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Heard on the Hill by Palak Mangat Former federal NDP MPs Rankin,

Cullen eye return Former NDP MPs Murray Rankin and Nathan Cullen both opted not to run in last fall's federal election, but want to run provincially in British Columbia. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Mr. Rankin was among at least a dozen that have resulted in many projects not NDP MPs last year who decided not to run being supported or being delayed signifi- to politics, seek to again in the 2019 federal election, opting cantly. McConaghy outlines several prag- to make way for a party “renewal” and matic strategies that can be used to reduce “fresh look.” (The federal party has since or remove the bottleneck to move large welcomed eight rookie MPs onto the Hill, infrastructure projects forward (or create run for B.C. party some of whom are on the fence about run- earlier certainty that they should not) so ning again.) that investment (domestic and foreign) will “Soooo excited to see my friend and be attracted to Canada,” said the Donner all election speculation appears to be a pendent MLA Andrew Weaver. outstanding all around good guy @Mur- Prize jury members David A. Dodge, (Jury Ffavourite Canadian pastime even in the “I will be honest: this was not an easy rayRankinNDP throw his hat in the race Chair), Elizabeth Cannon, Jean-Marie Du- most unprecedented of times, and British decision. But after listening to the views of for the #BCNDP in Oak Bay-Gordon Head. four, Brenda Eaton, and Peter Nicholson, Columbia politicos got in on the fun last many people in our community, I conclud- An accomplished lawyer, champion for the in a press release on Sept. 16. There were week, prompting two former federal politi- ed that the stakes were too high to sit on planet & defender of our coast. Go Mur- 74 submissions. cal players to announce intentions to run in the sidelines,” Mr. Rankin wrote in a note ray!” tweeted former NDP MP Nathan Cul- Mr. McConaghy’s book won over the the province’s next vote. posted to his webpage. “This is my home. len, who also opted to not run in last fall’s other finalists, which included: Empty Longtime NDP MP Murray Rankin, who I raised my family here. I love it here. election. Late last week. Mr. Cullen, who Planet: The Shock of Global Popula- captured the Victoria, B.C., federal riding in And when I served as your MP, the big- held the Skeena-Bulkley Valley, B.C. riding tion Decline, by Darrell Bricker and a 2012 byelection and held it up until last gest rewards came from helping make life from 2004 to 2019, shared some of his own John Ibbitson (Signal/McClelland & year, will be seeking the party’s nomination better for this community and all who call news: he will be making a bid to become Stewart); Living With China: A Middle in the provincial riding of Oak Bay-Gordon it home. With your support, I hope I can the party’s candidate for the provincial Power Finds Its Way, by Wendy Dobson Head, currently held by Green-turned-Inde- continue doing that work.” riding of Stikine. It is currently held by the (Rotman-UTP Publishing/University of NDP’s Doug Donaldson, who will not be Press); The Wealth of First Na- seeking re-election. tions, by Tom Flanagan (Fraser Institute); Mr. Rankin, 70, will compete with and The Tangled Garden: A Canadian former Oak Bay city councillor Michelle Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age, Kirby to be named the party’s candidate, by Richard Stursberg with Stephen Arm- after just under a year of returning to strong (James Lorimer & Co.).Each of the practise law. other nominated authors received $7,500. B.C. NDP said last week that his party has been “prepar- Ex-staffer starts a new line of ing for the eventuality of an election since day one,” but did not answer for certain if seltzers he would call to dissolve the legislature. The Dominion City Brewing Company, Mr. Rankin’s announcement came just which includes a former Conservative days after voters opted Hill staffer who co-founded the group in to give Premier Blaine Higgs‘ Progressive 2014, launched a new line of non-alcoholic Conservatives another mandate, this time sparking water last week called City Selt- a majority, after the province’s 2018 vote. B.C.’s next scheduled election would take place in 2021 if one is not called earlier.

McConaghy wins this year’s $50,000 Donner Prize Dennis Mc- Conaghy won this year’s prestigious $50,000 Donner Prize for his book Breakdown: The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada’s Future, Did someone say beer? Former Conservative Hill staffer Josh McJannett, published by Dun- pictured left, with Alex Monk, and Andrew Kent, helped launch a new line durn Press. of sparkling water last week. The Hill Times file photograph Mr. McCo- naghy’s book was awarded the best public zer. Josh McJannett worked in former Con- policy book of the year, because “it ad- servative MP ’s office during his dresses arguably one of the most conten- tenure at chief government whip, and was tious and consequential sets of policy also a consultant at Summa Strategies. issues facing Canada today—the nexus “Fantastic how this can be done in these of resource development, climate change, times,” wrote Summa vice-chair Tim Pow- Indigenous rights and Alberta alienation. It ers in a note to The Hill Times on Sept. 14. presents the history of four pipeline proj- ects and overlays the political decisions Continued on page 38 FPAC_FP_7.875X10.5"_FIN_OUT_se11.indd 1 2020-09-14 11:33 PM 4 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 | THE HILL TIMES News

committed to that change during the election campaign. Old and new priorities compete Bill C-6 would have changed the citizenship oath for new to include an acknowl- edgement of the treaty rights of for space in Liberals’ fall agenda Canada’s First Peoples. The Liber- als have already reintroduced that bill once, after it died when the Prime Minister last election was called. Talk of pharmacare, Bill C-7 would have fulfilled a arrives for the fall court order to amend the gov- childcare and clean Liberal cabinet ernment’s assisted dying law, in retreat in order to allow an assisted death energy is nothing before Parliament for people for whom death is not new, but a re-surging resumes on Sept. reasonably foreseeable. Bill C-8 14. Mr. Trudeau's would have banned so-called pandemic could cabinet will have to “conversion therapy”—attempts juggle the demands to force LQBTQ people to become sideline everything of the COVID-19 straight—another Liberal election pandemic, the promise. Bill C-9, would have else. majority opposition made technical amendments to in Parliament, the Chemical Weapons Conven- and their own tion Implementation Act. Continued from page 1 unfulfilled promises Bill C-17, however, may not prorogation of Parliament in August, as they shape the be revived. That omnibus bill the first time since he had done so government's fall would have made changes to since he took office. The prorogation agenda. The Hill the Emergency Wage Subsidy wiped away committee studies of the Times photograph by program, allowed the government WE Charity scandal, but will also Andrew Meade to send cash to people living with give Mr. Trudeau a chance to reframe a disability to help them survive his government’s agenda as it tries to the pandemic, and suspended or contain the COVID-19 pandemic and extended certain time limits for jumpstart the Canadian economy. judicial proceedings. COVID-19 cases have begun to If the pandemic is again the last election campaign, and Mr. Trudeau promised in June to The government found rise in recent weeks, prompting brought under control, the some from before. Those include take action to help the provinces another way to send cash to dis- a warning from Canada’s Chief government agenda could still a pledge to set legally-binding bring the homes up to par. That abled Canadians, promising $600 Public Health Officer Theresa be constrained by a ballooning emissions targets that would set has yet to happen. per person in August. The portion Tam that Canadians should “act deficit, and the Liberals’ many Canada on the path to a net-zero Mr. Trudeau also called for fast of the bill that would change the now” to curtail indoor gatherings. unfulfilled promises from this economy by 2050; to bring in reforms to policing in Canada time limits for judicial proceed- The growing threat of another summer, the last election cam- legislation to fund support for in June, following the violent ings, meanwhile, was challenged wave of the virus has tempered paign, and earlier. workers harmed by the transition arrest of Athabasca Chipewyan by the Federal Court of Appeals the language used by top Liberals If Mr. Trudeau wants to avoid to a lower-emissions economy; to First Nation Chief Allan Adam in a ruling earlier this month, to describe the upcoming Throne an election, as he has said on implement the UN Declaration on by RCMP officers, and the killing which said that Attorney General Speech and fall session. Mr. numerous occasions, the speech the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; of George Floyd, a black man, by ’s (LaSalle-Émard- Trudeau told reporters last week will need to reflect some of the and to bring in new gun control police officers in Minnesota. The Verdun, Que.) “position concern- that, “We need to get through this priorities of at least one other legislation, and enact a buyback RCMP falls under the oversight of ing the interpretation and effect in order to be able to talk about party in the House. Pharmacare program for recently-banned Public Safety Minister of” part of the law was “incorrect” next steps.” and housing would align with semi-automatic rifles, among (Scarborough Southwest, Ont.). and “should not be followed.” Finance Minister Chrystia major NDP priorities. many others. Apart from a pledge to purchase Freeland (University-Rosedale, Liberal MPs joined a chorus and use body cameras more Pharmacare, childcare Ont.) hammered on that point Swollen deficit of voices this summer calling for often, no major changes to the major reforms to the long-term governance or procedure of the promised before last again during a Sept. 15 press Thanks largely to its costly care sector. Many of the country’s RCMP have been announced. conference, calling the pandemic response to the COVID-19 pan- election long-term care homes experi- Seven government bills also her government’s “100 per cent demic, the government is ex- The Liberals have made prom- enced outbreaks of COVID-19 in died on the Order Paper when priority.” pected to run a deficit of roughly ises around childcare, pharma- the first months of the pandemic, Parliament was prorogued. Six of “The single most important $343-billion this fiscal year—and care, and housing before. They and long-term care residents them are prime candidates to be economic policy of our govern- that’s before any new initiatives promised during the last elec- made up roughly 80 per cent of reintroduced this fall. ment and the best thing we can announced in the Throne Speech. tion campaign to create 250,000 the Canadians killed by COV- Bill C-3 would have renamed do for our economy is to keep One of the largest drivers of new childcare spaces across the ID-19 as of June. A military report the RCMP Civilian Review and coronavirus under control,” she that cost overrun, the Canada country and cut the fees for those made public in May revealed Complaints Commission, and said. Emergency Response Benefit, spaces, betting heavily that the homes where squalid conditions, made it responsible for oversee- Ms. Freeland said “growth and will be eliminated on Sept. 27 provinces would cooperate with abuse of residents, and staff who ing the work of the Canada Bor- jobs” were priority number two. and replaced with more limited them. The government never were scared to use sanitary or der Services Agency, a years-old Before COVID-19 cases programs. tabled a budget for this year, and protective equipment were com- Liberal promise. Bill C-5 would began to rise again, government Canada’s economy has recov- it’s not clear if it has moved to mon. have required all judges to under- and Liberal insiders were busy ered well from the pandemic so make good on that promise. Long-term care homes fall go training on sexual assault law signalling other new priorities far, having recouped two-thirds Last year, an advisory council under provincial jurisdiction, but and “social context.” The Liberals that could be highlighted in the of the jobs lost amid widespread struck by the government called Throne Speech. Pharmacare, public shutdowns this spring. The for the creation of a single- housing, childcare, clean energy economy still has to climb out of Embattled payer pharmacare system for the and the environment, and long- a “deep hole,” and that will take Governor country. The Liberals promised term care have all been floated time, Bank of Canada Governor General Julie to implement a “national univer- by insiders as possible highlights Tiff Macklem said in public re- Payette, who sal pharmacare” system during of the Throne Speech, accord- marks made Sept. 10. has been the last election campaign, but ing to reports from the CBC, The That recovery could be com- accused of have yet to do so. In September, , Global News, and plicated if COVID-19 cases spike harassing Mr. Trudeau pledged $6-billion The Hill Times. Implementing a again, forcing more businesses to and bullying towards national pharmacare, but guaranteed basic income was close. her staff, said that the rest would depend flagged as a top policy priority by When asked about the sustain- is expected on negotiations with the prov- members of the Liberal caucus as ability of the government’s debt to read inces. they looked ahead to the party’s and deficit on Sept. 15, Ms. Free- the latest The Liberals promised back in November convention, the CBC land told reporters that Canada government 2017 to spend tens of billions on reported Sept. 12. was in a strong fiscal position at Throne programs related to housing over When pressed by Globe and the beginning of the pandemic. Speech into 10 years. Most of that money is Mail reporter Bill Curry last “We understand the value of the record in budgeted to be spent in the com- week about the earlier talk of a wise and prudent fiscal manage- the Senate ing years. green-focused Throne Speech, Ms. ment. That is the policy our gov- on Sept. The Liberals also promised Freeland said that the focus on ernment will continue,” she said. 23. The Hill during the last election campaign health and COVID-19 “in no way Times file to prioritize spending on afford- negates any other emphases or photograph able housing, and increase the priorities.” New promises, meet old GST rebate on investments in “Green jobs are absolutely promises rental housing to 100 per cent. going to be part of our recovery,” The government has yet to [email protected] she said. act on most of its promises from The Hill Times GRIPEN Built by Canada

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Governor cate balancing act there for the The Liberals should General Conservatives.” Mr. Bricker said the progres- be careful about the will deliver sive coalition usually sits at the Throne around 60 per cent of voters, ‘recoil effect’ as some Speech this while the Conservative coalition of their supporters week. The is about 40 per cent. Hill Times Governor General Julie could back away photograph Payette will read out the Trudeau by Andrew government’s Throne Speech on if they vacate the Meade Sept. 23. After this, all the parties will vote on a reply to the Throne political centre, says Speech. If a majority reject it, an election will be triggered. pollster Nik Nanos. In the 338-member House, the Liberals would need the support of 170 MPs to win the vote of Continued from page 1 confidence. The Trudeau Liberals government’s tilt to the left is currently have 154 seats in the bad news for the NDP, making it House, the Conservatives 121, the electorally “vulnerable” in the next Bloc Québécois 32, NDP 24, the election. He also said progressive Green Party three, and there are voters will have questions about two Independent MPs. On top of the NDP’s “relevance” going for- 154 votes, the Grits need 16 more ward, with some instead choosing votes from another party to win the the Liberals, who are already in confidence vote, so they will need power and making their agenda to secure the support of at least one even more progressive. Mr. Nanos other party in the House to survive. said it could mean the NDP losing As of last week, chances of a seats to the Liberals and to the federal election being triggered Bloc Québécois in the next elec- on the Throne Speech appeared tion. to be slim for several reasons, in- “With the Liberals moving cluding the rising number of CO- further to the left, the relevance of VID-19 cases across the country, the NDP is up in the air,” said Mr. a strong possibility of a provincial Nanos, chief data scientist and election being called in B.C. this founder of Nanos Research. “For week, and the opposition parties’ a lot of New Democratic voters, unwillingness to go to the polls they could vote with their heart because it’s more likely to benefit by supporting the New Demo- the Liberals at this time. crats. But if they vote with their By Sept. 16, there were about head, they probably [will] be sup- 140,000 total cases of COVID-19 porting the Liberals because the across the country, according to Liberals are in power. And they Public Health Agency of Canada. have an exceptionally progressive The Coronavirus has caused 9,193 agenda that is very similar to the deaths in Canada. agenda of the New Democrats. Former Liberal MP So, realistically, the New Demo- NDP MP says he’s not worried about Liberals Joe Jordan told The Hill Times cratic lunch is being eaten by the tilting to the left. He said Liberals always campaign from last week that he does not think Liberals.” the left and govern from the centre and Canadian know there will be a fall election, In recent media interviews, un- NDP Leader , pictured Jan. 22, 2020, on that. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade although it appears the Liberals named Liberal MPs and other se- the Hill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade want one but don’t want to be nior Liberals have said that they seen as the party causing it. Mr. expect some ambitious big-ticket Jordan explained that the Liber- items, attractive to progressive (Durham, Ont.) Conservatives. news stories suggesting Liber- the Liberals were moving too far als want an election to capitalize voters, such as guaranteed basic Pollster Darrell Bricker of als are moving further to the left to the left. on the goodwill they’ve received income, infrastructure, pharma- Ipsos Public Affairs said that if into the ideological NDP terri- “Most of Canadian voters are for their handling of COVID-19. care, child care, seniors care, and the information about the Throne tory. He said that the Liberals moderate, they’re in the middle Considering the state of economy, green economy measures to be Speech that has trickled out in have talked about pursuing a of the ideological spectrum,” said it might become an uphill battle included in the Throne Speech, recent weeks turned out to be progressive agenda for as long Mr. Nanos. “The Liberals have to for the Liberals in the coming which will further balloon the accurate it would create a tough as he can remember, but when it watch out for a potential recoil months to win a majority govern- size of the already-high deficit. electoral situation for the NDP. comes time for action, they move effect, where they just go a little ment. On the opposition side, he The deficit at the end of last If it happens, the only hope the to the centre. Mr. Angus said he too far.” said, Mr. O’Toole just won the year was around $28-billion, but NDP will have is that the Liberals would believe in the initiatives the Mr. Bricker said that putting leadership and needs more time with the unprecedented govern- run into controversies and people Liberals are talking about once together a winning coalition to get his party ready for an elec- ment spending this year to help become disenchanted with them they have been delivered. He said for the next election would not tion, and the NDP does not have Canadians deal with the econom- and consider throwing them out that his party has dealt with this be easy for any federal party. adequate amount of money to run ic and health effects of COVID-19, of power. strategy before and is not worried He explained that if the Liber- a competitive campaign with the the deficit is expected to hit “It’s a very, very difficult going forward. als move to the left, giving an Liberals and the Conservatives. $400-billion. The federal debt will situation [for the NDP],” said Mr. “They spent all summer rais- opening to the Conservatives, it “I think that the electoral soon exceed $1-trillion. Bricker, president of Ipsos Public ing huge trial balloons about how won’t necessarily be easy for Mr. prospects right now, from what I Usually, the federal budget Affairs. “The only thing that they progressive…they are, and now O’Toole to move to the centre can see, are good [for the Liber- is tabled in February or March [the NDP] can hope for is that they’re walking all those prom- because of the pressure from als] but if Canadians thought that but this year no budget has yet during the course of the cam- ises back,” said Mr. Angus. “You’ve Wexit, the Peoples’ Party of Can- they deliberately came up with been released. As of press time paign that progressive voters are seen this story with the Liber- ada, the Conservative caucus, a Throne Speech that nobody last week, it was not known how disappointed enough with what als a thousand times. So what party donors and the grassroots could support [and it appeared much new measures included in the Liberal Party has done during is their Green strategy? What is members of the party. that] they they’re trying to take the Throne Speech will add to the the last five years, or what they their strategy to deal with income “It’s not clear sailing for the advantage, it could backfire,” deficit. promised as part of their election security? We want to know what Conservatives by any stretch, said Mr. Jordan, senior associate Uncomfortable with the platform or how they behaved on they’re putting on the table and Erin O’Toole is skating on fairly with Bluesky Strategy Group. “If mounting debt, some Liberal MPs the campaign trail, that they want we will be holding them to ac- thin ice, too,” said Mr. Bricker, they have a Throne Speech that told The Hill Times two weeks ago to consider another option. And count.” CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs. Canadians support and they’re that if the government did tilt fur- they’re not going to vote conser- Mr. Nanos warned the Liberals “There’s potential that he brought down by the opposition, ther to the left, that would leave vative.” to be careful about the “recoil ef- could be dealing with Western that’s the narrative they can go to the political centre, home to the But veteran NDP MP Char- fect,” where Canadians who have separatists in his party. The the people with.” majority of moderate voters, open lie Angus (Timmins-James Bay, been voting for the Liberals could People’s Party, [email protected] for the taking by the Erin O’Toole Ont.) said he’s not worried about withdraw their support if they felt hasn’t disappeared. So it’s a deli- The Hill Times We’re committed to providing a network that’s as strong as the country that relies on it.

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Editorial Letters to the Editor Parties must find consensus Setting the record straight on COVID-19 sittings ince the House of Commons suspended that included introducing remote voting. on military justice oversight sitting as a result of the COVID-19 S Along with these lingering tensions, e: “Correcting the record on military parliamentary oversight of the national pandemic in March, the governing Liberals the official opposition has argued the justice oversight,” (The Hill Times, defence file. have been at odds with the Conservative R push is an attempt by the government to Sept. 16, letter to the editor). Colonel Jill Concerning Bill C-77: Col. Wry is official opposition, in particular, about how dodge parliamentary accountability and Wry, from the Office of the Judge Advo- correct when she writes that some of Bill to proceed with parliamentary business. be less transparent. cate General letter in The Hill Times at- C-77 was put into force on royal assent, The Procedure and House Affairs Conservatives have suggested a major tempted to “correct the record” concerning however, our original article does not Committee (PROC) was assigned last sticking point for the caucus in dissent- an article that we had published 16 days argue this. Our original article clearly spring to explore how the House could ing from PROC’s recommendations last earlier. Unfortunately, Col. Wry has mis- states that the specific provisions abol- adapt to its operations amid the pandem- session was the lack of a sunset clause, characterized our article. ishing the unfair military summary trial ic, and to allow for hybrid House proceed- which would make the proposed changes Concerning Bill C-15: our original process and giving rights to victims of ings and virtual committee meetings. But to the Standing Orders temporary. article states that many important provi- crime have not been put into force—and the big question—the question of how the Asked in late July whether the govern- sions have not yet come into force, and they have not. The exaggerated passage House will return to its full schedule of ment would consider adding a sunset clause this is absolutely true. We even provide of time in having the will of Parliament regular parliamentary business amid the to get Conservatives onside, a spokesperson an example of reform to the military acted upon swiftly in these two critical pandemic—remains unresolved. for Government House Leader Pablo Rodri- grievance process. Col. Wry counters by areas is causing prejudice to members of It was unresolved in June when PROC guez said House leaders would be discuss- stating that a “vast majority” of the act has the , who are still tabled its report recommending remote ing the matter in the “coming weeks.” been put into force, and this is unaccept- being subjected to the unconstitutional voting be introduced—from which Con- Those weeks have passed, and on able. It is not within the purview of any summary trial process. servatives dissented—and it was unre- the eve of Parliament’s return—by all department to decide which parts of legis- Finally, June 2021 will mark nearly 10 solved in August when The Hill Times did public indications—the question of how lation should be put into force, and which years since the last independent review of the rounds to see if the House leaders had the House will resume regular business should not. Once the will of Parliament the National Defence Act was completed. yet come to an agreement. remains essentially unresolved. is crystalized through royal assent, all This is double the five-year timeframe Voting is a major sticking point in the Bloc Québécois MPs are currently in sections should be put into force, without originally envisioned for such reviews. discussion. The Liberals—with the signalled isolation after their caucus was exposed exception. Failure to do so is actively Michel Drapeau and Joshua Juneau support of the Bloc Québécois, NDP, and to a staffer who tested positive for CO- undermining the will of Parliament, and Ottawa, Ont. Greens—want to introduce remote electronic VID-19, and Conservative Leader Erin this is not in keeping with the doctrine of (The letter-writers are administrative voting to the House. Since all 338 MPs cannot O’Toole is also in isolation after an expo- parliamentary supremacy. We thank Col. lawyers based in Ottawa, Ont., whose fit into the House Chamber while maintain- sure. A parliamentary security guard also Wry for confirming our suspicions, that practice focuses on military and veterans ing the recommended physical distancing tested positive for the virus. there is, even more so, a strong need for issues.) practices, the government wants to allow Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said MPs to instead lock in their votes by app, he’ll move ahead with plans for a hybrid sit- with Zoom being a proposed alternative. ting model, one that includes remote voting. The Conservatives have been staunchly That can happen without unanimous con- opposed to this suggestion, which would re- sent, but before it comes to that, House lead- Canada needs a public Disease quire amendments to the Standing Orders. ers need to put aside their partisan predilec- The idea of amending the rules that tions and try to come to an agreement that govern the House proved a thorny issue works for everyone and also for the sake Early Warning system, says reader for the two parties during the last Parlia- of the country and democracy. We’re in the anada needs a new DEW line—a Dis- nization published its top 13 challenges ment, with Conservatives shooting down midst of a global pandemic and the political ease Early Warning system. The Hill for the next decade. No. 6 was pandemics: a Liberal attempt to explore possible parties need to come together and lead. C Times reporter Mike Lapointe’s Sept. 7 “When it comes to disease outbreaks or changes to the Standing Orders; proposals The Hill Times article, “Combatting a pandemic requires epidemics, it is important to stay ahead mobilizing intelligence,” primarily ad- of the curve, especially when millions of dresses Canada’s response to a public lives are potentially at risk … countries health crisis. While response policies and need to focus on preparedness and pre- procedures are essential, we need a public ventative measures.” health early warning system to improve Our new DEW line needs to be a response efficiency and effectiveness. highly secure but open system. Open to A Lancet article in July 2020 noted capture data from any public or private that low- to middle-income countries had health-care information source, any a better response and COVID-19 out- location, and any technology. The data comes compared to most European coun- must also be available to any analysis tries that “attempted a more nuanced, tool to ensure that researchers can use slowly evolving approach by gradually re- any analytics method, especially evolv- sponding with control measures as infec- ing machine learning tools. Finally, and tion rates rise.”On Sept. 8, Global News ideally, because of mobile technology reported that the Minister of Health, Patty and the advent of edge computing, there Hajdu, ordered a review following reports is a massive opportunity for researchers, that the national pandemic early warning health-care professionals, policymakers, system was shut down last year. and even the public to create, research, The Public Health Agency of Canada, and access public health data with their CSIS, and the Department of National mobile devices. Canada has the technol- Defence must develop made-in-Canada ogy and the innovation ability to keep its early warning and pandemic response citizens safe. We can act now on lessons monitoring and methods to protect Cana- learned to ensure that we receive early dians. warnings of the next public health chal- Pandemics are public health issues, lenge that could hit. as well as a national security issue. On Michael Gaffney Jan. 20, a few weeks before we all learned CEO and Chairman of Leonovus Inc. about COVID-19, the World Health Orga- Ottawa, Ont.

