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Stogran Alleges Prised That Any of the Campaigns Mr Freeland’s Defence Our prisons PS looks to More staff foreign policy are full of men Facebook hired for policy review for help ministers’ speech We’ve seen this harnessing regional How it came script before, and it together didn’t end well data offices p. 4 Taylor, p. 9; Powers, p. 10 Britney Dennison, p. 13 p. 6 Hill Climbers, p. 17 TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 1441 CANADA’S POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2017 $5.00 News NDP leadership race News Elections Parliament should rewrite voting Stogran alleges ‘malicious’ law to regulate foreign money, rumour, harassment from says elections commissioner BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI existing election legislation bar- ring foreign influence should be ttawa should rewrite voting rewritten to restrict monetary sup- legislation to scrap a limp, un- port from non-Canadian entities. insiders led to quitting O “Considering the act’s focus on enforceable provision that appears to prohibit non-Canadians from maintaining a level playing field, expressing views about how Cana- the focus should probably include dians should vote, and instead put elements that prohibit foreign- NDP leadership race ers from incurring significant in place a new rule to limit undue influence of foreign funding, says expenses to oppose or promote a Canada’s elections commissioner. candidate or party,” he told com- ‘I quite frankly would be surprised that any of the campaigns Yves Côté told the House Pro- mittee members. cedure and House Affairs Com- have been involved in that,’ responded candidate Peter Julian. mittee on June 8 that he believes Continued on page 19 News Appointments Ex-languages commissioner says Liberals waited a year to begin search for his replacement BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI appointments under the Liberals. Mr. Fraser, who left the post in raham Fraser says the December 2016, said he wrote to GLiberal government waited the clerk of the House in Janu- until 2017, after he’d already left ary of that year to notify that his his extended term as languages mandate was expiring in October commissioner, to really begin the and give the government a leg up search to replace him, despite in finding a replacement. being reminded of the impending But no successor was chosen vacancy a year before, raising in time and Mr. Fraser had his renewed concerns about the slug- gish pace of governor-in-council Continued on page 18 News Hill Life & People Former NDP leadership candidate Pat Stogran speaks during his first and only leadership debate in Sudbury, Ont. in May. Less than two months after he launched his campaign, Mr. Stogran quit the race. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade Long hours, quiet hallways; Publications Mail Agreement #40068926 what it’s like to work the BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN unfounded” story that he thought ing a malicious and unfounded would harm his family. story passed to them by politi- fter blaming “insiders” for Party insiders and people who cal insiders,” which invaded the late shift in silly season his decision to pull out from know him paint a picture of an privacy of “family members,” A outsider who brought a breath had no business being public, BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN the only sound along a quiet hallway the NDP leadership race less in the waning hours before midnight. than two months after entering, of fresh air to the race but who and “amounted to harassment,” didn’t understand the tremendous said Mr. Stogran, best known as itting in a room on the lowest Staff taking on the late shifts Pat Stogran says the real reason across departments told The Hill was far more nefarious: someone work required to mount a serious Canada’s outspoken first federal Slevel of Centre Block, a handful of interpreters took a break waiting within the party had crossed the leadership bid. Continued on page 16 line, sharing “a malicious and A media outlet “was investigat- Continued on page 7 for their next shift, their murmurs 2 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2017 | THE HILL TIMES Beverley McLachlin is resigning as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada after nearly heard On tHe hill 18 years as the presiding judge of the country’s top by Marco Vigliotti court. Appointed by then-prime minister Brian Mulroney, Ms. McLachlin has served on the Liberal MP fi ghting Supreme Court for 28 years. The Hill Times photograph by cancer delivers Jake Wright In a statement, Prime Minister Justin According to reporting by The Senior Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) thanked Ms. Times, Mr. Miller said he met Mr. Trudeau emotional speech calling McLachlin for her service, calling her a after the future prime minister had