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and “can’t wait to get to work.” According to his bio, he served as the bureau chief at Queen’s Park after spending Heard on the Hill almost a decade report- ing and anchoring in with CP24 and by Palak Mangat CBC News. The Calgary born- and-raised reporter cut his teeth in entertain- ment, political, and ‘Certainly in the B breaking news report- ing, and has covered elections, the Jian Ghomeshi trial, and the range’: Dr. Tam grades 2011 tsunami in Japan, among other notable events. “Just going through Canada’s pandemic the comments…very humbled by all the sup- port and kind words,” he later added. “I’m going response so far in to take a wee break from the twitterverse while I pack up my life and hit YouTube interview the road to our nation’s capital. Tweet at you in June when I settle in @ CBCNews.” Users can browse through tunes under In other CBC news, Power and with Brandon Gonez the headings of spark and soul, franco- Politics host Vassy Kapelos is now off phone pride, voices of the North, True on maternity leave, as is her CBC col- North rap, and golden age, for the more … league, Catherine Cullen. Their last days ah, let’s say, seasoned, . were April 29 and April 30, respectively. Artists featured include pop stars like David Common will be filling in for Ms. Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Kapelos. recent Grammy winner and DJ Kaytranada, along with bands like Head- stones, Faber Drive, and The Jerry Cans. Manitoba university names (In the past, Kaytranada’s catchy beats Senator Mary Jane McCallum have earned praise from Economic Devel- opment Minister Mélanie Joly, a fellow its new chancellor Montrealer.) In a unanimous decision, Independent “If these songs aren’t already among Senator Mary Jane McCallum was named your favourite tracks, we hope that you Brandon University’s new chancellor last have the opportunity to discover something week, a move that makes her the Manitoba new as you fill out your questionnaire on- school’s first Indigenous and first female line in May,” the agency added on its web- figure to hold the post. page. Census responses are due May 11. The agency appears to keep an eye on Historic move: emerging stars, so the initiative may have Independent Not a beach person: Canada's chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam, pictured at right in been years in the making, methinks. Ruth Senator 2020, told Brandon Gonez of The Brandon Gonez Show this month that she prefers to settle in B., an Edmonton singer who started out Mary Jane with a good book under the shade, to the sandy shores of a beach. Photograph courtesy of The flexing her vocal chords on the now-de- McCallum, Brandon Gonez Show's YouTube, The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade funct Vine app in 2013, is among the artists pictured who’ve gotten a StatsCan nod. in 2020, anada’s top doctor is giving the coun- mer.” Asked if that means she’s looking for- In reaction to the news, the CBC’s is the new Ctry a passable grade in its pandemic ward to some time in the sun, she smiled: Aaron Wherry joked he’s “never loved my chancellor response so far, but make no bones about “I’m not very [big] on beaches. It’s not my country more,” while others were “digging” of Brandon it; there is definitely room to improve, says scene. … I’m more of a sit under the shade the “unexpected, delightful, and patriotic University in Dr. Theresa Tam. and read a good book type.” addition” and said it was “peak Canada.” Manitoba. Speaking to The Brandon Gonez Show, Dr. Tam said she’s “privileged” to be Some wondered if the agency has too The Hill Times hosted by former Toronto-area CP24 re- guiding the country through an unprec- many people on its payroll that it can pull photograph porter Brandon Gonez, Dr. Tam was asked edented crisis, but it can take a toll in off such a feat amid a pandemic, while one by Andrew to evaluate how the nation has been faring evaluating if she’s “happy” in her post. “I user maintained the collab was not one we Meade so far. “Certainly in the B range, I think, do feel it is a heavy weight to bear, but I’m needed, but one we deserved. Hear, hear! and many have said B+,” she said. very focused in my job. It’s a lot. You keep In a 31-minute episode posted to You- looking at how can you do better, support CBC parliamentary bureau to Tube on May 2, Mr. Gonez (virtually) sat our decision-makers better, or communi- down for a one-on-one interview with Dr. cate better,” she noted. welcome Queen’s Park alum Sen. McCallum, who will officially Tam, who conceded she hasn’t had much “I’m grateful for being in my position at Travis Dhanraj take office later this month at the school’s time to tune into the show. They talked this moment in time, but I definitely feel the Travis Dhanraj will be joining the CBC’s convocation, has served in the Senate since about her role, life in a post-COVID world, responsibility and burden that comes with it.” parliamentary bureau in June, making the December 2017. The Cree Parliamentarian and vaccine uptake among Canadians. So, how does Canada’s top doc de-stress jump from to federal politics after has provided dental care to First Nations “The difference in the equation right in these unprecedented times? Music may almost three years at Queen’s Park. communities in Manitoba, raises aware- now, between the third wave and the be one way. Mr. Dhanraj shared the news last week, ness about residential schools (of which preceding one, is that we have vaccines Mr. Gonez, who has been hosting the adding he’s excited for the new challenge she is a survivor), and is a vocal critic of just beginning to get rolled out,” she said. weekly online talk show since it debuted racism on the Hill. Still, now is not the time to let one’s guard on Jan. 17, 2021, on YouTube, noted a piano University president David Docherty, down, “because we can see the light at the and cello graced Dr. Tam’s background, just also vice-chancellor, said Sen. McCallum end of the tunnel.” some of the instruments she plays. “That is inspiring and “full of energy and ac- Dr. Tam, who got her first dose of the would be a bit much,” she laughed, after be- tion.” The Senator added in a statement the Pfizer jab on April 13, threw in a plug for ing asked to flex her musical talents. appointment was a “culmination” of the the #MyWhy initiative encouraging people efforts of those she’s learned from through- to share on social media why they got their out her career and life. shot. She also shared her own story. Statistics Canada featuring Spotify, “My character has been shaped through “Of course, it helps protect me from with a cameo from Census 2021 demonstration and by the sharing of teach- ending up in the hospital, which is great. Speaking of tunes, if ever you thought ings and ceremonies; through conversa- But it’s to protect my family and the com- there’s a shortage of Canadian music to go tions; through stories; through hard times munity. I have older parents who are in around, think again. and good times with Indigenous and non- their 80s, so that’s really important as well,” Last week, Statistics Canada laid out Indigenous people alike,” she added. she said, before jokingly adding: “I might a 2021 census soundtrack, complete with Sen. McCallum replaces Michael Dec- be able to have a nap if everyone goes to playlists on Spotify and YouTube, in hopes Ottawa bound: longtime reporter Travis Dhanraj, tor, who served the university’s maximum get their vaccines, because we’ve been that listeners will get to “experience the dif- pictured in 2020, is handing in his Global of two terms, being appointed in 2013 and working nonstop.” ferent facets of Canadian culture through News mic and joining the CBC’s parliamentary then again in 2017. As more vaccines come online, she the sounds of our celebrated musical tal- bureau next month. 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planning to better define the role Large-scale projects under Canada and pipeline of projects that will be the core mandate of the CIB.” ‘I expect the CIB to Infrastructure Bank’s umbrella, deliver on their mandate’ According to Ms. McKenna, “I have committed to exactly what Mr. Page is suggesting.” ‘take time,’ says CEO, following PBO “In Budget 2021, the govern- ment outlined a path forward on recovery from COVID-19, climate action, jobs for Canadians and an report outlining ongoing delays inclusive economy. I have com- mitted to a National Infrastruc- ture Assessment which aims to Infrastructure design; the usual challenges of a align the future needs of Canadi- Public-private and Communities start up (I experienced this with ans with evidence-based plan- Minister the PBO in 2008); and a broader ning, prioritization and funding, partnerships require Catherine context of the relatively weak making every dollar count. The significant design McKenna, planning, financing and reporting assessment will be key to foster- pictured Sept. environment of physical infra- ing Canada’s long-term growth and engineering 11, 2020, structure in Canada. and competitiveness, driving to at Carleton “I am a believer that Canada net-zero emissions and increasing work, community University. Ms. needs a national infrastructure the resiliency of our infrastruc- McKenna says needs assessment and a long term ture to a changing climate, and engagement, that she expects plan,” said Mr. Page, who pointed to improving quality of life for all 'the CIB to to his colleague Azfar Ali Khan’s Canadians.” environmental deliver on their work, who co-authored a 2017 “I have been clear that I expect assessment and mandate to op-ed on the subject, has done the CIB to deliver on their man- invest in more research in this area and has built date to invest in more projects in planning, as well as projects in their connections in the U.K. and Aus- their priority areas by the end of priority areas by tralia where they have conducted the first quarter and beyond, and contracting with the the end of the assessments. their trajectory shows they can first quarter and Infrastructure and Communi- achieve $35-billion in investments person who’s going beyond.' The Hill ties Minister Catherine McKenna within the 2027-28 timeframe. to build it during the Times photograph (Ottawa Centre, Ont.) is responsi- There has been very positive by Andrew Meade ble for the Canada Infrastructure progress over the past year at the actual construction Bank. Canada Infrastructure Bank,” said “We were pleased that [the Ms. McKenna alluding to new period and ramp up federal budget] and Minister leadership, the establishment of a McKenna made announcements new mandate, and the implemen- into operation, says that Canada will conduct a tation of a new growth plan. national assessment. The chal- Ms. McKenna also pointed CIB CEO Ehren Cory. lenge will be to conduct a good to new projects under the CIB’s around creating aligned incen- the bank is not performing to the assessment of long term needs umbrella, including the REM in tives, a shared sense of risk be- level of success that they hope to Continued from page 1 (across infrastructure assets) with Montreal, the Oneida Battery tween the private and the public have achieved. a performance framework that Project in Ontario, the Southern effective, and that the Liberals sector, and shared incentives to “From two main perspectives captures policy goals with respect Manitoba Fibre project, and the “are trying to push water up hill.” get the best possible outcomes,” that I see, I see the first one being to competitiveness (e.g., growth, Lake Erie Connector, which lever- But the Infrastructure Bank’s said Mr. Cory. attracting private investments,” said jobs), sustainability (e.g., a net ages “private and institutional CEO Ehren Cory says “large-scale “And in doing that, you will Ms. Kusie. “That’s what this bank zero emissions economy), inclu- capital, creating good jobs and projects take time,” and that they invest a bit more time up front, was supposed to do was supposed siveness (e.g., affordable housing getting more infrastructure built require a significant amount of in creating that framework in to attract private investment. And and child care), and resiliency for Canadians” work on the front-end to get these creating that contract,” said Mr. then secondly, achieving projects. (e.g., preparedness for the next “In just over three years, the projects off the ground. Cory. “But that should lead to NDP MP pandemic and climate change CIB is in a strong position to Last week, the PBO estimated better outcomes, and alignment (Skeena-Bulkley Valley, B.C.) told adaptation),” wrote Mr. Page. “This build the infrastructure needed that, at current levels, the CIB is around delivering the project The Hill Times that the PBS re- will not be easy—complex inter- to increase Canada’s growth and unlikely to disburse $35-billion faster, and getting the best pos- port “confirms a lot of the things governmental politics and fiscal competitiveness and accelerate within its 11-year mandate, and sible outcomes and the best value we’ve been saying all along.” imbalances; weak transparency; our transition to a low carbon that four years in “funding is be- for money for both the public and “The model that the Liberals and resistance to change.” economy. The CIB will play a key ing disbursed much slower than private sector.” have chosen for infrastructure de- planned.” livery has serious flaws. And it’s Canada’s The report also found that not achieving its objectives,” said Parliamentary nearly half of project submissions ‘Liberal claims about Mr. Bachrach. “After four years, Budget Officer fall outside of the mandate that overall, it feels like the Liberals private sector financing Yves Giroux, the federal government has as- keep trying to push water uphill, pictured Jan. signed to the CIB, and that many were completely false,’ and report after report shows that 14, 2019, of these projects fall outside the bank is failing.” says Conservative MP inside 50 of one of the government’s six According to Bloc Québé- O’Connor St., “priority sectors,” including public and infrastructure critic cois MP Xavier Barsalou-Duval in Ottawa. transit, green infrastructure, clean (Pierre-Boucher-Les Patriotes- The Hill Times power, broadband, trade and Conservative MP Andrew Verchères, Que.), his party’s photograph by transportation, and Indigenous Scheer (Regina-Qu’Appelle, infrastructure critic, told The Hill Sam Garcia communities. Sask.), former leader of the Times that his party was not very “It’s not a question of the party and now the Conservative’s happy with the existence of the form of the contract—if you’re a infrastructure critic, told The Hill infrastructure bank, and that they large-scale transit or transmission Times that “it was no surprise that have always had apprehensions project, a large scale broadband the report would be critical.” from the beginning. rollout, they are small worlds “It’s no surprise that a report “It’s another demonstration unto themselves,” said Mr. Cory that had an up close look at it of the fact that this bank is use- in an interview with The Hill would be critical, because from less and that a better use of this Times last week. “They require far away, it’s easy to understand money would to send the money significant amount of design that the bank has been a com- to the province, and to the and engineering work, commu- plete failure,” said Mr. Scheer. government, which knows the nity engagement, environmental “What was extremely interest- needs of Quebec better than Ot- assessment and planning, and ing was the parliamentary budget tawa,” said Mr. Barsalou-Duval. contracting with the person who’s officer’s conclusion that the Lib- In a written statement to The “Without a national needs as- role in supporting the govern- going to build it.” eral claims about private sector Hill Times, former PBO officer sessment and plan and a perfor- ment’s direction and infrastruc- “I would say that the first financing, were just completely Kevin Page said “there is a gen- mance reporting framework for ture planning framework by version of [public private part- false,” said Mr. Scheer. eral consensus that the CIB got physical infrastructure, I think it is leveraging the private sector for nerships] is often described as Conservative MP Stephanie off to a weak start.” likely we will be writing and ques- financing, risk sharing and exper- ‘measure twice, cut once.’” Kusie (Calgary-Midnapore, Alta.), “I think the weak start high- tioning the performance of the tise,” said Ms. McKenna. “I think [public-private her party’s transport critic, told lighted by the PBO report reflects CIB many years down the road,” [email protected] partnerships are really designed The Hill Times that she believes a number of factors including— said Mr. Page. “We need better The Hill Times AS AS INNOVATIVE WE ARE ON THE GROUND IN THE AIR

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Prime Minister The vaccination campaign is a , public health and public ser- who had the vice campaign, according to Mr. AstraZeneca Nanos. vaccine, and “For any public service cam- Canada's Chief paign to work, the experts have to Medical Officer be on the same page.” Dr. Theresa Tam, who had a Pfizer vaccine, NACI leaders ‘vilified’ both have said despite ‘good decisions’ that all vaccines Dr. Andrew Morris, a profes- approved for sor of infectious diseases at the use in this University of Toronto, told The country are safe Hill Times that NACI is not just and effective. advising the government and the The Hill Times Chief Public Health Officer, but photograph by that “what’s happened because of Andrew Meade the way the pandemic is: they’re also advising the public, which isn’t really their role.” “The way that [the NACI lead- ers] have been largely vilified in this has been extremely unfortu- nate. I think that it’s eroded trust in this committee that is actually trustworthy, they are making good decisions.” “Health Canada is meant to deal with the regulation and the safety of vaccines, and they re- port to the federal minister,” said Dr. Morris. “And then we have a branch of the ministry which is the Public Health Agency of Can- ada, who in and of themselves nity groups and industry sectors don’t really have an opinion on where he’s “hammered home the this, but they have delegated to idea” that we should be celebrat- this voluntary organization that ‘You are walking on ing science, and the collective will is generally used to doing slow- in the scientific community to de- moving things with very little velop safe and effective vaccines emphasis on need for pandemic- in record time. heightened communication.” “It didn’t happen because “All of a sudden, they are eggshells’: infectious any rules were broken,” said thrust into this situation, and they Dr. Sharkaway. “The number are meant to advise the Public of people that were required to Health Agency and therefore the make it to the level of phase three minister of vaccine priorities and trials was still approved was still strategies,” said Dr. Morris. disease docs say achieved, the same standards “Normally, the situation is, with respect to safety evaluation, ‘do you use the vaccine or not, were followed.” is the vaccine safe or not?’ and Dr. Colin Furness, an infection it’s uncommon to have to choose control epidemiologist and assis- between one or the other,” said Dr. ‘trust in vaccines tant professor at the University of Morris. Toronto, told The Hill Times that “Not only is it uncommon “trust in vaccines is fragile, and to do that and make decisions so you have to be so careful how around that, but it’s also not usual you communicate.” that there are so many factors is fragile,’ NACI “That’s not to say that you at play that change in real time,” should or shouldn’t be transpar- said Dr. Morris. “Whose responsi- ent; you need to understand that bility is that?” you are walking on eggshells, Dr. Morris pointed to the hepa- and to be super cognizant of that titis B vaccine as an example of a guidance unhelpful because trust can be broken in safe vaccine “that was safe 10, 20, an instant,” said Dr. Furness. “The 30 years ago.” stakes are really high about how “So the decision about for mRNA is OK. What we’re say- members of NACI wanted to be you say what you say, and what whether to adopt the hepatitis B The federal ing is really, do an individual risk try to be as transparent as pos- the impact is going to be. And I vaccine is not really a big one,” assessment. If you are in an area sible and ensure that the public think NACI failed spectacularly.” said Dr. Morris. “But if the hepati- government has been where there is tons of COVID and received as much information as Political pollster Nik Nanos tis B vaccine had a strong safety urging Canadians to the transmission is high, than I much could be disclosed. told The Hill Times that “this whole signal, then we would be having absolutely agree that the first vac- “I certainly applaud their episode makes NACI looks bad.” a very different conversation, but get the first vaccine cine that comes is the first one that efforts in doing so,” said Dr. “It looks bad in terms of being that conversation would be occur- you take,” said Dr. Quach-Thanh. Sharkawy. an outlier on the communications ring over months to years, and it available. NACI is an advisory board. “We have to recognize that front, it looks bad in terms of cre- would be across Canada and we’d Health Canada is the ultimate information has to be shared in a ating confusion out there among be discussing it as a Canadian arbiter in approving vaccines for way that is framed very respon- policy. Continued from page 1 Canadians,” said Mr. Nanos, the distribution to Canadians. sibly so that a perspective is bal- chair of Nanos Research. “But here, because of the dy- clots meant that some Canadians The federal government has anced,” he said. “One of the things that we namics of the disease, what wins would be better served by waiting been urging Canadians to take the Statements that “might evoke have to realize is that this one- out in terms of the best strategy for a dose of the Pfizer or Mod- first vaccine available. Chief Pub- a great deal of fear, that might be year anniversary is a major in Moncton in different than it is erna vaccine. lic Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam disproportionate to the evidence psychological hurdle. The last in Chicoutimi which is different NACI chair Caroline Quach- and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at hand,” can be dangerous when thing anybody wants to hear is in Toronto and Peel, which is dif- Thanh released a clarifying state- (Papineau, Que.) have said that all consumed widely by the public, confusion from public health au- ferent in Edmonton and Calgary. ment afterwards, in which she vaccines approved for use in this he said, especially when those thorities on what should be done “For all of those different noted that “people who did get their country are safe and effective. statements have to do with an and what is in the best interest of places, what is right today is not AstraZeneca vaccine, mainly when “emotionally charged topic that Canadians,” he said. the same as what will be right COVID-19 was being transmitted ‘Trust can be broken in understandably evokes a great “Canadians have generally four weeks from now,” said Dr. in their community, actually did the deal of concern and uncertainty been very patient—our vaccine Morris. “So it makes it extremely right thing. They protected them- an instant’ in people who continue to try and uptake is good, the majority of difficult, especially when Health selves and their families against Dr. Abdu Sharkawy, an infec- look for trusted messaging.” Canadians are comfortable with Canada’s decision making is COVID-19 complications.” tious disease expert with the Dr. Sharkway said he has taking a vaccination, most are really about regulatory approval “If you are in an area where University of Toronto, told The done “countless” education and following the rules, so something of the vaccine and doesn’t think there is no COVID, then waiting Hill Times that he believes the information session for commu- like this is a head scratcher.” about things contextually.” UP TO $100 BILLION PER YEAR* HAS OTTAWA ALLOWED CANADA TO BECOME A GLOBAL MONEY LAUNDERING HUB AND HOTSPOT FOR HOSTILE STATE ACTORS AND SPIES?