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She laughed and weakly retort- ed, oh you are bad. But she would not pick one over the others. Aline Chrétien’s life was Madame was also a very reli- gious person and the archbishop gave a wonderful homily in rec- ognition of her values. She was a Chretien and a strong Christian. more than just a political story Attendance at the funeral was limited by COVID distancing rules. Pews were roped off and Madame was the partner who sang at the ceremony and his mix her husband that if such financial attendees were also separated by She was the half that shaped a rebellious young man was truly unique. help had been available when she the two-metre distance. into a future Member of Parlia- The choices ranged from Leon- was young, she might have gone The attendance included close made Jean Chrétien ment and prime minister. ard Cohen’s Hallelujah to Panis to university. family, childhood friends and politi- While everyone thought of Angelicus, a funeral hymn associ- Instead, she followed the cal allies through the years. One whole. Chrétien as the “Little guy from ated with most Catholic funerals. path of many young women into leadership organizer came all the Shawinigan” it was Aline who put The final tribute was from secretarial school. But one of way from Vancouver. Two current the polish on the pair. Felix Leclerc, his famous folk- her proudest accomplishments ministers were in attendance, Minis- I was lucky enough to attend song, Moi, mes souliers, which was the recognition she received ter of Veterans Affairs and longtime her funeral in Shawinigan and Aline Chrétien, friend Lawrence MacAulay and it was an incredible reflection of pictured with Foreign Affairs Minister and local her life’s passions. former House law Liberal Member of Parliament The service was held in a unique clerk Joe Maingot François-Philippe Champagne. Québécois church that carries a on Oct. 25, 2018, The former mayor of Shawin- national historic site designation at former PM Jean igan was there to pay her respects because of the artist who painted Chrétien's book along with several Liberal po- incredible murals on the walls. The litical organizers who began and Sheila Copps launch for, My famed muralist Ozias Leduc was Stories, My Times, ended their lives in politics at the Copps’ Corner part of a religious paint- at the Chateau Chrétien’s side. ing mural movement and he spent Laurier Hotel in Aline Chrétien’s siblings were the last 13 years of his life painting Ottawa. The Hill there as well as the family’s ex- TTAWA—The passing of the walls in Notre-Dame-de-la- tensive clan on Chrétien’s side. Aline Chrétien is more than Times photograph O Presentation church. It was his chef by Andrew Meade Jean Chrétien’s nephew partic- just a political story. It is a love d’oeuvre and a great illustration of ipated in readings on the altar. story of epic proportions. the Symbolist movement. Because of COVID-19, there Madame, as everyone affec- The walls were literally a could have been written for Aline with multiple honorary degrees, was no reception after the mass, tionately called her, was more story of the community, including Chrétien. The opening, “Me, my and her ultimate appointment as but friends gathered on the front than a wise counsel for her paintings of Indigenous persons, shoes have travelled far” was an chancellor of Laurentian universi- steps of the church to pay their husband. coureurs de bois, and the chop- allegory for her life. ty, one of Canada’s few bilingual respects to the family. She was the half that made pers of wood, and hewers of Her daughter, France, delivered universities. The family is planning a cel- him whole. water who built Shawinigan. an allocution that was a perfect France also referenced her ebration of Aline Chrétien’s life in It goes without saying that Aline Chrétien’s private fu- tribute to her mother’s private and mother’s love of family and her Ottawa once pandemic restric- Jean Chrétien would likely never neral was a blend of hometown public accomplishments. fair-minded approach to life. On tions are lifted. have become prime minister with- roots with the classic touch that Her love of music and lan- her deathbed, Aline Chrétien Jean Chrétien plans to take out the advice, support and love so epitomized her. guage was present throughout. was visiting with grandchildren, time with family and then get of his lifelong partner. Even the music was reminiscent France said that when her father and said to each, in French “Oh, right back to work. Her passing was only two days of her life as a small-town girl who asked her mother about the value how handsome you are.” One of Sheila Copps is a former Jean rd after their 63 wedding anniver- rose to the highest heights of the land. of establishing a Millennium the mischievous ones asked her Chrétien-era cabinet minister and sary and they had been together Gregory Charles, a famous Scholarship Fund, she thought it directly, grandma, tell the truth, a former deputy prime minister. for 68 years. Quebec musician, played and was a wonderful idea. She told who is the most handsome. The Hill Times

Politics, polls, and persuasion

AKVILLE, ONT.—This might brilliant an advertising campaign The persuasion goal of the O’Toole’s or Jagmeet Singh’s) With a federal Osurprise you, but when the might be, it’s nearly impossible to Conservative Party’s media ad- biggest strengths; what are his next federal election rolls around, get people to alter their views on vertising in the next election, for biggest weakness? Which of his election possibly in I doubt our political parties issues once they’ve already made instance, will be to get people who policies do you absolutely love; will be airing many media ads up their minds. already don’t like the Liberals or which do you totally hate?” the offing, I guarantee designed to persuade voters to And remember too, most po- their policies to like them even To see how this might work in you the Liberals, change their minds. litical TV advertisements are only less and to get people who already practice, let’s say, to use a com- They rarely do. 30 seconds long. like the Conservatives or their pletely hypothetical example, Conservatives, and Okay, I know that sounds So, given these limitations, policies to like them even more. polls indicate undecided Canadian strange, since, after all, persuad- no political party will ever be in This is why polling is such an voters don’t like Trudeau’s trade New Democrats ing people is supposedly what a position during an election to important part of any political policy with China, but they’re politics is all about, so let me overwhelm people with facts or advertising strategy. okay with his massive deficits. are all polling the quickly clarify by saying, my with cogent, compelling argu- Simply put, before you come up Knowing this, the Conserva- point is political parties don’t ments. with a political messaging plan for tive Party would likely not spend electorate like crazy concoct electoral communica- Famed American philosopher an election campaign, you need to their precious resources trying to right now. tion strategies for the purpose of Eric Hoffer understood this real- know what voters (especially unde- convince undecided voters as to convincing people to shift their ity when he wrote, “The truth cided voters) already like or don’t why Trudeau’s deficits are bad for partisan allegiances or to accept seems to be that propaganda on like when it comes to the various the economy, even if that mes- new ideas. its own cannot force its way into party leaders and their platforms. sage should be a key part of their In other words, the Conser- unwilling minds; neither can it Armed with this information, ideological pitch. vatives won’t try to persuade inculcate something wholly new.” political parties can then craft If they did, nobody would listen. dyed-in-the-wool Liberals to vote So, what can propaganda—or their election messages to take Rather they’d be much more Conservative nor will Liberals to use a more euphemistic term, advantage of voter biases. likely to run a series of ads inflam- try to persuade dyed-in-the-wool “political persuasion”—actually Accordingly, with a federal ing existing animosity against Conservatives to vote Liberal. do? election possibly in the offing, Trudeau’s China trade policy, since Nor will either party try to Well, typically the point of po- I guarantee you the Liberals, it’s easier to go with the flow. get people to change their minds litical persuasion is to get people Conservatives, and New Demo- To quote Hoffer again, propa- on issues like the carbon tax or to more firmly believe what they crats are all polling the electorate ganda “penetrates only into minds Gerry Nicholls COVID. already believe. like crazy right now, each of them already open.” Post-Partisan Pundit That’s just now how political Or to put that another way, asking questions along the lines Gerry Nicholls is a communi- persuasion works. political advertising simply rein- of: “What do you think are Prime cations consultant. For one thing, no matter how forces preconceptions. Minister Justin Trudeau’s (or Erin The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 11 Politics Will there ever be a right time for concerted action on climate?

regulatory burden could kill the pandemic—well, isn’t it far easier and gas operations, accounts for whom are more concerned about The climate crisis goose that is laying the golden to simply increase subsidies, one-quarter of global warming making next month’s mortgage. egg. The oil sector is struggling which is what the Trudeau gov- and the technology to capture the But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t is accelerating with and any additional regulatory ernment has recently done? (For powerful greenhouse gas is both happen. After the pandemic every passing season. burden could weaken it fatally. all the thanks they get from their affordable and accessible. passes, the climate crisis remains. And then there is “Alberta,” with many western-Canadian fans on So these recent, low-key fed- Expanded subsidies for If not now, when? If its chronically irritated premiers, Twitter.) eral initiatives have the potential, electric vehicles, residential and dark threats about leaving Con- That said, the latest round of at least, to reduce our carbon commercial, and for charging not us, who? federation, and fruitless attempts payouts to the oil sector were footprint and get us closer to our stations, also hold great potential at appeasement by federal lead- artfully engineered and could climate goals—provided they are for lowering emissions, given that ers of all stripes. Far from being point to a new path forward—an monitored and the improvements transportation is responsible for exploited by uncaring eastern answer to both the jobs dilemma measured. 25 per cent of greenhouse gases. rulers, “Alberta”—the province’s and rising emissions. In April, But they won’t engage the And incentives clearly work, political and business elite, that Trudeau announced a $1.7-bil- public as readily as other hardly as they have in Norway, where is—looks more often like the tail lion aid package for the energy novel, but still useful, ideas: no- near half the population drives that wags the dog. sector intended to clean up nearly tably, a national building retrofit EVs. It is no co-incidence that EV ownership in Canada—although still less than five per cent of the Prime Minister Justin mix—is highest in B.C. and Que- Trudeau, pictured at bec, where provincial incentives, Susan Riley his cabinet retreat on coupled with a $5,000 federal Impolitic Sept. 14, 2020, not too grant for new vehicles, makes long ago, defended his zero-emissions vehicles almost as government’s decision to affordable as regular cars. HELSEA, QUE.—“If not now, proceed with a national The problem is they are still Cwhen? If not us, who?” That carbon tax. There have scarce. Demand far outstrips sup- was Prime Minister Justin been studies, targets, ply in Quebec, for instance, which Trudeau, not too long ago, defend- timelines, promises and raises a genuinely revolutionary ing his government’s decision to threats. There has been idea: why doesn’t Canada manu- proceed with a national carbon talk of a generational facture electric vehicles here, for tax. The urgency of the climate shift, of the opportunity sale domestically and elsewhere? crisis, the requirement for strong presented by the Is that not creating well-paid jobs regulation, promises of targeted pandemic and ensuing of the future? When the General federal support for green tech- economic chaos for a Motors plant in Oshawa was shut- nologies—not to mention the jobs complete reset, for the tered a few years ago because the and prosperity that will follow dawning of a New Green company said it wanted to focus transition to a green economy— Age. But the time never on building electric in the U.S., they have been the subject of a seems quite right for Canadian governments missed million Liberal speeches. Predat- actual, transformative one opportunity to keep the plant, ing Trudeau, even. action, writes Susan Riley. and the product, here. There have been studies, The Hill Times photograph There is already an incubating targets, timelines, promises and by Andrew Meade electric vehicle industry in Que- threats. There has been talk of a bec. A company in Saint-Jérôme, generational shift, of the oppor- for instance, just sold 50 electric tunity presented by the pandemic trucks to CN to transport goods and ensuing economic chaos for between rail stops. It also produc- a complete reset, for the dawning es electric school buses and mini- of a New Green Age. But the time There are invariably inter- 100,000 orphaned and inactive program and more support for buses. If Canada can manufacture never seems quite right for actual, national obstacles, too. Donald oil and gas wells that dot rural the purchase and manufactur- light-armoured vehicles for sale transformative action. And, if Trump is elected and he weakens Alberta, and, to a lesser degree, ing of electric vehicles. Both to Saudi Arabia in London, Ont., rumbles around Ottawa are to be Obama-era methane regulations Saskatchewan and British Colum- were recommendations from the why not electric passenger cars in believed, the upcoming Throne and Canada has no choice but to bia. There was another $750-mil- recent multi-partisan Task Force southern Ontario, with its experi- Speech could be another missed delay implementation of our own lion in “recoverable contributions” for a Resilient Recovery, which enced, well-trained workforce? opportunity. world-leading regime for fear of to oil and gas companies to help included former Trudeau senior Unfortunately, the Liberals The consensus—among cen- rendering our fossil fuel industry eliminate methane emissions. aide and long-time environmen- are not being pushed on these tral Canadian pundits and pols, at uncompetitive. Or so goes the These are costs industry talist, Gerry Butts. questions by any of the opposi- least—is that a perky chat about familiar argument. “We have to should have borne when it was The question now is how prom- tion parties. The Conservatives the pandemic’s upside, or a forced listen to industry,” was the way making truckloads of money, inently such potentially popular are even more risk-averse and march towards a greener future, former environment minister but now companies with orphan ideas will feature in this week’s pro-fossil fuel than the Liberals. will not play well with voters Catherine McKenna put it at the wells are either pleading poverty speech from the Throne and how New Democrats, especially led by infuriated by five-hour waits for time. or they’ve already skipped town. robustly they will be financed in Jagmeet Singh, have shown scant a COVID test, worried sick about Even the overdue federal- To keep oil service companies, the anticipated spring budget. In interest in environmental action, their children’s return to school, provincial attempt to phase out and some laid-off oil workers the early days of the pandemic, beyond the usual platitudes. That or depressed at the onset of rising coal has run into a wall. Alberta employed, the federal and Alberta when various cabinet ministers leaves the temporarily leaderless case numbers and colder weather. Premier ’s govern- governments devised the clean-up were heralding a revolutionary Green Party (leaderless until next British Columbians might beg to ment is now opening certain operations, intended to create up embrace of green everything, month, at least), who, without differ; they might consider mea- previously protected regions in to 10,000 jobs and help the envi- there was talk of $40,000 interest- ’s formidable voice, sures to contain climate change the Rocky Mountain foothills to ronment. So much for the revered free loans for individuals and busi- have all but disappeared. And, critically important, as they new coal mines. “polluter pay principle,” but at nesses to conduct energy retrofits. while stronger social supports emerge, coughing and hacking, This is how, incrementally, least this subsidy isn’t dumping In theory, this would create are a top priority right now, the from smoke from the U.S. wild- progress is stalled and emissions money into development of new more work for already-busy reno- climate crisis is accelerating with fires. But that isn’t what central continue to rise. Like the Harper oilsands plays. vators and builders and capture every passing season. Canada usually means when it government before them, the Lib- As to methane emissions, if emissions from leaky old build- If not now, when? If not us, talks about “western alienation.” erals promised to phase out subsi- companies take full advantage of ings. In reality, applicants would who? Asking for a friend. There is always an excuse— dies to oil and gas, but, what with the federal cash, that could have have to come up with cash for the Susan Riley is a veteran politi- even for the most idealistic gov- the pipeline squeeze, the boom in an oversized positive impact on work, up front, at only a slight tax cal columnist who writes regu- ernment—not to act. The oil sec- Texas shale, the anti-competitive reducing emissions. Methane, saving. Not top-of-mind for pan- larly for The Hill Times. tor is booming and any additional antics of Russia and OPEC, the much of which originates from oil demic-shaken families, many of The Hill Times 2.2 MILLION LEGAL GUN OWNERS TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS BY TRUDEAU’S GOVERNMENT. WE VOTE.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on Sept. 15, 2020, and his cabinet continue to make errors, but Canadians will forgive them as long as the pandemic remains at the top of their minds, writes Michael Harris. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Trudeau’s future is tied to the pandemic

ently, O’Toole did not notice those nadians appreciate the difference. Act. That section forbids former It is impossible to imagine It won’t be long before long line-ups until he was in one They will remember how the PM public office holders from acting in that the Green Party will neglect of them. They have been around got the big shapes right. In the such a manner as to take improper to call the PM out over what his opposition parties are for months, and it’s been crickets crunch, he and his government advantage of his or her previous environment and climate change going to realize that from him until now. were there. It won’t be long be- public office. McNaughton, a for- minister recently told the CBC. O’Toole wants the federal fore opposition parties are going mer lobbyist, was one of Trudeau’s said oil and COVID-19 is Justin government to speed up the test- to realize that COVID-19 is Justin first diplomatic appointments. gas will be around for several ing program, the way that Donald Trudeau’s best punch. They will Included in the list of senior decades to come. It would be Trudeau’s best punch. Trump is frog-jumping American soon stop walking into it. government officials who must “silly,” the minister said, not to scientists toward an instant vac- But that doesn’t mean they cease dealing with McNaughton extract these natural resources They will soon stop cine—preferably before Novem- can’t pile up points against his for the next twelve months are: for energy purposes. walking into it. ber 3rd. Some one should tell government with political jabs on Deputy Prime Minister and Fi- Does the PM believe that? He him that testing is a provincial a host of lesser issues. In a show nance Minister ; seemed to in 2017 when he told responsibility. of either incompetence or ar- Innovation Minister Navdeep an audience in Houston Texas The Conservative leader for- rogance, the PM has dropped his Bains; Chief of the Defence Staff that no country would find 173 gets something fundamental here. guard, and given his critics some Jonathan Vance; and Trudeau’s billion barrels of oil in the ground Canadians don’t want voodoo damaging openings. director of policy and cabinet and leave them there. He seemed science producing quick-hit tests In the absence of an election, affairs in the PMO, Rick Theis. Try to again in 2018 when his govern- that come up with false posi- parliamentary committees will calling any one of these people, ment bought a leaky old pipeline tive results, as has happened in resume their work, and more if you think they pick up their in the midst of a climate emergen- the U.S.. The only thing worse damaging information could phones for just anybody. cy triggered by carbon emissions. than no test is a bad test. Nor are come out about the WE Charity The opposition will want to But since his hyperbole in Canadians clamouring for instant fiasco. The ex-finance minister know exactly what McNaughton Houston and that ringing en- vaccines that create more prob- and the founders of WE might not and all those officials talked about. dorsement of the tar sands, Michael Harris lems than they solve. be the only casualties before the Was it all an exercise in pro bono Trudeau’s rhetoric has shifted Harris President Gerald Ford discov- dust finally clears. assistance during the pandemic, greenward. Don’t be surprised if ered the problem with speed- Out there on the horizon, this as the former ambassador says, or Elizabeth May asks the PM if he science when he tried to rush out darkening thundercloud: Mario something a little more nuanced? believes the science, which says ALIFAX—Orcas, they say, are a vaccine for a deadly strain of Dion will inform the country The opposition will also be taking the planet has just one decade to Hattacking boats in the waters swine flew back in 1976. He got whether the PM himself broke Trudeau to task over his fatal at- get it right on global warming. off Spain and Portugal. his wish by bullying the Centre the conflict of interest laws yet traction to interfering in judicial or Or does he agree with Jonathan Justin Trudeau will soon know for Disease Control, just as Trump again by failing to recuse him- quasi-judicial matters. Wilkinson, who sees an oily exactly how those mariners is doing today. self from the cabinet vote that The PM face-planted on the future stretching out to the crack feel. As Canada’s decaffeinated The rest was a shipwreck. The handed administrative control SNC-Lavalin Affair, improperly of doom? democracy slouches back into flu never got out of Fort Dix, but of a now cancelled $900-million interfering in a criminal case. The view from 30,000 feet action, the prime minister himself 30 people who took the rushed government program to WE. The So it was a little surprising that comes down to this: if the will be personally rammed from vaccine against it died. Canadians NDP is already blaming Trudeau he said that Julie Payette was a dreaded second phase of CO- all sides. want science that doesn’t quack. personally for the demise of the “great” Governor Governor, who VID-19 strikes this autumn and Freshly-minted Conservative Giddy-up is for horses, not im- WE Charity in Canada. Expect all was doing an “excellent job.” winter, and the Liberals continue Leader Erin O’Toole has already munologists. opposition parties to pile on. How so? To endorse Payette to provide cover for Canadians, blundered into the COVID-19 So try as they might, the oppo- Fuelling their enthusiasm while an ostensibly “independent” they are probably politically saga, slamming the government sition won’t have much luck tak- is further proof from the ethics investigation into the GG’s al- bullet-proof. for not having rapid tests for the ing the government to task over commissioner that the Liberal leged abuse of staff is ongoing is But should the pandemic sur- killer-virus. It is a dog that won’t its handling of COVID-19. That’s Old Boys Club is very much alive putting the cart before the mule- prise the experts, should it recede hunt. why the imminent Throne Speech and well. Mario Dion has ordered train. Once again, the finger-print instead of explode, matters of O’Toole based his comments will continue to focus on the pan- nine senior government officials on the scales of justice belongs to character and judgement could on his personal experience. It demic. It is the secret sauce of its to stop all official dealings with Justin Trudeau. His political rivals come back and haunt this govern- ought to be a reminder that there continuing public support. former U.S. ambassador David will undoubtedly capitalize on the ment. The future of everyone, is only so much you can do with Trudeau has had the country’s McNaughton for one year. political forensics. How can he including the Liberals, depends anecdotal evidence. collective back during the pan- Dion found that McNaughton, endorse Payette, without know- upon the virus. O’Toole and his family had to demic, while south of the border, now an executive with Palantir ing if she actually created a toxic Michael Harris is an award- wait for hours for COVID-19 test- Trump has stabbed his citizenry Technologies Canada, violated Sec- working environment at Rideau winning journalist and author. ing, and then didn’t get it. Appar- in the front. Polls verify that Ca- tion 33 of the Conflict of Interest Hall? The Hill Times TRANSITIONING VETERANS ARE LOOKING TO US FOR CAREER HELP DURING POST-COVID RECOVERY

