen Centre, 4899 Uplands Dr., Ottawa, Ont. defenceandse- WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25 sitting May 1-19 (the Senate’s fi rst fi xed sitting day is Wednesday, May 10, at the Chateau Laurier hotel. The curity.ca/CANSEC2016/cansec/Overview. Bank of Canada Release—The bank is expected to May 2, and last is May 18). evening will end with the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen THURSDAY, JUNE 1 make its latest interest rate announcement as well as TUESDAY, APRIL 11 Prize winner for the best political book of the year. publish its quarterly Monetary Policy Report. 10 a.m. Nominees: Kamal Al-Solaylee for Brown: What Being A Collaborative Roadmap for Canadian Parliamentary Life and Health Insurance Industry Advocacy Day—CEOs Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone); Christie Reform—Michael Chong, Scott Simms, and Kennedy SUNDAY, OCT. 29 representing Canada’s life and health insurance industry Blatchford for Life Sentence: Stories from Four De- Stewart, will launch their book at Ben McNally Books, The NDP Leadership—The race offi cially began on will be in Ottawa to meet with Parliamentarians about cades of Court Reporting – Or, How I Fell Out of Love 366 Bay St., on June 1 in Toronto. The book is called July 2, 2016, and a new leader will be selected no issues of importance to Canadians, such as access to with the Canadian Justice System (Especially Judges); Turning Parliament Inside Out: Practical Ideas for later than Oct. 29, 2017. affordable prescription drugs, investing in Canada’s infra- Ian McKay and Jamie Swift for The Vimy Trap: Or, Reforming Canada’s Democracy. Author proceeds will structure and international trade. For more information, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great go to Samara Canada. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6 contact Susan Murray ([email protected]). War; James McLeod for Turmoil, as Usual: Politics in Bank of Canada Release—The bank is expected to Michael Healey’s 1979—Canada’s Shaw Festival is set Newfoundland and Labrador and the Road to the 2015 TUESDAY, JUNE 6 make its latest interest rate announcement. 10 a.m. to co-produce a new production of 1979 by Michael Healey Election; and Noah Richler for The Candidate: Fear and Diplomatic Hospitality Group—The Canadian Federa- with Ottawa’s Great Canadian Theatre Company. The play Loathing on the Campaign Trail. tion of University of Women’s Diplomatic Hospitality THURSDAY APRIL 19, 2018 takes us back to the eve of former prime minister Joe Clark’s Group in Ottawa invites diplomats, their spouses/part- MONDAY, MAY 15 Liberal Party National Convention—The Liberals minority government’s defeat in a non-confi dence motion. ners, and their families to this event, with the theme will hold a national convention April 19-21, 2018 in It’s a fast-paced satire incorporating political heavyweights Donner Prize—The award for the best public policy Canada’s First Capital. It will feature a visit to Kings- Halifax, N.S. and infl uencers of the era. The production will rehearse at book by a Canadian will be announced in Toronto at ton, including a bus tour, cruise, and lunch. 8 a.m.-5 Shaw Festival, premiere in Ottawa at GCTC and tour back the Donner Prize’s Gala evening. The Donner Prize p.m. A nominal fee will be charged to help cover costs. THURSDAY, AUG. 23, 2018 to Shaw as part of its 2017 season. The Ottawa component encourages and celebrates excellence in public policy will run from April 11 to 30, 2017. Tickets for Ottawa’s writing by Canadians and the winner receives $50,000 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7 Conservative Party National Convention—To be held production on sale: 613-236-5196 or gctc.ca. while the other nominated authors receive $7,500. The APEX Symposium 2017: Celebrating Leadership, Inno- in Halifax, N.S. Until Aug. 25, 2018. The Parliamentary Calendar is a free events listing. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 shortlist will be announced in April and the winner will vation, and Diversity—APEX, an association representing be proclaimed at a gala dinner on Monday, May 15. the interests of the 6,400 federal executive com- Send in your political, cultural, diplomatic, or govern- Liberal Caucus Meeting—The Liberals will meet in Last year’s winner was Donald Savoie’s What Is Govern- munity across Canada, is holding its fl agship annual mental event in a paragraph with all the relevant details Room 237-C Centre Block on Parliament Hill. For more ment Good At? A Canadian Answer. For more informa- professional development and networking symposium. under the subject line ‘Parliamentary Calendar’ to information, please call Liberal Party media relations at tion, contact the Donner Prize manager Sherry Naylor Speakers include: Salim Ismail, a Waterloo grad and [email protected] by Wednesday at noon before the [email protected] or 613-627-2384. at 416-368-8253 or [email protected]. global ambassador at Singularity University; Zabeen Monday paper or by Friday at noon for the Wednesday Conservative Caucus Meeting—The Conservatives will TUESDAY, MAY 16 Hirji, chief human resource offi cer with the RBC, who paper. We can’t guarantee inclusion of every event, but meet for their national caucus meeting. For more informa- will participate in a panel discussion on diversity and we will defi nitely do our best. tion, contact Cory Hann, director of communications, Con- Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers inclusiveness in the workplace; and Michele Maheux, [email protected] servative Party of Canada at [email protected]. of Canada—The Society of Composers, Authors, and chief operating offi cer from the Toronto International The Hill Times WHY DON’T YOU THINK OUTSIDE THE CAR?

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