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Editorial Letters to the Editor O’Toole’s leadership election win Jews worldwide support recognition strategy a lesson for all politicians of Armenian genocide by Israel and of how not to do politics by other governments: Mamigonian rin O’Toole’s come-from-behind victory in the support of the current party base. At- ack in 1976, Gwynne Dyer wrote that sufferings.” Genocide scholar Steven L. Elast year’s leadership election was a sur- tracting new voters demands that the plat- BArmenians and Turks had “long since Jacobs has aptly written that “it should prise for most, especially for the front-runner, form include a credible climate plan. As fixed on the outlines of the arguments be evident that Lemkin was preoccupied Peter MacKay, and his supporters. When the important is a credible leader who doesn’t most favourable to their respective posi- not only with the fate of his own Jew- leadership election process began, it looked promise party members one thing during tions” regarding the events now almost ish people, but also with the Armenian like a coronation for ’s senior the leadership campaign and now quite universally recognized as the Armenian genocide itself.” minister but, as the race progressed over the the opposite as an election looms. The limi- genocide. Unfortunately, based on his The UN Convention on the Prevention coming months, things started to change. tations of the party’s platform were clear most recent commentary on the sub- and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Mr. O’Toole branding himself as a before he ran for the leadership. That was ject, “After years of resistance, the U.S. that Lemkin worked so hard for states “true-blue” conservative candidate played the time to make his ideas public. ‘recognizes’ Armenian genocide” (The that “genocide means any of the follow- a key role in his victory in Western Canada But, it’s well known that “opposition par- Hill Times, April 26, 2021), 1976 seems to ing acts committed with intent to destroy, and rural communities across the country. ties don’t win elections, governments lose have been when Dyer fixed the outlines in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, A key component of his platform at the them.” Right now, Prime Minister Justin of his own arguments. Since then, a racial or religious group, as such.” This time was his expressed contempt for the Trudeau is doing well in the polls; however, large scholarly corpus on the subject has definition is almost exactly equal to what Liberal’s carbon pricing. However, since before the 2006 and 2015 elections, few developed that ought to, but appears not Mr. Dyer dismissively and erroneously winning the leadership, Mr. O’Toole has believed that Mr. Harper or Mr. Trudeau to, inform Mr. Dyer about this history, and calls the “expanded” meaning of genocide. been readjusting his policy positions, mov- would win and become prime ministers. he presents a description of the Armenian Finally, it is unclear on what basis Mr. ing towards the centre, away from many of Significant errors by the then governing genocide that bears little resemblance Dyer claims the authority to speak for his social conservative supporters. parties, rather than brilliant campaigning to the work of any serious scholar of the “most Israelis” who, he claims, “feel that One such change is his recent carbon by the opposition led to the result. subject. putting the Armenian massacres of 1915 pricing plan which many see as a tax, saying Since coming to power in 2015 with Similarly, Mr. Dyer seems uninformed into the same category [as the Holocaust] “if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, a majority, the Trudeau government has on the history and meaning of the term devalues the currency.” This is an ugly and quacks like a duck, then it probably made a number of unforced errors, and genocide. He complains that “the meaning slur, and one for which not a shred of is a duck.” Mr. O’Toole claims the levy is a found itself unnecessarily embroiled in of the word ‘genocide’ has now expanded evidence is offered. In reality, regardless savings since the government doesn’t collect several controversies. A constant stream to include many other evil deeds done to of the position of the Israeli government, the money. It’s a “pricing mechanism.” of scandals continue to gives legs to the large groups of people sharing a common a great many Israelis and Jews worldwide For years, the Conservatives blasted belief that the Liberal elite are “entitled ethnicity or religion” and allows, with support recognition of the Armenian the Liberals for their carbon pricing plan, to their entitlements” and have still not evident reluctance, that what happened genocide by Israel and by other govern- and raised hundreds of thousands of dol- learned from the numerous lessons to the to the Armenians “fits today’s expanded ments, and Israeli and Jewish scholars lars from their supporters based on this contrary over the past 30 years. definition of the word ‘genocide.’” This is are, and have long been, among the key criticism. So it’s not surprising that many History is replete with examples of a gross distortion. Raphael Lemkin, who contributors to the study of the Armenian Conservatives, including some in the fed- politicians who believed they could fool “all created the term genocide in the 1940s, genocide. eral caucus, are not ready to accept the the people all the time” and then went on to was very much influenced by his knowl- Marc A. Mamigonian new direction, calling Mr. O’Toole a “liar,” suffer the consequences. Politicians should edge of the destruction of the Ottoman Director of Academic Affairs saying they feel “betrayed.” Already they think before they speak and don’t make Armenians, writing that “one million National Association for Armenian are planning the leadership campaign any promises they can’t keep. If Mr. O’Toole Armenians died, but a law against the Studies and Research (NAASR) that will follow the next federal election fails to win the next election, one key factor murder of peoples was written with the Belmont, MA should the Conservatives lose. will be saying one thing before becoming ink of their blood and the spirit of their U.S.A. In his defence, Mr. O’Toole knows that the leader and doing another after. his party cannot win an election with only The Hill Times Pandemic has exacerbated disparities among populations to a relentless degree: Sharafdin nequality has undoubtedly been Gender and income equality and Iprevalent and prominent before the access to food and nutrition should not COVID-19 pandemic, however, the pan- be a privilege, even in a pandemic and demic has exacerbated disparities among efforts to alleviate such problems must populations to a relentless degree, even always be made accordingly. The lives of to a point where the hope for a decrease many are on the line and so it is impera- in inequality has now been replaced with tive that countries that have the fiscal the fear of a massive increase. ability to help, like Canada, continue to Among other groups, women, and advocate for the health and security of children are facing the brunt of the pan- women and children during this pan- demic. Before the pandemic, the poverty demic. It is asked that Canada please rate of women was expected to decrease, invest CAD $250-million over three years however, since the pandemic, projections in the Global Financing Facility (GFF). now predict the poverty rate of women In this way, Canada will be playing a to worsen by potentially 9.1 per cent. large part in helping protect many lives Furthermore, UNICEF is predicting that that are in need, especially during the more children will be tragically impacted pandemic. by the pandemic where 10,000 children are Dena Sharafdin expected to die from hunger each month. Newmarket, Ont.

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cused the prime minister of put- Biden scores big with developing nations ting drug company profits ahead of the pandemic. He knows that Canadians will while Canada appears to be sitting on sidelines not take kindly to a leader who waffles on the issue of global ac- cess to vaccines. As long as a single to suspend patent rights during supports the waiver of those pro- global access to more vaccines, The irony is that the United the pandemic. He should. tections for vaccines.” the reason behind the proposed States has already used its own country is offside, the In most cases, governments News reports say that the deci- patent waiver. manufacturing capacity to secure have already participated finan- sion to proceed with the waiver Vaccine manufacturers say vaccines for all its citizens before waiver will not be a cially in the development of these was made on May 4 after weeks the real issue is the production pivoting on the waiver issue. vaccines. of internal debate, and repre- blockages and shortage of raw The president knew that rais- slam dunk. Parliament has already passed sentatives from the Commerce materials. They also claim that ing the ire of vaccine manufactur- a resolution permitting the gov- Department were not included in the waiver could dilute the safety ers would probably slow down ernment to suspend patent rights the final meeting. and security of the vaccination his national rollout. during a pandemic. With the announcement the rollout, encouraging fraudulent or On the Canadian side, we cur- The tools are there to move following day, the usual outreach to inferior production methods. rently have no international manu- quickly in support of a World like-minded countries did not gath- The European Union has been facturers. The only Canadian compa- Trade Organization resolution er a unanimous wave of support. promoting the idea of a liberal- ny that had begun the development proposed by India and South Af- Germany came down hard on ized licensing system with shared process, Providence Therapeutics rica and now supported by more the proposal, while France offered know-how and greater oversight. from Calgary, last week blamed lack than 100 countries. tepid words of support. Chances are this WTO patent of government support for a decision It is quite possible that the na- While the American reversal waiver will take a least a year to to leave the country. scent Biden administration kept was well-received around the implement, if ever. Last month, Ontario and federal Sheila Copps allies in the dark regarding any world, the announcement prom- Meanwhile the Biden admin- governments announced a vaccine Copps’ Corner intention to move on this motion. ised discussion but there is no istration has scored big with package of 925 million with Sanofi, Canada wasn’t the only real deadline for completion. developing nations while Canada a French pharmaceutical giant. The country looking as though it was The challenge of getting the appears to be the fat cat sitting on plan envisions a new vaccine pro- he Canadian government caught by surprise. exemption through the WTO is no the sidelines. duction facility in Toronto to open Tcould have been on the wrong The European Union, and small task because all resolutions With the images of death and in 2027. The federal government side of the world vaccine issue. many countries there, had similar are supposed to be determined by dying emanating from India, contributed 415 million and Ontario By failing to immediately join milquetoast responses to the consensus. there is a huge humanitarian added 55 million to the project. the United States president in his statement issued last week by As long as a single country is reason to be on the waiver side of Those jobs will likely be call for an end to patent protec- U.S. Trade Representative Kath- offside, the waiver will not be a this issue. threatened by an open vaccine tion for coronavirus vaccines, erine Tai. slam dunk. That, coupled with the number regime. Canada risked losing its globally The statement explained the In the meantime, the cur- of expatriate Indo-Canadians But the prime minister’s own positive reputation. change of heart because: “This rent system will continue, with fearing for their families’ lives, job may be at risk if Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a global health crisis, and the disproportionate vaccination in should be reason enough for the flaunts the global consensus. has already signalled he may extraordinary circumstances of developed nations. cabinet to come out strongly in Sheila Copps is a former Jean replace an initial tepid response the COVID-19 pandemic call for The second question not been support of the Biden initiative. Chrétien-era cabinet minister and with a strong endorsement of the extraordinary measures … in fully answered is whether the Leader a former deputy prime minister. plan by U.S. President Joe Biden service of ending this pandemic, waiver will actually ensure more has already ac- The Hill Times

How to benefit from electoral royal rumbles

that in politics facing off against The Conservative ple to rally around their leader in The lesson here is, in many enemies on many fronts Party of Canada, times of crisis. political campaigns doesn’t necessarily have to be a led by Erin Hence, you’d go to your base bad thing; in fact, under certain O'Toole, will, in and say something like, “Our you’re going to have circumstances having several the next federal enemies are hitting us from all enemies can actually provide a election, find sides, because they know we can lots of enemies, so political party with strategic op- itself battling win this election; it means they’re portunities. the Liberals, desperate. So don’t let them stop why not make the Before we get to that though, the NDP, the us now. Give us a donation and be most of it? let’s first consider just how crowd- , sure to vote! Show our enemies ed a political war zone can be. and the People’s we can’t be intimidated!” I’ll start off by using my own Party. The Hill It’s like Franklin Roosevelt experience as an example. Times photograph once said, “I ask you to judge me Several years ago, I was con- by Andrew Meade by the enemies I have made.” sulting on a U.S. Republican sena- The other opportunity that torial primary campaign, an opera- comes from having many oppo- tion which saw us not only going nents is it gives you a chance to up against four other candidates in play them off against each other. the race, but also against non-party To use one hypothetical ex- opponents, including well-funded ample of this, Conservative Party right-wing advocacy groups and, Leader Erin O’Toole might benefit on some occasions, the media. if he were to loudly attack NDP Gerry Nicholls In short, we had opponents ga- Leader Jagmeet Singh as more lore, and that’s operating within “dangerously socialist than Prime Post Partisan Pundit the context of the American two- Minister Justin Trudeau.” party system. The point of this attack would be AKVILLE, ONT.—When it Here in Canada, where we to strengthen the NDP, as it could Ocomes to formulating grand have three major parties, plus cause indignant progressive voters strategies, military planners al- a few smaller ones, multi-front attacks coming from powerful body seems to be fighting every- to abandon Justin Trudeau and to ways seek to avoid the nightmare contests are even more part of the labour unions on the left, and per- body else. jump into Singh’s camp, since as of fighting a “two-front” war. process. haps even from some disgruntled It’s like a Royal Rumble. noted earlier, people tend to rally Such is not the case, however, The NDP, for instance, is not only advocacy groups on the right. So, how can a political strate- around a leader who’s under attack. for political strategists, who, when taking on the Liberals and Conser- As for the Liberals, they’ll be gist use all this apparent electoral This, of course, would weaken concocting their electoral battle vatives, but also the Green Party. battling the NDP, the Conserva- battlefield chaos to his or her the Liberals. plans, are always ready, willing The Conservative Party of Can- tives, and in Quebec, the Bloc tactical advantage? Anyway, the lesson here is, in and able to wage war on multiple ada, meanwhile, will, in the next Québécois. Well, for starters, if your candi- political campaigns you’re going fronts against multiple opponents. federal election, find itself battling They may also have to contend date is being assailed on all fronts to have lots of enemies, so why Napoleon would probably the Liberals, the NDP, the Maverick with attacks coming from Conser- by hordes of political enemies, it not make the most of it? cringe at the thought. Party, and the People’s Party. vative provincial premiers. could actually help to mobilize Gerry Nicholls is a communi- But then again, Napoleon On top of that, Conservatives At any rate, you get my point, and energize your political base, cations consultant. probably wouldn’t understand will also likely have to deflect right? During elections, every- as it’s a natural reaction for peo- The Hill Times 10 MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 | THE HILL TIMES Opinion