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So the question in the United Kingdom today is this: if Prime Minister Boris Johnson is Blackadder, who is his Baldrick? Who actually put Johnson up to passing a new law that says Britain can unilaterally change the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement he signed with the European Union less than eight months ago, asks Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy of Pixabay

Boris Johnson’s cunning plan Johnson, really; ‘Boris’ is just his when the negotiating time ran SON—has belatedly realized there We are asked to believe that Boris Johnson— stage name—and he regards wor- out, with a few extra concessions will be a crisis in the Irish Sea rying about next week as long- to the EU and the border still next January, and decided to push BORIS JOHNSON—has belatedly realized term planning. firmly in the middle of the Irish through a highly controversial law Johnson was well aware that Sea. But he went around telling right now to give himself cover for there will be a crisis in the Irish Sea next the problem that brought down everyone in the UK who hadn’t an illegal act next year. It’s so out Theresa May’s government last read the text that it wasn’t true. of character that it begs the ques- January, and decided to push through a highly year and made him prime min- On the strength of that ‘victory’ tion: who put him up to it? controversial law right now to give himself ister was the Irish border. Peace he won a big majority in last De- Not exactly Baldrick, but in Northern Ireland depends on cember’s election. How could he Johnson’s senior political adviser cover for an illegal act next year. It’s so out of there being an open border with imagine that this would not come is Dominic Cummings, whose the Irish Republic. EU trade with back to bite him? passionate and scarcely con- character that it begs the question: who put the United Kingdom, post-Brexit, By following standard Boris cealed desire is to crash the Unit- depends on controlling that bor- operating procedure: bluster and ed Kingdom out of the European him up to it? der so that there is not a massive lie to win time, and hope some- Union with no deal at all. smuggling problem. Square that thing magical turns up in the end The other man who truly So the question in the United circle, if you can. to save the day. If that doesn’t wants that outcome is Michael Kingdom today is this: if Prime May tried to square it by happen, then stage a disguised Gove, the most powerful person Minister Boris Johnson is Black- agreeing that the customs border last-minute surrender, because in Johnson’s cabinet, who used adder, who is his Baldrick? Who would effectively run down the without a trade deal with the EU, to be Cummings’s main patron in actually put Johnson up to pass- middle of the Irish Sea, between its biggest trading partner, the UK government. Together, they have ing a new law that says Britain Northern Ireland and the rest is heading for a massive econom- somehow talked Johnson into can unilaterally change the Brexit of the UK. That way, no customs ic crash. doing something so stupid that it Withdrawal Agreement he signed controls would be needed on the Johnson has been on course may make a trade deal impossible with the European Union less border between the two parts of for that surrender for some time and end his prime ministership. than eight months ago? Ireland. now, but a new trade deal doesn’t They probably just told him Gwynne Dyer Did he not understand what She never got that through cancel the existing Withdrawal that such a grave threat would Global Affairs the treaty said? Unlikely. He ne- parliament, because so many MPs Agreement, so the border controls bring the spineless foreigners to gotiated it with the EU himself. from her own Conservative Party will still appear in the Irish Sea heel. The EU would let Johnson Does he realize that a treaty saw it as an unacceptable breach next January. His instinct would have his way, forget about putting ONDON, U.K.—“I’ve got a is a legally enforceable interna- of British sovereignty. Eventually be to blame it all on Johnny an Irish-U.K. border anywhere Lplan so cunning you could put tional agreement? Presumably, her government fell, and Johnson Foreigner and his tricky ways, (even though the Irish Republic a tail on it and call it a weasel,” because even his own cabinet won the Conservative leadership and maybe he could ride out the is an EU member), and all would said Blackadder’s sidekick Bal- minister for Northern Ireland, and a large majority in an elec- storm. be well. drick in the BBC’s brilliant his- Brandon Lewis, admits that plan tion last December by promising Instead, he has announced that And the poor mug believed torical comedy series Blackadder. “does break international law in a to fix that problem and ‘get Brexit he is going to tear up an interna- them. In fact, he said “I have a cunning specific and limited way.” done’. tional treaty with the EU. This is Gwynne Dyer’s new book is plan” in almost every episode, but Did he plan from the start to But he couldn’t fix it, of course. most un-Boris-like behaviour. ‘Growing Pains: The Future of the plans hardly ever worked, and break the treaty? Probably not. Instead, he just accepted the same We are asked to believe that Democracy (and Work)’. it became a popular catch-phrase. This is Boris Johnson— well, Al withdrawal terms as May had Boris Johnson—BORIS JOHN- The Hill Times 16 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 | THE HILL TIMES Opinion Throne Speech writers must reflect Indigenous views

more than 100 journalists have been law—and then nothing changed. How do Indigenous rage will not arrested in the U.S. while covering Black we know? Lives Matter. Clayoquot, 1993; Ipperwash, 1995; Gustafsen fade away. With more allies And it is happening here, in your back- Lake, 1995; Listuguj, 1998; Caledonia, 2006; Val yard, at 1492 Land Back Lane in southern D’or, 2007; Bouleau Lake, 2010; Idle No More, than ever before, politicians Ontario. 2013; Rexton, 2013; Truth and Reconciliation can’t assume it won’t make Treaty promises from 1784 to protect Commission, 2015; Muskrat Falls, 2016; Missing that specific piece of land for Six Nations and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Demonstrators march through downtown Ottawa the evening news anymore. remain unfulfilled and in dispute. Haldimand Report, 2019; Wet’suwet’en, 2020. on Feb. 24, 2020, to support the Wet’suwet’en County supported development on the land The 1492 blockade is complicated by nation's protest of the building of the Coastal in 2003, and signed an agreement with the the two governments of Six Nations. It’s GasLink pipeline through its traditional territory. Six Nations elected chief and council in May complicated because any Indigenous as- The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade 2019. As part of that agreement, the elected sembly, blockade or round dance in the chief and council would publicly support street is held on the centuries of unfilled police, or becoming missing or murdered, or the development, receive funding for a new promises and empty words of Canada. It’s simply passed over by a country hell-bent school, receive an equal amount of land else- complicated because Indigenous rights to on protecting the policy machine which where, and dissuade any protests. assembly are not protected in this country. consistently omits Indigenous peoples. Six Nations also has a traditional form of Justin Trudeau and said nice Throne-Speech writers and party insid- government, and the Haudenosaunee Confed- words about the 1492 crisis back in late ers, listen up. The crisis of Indigenous rage eracy Chiefs did not sign on. During the sum- August. Since then, the Ontario Provincial at the machine you work in will not fade Rose LeMay mer people built a blockade to stop the devel- Police has arrested people at the block- away. More Canadians support the posi- Stories, Myths, and Truths opment, and things started getting dangerous. ade for mischief, and allegedly followed tions of Indigenous neighbours than ever, Tires were burned, police brought out the rub- some home. Indigenous journalist Karl so the rationale that perhaps it won’t make ber bullets or beanbag ammo. Superior Court Dockstader, recipient of the 2020 Canadian the evening news is weak or worse. It is TTAWA—The OPP is arresting journal- Justice R. John Harper supported injunctions Journalism Federation-CBC Indigenous your responsibility to reflect Indigenous Oists, and Throne-Speech writers need against the blockade in late August, without Journalism fellowship, was arrested. Canadians’ views and perspectives. to understand why. regard for historical treaties. We are on a slippery slope that other Rose LeMay is Tlingit from the West Journalists in Canada sometimes get Why is there so much rage against de- countries have followed, this trend of arrest- Coast and the CEO of the Indigenous flamed on social media, perhaps receive velopment of this 107-acre piece of land? ing journalists. The trend always ends badly Reconciliation Group. She writes twice a some anger in their pursuit of truth, but A very similar story played out in 1990 for democracy. The OPP is not the arm of month about Indigenous inclusion and rec- there is a tacit understanding that it’s part at Oka, a key point in Canadian history. democracy to fix the 1492 crisis, nor was onciliation. In Tlingit worldview, the stories of the job. Then-prime minister Brian Mulroney any police force the answer to any demand are the knowledge system, sometimes told In India, Hungary, and Russia, journal- gave the Royal Commission on Aboriginal of an assembly of citizens. There is legiti- through myth and sometimes contradict- ists have been arrested for their work. It’s Peoples the task to “redress literally centu- mate fear that reconciliation is truly dead, ing the myths told by others. But always happeningCACAdvocacyAd-ACAPFunding-bleeds.pdf in the United States too; ac 1 -9/8/2020 8:12:21ries AM of injustice.” The commission called for and Indigenous journalists and Indigenous with at least some truth. cording to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, large-scale change in colonial policy and peoples will always face risk at the hands of The Hill Times

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At the risk of ruining my already blemished record, I really don’t think we are headed for an election this fall. There does not seem to be a critical mass of support, and it is highly unlikely that a party will be drawn into one against their will.

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, July 21, 2020, in the West Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured Sept. 15, 2020, arriving for last Block on the Hill. The Bloc MPs are already on the record demanding the week's two-day cabinet retreat in Ottawa before Parliament resumes this week. resignation of the prime minister, so I will take them at their word and put The Liberals hold the most cards and I put them in the 'want-a-fall-election- them in the ‘want-an-election-this-fall’ category. I am not entirely sure but-don’t-want-to-be-seen-as-wanting-one,' writes Joe Jordan. The Hill Times how they would make out, but the ability to be confidently wrong is not an photograph by Andrew Meade uncommon political characteristic. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade Joe Jordan Opinion

TTAWA—To paraphrase OTennyson, in the immediate aftermath of a minority govern- ment Throne Speech, an old po- litical hack’s fancy heavily turns to thoughts of elections. So, amid the chaos, confusion, and uncertainty that the CO- VID-19 pandemic has sown, the second session of the 43rd Parlia- ment of Canada will commence with a Speech from the Throne on Sept. 23. While we may not know exactly what the new processes and protocols surrounding it will be, we do know that a Throne Speech is a confidence matter and that it will put pressure on the government, as well as each of the opposition parties. The traditional election equa- Newly elected Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole, pictured on Sept. 9, Leader Jagmeet Singh, pictured on July 8, 2020, on tion starts with the base assump- 2020, arriving his Conservative caucus meeting. I would put the Conservatives the Hill. The aggressive actions on display through the recent WE Charity issue tion that Canadians never want in the ‘don’t-want-an-election-this-fall-but-would-gladly-fight-one’ category as would suggest that they may not be content to simply play a supporting role and one, so you need to ensure that Mr. O’Toole seems to have a grasp of what the Conservatives need to change want the whole enchilada. The problem is that the ‘whole enchilada’ requires a out of the gate your rhetoric to raise their compete level, and that’s going to take time that a fall election policy suite and bank account they may not currently possess. I put them in the roughly aligns with that senti- would not provide them. The Hill Times photograph Andrew Meade ‘what-is-an-election?’ category. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade ment. You then divide this original position by the actions you under- uncommon political characteris- egory as Conservative Party Erin tion scenario could work out for Political parties should also take to either cause or prevent an tic. O’Toole seems to have a grasp the Liberals, but a second wave be careful to not underestimate election, knowing full well that The current NDP MPs are a bit of what they need to change to of COVID-19 infections during how the local and prolonged you only control, or influence, a of an enigma. Historically, they raise their compete level, and the writ could also compromise impacts of the pandemic may portion of the elements at play. have skillfully leveraged minority that is going to take time that a logistics and call into question the have permanently altered the Multiply all this by the square governments to advance signifi- fall election would not provide rationale behind the decision. I view that average Canadians root of these things never work cant social policy, but that doesn’t them. He has wisely turned down suspect the major players are cur- have, in terms of the funda- out as planned and here we are! feel like what is happening here. the temperature on the issue and rently extracting the applicable mental role of government in a At the risk of ruining my The aggressive actions on display provided himself an off ramp. lessons from the recent New modern society. That is ballot already blemished record, I really through the recent WE Charity The Liberals hold the most Brunswick experience. box stuff, and I think the next don’t think we are headed for an issue would suggest that they may cards and I put them in the “want- At the end of the sitting day, election will be determined election this fall. There does not not be content to simply play a sup- a-fall-election-but-don’t-want-to- the fundamental challenge for based on which party is best at seem to be a critical mass of sup- porting role and want the whole be-seen-as-wanting-one.” While the government is to capture the reading the room. port, and it is highly unlikely that enchilada. The problem is that the they have demonstrated the imagination of Canadians in the Finally, the road to an election a party will be drawn into one “whole enchilada” requires a policy capacity to reach out to the op- Throne Speech, to essentially is never linear and endless analy- against their will. suite and bank account they may position parties to get unanimous take the Throne Speech where no sis may be interesting, but keep in The Bloc Québécois MPs are not currently possess. I put them in consent on several COVID-19 Throne Speech has gone before, mind that it is usually testoster- already on the record demanding the “what-is-an-election?” category. resolutions, this goodwill seems and they have to do this in a way one, and not policy, that pushes the resignation of the prime min- The Conservatives are com- to be lacking heading into the that will not attract the support of the machine over the edge. ister, so I will take them at their ing off some reasonable success Throne Speech, which I believe as the NDP. In my opinion, that spe- Joe Jordan was a second-gen- word and put them in the “want- in holding the government to I write this, has got to be pretty cific political dichotomy is what eration Liberal Member of Parlia- an-election-this-fall” category. I account and also have a new much in the can. They could eas- will keep Parliamentarians in ment and is currently a senior am not entirely sure how they leader. I would put them in the ily slip party-specific poison pills their seats until the spring, or at consultant at BlueSky Strategies would make out, but the ability “don’t-want-an-election-this-fall- into the document and orches- least until a November budget has Group in Ottawa. to be confidently wrong is not an but-would-gladly-fight-one” cat- trate their own demise. This elec- us repeat the confidence dance. The Hill Times 18 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 | THE HILL TIMES Opinion

Former Bank raise the growth potential of the economy of Canada needed to generate the jobs and wealth for governor David future well-being and ensure our capacity Dodge released to service our debt, thus avoiding a future a paper in fiscal or foreign exchange crisis. While September it’s not necessary to balance the budget recommending soon, foreign investors will want to see a plan to get that we have a longer-term plan to do so, Canada's with a credible fiscal anchor to benchmark stagnant progress. economy on Unless we address the current account track. Finance deficit we will become a poorer nation with Minister a declining standard of living. It is why Chrystia investment and encouragement of innova- Freeland is tion is so important. If we can improve our in charge of productivity performance, we can raise crafting the the potential growth rate of the economy government's and raise our ability to pay our way in the plan, which will world while at the same time addressing be unveiled in the challenges of an aging society and the upcoming increasing opportunity for the young. Throne Speech “What is clear,” Dodge writes, is that “we and the next cannot continue to borrow from foreigners budget. The in order to maintain our standard of living. Hill Times It was questionable before COVID-19 and photograph by is untenable now. A permanently rising Andrew Meade, current account deficit is not sustainable.” file photograph In the long-run, he stresses, “the real in- come of Canadians and the public pro- grammes they cherish depend on the value of the goods and services (GDP) Canadian workers and businesses produce.” Canada ran solid merchandise trade surpluses from 1997 to 2008 because we had things the rest of the world wanted ORONTO—David Dodge has done to buy. This offset our deficits in services TPrime Minister Justin Trudeau and and investment and imports of consumer Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland a huge goods. We are not in that position today. Liberals should heed favour. Starting in 2009, we have had a merchan- The former deputy minister of finance dise trade deficit every year (aside from and governor of the Bank of Canada has 2011 and 2014), with oil the only significant told them what they should do if they re- growth export, as our other major export David Dodge’s plan ally want to build back better. In a policy sector—autos and auto parts—has been in paper that correctly defines many of the decline for more than a decade. critical economic challenges Canada faces, Oil could be next. The “global demand Dodge sets out some policy priorities that for oil is on a long-term downwards tra- to fix the economy should be uppermost in the forthcoming jectory and the price of crude is likely to Speech from the Throne and a budget that remain well below 2010-2015 levels,” Dodge should quickly follow. warns. We will need to find new exports to As a country we have been too compla- pay our way in the world. It’s time we came to grips cent for too long. We never really recovered So what is to be done? Dodge sets out with the reality that Canada from the 2008 financial crisis, despite the his priorities: help transition industry to Harper government’s belief that Canada advanced technologies and innovation in does not have an economy was by then becoming a rich energy goods and services; help shift the resource superpower or the Trudeau government’s sector into both cleaner production and today that can deliver good subsequent boasting that we were on track higher-value activities; through train- to become a global innovation superstar. ing and other approaches, increase the jobs and the wealth we need Neither was true. Instead, we have been participation and skills of Canadians in the living off past investments and increasing workforce; improve the effectiveness and David Crane to sustain and expand the our level of foreign debt to sustain our way efficiency of public services, for example public goods we value. Canada & the 21st Century of life when we should have been doing through digitization of delivery; and re- much more to build up the productive side store confidence in fiscal stability, includ- of the economy ing a long-term plan and a benchmark for Now, the clock is running down. It’s fiscal balance. time we came to grips with the reality This is not just a challenge for govern- Perceptions of humanity that Canada does not have an economy ment. Business in Canada has neglected its today that can deliver good jobs and the long-term competitiveness. For example, wealth we need to sustain and expand the Canadian businesses have lagged their and of membership: Two public goods we value. Dodge’s paper— U.S. counterparts in registering patents Two Mountains to Climb: Canada’s Twin and generating revenue from IP. “By fail- challenges of inclusion Deficits and How to Scale Them—sets out ing to invest in commanding their own to deal with that. It is published by the IP (often for products and processes they and exclusion in Canada Public Policy Forum and can be found on have worked hard to develop) Canadian its website. businesses have effectively been willing October 6, 2020 The paper focuses on two big chal- to forego significant streams of potential 12:30 – 1:30 pm ET lenges. One is our chronic current account income from a new intangibles economy Online lecture deficit, now in its 12th consecutive year, in which intellectual assets are surpass- Free event, RSVP required: www.ideas-idees.ca/bigthinking which as Dodge says, is “a broad measure ing physical ones as generators of wealth,” of our trading and investment relationship Dodge argues. “Just as Canada has lagged Various groups in Canada are stigmatized in ways that make them with the rest of the world” and which re- behind other countries in commercializing vulnerable to discrimination. The stigmatization can take two forms: flects our poor economic competitiveness. our research efforts, now we have fallen either a perception of a deficiency in humanity, or a perception of a Last year we ran a current account deficit behind in generating IP rents from our deficient commitment to Canada. Join Will Kymlicka in a of $47-billion and in 2018 of $55.5-billion. R&D expenditures.” Big Thinking lecture that will explore both forms of stigmatization, Most recently, Statistics Canada reports, Dodge’s paper could not have been discuss their powerful effects, and identify the distinct challenges we have been relying heavily on foreign more timely. In blunt but realistic words each raises to the Canadian model of diversity. creditors, with record foreign investment Dodge has outlined what we have to do in Canadian debt securities, amounting to next. The Throne speech should tell us Will Kymlicka, Respondent: Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Canada Research Chair in the about $120-billion in the first half of this whether the government is getting seri- Canada Research Chair in Political Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights, University of Alberta and year. At the same time, foreign investors ous on the economy or is simply drafting Philosophy at Queen’s University fellow, CIFAR program on Boundaries, Membership and Belonging. have been dumping shares in Canadian an opportunistic document focused on an companies. Presented in partnership with CIFAR, with the support of SSHRC. election that could come sometime next The second big challenges is our grow- year. What Dodge is telling Canadians is ing public debt, much of it taken on to sup- that we have to get serious. port consumption rather than productive David Crane can be reached at crane@ investment. Future deficits, Dodge argues, interlog.com. must prioritize productive investments to The Hill Times

