Nancy Peckford Hill Climbers Spin Doctors HOH Warren Kinsella Foreign Policy TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 1498 CANADA’S POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 2018 $5.00 House should rewrite rules for pregnant MPs p. 3 Desfossés When city hall leaves post becobecomes es a Open doors to a as PM’sPM s terrorist EA p. 23 ttargetarget pp.. 1111 progressive trade Military criminal justice system needs strategy p. 12 legislative control p. 14 News Andrew ScheerNews Prime Minister News MMIW inquiry Scheer should Calls for reset defi ne himself, PM Trudeau should off er continue as say observers, better explanation for Boyle MMIW national before he’s inquiry pinned as a meeting, otherwise he looks requests more ‘fuddy-duddy funding, time stuck in the ’50s’ ‘foolish,’ House should launch BY ABBAS RANA BY PETER MAZEREEUW ith less than a year to go, Wcalls for a reset of the Na- he Conservative Party’s policy tional Inquiry into Missing and Tconvention is still eight month review of PMO screening Murdered Indigenous Women away, but leader Andrew Scheer continue, and while some are is under pressure to defi ne him- concerned that a reset could be self and his revamped party for the inquiry’s doom, Indigenous process, say political players activist Ellen Gabriel says as it the Canadian public. Mr. Scheer’s (Regina-Qu’Appelle, stands, it’s “failing anyway.” Sask.) leadership has come under Opposition parties vow to raise questions about Justin Trudeau’s now attack in opinion columns in The Continued on page 16 Globe and Mail, National Post, and controversial meeting with Joshua Boyle when the House returns. iPolitics recently, with headlines Continued on page 18 Prime Minister News Liberal caucus Justin Trudeau told a Halifax radio station last Rural ridings News Senate week that he tries to meet with offer potential Canadians who ISG Senators have been released from diffi cult for Liberals won’t call for situations, from foreign countries in 2019, and Sen. Beyak’s and would not say that he regretted PMO’s paying ouster, after meeting Joshua Boyle. The Hill attention, says Times photograph pushing for by Andrew Meade rookie Liberal ethics, spending MP Harvey probes BY ABBAS RANA BY PETER MAZEREEUW BY ABBAS RANA “I don’t know how someone face-to-face time with the prime ural ridings will offer potential with a clearly worrisome record minister. I don’t understand how Rgrowth areas for the federal Publications Mail Agreement #40068926 ndependent Senators appointed rime Minister Justin Trudeau was able to get into the Prime it happened, and I don’t under- Liberals in 2019 and the PMO and Iby the Trudeau government say Pshould reveal all the facts Minister’s Offi ce, it’s hard for stand what his motivation was in cabinet are paying close attention, they aren’t trying to get Senator surrounding his now controver- many, many Canadians to get fi ve meeting with Mr. Boyle.” says Liberal MP T.J. Harvey, chair Lynn Beyak kicked out of the Sen- sial meeting with former Afghan minutes with the prime minister,” Mr. Boyle, 34, and his American of the Liberal rural caucus, but ate—yet—after calling for inves- captive Joshua Boyle last month said NDP MP Nathan Cullen wife Caitlan Coleman, 31, who got the Conservatives say they’re also tigations into her conduct by the on the Hill because without a (Skeena-Bulkley Valley, B.C.) in married in 2011, were abducted in targeting rural ridings and expect Senate ethics offi cer and Internal clear explanation the prime an interview. “How Mr. Boyle was Afghanistan by the Taliban-affi liated to win seats from the Grits in the Economy Committee last week. minister looks “foolish,” say po- permitted into the inner confi nes Haqqani network. They were back- next federal election. “I’m not at that point yet,” said litical players, who also say the of the Prime Minister’s Offi ce packing in the war-ravaged country “The Prime Minister’s Offi ce Ind. Sen. Frances Lankin (Ontario). House should launch an inquiry is worrisome to me. It calls into at the time of their abduction in has been very diligent in working to review the PMO’s screening question their screening pro- Continued on page 6 process. cess for anybody who is getting Continued on page 7 Continued on page 17 2 MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 2018 | THE HILL TIMES millennial-lingo that many people might not understand. The abecedarian board book, a book Separated at birth, eh? that is arranged alphabetically, has 26 Instagram style photos. Each photo includes “sharp and witty