Newfoundland as they might put it on the streets offshore, Ottawa contested own- and of St. John’s, “the arse is out of ership of the resource with the Premier Andrew her.” Peckford government. Ultimately, Furey. The The provincial government the Supreme Court ruled in Ot- Government of can’t pay its bills. The bond mar- tawa’s favour. ket is turning a cold shoulder on Members of the Peckford and Labrador last further borrowing. Raising taxes government wore black arm- week announced isn’t an option. And the place is bands that day. They believed serious austerity facing an out-migration of young Newfoundland had been deprived measures to people who don’t see a future of a chance to pull itself up by put the brakes at home. When I lived there, the the boot straps. Making matters on decades population was 540,000. Now it is worse, Ottawa clawed back trans- of bad habits, barely 520,000. fer payments to the province in most of them So here is the question: should light of Newfoundland and Lab- stemming from Ottawa allow Newfoundland and rador’s new oil revenues. Hard to over-borrowing. Labrador to founder and default, get ahead like that. Photograph or weigh in with a rescue package Finally, there is the bad courtesy of that might run as high as $28-bil- deal on the mighty Churchill 's lion? Falls project. Most of the blame Facebook page The hawks in this matter make belongs to Smallwood, because an accountant’s case. Is the place he signed a huge deal without really viable? The province is one inserting escalator clauses. Such of the most over-governed parts clauses would have protected of the country. At 109 public ser- against a dramatic increase in vants per every 1,000 Newfound- the price of energy. A few years landers and Labradorians, that is after the 1969 signing, the Arab the highest ratio in the Atlantic oil embargo struck, and energy Region. prices indeed skyrocketed. And then there is the issue Smallwood had made a of mismanagement by succes- mistake that would last until sive provincial governments of 2041. He had agreed to offer all stripes. In Smallwood’s time, ludicrously low fixed prices for smooth-talking developers like Upper Churchill power to Hydro John Shaheen and John C. Doyle Quebec for the entire term of the led the premier into multiple contract. As a result, Quebec has ruinous projects—the Come- made $28-billion in profits from It’s time for by-Chance oil refinery, and the Churchill Falls, Newfoundland Stephenville Linerboard mill to and Labrador just $2-billion. name just two. Though Joey signed the When the PCs took over from deal, Ottawa bears some moral the Liberals, premier Brian Peck- responsibility in the Churchill ford squandered $30-million on Falls fiasco. The federal govern- Canada to show the doomed Sprung Greenhouse ment declined to use its influence project. Looking back on it, how to help get the deal renegotiated. could anyone have believed that Nor did it press Quebec to allow St. John’s was the right place for Newfoundland and Labrador a project that aimed to corner the access to the Quebec grid. A deal market on English cucumbers? is a deal, but this one was not just On average, the province has just economically but socially unjust. it believes in 68 days of sunshine a year. The only way Newfoundland Then Liberal premier Danny and Labrador could access the Williams signed the deal that may Quebec grid was by selling all of have broken the fiscal camel’s Churchill Falls power to Hydro- back in his home province—the Quebec at lower than market development of Muskrat Falls on prices. Every year, for the life of the Lower Churchill River. The the fifty-year contract, Hydro- Newfoundland deal was sanctioned by his suc- Quebec gets 30 million mega- cessor, . watts of power at the price of $2 The costs of the development per MWh. How bad is that? In ballooned, and along with that, the year 2003, Quebec charged the province’s already oner- $85 per MWh for the power it ous debt load. A deal that was exported. and Labrador supposed to create wealth and I hear the accountants. And so thousands of jobs has turned into does the Government of New- a multi-billion dollar albatross. foundland and Labrador, which framed on his wall. It was the The only way to pay for it would last week announced serious The times are thin, paper thin, these days in pen with which he had signed be to double the electricity bills of austerity measures to put the Newfoundland and Labrador. , the massive, and as it turned out, every citizen in the province. Can brakes on decades of bad habits, ruinous Upper Churchill power you think of a less viable, more most of them stemming from warts and all, believed in Canada. It is time for development in Labrador. I told unfair, or more politically suicidal over-borrowing. him that the pen belonged in a solution than that? But for me, it really all comes Canada to show it believes in Newfoundland museum, not with me. The accountants notwithstand- down to what that little old man I Smallwood’s long and brilliant ing, the argument for helping out visited so long ago told his people and Labrador. political journey ended in the Canada’s youngest province has when they were looking for a new usual way. He stayed in office too a lot to do with Ottawa’s own political place in the world. That By that time, he was no longer long, the inspirational speaker responsibility for part of the mess Canada would be a good home a great man. He was very frail, morphed into the demagogue, Newfoundland and Labrador is in. for Newfoundlanders and Labra- and had lost his ability to speak and when he reached his low For starters, it was the federal dorians. That Canada would bring after a stroke. Smallwood without water mark, the idealist became government that made grievous social security to a place that had the spellbinding oratory was like something close to a tin-pot dicta- errors in setting the quotas for really never had it. That Canada Superman without his cape. tor. Newfoundland’s great northern would have their backs through After 22 years and 292 days But there was one thing that cod stock, a renewable resource thick and thin. in power as Newfoundland and he did that will never lose its that had sustained outport com- Well, the times are thin, paper Labrador’s first premier, and lustre: Joey Smallwood brought munities for centuries. In 1992, thin, these days in Newfoundland many more years in retirement, Newfoundland and Labrador into the Mulroney government had to and Labrador. Joey Smallwood, Michael Harris he had turned into W.B. Yeats’ old Canada, defeating the forces led close the cod fishery because the warts and all, believed in Canada. Harris man—rags upon a stick. by the late ’s father. once legendary stock had been It is time for Canada to show it Every room in the house had a wanted the place all but decimated. DFO had got- believes in Newfoundland and television set and he showed me to enter into an economic union ten it horribly wrong on its stock Labrador. ALIFAX—I remember the his old speeches. He pointed to with the United States, rather assessment, set murderously high After all, in countries as in Hday I visited Joey Smallwood himself as if to say “That was me.” than be gobbled up by the “Cana- total allowable catch numbers, clans, there is nothing sadder in his ramshackle bungalow on His eyes filled with tears over all dian wolf.” and Newfoundland and Labrador than a death in the family. the Roaches Line, off the Trans- that he had been and was no more. Seventy years later, the prov- paid the price. Michael Harris is an award- Canada Highway west of Concep- Before I left, he tried to give ince Smallwood led into Confed- When oil was discovered in winning journalist and author. tion Bay. me a present; a pen that was eration is effectively bankrupt. Or Newfoundland and Labrador’s The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 11 Opinion

hope of Biden’s jobs and infrastructure leg- islation in a real Manchin-mover that just might lead to bi-partisan agreement upon Three takeaways from Joe Green New Deal action to make the needed transition out of fossil fuels. (Though, wisely, Biden and company will not call it a Green New Deal nor even a transition out Biden’s climate summit of fossil fuels, but it will be.) Three: the writing is on the wall. Canada joined in raising our mitigation reminiscent (hopefully) of how U.S.-Russia ambitions—a promise of a 40 per cent to Within a year we will see pleas from Alberta workers for a competition spurred the (tremendously 45 per cent reduction by 2030. As econo- Green New Deal-style transition plan and the next Alberta spinoff productive) space race. mist Andrew Leach and many climate Much was promised (our PM is a great ENGO reps rushed to point out—there is government post-Kenney will join with CAPP in agreeing promiser) at the summit and we’ll see, but zero chance of Canada coming anywhere for now the U.S. is back, ambitions have close to meeting this latest target without to a regulated wind down of production to save the Alberta been raised, the enemies of climate action severely constraining oil sands production. have been muted. It’s quite a change from The oil and gas sector is responsible for a economy and ensure producers have an orderly transition a year ago. quarter of Canada’s present emissions and schedule instead of stranded assets and an economic debacle. Orthodox, demand-side decarbonization the oilsands were projected to emit 22 per will not—cannot—reduce emissions as fast cent of Canada’s previous (grossly inad- as needed, but at least America is turning equate) 2030 target so something will have to confront the existential challenge. rhetoric and tensions in a deeply divided to change radically to meet our fair share America, but, most importantly, the new of emission reduction. Alberta Premier administration is launching an ‘all-of- Two: now’s the time. and the CAPP must know government’ approach to the most serious The Biden Administration was pushed the jig is up. threat to America’s future. to its 50 per cent reduction by 2030 promise As CAN-Rac ED Catherine Abreu President Biden convened a virtual by the climate science and both public and pointed out again: “We really have to stop climate summit last week. The summit was policymaker demand. Crucially, major U.S. selling ourselves that perhaps comforting, an attempt first of all to reassert America and global corporations pushed for this but dangerous lie that there is room for the as a leader in confronting and solving the target and lobbied for American leadership. oilsands in the future.” global problem of climate change. Lead- Although there is a rump of climate denial Within a year we will see pleas from Al- Bill Henderson ership at this summit depended upon a opposition remaining in the U.S. that is still berta workers for a Green New Deal-style Opinion much-needed ratcheting up of American strong enough to make the Biden Admin- transition plan and the next Alberta gov- and global ambition on reducing green- istration’s efforts difficult, the science is ernment post-Kenney will join with CAPP house gas emissions. undeniable and frankly scary; renewables in agreeing to a regulated wind down of IBSONS, B.C.—One: America is back The summit was a success. The U.S. and tech for the transition to a post-carbon production to save the Alberta economy Gas a climate leader. raised its Paris commitments to a 50 per economy are surging, and the Biden Admin- and ensure producers have an orderly (and Firmly putting the toxic Trump presi- cent reduction by 2030. (Not the can-kicking istration is taking advantage of the COVID potentially profitable) transition schedule dency behind us, the new Biden adminis- net zero by 2050 time-wasting target but the recovery opportunity to look forward opti- instead of stranded assets and an economic tration is not only showing leadership and essential reductions now, this decade.) Most mistically to a cleaner, greener, more equal, debacle. competency in handling the pandemic, of the invited nations joined the U.S. in rais- more resilient, and secure economy. Bill Henderson is a long-time climate positioning the U.S. for a strong economic ing their 2030 pledges. Importantly, China Two days before the summit, the United activist [email protected] recovery, and endeavouring to lower came to the summit as a frenemy co-leader Mine Workers of America embraced the The Hill Times

Celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Paraguay and Canada Message from the Ambassador

o the Canadian society, to the thousands of the fi rst Canadian Mennonite immigrants, contributed Paraguayan residents and to the Federal, Provincial to the development of the Paraguayan Chaco. A new Tand Municipal Canadian authorities Paraguayan law had been passed for that purpose. As we commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of This shows that both Canada and Paraguay are open formal diplomatic relations between Paraguay and to immigration, a common characteristic of both Canada, we must highlight our commonality in nations. the observance of principles and respect for values As an emblem of this important anniversary, and enshrined by the international community as norms of of the physical presence of the Paraguayan diplomatic coexistence applied in international relations. mission in the federal capital, we would like to offer the city of Ottawa, in the person of its Mayor, Mr. Jim In the six decades since 1961, relations have Watson, a piece of traditional Paraguayan craftsmanship undoubtedly grown stronger, thanks to an extensive and, as such, part of our culture. bilateral agenda, and a shared approach to multilateral issues in regional and world fora. We are confi dent that the initiatives that the embassy has been developing will contribute to making Paraguay The international structure, characterized by better known and will become a means to consolidate globalization, has imposed a dynamic on relations our relations with Canada. between States and peoples that has led to further integration and cooperation. Canada and Paraguay Ambassador Inés Martínez Valinotti have built on this, promoting a closer relationship, as Ottawa, 2021 shown by the MERCOSUR and Canada negotiations, which are in process. Embassy of Paraguay in Canada As distant antecedents of the bonds between our 130 Albert Street, Offi ce 418 Ottawa, ON K1P 5G4 countries - although not in a formal framework - we Phone: 1 (613) 567 1283 • Email: [email protected] Web Page: https://www.mre.gov.py/embapar-canada/ can mention the Diplomatic Notes on trade relations Facebook page : @Embaparcanada signed as early as 1940, and, in 1926, the arrival of YouTube Channel: Embajada del Paraguay en Canada 12 MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 | THE HILL TIMES Opinion

other part of Canada has never been on the table, nor is it now.” Plan to import nuclear waste raises The history of earlier plans belies the idea that importing nuclear waste “has never been on the table” and suggests that they may well larger questions about plans to reappear. The obvious next step to stop such schemes would be to pass legislation prohibiting such imports now and in the future. deal with domestic nuclear waste But that is only the first step. The underlying concerns that foundland and Labrador Premier Possibly the best-known communities—suggests that nuclear prompt such a ban also raise two If nuclear waste is Andrew Furey and federal Natural proposal was led by Pangea Re- waste is not something that elites questions. First, if it is not okay to Resources Minister Seamus sources, a British-based company. want to be stored near themselves. import nuclear waste into Cana- such a problematic O’Regan have declared that the The proposal received funding Selection of any site, then, implicitly da, is it fair to move nuclear waste material as to ban its proposal is dead. But the ideas from organizations in Canada, signals to the chosen community from one part of the country to that propelled the proposal and the U.S., and Switzerland, with that their land and their environ- another? Why should, say, Ignace, imports from other the opposition to it raise a number the largest part of the financing ment is not as valuable and can be one of the two sites shortlisted by of ethical questions about not just coming from British Nuclear Fuel despoiled for millennia. the Nuclear Waste Management countries, isn’t it time importing nuclear waste, but mov- Ltd. The idea was to develop an Given this reality, there are Organization, in northwestern ing it around the country or even international repository in West normative problems with import- Ontario receive this hazardous to stop its production producing it in the first place. Australia, and the company had ing nuclear waste. The underlying material from, say, the Darlington There have been earlier, secret, developed a $9-million campaign ethical argument is that those reactors in southern Ontario? altogether? plans to import nuclear waste to to advertise the idea. Those plans benefitting from nuclear power, or The second is even more fun- Canada. Information shared on fell apart when a promotional other industrial processes, should damental: if nuclear waste is such Twitter by Shawn-Patrick Stensil video was leaked to Friends of the bear the responsibility for mitigat- a problematic material as to ban of Greenpeace reminds us of a Earth in 1998. The video touted ing any environmental conse- its imports from other countries, similar effort around 20 years ago Australia as the “best world site quences. This is the basis for the isn’t it time to stop its production where Labrador was touted as for a geological repository.” The general agreement that countries altogether? a suitable site for nuclear waste subsequent political opposition in should not export their hazardous Kerrie Blaise is an environ- imports. In 2017, it was revealed Australia killed the idea. waste, as exemplified in the Basel mental lawyer based in northern that a company called Terra Vault The opposition to such proposals Convention on the Control of Ontario whose practice includes wanted to build a nuclear waste derives from widespread reluctance Transboundary Movement of Haz- energy and nuclear law; she is also repository in Labrador. among communities to host reposi- ardous Wastes and their Disposal, a member of the Canadian and In- Neither is Canada the only tories for radioactive waste. Waste signed by 175 countries. Imports ternational Nuclear Law Associa- Kerrie Blaise & M.V. Ramana target for companies wanting to from nuclear reactors contains of waste by a country in exchange tions. M.V. Ramana is the Simons Opinion profit from international trans- hazardous radioactive elements for monetary payment is funda- Chair in Disarmament, Global and fers of nuclear waste. In the mid and has to be isolated from human mentally opposed to the principles Human Security and director of 1990s, a U.S.-based group, U.S. contact for hundreds of thousands of environmental justice. the Liu Institute for Global Issues ecently, the CBC revealed that Fuel and Security targeted the of years. Most people realize the In response to the revelation at the School of Public Policy and Rformer prime minister Jean Pacific Islands of Wake Island and resultant risks to the health of about these secretive plans, Cana- Global Affairs, University of Brit- Chrétien was part of a secretive then subsequently Palmyra Island themselves and their descendants. da’s minister of natural resources ish Columbia, in Vancouver, and a project to set up a repository in for a repository. The scheme met Further, the choice of locations—al- has stated: “Importing nuclear scholar at the Peter Wall Institute Labrador to store radioactive with strong opposition and was ways home to economically poor waste from other countries to Lab- for Advanced Studies. nuclear waste. Since then, New- abandoned. and politically disenfranchised rador—where I grew up—or any The Hill Times

Meeting Canada’s new emissions targets will require changes to land use, agriculture, and diets

accounting for almost 15 per cent animal protein diet to one that is mayor of New York has called upon We are all part of a global ecosystem—human, of global greenhouse gas emis- primarily plant-based for reasons its citizens to eat less meat to fight sions from human activities. The of public health, environment, climate change. animal and planetary health and welfare are animal protein sector is the most and animal welfare. Increased There is much discussion these significant contributor to this consumption of plant-based days about how to invest wisely interconnected. This has never been more total. We need to develop more products is in line with the new and deliver a green recovery. In- evident as we live through the pandemic, sustainable—and more humane— Canada Food Guide’s evidence- deed, this is a generational oppor- approaches to raising animals. based recommendations. While tunity to invest for the future. But which is ultimately the result of pathogens We can start by shifting subsidies the primary focus of the food this cannot be about greening ef- away from intensive industrial guide is health impact, scientists forts alone. While the terms green jumping from animals to humans. animal agriculture practices that also acknowledge the environ- and sustainable are often used treat animals more as production mental impact of consuming interchangeably, they mean differ- 2005 levels in the next 10 years, units than sentient beings and more plant-based foods and fewer ent things, and what we need is a significantly deeper than earlier putting more towards plant-based animal-based foods. The new sustainable recovery. Where green commitments. These new an- production and promotion. Canada Food Guide was praised is focused on environmental health, nouncements from Canada fol- The 2019 Intergovernmental for its science-based approach sustainability is concerned with lowed record levels of spending Panel on Climate Change Report and its independence from private environmental health, economic to reduce emissions announced in states, “without drastic changes in industry lobbying. Now we need to strength and social well-being. the recent federal budget. global land use, agriculture and promote the guide and follow its We are all part of a global It is encouraging to see human diets, efforts to reduce recommendations. Policies need to ecosystem—human, animal and governments redoubling efforts carbon emissions will fall short.” shift to support plant-centric diets. planetary health and welfare are to combat climate change and re- It describes plant-based diets as a There are positive signs of chang- interconnected. This has never been Colin Saravanamuttoo committing to multi-lateral coop- major opportunity for mitigating ing behaviours. Consumer expecta- more evident as we live through the Opinion eration. However, achieving these and adapting to climate change tions and preferences are evolving pandemic, which is ultimately the new commitments will require and recommends reducing meat and retailers are adapting their result of pathogens jumping from focused action across multiple consumption. Similarly, in an open offerings to meet—and increasingly animals to humans. One Health, he recent Leaders’ Summit on economic sectors. Among other letter from scientists to the World lead—consumer demand. Millenni- One Welfare is an integrated phi- TClimate brought bold state- actions, Canada will not meet Health Organization, experts pre- als, in particular, are heading a move losophy that recognizes this deep ments and strengthened commit- its climate targets unless it ad- dict that without urgent and drastic toward plant-based foods as they interconnectedness. The concept of ments to reduce greenhouse gas dresses industrial agriculture and shifts in global meat consumption, consider food source, animal welfare One Health, One Welfare is key to emissions. The U.S. and the EU Canadian consumer consumption agriculture will consume the entire and environmental impact in their addressing the issues of our age. promised cuts beyond previous patterns. world’s carbon budget necessary decision-making. Public leaders are Colin Saravanamuttoo is pledges. While less aggressive, The global food system, includ- for keeping global temperature playing a role too. Toronto is one of executive director of the World Canada announced it will cut ing production, transportation and rises under 2C by 2050. 14 global cities to sign onto the C40 Animal Protection, a global ani- greenhouse gas emissions by disposal of food waste, contributes There is compelling evidence to Good Food Cities Declaration for hu- mal welfare organization. 40 per cent to 45 per cent from significantly to greenhouse gases, support a shift away from a high man and planetary health. And the The Hill Times The Hill Times Policy Briefing | May 10, 2021 Research Innovation&