n May 23rd, 1955, Canada’s House of Commons held a final debate on the Convention on Great Lakes Fisheries. After several interventions, including Oa statement of support from then Fisheries Minister James Sinclair (Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s maternal grandfather), Lambton West Conservative MP Joseph Murphy rose to endorse the treaty with the United States. Murphy spoke about the economic value of the Great Lakes, and then concluded with what was perhaps the highest praise a budget-hawk could give the proposal: “I never make it a practice, and I do not intend ever to make it a practice, to ask for moneys unless I think they can be wisely spent. I do not know of an instance where place. The Great Lakes are at once an economic powerhouse, an ecological treasure, and a bi-national responsibility. this government could spend money more The Great Great Lakes Funding Would Support Canada’s wisely…” Put another way, the fiscal conservative In Queen of the Lakes, historian Mark L. Thompson explains: “The freshwater of the Great Lakes drains into the saltwater of underscored that investment in the Great Lakes Lakes are the Atlantic Ocean by way of the St. Lawrence River. The lakes pays dividends well beyond the face value of any lie at an elevation more than six hundred feet above that of the Triple Bottom Line (Economic, Social and Atlantic, and as the lakewater flows unceasingly downhill to the expenditure. Moments later, the House approved sea it drops over the towering falls on the Niagara River and swirls a National through a series of turbulent rapids on the lower St. Lawrence.” Environmental) in a Post-COVID-19 World the Convention, and the Great Lakes Fishery The Great Lakes are a truly pan-Canadian asset, and whatever Commission (GLFC) was born. comes down the river – good or bad – has an impact on us in PEI, ore than 20% of the world’s surface fresh In the mid-1950s, Canada and the US adopted a treaty that created and imperils the future Canada/US relationship on the Great Lakes. In Treasure which stands at Canada’s eastern doorway. We are all connected. water is in the Great Lakes, which means the the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, a bilateral institution designed response, the US has temporarily increased funding - beyond its treaty Sixty-five-years later, due to that legislative Msystem is invaluable as the source of drinking to ensure cross-border cooperation and maximize the benefits the commitment - to help compensate for Canada’s shortfall. This has In the 1950s, the Great Lakes arrived at a crisis point. Poor environ- water for more than 51 million people in the United fishery had to offer. At the time, the lakes were in crisis and the allowed the Commission to continue with its work, but this is not a foresight, fish stocks have rebounded, sea and Must be mental protections, cross-border bickering, and arrival of the invasive States and Canada. Economically, the Great Lakes two nations faced the very real potential for the complete failure permanent solution. species sea lamprey created a perfect storm that threatened the generate 1.5 million jobs and $60 billion in wages of their commercial and recreational fisheries in the Great Lakes. lamprey populations have declined, and the existence of Canada’s inland fishery. Such a loss would have cost annually. The Great Lakes provide the backbone The Commission was formed to do what Canadian and US agencies In February 2020, the Commission appeared before the all-party House Great Lakes provide 238,000 jobs, $45 billion in Viewed by the people of Canada countless billions of dollars and irreparably for a multi-trillion-dollar regional economy that were not able to do unilaterally, despite two decades of efforts to Finance Committee to make the case for Canada to meet its internation- harmed our natural environment. Canadians won the day because would be one of the largest in the world if it stood address the issues that led to the crisis. Specifically, the Commission al commitments on the Great Lakes. I was pleased to see the Finance direct economic activity, $13 billion in recreation/ governments started working in genuine collaboration with stake- as its own country. Recreation on and around the was instructed to: Committee offer a recommendation (#78) to government in support of resource interests, and facilitate the movement Government holders, communities, states, and provinces. Today, sixty-five years system – including world-renowned boating, hunting, and fishing opportu- this proposal and, as a Great Lakes MP, I offer my full support for the later, we seem to have forgotten past lessons and strayed from true nities – generate more than $52 billion dollars annually for the region. And • Harmonize the cross-border management of the fisheries; Committee’s recommendation. Canadians know that the Great Lakes of $20 billion worth of goods annually. Canada partnership on the Great Lakes. Successive governments have failed environmentally speaking, the area is also home to some 3,500 unique plant • Control the invasive and destructive sea lamprey; and are a national and binational treasure that warrant Canada’s attention now contributes just $9.54 million each year to to appropriately fund important work related to the Great Lakes. and animal species, many of which are found nowhere else on Earth. • Coordinate research in support of Great Lakes fishery management. and support. I am happy to add my name to that chorus of support and as Such look forward to being part of the government that finally rights this the GLFC’s sea lamprey control mandate, to As Parliament returns, it is my hope that the government will ensure In this context, the Great Lakes are a binational treasure, an economic Solving these issues became the primary Commission mandate; a man- long-standing wrong. ordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of that the Great Lakes remain an economic and ecological boon to driver, a job creation engine, and a gateway to US and other global date that is as relevant today as it was in 1955. science on which to base fisheries management the Edmund Fitzgerald” tells of the Canada. Surely, we do not have to wait until a crisis strikes to maintain markets. I submit that they are also key to any post COVID-19 economic , MP tragic shipwreck of the SS Edmund decisions, and to maintain the crucial cross- G a resource as essential as the Great Lakes. I urge the Government of recovery in Ontario and throughout Canada. Clearly the Great Lakes are a Unfortunately, since the 1980s, Canada has fallen behind on its financial (Ontario) Fitzgerald, a freighter carrying iron ore that border relationships needed for the success of Canada to again view the health and sustainability of the Great Lakes resource we need to support both in terms of resources and attention. commitments to this essential work; a reality that threatens past success Co-Chair, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Taskforce was wrecked in a storm in 1975. When I as matters of great national importance. the Great Lakes fisheries as a shared resource. first heard the song, I was struck by the human tragedy and by Lightfoot’s great Sincerely, Despite all of this, Canada’s current contribution skill as a songwriter; upon later listens, I is half what it should be. was reminded of the importance of the Senator Diane Griffin (PEI) 75,000 jobs. From a holistic perspective: the area is home to 107 million Great Lakes whereupon the tragedy took Co-Chair, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Taskforce people, 51 million jobs, and a GDP of US$6 trillion according to the The Great Lakes Need Canada Council of the Great Lakes Region – making the Great Lakes Economy a South of the border, as our neighbours plan their powerhouse on an international level. post-COVID-19 economic recovery strategy, the The implications of climate change on the entire Great Lakes ecosystem Great Lakes are a central pillar. The US House to Fulfill its Commitments for — like a shrinking ice cover, toxic algae blooms, and forceful invasive The Great Lakes are species – mean a cohesive, cross-border initiative, fully funded to of Representatives approved millions of dollars achieve all the goals set out within the framework is more important in new resources for initiatives such as the Great Strong Bi-Lateral Stewardship than ever. Lakes Restoration Initiative because US lawmakers Just Too Great to Ignore mong the many shared treasures between Canada and The Great Lakes Fishery Commission was established as In a world currently trying to shake-off the economic impacts of a understand that public investment in the Great the United States is the massive series of freshwater Canada’s body to protect the ecosystem of the Great Lakes devastating international pandemic, proper maintenance of the Great or decades we have witnessed the changing tides of the of Covid-19, the United States just infused millions Alakes in the central south and north of the countries which, in turn, support those who rely on the area for work. Lakes will be intrinsically tied to the success of Canadians and Ameri- Lakes causes an economic multiplier effect, sparks Great Lakes. From rising water levels, to toxic algae and of dollars in funding resources to the Great Lakes respectively, The Great Lakes of North America. As the largest Since its conception, the objective was for each country to cans who utilize them. The Great Lakes fisheries can and must continue the creation of jobs, and leads to broad economic Fincreasing invasive species, these lakes have recently seen Restoration Initiative to help create jobs, help industries collection of freshwater lakes on the planet, they are a vitally fund their share toward the control of invasive species and to be that success story. Canada must meet its obligation to fund the a surge in positive attention by business, industry, not-for- relying on the lakes, and to bring back tourism and important resource as they serve both countries in various general bilateral management of the system. It is essential Great Lakes Fisheries Commission to signal to our American counter- growth throughout the region. profits and governments. Yet, there is so much to do in order recreation to suffering economies along the lakes. capacities. The fisheries of the Great Lakes are, without a that both countries do so and Canada needs to increase parts, friends, and allies, that Canada is serious about contributing its to keep these lakes healthy for the long-term starting with doubt, one aspect that makes these bodies of water an funding to meet these commitments. Beyond that, there fair share to our mutual commitments and signal our intentions to be In Canada, as part of the pre-budget consultation, federal funding in the upcoming Budget for the lakes. Our own Members of Parliament and Senators from all invaluable resource; one that requires extensive cooperation are obvious economic reasons that alone predicate this world-class stewards of the environment. political parties recently agreed that the Great Lakes and science-led management between bi-lateral partners necessity. the House Finance Committee received a GLFC We know that science is crucial to the improved health of were important enough that we have established a whose shared success is dependent upon the health of the Hon. , PC, MP request for Canada to contribute its full $19.44 the Great Lakes. My own work on banning microplastics new working group as part of the larger Canada-United ecosystems there. Based on the size and scope of operations to monitor The Great Lakes commercial, recreational, and tribal fisheries are collec- Malpeque (PEI) was based on the very science that proved these miniscule plastics were States Inter-Parliamentary Group. As a member of this group, we and manage these bodies, adequate funding is essential. tively valued at more than $8 billion annually and support more than Co-Chair, Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group million share to the effort. Not only would this toxic and contributing to the overall destruction of many Great Lakes will work together to highlight the significance of the lakes includ- ecosystems. As the Great Lakes Fishery Commission has identified and ing all of the issues and opportunities they bring to all Canadians. enhanced investment fulfil Canada’s international requested, their own work funded by both the Canadian and American Our intention is to ensure that the long-term health and vitality commitment, but it also would bolster the Great governments has yielded significant improvements to the Great Lakes – is recognized and that we are working alongside our American based on science and benefitting the overall economies. counterparts to proudly do our share of protecting such a valuable Lakes as a pan-Canadian economic and job- resource. Most importantly, the Canadian federal government creation engine. To demonstrate the important Likewise, the importance of these lakes to both the overall econo- should be funding Great Lakes budgetary requests to help spur mies of the United States and Canada cannot be understated – the economic growth, create jobs and protect the overall ecosystem. and universal appeal of this call, the GLFC asked Great Lakes region supplies 30 percent of the combined workforce These lakes are just too great to be ignored. legislators for their views on the merit of this of our two economies or 51-million jobs. From fishing to shipping, and tourism to recreation, these lakes are vital to our environment, , MP request. Their unedited replies are attached. our health, and to our shared and independent Canadian and Windsor West (Ontario) American economies. Coming back from the collapsing economy Vice-Chair, Canada-US Inter-Parliamentary Group 22 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 | THE HILL TIMES Opinion

civilian purposes because of proliferation concerns. South Korea was prevented from Who should lead Canada’s acquiring plutonium-extraction technology by its American ally, and to this day, has been prevented from using the extraction technol- ogy now planned for New Brunswick. This public consultation on federal raises global concerns affecting not only Canada’s reputation, but the grim prospect of an increasingly nuclear-armed world. Extracting plutonium also requires con- radioactive waste policy? verting solid fuel bundles into a highly cor- rosive liquid form, complicating the handling and long-term management of the resulting But before Natural Resources Canada has waste. Less than one percent of the used fuel In the intervening years, it has become abundantly clear even begun to engage in the radioactive waste is recuperated for useful purposes. file, it is eagerly promoting the development Evidently, Canada’s revised radioactive that public confidence in the field of radioactive waste of a fleet of small modular nuclear reactors waste policy and associated strategy will have (SMRs) in Canada. Indeed, NRCAN has pre- to address these thorny questions of safety management cannot be secured unless there pared an “SMR Action Plan” that anticipates and security, and NRCAN alone is not well is a scrupulous avoidance of conflict of interest. “civil society consultation and engagement” equipped to negotiate such a tricky political from July to September 2020, and promises obstacle course. to “finalize and print” its action plan for new To avoid a conflict of interest between combined $70-million from the Strategic reactors in October. All of this with no explicit the waste producers, and those in charge of Innovation Fund to prepare to test their mention of the existing “policy vacuum” on safeguarding the public and the environment prototype reactors at the site of the Point radioactive wastes. from the toxic byproducts, several countries Lepreau nuclear power plant. The New It makes sense that Natural Resources have established independent agencies for the Brunswick government and provincial util- Canada identifies strongly with the needs of long-term management of radioactive waste ity NB Power have already given $5-million resource industries—oil and gas, pipelines, oil and the decommissioning of nuclear facili- each to the companies. sands, uranium, and other resource extraction ties—agencies that have no direct ties to the If built, these new reactors will generate enterprises. But the long-term management nuclear industry or to the nuclear regulator. radioactive wastes of all existing categories— of radioactive waste is more of a societal Some examples include: ANDRA in France, low-level, high-level, and intermediate-level— Gordon Edwards & Susan O’Donnell problem than an industry problem. Nuclear NDA in the UK, and BGE in Germany. along with new types of radioactive waste wastes will long outlive the nuclear industry In 1998, following a 10-year environmental Opinion materials for which Canada has no experi- that created it and the nuclear regulator that assessment process with public hearings in ence and no specific provisions for dealing licensed its production. five provinces, the Seaborn Panel unanimous- with in the very long term. Because radioactivity cannot be shut off ly recommended that Canada create such an wo weeks ago, Blaine Higgs revealed Last November, a multinational team of or rendered harmless, these wastes will pose independent radioactive waste agency, but the Tthat, if re-elected as the premier of New experts from the International Atomic Energy a potential danger to the health and safety of government of the day chose otherwise. Brunswick, he would announce a multimil- Agency recommended that Canada beef future generations and the environment with In the intervening years, it has become lion-dollar grant secured from the federal up its antiquated and very brief (143-word) no discernible finite time horizon. Even low- abundantly clear that public confidence in government to back new nuclear reactor radioactive waste policy framework, and to and intermediate-level wastes remain hazard- the field of radioactive waste management development in the province. formulate a national strategy for the long- ous for hundreds of thousands of years, and cannot be secured unless there is a scru- Two companies, Moltex Energy and term management of radioactive wastes. In high-level wastes are known to be radiotoxic pulous avoidance of conflict of interest. If ARC Nuclear, from the U.S. and the U.K., February, Canada accepted the IAEA recom- for millions of years. safety and environmental protection are to be now based in Saint John, have asked for a mendation and agreed to act. There is a real conflict of interest in paramount, those supervising the long-term entrusting Canada’s policy on radioactive management of the wastes must be seen to APPOINTMENT NOTICE waste to the industry that created the waste, be immune from undue influence from the in- or the department that champions that dustry and its promoters and enablers: AECL, industry, both of whom are inclined to regard CNL, CNSC, and NRCAN. the matter as a “public relations” problem for Minister O’Regan, by virtue of the position Chemistry Industry Association the industry, rather than a safety concern for he occupies, appears to be in a conflict of future generations. interest. Other federal ministers from Envi- In May, 100 public interest groups across ronment, Health, Global Affairs, the Treasury of Canada (CIAC) Welcomes Canada, including nine in New Brunswick, Board, and even the Prime Minister’s Office, wrote to Natural Resources Minister Seamus in addition to Natural Resources, must be Elena Mantagaris as new O’Regan asking him to initiate a broad public involved. We suggest that a multi-departmen- process of consultation to involve Canadi- tal oversight committee of cabinet would be ans directly in the formulation of a socially appropriate to ensure Canada meets its treaty Vice-President, Plastics Division acceptable radioactive waste policy and obligations to have a policy and strategy on associated strategy. The letter also asked the the long-term management of radioactive n behalf of CIAC members, partners, and minister to suspend three controversial ra- wastes in Canada. Ostaff, we are pleased to welcome Elena dioactive waste “disposal” projects, all of them For pragmatic reasons, the Government Mantagaris to the role of vice-president of the appear to be in violation of existing IAEA of Canada is normally reluctant to involve newly formed Plastics Division. guidelines, until Canada has an acceptable more than one department in the execution of policy in place. any particular program. However, we face an Mantagaris will lead the division as it In the month leading up to New Bruns- unprecedented situation: a hitherto unsolved addresses some of the most important issues wick’s snap election last week, NGOs wrote problem of the human race, with multidimen- facing the Chemistry and Plastics sector, to Minister O’Regan offering to host public sional aspects. and Canada as a whole. Along with her consultative sessions in New Brunswick on The policy objectives are manifold, ranging experienced team, Mantagaris will work with Canada’s yet-to-be-determined radioactive from protecting the environment and safe- all levels of government and advocate for waste policy. The groups were responding guarding public health, to reinforcing non-pro- advanced, sustainable solutions to combat to the minister’s promise in July to “consult liferation objectives and bolstering Canada’s plastic waste and for the development of a and engage with all Canadians” to develop a reputation as a trend setter in state-of-the-art circular economy for plastics. socially acceptable policy and to formulate a waste management, while ensuring that the national strategy for the long-term manage- best value is obtained in exchange for the ex- Additionally, she and her team will focus on ment of all categories of radioactive waste. penditure of billions of dollars of public money. promoting responsible plastic production The situation is even more urgent when According to recent thinking from in Canada while working toward reducing promoters plan to “recycle” high-level radioac- UNESCO, it will also be necessary to care- and eliminating plastic pollution from the Elena Mantagaris tive waste—used CANDU fuel. The two new fully archive all necessary information in environment, all in support of a robust Vice-President, Plastics Division reactors proposed for New Brunswick intend imaginative ways, so that future generations Canadian economy. to access the plutonium contained in the can understand the nature of the radioactive Collectively, CIAC is excited to add such an experienced executive to the team. solid used fuel bundles already stored at NB legacy we are leaving them, and how they Mantagaris has an extensive background and more than 20 years’ experience Power’s Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating might best deal with it if things go wrong. Our working with federal and provincial governments, along with municipalities and Station, the only operating CANDU reactor in descendants must be given the tools needed Indigenous communities to advance large-scale national initiatives in the iron, energy, Canada located outside of Ontario. to cope with any eventuality. transportation, technology, and cultural sectors. Extracting plutonium from used nuclear Dr. Gordon Edwards, a scientist and fuel is dangerous and highly controversial, nuclear consultant, is the president of the Welcome, Elena! raising international concerns about nuclear Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsi- weapons proliferation, since plutonium is bility and is based in Montreal. Dr. Susan the primary nuclear explosive in the world’s O’Donnell, a former senior research officer at nuclear arsenals. the National Research Council of Canada, is After India exploded its first atomic bomb the lead researcher on the University of New in 1974 using plutonium extracted from a Brunswick project Rural Action and Voices for Canadian reactor, “recycling” used fuel in the Environment and is based in Fredericton. this way was banned in the U.S. even for The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 23 Opinion

the government should address the need to increase port authorities’ borrowing limits Empowering Canada’s world-class, and waive the 2020 gross revenue charge levied on Canada’s ports to allow them to preserve liquidity for investment in eco- nomic recovery. These steps would be very innovative ports to help spur a strong, beneficial as port authorities gear up for much-need infrastructure development. Canada’s port authorities know that sustainable economic recovery economic prosperity and robust environ- mental stewardship go hand in hand. Ma- rine shipping is the lowest emitter of GHGs work CPAs are doing to help drive Cana- During a recent speech, Transport Minister per tonne/kilometre. We have long champi- As forward-looking and da’s innovation agenda and grow into our said the government is looking oned Green Marine initiatives and related potential as IT leaders globally. But federal at options to stimulate the economy through actions that have made our operations sustainable generators of government support is needed. the NTCF and “use infrastructure funding world-class examples of how technology is prosperity, ports are in As managers of trade-enabling in- in an innovative way perhaps to get those fuelling environmental protection and sus- frastructure, ports are significant gen- projects jump-started as quickly as possible.” tainability. And of course, ports continue an ideal position to help erators of jobs and economic growth, Port authorities have numerous such projects to play a vital role in supporting Canada’s no matter what country they are in. One ready to go, but these have been deferred to important export economy. This too will be ignite Canada’s post- OECD study demonstrated that, for every maintain liquidity in the face of declining a key aspect of Canada’s post-pandemic one million tonnes of new cargo moved revenues as a result of the pandemic. recovery. The government should empower pandemic recovery, all through a port, 300 new jobs are created. To enable sustainable port projects ports—as part of their core mandate—to But to ensure ports can maximize their and infrastructure to be built in a timely engage in trade-facilitation activities which while helping Canada meet contribution to Canada’s economic recov- and appropriate manner for the economic may include logistics facilities, inland its sustainability goals. ery, the federal government must—as part recovery, the government must ensure ports, and supply-chain related uses. of its recovery strategy—provide addition- NTCF funding is adequately replenished. Wendy Zatylny is president of the As- al funding to the National Trade Corridors To further empower port authorities to sociation of Canadian Port Authorities. Fund (NTCF). leverage their infrastructure capabilities, The Hill Times

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f you started your day with a coffee, Iturned on your computer to check your emails before joining your first Zoom meet- ing, or made a call on your mobile phone to- day, you can thank a Canada Port Authority for helping to make your day a little easier. And lately, Canada’s Port Authorities have also played a vital role moving personal protective equipment and other supplies essential to fighting COVID-19. The importance of this lifeline is not sur- prising, since 80 per cent of all goods Canadi- ans consume and use in their daily lives are Getting delivered via the marine shipping industry. Today, Canada’s ports are about so much more than simply managing ships and loading and unloading cargo. For years, innovation has been at the heart of students Canada’s port operations. From coast to coast, port authorities have been reinvent- ing themselves into state-of-the-art, world- class logistical hubs. So when the pandem- ic hit, Canada’s 17 port authorities already connected had in place the operational procedures, technologies, training, and infrastructure to pivot quickly and meet the unprecedent- ed challenges presented by this crisis. A key driver of local and economic Digital connectivity for students and families regional development, CPAs directly and indirectly create higher-than-average is critical. These days, enabling students to paying jobs for more than 213,000 people across the country. Canada’s port authori- reach their full potential relies on a digital ties are responsible for handling more than connection at home. $200-billion worth of goods a year—with a direct economic impact of $36-billion an- nually. And while they are part of a sector TELUS Internet for Good offers more than that dates back millennia, Canada’s port authorities recognize that future economic 200,000 families access to subsidized high- strength requires cutting-edge innovation and updated operations essential to staying speed internet, a low-cost refurbished laptop competitive globally. Managers of data as much as they are and digital literacy training tools. movers of cargo, our ports are part of a global logistics chain using new technolo- gies such as blockchain, artificial intel- ligence, and the internet of things to move cargo and people in a greener, safer, and much more efficient manner. For instance, using AI-enabled applications, ports can Learn more at: identify and track essential goods aboard containers, which has been particularly ConnectingCanadaforGood.ca helpful during the pandemic to track PPE and other important cargo quickly. There is great potential to leverage the innovative 24 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 | THE HILL TIMES Opinion Canada can’t hide behind NATO in refusal to sign treaty on nuclear weapons prohibition

Justin Trudeau has not yet learned how NATO contravenes the basic idea of nuclear disarmament, for he called the negotiations that led to the adoption of the Prohibition Treaty ‘useless.’

Lloyd Axworthy, Jean Chrétien, Bill Graham, John McCallum, , and all signed an open letter, released on Sept. 21, that features 53 former high officials of NATO countries expressing support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It is an astonishing rebuke of NATO’s moribund policies on nuclear weapons, and the most serious challenge to NATO’s nuclear orthodoxy in the organization’s 71-year history. Even two former NATO secretaries-general, Javier Solana and Willy Claes, as well as former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, joined in this protest. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Hill Times file photographs

Douglas Roche gotiate the elimination of nuclear The letter adds: “With close to wash, a prominent civil society up military hardwire to provide Opinion weapons, as ordered by the NPT, 14,000 nuclear weapons located group, which said that Canada human security. Many steps that led to the development of the at dozens of sites across the globe should sign the treaty and argue need to be taken to boost coop- Prohibition Treaty. and on submarines patrolling the within NATO councils to get the erative security. One of the most DMONTON—Lloyd Axwor- NATO doesn’t have a leg to oceans at all times, the capac- nuclear policies changed. Indeed, important would be to renounce Ethy, Jean-Jacques Blais, Jean stand on in maintaining that nu- ity for destruction is beyond our , one of the signa- nuclear weapons. That is what Chrétien, Bill Graham, John Mc- clear weapons are the “supreme imagination. … Without doubt, a tories of the letter, went to NATO the Prohibition Treaty does. The Callum, John Manley, and John guarantee” of security. It has now new nuclear arms race is under when he was foreign affairs min- nuclear weapons states’ plan to Turner. been called out by its own stron- way.” ister to get the policy changed, spend $1-trillion this decade on These seven names hardly gest supporters—former high The prohibition treaty is but was rebuffed. nuclear weapons is an outrage need an introduction to readers officials in 20 NATO countries, explicit in its condemnation of , the father of to a humanity crying out for of The Hill Times, and certainly Germany, Norway, Belgium, Italy, nuclear weapons, stating: “Each Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, resources to survive against the not to the . Denmark, and others, as well as State Party undertakes never un- once told me that NATO’s ob- coronavirus. Two of them are former prime the Canadians—who have signed der any circumstances to develop, solete policies were one of the The seven former Canadian ministers, three are former for- the letter organized by the Nobel test, produce, manufacture, other- biggest thorns he had to endure high officials—all of them Liber- eign ministers, and two are for- Peace Prize winning-International wise acquire, possess or stockpile as prime minister. Justin Trudeau als—have pulled the rug out mer defence ministers, who ran Campaign for the Abolition of nuclear weapons or other nuclear has not yet learned how NATO from under the Liberal govern- and served Liberal governments. Nuclear Weapons. explosive devices.” contravenes the basic idea of ment’s pathetic excuse for not All of them signed an open signing the Prohibition Treaty. letter, released on Sept. 21, that These seven are not alone among features 53 former high officials The Canadian prominent Canadians calling for of NATO countries expressing government, under this action. support for the Treaty on the Pro- Prime Minister Other signatories include: hibition of Nuclear Weapons. It is Justin Trudeau, John Polanyi, Ed Broadbent, John an astonishing rebuke of NATO’s pictured Sept. 16, English, Gerry Barr, Bruce Kidd, moribund policies on nuclear 2020, has said it Margaret MacMillan, Stephen weapons, and the most serious cannot make such Lewis, Ernie Regehr, Jennifer challenge to NATO’s nuclear a commitment Simons, Clayton Ruby, Jane orthodoxy in the organization’s to sign the treaty Urquhart, and many other distin- 71-year history. Even two former because of its guished recipients of the Order of NATO secretaries-general, Javier membership in Canada who have signed a letter Solana and Willy Claes, as well NATO. The Hill to Prime Minister Trudeau by as former U.N. secretary-general Times photograph Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Ban Ki-moon, joined in this by Andrew Meade Convention, calling for Canada protest. to make nuclear disarmament “a The treaty, which bans the national priority.” possession of nuclear weapons, Another civil society organi- was adopted by 122 states at the zation, the Canadian Network UN in 2017 and must be ratified to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, by 50 states before it enters into representing 16 national organi- force. To date, 44 states have rati- zations, wants Canada “to take fied it, so it won’t be long before a leadership role within NATO” the treaty becomes binding law to create the conditions for a for those who have signed it. nuclear weapons-free world. This But NATO, following the lead was exactly what the House of of the U.S., the U.K., and France, Commons Committee on National has vigorously rejected the treaty Defence unanimously recom- because it “risks undermining” the mended in 2018. Non-Proliferation Treaty and sup- The letter accuses the U.S., The Canadian government nuclear disarmament, for he Justin Trudeau and his deputy, posedly creates divisions in the Russia, the U.K., France, and has said it cannot make such called the negotiations that led to Chrystia Freeland, should now international community. It would China—permanent members a commitment because of its the adoption of the Prohibition look around and see what im- be hard to find a more pungent of the Security Council that all membership in NATO. But the Treaty “useless.” And his govern- portant people in the country are example of nuclear hypocrisy. possess nuclear weapons—of letter contests this stand, argu- ment has continued to use NATO saying to them. Not least their First, the treaty explicitly viewing the NPT “as a license ing that nothing in the new treaty membership as a block to the new own former colleagues. recognizes the NPT as the “cor- to retain their nuclear forces in precludes a NATO state joining, treaty. Former Senator Douglas nerstone” of nuclear disarmament perpetuity.” They are all flouting as long as it never assists the use COVID-19 has upended the Roche was also Canadian ambas- efforts. Second, it is the refusal by the NPT by modernizing their of nuclear weapons. This was the world order. It has dramatically sador for disarmament. the nuclear weapons states to ne- arsenals. stand taken by Canadian Pug- shown the uselessness of piling The Hill Times The Hill Times Politics & the Pen A Special Tribute to This Year’s Virtual Event on Sept. 23, 2020