just “leader and trailblazer” whose judicial moved from Ottawa in 1984 and was begin- accomplishments are “unparalleled” in ning high school. Canadian history. “He asked me for a pencil. We’ve been for greater civility “She is one of Canada’s very fi nest best of friends ever since, for 31 years,” jurists. After 28 years at the Supreme Court Mr. Miller was quoted as saying in the of Canada, her contributions reach into article. every part of our law,” he said. He also said that he had travelled with “Canadians owe her an immense debt.” Mr. Trudeau to Africa alongside a close Ms. McLachlin fi rst stepped behind the group of friends for several months. bench in the spring of 1981 after being appointed to the Vancouver County Court. Later that year, she was appointed to the Ex-Globe and Mail scribe Supreme Court of British Columbia and, in Ross Howard dies 1985, was elevated to the Court of Appeal for British Columbia. Former Hill journalist Ross Howard has She was appointed chief justice of the passed away. Supreme Court of British Columbia in Sep- A familiar presence on Parliament Hill tember 1988 but was sworn in as a judge of during the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mr. the Supreme Court of Canada only seven Howard spent nearly a decade as a senior months later. parliamentary correspondent for The With the retirement, Mr. Trudeau will Globe and Mail. not only have another opportunity to fi ll a He began his journalism career in 1970 vacancy on the court, but also to select a as a staff reporter at the now-defunct To - new chief justice. ronto Telegram before eventually landing The soon-to-be vacated seat will leave a at the Toronto Star, according to his online position on the bench that has historically resume. been fi lled by a jurist practising in British After nearly a decade with the Star, Columbia, however, the prime minister he joined The Globe and Mail as a na- has indicated he doesn’t feel bound by the tional correspondent in Toronto before Liberal MP Arnold Chan, pictured with his wife Jean Yip, urged his colleagues to listen to each traditional geographic allotments. joining the paper’s Ottawa bureau in other in an often-emotional 20-minute speech to the House on Monday. Mr. Chan is currently Mr. Trudeau courted controversy last 1986. He left Ottawa in 1994 to become fi ghting cancer that resurfaced last year but said he has no intention of stepping down. The Hill year when he announced applicants would the paper’s Vancouver-based national Times photograph by Rachel Aiello be considered from across the country to correspondent. fi ll the seat traditionally reserved for Atlan- He most recently taught journalism at n an emotional speech on Monday, Liber- Mr. Chan, a lawyer and a former vet- tic Canada, before settling on Newfound- Vancouver’s Langara College. Ial MP Arnold Chan urged his colleagues eran political staffer at the Ontario legis- land and Labrador judge Malcolm Rowe. In commemoration, the Vancouver to go beyond talking points and make lature, was fi rst diagnosed with nasopha- Foundation will be managing the Ross meaningful contributions for Canadians, ryngeal carcinoma in 2014. After months Howard Fund to recognize his contribu- saying he didn’t know how many more of radiation combined with six months Liberal MP returns to tions in shaping public-interest journalism opportunities he would have to deliver of chemotherapy treatment following the military roots in Canada and abroad for more than 40 lengthy speeches in the House as he battles fi rst diagnosis, the cancer returned in years, according to NewsMedia Canada, his resurfaced cancer. February 2016. Liberal MP an advocacy body for the print and digital With his family in attendance, Mr. Chan Marc Miller media industry. (Scarborough-Agincourt, Ont.) told the Supreme Court chief (Ville-Marie-Le House in a wide-ranging 20-minute speech Sud-Ouest-Île- Freedom of expression that members must listen and engage with justice announces des-Sœurs, Que.) those who hold different opinions, instead took a walk advocate elects of shutting down debate by reciting cho- resignation down memory reographed lines. lane on Tuesday new head “That is what democracy is about. When Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice as he returned we listen, we listen to one another despite Beverley McLachlin is leaving the bench to his old army PEN Canada has a new president. our strong differences, that’s when democ- after a historic judicial career. stomping Canadian media executive Richard racy really happens,” he said. The veteran adjudicator announced grounds to tout Liberal MP Marc Miller Stursberg was elected the new head of the “That’s the challenge that’s going on Monday she would resign her seat on the his government’s previously served as an freedom of expression advocacy body at around the world right now. No one is top court on Dec.
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