Motion to If we can’t do Innovation Research on establish Science better, we will for net zero: and Research governance and pandemic not be able lessons will Committee has to afford the policy innovation cross-partisan as important as get us out of Canada we want support technological p. 18 COVID, and the p. 14 advances p. 22 next one Federal p. 23 Naylor Report budget misses Where’s the recommendations opportunity to innovation in Canada needs still resonant after support social to skill up in innovation for our innovation four years ecosystem? the race to 5G p. 20 sustainability p. 22 p. 24 p. 23 14 MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 | THE HILL TIMES Research & Innovation Policy Briefing Motion to establish House Science and Research Committee has cross-partisan support

Technology Committee, leaving ians to take a closer look at this The motion would it as the Industry and Technology and vote in favour of establishing create the first official Committee. a permanent standing committee “The Industry Committee on science and research.” rarely talks about science and re- Conservative Deputy House House Science and Liberal MP , pictured April 16, 2018, on the Hill, is no search, yet they are so fundamen- Leader (Elgin- longer minister of science but is still advocating for a bigger role for science Research Committee tally important to addressing the Middlesex-, Ont.) said in in government and said 'science and research have largely been ignored, pandemic, the climate emergency response to Hill Times questions unexplored and merely tacked on to the House of Commons parliamentary in Canadian history. and our future. We will not create that her party will support Ms. committees in Canada.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade the future we imagine without Duncan’s motion, “assuming all science having a strong and ever- parties are in agreement” that BY AIDAN CHAMANDY present voice,” Ms. Duncan said changes to the standing orders during debate. “should receive unanimous sup- anada’s former minister of Green MPs port of the House.” Cscience says there should be (Saanich-Gulf Islands, B.C.) and Conservative MP a full-fledged House Science and (Nanaimo-Ladysmith, (Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston, Research Committee in the next B.C.) seconded the motion, and Ont.) addressed the issue of Parliament and says it could have Ms. May said she’s an ardent sup- changes to the Standing Orders, played a vital role during the porter of the proposal. She said or the rules of the House, in a global pandemic. she thinks the motion has a good speech he gave on the Commons Ms. Duncan (Etobicoke North, chance of passing based on the floor during debate on the bill on Ont.), who served as the federal positive response from MPs when April 27. minister of science and sport in it was introduced. Establishing the committee the last Parliament and currently Beyond the pandemic, Ms. May would require a change to the serves as deputy House leader, said in an interview “a standing Standing Orders “which is arrived introduced a motion to create the committee on science would really at either by way of consensus or committee which was debated on help focus on getting top notch by a simple majority vote on a April 27. She said in an emailed science on every topic we’re deal- motion moved by any Member of response to The Hill Times ing with” from health and environ- the House,” according to Proce- questions that the move “is long mental issues and beyond. dure and Practice. overdue.” The federal minister NDP MP Richard Cannings Mr. Reid raised some con- of science was not retained in (South Okanagan-West Koote- cerns around changing the rules Bloc MP Sebastien Lemire, pictured Oct. 29, 2019, said he has some this Cabinet and is now part of nay, B.C.) a former University of through a simple majority vote reservations but would likely support the motion even if it’s not amended. The François-Philippe Champagne’s biologist, said versus through unanimous con- Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade (Saint-Maurice-Champlain, Que.) he was “very pleased” to see the sent or all-party agreement. He portfolio as minister of innova- motion introduced. said there is a “a convention in the tion, science, and industry. “I fully support it and the NDP process of developing” that “these “The reality is that science will be supporting it,” he said dur- rules should not be changed ex- and research have largely been ing debate. cept by the consent of the House ignored, unexplored, and merely Bloc Québécois MP Sebastien leadership of all the recognized tacked on to the House of Com- Lemire (Abitibi-Témiscamingue, parties.” mons parliamentary committees Que.), his party’s critic for indus- He added that in his view Ms. in Canada over many decades. Yet, try, science and technology, said Duncan’s motion “may be prop- science plays such an important in the House “at first glance, the erly distinguished from the kinds role in driving innovation, eco- Bloc Québécois likes this motion.” of amendments to the standing nomic growth and a better quality Mr. Lemire said he’s con- orders that have given rise to the of life for Canadians,” she wrote. cerned about the ramifications for convention.” Ms. Duncan said in the House the current Standing Committee Mr. Reid also said he supports that the proposed committee on Industry, Science, and Technol- the creation of the committee in could have been very useful ogy, which he is a member of. principle “and the real question is during the pandemic as a place “Splitting the Standing Com- why none has never existed thus where “Parliamentarians could mittee on Industry, Science and far, given the importance of the have heard directly from the chief Technology should not create a subject matter.” science adviser and departmental silo where research and science In addition to creating the 26th chief scientists, or whomever else are isolated from the rest of soci- standing committee, the motion Green Party parliamentary leader Elizabeth May said she’s worried the civil parliamentarians thought they ety,” he said. also proposes reducing commit- service hasn’t recovered from cuts to departmental science in the Harper needed to hear from. They could Mr. Lemire also said that a tees back to 10-member bodies, years. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade have heard the best scientific evi- standalone committee “must not the number in the 42nd Parliament. dence on the virus, the pandemic, be used as a pretext for interfer- Committees in the 43rd Parliament protective measures and what ing in scientific work, which must have either 11 or 12 members. was needed to mobilize the scien- be kept at arm’s length from the There are currently 27 House Ms. Duncan cited a Library of The German Bundestag has tific and research community.” policy process.” committees, including 25 stand- Parliament study on the topic in the education, research, and Ms. Duncan, who has a PhD He said the Bloc supports “the ing committees. The Canada- her introductory speech. technology committee. The U.K. in medical geography, said in the idea behind the motion” and that China relations and Canada-U.S. “A very broad reading of the House of Commons has the sci- House the committee could be “a the party “will likely support the relations committees are select data shows only 12 substantive ence and technology committee, place where scientists, research- motion even if it is not amended” committees. reports (on science and research) and the U.S. House of Represen- ers and Parliamentarians can to address his concerns. In past Parliaments, there have over the last 54 years. Even in the tatives has the science, space and come to know one another; where Liberal MP (Lon- been five committees with either last Parliament, only two of 27 re- technology committee. Parliamentarians can get a better don West, Ont.), who served as science or research in their title, ports” done by the House Industry The motion is set to receive its understanding of science and parliamentary secretary to Ms. and they’re usually lumped into Committee were linked to science second hour of debate on May 12 research; where Parliamentar- Duncan in the last Parliament, other committees. According to and research. or later, according to the Standing ians can learn about Canada’s added her voice to the chorus of the Library of Parliament, science Germany, the United States, and Orders. It’s currently last in the research strengths,” and more. supporters. and research have been included the United Kingdom have legisla- order of precedence on the Order The motion would take science “How can we not agree with in committees on industry and tive committees where science and Paper. and research outside the pur- this motion?” she asked during de- technology, energy, and regional research are either the main focus [email protected] view of the Industry, Science and bate. “It is time for Parliamentar- and northern development. or lumped into a broader mandate. The Hill Times Canada needs to be prepared and self-sufficient.

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have access to the supplies, devices, medications and care that help them manage their disease to avoid poor PROGRESS outcomes. “We are pleased that the What could make a Canadian prouder than commemorating our discovery federal government recognized this OVER THE Game Changer need and made a commitment in the of insulin 100 years ago, and forever changing the lives of all who suff er 2021 federal budget to implement a CENTURY In 1921, the revolutionary Canadian discovery of insulin national diabetes framework. Specifi cally, from diabetes? Looking forward to what’s coming next. We Will. $25 million over fi ve years is allocated Some key research discoveries that made treatment for diabetes a reality. One hundred years later, for diabetes research, surveillance, have improved quality of life and prevention, innovation, and the lifespan for people with diabetes. the need for new diabetes breakthroughs is just as urgent. development of a comprehensive diabetes strategy. And $10 million over 1921: fi ve years to surface novel interventions to Drs. Charles Best and Frederick t’s been 100 years since the discovery The organization is now doubling people who need it and continuing to prevent type 2 diabetes. We are looking Banting identify the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto. of insulin turned a devastating, almost down on those efforts with the launch of fund research to improve care and to forward to the implementation and always fatal, disease into a treatable the End Diabetes Fund. eventually fi nd a cure. Insulin was the urge the passing of Bill C-237 An Act to one – and yet the challenges caused starting point, but we’re still very far 1936: “We don’t know where the next Establish a National Diabetes Framework. Iby diabetes in Canada continues. from the fi nish line. Britain’s Sir Harold Percival innovative treatment or the cure for We are confi dent an inclusive, holistic Himsworth publishes research on Prevalence is on the rise. Today, it diabetes will come from,” says Dr. “We will fund 15 of the most brilliant and equitable approach to addressing the differences between type 1 and is estimated that one in two young Seema Nagpal, the organization’s vice scientists across the country this year diabetes that engages all Canadians will type 2 diabetes. adults in this country will develop type president of science and policy. “We do in our research competition called chart a path that will ensure Canada 2 diabetes in their remaining lifetime. know that funding research is the path End Diabetes: 100. We will provide does not fi nd itself in a worse position in 1972: The disease is shockingly successful at forward to fi nding those discoveries.” these researchers with the autonomy, another hundred years.” Metformin, a drug widely used to causing severe health consequences. resources and fl exibility they need to treat type 2 diabetes, is approved Since the discovery of insulin, All Canadians have a role to play Managing blood glucose and preventing pursue important lines of inquiry.” in Canada. innovative breakthroughs have helped in this critical effort, whether it’s complications is an exhausting 24/7 job, make it possible for people to better Part of the challenge is a lack of educating themselves, lending their with enormous individual and societal 1978: ONE OF THE manage their blood glucose, blood understanding, despite widespread voice to advocacy for a national diabetes The fi rst manufactured insulin impacts. Diabetes costs our health-care pressure and cholesterol, quit smoking awareness. While nearly 11.5 million framework, writing to their MP, getting system $30-billion and, as case numbers identical to human insulin is and protect their kidneys, says Dr. Canadians live with diabetes or involved as volunteers or participating in introduced. increase, so too will the human and Nagpal. “When these things are prediabetes, many people still don’t a fundraising program, she stresses. “In fi nancial toll. GREATEST MEDICAL managed well, a person with diabetes realize all the devastating physical and September, we’re having our ‘Lace-Up 1980s: Since 1953, Diabetes Canada and can live as long as someone without psychological consequences of the for Diabetes’ event, and we’re looking Home glucose monitors its supporters have invested more than diabetes – and that change in life disease, Ms. Syron explains. “They just for Canadians across the country to join dramatically improve testing. $140 million in research, contributing expectancy is because of the improved don’t know that diabetes is the leading us and to help raise money so that we BREAKTHROUGHS to countless incremental breakthroughs treatments that have become available cause of adult-onset blindness, that it don’t have to wait another 100 years. 1986: that have improved the lives of people over the past century.” causes kidney failure, 40 per cent of You can run, you can walk, you can An insulin “pen” is introduced. living with the disease – from more heart attacks and 30 per cent of strokes. dance, you can bike. These prefi lled syringes make “But we can’t wait another 100 effective lifestyle coaching services We need to help more people recognize insulin easier to administer. years,” says Laura Syron, Diabetes “As Canadians, we’re very proud of and new technologies, like the artifi cial and accept that this is a serious disease OF THE LAST CENTURY Canada’s president and CEO. “In the discovery of insulin, but we can’t 1990s: pancreas, to stem cell treatments that with serious consequences.” terms of immediate action, this means be proud of the state of diabetes in our show much promise in the search for a Insulin pumps become available, advocating for a national diabetes A national approach is needed to nation right now. And the urgency to act with signifi cant improvement to cure for type 1 diabetes. HAPPENED IN OUR framework, providing education to ensure that Canadians in all regions grows with every passing day.” glucose management. 1996: The fi rst short-acting insulin OWN BACKYARD. becomes available. 2000: Research by Dr. James Shapiro and his team leads to the groundbreaking Edmonton Protocol for islet cell transplants to treat diabetes.

2005: Diabetes is Dr. Ed Damiano and researchers at the University of Boston begin animal trials in the iLet Bionic successful at Pancreas Project – an “artifi cial pancreas” that combines testing taking over and insulin administration. 2008: Human trials begin in the iLet project. Since then, a number of the country. companies are working on artifi cial pancreas development.

2020: Even after 100 years of insulin, diabetes or A research team led by Dr. James Shapiro uses a stem cell process prediabetes affects 1 in 3 Canadians and 1 in 2 to cure diabetes in mice, which the team says can be translated to young adults will develop diabetes in their humans with more research. The stem cells are to be made from remaining lifetime. That’s why we can’t wait insulin-producing cells of patients another 100 years. Diabetes Canada is stepping with diabetes – bypassing the need for anti-rejection drugs. All trademarks owned by Novo Nordisk, A/S and used by Novo Nordisk, up to rally Canadians together to end diabetes. Canada, Inc. Novo Nordisk Canada Inc., Tel (905) 629-4222 or This article originally appeared 1-800-465-4334. www.novonordisk.ca © Novo Nordisk Canada Inc. in a Globe and Mail sponsor content feature produced by #LetsEndDiabetes RandallAnthony Communications NovoNordisk.ca Inc. Reprinted with permission. All diabetes.ca/enddiabetes rights reserved.

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It's time to be some benefits will emerge. But So despite Industry bold: Innovation, whether superclusters really will Science and make a noticeable difference to Canada claims Industry Canada’s weak innovation per- of success, much Minister formance and its critical need to François- boost its low productivity growth more heavy lifting— Philippe rate is much more debatable. Champagne, One of the challenges is to and much bolder many of the build strong Canadian companies. government’s Foreign corporations are regularly thinking—is needed. innovation targeting our best tech perform- initiatives have ers and their rich portfolios of IP, Modest gains will not been new and the federal government seems not be enough. As a initiatives but unwilling to do anything about it. additional International Trade and Small country, we should funding Business Minister for existing recently told the Financial Post follow the words of programs, writes that the federal government was David Crane. looking to build up a homegrown Virgil in The Aeneid, The Hill Times semiconductor industry, but written in the first- photograph by would have to rely on U.S. to help Andrew Meade do this. “I see this as an opportu- century BC: Audentis nity for Canada and the U.S. to build together, for us to collabo- Fortuna invat rate together and then sell them to the rest of the world,” she said. (Fortune favours the This does not seem like much of a plan to build up Canadian bold). companies. What’s forgotten is that we have allowed U.S. corporations to take over suc- cessful Canadian companies with competitive advantages in semiconductors, including Tundra Semiconductor in 2009, DALSA in 2010, and Gennum Corp. in 2011. There was not a peep of concern out of Ottawa. Today, our government con- tinues to approve takeovers of David Crane achieve low rankings in interna- industry support (the Strategic our tech companies and encour- Canada & the 21st Century tional measures of innovation. Innovation Fund merged earlier age R&D branch plants in which The Global Innovation Index in programmes for the automo- foreign corporations set up R&D 2020, for example, ranked Canada tive and aerospace industries, operations here, hire Canadian ORONTO—In running for 19th in the world. extended to other sectors); boost- talent and take advantage of Telection in 2015, the Liberal Yet, in a 2019 report on its In- ing venture capital funding; and our publicly funded university Party said next to nothing about novation and Skills Plan, Industry financing regional developments. What’s forgotten research to create IP to generate innovation and the challenges Canada wasn’t shy about claim- One of the few new initiatives “ wealth and jobs elsewhere. They Canada faced in moving into a ing that “early, but meaningful, was the so-called Superclusters is that we have can also utilize our R&D tax cred- knowledge-based economy. So it impacts of the plan are already Plan, described by former Indus- its and pay lower wages than they came to office with little thinking being felt across the country.” For try Canada deputy minister John allowed U.S. would have to in Silicon Valley. or awareness of the urgent need example, “the development of Knubley as “a policy experiment corporations Similarly, as the digital tech to transition Canada to a new superclusters is driving growth to improve Canada’s innovation news provider, The Logic, reported more productive and more com- and Canada’s leadership in key performance.” In a report for the to take over recently, excluding government petitive economy in a much more areas of strength. Innovators are Brookfield Institute, Building Su- funds, foreign investors are the competitive world. engaged in creating solutions to perclusters for Canada, Knubley successful most active players in Canadian Fortunately, within the profes- grand challenges. High-growth says the “case for superclusters Canadian venture capital and other private sional public service there had potential areas across the country is all about finding new solutions equity markets, with two impli- been concern about Canada’s are receiving targeted support” for Canada’s continuously dete- companies with cations. One is that most of the poor performance. So, despite while “businesses of all sizes are riorating innovation problems.” capital gains when the funds exit its declining capacity for good benefitting from accelerated ac- Canada committed in 2018 some competitive investments goes to foreign inves- analysis or new ideas, it was at cess to better innovation support $950-million over five years to advantages in tors for reuse by these investors. least able to alert the new prime programmes, helping them com- five such superclusters, with the The other, and of greater concern, minister, Justin Trudeau, the new mercialize, scale-up, export, and spending to be fully matched by semiconductors, is that when foreign (largely U.S.) finance minister, , compete globally.” business participants. A decision venture and private equity funds and the new innovation minister, The plan, it promised, would on a renewed five-year commit- including Tundra seek to sell their holdings, they are , on the urgency of “succeed in branding Canada as ment from Ottawa will have to be Semiconductor in likely to seek a U.S. buyer of the making innovation a priority in one of the top five most innovative made before the current program Canadian firm. the new government. countries in the world,” although expires in March 2023. 2009, DALSA in So, despite Industry Canada So the Liberals did open up when I asked Industry Canada The hope, says Knubley, was claims of success, much more government chequebooks for where Canada ranked now and that by creating business-run 2010, and Gennum heavy lifting—and much bolder universities, industry, and venture what criteria it would use to see superclusters Canadian busi- thinking—is needed. Modest capital. Despite its spending if or when we were one of the nesses would be more successful Corp. in 2011. gains will not be enough. As a initiatives, though, it is far from five most innovative nations, the in developing and adopting new There was not a country, we should follow the clear that Canada is on the right department was unable to give technologies, commercializing words of Virgil in The Aeneid, track to build a successful econ- any kind of meaningful answer. It new knowledge, raising invest- peep of concern written in the first-century BC: omy for the future—one based turns out they didn’t know. ment in research and develop- Audentis Fortuna invat (Fortune on converting new ideas into In fact, many of the govern- ment, improving adoption of IP out of Ottawa. favours the bold). If we can’t do successful commercial products ment’s innovation initiatives protection, strengthening supply better, we will not be able to af- and services through scaled-up, have not been new initiatives but chains, creating ongoing innova- ford the Canada we want. Canadian-owned companies with additional funding for existing tion networks and boosting and David Crane can be reached at their own valuable intellectual programs, such as those funding retaining Canadian talent. With [email protected]. property. Canada continues to university research; providing the level of spending, it’s certain The Hill Times Canada’s Global Nexus for Pandemics and Biological Threats