Politics & the Pen goes all virtual Johnathan Manthorpe this year on Claws of the Panda Mike Lapointe

Adam Chapnick and Canada’s Beverley McLachlin tells role on the UN it like is in Truth Be Told Security Council Beatrice Paez Aidan Chamandy

Harold R. Johnson on Ken Roach talks about Peace and Good Order Canadian Justice, Samantha Wright Allen Indigenous Injustice

Politics & the Pen guests pictured in 2018 at the Chateau Laurier. Samantha Wright Allen The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade 26 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 | THE HILL TIMES Books & Big Ideas Politics & the Pen goes virtual for 20th anniversary of Shaughnessy Cohen Prize

Former politics and jour- He took the same five-min- The Politics & Conservative nalism. utes-before, back-of-the-napkin MP “I felt incred- approach as Ms. Giese. Like Ms. the Pen event is a and former ibly moved that Giese, he, too, saw the award as NDP MP my book was validation that the issues he wrote night ‘to support Megan Leslie, recognized in about were “highly political.” free expression, pictured that way. That “The fact that a book about delivering a the things that race and racialization is … kind deep scholarship, legendary song I understood to of a validation for that,” he said. and dance be political were “It was a kind of precursor for and gifted writers number at the taken seriously that, for this moment. The issues 2013 event. by the jury as around race matter, are con- wrestling with This year’s politics as well,” sidered Canadian, and they’re ceremony will she said. considered highly political and historic and be held online. Self-doubt is charged. Race is a political issue.” contemporary issues The Hill Times evidently a nec- Mr. Al-Solayee took his prize file photograph essary condition money to help fund his next that shape our for a successful book. He just finished the first author. draft, and while he can’t share ever-changing and “I didn’t think much, did say “it’s about immi- in a million gration in a time when borders unfinished country.’ years I would and homelands have become so This year, it’s going win,” said Kamal contested.” Al-Solaylee, Whatever happens on Sept. 23, virtual. stay on for the pandemic version policy worth reading for all who winner of the all the books are worth reading of the party. This is particularly live above the 49th parallel. The 2017 award for Brown: What and all the authors across Canada important as the Writers’ Trust book was published by Penguin Being Brown in the World Today are worth celebrating. BY AIDAN CHAMANDY has also committed to main- Random House Canada. Means (To Everyone), published [email protected] taining its support structures Jonathan Manthorpe’s Claws by HarperCollins Canada. The Hill Times elebration is tricky in isola- for struggling writers. They’ve of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign Ction. Logistics aside, when already doled out some $400,000 of Influence and Intimidation in the isolation is imposed because to around 250 writers during the Canada, published by Cormorant Vox Populi on Politics & the Pen of a rampant virus that has killed pandemic, according to Writers’ Books, is both a history of Cana- thousands, celebrating anything Trust executive director Charles da-China relations and a stinging “I’ve never been a particularly driven person but one outstanding ambition I have is to attend Politics and the Pen might come across as crass. Foran, also an author, including of critique of decades of Canadian wearing an author’s medallion, the badge of honour that Life, however, does not wholly the critically acclaimed Mordecai: foreign policy. separates the writers from the riff raff. This year was going to stop during a pandemic. Mile- The Life & Times. Former chief justice of the Su- be that year–then along came COVID. I felt like Janis Joplin, stones happen and deserve to “We did that because it was preme Court of Canada Beverley after she was bumped from the cover of Newsweek by the be marked with a celebration. important to show that we were McLachlin’s autobiography Truth death of former U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower. ‘Fourteen The strictures to which daily life committed to that core work, be Told: My Journey Through heart attacks and he had to die in my week.’ must now adhere also allow for which is helping writers finan- Life and the Law, published by “The literary gala has always been the apex of the politi- a kind of constrained creativity. cially and giving them opportuni- Simon and Schuster Canada, is cal season during my two decades on Parliament Hill and I’m Hitofude-ryuu artists in Japan ties that come with prizes and the first such book by a Canadian delighted that the tradition continues, albeit online. It is to can draw an entire dragon with fellowships,” said Mr. Foran. Supreme Court Justice. It details the credit of everyone involved that it remains a crucial fundraiser for the Writers Trust and a single continuous brush stroke. Five books are nominated for her personal and professional a relevant awards night—the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize is still the one we all want to win. So, maybe Zoom parties can actu- the $25,000 Shaughnessy Co- life, giving insight into the most Congratulations to the board.” ally be fun? hen Prize for Political Writing. important court cases of the past John Ivison, author of Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister Organizers of one of political All finalists get $2,500 for being two decades. Ottawa’s most anticipated events nominated. The award, officially Canadian Justice, Indigenous “Politics and the Pen celebrates political writing but it of the year are going to try. Poli- given out by the Writers’ Trust of Justice by Kent Roach, and pub- celebrates all Canadian authors. My friend, Jay Bauchel, tics & the Pen, which normally Canada, goes to “an exceptional lished by McGill-Queen’s Uni- and I were both first time authors last year. Not only does attracts 500 people, is going all book of literary non-fiction that versity Press, was also inspired the event raise money for the Writers’ Trust, but we saw first-hand how it amplifies writers’ voices. It brings some of virtual this year to celebrate the captures a political subject of rel- by Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old the most powerful people in the country together on a night 20th anniversary of the Writers’ evance to Canadian readers.” It’s Indigenous man who was killed that gives the real power to our nation’s authors. Plus, we Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Award named after the late Shaughnessy by a farmer in Saskatchewan in got to wear medals. Where else on earth would Jay and I get for Political Writing. Instead of Cohen, a popular backbencher 2016. It carefully details the case, medals? gathering in the Château Laurier who represented Windsor-St. its failures, and the historical, Mark Critch, author of Son of a Critch: A Childish on Sept. 23, guests will be behind Clair, Ont., as a Liberal MP from political, and sociological context Newfoundland Memoir a webcam. It’s still a black-tie Oct. 25, 1993, until her death on to show how Indigenous people event, but pants aren’t mandatory Dec. 9, 1998. are treated in Canada. “The Politics and the Pen jamboree has been a highlight so long as you stay seated. Adam Chapnick’s Canada Last year, Rachel Giese took in Ottawa for years. As an Ottawa-based writer (and former “It’s going to just be a fun, on the United Nations Security home the award for her book P & P judge), I’ve always been thrilled by the attention it brief retrospective of Politics Council: A Small Power on a Boys: What it Means to Become a has brought to political books, and also by the way that and the Pen over the years,” said Large Stage, published by UBC Man, published by Harper Collins out-of-town authors, publishers and agents are mesmerized Catherine Clark, who sits on the Press, is the first definitive his- Canada. by the spectacle of federal politicians, lobbyists and reporters event’s organizing committee. tory of Canada’s six terms on the She said she didn’t expect to letting down their hair and partying together. ‘Yes,’ I like to “We will have lots of photos UN Security Council. The recent win because she thought the ju- tell them. ‘A lot more goes on in this city than you realize.’ I’ll from times past that will flash up failed campaign for a seventh rors wouldn’t think of her book as never forget the evenings when Conservative ministers John on the screen, we will have a live term obviously fulfils the “rel- inherently political. She saw her Baird and Lisa Raitt … oops, it would be breaking the rules presentation of the Shaughnessy evance” condition. Independent win as validation that the tradi- to blab.” , author of Murdered Midas: A Millionaire, His Gold Mines, and a Cohen Prize. And it’s just meant of its timeliness, this book fills tional realm of politics is opening Strange Death on an Island Paradise to be something that’s positive a much-needed gap in the study to more diverse voices. and uplifting and allows us still to of Canadian foreign policy and “My book was not a biography “For many years, I have watched politicians and writers recognize the incredible writers will leave a mark in the academic of a prime minister,” she said. “It come together at this event to celebrate the memory of who’ve been nominated,” she said. world. was a book about the politics of Shaughnessy Cohen, to mark the best books in politics, and The event raises a ton of In Peace and Good Order: The gender and gender norms. It was to embrace the many writers who contribute to the ongoing money for the Writers’ Trust of Case for Indigenous Justice in a book about what I felt was a dialogue of what it means to be Canadian. For those not ac- Canada. Jim Armour, vice-presi- Canada, former Crown prosecu- crisis in masculinity that resulted customed to seeing politicians beyond the cut and thrust of dent at Summa Strategies and a tor Harold R. Johnson offers an in male violence and in a lot of Parliament, one witnesses elected officials and staffers of all member of the event’s organizing insider analysis of the Canadian other social issues.” parties talking, laughing, and engaging in self-effacing fun. It committee, said some $4.5-million justice system and how it fails She used her acceptance is an event to support free expression, deep scholarship, and has been raised over the life of Indigenous people. Inspired speech, which was scribbled gifted writers wrestling with historic and contemporary issues the event. by the verdicts in the deaths of on napkins five minutes before that shape our ever-changing and unfinished country.” Ms. Clark and Mr. Armour said Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine, delivery, to “create space” for “less Tim Cook, author of The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and all the regular sponsors agreed to it offers a critique beyond public dominant” voices in Canadian Remaking Canada’s Second World War History (2020) Congratulations to the Finalists 2019 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

Canada on the United Peace and Claws of Truth Be Canadian Justice, Nations Security Council Good Order the Panda Told Indigenous Justice Adam Chapnick Harold R. Johnson Jonathan Manthorpe Beverley McLachlin Kent Roach

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and the only Indigenous prosecu- tor in the region. What did your years as a lawyer working in ‘Tinkering’ won’t northern Saskatchewan’s “high crime” communities teach you and do you think it would’ve been different if you were practising in fix legal system, another part of the country? “I don’t know what it’d be like to practise in another part of the country because I never did. I communities wanted to be home. I thought I could do the best in communi- ties that I was familiar with. And it’s true. By knowing the players, need Indigenous I was better able to achieve the small goals that I set for myself. By knowing who your family was, I could get a witness to talk to me jurisdiction, says as a prosecutor, just remind them that you know, I know the same people that you know; I grew up here. former lawyer in “Witnesses would talk to me. The biggest problem that pros- ecutors have in aboriginal com- munities is getting witnesses to new book testify. I wasn’t perfect at it, but I was more successful than other prosecutors.” ties because damaged communi- Harold Johnson’s ties create damaged people.” But you do ultimately conclude Author and former lawyer Harold Johnson’s book Peace and Good Order The following Q&A has been that representation, including relays his experience working in the legal system and his conclusion that it book Peace and Good edited for length and clarity. Mr. having more Indigenous lawyers, can’t bring Indigenous people justice. Photograph courtesy of Calvin Fehr Johnson’s book has been short- or people serving on juries won’t Order is among listed by the Writers’ Trust for this lead to better justice or outcomes five shortlisted year’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, for Indigenous offenders and through that education, you have We have to quit telling ourselves one the of best non-fiction politi- victims. Why do you think that? to allow yourself to be colonized. that this is something pleasant, books for this year’s cal books of the year. And if you could rewrite your life, You have to become one of them. that this is something socially would you again be a lawyer? And once you become one of acceptable. Prohibition would Shaughnessy Cohen You started this book in February “No. I went to law school to them, then you’re outside of your be using the justice system and 2018, pretty well immediately af- prove a point. I didn’t have a clue own community. If you believe in the justice system is broken. It Prize for Political ter the trial and an all-white jury what a lawyer did. And I had no that system, then you’re put out- doesn’t work for anything else, Writing. found Gerald Stanley not guilty experience with justice. I went to side. You’re going to struggle to it certainly isn’t gonna work to of [Colton Boushie’s] murder, and law school to prove that Harold connect again. You can even start solve the problem with alcohol. it seems to be a jumping off point Johnson wasn’t stupid, and I blaming the people for the situa- The alcohol industry creates the BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN for conclusions you’ve long had picked the law because it was tion that they’re in because of the story that people tell themselves about Canada’s justice system supposed to be hard. And then I stories that you tell yourself.” about their use of alcohol.” ndigenous people must reclaim and your shame at being part went to Harvard to prove that no- Itheir jurisdiction over legal mat- of it. What about this moment body gave me anything. And then The influence of alcohol is a key You open yourself up in this ters because healing communities inspired you to put pen to paper, for 20 years, I was stuck being a theme in your analysis of the jus- book, in a way that invites criti- and equal justice are impossible and as you say, take responsibil- lawyer. tice system and who comes into cism for your part in a system, outcomes in Canadian courts and ity for your “actions and inac- “I could have used that time contact with the law. What role and open up in how you explain prisons, concludes Harold John- tions”? better, to make my communities does alcohol play? violence, including your experi- son in his latest book. “It was just a culmination of a healthier outside of the justice “In all the years as a lawyer ence with two brothers killed In Peace and Good Order: The whole bunch of different factors, system than in. The reason we versus defence counsel then as by drunk drivers, and as a boy Case for Indigenous Justice in everything piling up. I couldn’t go can’t make changes from within, a Crown prosecutor, I never saw who was sexually assaulted. Canada, Mr. Johnson excoriates on in that system; it wasn’t even so as aboriginal people, is because anybody I would call a criminal. Why did you write the case for the legal system and the people much the decision, the jury’s find- you have to hold the system up I only saw people who got drunk Indigenous justice as an almost- working to sustain it, finding ing, not guilty. I was prepared to with one hand while using the and did something stupid, up to memoir and make it so personal that even those with the best of just shut off social media, turn off other hand to help the commu- and including committing atroci- in this way? intentions working within it— the radio in the news and ignore it. nity, and it’s the system that’s ties. I only ever prosecuted one “The only true story I can tell once himself—cannot bring about It was when a retired judge texted destroying them. And then you man for murder who was sober is my own. I could have written a reform or better outcomes. me the next morning to say how have to believe in that system. at the time. I never prosecuted or different way, hidden myself from He came to that painful sorry he was, If you don’t defended a case of sexual assault it, but that wouldn’t be a true sto- realization over the course of and it was believe, you that did not involve alcohol. Al- ry. I’d be trying to tell somebody two decades practising law, both hearing him can’t do it as I cohol is still your No. 1 date-rape else’s story. To tell some stories, as defence and prosecution in apologize found out. drug. And the alcohol story is a we have to put ourselves between northern Saskatchewan’s “high that brought “So to very powerful story. the pages.” crime” communities, where the out my own get into the “We’re not going to change it vast majority of the victims and apology and system, first overnight; 85 per cent of Canadi- What do you think the federal perpetrators were Indigenous. As my recogni- you have to ans use alcohol and about 20 per government should be doing? a Crown prosecutor, he said he tion of what finish school, cent of them use it excessively, “I think the federal govern- knew he was “damaging com- I have done so that’s 12 including judges and lawyers and ment and the provincial govern- munities,” and upholding a model in the justice years before attorney generals and ministers ment should just get out of the that over-incarcerates Indigenous system. And you go to of justice and deputy ministers of way. I don’t see elected people people. how every- university justice and judges.” as leaders. They don’t lead. They “Everything that has been thing we had and then to look at the direction that the done to Indigenous people has done—he’d get into law, How did that analysis fit in with people are going and then run been legal,” Mr. Johnson wrote, been there nowadays, personal responsibility? out front and pretend that they’re and after witnessing first-hand longer than I you need an “There is no safe level of leading. They don’t create change. how the law functions, deter- had—and we undergrad de- alcohol consumption. Zero. We We do have leaders. They’re not mined “all it can do is take a hurt all go in, we gree and then have low risk drinking guidelines elected, they’re in the communi- person and hurt them more.” want to make three years … [but] there are no safe drinking ties. I have something to say to He ends the book by conclud- it better, and of law school, levels. We know that it’s respon- the community champions, to ing the best chance is for commu- after you’re and then I sible for over 200 illnesses and the real leaders; I’ve got nothing nities to reclaim legal jurisdiction, there a full added an- injuries. We know its huge impact to say to politicians. They’ve had but said he has no immediate career and other year to on the justice system. We know their chance.” plans to expand on that idea in a recognize get a master’s about the violence that results.” Peace and Good Order: The book. you made it degree on top Case for Indigenous Justice “The way we make change worse.” Harold Johnson’s book Peace and Good of that. That’s So is prohibition the answer or in Canada, by Harold R. John- isn’t by tinkering with the justice Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice a lot of years what do you think needs to hap- son, McClelland & Stewart, 160 system,” he said in an interview You’ve served in Canada is among five shortlisted in a coloniz- pen? pp. with The Hill Times. “We make as both a de- for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for ing place. “We need to change the story [email protected] change by healing our communi- fence lawyer Political Writing. “To get we tell ourselves about alcohol. The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 29 Books & Big Ideas

‘I think that Your book has been published at a “One of the themes that runs one of the most remarkable time in political and dip- right through the book, is that important themes lomatic relations—not only between Canadians of many stripes who from the book Canada and China, but between have had dealings with China, are the attacks China and the rest of the world. Why have been naïve at best and self- and intimidation did you decide to write this book? delusional at worse as to what is of Canadians “I think that probably the first possible within that relationship. of Chinese, major building blocks of this story “I think it’s a book that should Tibetan, Uighur, came to me when I was the South- be read, and I think is being read and Taiwanese- ern News Asia correspondent based by a wide variety of Canadians heritage here in Hong Kong, and not only was I who have associations with China. in Canada,’ there fairly shortly after Tiananmen Just last month, there’s also a says journalist Square—things we’re still settling Chinese edition, and there’s a very Jonathan down—but I was also there for the good prospect we’re on the verge Manthorpe, beginning of the first ‘Team Canada’ of signing a contract for a Japa- author of Claws trade missions to China. nese version as well. of the Panda. “Several of the hints that, par- “You have to look at this in the Photographs ticularly the Chinese Communist broader context, too—I was not courtesy of Party, saw the relationship very aware when I wrote the book that Jonathan differently from the way the Ca- very similar campaigns of influ- Manthorpe, nadians saw it, were in front of my ence and intimidation were being Cormorant Books face every day, particularly after run by the CCP in Australia, the trade missions started in 1994.” New Zealand, and in the United “I could see very clearly that States—I was aware of some of it, the Chinese Communist Party and some of it is mentioned in the saw this as an opportunity, not book, but I was not aware how only to get investment from Cana- similar all these campaigns were. da, but also to get Canadian tech- “This story has a much wider au- nologies of one sort or another.” dience than simply here in Canada— “The number of befuddled Ca- it speaks to a whole international Many Canadians have nadian businessman who I talked political offensive by the CCP.” to who just couldn’t understand what happened to them, suddenly, Is there a particularly important all their intellectual property had theme within the book that you been ‘naïve at best and been stolen once they’d signed a would like to highlight? contract, was very consistent, and “I think that one of the most was just one of the elements that important themes from the book are came into the picture later on.” the attacks and intimidation of Ca- nadians of Chinese, Tibetan, Uighur, self-delusional at worst’ The 50th anniversary of the estab- Taiwanese-heritage here in Canada. lishment of diplomatic relations “There is this massive campaign between China and Canada is against these people, particularly coming up in October at a time those who are involved in pro- in dealings with China, of increasingly strained relations. democracy movements, by agents Can you speak about how that of the United Front, which is the process unfolded under former Chinese Communist Party’s main prime minister Pierre Trudeau? political warfare organization. “Canada was the stalking horse “I am appalled, quite honestly, says journalist and for many other countries, and I that our security agencies and think the Americans in particular, police have not been given the but also several European coun- authority and the wherewithal to tries, looked to see how Canada counterattack. It’s an appalling author Manthorpe established the relationship and situation that a foreign govern- how it went, what the require- ment is being allowed to intimi- ments were, and followed our lead. date Canadians because of their But Mr. Manthorpe’s recent his involvement with this ever-un- “One of the central issues over political feelings and activities. Patterns of interference, deep dive into the history of folding story began in the 1960s which there was much debate, It’s been going on for years, and intimidation, and Canada’s engagement with China and early 1970s. were the attempts by the Chinese nothing serious has been done over the course of the 20th century “I didn’t always deal with the Communist Party to get Canada about it. Part of it, I think, has harassment of and into the 21st reveals an ongo- story directly, but the story was go- to recognize the Communist been because the political powers ing pattern of “interference by the ing on all around of Canada’s estab- Party’s claim to Taiwan, which that be of both major parties have individual Canadians by CCP [Chinese Communist Party] lishment of diplomatic relations with of course at that point, was the felt that they don’t want to stir in and attempts at the perversion China,” said Mr. Manthorpe. “When refuge of the old Nationalist Party up the Chinese Communist Party the Chinese Communist of public life in Canada, coupled I started, I became aware of the Ca- regime of Chiang Kai-shek. and that the economic detriment Party ‘demand a with the intimidation and harass- nadian involvement pretty early on, “Trudeau, to his credit, refused to to Canada would not be worth it. ment of individual Canadians.” I read up a lot about it, and once my go along with that, because Trudeau “One of the blessings of the response’ from the These patterns “demand a interest was sparked on these things, is often being portrayed as being Huawei affair has shown that we response,” according to Mr. Man- I had plenty of resources at hand to soft on the Chinese Communist cannot lie down under this stuff, Canadian government, thorpe, and it is “the responsibility develop the background.” Party and soft on the Beijing re- that we are not dealing with the of any government to protect its Particularly interested in gime, but my research didn’t sustain sort of nice, friendly, agrarian says veteran journalist citizens against intimidation by providing the historical context that. He insisted that Canada not go reformers we’ve been kidding foreign agents,” writes the author in behind news stories throughout along with the Chinese Communist ourselves into thinking we’ve Jonathan Manthorpe in his 2019 work, Claws of the Panda: his career, Mr. Manthorpe accom- Party’s claim to Taiwan, and that been dealing with for 50, 60 years. his 2019 book. Beijing’s Campaign of Influence plishes this goal in Claws of the Canada merely ‘notes’ that Beijing is “On several occasions, when and Intimidation in Canada. Panda, which spans 13 chapters making that claim. I’ve been talking to audiences who Mr. Manthorpe hones in on and nearly 150 years of history. “It’s interesting that most of the are predominantly Canadians of BY MIKE LAPOINTE how Canada’s relationship with “It’s one of the things I’ve countries that followed Canada in Chinese heritage, I’ve had a consis- China—a relationship with roots specialized in as a journalist, is recognizing Beijing took that Ca- tent message all over the country. s Canada approaches the leading back to the late 19th cen- trying to give as much context nadian model, and the one country “Will you try to get mainstream A50th anniversary of establish- tury when this country started behind the story as is possible, that didn’t was the United States, Canada to understand the daily ing diplomatic relations with sending Christian missionaries so readers can hopefully under- and somehow Henry Kissinger got pressure we are under from the China—and as politicians in both to the Middle Kingdom—has now stand how and why things have bushwhacked into accepting the agents of the Chinese Communist countries continue to grapple “become a battleground on which happened and not just what has word ‘acknowledge’ China’s claim Party? I think that is perhaps one with the fallout from the recent the Chinese Communist Party happened,” said Mr. Manthorpe. to Taiwan, and of course the Chi- of the most important messages detention of Huawei CFO Meng (CCP) seeks to terrorize, humili- Claws of the Panda has been nese Communist Party translates from the fallout of the book, that Wanzhou in British Columbia and ate, and neuter its opponents.” shortlisted for the Shaughnessy ‘acknowledge’ as ‘acceptance,’ so our political leaders are allowing the ensuing arrests of Canadians With 50 years in journal- Cohen Prize for Political Writing, that has caused a lot of problems. this intimidation of Canadians, and Michael Kovrig and Michael Spa- ism, Mr. Manthorpe has worked which is awarded annually “for an “The irony of course is that 50 it shouldn’t be allowed to carry on.” vor by the Chinese government— as a foreign correspondent for exceptional book of literary non- years later, we have the great- Claws of the Panda: Bei- journalist and author Jonathan Southam News, as the European fiction that captures a political est crisis in the relationship that jing’s Campaign of Influence Manthorpe calls it a “great irony” bureau chief for the Toronto Star, subject of relevance to Canadian there has been over this period.” and Intimidation in Canada, by that after decades of engagement, as well as the national political readers,” according to the Writers’ Jonathan Manthorpe, Cormorant we’re now ensconced in “the great- reporter for . Trust of Canada. Who is your book directed to? Books, 291 pp., $24.95. est crisis in the relationship that In an interview with The Hill The following Q&A has been Who would you like to see read [email protected] there has been over this period.” Times, Mr. Manthorpe said that edited for length and clarity. your work? The Hill Times 30 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 | THE HILL TIMES Books & Big Ideas