rhyming cou- plets.” While the book is colourful, it’s not Heard on the Hill really a book for babies and young kids and is more of a “shower gift to amuse by Shruti Shekar soon-to-be parents as they make the painful-yet-rewarding transition from skinny jeans and fl ights of craft beer to burp cloths and puréed yams.” Mr. Feschuk wrote for Maclean’s for 12 Jane years and was the speechwriter to former Indigenous Services Minister Fire and Fury Paul Martin Philpott, right, looks like actress Kate prime minister . selling Flannery, who plays Meredith Palmer Ms. Allan works for WE, a non-profi t The Offi ce organization that empowers children and on NBC’s . News of the families. She previously was a journalist show being revived for a potential for Maclean’s, iPolitics, and The Ottawa tenth season surfaced on Dec. 20. The out fast in Ottawa Citizen. network has not confi rmed any de- Mr. Feschuk and his wife had previously tails as of yet. The show ended after written the book How Not to Completely nine seasons in December 2013. Suck as a New Parent. Their new book is expected to be re- The world’s largest skating rink is leased in April and is published by Douglas a popular destination for tourists and & McIntyre. residents. It receives close to one million visitors every year and on average 20,000 visitors per day, another press release from Mike Moff att joins Canada the NCC noted. 2020 The number of days the Rideau Canal has been open in the last two years have Economist and been shorter than in other years. Western University In 2017, it was open for 36 days and professor Mike Mof- the year before that only 34, the short- fatt joined think- est number of days since 1971, according tank Canada 2020 to stats from the NCC. It was open for as its director of 90 days, from Dec. 26, 1971 to March 25, policy and research 1972, it noted. on Jan. 8. Mr. Moffatt will be in charge of Brodie, Harper’s former “expanding Canada 2020’s original chief of staff pens book research capac- Former prime minister Stephen ity, with an eye to Mike Moffatt, joins Harper’s chief of staff, Ian Brodie, has bringing new and Canada 2020 as director written a book titled At the Centre of emerging voices of policy and research. Government: The Prime Minister and the to Canada 2020’s Photograph courtesy of Limits on Political Power, and it’s coming platform, as well Western University out in April. Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House soared to the top of Amazon’s as diversifying the Mr. Brodie gives a fi rst-hand account organization’s contributions to the public bestselling list of books in 24 hours. Photograph courtesy of Creative Commons of the “inner policy conversation,” a Jan. 8 press release workings” of f you want a hardcopy of Michael Wolff’s Mr. Wolff’s book clocks in at 336 pages said. the federal Ibook Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump and is published by Henry Holt & Co., but Last year, Mr. Moffatt was the chief government, White House, good luck trying to fi nd it in when you’re out looking for it don’t mis- innovation fellow at the department of In- and at the Ottawa. take it for Fire and Fury: The Allied Bomb- novation, Science, and Economic Develop- same time The highly anticipated tell-all about ing of Germany, 1942-1945 by Canadian ment. In the role he helped and advised provides U.S. President Donald Trump’s fi rst year author Randall Hansen. deputy ministers on innovation policy and comprehen- in offi ce was released early to the public The book, which sold well when it was emerging trends. sive research after it made political waves. It was pushed initially published, is now back on the best- on the struc- from its initial publication date up four seller list, all thanks to Mr. Wolff’s book, Rideau Canal closes ture of politi- days from Jan. 9 to Jan. 5 because of “un- the CBC reported. cal power. precedented demand,” said Henry Holt & Mr. Hansen, a political science profes- temporarily after being The book Co., the book’s publisher. sor at the University of Toronto, said in a synopsis said The day the book was released, CNBC Jan. 9 New York Times story that he also Mr. Brodie open for fi ve days Former chief of staff to prime reported it held the No. 1 spot on Amazon’s has been having trouble landing a copy of “argues that minister Stephen Harper, Ian best-sellers list for books. Mr. Wolff’s book. the various Brodie, has penned a book The Wall Street Journal reported one “I don’t know how much of this is a workings of about the inner workings of million copies had been sold.