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Former science Naylor said in response to Hill Dr. Naylor said the lack of prog- minister Kirsty Times questions. ress made on the CSI is a big loss. Duncan, pictured Ottawa also reworked how the Prof. Crago said the CSI “could here in September granting councils coordinate with have played a played a role in 2017, launched each other by creating the Canada COVID by saying, ‘Let’s figure the 2017 Research Coordinate Commit- out how we’re coordinating in Fundamental tee (CRCC) and the Council on the world of supply chains, in the Science Review Science and Innovation (CSI). The world of research, in the world of and oversaw the CRCC is chaired by one of the what needs prioritizing.’” implementation presidents of the granting councils “A committee on science and in- of some of its key on a rotating basis and seeks to novation in a time of COVID could recommendations. improve coordination between the have been bringing together com- The Hill Times Social Science and Humanities pany needs and university capacity photograph by Research Council (SSHRC), the to help companies,” she added. Andrew Meade Natural Sciences and Engineer- Going forward, the panellists ing Research Council (NSERC), highlighted how important the the Canadian Institute of Health recommendations are to keeping Research (CIHR), and the Canada pace with the rest of the world Foundation for Innovation (CFI). and positioning Canada to take “The CRCC has done good advantage of the breadth of work on a range of issues,” Dr. knowledge available in universi- Naylor said. “There’s also evi- ties and beyond. dence of more nimble responses Budget 2021 made a number of to interdisciplinary and fast- significant investments in applied breaking areas of research. But I science like biotech and clean- doubt we’ll see really tough deci- tech, but Dr. Naylor said funda- sions made so long as the chair mental science needs to remain a of the CRCC rotates among the top priority. presidents of the three councils.” “I do think there was general Dr. Crago said the CRCC understanding in the research didn’t live up to its potential dur- realm that the recent budget ing the pandemic. had to address a huge range of “In the time of COVID, this could issues given the damage wrought 2017 Naylor Report have been an enormously important by the COVID-19 pandemic. No body,” she said. “This could have one was surprised that specific helped us to figure out how to not areas of applied science related fund things in a scattershot way, but to the pandemic drew earmarked recommendations rather to seek real coordination.” investments. That made very good just as relevant now as ever, panellists say Dr. David Naylor now embarrass the politicians into served as a panelist on the Naylor serves as a co-chair of The 2017 Fundamental investing more generously, and Report, in an interview with The Canada’s COVID-19 nudge the granting agencies to be Hill Times. “It’s more important Immunity Task Force. Science Review more innovative.” now, what was in the report, than Photo courtesy of Caz made a number of “Of course, no one in Ottawa it was four years ago.” Zyvatkauskas wants any of that, but it’s what’s For example, the Pfizer and recommendations. needed if we are serious about Moderna vaccines use new mes- being the most forward-thinking senger RNA technology that has “What’s going to be a Public sense,” he said. “But in the long Some were enacted, nation on the planet,” Dr. Naylor its roots in basic research unre- Health Agency of Canada task run, Canada can only compete said. lated to vaccines done at the Mas- force versus a rapid response and win if we offer strong support others only partially The Naylor Report, ‘Investing sachusetts Institute of Technology content coming from” a certain for researchers who want to make so, and panelists in Canada’s Future: Strengthen- in the 1970s. council, she said. “How can the transformative discoveries and ing the Foundations of Canadian “The best form of pandemic rapid response contests in the come up with big bold ideas.” from the report say Research,’ released in 2017, was preparedness is investing in different councils do something U.S. President Joe Biden touted as a blueprint to transform fundamental research. If all that that is more aligned and pro- recently proposed $250-billion for they could’ve played “Canadian research capacity and research had not been done about vides added value? We didn’t see science and research. This poses have enough long-term impacts messenger RNA, we never would this coordination in this time of a problem for Canada, Dr. Crago an important role across the nation,” and offered a have had the vaccines as quickly COVID. We saw lots of task forces said. range of recommendations for as we did,” said Martha Crago, created, many of which did im- “There’s a massive investment in the fight against improving Canada’s fundamental vice-principal of research and in- portant work, but there was not a being talked about in the U.S. COVID-19. science and research regime after novation at McGill University and lot of coordination,” she said. now and this will make Canada years of funding cuts. a panellist on the Naylor Report. The Council on Science and look a little uncompetitive,” she Some of those recommenda- The report’s recommendations Innovation (CSI), also called the said. “This will mean many of BY AIDAN CHAMANDY tions have been implemented, largely fall into two categories: National Advisory Council on Re- our candidates for flight will while others have been left to more funding and better coordi- search and Innovation (NACRI) be more eager to fly. One of the our years after releasing wither on the vine. During the nation between Canada’s science in the report, was billed as a body things we’ve got to pay attention FCanada’s Fundamental Sci- pandemic, when science and sci- and research oversight bodies. that would bring together govern- to, as Canada moves forward, is ence Review, also known as the entists are top of mind for many On the heels of then-science ment, academics, and the private we have to keep thinking about Naylor Report, its author David Canadians, some of the panellists minister Kirsty Duncan (Eto- sector to set high-level priorities how do we look, compared to our Naylor says Canada is still not from the report say its recom- bicoke North, Ont.) tabling the and provide advice to cabinet on nearest neighbour.” making science and research a mendations are just as relevant report, the 2018 federal budget how to improve Canada’s science “Even under President [Don- top priority and it should. as ever, if not more, and could’ve took up many of those recom- regime, among other functions. ald] Trump, the budget of the “There is still no high-level helped in the fight against CO- mendations and dedicated nearly The government took the National Institutes of Health grew oversight function—nothing like VID, and that a renewed focus on $1-billion over five years to basic recommendation and started the at a pace that outstripped growth the National Advisory Council science is needed to keep pace science through the granting CSI, however, it has yet to get up in CIHR’s envelope. Prime Minis- on Research and Innovation that with other countries. councils, in addition to other and running. Innovation, Science ter [Boris] Johnson’s government we recommended,” he said in “The COVID experience has investments in programs like the and Economic Development has has also been extremely generous an emailed response to The Hill shown us the importance of Canada Research Chairs. a webpage soliciting applications, with U.K. science and research. In Times. “Peer nations have those having that work on the ground “Many positive steps were tak- but it hasn’t been updated since short, we’re losing ground again bodies working closely with a and ready to be mobilized into en by the January 2019, according to an based on relative under-invest- national science advisor. They an emergency situation,” said in Budget 2018. The new funds analysis of the page’s history. The ment in independent basic and keep an eye on the international Claudia Malacrida, a professor and other changes were warmly department did not respond to applied research,” Dr. Naylor said. competition, help public servants and vice-president of research at welcomed and widely applauded Hill Times questions on progress [email protected] get past their status quo biases, the University of Lethbridge who by the research community,” Dr. made by deadline. The Hill Times CNL.CA 22 MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 | THE HILL TIMES Research & Innovation Policy Briefing

doing,” many of whom are at the Federal budget misses opportunity to frontlines of sustainable change. In food production, farmers who advance the most sustainable practices are the very food system support social innovation for sustainability actors marginalized in policy— whose lives don’t fit with the A transition money to meeting Canada’s Clean Technology Program” with rating tree stands into their farms, bulk of government subsidies or impressive climate and green “an additional $200-million over but the money (less than $60-mil- private or public sector research to sustainable economy goals, and declaring the the next two years.” Climate lion) is relatively small compared and development (with exception). agri-food sector, and indeed farm- solutions and clean technologies to that supporting farmer adop- Scanning Agriculture and Agri- agricultural practices ers themselves, as “major players” sound worthwhile. But a closer tion of emergent technologies; food Canada as well as Innovation in achieving these goals. This look reveals that these programs $150-million to “help [farmers] Science and Economic Develop- is hung up on how is attention (and $270-million) support “precision agriculture” transition to lower carbon produc- ment websites will unearth a scant we define innovation the Canadian agri-food sector technologies and “bioproducts” tion” by compensating the use of six announcements on regenera- deserves: food production is both almost exclusively. Precision “more efficient grain dryers” or less tive agriculture funds over the last solely through the challenged by and contributes to agriculture is an approach to fossil fuel intensive machinery. This three years compared to 236 on environmental harm. If one counts farming that uses costly “preci- latter investment misses the mark “precision agriculture.” This is an lens of technology. GHG emissions from the entire sion” farm equipment that collects when only a fraction of GHG emis- inclusion and equity issue but also food supply chain, they amount data, which is then compiled by sions from agriculture are from a practical one: small and family to a whopping one-third of those corporations into so-called big farm machinery (the vast majority farmers are still the most numer- produced in this country. Agricul- data. The big datasets can be are from intensive feedstock and ous farm-type in Canada, and ture is a logical site for investment “mined” by sophisticated comput- animal production practices). supporting innovation on these in sustainable transitioning. er programs for insights that lead Investing in high-tech solu- farms means supporting economic Yet transitioning is hamstrung to more targeted use of environ- tions to our enormous environ- stability and community in rural by how we currently define and mentally harmful or scarce inputs mental crises is not a bad strategy areas across the country. As we all support innovation. A whole such as chemicals or water. While (indeed it is one I follow too); but know from the last year, stability suite of sustainable practices, these tools hold promise, right in addition to the Hail Mary pass, is just as important as novelty. and important agri-food system now there is a dearth of evidence policy should focus on proven Innovation is not uniquely actors, has been left out of the proving environmental benefit. practices, not just things, and on synonymous with technologies, Kelly Bronson proposed budget because innova- We do have evidence that social users, not just manufacturers. even though it is these which garner Opinion tion is defined narrowly as high innovation in the form of farm More than $2-billion in Budget headlines. Thinking boldly about our technology rather than what we techniques, often called best man- 2021 is pledged to manufacturing common future will require greater might call “social innovation”— agement practices, can contribute industries developing “zero emis- commitment to supporting practices here is much talk about innova- that which foregrounds practices to achieving sustainability. For sion technologies” such as solar, of innovation that may be hidden Ttion in the latest federal budget. that put people and planet first instance, production techniques or slick carbon storage facilities, from public view: the unglamorous As one commentator notes, the by responding to broader soci- such as keeping the ground cov- which promises deliver an implicit everyday work of people, happen- word itself appears at least 167 times etal goods not easily captured by ered with a winter crop, diverse message that highest-tech indus- ing not in slick laboratories but in in the document. But what does market forces. cropping, and integrating tree tries are the drivers of sustainable equally innovative spaces. innovation actually mean, and why Take for example the biggest stands and livestock into the farm future growth and employment. Kelly Bronson is a professor at should we be cautious about lauding investment lines in Budget 2021 allow soil to capture carbon, a key Novel technologies and the the University of Ottawa’s school the government’s efforts toward relevant to agriculture: $185-mil- climate mitigation strategy. Budget companies who develop them are of sociological and anthropological innovation-led sustainable growth? lion for the Agricultural Climate 2021 does allocate a portion of the important, but so are the players studies and the Canada Research Budget 2021 should be cel- Solutions program and another Nature Smart Climate Solutions who innovate in practical knowl- Chair in Science and Society. ebrated for devoting significant $165-million for Agricultural Fund to support farmers incorpo- edge, in processes of “learning by The Hill Times Innovation for net zero: governance and policy innovation as important as technological advances

cluding tax incentives and $5-billion old dictum that governments can- ensure quality, and retrofit millions the governance and regulation of Pouring more money for a Net Zero Accelerator fund). not ‘pick winners,’ and a somewhat of commercial and residential the Canadian electricity sector if we Focusing the climate discussion naïve faith that markets can be properties. This requires coor- are to maximize national economic into programs that on net zero has the potential to trusted to sort out the best invest- dinated training, accreditation, benefits and achieve net zero. are not anchored in a change everything. It makes clear ments for society so long as the program design and delivery, with Anyone in Canada watching how the issue is not about lowest-cost right fiscal framework is in place. provincial and municipal bodies, in quickly and strategically the Biden clear strategic vision incremental emissions reductions No one wants government to doll a deliberate rollout. It is not enough administration is moving on ‘whole- or short-term targets, but about out money to corporate favourites to supply incentives for individuals of-government’ approaches to cli- will not get us where eliminating net GHG emissions al- or to micro-manage businesses. to buy electric vehicles, without a mate innovation and industrial strat- together. It means abandoning end- But change on the scale required systematic plan for EVs to reach egy, emphasizing job creation and we need to go. use fossil fuels across the economy, for net zero needs governments to the market (zero emission vehicle domestic economic development, from the gasoline and diesel we use play a more active role in establish- mandate), accelerated phaseout has reason to worry that Canada for transport, to natural gas used for ing priorities, defining transition of internal combustion vehicles, may be left behind. Canada needs to heating. This will require innovation pathways, and de-risking low carbon and coordinated ZEV value chain embrace a more sophisticated and in the major systems of social pro- innovation. Despite the free-market industrial policy. To advance low strategic understanding of green visioning—the way we move people rhetoric, real-world governments emission hydrogen (to decarbonize industrial policy with a focus on the and goods, build our cities, produce have never stood apart from major heavy industry and heavy freight finite number of transition pathways food, and so on. The challenge is public investment in building new transport) it is not enough to allow that will get us to net zero the fastest, how to re-build these systems so energy systems and infrastructure. companies to apply for grants while building our economy and they can meet Canadian’s aspira- We would not have nuclear energy, and tax credits. We need a strate- creating jobs. For this to happen tions for enhanced prosperity, hydro dams, a national highway gic vision of a national hydrogen the federal government would be health, welfare, and equity, while network, or the oilsands, had it not economy, with targeted public in- well-advised to introduce strategic James Meadowcroft & Bruce Lourie also achieving net zero goals. been for strategic, targeted, large- vestment in regional hubs and cor- and coordinated approaches to Opinion Government departments and scale, and long-term public invest- ridors, and market development. investment programs and policies, agencies at all levels, businesses, ment. Of course, government could Enhanced electrification of the with clear and measurable long-term and communities have yet to come stand back and “see what the market economy is a critical component in goals that demonstrate domestic fter decades of muddling along, to terms with the scale of the chal- decides.” But this has never worked every global net zero plan, and yet economic success as well meeting Ait finally appears that Canada lenge and the opportunities it pres- before, and there is no guarantee Canada appears to be resting on its net zero objectives, and funding cri- is putting in place the conditions to ents. While recent government an- that decarbonization would take ‘clean power’ laurels. This is risky teria to match. Pouring more money make headway on the climate file. nouncements are to be welcomed, place in a timely manner, let alone in given our current difficulty in build- into programs that are not anchored The federal government is advanc- important pieces in innovation and a way that creates jobs and prosper- ing electricity projects, and the mas- in a clear strategic vision will not get ing legislation to formalize its net investment are still missing. Above ity for Canadians while addressing sive cost-overruns and delays for us where we need to go. zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emis- all, we need a clear strategic vision difficult regional equity issues that the projects that have gone ahead. James Meadowcroft is a sions goal and establish a Net Zero for net zero and a plan for moving come with decarbonization. Today, we have a poorly integrated professor in the School of Public Advisory Body. It has announced forward, one that defines priorities, It is not enough to set aside and ageing electricity infrastruc- Policy at Carleton University and its intention to ramp up the carbon enhances policy integration, and a big pot of money to subsidize ture, a hodgepodge of parochial a Research Director at the Transi- price, and in the recent budget guides investment. home retrofits. We need programs electric utilities, and regulators tion Accelerator. Bruce Lourie is introduced a series of climate and Unfortunately, innovation policy to organize and finance mass dominated by political appointees. President of the Ivey Foundation. clean tech funding mechanisms (in- in Canada remains haunted by the retrofits—that drive down costs, Innovation is desperately needed in The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 23 Policy BriefingResearch & Innovation