they have a sense of some of the good job, if I slip up, make a mis- big issues the court decides and take, do something inappropriate, the pros and cons and the kind it won’t just be that the judge did Canada’s first of things that go into the mix of something inappropriate.’ It’ll be deciding these critical issues. that the first woman on the court “Also, maybe an appreciation did something inappropriate, and of how difficult the job is. People therefore, one draws that infer- often think judges just vote ac- ence that women shouldn’t be female chief cording to their first impression here, so that’s the extra weight to or their political bias, they allege, carry.” etc. People, I think, will see that it’s a lot more complicated than You took the heat for Seaboyer, that, and that it involves a great a decision that ruled that, under justice still deal of deliberation, objectivity.” some circumstances, sexual assault complainants’ sexual his- Growing up in Pincher Creek, tory could be interrogated, cross- you were implicitly taught to be examined. Why did you take up welcoming of people who were the lead in writing the judgment hasn’t shaken different, and observed that in and the principles that would your hometown, there were de- Photograph courtesy of Simon and undergird its application? grees of discrimination, depend- Schuster Canada “I was never strategic. I don’t ing on the colour of one’s skin even know if it occurred to me. and ancestry. How did you seek kids breathe that in. That’s why I I thought, ‘I’m a judge, and I’m to make sense of the lived experi- think race is such a difficult issue going to write the case the way I the impostor ences of others? Did people at the that just keeps perpetuating itself feel it and the way I think the law time have the vocabulary to talk from generation to generation.” requires it to be decided.’ about racism and discrimination? “I wasn’t thinking about the “Not as much as now, but of You didn’t grow up around that. fact that people, women’s groups course, I think people knew about Through your parents’ action, you would be upset with this decision. syndrome it. But they didn’t feel it was so learned to be accepting of others. For me, it was just another crimi- wrong. A lot of people felt it was “Yeah, my parents were kind of nal case. When I saw the hostil- alright, that different people be- deeply religious in an unorganized ity and criticism the decision school and was accepted in long in different categories, and way. They were evangelical. They brought, it was a bit of a surprise. ‘I kind of just go response. She convinced herself it that is the way it is in the world. thought, ‘God loved everybody.’ And “Sometimes you have to make ahead and do what would just be a trial. “But there were other people, that’s what I was taught. They were a decision that’s considered In Truth Be Told: My Jour- too. And I think my parents also very welcoming. They never unpopular with one group or an- I feel I should do, ney Through Life and Law, Ms. were among them, who felt that seemed to draw judgments based other. The fact that I’m a woman McLachlin chronicles the experi- everyone was basically equal on a person’s characteristics of race doesn’t make me any different. and get myself into ences that shaped her trajectory and worthy of respect, and that or whatever it might be. They make I have to perform that role as a and character and offers insights you should never exclude people judgments sometimes, but more on judge as objectively and disinter- situations where into some of the biggest decisions from your activities or your home the way people behave.” estedly as I can.” I’m thinking, “Oh, she’s presided over during her or your life, just because of their tenure on the Supreme Court. colour, or race, or whatever other In numerous instances in the Do you feel that they’ve been everybody here knows Early on, she was already a keen feature it might be.” book, you talk about how, even as able to see your side of things observer of you pro- now, looking back? more than I do. But racial injus- The fear of gressed in “I think everybody now sees tices and dis- hitting a your career, the guidelines that I set out anyway, here goes.” It crimination ceiling and including resulted in a lot of protection, a and could, spending the when you maximum degree of protection for served me very well,’ to a degree, rest of her became the witnesses that is consistent with says former Supreme relate to career as a first woman the charter. I think this very small those experi- county court to sit on exception has seldom been used. Court chief justice ences, having judge almost B.C.’s appel- “Parliament went on to pass grown up dissuaded late court, legislation based on that and Beverley McLachlin. with a Ger- Canada's you felt like confirm all the protections, while man last first female an impos- accepting this minor possibility BY BEATRICE PAEZ name among chief justice tor. At what that in certain cases, you might a predomi- of the point did have to allow cross examination ormer Supreme Court chief nantly white, Supreme you finally into a person’s sexual past. But Fjustice Beverley McLachlin’s Anglo-Saxon Court shake the it’s never become an abuse. You journey to the highest position on community. Beverley impostor don’t hear much criticism now.” the highest court has been noth- Truth McLachlin syndrome? ing short of extraordinary. Be Told: from “I don’t Some critics have appealed to From humble beginnings as a My Journey accepting a know if I you to resign from your post on bookish Prairie girl, growing up Through spot on the ever have. Hong Kong’s appellate court in the 1940s in the small town of Life and bench. The But I always amid deepening concerns about Pincher Creek, Alta., where she the Law is Hill Times say, ‘What the erosion of civil liberties in the was raised by deeply religious among photograph am I doing territory. What do you make of parents whose educational oppor- five short- by Andrew here?’ Even their criticism, and do you intend tunities were limited by circum- listed for Meade in my writ- to finish out your three-year stances, to her swift ascent to the the Shaugh- ing career, term? top court, her legal career was not nessy Cohen I say, ‘How “Well, we’ll see. Right now, necessarily preordained. Prize for Political Writing. But as did I end up here?’ There are always the court I am a member of is The longest-serving chief the first memoir by a Supreme How important do you think it is to people around me who seem to be operating in a totally indepen- justice, who retired in late 2017, Court justice in Canada, it stands have that shared vocabulary when at least more learned or more rooted dent way. The Basic Law in Hong is often asked when she decided on its own in the annals of the discussing issues of race, espe- or more appropriate. I kind of just go Kong guarantees an independent to become a lawyer, or the first court’s history, offering a glimpse cially amid the reckoning Canada ahead and do what I feel I should do, judiciary, so as far as I’m con- woman to assume the title of into the rarefied world that had is having on racial justice? and get myself into situations where cerned, nothing has changed on chief justice, and the response is long been the domain of men. “I think it’s very important to I’m thinking, ‘Oh, everybody here the ground. We’ll just have to see always, “Never.” In fact, the fear The following Q&A has been learn this when you’re young. It knows more than I do. But anyway, whether judicial independence of hitting a ceiling and spending edited for length and clarity. strikes me that if you’re brought up here goes.’ It served me very well.” is preserved. That will be my the rest of her career as a county in a racist home and you’re listen- criterion. As long as I can sit on court judge almost dissuaded This is the first autobiography by ing to this, you probably, when Can you tell me how you man- an independent court, then I will her from accepting a spot on the a judge in the Supreme Court’s you grow up, are going to, at some aged carrying the weight, as do so. Of course, I would not be bench. history. What do you hope the deep, core level, have some of those you phrased it, of being the first part of an organization that’s not It was her late husband, Rory broader public, particularly for ideas. So I think it’s very important woman on B.C.’s appellate court? independent. But the court, thus McLachlin, who suggested that those who aren’t close observers that children, in particular, be free “It’s never all black. There’s lots far, is independent and making she was suited for law and who of the court, gains from reading of that kind of instruction. and lots of light, and I was always independent rulings.” later predicted she would eventu- your memoir? “It’s very hard. That’s one of surrounded by very fair people. Truth Be Told: My Journey ally sit on the Supreme Court. “I hope they get a sense of the reasons why racism is so The men I joined were struggling Through Life and Law, by On a bit of a whim, and with familiarity with how the court persistent because people will act to find their way, too, how would Beverley McLachlin, Simon and that small nudge from Rory, she operates, what they do, what one way in public, but around the this be with a woman, etc. Schuster Canada. reached out to the dean, request- the judges do, how the process family table, they make com- “It is a little intimidating some- [email protected] ing information to apply to law through which cases go. I hope ments that are racist, and the times to think, ‘Oh, if I don’t do a The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 31 Books & Big Ideas

we do?’ Well, actually, we were very effective, but the council was work- ing. So we didn’t have to do explicit things. We had to keep the machine moving effectively, and that’s actu- ally a very important thing. I think it’s hard, I don’t think we’re patient enough, or our political leaders are always patient enough in terms of the way they explain diplomacy to the public. Everyone in the public now knows, at least anyone under 30, that networking is important to getting a job. And we teach every- one the importance of networking, build your network, manage your network. That’s what diplomacy is most of the time. I’m not sure why governments have failed to communicate that if people need to network, governments do, too. And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on March 16, 2016, announcing Canada’s bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. The ultimately that’s what the council offers you unsuccessful campaign for the seat had all the hallmarks of a partisan campaign, something that Adam Chapnick says is detrimental to Canada’s success on that you can’t get in quite the same the UNSC. Prime Minister’s Office photo courtesy of Adam Scotti way anywhere else.”

You write that the post-2000 do- mestic politicization of the UNSC is something both major parties do The definitive history of Canada’s role and significantly harms our ability to get elected and be constructive members of the council. I’m wonder- on the United Nations Security Council ing how you see the latest UNSC campaign aligning with that argu- ment and if you see the problem Adam getting better or worse in the future? The first definitive Chapnick, “It didn’t get better in the last author of campaign. They reached out to Joe history of Canada’s Canada on the Clark and Jean Charest, but they time on the UN United Nations are the reddest Tories left. So yes, Security there was some sort of effort to be a Security Council Council: A little bit less partisan. But it wasn’t Small Power on as effortful as it could have been. is a must read for a Large Stage, “We didn’t have to run in 2020. published by We could’ve had broader con- anyone interested UBC Press, sultation before we declared. We is a finalist could’ve at least invited the opposi- in Canadian foreign for this year’s tion parties to the conversation be- policy. Shaughnessy cause it’s not the government seat Cohen Award on the council, its Canada’s seat. for the best “The Reform Party sent a letter BY AIDAN CHAMANDY political book of to Chrétien in the 1990s, pledg- the year. Images ing full support for the campaign. anadians no longer have to courtesy of the Reform was big on partisanship Cdelve through old news reports Writers’ Trust having a place in foreign policy, and obscure academic works to un- but even then, when it came to the derstand how their country oper- council seat, they were onside. That ates at the United Nations Security was a national campaign. I think we Council, though this reporter is not a permanent member, there is said, I tried very hard not to rely expectations presented to the pub- can get back to that. But I think that sure many have tried. A highlight- no middle there. You’re small. on a single source for anything. So lic of what we could achieve on the we kind of have to leave discussion er, pencil, and 190 pages of Adam There are a group of political that if somebody was particularly council were quite likely exagger- of the seat alone for a little bit to let Chapnick’s Canada on the United scientists who study small states, personally appealing, I wouldn’t be ated. To me, you pursue the council it pass. And my hope would be that Nations Security Council: A Small and the way they describe small shaped by my personal impression for three reasons in a particular we put in another bid for an uncon- Power on a Large Stage are all that state foreign policy is exactly the of them when I was writing things order of importance. The first is not tested seat that is supported by all is now required. same way that people describe up. We have had some truly fan- sexy, it’s access. You have access to parties. That would be ideal. I don’t The book is the first definitive how elected members work on tastic, permanent representatives, the permanent five on a 24/7 basis think we could do that quite yet. It’s history of Canada’s time on the the council. The language is the but they’re imperfect. Everybody’s for two years. Maybe you can do helpful that there’s a new leader UNSC and truly earns the defini- same, the examples are the same, flawed. And the thing is, by speak- something to get the Michaels out in the opposition, because maybe tive label. It is a detailed look at the priorities are the same. So to ing to enough people, you could get of China because you can’t help there’s a cleaner slate.” Canada’s six terms on the UNSC, me, whether or not Canada is a a sense of, ‘Yes, this was the best but build a relationship with the bringing in archival material from middle power or not outside of the boss I ever worked for, but they Chinese permanent representative Do you have a particular time Canada, the U.S., France, and council, you come to the council, weren’t perfect.’ And I think that’s because you see them every day, horizon in mind? the U.K., in addition to dozens of you don’t have that veto. You aren’t important. If I’m trying to present COVID notwithstanding. “I don’t think it’s a matter of interviews with key players. there day in and day out; you don’t the reader with the entire story, the “Next is relevance. There are 170- hours and days and weeks as The following is an interview have the institutional understand- words have to be included.” plus countries that don’t have it. And much as it’s a matter of attitudes. with Mr. Chapnick conducted ing. You don’t have the same size as a result, they want to be your best If there were at some point a on Sept. 11, 2020. It has been delegation as the great powers do. In the conclusion, you write, “on friend for the next two years. consensus on something in world edited for length and clarity. Mr. You are the underclass.” rare occasions, [UNSC service] “Finally, the third is influence. I affairs that we could then build off Chapnick’s book has been short- has also resulted in unique oppor- understand that it’s not sexy to say of, I think that’s the way that we listed by the Writers’ Trust for So this book goes back to the tunities to advance specific, short- to the public that, ‘That seat is in could go about it. There will have this year’s Shaughnessy Cohen 1940s and 1950s and continues term foreign policy objectives.” our interests, because being at the to be more dialogue about world Prize for one of the best Canadian right through to the present day. Accomplishing those short-term table in and of itself is consistent affairs before we see something political books of the year. How do you think your under- foreign policy objectives seems with our interests.’ To be honest, I that all the parties agree on. I standing of a particular indi- to me like the thing that would think the government could have would want to build off that be- One of the first things that strikes vidual or event was conditioned be most visible to Canadians and said something like that because, cause in order to pursue a seat in you about the book is how you by being able to actually talk most likely to encourage the Ca- in the grand scheme, I don’t think the 2030s, we do have to announce call Canada a ‘small’ power in the to participants? Were there any nadian population to support the the public thought this was a big fairly soon because this govern- title. Many Canadians like to think people who you would have liked government’s work on the UNSC. deal until the government made it a ment learned the lesson that you of the country as a ‘middle’ power, to talk to about their choices or But if those are the rarest accom- big deal. It’s not something that the don’t put in for a seat that already so I’m wondering if that word certain events who you didn’t get plishments, how can the Canadian public would normally pay atten- has two bidders.” choice was conscious and why the chance to? government do a better job of tion to. And even if you go back to Canada on the United Nations you chose to phrase it that way? “Being able to speak to some- communicating the value of the the 1980s, expectations were set Security Council: A Small Power “On the Security Council one personally builds empathy that UNSC and Canada’s role on it? way too high. We had a terrific term on a Large Stage, by Adam Chap- there are two cohorts. There are is more difficult to acquire reading “I think the big disappointment on the council, but it was not a term nick, UBC Press. permanent members and there’s someone’s papers, 20 years after of this campaign, in some ways, the that had flash. And as a result, the [email protected] everybody else. So if you are not that person has passed away. That previous one as well, was that the analysts afterwards said, ‘What did The Hill Times 32 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 | THE HILL TIMES Books & Big Ideas

But the fact that the jury was never taken through the different Jury reform ‘not nearly enough,’ says elements of self-defence, meant that the jury was never reminded of that requirement that self-de- fence must be reasonable in order law professor in book meant to fill gaps to produce an acquittal.”

You said it’s difficult to be op- after no appeal in Stanley acquittal timistic about reform and that it’s more realistic that it comes from Parliament than the judiciary, but Law professor also that Bill C-75 fell far short. ‘The trial transcript Kent Roach So where does that leave us? offers a close “It doesn’t leave us in a very doesn’t tell the whole legal analysis optimistic position. The fact that of the Gerald so many people are opposing story,’ says Kent Stanley trial what I thought was a necessary, Roach, who tried to as well as but insufficient reform—just the social hanging onto that one, relatively fill the gaps apparent and political token reform—is proving to be backdrop in very, very difficult. I’m trying to in the Gerald Stanley his new book do my little part in it, but it is a Canadian little bit demoralizing to see kind trial in his new book Justice, of the backlash that has come Indigenous from many people in the legal Canadian Justice, Injustice: The community who basically just Indigenous Injustice. Gerald Stanley don’t want to be able to have their and Colten peremptory challenges [removed] Boushie Case. because they’ve always had their BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN Photograph peremptory challenges. And so courtesy of Kent it’s made me reflect upon how the hen Saskatchewan farmer Roach community that I’m a part of, the WGerald Stanley was acquit- legal community, is quite a small ted of second-degree murder c conservative community. And in the death of Colten Boushie, given that policing and criminal the major missteps made in that government’s Bill C-75 last Parlia- suggest that it’s more like less dissection of the trial, you’re justice are the sharp ends of courtroom proved to law profes- ment—to address the fact that than half a second delay. And critical of the lack of instruction Canada’s colonial relations with sor and author Kent Roach that Mr. Stanley’s defence was able of course, that was really criti- from the judge around bias. Was Indigenous people, it doesn’t jury reform was only one step in to object to and exclude, without cal given the timeline, where Mr. race also the elephant in the trial make me terribly optimistic if the “fundamental change” needed explanation, the only five visibly Stanley said that he fired warn- courtroom deliberations? we’re looking for the future. to make the legal system fair for Indigenous people who appeared ing shots and then ran to the car, “It absolutely was. And it de- “Reading another one of the Indigenous people in Canada. for jury duty in a process known looked under the car, and then fies belief that there was not an books [by Harold Johnson] that The 2018 verdict may likely as peremptory challenges that only later went back and his testi- attempt to question jurors about is nominated, he kind of ends at be a case of a wrongful acquittal granted each counsel 12 removals. mony was it was then that his gun possible racist bias given [then the same place where he says we said Prof. Roach who has long Prof. Roach last week filed with accidentally discharged into the premier] Brad Wall even had to couldn’t possibly do any worse studied wrongful convictions the , back of Colton Boushie’s head.” intervene and kind of say, ‘Knock than the existing system, that we and felt inspired to write a book which agreed to consider the con- it off’ with the racist tweets. So, I need to move to a system based critical of the case because there stitutionality of this law reform. mean, it was the sound of silence upon Indigenous law, and the was no appeal or effort within the “I support the abolition of pe- so that when you get to that part treaties and I tend to agree with system to parse what happened, remptory challenges, but they’re of the transcript where all of this that, but unfortunately, we’re still and he said key legal principles not nearly enough,” said Prof. is happening, there’s nothing on miles and miles away from that were in “danger of getting lost.” Roach, who started working on the physical page. You know, the sort of fundamental change.” Race was “absolutely” the el- the book’s ideas while teaching Crown doesn’t ask to question ephant in the courtroom, he said, the case to his first-year Univer- people about pretrial publicity, In the forward John Borrows and it “defies belief” that jurors sity of Toronto law class as it was which was a big, big issue, and also praises your work especially for weren’t questioned about racial before the courts in early 2018. doesn’t ask the question about rac- examining the potential role of bias given Saskatchewan Pre- The following Q&A has been ist bias. When the stand-asides are treaties to address justice issues. mier Brad Wall’s “extraordinary edited for length and clarity. exercised again, you read the page, Why was it such a focal point in the intervention” when he publicly and there’s nothing there. The trial book if you believe that fundamen- spoke against the swirling “rac- You called the Stanley/Boush- transcript doesn’t tell the whole tal change is needed but so far off? ist and hate-filled” social media ie case a warning sign, and said it story and there’s a sense that we’re “As someone who still kind of commentary a few days after Mr. didn’t happen in a vacuum. Why not talking about race. makes my living training lawyers, Boushie’s death. focus on this case? What does “It was the erasing of race I want to believe that we can make “The trial transcript doesn’t it tell us about Canada and our even though that was very, very things better. I do think that the tell the whole story,” he said. legal system? present throughout both what abolition of peremptory chal- “It was the erasing of race even “I focused on the case, partly happened on Mr. Stanley’s farm, lenges is something. Part of being though that was very, very present because it wasn’t appealed and the reaction to it, and in the court- implicated by the system is you throughout both what happened the Saskatchewan government re- house. The fact that race was not have some sort of duty to try to on Mr. Stanley’s farm, the reaction fused either to appoint an inquiry mentioned, I think is part of the point out its flaws and to ask for to it, and in the courthouse.” or even hold a coroner’s inquest Canadian Justice, Indigenous problem, because unless we start changes. I certainly testified before Canadian Justice, Indigenous into Colton Boushie’s death. So, Injustice by Kent Roach is one of talking about this problem, we’re the parliamentary committee and I Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and I thought that it was one of these five shortlisted for the Shaughnessy not going to make any headway proposed a number of amendments Colten Boushie Case is one of five cases that was in some danger of Cohen Prize for Political Writing. in dealing with this. to Bill C-75 that I think would have shortlisted for the Shaughnessy getting lost. “It just seems to me that there strengthened it in order to force Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Jury reform is not enough to Why did you think it impor- is a case that the judge should more diverse juries, and I put the and examines the case through deal with the sorts of conflicts tant to go as far back in history to have intervened, or at least asked idea of mixed juries on the table. exhaustive research, pulling and misunderstandings that ran discuss this case—to 1876 and the whether the Crown had any Unfortunately, at this point in time first-hand evidence from the April through the Stanley/Boushie case. signing of Treaty 6, the territory objections when the third, fourth, the government decided not to go 2017 preliminary hearings, the One of the things that I did in where the Stanley farm sits? and the fifth time someone who that far and I guess they’re getting trial, parliamentary proceedings, the chapters on forensics on the “Well, that’s something I really looks like they’re Indigenous is a lot of pushback even with respect media reports, case law and hang fire, particularly, is I applied kind of learned from Indigenous being subject to a peremptory to how far they did go abolishing statistics ranging from gun some of the learnings that we’ve colleagues and John Borrows challenge. peremptory challenges. ownership and crime to the developed on wrongful convic- [who wrote the book’s foreword] “I also got into the legal details “Hopefully things will get disparity in income and prisoners tions and applied them to what throughout the process, but I was of what this jury was told. Self better, but it’s not something that by race. Prof. Roach said it was may be a wrongful acquittal, really struck by how Indigenous defence was hanging in the air, seems to be happening anytime important to lay out the political, because I think there was a fairly commentators on the case almost but the jury was never instructed soon.” social, and legal context— basic scientific mistake made in always started, if not, with Treaty about the requirements of self Canadian Justice, Indigenous including that of changes in self the Stanley trial that may have 6, with 1885 [when eight Indig- defence. It’s very important that it Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and defence laws, the politics of gun left the jury with the impression enous men were publicly hanged] has to be reasonable self-defence. Colten Boushie Case. ownership and rural policing— that there could be a delay of 30 and kind of a sense of place.” So, self-defence that is motivated Kent Roach that underpinned the 22-year-old to 60 seconds between pulling the by racist fears—even if they’re McGill-Queen’s University Press Cree man’s death in August 2016. trigger and a bullet exiting a gun, In your chapter looking at subjectively held—I don’t think 328 pages Something “very tangible” whereas the very few experi- rural crime, you write race is the that that is something that in Can- [email protected] came out of the case—the Liberal ments that have been conducted elephant in that room. In your ada should be seen as reasonable. The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 33 Opinion Reflections on four years in the Senate