As Canada and the rest of the Research on pandemic lessons will world navigate what is a challeng- ing third wave of the pandemic, anxiety and pessimism of what the future may hold is predominant. get us out of COVID—and the next one When examined through the lens of what has been accomplished research labs and the cessation and deliver new streams of fund- respond to the needs of distinct com- to date, optimism may prevail. Implementing the of community-based research in ing to support research addressing munities in our province. Decades-long research in mRNA Canada and across the globe led to emerging issues related directly to While death and hospitalization led to the rapid development, test- knowledge generated by a pause in research activities whose the COVID-19 pandemic and its rates command the headlines in ing, and rollout of highly effective outcomes impact daily on the health impacts on society. Here in Nova the daily news, indirect impacts of vaccines; epidemiological work our best and brightest and well-being of our population. Scotia, a COVID-19 Health Research the pandemic threaten the health and research in public health and will lead us out of this Paradoxically, the research activi- Coalition was formed. Consisting and well-being of our population vaccine safety and delivery has ties being paused would ultimately of eight partners spanning our pro- today and in the years ahead. The informed widespread measures that pandemic, while also prove our salvation, as our ability vincial health authorities, hospital collateral damage arising from the have curbed the spread of the virus to overcome COVID-19 and its im- foundations and research institu- pandemic and the (necessary) public in our communities and facilitated laying the foundation pacts depend on applying scientific tions and associated foundations, the health measures affect our mental substantial numbers of our popula- evidence and knowledge generated coalition committed $1.5-million in and physical health, with the most tion to receive at least a first dose that will equip us to from past research, and following funding to support research projects profound impacts on marginalized of vaccine. And finally, we have evidence that is emerging from the that would inform best practice in re- populations, children and women. seen government agencies that fund better address similar research of today. lation to COVID-19 and health-care Addressing these indirect impacts science and technology research challenges we may face At Dalhousie and other re- decision-making across the prov- is a focus of ongoing research. For and development provide additional search-intensive institutions across ince. The response from the research instance, researchers in our faculty funding to target projects critical to in the future. Canada, our ability to resume re- community was overwhelming—re- are addressing issues such as the addressing the challenges arising search operations and rally to take search teams submitted a total of rise in domestic violence, impact from this pandemic. Admittedly, on new questions emerging from 262 applications, with 40 receiving on caregivers, and how COVID-19 there are issues with all facets of the the pandemic has demonstrated the funding across discovery, social and restrictions in the hospital impact on pandemic response, and inequali- resilience of our graduate students, clinical sciences, and health systems maternal and newborn health and ties persist that threaten our most research scientists and clinicians. improvement. well-being, among others. Lead- vulnerable citizens. I for one am op- In the Faculty of Health at Dal- Researchers in the Faculty of ers in population health research timistic for our future—implement- housie, activities spanning from Health at Dalhousie are heavily and implementation, scholars at ing the knowledge generated by our discovery research to population engaged in research related to the Dalhousie’s Healthy Population best and brightest will lead us out and public health research resumed COVID-19 pandemic, addressing Institute have taken a proactive of this pandemic, while also laying in late spring 2020. Our on-campus questions bridging biomedical and approach to addressing mental and the foundation that will equip us to research labs implemented rigorous sociocultural domains. Pharmacy physical health challenges through better address similar challenges Shaun Boe and robust protocols to ensure the researchers are exploring aspects of the dissemination of an accessible we may face in the future. Opinion health and safety of our research drug design and safety and effective- animation series that covers topics Dr. Shaun Boe is associate dean personnel and broader community, ness during viral pandemics, and including sedentary behaviours and research of the faculty of health at and many of our faculty pivoted adverse reactions to COVID-19 vac- their impact on health, virtual men- in Halifax. He here is no doubt the COVID-19 to online and remote methods to cines. Others are addressing critical tal health interventions for children is also an associate professor in the Tpandemic has infiltrated every connect with our communities for questions about culturally specific and youth, health disparities among school of physiotherapy, with cross aspect of our lives. For post-second- research involving focus groups, response strategies in communities Black Canadians, and how to devel- appointments in the faculties of sci- ary institutions across Canada, CO- interviews and more broad engage- across Nova Scotia, including our op resilience during the pandemic. ence (psychology and neuroscience) VID-19 forced our teaching activi- ment in a variety of topics. African Nova Scotian and Indig- This is but one of many examples of and medicine (physical medicine ties to move online, and at the onset The resumption of research ac- enous communities. This work has how research can be applied to bet- and rehabilitation), and an affiliate of the pandemic, led to the suspen- tivities on- and off-campus coincided been central to the development and ter our mental and physical health in scientist at Nova Scotia Health. sion of research activities. Shuttered with incredible efforts to stand-up implementation of processes that these challenging times. 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high-speed internet, particularly mote locations, the highest speed portunity, if stakeholders can earlier. In areas where computers For Canadians, in rural areas, and a workforce option is an LTE cell phone. move quickly. Canadian educa- are not accessible, government, that lacks the appropriate level The pandemic-related accel- tors, industries, and government community leaders and industry these approaches of digital skills to build and use a eration of the transition to digital should come together to build a urgently need to improve access to educating the better network—threaten to leave work and learning spaces drew talent pipeline that is compre- to technology infrastructure and Canada behind in the race to much needed attention to this hensive and meets the needs of equipment. technology workforce adopt 5G technologies. disparity. The federal government Canadians. For post-secondary education, Both must be addressed if Cana- announced $1-billion over six One such pipeline could be industry representatives and educa- that is needed to da wishes to maintain competitive- years for the Universal Broad- through apprenticeship programs tors should work together to build ness as the world moves to 5G. band Fund in its latest budget. for students in high school to teach competency-based, micro-credential build and use next Fewer than half (45.6 per cent) Canadian telecom companies digital technology fundamentals frameworks for the jobs they need of rural households in Canada have are also rolling out towers and earlier. This apprenticeship would now and in the longer term. These generation technology broadband (transmission speeds of services for 5G cellular, the next be comprised of two parts— tele- frameworks would illustrate the would ensure that this over 50/10 Mbps) access, according wave of technology to increase communications and information skills and competencies industry to the December 2020 figures from mobile speeds. technology. Telecommunications needs and how students could lad- country can continue the Canadian Radio-television and But access itself is not the would allow students to learn how der them into credentials and jobs. Telecommunications Commission. only problem. There are concerns the infrastructure is built and oper- Before students, domestic and to be competitive in What’s more, only 34.8 per cent of that the workforce will not have ates. Information technology would international, take on advanced First Nations had on-reserve broad- the digital skills or literacy to build on that learning to understand studies, a competency assessment the global economy. band access. There was no broad- allow business to take full use of how business and industries use should be completed, and micro- band access in any of the territories this technology. 5G companies computers and technology in real credentials awarded where possi- and there is heavy reliance on 5 Ericsson, Nokia, and Huawei world contexts. Including both ble. This solution allows industry Mbps internet, which is not recom- had to provide their own training opportunities in an apprenticeship to access the flexible and skilled mended for streaming or video programs for tower technicians to would allow students to determine workforce with the technical un- conferencing. Meanwhile, fully 97 develop the requisite competen- what they would like to focus on in derstanding and digital acumen per cent of rural communities had cies to install 5G. Canada faces a advanced studies—telecommunica- it needs, and students have clear access to LTE cell coverage. digital skills gap, particularly in tions, cyber security, research and pathways to their career goals. Over the course of the pan- regions that already experienced development, business etc.—while For Canadians, these ap- demic, this disparity has resulted reduced access to technology. also allowing them to understand proaches to educating the tech- in an overreliance on cellphones Now, that gap widens as more technology in a comprehensive way. nology workforce that is needed rather than computers in rural and more jobs go digital. Apprenticeships would also to build and use next generation Stephany Laverty and remote communities. People Canada needs a life-long and give companies access to a local technology would ensure that this Opinion who drove into a town or another life-wide solution to support the workforce so they would not have country can continue to be com- community may have found a development of digital skills, from to rely on relocating as many petitive in the global economy. library or local resource to access infrastructure labour through to people. To facilitate these appren- Stephany Laverty is a policy f the many disparities laid broadband internet on a comput- end user. The initiative to build ticeships, elementary educators analyst at the Canada West Obare during the pandemic, er. However, for a large portion of broadband and 5G around the would need to build in coding, Foundation. two of them—uneven access to Canadians living in rural and re- country could provide an op- literacy and other fundamentals The Hill Times 24 MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 | THE HILL TIMES Research & Innovation Policy Briefing

for our future. Ongoing support for many of these investments is necessary with likely Where’s the impacts in the long-term, not short-term. But let’s be clear—economy, society, edu- cation, and knowledge have all been funda- mentally altered by the pandemic crisis. The innovation in our question now is where is the national, joined- up approach for knitting all of these threads together? Where’s the leadership at all levels to meaningfully engage with our society on innovation ecosystem? their importance? Meanwhile, across the globe, experi- ments are underway to meet the new cli- If the pandemic response has nature of knowledge production and research mate change and COVID challenges. In the has greatly changed. Open science has helped U.K., an R&D roadmap has been laid out demonstrated anything, it is foster greater international collaboration in The disciplinary and hierarchical structures that for the nation; a Talent Office established to that a re-imagined national and responding to emergencies. Learning and attract skills from around the globe; and a skills development through distance educa- have served science in the past may also need sound knowledge ecosystem to be adjusted to enable and promote trans- new, large-scale advanced research agency tion has had many impacts on careers, health, is in the works to explore blue sky ideas and the workforce—with the ultimate fallout disciplinary research that engages different with a strong focus on science fields and sectors to address wicked modelled in part after the U.S. DARPA . yet to be felt. Diversity, inclusion, and equity In Germany, under the High-Tech Strategy community, collaboration and issues remain front and centre in developing challenges like climate change or pandemics, writes Paul Dufour. Image courtesy of Pixabay 2025, Germany plans to increase expenditures cooperation will need to be an new talent and ensuring equitable access to on research and development in Germany teaching, learning, and training. Health and to 3.5 per cent of GDP by 2025. The strategy integral part of our next normal. fully from the opportunities provided by digital science advisory structures have come to builds on existing plans for advancing AI tools. New and more attractive career paths the fore and largely proved their mettle even and quantum computing and sets out 12 key that provide greater security and alternative when challenged in socially distancing from socio-economic-technological missions it options for mobility across academia and other policy-making. Nonetheless, ongoing mis- hopes to develop by 2025. The skills base and public- and private-sector institutions will also and dis-information have affected trust and the education system remain key to accom- be required. And attention to the societal and transparency within and about the knowledge plishing these missions. health impacts of all this will be necessary. and decision making community. And with our neighbour south of the In short, new ways of looking at and reshap- So what does this imply for the future border under the Biden administration, ing the knowledge infrastructure will matter. architecture of governance within the plans are underway to reinvest in research So what does the federal budget offer knowledge ecosystem and its leadership? infrastructure, research agencies and federal Paul Dufour in response to these challenges for our The OECD report underlines that foster- labs via a new “Endless Frontiers” bill being knowledge ecosystem? To be fair, pressure ing innovation within the STI system itself debated in Congress. Part of the discussion Opinion from all corners and constituents as well and ensuring it can effectively respond to the centres around reprofiling research support as political and policy perturbations have policy objectives it is supposed to address will in its agencies, including building up the NIH driven much of what has emerged. ecently, the OECD delivered a major be essential. Reforms will be required to tackle and NSF with significant new missions and But sadly, foresight seems to have little play Rpolicy report to the U.K. Presidency of incentive structures in science that discourage massive investments to go with it. Indeed, the in this—and it is lack of foresight planning and the G7 Summit that will take place in June. It high-risk and interdisciplinary research, inhibit National Science Foundation director laid out action that got us into this pandemic problem covered a great deal of ground on how mem- data sharing and reduce career mobility. The elements of this new vision recently at the Al- in the first place. Nor does there appear to ber nations can strive to enhance economic disciplinary and hierarchical structures that lan Bromley Memorial Lecture hosted by the be any serious reflection on the potential for knowledge and societal resilience in the new, have served science in the past may also need two science policy institutes at the University stronger re-engagement with the next genera- post-pandemic world that will emerge. to be adjusted to enable and promote trans- of Ottawa and George Washington University. tion who will inherit the next normal. And the next normal will surely not be disciplinary research that engages different This is a fast-evolving, global picture. Yes, there are a lot of carefully crafted business as usual. science fields and sectors to address wicked Investing in long-term experiments is part sentences about spending (investing) new The OECD report comments on the need challenges like climate change or pandemics. of the response, but it has to be more than taxpayer funds into our existing institutions for different thinking and more joined up According to the report, a new cohort of that. Leadership and partnerships are going that support knowledge, innovation and efforts on many issues—among them, how to digitally skilled research-support professionals to make the difference along with a strategic research; a long list of them—all doing good address the challenges that will face science and scientists will also need to be trained and focus on talent both at home and abroad. work of course. These are clearly important and innovation ecosystems. After all, the very integrated in academia if research is to benefit It’s not like Canada can’t introduce in- novation in its innovation and education ecosystem. Student organizations such as the Science and Policy Exchange are doing their best to bring a fresh look to a post-pandemic future for the next generation. Quebec is un- dertaking a consultation for a new research and innovation strategy. The recent CCA report on research funding practices hints at a need for new thinking as does the Royal REBUILDING THE Society of Canada policy briefing on higher education in a post pandemic Canada. And we’ve seen innovation creativity before. At the federal level, new experiments CANADIAN ECONOMY took place at the Millennium around the cre- ation of Canada Foundation for Innovation, Canada Research Chairs, Genome Canada, Sustainable fi nance is crucial to etc., to meet the emerging challenges in a new era. And at the pan-Canadian level, a National achieving climate change goals. S&T Policy was signed off in 1987 by every minister responsible for science, technol- What should government do now? ogy and innovation at the federal, provincial and territorial levels, highlighting the need to focus on talent, training and technology. A first ministers conference on R&D took cpacanada.ca/sustainablefi nance place. With it came regular cross-Canada meetings of a National Forum of Science and Technology Advisory Councils and a pan- Canadian Council of S&T Ministers. One of the principles outlined in the 1987 policy statement resonates still: to ensure that sci- ence and technology become an integral part of our cultures by increasing awareness of the importance of science and technology to the country’s economic and social well-being. If the pandemic response has demonstrat- ed anything, it is that a re-imagined national and sound knowledge ecosystem with a strong focus on community, collaboration and cooperation will need to be an integral part of our next normal. Paul Dufour is a senior fellow at the 21-1931 University of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society, and Policy. The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 25 News

McCoy eventually left the ISG to join the CSG. She died in office Bill to entrench new Senate in December 2020. The Senate Conservative caucus has not severed its ties with the Conservative Party or its caucus in the House. The Conser- leaders for good has arrived vatives and Independents have of- ten clashed in the Chamber over the use of time and procedural Harder (Ottawa, Ont.), who previ- Sen. Woo said that Senate “That’s very, very important. tactics, and leaders in each group Bill S-4 would give ously served as the government leaders were consulted by the People go on holidays, and are not have routinely accused the other better pay and official representative in the Senate, and government as it drew up the bill. available, and so on. And currently of subverting the public interest has advocated for permanent re- Sen. Tannas said in a separate we do not have the power to re- for partisan gain. status to the leaders forms to the Senate. The respon- interview that he was consulted place members,” said Sen. Woo. The ISG currently has 42 sible minister is Dominic LeBlanc “very briefly.” members in the 105-seat Senate. of the new groups in (Beaséjour, N.B.), who serves as Both said they supported the bill. The Conservatives have 20, the the president of the Privy Council. “I’m a right-of-centre guy, ‘Time is our enemy’ CSG has 12, and the PSG has 12. the Senate. so I’ve got lots to criticize the Before 2016, the majority of Five Senators are non-affiliated, current government about. But Senators were members of either including the three-person gov- Bill neutral on future of to me, Senate reform I think is the Liberal or Conservative cau- ernment representative team, and Continued from page 1 Senate: Woo going to be one of Prime Minister cuses, and expected to operate in 14 seats are vacant. Commons, so it will have to be Bill S-4 would not remove Trudeau’s legacy accomplish- a partisan manner. The govern- Mr. Trudeau first promised to vetted and agreed upon by Sena- references in the Parliament of ments,” said Sen. Tannas, who was ment leader in the Senate loosely change the tors first, and MPs second. Canada Act to the government appointed to the Senate by prime controlled a caucus of Senators Act to reflect the new Senate dur- Bill S-4 would change the and opposition leaders in the minister Stephen Harper in 2013. from the same party, and an ing his government’s first term Parliament of Canada Act and Senate. It would add language “Maybe [it] won’t be obvious opposition leader did the same. in power, but legislation to do so several other acts. It would give including leaders of other rec- for years to come, but eventually There were no other official lead- was not brought forward before an additional salary to Senators ognized groups in the Senate it will get recognized. It’s a way ers or groups within the Senate. the 2019 election. holding leadership positions in in sections of the Act that give different place, doing—in my Prime Minister Justin Trudeau The House of Commons is the Senate’s new groups, who special compensation or powers mind—doing way better work (Papineau, Que.) spurred major currently chock-full of govern- at present are not receiving the to the government and opposition than it was when I showed up,” he changes to the makeup of the ment legislation, while the Senate same extra payments that are leaders. said. Senate before his party even won has relatively little on its plate. provided to their counterparts on Introducing S-4 into the Senate the government and opposition first could allow Senators to focus leadership teams. It also would their attention on it now, and require that the leaders of every clear it before the usual crush of Senate group be consulted about high-priority government legisla- certain government appoint- tion arrives in the Senate in June. ments, and it would allow all Sen- Whether the House of Com- ate leaders to swap out members mons will pass S-4 before the on the powerful Senate Internal next election is called is unclear. Economy Committee during pe- “Time is our enemy, because riods when Parliament has been we’re in May already,” said Sen. prorogued or dissolved when that Woo. committee continues to sit. “I hope first of all that it gets Right now, those perks and through the Senate quickly, and privileges are reserved for the then I hope that our colleagues in leaders of the government and the other place can see that the opposition in the Senate. Senate is together on this bill, that The bill would limit the extra we are proposing these changes salaries to leadership teams of Changes to the Parliament of Canada Act in Bill S-4 would give permanent pay bumps and status to the leaders of the because they reflect who we are three groups in the Senate besides three Senate groups that are neither government nor opposition in the Red Chamber: the Independent Senators Group, and what we are today.” the government and opposition, led by Sen. , left,; the , led by Sen. ; and the Canadian Senators The Parliament of Canada the same number that currently Group, led by Sen. . The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, photograph Act is just one of several sets of exist: the ISG, CSG, and PSG. rules governing the rights, pay The leaders of any Senate groups or privileges for Senators and formed in the future would not be That could allow the Senate to “S-4 kind of formalizes and power. He kicked Liberal-appoint- Senate leaders. The Rules of the compensated for their role. either continue to evolve towards recognizes that the place has ed Senators out of the party’s Senate outline who can do what, The salaries are not all equal: a less partisan structure, perhaps changed.” caucus in 2014, when the Senate when, and for how long in the the government leader still without a designated opposition Conservative Senate Leader expense scandal was fresh in the Senate Chamber. The Sena- receives the biggest top-up to his caucus, or to revert back to the (Landmark, Man.) was news. When the Liberals won tors’ Office Management Policy or her Senate salary, while the government-opposition duality not available for an interview on power in 2015, Mr. Trudeau vowed governs how Senators run their opposition leader and the leader that existed before the reforms the bill last week, according to to appoint only Canadians without offices. The Senate Administra- of the largest Senate group that is that have taken place under his office. During the introduc- a history in party politics to fill va- tive Rules control a range of neither government nor opposi- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tory round of debate on the bill cant Senate seats, and asked those subjects, including the Senate’s tion receive an equal, smaller (Papineau, Que.), said Sen. Woo in on May 6, he said that his caucus Senators to sit as independents, bureaucracy. total, and the leaders of the next an interview last week. supported “many if not most parts not loyal to the Liberal leadership The Parliament of Canada Act, two largest groups receive a “I would say it’s more of a of the bill.” He said S-4 had been or any other political party. unlike those other sets of rules, is smaller top-up. Deputy leaders, practical recognition that there the result of “consensus building Trudeau-appointees began not ultimately under the con- whips, and other leadership roles are different views about the among the various groups and the joining a fledgling new group trol of Senators. Like any other for the new groups will also be future evolution of the Senate, and various parties.” in the Senate created by former piece of legislation, it can only be compensated. while the Act does not prescribe “Our caucus will not in any Senator Elaine McCoy, a former changed with permission from The pay raises for Senate that there should be a traditional way try to impede the progress of Alberta Progressive Conserva- MPs, as well as Senators, and leaders won’t kick in until July 1, government-opposition dichotomy this bill,” he said. tive cabinet minister with an any effort to change it would face 2022. for the future, it does not close the PSG Leader Jane Cordy (Nova independent streak who had been long odds without support from Sen. Yuen Pau Woo (B.C.), who door on that possibility,” he said. Scotia) declined to comment on appointed to the Red Chamber the government. leads the Independent Senators CSG Leader Scott Tannas the bill, beyond calling it “pretty by Liberal prime minister Paul Senators have been propos- Group, has long advocated for (Alberta) said the bill would likely straightforward,” when contacted Martin in 2005. The Independent ing and discussing permanent Senate reform, and equal treat- have faced stiff resistance if the by The Hill Times. Senators Group quickly grew in changes to the Rules of the Sen- ment for the leaders of the new government had tried to remove Sen. Woo said the change to size, and selected two Trudeau- ate for years, but have not yet Senate groups. Both Sen. Woo the special status of the opposi- allow all Senate leaders to adjust appointees—Sen. Woo and Sen. made serious headway. and ISG Deputy Leader Ray- tion in the Senate. the membership of the Internal Saint-Germain—to act as its Sen. Tannas has given notice monde Saint-Germain (De la “I don’t think there is a clear Economy Committee (CIBA) dur- leader and deputy leader, using of a motion to change the Senate Vallière, Que.) will have vacated consensus in the Senate—and I ing periods of prorogation was an the titles “facilitator” and “deputy Rules, to give the leaders of the their leadership positions by the think it would be a big fight in the important one. That committee is facilitator”. Both were re-elected ISG, CSG, and PSG more speak- time the pay raises kick in, said House—to try and wipe out op- responsible for the operation of to lead the ISG by its members in ing time in the Chamber; ex- Sen. Woo, since the ISG has a position,” he said. the Senate administration, among late 2019. The ISG quickly became officio status on all committees; two-term limit for its leaders. Members of the CSG voted other issues. As it stands now, ISG the largest group in the Senate, and the right to negotiate with “To those who might be think- last week to make Sen. Tannas Senators—including CIBA chair and has remained so, even as the other leaders on the length of ing about self-interest, you can the full-time leader for the group. (Ontario)—must two new groups have formed: the bells before a vote. Debate on the put that to rest,” he said. He had been serving as the CSG’s ensure they can be available for a (CSG) motion has not yet begun. The bill is being sponsored in since it was formed CIBA meeting at almost any time and Progressive Senate Group [email protected] the Senate by PSG Senator Peter in 2019. during a prorogation or dissolution. (PSG). The Hill Times 26 MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 | THE HILL TIMES News

that the Conservatives don’t hold. The New Democrats won this Thousands of expiring Conservative riding from the Conservatives in 2008 and has been representing it since then. Mr. Peterson said that the sooner the party holds Party memberships this month a nomination in this riding the better as then he could start his campaign for the next election which like any other candidate throwing a wrench in the nomination from any other party would give him an opportunity to make his name known in the community and raise funds. process, say Conservatives “Whether you’re Liberal or Conservative, every nomina- tion candidate would like the Conservative Party nomination meeting to be called Conservatives have Leader Erin O'Toole, as soon as possible,” said Mr. nominated candidates left, pictured Peterson. with chief of staff “Unless you’ve become the in about 200 of the Tausha Michaud official nominated candidate, you and campaign can’t raise money for the riding 338 ridings across the manager Fred Association.” DeLorey. In May of For his current campaign, country, according last year, 269,500 he said, he has already raised Conservative party $21,000, the maximum allowed to to party spokesman members had spend in the nomination contest. Cory Hann signed up to vote A Conservative Party spokes- in the leadership man told The Hill Times last week election and that “just under 200” candidates thousands of those Continued from page 1 across the country have been nomi- memberships will nated, which means around 138 candidates’ campaigns and sell expire at the end of ridings still have to go through the memberships,” said Devin Bean, this month. The Hill nomination process. the Conservative riding asso- Times photograph by In contrast to the Conserva- ciation president in Edmonton Andrew Meade tives, the Liberals are behind in Strathcona, Alta., in an interview nominating their candidates. As with The Hill Times. “I can’t speak of last week, according to the Lib- directly to their [nomination] eral Party’s website, 152 candi- campaigns, especially my job is to dates had been nominated which remain neutral on this. So I can’t means the party has to nominate on behalf of any other campaigns 186 more candidates. but I imagine, as with almost A majority of nominated everything else, it’s going to be candidates in both parties are more difficult.” perception among some social winning these ridings in the next cations of the Conservative Party, incumbent MPs who are essen- For the party’s 2020 leader- conservatives is that they’re not election and the competition will in an email to The Hill Times. tially protected by their respective ship contest that concluded in welcome in the party. be even more intense with every “Many choose to renew, some leaders from nomination chal- August, the deadline to sign up “A percentage of them will vote counting. may not, and that’s just the natu- lenges and are almost automatic new members was mid May. be reluctant to sign up because “It [expiring memberships] ral ebb and flow of membership, candidates for the next election, By that deadline, about 269,500 it’s not just Derek’s supporters definitely has an impact and has and why we measure the general unless they choose not to seek members from across the country but there’s a perception that the made every contestant’s job even health of the party through a re-election. Both the Conserva- had signed up to be eligible to party leadership is, I hesitate harder,” said one Conservative in- variety of methods including our tives and Liberals have set some vote in the leadership election. to use the term hostile to social volved in the nomination process. fundraising which continues to very easy to meet conditions for This month, thousands of party conservatives, but not as friendly The Conservative Party set all-time records, especially incumbent MPs to be acclaimed. members who bought party mem- as SoCons perhaps want them to declined to even give a rough last quarter when we out-fund- In the House, there are cur- bership before May, for one year, be,” said a social conservative Tory estimate of how many member- raised the Liberals by the biggest rently 154 Liberal MPs, 120 Con- are expiring unless they choose organizer. “So a certain percentage ships are set to expire by the end margin in our history.” servative MPs, 24 NDP MPs, 32 to renew. But senior conservatives are gonna say, ‘Forget it, I’m not of this month. According to the CBC, the Bloc MPs, three Green MPs, and and grassroots members told The interested. They’re not interested “Like we often see at the lo- Conservative Party raised more five Independents. Hill Times that, based on their in working with me. Why would cal level—where some people money in the first quarter of this As of deadline, 13 MPs had past experience, most will choose I be interested in working with year than “any other federal party announced they will not seek not to renew their memberships them? That’s a problem. How big ever.” The party raised $8.5-mil- re-election. Of those, four are Lib- as they signed up for a specific the problem is, I don’t know. Be- lion, the Liberals $3.5-million, the eral, six Conservative, two Bloc leadership candidates and the cause SoCons are like everybody NDP $1.6-million, and the Greens Québécois, and one NDP. contest is over. else, they’re going to kick and $677,000. But the Liberals have They include Liberal MPs At the time, four candidates— scream, and then sign up anyway. been ahead of the Conservatives Navdeep Bains (Mississauga- Erin O’Toole, Peter MacKay, So it’s a problem.” for months in national public Malton, Ont.), (Sud- Leslyn Lewis and — But a second veteran Conserva- opinion polls. bury, Ont.), (Halifax took part in the contest and their tive said that social conservatives Buying a party member- West, N.S.), Kate Young (London supporters signed up thousands would renew their membership as ship gives members the right to West, Ont.); Bloc Québécois MPs of memberships. A vast majority they regularly take part in party participate in electoral district (Mirabel, Que.), of Canadians who join a politi- elections whether it’s a leadership association meetings, seek or and (Trois- cal party during the leadership election or a nomination election. vote in nomination elections, be a Rivières, Que.). election usually do it for one year. Potential nomination can- delegate or an alternate delegate The six Conservative MPs are: Some also buy it for two, three, didates have been campaign- in national conventions, or be a (Thornhill, Ont.), Di- four or five years. The Conserva- ing since last year to seek the member of the board of directors ane Finley (Haldimand-Norfolk, tive Party charges $15 per mem- support of the existing members Independent MP Derek Sloan ran of the EDA. Ont.), (Simcoe bership for one year and $50 for and signing up new members. In as a social conservative candidate Former leadership contestant North, Ont.), Phil McColeman five years. interviews with The Hill Times in last year’s Conservative party and businessman Rick Peterson (Brantford-Brant, Ont.), David Two of the candidates in the last week, they complained that leadership election. He was kicked is one of the two candidates Sweet (Flamborough-Glanbrook, leadership election—Ms. Lewis the nomination process is too out of caucus earlier this year. It seeking the party’s nomina- Ont.) and Cathy McLeod (Kam- and Mr. Sloan— were social con- slow and this month, each riding remains to be seen if and how many tion in the riding of Edmonton loops-Thompson-Cariboo, Ont.). servatives and thousands of their association will lose a significant of his supporters will renew their Strathcona currently held by the NDP MP (Hamilton supporters played a key role in number of members who they’ve party membership. The Hill Times NDP. Mr. Peterson has been run- Mountain, Ont.) is also not seek- the leadership election outcome. been canvassing for support for photograph by Andrew Meade ning his nomination campaign ing re-election. Since the election, Mr. Sloan months and who may choose not since May, but as of deadline In a minority government, an has been kicked out of the to renew their memberships. purchase memberships in order last week, the party had not election could happen at any time caucus and the party. It remains This dynamic will be even to take part in their candidate scheduled a nomination con- and a number of political insiders to be seen if or how many of more critical in held ridings nomination vote, and will wait test. Neither Mr. Peterson nor are speculating about an August- his supporters will renew their where incumbent MPs choose not to renew until the next time they Mr. Bean knew when the party October window, depending on memberships or not. Mr. Sloan is to run or the ones that Conserva- have to vote for a nomination would schedule the election. the success of the COVID-19 vac- currently sitting as Independent tives lost by narrow margins in candidate—it’s no different with Of the 34 ridings in Alberta, cine rollout. MP in the House. Since his expul- the last election. It’s because the our leadership contests,” wrote the bedrock of the Conservative [email protected] sion from the party, some say the Conservatives have good odds of Cory Hann, director of communi- Party base, this is the only one The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 27 Opinion Conservatives have a serious problem, and it’s Erin O’Toole

Conservative Party Erin O’Toole has been Leader Erin O’Toole, pictured Oct. 28, pushing change for the 2020, in Ottawa. The Conservative Party Conservative Party, ironically, of Canada needs to change in its leadership is get back to being a national political party what the country is asking for. that is capable of winning government. Between the past disaster of Andrew Scheer in 2019, and the impending disaster this year, the Conservative Party of Canada may remain in opposition for generations, writes Clinton Desveaux. The Hill Times photograph Clinton Desveaux by Andrew Meade Opinion

ince Aug. 24, 2020, the Conservative SParty of Canada has faced a serious problem. The problem, unfortunately for Erin O’Toole, is Erin O’Toole. Since O’Toole was chosen leader of the Conservatives, polling for the former chopper navigator has nosedived like a helicopter free falling out of the sky. Research indicates there is an urgency for change, and it needs to hap- pen before the next election. As it stands right now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is positioned perfectly to win another major- ity government. Canada have a national governing alterna- What O’Toole has offered the public for He talks about a pipeline through Que- There is no point in sugarcoating what tive in waiting. Currently we have a fractured policies and ideas, the public isn’t buying. The bec, which will never happen, but makes no I’m about to say. According to all the opposition party primarily focused in Alberta hiring of the former VP of Huawei Canada, mention of the less politically problematic polling data from various firms, O’Toole’s and Saskatchewan. Meanwhile in the rest of and putting that person in charge of the Con- Hudson Bay in Manitoba. What we know tenure as leader of the Conservative Party Canada, things look great for Trudeau. It’s a servative war room was a strategic blunder. for certain is he supports the new pathetic of Canada has been a complete and total mess for the Conservatives though. The inability to answer basic ques- looking Conservative Party of Canada logo unmitigated disaster. I take zero joy in say- The Conservative Party needs to find a tions on how or if indeed O’Toole plans with a sideways leaning maple leaf. ing this. I’ll explain why. It’s incredibly im- new leader. As it stands right now, Cana- to deal with climate issues, no one knows O’Toole, it’s over. Time to start pack- portant for Canada to have a competitive dians have decided they prefer to keep or understands because he has yet to give ing your bags at Stornoway, the country and functioning parliamentary party sys- Trudeau for another four years. When any specific answers on who will manage is counting on you to do the right thing. tem no matter who is in government at any O’Toole is matched against Trudeau for his cumbersome carbon savings accounts The Conservative Party of Canada needs given time. When governments face weak preferred prime minister, Trudeau wins 40 for 38 million individual Canadians. What to get back to being a national political opposition leaders such as the case with per cent to O’Toole’s 15 per cent. O’Toole items will be placed in his government party that is capable of winning govern- O’Toole, governments know their ability has been pushing change for the Conserva- approved shopping list? No one knows. He ment. Between the past disaster of Andrew to lose an election is reduced dramatically tive Party, ironically, change in its leader- has nothing to say on building a national Scheer in 2019, and the impending disaster and that’s when mistakes, arrogance, and ship is what the country is asking for. hydro-electric power grid connecting this year, the Conservative Party of Canada sometimes even coverups happen. Facing If Conservatives can’t win the key swing British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec, and may remain in opposition for generations. weak opposition leaders like O’Toole also ridings which Ontario Premier Newfoundland and Labrador with the rest Clinton Desveaux has provided stra- means the nation is ill-served in the public won provincially, including in the famous of Canada. Complete silence on the issue tegic advice to Conservative, Liberal, and square of ideas and debates. 905 area code, the suburbs of the Greater of a national mining strategy to supply pre- New Democrat politicians both federally It’s imperative during a global medical Toronto Area, it’s over for the Conserva- cious metals to the global electric vehicle and provincially in Canada. pandemic, and global economic recession that tives federally with its current leader. market. The Hill Times