Second, Trudeau’s appoint- anti-Black racism as part of the the House of Commons, and for It will take more ments have been consistently widespread reaction to the May Independents evolve, and the most part so are Conserva- non-partisan, with dozens of 25, 2020 killing of George Floyd the future tive contributions to debates and hard work, and less new appointees drawn from the in Minneapolis. We saw a rare Most of the new independent commentary on the legislation politics, to regain the worlds of academia, public ad- emergency debate on the realities appointees initially coalesced in that is supposed to be held up for ministration, business, charitable of anti-Black racism in Canada the now-majority Independent close scrutiny and “sober second public trust in the and community organizations. and a “Committee of the Whole” in Senators Group (ISG), which thought” once it arrives in the Some have deep experience in which government ministers were was formed in the early stages Senate. Instead, Senate business Senate. Constitutional law, others are called to the Senate Chamber to of reform by the first group of is often just held-up. experts in banking, financial and answer questions on government Independent appointees, together While most of these she- BY TONY DEAN energy regulation, the environ- policy and responses. with some pre-existing reform- nanigans can be shrugged off ment and the senior levels of Can- Senators , who ers. Not surprisingly, this has now as partisan game-playing, the fter four years in the Senate ada’s public services. There is also led a major review of social assis- evolved. most damaging behaviour is the Aof Canada I’ve now seen the a smattering of former legislators. tance in Ontario, and Ratna Omid- The former Liberal caucus, intentional use of Senate rules worlds of public administration As a result of these appointments var, whose career has focused on recently re-branded itself as the for the purpose of delaying or and politics from both sides. I’m and a shift of some Senators away immigration and refugee settle- Progressive Senators Group (PSG) killing legislative initiatives. The also participating in the most from political caucuses, about 80 ment, are among fifty Senators and now has 11 members, includ- Conservatives used these built-in significant reform of the Senate per cent of Senators have now who have advocated powerfully ing several of Trudeau’s indepen- delays to hold up for over a year a in its 153 year-old history. declared their independence from for a Guaranteed Basic Income. dent appointees. A third, more simple vote on a proposed bill to In 2015 I applied for a seat in partisan caucuses. Senator Murray Sinclair and conservative-minded independent make the National Anthem more Canada’s Senate under newly- Third, the Senate has gender his Indigenous (and many non- group, the Canadian Senators gender neutral. elected Prime Minister Justin parity for the first time in its his- Indigenous) colleagues are high- Group (CSG), formed last year There are myriad examples of Trudeau’s new independent ap- tory and is considerably more lighting the social and economic under the leadership of former costly and non-productive delays, pointment process. Then teaching diverse, particularly in terms of issues affecting the country’s Conservative Senator Scott Tan- including shutting down debate graduate students in public policy Indigenous representation. There Indigenous peoples, and also nas, and has drawn members from by introducing serial amendments at the , I had is also a greater diversity of ideas some obvious responses such as the three other Senate groups. and sub-amendments, and requir- formerly served NDP, Progressive and approaches to how the Senate legislation confirming Canada’s The creation of new independent ing one or two-hour delays by in- Conservative, and Liberal pre- operates. There has been a distinct commitment to the United Na- groups in the Senate is a healthy voking one or two-hour periods of miers and their administrations shift away from the long-standing tions Declaration on the Rights of development and had been antici- bell ringing to summon Senators in Ontario. As head of Ontario’s “us versus them” government- Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). pated for some time. I believe that while we are obviously all present public service I had seen policy- opposition duality in the Sen- The Senate’s review of Can- all of us share an interest in build- in the Senate Chamber. If this making and politics at the highest ate, which tended to look like a ada’s first Medical Assistance in ing a modern, more responsive sounds a little juvenile, that’s not levels, working as closely with cheaper knock-off of the elected Dying Bill (MAID) in 2016 and of and less-partisan Senate. the half of it. These delays hold Conservative policy guru Guy and partisan House of Commons. Cannabis legalization bill C-45 in What’s next? up Senate business for hours at a Giorno as with his Ontario Lib- time and at a cost of thousands of eral counterpart Gerald Butts. Independent dollars in additional security and I was particularly attracted by Senator Tony staff support. Senators Sinclair Trudeau’s commitment to Senate Dean worked and his Quebec counterpart reform, which envisaged not just at the top Senator Pierre Dalphond have a more independent appointment of Ontario's initiated a discussion on tackling process, but a more independent public service these delays through changes and less-partisan Senate. This fol- and taught at to Senate rules, but of course lowed on the heels of a series of the University this discussion could be held up Senate-tarnishing own-goals on the of Toronto almost indefinitely by delays pro- watch of the previous government. before his vided for by the very rules many Prime Ministers earn the right appointment of us would like to see change. to chart their own course. Stephen to the Senate But we will get there because it’s Harper, the former PM, was in- in 2016. The the right thing to do. clined to micro-manage the Senate Hill Times file The new Senate’s majority of through his Conservative Senate photograph independent Senators will not be appointees, and had previously quickly or easily replaced by a tested with the Supreme Court his successor government wanting a government’s ability to reform the return to partisan appointments. Senate in areas such as term limits, It’s clear that Canadians don’t consultative elections, and aboli- want this: an April 2019 Nanos tion. He came away empty-handed. poll suggested that 77 per cent of The court was clear in saying Canadians want future govern- that such changes would need The reaction of Independent 2017-18 signalled a shift towards It’s clear that the now-smaller ments to carry on with the new Constitutional reform, requiring Senators to government bills has bringing a more research and Conservative caucus would love Senate appointment process. parliamentary approval plus the been unpredictable. Tough ques- policy-based approach to review- things to go back to normal. Fol- Only three per cent of Canadians support of two-thirds of prov- tions are asked of government ing bills. By this I mean, looking lowing the initial shock of reform, wanted a return to the old partisan inces with at least 50 per cent of ministers, and there have been closely at the government’s stated our Conservative colleagues appointment process, while the re- Canada’s population (and support more amendments to government policy goals, and the degree to regrouped and chose to pretend maining 20 per cent were unsure. from all provinces for abolition). bills than seen in the old system; which the proposed legislation that the old duopoly remained It will take more hard work, and This meant that the only realistic in the 42nd parliament, when the was likely to meet those goals ef- in place, hoping that everything less politics, to regain the public option for reform in the short to Independent Senators group was fectively, or not. would return to normal if their trust in the Senate. This will have medium term would be change first formed, 34 bills were passed For both reviews, there was leader won the 2019 federal elec- to be earned one day at a time, by from within the Senate itself. with 429 amendments. As opposed also rare agreement on getting tion. They have denounced Senate demonstrating that the institution Trudeau knew that Senate to taking direction from political the Senate’s debates and key reforms as “Liberal window- is working on behalf of Canadians reform was unlikely under the die- parties, Independent Senators votes on these bills scheduled on dressing.” Independents have as opposed to the interests of any hard, take-turns-in-power Liberal- have been much more likely to the calendar, as opposed to the been regularly assailed in Trump- particular political party. Conservative duopoly, and so set make individual determinations more haphazard and unplanned like terms as “Fake Trudeau This means fulfilling our Con- out to prompt an evolution towards based on their own research and approach to Senate business that Independent Senators” (I am not stitutional responsibility to take a a more independent Senate—a information arising from Senate has been mostly the norm for kidding here). I’m sure it hasn’t hard look at proposed legislation move which initially drew a cyni- Committee reviews of bills. decades. Senator Peter Harder seemed that way to government and providing our best advice, cal reaction from his Conserva- Fourth, we have also seen a (the former government repre- ministers who have faced tough representing our home jurisdic- tive opponents. But in a move not more activist Senate led by Inde- sentative in the Senate and now questioning and criticism from tions, and advancing the rights of previously seen in the institution’s pendent Senators through mo- a member of the Progressive some of the most capable inde- those in our society who would 153 year-old history, Trudeau gave tions, inquiries and Senate bills, Senators Group) has advocated pendent social justice advocates otherwise have no voice. some teeth to his reform initiative especially in the areas of social for the formalization of this sort in the Senate. We have to fulfil those respon- on at least three fronts. policy and justice system reform. of planned approach to our work The Conservatives say that sibilities effectively, efficiently First, in a move that shook the Look no further than Senator through the creation of a Sen- as the “official opposition” their and responsibly. This is what a old Senate to its partisan founda- , an expert in justice ate business planning commit- job is to oppose the government, reformed looks tions, the PM ousted the Senate reform and particularly prisoners’ tee. There has been a surprising and they certainly do this— and feels like and it’s a privilege Liberals from his parliamentary rights and issues associated with degree of resistance to this on sometimes in the most simplistic to contribute to the reform pro- political caucus, resulting in con- solitary confinement. the basis that “we don’t do things ways, unfailingly following in cess alongside my independent siderable unhappiness on the part In June of this year Senators like that here,” an argument that lockstep with their Conserva- colleagues. of Liberal Senators and leaving , Wanda Thom- wouldn’t last very long with Ca- tive colleagues in the House of Tony Dean is an Independent Senate Conservatives scratching as Bernard, and Marie-Françoise nadians who expect the Senate to Commons. The Senate’s Ques- Senator representing Ontario. their heads in disbelief. Mégie put a broad Senate lens on work efficiently on their behalf. tion Period is a replay of QP in The Hill Times 34 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 | THE HILL TIMES News

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured PM should create speaking with reporters on Sept. 14, 2020. Former clerk of the Privy Council and permanent emergency top bureaucrat suggested in a piece written for the preparedness cabinet Centre of International Governance Innovation (CIGI) that the cabinet committee on COVID-19 committee, say experts, should 'be turned into a standing committee on emergencies' and that 'being prepared for the political players next natural disaster, terrorist act or health crisis is the objective.' , who lation, you’ll soon have an impoverished The Hill Times photograph population, and any security measure that by Andrew Meade worked as the national reduces the siloing of information I think has merit,” said Mr. McKay. security adviser to the Richard Fadden, who worked as the ville, Que.), Employment Minister Carla institutions in the West, including Canada, national security adviser to the prime Qualtrough (Delta, B.C.). At that point and steal IPs to try and get a heads up on prime minister between minister between January 2015 and March it also included former finance minister vaccines or treatment—that clearly is a 2016, as well as the deputy minister of , who resigned as an MP national security issue, and CSIS and CSE January 2015 and March national defence prior, told The Hill Times in August amid the fallout from the WE should try and deal with that issue.” that although it’s “difficult to argue that Charity scandal that continues to dog the Mr. Fadden also said the COVID com- 2016, says that ‘if this the pandemic itself is a national security government. mittee should “stay as it is until we’ve country wants the national issue,” it “certainly is a public health issue” Liberal MP (Etobicoke beaten it back.” and that “if this country wants the national North, Ont.) the deputy government House “I’m confident we will at some point— security agencies to worry security agencies to worry about a pan- leader, has also been a core participant of but eventually, it’s going to go away, and demic, then they need to raise it on the list the COVID-19 cabinet committee meetings. if it goes away entirely, my broader issue about a pandemic, then they of priorities set by cabinet.” Ms. Duncan, a career scientist, has done re- around emergency preparedness, for what Former clerk of the Privy Council and search on the spread of the 1918 influenza are called disruptive events—they can be need to raise it on the list of top Canadian bureaucrat Mel Cappe sug- pandemic. anything from terrorist events to earth- gested in a piece written for the Centre “One of the things that characterizes the quakes, massive hurricanes, fires, pandem- priorities set by cabinet.’ of International Governance Innovation national security institutions of Canada is ics—they need a focal point within the (CIGI) that the Cabinet Committee on CO- that they can only investigate, report on, cabinet system that they do not have now.” Continued from page 1 VID-19 should “be turned into a standing and analyze matters that are under the According to Conservative strategist committee on emergencies” and that “being national security of Canada, and the law Tim Powers, “as has been demonstrated as we should” and that he believes “there prepared for the next natural disaster, ter- would have to change to make that any dif- through this pandemic and previous pan- should be a cabinet committee to deal rorist act or health crisis is the objective.” ferent,” said Mr. Fadden. demics, it only makes sense that there be with emergency responses—not just the a more permanent, properly funded body pandemic,” with one Liberal MP saying it Richard Fadden, who that address these things.” would “go a long way towards minimizing worked as the national “We have to take all of the learnings the various silos that exist and that we can security adviser to the from this pandemic, as was supposed to be no longer afford.” prime minister between the case after SARS, and incorporate them In an interview with The Hill Times, Lib- January 2015 and March in our planning for other, future global eral MP John McKay (Scarborough-Guild- 2016, as well as the health challenges,” said Mr. Powers in an wood, Ont.) said he believes the establish- deputy minister of national interview with The Hill Times on Sept. 16. ment of a cabinet committee devoted to defence prior, told The “Just look at the economic costs already emergency preparedness “is a sensible Hill Times that although of this pandemic—if we had a regular, idea,” and that it should operate under the it’s ‘difficult to argue that standing body, could we have done better auspices of the public safety minister. the pandemic itself is a in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, would “I would centre it around the public national security issue,’ we be in the $350-billion deficit position? safety minister, and the reason for that is it ‘certainly is a public For what it would cost to stand up a cabi- that the public safety minister covers a health issue’ and that ‘if net committee like that, keep it consistent very broad domain, from intelligence to po- this country wants the and have it staffed as it would need to be, licing to borders to international responses national security agencies why wouldn’t we?” to incidences,” said Mr. McKay. “If there to worry about a pandemic, Conservative strategist Geoff Norquay, was an early warning mechanism at the then they need to raise it a principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group cabinet level, it wouldn’t just simply be one on the list of priorities set who also served as director of communica- minister applying his or her judgment to by cabinet.’ The Hill Times tions for former prime minister Stephen whether this was something to be shared photograph by Andrew Meade Harper while in opposition in 2004-2005, with their colleagues.” said he doesn’t believe there needs to be a “If ever there was a truism that health “permanent” cabinet committee structure. is wealth, the pandemic has demonstrated “The committee would ensure the plan- “On the other hand, CSIS has a vast ar- “I don’t think that such an approach that, and if you don’t have a healthy popu- ning function gets done during quieter ray of bilateral relationships with countries needs to be permanent in terms of a cabi- times and the emergency response is ro- around the world and they can gather net committee structure—what the current bust during crises,” wrote Mr. Cappe in the information there,” he said. pandemic has taught us is that the federal piece published on August 24. “The first thing that would need to be government cannot go to sleep at the switch Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Pap- done to deal with the relationship between when gathering intelligence and being pre- ineau, Que.) created the cabinet commit- cabinet and the national security agen- pared to act on this intelligence. In the case tee on COVID-19 on March 4, and de- cies is that cabinet would have to clearly of the arrival of another virus or superbug, it signed it to “complement the work being establish that pandemics, to give a cur- doesn’t require a permanent cabinet commit- done by the Incident Response Group.” rent example of a disruptive event, [are] a tee to do this, it requires the federal govern- The cabinet committee was intended priority.” ment to fix the damn system,” said Mr. Nor- to “meet regularly to ensure whole-of- Mr. Fadden also said that he wasn’t sure quay. “Not ignore advice from international government leadership, coordination, and that the Chinese government’s actions agencies, have an early warning system that preparedness for a response to the health during the pandemic constituted a threat to provides as much advanced intelligence as and economic impacts of the virus,” ac- national security. can be obtained, and listen to it.” cording to the PMO. “Nobody knew what the hell was going Mr. Norquay also said that the the fed- As of March 4, members of the com- on, but that’s a different issue,” said Mr. eral government has to do a “much better mittee included now-Finance Minister Fadden. “A view has slowly developed that job at intelligence gathering, understand- Chrystia Freeland (University Rosedale, for one reason or another, the Chinese ing that intelligence, feeding it into key Ont.), Treasury Board President Jean-Yves government haven’t been as forthright as decision makers, and taking action.” Duclos (Québec, Que.), Innovation Minis- they could be as to how things are going in “Strictly speaking, it doesn’t require ter (Mississauga-Malton, China. I’m not sure that’s a national secu- a permanent cabinet committee to do all Ont.), Public Safety Minister Bill Blair rity issue either.” that, it requires the federal government to (Scarborough Southwest, Ont.), Heath “On the other hand, what is a national get on the ball and smarten up, and not go BASTIENPRIZANTOPTOMETRY.COM Minister (Thunder Bay-Supe- security issue, if reports are to be believed, to sleep as they did on COVID-19.” rior North, Ont.), Economic Development that institutions of the Chinese govern- [email protected] 613.236.6066 • [email protected] Minister Mélanie Joly (Ahuntsic-Cartier- ment are trying to break into all sorts of The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 35 News

Conservative ‘These jobs are Leader Erin O’Toole, pictured Sept. 9, 2020, in Ottawa alongside not coming back’: chief of staff Tausha Michaud and national campaign manager Fred economists pour DeLorey. Mr. O’Toole has begun his tenure atop the Conservative cold water on Party by courting voters outside of the party base, including O’Toole’s Canada unionized labourers. The Hill Times photograph First policy by Andrew Meade

that we do particularly well, and ‘Some people are import the other things.” Prime Minister John A. Mac- Cross, who is now a senior fellow “There is no such thing as free Mr. O’Toole was “absolutely donald’s protectionist National at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. trade with China. Free trade with going to win from a right” to say that GDP growth Policy was effective at the time, “Does Canada need more free China means they have access to Canada-first policy. is not the only measure of a helping protected Canadian busi- trade deals? Probably not,” he said. our markets, and they don’t care successful economy, said Prof. nesses grow to the point where The new trade barriers and about opening up their markets,” Most people are going Tombe. Inequality in the economy they could compete internation- protections for the United States he said. should be corrected through tax ally, said Prof. Keay, who special- negotiated by Mr. Trump through Canada’s government strug- to lose,’ says Queen’s policy, not reducing international izes in economic history. A simi- the CUSMA were only “minor gled to procure the needed supply trade, he said. lar policy likely would not work tinkering,” he said. of personal protective equipment professor Ian Keay. Erecting trade barriers for today’s complex Canadian “If that’s the kind of pull-back (PPE) and other supplies essential won’t only block imports; other economy, he said. that O’Toole is signalling that we’re to controlling the pandemic after countries will respond in kind, “In a world where technology going to get from free trade, I’m not it raced around the world this Continued from page 1 applying corresponding tariffs is based primarily on information overly concerned about it,” he said. spring. Most of the production of In a video ad released around on Canadian exports, said Mark and specialization, closing your- He said that a public backlash PPE is done in China. Labour Day, Mr. O’Toole railed Manger, a political economist self off to complementary eco- against free trade had been “build- Those PPE shortages have against “bad trade deals with who serves as co-director of the nomic activities in other countries, ing for some time,” and Canada’s mostly been resolved now, thanks the U.S. and countries like University of Toronto’s Global this is not a recipe for growth, political leaders who pushed for in part to a coordinated effort by China.” He acknowledged the Economic Policy Lab. for employment, for productivity free trade deals in years past Canada’s federal and provincial widespread layoffs in the auto “They’re just going to close improvement,” said Prof. Keay. hadn’t done enough to help work- governments. manufacturing, forestry, and their border to us,” he said. Economic policies that protect ers who lost out from those deals. Protecting or subsidizing energy sectors in recent years, Many of the industries that Canadian businesses from foreign Canadian production of personal and promised, if he wins power, have suffered the most in Canada competition—through trade bar- ‘Auto jobs didn’t go to protective equipment, as Mr. to “introduce a Canada First in recent years, including the for- riers or significant subsidies—can O’Toole suggested, would not economic strategy—one that estry sector, are geared towards become very difficult to remove China’ make or break the economy, said doesn’t cater to elites and special exports, he said. once the protected industry grows Mr. O’Toole has attacked “trade Mr. Cross. interests, but fights for working “These industries are only and matures, he said. deals with China” as the root of the Prof. Manger, however, said it Canadians.” viable if they are exporting, espe- “I can’t think of one [example], troubles facing Canada’s labour-in- would make more sense to stock- “The goal of economic policy cially to the U.S. And subsidizing off the top of my head, where that tensive industries. Canada does not pile PPE than to begin manufac- should be more than just wealth them, and protecting them, and economic nationalism was applied, have a free trade agreement with turing it. creation, it should be solidarity, then expecting to have markets and then kind of judiciously re- China. The previous Conservative “It’s not like we will have a and the wellness of families—and overseas that we can access, moved when it was necessary. It just government signed an investment constant use for personal protec- include higher wages,” he said in that’s not going to work.” becomes too hard to do,” he said. protection agreement with China, tive equipment for the next 10 the 90-second clip. “The fact is, these jobs are not Protecting Canadian indus- and the current Liberal government years,” he said. In an interview with TVO’s coming back, no matter what we tries from competition on a broad began negotiations toward a free Canada’s federal government Steve Paikin, Mr. O’Toole said, do, unless we pump boatloads of scale would result in higher trade agreement with China, but maintained a stockpile of PPE “we are the only party that sup- subsidies into it,” said Prof. Manger. prices for Canadian consumers, those have been stalled since 2018. before the pandemic struck, but ports building things in Canada.” and lower “real wages”—a mea- Foreign Affairs Minister it was inadequate, and a large “I want to bring back some sure of purchasing power—for François-Philippe Champagne portion of the stockpile was al- critical manufacturing to Canada, ‘The script has flipped many Canadian workers, said told The Globe and Mail last week lowed to expire without replace- starting with [personal protective again’ Prof. Keay. that he did not “see the conditions ment shortly before COVID-19 equipment],” he said U.S. President Donald Trump “There’s a redistribution: some being present now for these dis- arrived in Canada. The stockpile “We need to see some manu- claims to have put in place an people are going to win from a cussions to continue at this time.” had its budget, staff, and stor- facturing return to southern On- “America First” economic policy, Canada-first policy. Most people “Auto jobs didn’t go to China, age space whittled down by tario, and it may involve Canada and has started trade wars with are going to lose.” they went to Mexico,” said Mr. successive Conservative and having to look at tariffing other Canada repeatedly to protect the Cross. “And they’re not coming Liberal governments over the nations,” he said. interests of U.S. aluminum and ‘Minor tinkering’ no threat back from Mexico.” past decade, The Globe and Mail University of Calgary econo- forestry businesses. Mr. O’Toole However, Mr. Cross agreed reported in April. mist Trevor Tombe, however, told told CBCs Vassy Kapelos that his to economy, says Cross that pursuing free trade with [email protected] The Hill Times that an economic policy would be similar, focusing However, Philip Cross, a former China would be unwise. The Hill Times policy that promotes self-suf- on Canadian “self-sufficiency” for chief economic analyst for Statis- ficiency at the expense of free food, energy, and personal protec- tics Canada, said that Mr. O’Toole’s trade would be “quite dangerous tive equipment. He also said he proposals—specifically back- Erin O’Toole’s Labour Day video, word-by-word for the Canadian economy.” was “more of a free trader” than ing away from more trade with “I was raised in a General Motors family, my dad worked there for over 30 years. I represent Imports and exports underpin Mr. Trump. China—are not cause for concern. a riding of auto workers—one that depends on manufacturing for its prosperity. And I have to two-third of Canada’s economic Mr. Cross said it is “unimagi- Canada’s Conservative Party say, things are not okay. Thousands of auto workers have been laid off. Hundreds of thousands production, said Prof. Tombe. Eco- has a long history of protectionist nable” that Mr. O’Toole would of energy workers, forestry workers, have lost their jobs. Too many people are living on the brink, nomic policy that pushes Cana- economic policies, covering much pull Canada out of existing trade living in quiet desperation. For them, there isn’t a lot to celebrate this Labour Day. dian industry to be self-sufficient of the time up until the 1970s and agreements with Europe and Pa- “Part of the problem is big government, one that signs bad trade deals with the U.S. and would hurt the workers whose 1980s, and progressive conserva- cific countries in the Trans-Pacific countries like China, or that kills entire industries by saying they’re going to phase out the energy jobs are connected to internation- tive prime minister Brian Mul- Partnership, or that he would try sector. But part of the problem is big business, corporate and financial power brokers who care al trade, he said. roney’s Canada-U.S. Free Trade to negotiate the new CUSMA deal more about their shareholders than their employees. They love trade deals with China that allow Many Canadian manufactur- Agreement, when Conservatives with the United States and Mexi- them to access cheap labour. ers rely on imported materials in began to embrace free trade co. Mr. O’Toole called the CUSMA “Under my leadership, Conservatives will introduce a Canada First economic strategy, one order to build their own product, and markets, said Ian Keay, an a “bad” deal, but has not signalled that doesn’t cater to elites and special interests, but fights for working Canadians. and putting up trade barriers like economics professor at Queen’s that he would pull Canada out of “I believe that GDP growth alone is not the end-all-be-all of politics. The goal of economic tariffs would hurt those manufac- University. any existing agreements. policy should be more than just wealth creation, it should be solidarity, and the wellness of turers, he said. “The script has flipped again. Canada has already reaped families—and include higher wages. Without trade barriers, he said, This is old-school economic na- most of the benefits it can get from “My name is Erin O’Toole, I grew up in Bowmanville, Ontario, and I’m here to fight for you “We’re able to focus on the things tionalism,” he said. free trade agreements, said Mr. and your families.” 36 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 | THE HILL TIMES News

“I get very frustrated with the word salad and the partisan comments that ‘Ping-pong’ gun politics aren’t based on fact,” said Mr. Ruff.

RCMP can’t keep up with background checks: Wilson It’s not clear how the government chose continue to divide voters, which semi-automatic rifles to put under the ban, and which to leave out. Ms. Wilson estimated that the ban covers about 20 per cent of the semi-automatic rifles available as O’Toole courts GTA seats in Canada. She said that some of the guns that were banned function in an identical way to others that were not. Mr. Trudeau’s Liberals have not reintro- lobby groups in the country. She described “These are token, symbolic bans,” she said. ‘I think it’s going to help duced the long-gun registry, but have taken gun policy as “super political” and “super The Liberals came under pressure to and promised numerous other new steps to polarizing” at the federal level. deliver their promised ban after a gunman some of the Conservative restrict gun ownership and use in Canada, Gun owners are “particularly motivated” killed 22 people in Nova Scotia in April. candidates in some of those making gun control a signature of their po- to get involved in politics, said Ms. Wilson, According to the RCMP, three of the guns litical agenda. Those include a promise to because political leaders regularly promise used by the shooter were smuggled il- swing ridings,’ says Ontario expand background to change gun laws legally from the United States, and a fourth checks for those one way or another. was obtained illegally in Canada. Tory MP of the seeking a posses- Many gun owners Mr. O’Toole has made plain his de- sion and acquisi- have gun collec- sire to court voters outside of the party’s Liberal ban on ‘assault tion license (PAL), tions worth tens of traditional base. According to the Angus creating a registry thousands of dol- Reid poll, a majority of Canadians in every weapons.’ for the sale of guns, lars, she said. They region of the country support a ban on “as- promising new con- have an incentive to sault weapons.” trols on gun storage vote to protect that Continued from page 1 Mr. Ruff said he doesn’t think the and transport, and collection, and of- party’s opposition to the Liberal ban would after the ban was announced. The petition more, as well as ten have the money hamper its efforts to win seats in suburban was initiated by Alberta resident Jesse the ban on “assault to donate to politi- ridings in the Greater Toronto area. Faszer, and sponsored by Conservative MP weapons”—a term cians who promise “There are so many doctors, dentists, teach- Michelle Rempel (Calgary Nose Hill, Alta.). that has no techni- to do so. ers [who are] urban sport shooters,” he said. Mr. Faszer’s petition has received more cal meaning in the ‘When I’m prime minister, I’ll put an end to Gun owners and “I think it’s going to help some of the signatures than any other electronic peti- world of recreation- Trudeau’s attacks on law-abiding gun owners:’ Conservative politi- Conservative candidates in some of those tion to Parliament since it began to accept al gun sales. Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole campaigned for cians typically land swing ridings.” online petitions in 2015. In a typical year, Though he the party leadership on a promise to roll back Prime on the same side of Mr. Ruff and Ms. Wilson both said that the roughly 200 electronic petitions have gar- rarely discusses Minister Justin Trudeau’s new gun control measures. the issue. “I think government’s decision to ban some varieties nered about 500,000 signatures in total— it, Mr. Trudeau is a The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade because they know of semi-automatic rifles wasn’t grounded in just more than double the number on Mr. former gun owner it sort of speaks to any evidence that those guns, when legally- Fraszer’s petition alone, according to the and sport shooter. He told The Hill Times in their base,” said Ms. Wilson. owned, are often used to hurt people. House of Commons. 2011—when he was an MP in then-interim However, only a small portion of Cana- “If they want to make that case, then The next most popular electronic petition leader ’s Liberal caucus—that he dians with a PAL are Conservative Party make that case, crystal clear. But again, attracted 175,000 signatures between mid- had a license to own both long guns and members. At the end of the leadership where’s the data that you’re talking about December 2019 and mid-February 2020. That restricted weapons, including handguns. contest won by Mr. O’Toole in August, the that supports that hypothetical?” he said. petition was also about the government’s Mr. Trudeau said he was “raised around party had just shy of 270,000 members. The imprecise definition of the guns then-upcoming “assault weapon” ban. guns,” and learned how to shoot from Roughly 2.2 million people in Canada have banned by the government make that Gun control policy has been a hot RCMP officers assigned to protect his fa- gun licenses. difficult to verify either way. According to political issue for decades. Rural Liberal ther, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau. “Gun owners didn’t show up for the Statistics Canada, guns were used to mur- MPs are still reminded of the widespread He said he did not hunt recreationally, but party” said Nicolas Johnson, who writes der 1,073 people in Canada between 2014 backlash to the long-gun registry intro- was “quite good” at shooting clay pigeons about gun policy and politics regularly on and 2018. A majority, 623, were killed by duced in the mid-1990s by Jean Chrétien’s and other targets with long guns. TheGunBlog.ca. handguns, while another 242 were killed government, and eventually dismantled PMO spokesperson Ann-Clara Vaillan- Mr. Johnson said he believes some by full-length rifles or shotguns that were by Conservative prime minister Stephen court said that Mr. Trudeau does not cur- Conservatives oppose more gun control not fully automatic. Statistics Canada did Harper in 2012. rently own any guns. She did not answer measures simply because Liberals have not further break down the type of long Conservative MPs and firearms lobby questions about whether Mr. Trudeau still historically favoured them. gun used in those crimes. groups do well to ensure that gun owners holds a PAL, when he got rid of his guns, “Whatever the Liberals do, they have to “You’re trying to solve a problem that don’t forget. The Conservative Party has or the last time he used one. do the opposite,” he said. doesn’t exist,” said Mr. Ruff. run online ads warning of a Liberal plot to “Every party wins some voters on that Ms. Wilson said she did not believe that bring back the long-gun registry regularly Why are Conservatives and gun and loses some voters on that.” the RCMP’s Canadian Firearms Program since Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal took power in Not all gun owners are politically con- was being given enough resources to en- 2015. The National Firearms Association owners on the same side? servative, said Ms. Wilson, but left-leaning force the gun control measures already on worked hard to rally gun owners to defeat Gun control has “been reduced to politi- politicians who promise gun control turn the books. Canadians are required to list Liberal candidates in the last two elections. cal ping-pong” between the Conservatives some into “one issue voters.” references, including their spouse, on their New Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole and Liberals over the past three decades, Conservatives place a high value on applications for a PAL or PAL renewal. The promised during his campaign for the said Tracey Wilson, the spokesperson individual rights, and that’s part of the rea- intent is to allow the RCMP to check on party leadership to “leave legal gun owners for the Canadian Coalition for Firearms son they typically go to bat for gun owners, the mental health and fitness of the person alone.” Rights, one of two prominent pro-gun said Alex Ruff, the Conservative MP for applying to possess a gun, through the eyes Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, Ont. of those closest to them. That overlap doesn’t necessarily extend “I have never had any of my references Anxiety? Burnout? Need help with to all varieties of guns, however. An Angus called. My spouse, who I’d been married to for Reid poll of 1,581 Canadians in May found 16 years, was never called,” said Ms. Wilson. relationships? We can help. that 60 per cent of those who voted Conser- “The problem is that the RCMP and the vative in last fall’s election supported a Firearms Program in particular are unable to ban on assault weapons, while 40 per cent keep up with what’s going on now,” she said. opposed it. That same poll found that a slim “If they’re not using those resources, majority of current gun owners—55 per what makes [the Liberals] think they’ll be cent—opposed the ban, while 45 per cent able to do even more extensive background supported it. checks,when they literally don’t have the Mr. Ruff said the governing Liberals time to call two references?” have misled the public about the ban. The Liberal government has not yet “Assault rifles have been banned in released the details of its plan to buy back this country for decades,” said Mr. Ruff, a the banned rifles from gun owners. Some Canadian Forces infantry veteran who says of the provisions from the gun control bill he used a variety of military rifles during passed in the last Parliament have yet to deployments in Afghanistan, Iraq, and come into effect. We are a select group of mental health Bosnia. With Parliament suspended and gov- Fully automatic rifles were banned in ernment resources tied up the COVID-19 professionals who can help you live better. Canada in 1978. Semi-automatic rifles, pandemic, the government also has yet to which fire each time the trigger is pulled, introduce its second promised piece of gun Contact us today 613-750-1000 remain legal, apart from the roughly 1,500 control legislation in this Parliament. varieties banned by the Liberals earlier [email protected] evolvepsychotherapy.ca this year. The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 37

fice, amongst assistant to other past Mr. O’Toole. experience. Another hold- Over on the over from Mr. digital side of Scheer’s OLO, hill climbers things, Marc she was last Lemire has executive as- by Laura Ryckewaert been named sistant to the associate chief of staff. director of She’s also a digital produc- former special Chelsea Tucker is press Brad Davey continues tion. assistant to secretary to Mr. O’Toole. as associate director of O’Toole gets his OLO in Mr. Lemire then-minister Photograph courtesy of LinkedIn the Conservative caucus’ is another hold- research bureau. Photograph of state for over from Mr. courtesy of LinkedIn sport Bal shape, names Bélanger Scheer’s OLO team, having done the same Gosal. job for the ex leader. He’s been doing graphic In terms of OLO departures, perhaps the design and video production work for the most notable—though entirely unsurpris- Conservative caucus for more than a decade, ing—so far is that of former Harper chief of as his deputy chief starting during its time in government. staff Ian Brodie, who’d returned to Ottawa Renze Nauta will also be sticking around to step in temporarily as a senior adviser as director of policy in the OLO. He helped to Mr. Scheer back in January. Mr. Brodie, then, she’s spent time as director of public draft the party’s 2019 platform and last wore who’s been a professor at the University of Veteran Conservative staffer affairs at National Public Relations and the title of director of policy and research to Calgary since 2017, stayed on to help at the most recently as a director with the McMil- Mr. Scheer. Before then, Mr. Nauta worked beginning of Mr. O’Toole’s post-leadership Martin Bélanger will be lan Vantage Policy Group in Toronto. in Mr. Harper’s PMO, including as a special transition before once again exiting the Hill. working closely with new A former Ontario Progressive Conser- assistant for personnel, administration, and Other confirmed departures include vative staffer, Ms. Michaud first came to appointments, and later as regional adviser now-former CCS head Hannah Anderson, leader Erin O’Toole’s chief the Hill in 2013 to work as an assistant in for the Prairies and territories. who Hill Climbers understands has re- Mr. O’Toole’s MP office. Also confirmed as remaining in the turned to B.C., and Stephanie Scanlan (née of staff, Tausha Michaud. Since being named to the top OLO job, OLO are Allison Lamb and Christine Wy- Keron), who had been a stakeholder rela- Ms. Michaud has been busy overseeing the lupski as director of tour and director of tions adviser and has left for a new job as ew Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole office’s transition and new staff roster. finance and administration, respectively. manager of Western University’s Lawrence Nand team have been busy in recent A source told Hill Climbers that Mr. Ms. Lamb was similarly in charge of National Centre for Policy and Manage- weeks transitioning into the official op- O’Toole and team are aiming to bring on Mr. Scheer’s tours as leader, having been ment, as noted on her LinkedIn profile. position leader’s office and getting a new fresh, but experienced, staff from across promoted to the role earlier this year. Be- Stay tuned for more OLO news in the staff line-up in place, and recent decisions the country to work for the new leader, fore then, she’d worn the title of manager coming weeks. include naming Martin Bélanger as deputy and ultimately have a more slimmed-down of tour and events since November 2018. A chief of staff and Mélanie Paradis as direc- OLO. former special assistant for appointment Bolduc named chief to new CPC tor of communications. Mr. Scheer’s OLO team—counting both in Mr. Harper’s PMO, Ms. Lamb later spent Mr. Bélanger was last acting chief of the leader’s office and research bureau, time as an assistant to then-environment House leader staff and Quebec adviser to then-leader which work hand-in-hand—included minister and then-employment The Conservative caucus’ new slate of . around 80 staff throughout his tenure. minister Jason Kenney. House officers are also settling into new Before stepping in as acting OLO chief Former Conservative MP Alupa Clarke, Ms. Wylupski has been keeping an eye offices. of staff this past spring, Mr. Bélanger who represented Beauport-Limoilou, Que., on the OLO’s books since 2015, previously Conservative MP Gérard Deltell, who had spent almost a decade as head of the in the House of Commons from 2015 to (before 2019) under the title of manager of has replaced now-deputy leader Candice Conservative research bureau—previously 2019, has been named senior Quebec advis- finance, human resources, events and the Bergen as House leader, has already tapped called the Conservative Resource Group, er to Mr. Scheer and is helping to build the official residence, after starting out as an as- Phil Bolduc to take over as his chief of staff. it was renamed Conservative Caucus OLO’s Quebec team. sistant and office manager under then-inter- Mr. Bolduc was last working in the OLO Services (CCS) earlier this year. He’s been Mr. Clarke, a former intern in Mr. im leader before that. Before as director of parliamentary affairs to Mr. serving as a senior Quebec adviser to the Harper’s office as prime minister, led Mr. 2015, she was an assistant to Mr. Scheer Scheer, having first joined that office in Conservative leader since 2017, and before O’Toole’s leadership campaign in Quebec. during his time as Speaker of the House of November 2017 as manager of parliamen- this spring also wore the hat of deputy In his new role, he’ll be working closely Commons, and she’s also a former executive tary affairs and Question Period adviser. chief of staff. with the party’s 10-member Quebec cau- assistant to then-trade minister . Before joining the OLO, he was a senior Ms. Paradis cus. Laura adviser to Ms. Bergen as House leader. recently ran Axel Rioux Kurkimaki He’s also a former director of parliamen- the com- has returned is returning tary affairs and issues management to munications to the Hill to to the Hill as then-trade minister Mr. Fast, and as a shop for serve as asso- director of result, previously worked with Mr. O’Toole Mr. O’Toole ciate director stakeholder during the new leader’s time as Mr. Fast’s leadership of Quebec relations and parliamentary secretary. campaign, communica- outreach for Mr. Bolduc replaces longtime staffer having done tions. the OLO. John Nieuwenhuis, who’d been running the same for Mr. Rioux A former the office under Ms. Bergen. Stay tuned to his previous previously Laura Kurkimaki is back on issues man- Hill Climbers for an update on where Mr bid in 2017. helped tackle ager in Mr. Nieuwenhuis lands. Mélanie Paradis is now the Hill as head of outreach During the Axel Rioux will be overseeing communica- Harper’s PMO, The rest of the House leader’s team the OLO’s director of and stakeholder relations 2019 election, Quebec communications as an tions and me- she’s been has remained in place, including veteran communications. Photograph to Mr. O’Toole. Photograph along with associate director. Photograph dia relations working in the staffer David Prest as senior parliamentary courtesy of Facebook courtesy of LinkedIn helping out courtesy of LinkedIn work in Mr. private sector affairs adviser. Colin Thackeray, another the national Conservative campaign, Ms. Harper’s PMO since 2015, including as a senior public af- longtime staffer to the Conservative House Paradis was deputy campaign manager to from 2012 to 2015. Since then, he’s been fairs adviser for Payments Canada, diretor leader, continues as a senior adviser, as Mr. O’Toole in Durham, Ont. busy as manager of communications and of government relations with HEXO Corp., does Adam Church, a former chief of staff Most recently a director with McMil- policy for the Quebec Trucking Association. and as an account director with Hill and to then-House leader . lan Vantage Group, Ms. Paradis is also Kelsie Chiasson is staying on in the OLO Knowlton Strategies, among other titles. Rounding out the team is Nathan Ellis, a former director of lands, resources, and will be working closely with Ms. Para- Ms. Kurkimaki was part of Mr. O’Toole’s who remains a senior adviser for parlia- and consultation for the Métis Nation of dis as associate director of communications. leadership bid, having served as campaign mentary affairs and communications. Mr. Ontario, and has a background in public Ms. Chiasson (née Corey) was last act- secretary. She also previously lent a hand Ellis joined the House leader’s team back affairs. During the 2018 Ontario election, ing communications director in the office, to his 2017 leadership campaign, amongst in 2017, prior to which he was an assistant she helped with communications for now- having been associate director of media re- other past experience. to then-Conservative MP . Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conser- lations and issues management and caucus Mitch Heimpel has been recruited Over in new Conservative Whip Blake vative campaign, amongst other past roles. press secretary, respectively, before that. from Queen’s Park to serve as director of Richards’ office, Sean Murphy is chief of She is currently second vice president of A longtime Hill staffer, Ms. Chiasson is parliamentary affairs to Mr. O’Toole, after staff. A longtime Whip’s office staffer, Mr. the Ontario PC Party. also a former special assistant to then-fish- helping out with policy work and debate Murphy last wore the title of manager of Soon after his election as leader on eries minister and a former prep for his leadership campaign. parliamentary affairs and was a senior Aug. 23, Mr. O’Toole appointed Tausha policy adviser and caucus liaison to then- Mr. Heimpel was last chief of staff to lobby co-ordinator before that. Michaud to run his office as official opposi- minister of state for the Atlantic Canada Ontario Associate Minister for Children Sébastien Togneri, a former Harper- tion leader. It’s Ms. Michaud’s second time Opportunities Agency . and Women’s Issues Jill Dunlop. He’s spent era cabinet staffer, continues as a lobby serving as Mr. O’Toole’s chief of staff; she Chelsea Tucker, who served as a press almost a decade working at the provincial co-ordinator, while Kelly Williams, who previously ran his office during his time secretary for Mr. O’Toole’s leadership legislature in all, and is also a former direc- previously did the same, is now a senior as veterans affairs minister under Stephen campaign, has joined the OLO to continue tor of legislative affairs to Ontario Govern- administrator in the office. Harper’s Conservative government in 2015, tackling media for the new leader. Origi- ment House Leader Todd Smith. Emily Thibert, who joined the team last also serving as a senior adviser. During the nally from New Brunswick, Ms. Tucker is Brad Davey is so far continuing as associ- year as a committee co-ordinator, contin- leadership race, she was a principal secre- bilingual, but will be focused on English ate director of the CCS, a role he first took on ues to fill that role, now working alongside tary for Mr. O’Toole’s campaign. media in her new role. in December 2019. Before then, he was man- Elizabeth Beauchamp to track committee After the Conservatives lost govern- She’s a former communications as- ager of caucus services, and is also a former work. Rounding out the team is adminis- ment in 2015, Ms. Michaud stayed on to sistant in Mr. Harper’s PMO and spent time caucus liaison and Ontario regional adviser. trative assistant Saica Pierre-Louis. run Mr. O’Toole’s office as the MP for as a special assistant for communications Finally, in confirmed staff so far, Lynn [email protected] Durham, Ont., for the next two years. 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