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which operates at arm’s-length from the government, is eager to Bill C-10: how closing the do so either. According to Mr. Geist, how- ever, C-10 would force the CRTC to figure out how to make broad- casters that rely on uploaded YouTube ‘loophole’ created content adhere to the Broadcast- ing Act’s objectives, one way or another. “The CRTC will be faced with hearings in which they will be asked to follow through on the a political firestorm policies within the broadcasting act,” said Mr. Geist. The soon-to-be deleted clause ity that the user upload exemp- emption, is the parliamentary Mr. Aitchison said he didn’t The partisan finger- made clear that “programs” tion would create a loophole for secretary for Mr. Guilbeault, as think the CRTC would want to uploaded to online platforms by platforms such as YouTube. “But well as a member of the com- regulate content posted to social pointing that has their users would be exempt from eliminating Section 4.1 was like mittee. House committees are, media by Canadians who are not the Broadcasting Act require- taking a sledgehammer to a fin- theoretically, supposed to act professional artists. defined the debate ments. It was deleted with no ishing nail.” independently from the will of the “I actually generally believe around Bill C-10 debate by the committee, with He said the proposed Conser- cabinet, but it is common for MPs that the CRTC doesn’t really Liberal, Bloc, and NDP members vative amendment to 4.1, which from the governing party to bring want to do that, but our challenge over the past two voting in support. also would have removed the user forward changes the govern- back to the minister and to the The Conservatives on the upload exemption for large online ment wishes made to its bills at Liberal government on this is weeks is rooted in House Heritage Committee op- platforms, “was not ideal, and it committee. In this case, it’s not that something as fundamental posed deleting that section of the needed some work.” clear who came up with the pro- as section two of the Charter, our an attempt by the bill at the time, but they brought posal that Ms. Dabrusin brought fundamental freedoms of expres- forward their own amendment forward. She was not available sion and freedom of speech, you government, and a that would have had essentially for an interview last week, and don’t leave wiggle room. You don’t few MPs, to make the same effect, by changing the requests sent to her office were leave question marks in legisla- clause so that only uploads to forwarded to Mr. Guilbeault’s tion that you draft and put before sure that influential small online platforms would be press team. the House.” exempted. That amendment was Ms. Dabrusin told reporters on Mr. Guilbeault promised that streaming companies defeated by the committee. May 3 that deleting Section 4.1 further amendments to C-10 A month before, Mr. Payette from Bill C-10 would allow the would make it “crystal clear” to that rely on uploaded had told the committee that You- CRTC to ask Youtube to finan- Canadians that their social media Tube was the most popular online cially support Canadian content, would not be subject to regula- content, such as music service in Canada. He said “among other regulations.” tion. As of Friday morning, Mr. YouTube, are bound the exemption for uploads would “This will not affect user-gen- Geist was unimpressed with those mean professionally-made songs erated content,” she said. efforts: he told The National Post by rules designed to uploaded to YouTube would not Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Much of the debate between that a Liberal amendment to be subject to the same regulations Guilbeault, pictured June 2, 2020, the Liberals and their critics narrow the scope of government promote Canadian as other online music services on the Hill. The Hill Times photograph over what the bill means for regulation would not prevent the such as Spotify, calling it “totally by Andrew Meade freedom of expression could regulation of social media content cultural content, and unfair.” best be described as two sides under the terms of the bill. protect Canadian Journalists and industry NDP MP Heather McPherson talking past each other. Mr. Guil- “Despite nearly two weeks of experts picked up on the commit- (Edmonton Strathcona, Alta.) said beault, Ms. Dabrusin, and the public concern, the government broadcasters. tee’s decision to delete that user she wasn’t sure how the debate other Liberals MPs on the Heri- still seems committed to regulat- upload exemption, and raised an on a clause of Bill C-10 had tage Committee have pointed ing user generated content,” he Continued from page 1 alarm. turned into a major news story. out that C-10 still includes a told The Post. Michael Geist, who holds the “Honestly, I don’t know. To be clause exempting social media YouTube is owned by Google, musicale, which represents the Canada Research Chair in inter- perfectly honest, we’re halfway users from government regula- which is registered to lobby the interests of French music publish- net and e-commerce law at the through clause-by-clause [exami- tion: in other words, Canadians government on a range of issues ers in Canada, and has lobbied in University of Ottawa, and Peter nation], we don’t even have a full won’t be told what to do by the related to internet and broadcast- favour of Bill C-10. Menzies, a former vice-chair bill to look at. I guess the answer CRTC. ing policy, among other things, “That was the loophole we of the CRTC—which regulates to that question is, this is not good Experts including Mr. Geist but not Bill C-10 in particular. tried to close. All the rest is broadcasters—both denounced legislation that the Liberals have have pointed out that while Google reported communicating politics,” said Mr. Payette in an the change as a threat to freedom built,” she said in an interview. Canadians may be exempt from with a pair of policy advisers to interview. of expression. Their comments Liberal MP Anthony Housefa- CRTC regulation under C-10, the Mr. Guilbeault in March, as well Bill C-10 is the Liberal govern- made headlines, and Canadians ther (Mount Royal, Que.), another social media content that they as officials in the PMO and other ment’s attempt to bring Canada’s took notice. member of the committee, said create and consume may not be. departments, and MPs including Broadcasting Act up to date. That Conservative MP Martin during an interview on The Hill This was made abundantly clear Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole act came into force in 1991, and Shields (Bow River, Alberta) said Times’ Hot Room podcast last to MPs on the House Heritage (Durhamn, Ont.) over the last few the way Canadians consume me- during a May 3 committee meet- week that the controversy was Committee by Thomas Owen months. Those communication dia has changed a lot since then. ing that media reports about the being driven by “disinformation” Ripley, an executive at Heritage reports in the federal lobbying The purpose of the Broadcast- bill generated a huge response from the Conservative Party. Canada who attended the April 23 registry, as usual, do not provide ing Act is to ensure that Cana- from concerned constituents of “This is the Conservatives seiz- meeting. a meaningful amount of detail dian broadcasters—traditionally, his. The Conservative Party took ing on an issue, sending out tons “If the exclusion here is regarding what was discussed radio and television stations—are that response and ran with it, and tons of emails, tons and tons of removed and 4.1 is struck down, during the meetings. showing Canadian-made content starting a social media campaign posts on social media from groups the programming we upload “Like many, we were surprised to Canadians, and supporting accusing the Liberal government affiliated with the Conservative onto YouTube, the programming to see the Heritage Committee the production of that content of trying to “censor the internet.” Party, to scare Canadians, and I we place on that service, would expand Bill C-10 to include social financially. The purpose of Bill believe that it is actually disinfor- be subject to regulation moving media and user-upload services C-10 was to ensure that internet ‘Sledgehammer’ or mation because I do not interpret forward, but would be the respon- and apps,” Youtube spokesperson based streaming services such the entire bill to be saying that the sibility of YouTube or whatever Lauren Skelly wrote in an emailed as Netflix, Crave, YouTube, and ‘tempest in a teapot’? CRTC can regulate content of posts the sharing service is,” he told the statement to The Hill Times. Spotify follow those rules as Conservative MP Scott Aitchi- made by online users,” he said. MPs. “Even with the proposed well, something Canada’s ailing son (Parry Sound-Muskoka, Ont.), He referred to another exemp- “That programming that is amendment, the CRTC will still broadcast companies have been who also sits on the committee, tion still remaining in the bill uploaded, then, could be subject be empowered to regulate the pleading for. said during an interview that that protects social media users to things like discoverability re- content Canadians upload on Bill C-10 is highly technical, he hadn’t anticipated the public themselves from CRTC regulation, quirements or certain obligations online platforms. At this point, and received very little public backlash when MPs first dis- and the protections for freedom of like that,” he said. we remain concerned about the attention until late April, when cussed removing Section 4.1 from expression in the Charter of Rights “Discoverability requirements” unintended consequences of a group of MPs on the House the bill. and Freedoms, which ultimately means, essentially, rules govern- this legislation, particularly with Heritage Committee met to begin “This is why it’s important supersedes government legislation. ing what content the web plat- regards to the potential effects on wrapping up their study on the to make sure you’re listening to “I feel that this is, in a sense, a forms show or suggest to their Canadians’ expressive rights, on bill. At that meeting, Liberal MP Canadians, and Canadians have tempest in a teapot,” he said. users. Canadian content creators that (Toronto-Danforth, been speaking pretty loud and Mr. Guilbeault has said that use our platform to reach global Ont.) proposed a change to clear,” said Mr. Aitchison. CRTC will have to follow his government has no interest audiences, and, more broadly, the the bill—one of more than 100 “There’s some valid concerns in restricting or regulating social openness of YouTube,” the state- changes under discussion—that there that they have expressed through on new rules media posts that are not commer- ment said. would delete one clause in the 38- that need to be addressed,” he Ms. Dabrusin, who proposed ical content through Bill C-10. No [email protected] page document. said, referring to the possibil- deleting the user upload ex- one is suggesting that the CRTC, The Hill Times THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 29 Opinion

ship databases and can make a major About time to get a grip on money- contribution in building the national data- base. It seems most likely that the national database will be built incrementally from similarly structured provincial databases. Moreover, in recent years, criminals laundering problems in Canada from around the world have invested the proceeds of their crime in real estate, par- Federal Finance ticularly in British Columbia, contributing It will be a complicated Minister Chrystia to a red-hot housing market. In November Freeland, 2020, the B.C. Land Owner Transparency task to build an effective pictured Sept. Act came into force, establishing a search- 25, 2020, on the able, public registry of individuals who and harmonized database Hill. The federal hold beneficial interests in real estate of beneficial ownership government’s through among other entities, corporations, decision to break trusts or partnerships. The registry, the first of federal and provincial/ the inertia to of its kind in Canada, went live on April 30, move forward 2021. It is a step in the right direction and territorial corporate and build a can be combined with the planned national beneficial beneficial ownership registry providing shareholdings, augmented ownership additional datasets and serving as an ex- registry should ample of how to incorporate and integrate to include real estate be applauded, beneficial ownership in real estate invest- holdings, and publicly to increase ments in other provinces/territories. corporate Sophisticated digital technologies and accessible to market transparency and systems will be important in the function- more effectively ing of a national registry—to ensure overall stakeholders. But the combat money- security of the data, minimize compliance laundering costs, facilitate consolidation of federal and effort will be worth it activities, tax provincial/territorial corporate information, to strengthen integrity evasion and other and enable user-friendly, efficient access to illicit activities. the dataset. For the securities industry, the of capital markets and The Hill Times beneficial ownership registry will facilitate photograph by the reporting of suspicious capital markets investor confidence. Andrew Meade transactions to FINTRAC in compliance with the federal Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA). Further, it will be a welcomed tool for investment dealers to comply with the “Know Your Client” obligations under the PCMLTFA which include the collection of beneficial ownership information. Science and Economic Development Cana- statutes) to identify and report beneficial The federal government’s decision to da following extensive public consultations owners, comprehensive coverage, and break the inertia to move forward and last year on strengthening corporate ben- access to law enforcement, tax, and other build a beneficial ownership registry eficial ownership transparency in Canada. authorities as well as all sectors, including should be applauded, to increase corporate Stakeholders called on the federal govern- the securities industry, that have reporting transparency and more effectively combat Ian Russell ment to take a lead role to build a seamless obligations under AML legislation and are money-laundering activities, tax eva- Opinion and standardized federal-provincial/territo- mandated to collect beneficial ownership sion and other illicit activities. It will be a rial beneficial ownership registry, interop- information on the entities with which they complicated task to build an effective and erable with existing federal and provincial do business. It is recognized that the task harmonized database of beneficial owner- ne of the pleasant surprises in the registries. Finally, the federal government to build an integrated, central registry will ship of federal and provincial/territorial OApril federal budget was the an- recognized an effective national registry be challenging, requiring extensive amend- corporate shareholdings, augmented to nouncement to earmark $2.1-million to of beneficial corporate ownership would ment to existing federal and provincial/ include real estate holdings, and publicly build and implement a national corporate assist in meeting another policy goal—to territorial corporate statutes to create a accessible to market stakeholders. But beneficial ownership registry. In Decem- crack-down on tax evasion of individuals consistent definition of beneficial owner- the effort will be worth it to strengthen ber 2017, federal and provincial/territorial behind privately held companies and shell ship and a consistent beneficial ownership integrity of capital markets and investor finance ministers had agreed in principle corporations. threshold above which owners must report confidence. to pursue amendments to their respective The key features that would make the their holdings. Ian Russell is the president and CEO legislative corporate law statutes to require proposed beneficial ownership registry Some provinces—Quebec, and Prince of the Investment Industry Association of corporations to hold accurate and up-to- effective are the harmonization of require- Edward Island, for example—have already Canada (IIAC). date beneficial ownership information, but ments on corporations (and enabling moved forward, building beneficial owner- The Hill Times there has been little momentum to move forward with a publicly accessible pan-Ca- nadian registry as an effective mechanism to identify illicit activities such as money laundering, tax evasion and other finan- cial crimes. Canada has faced significant negative publicity in recent years as an easy place for money-laundering due to a perceived lack of enforcement. The federal budget announcement caught many off-guard. Several reasons explain the sudden decision to prioritize a national reg- istry to combat money-laundering. First, on Jan. 1, 2021, Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act which includes the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). The CTA is the first significant update to U.S. anti-money laundering laws in 20 years and requires all U.S. businesses to file beneficial ownership information with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). This necessitated Canadian federal govern- ment leadership. Second, the Canadian government wanted to rehabilitate Canada’s damaged reputation as an easy mark for money-laundering to a strict jurisdiction scrutinizing domestic and foreign transac- tional flows within the country and from out- side. Our negative reputation on the world stage dampens investor appeal of Canada as a safe destination for investment. 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(Oxford University The following is an excerpt Press); Securité, lib- erté et criminalité, from Mark Jaccard’s The by Maurice Cusson (Les éditions du Citizen’s Guide to Climate Septentrion); Reset: Success: Overcoming Myths Reclaiming the Internet for Civil That Hinder Progress, one Society, by Ronald J. Deibert (House of of five books nominated for Anansi Press); and The Age of Fentanyl: this year’s Donner Prize for Ending the Opioid the best public policy book Epidemic, by Brodie Ramin, M.D. (Dun- of the year. durn Press). The 2020 Donner Prize will be presented in BY MARK JACCARD a virtual event on May 19. his leaves one last task on the simple Copyright © Tpath to climate success. We must be able Author Mark Jaccard: 'Fortunately, we can 2020 Mark Jaccard, to detect and elect climate-sincere politi- eliminate GHG emissions without destroying published by Cam- Figure 13.2: While it might strike some as playful, it’s not meant to be. cians, and then pressure them to implement our economy or completely transforming our bridge University It’s my ‘guide to citizen behaviour from climate success,’ writes Mark a few simple policies, such that any citizen behaviour and economic system. We just need Press, The Citizen’s Jaccard. Image courtesy of Mark Jaccard can detect procrastination and evasion. The to stop the open burning of coal, oil products, Guide to Climate nature of this task crystalized for me a few and natural gas. But for that to happen, we need Success: Overcom- called carbon capture and storage, is expen- years ago during the question period after more climate-concerned citizens to see this ing Myths that Hinder Progress. Reprinted sive, we will mostly switch to renewables like one of my talks. Someone in the audience simple truth—and that is why I wrote this book.' with permission. wind, solar, and small hydro (and perhaps asked, “Don’t we need to better inform our Photograph courtesy of Cambridge University Press nuclear in some places). And because the political leaders about climate science and Questions for Marc Jaccard open burning of fossil fuels is cheap, and effective policy options? Some are skepti- politicians. Easiest is to engage politically. likely to get cheaper, governments show they cal of the science. Some acknowledge the Citizens active in the political process are Why did you write this book? are climate-sincere only if they price carbon science, but oppose carbon taxes and other important, although the effect is impossible “Humanity has failed for three decades emissions or regulate technologies. Fortunate- strong policies. Don’t we need to send politi- to measure. Unfortunately, phasing out to eliminate planet-threatening green- ly, more governments are doing this, but their cians to remedial school for the climate?” fossil fuels directly threatens powerful and house gas emissions, yet most climate- policies are not nearly strong enough. For this Before I could respond, a woman waiting at wealthy people who have political influ- concerned citizens still don’t know what to happen, climate-concerned citizens need the other mic engaged the questioner. ence. So creating a policy window may en- to do personally or what to demand from to be more effective, and I explain how in “There is nothing we can tell politicians tail a bigger personal commitment as past their politicians. On one side, they continu- this book. And those who have already read they don’t already know about the climate successful social movements have shown, ously hear they must change everything the book, tell me it has indeed helped them threat and GHG reduction policies.” whether for civil rights, women’s rights, or about their lifestyles and economy. No be more effective when confronted with the “How can you be sure?” opposition to war. Options include boy- more eating meat, driving cars, and plane cacophony of agenda-hitching messages.” “I spent years as a senior political ad- cotts, protests, demonstrations, even acts of trips. No more market economies and eco- viser. Believe me, they know.” civil disobedience to alert fellow citizens to nomic growth. On the other side, they are Why is your book important to read right “Then what would cause them to act?” the importance of the issue.” bombarded with political and corporate now? “A policy “And then the politicians will do the messaging about how the next fossil fuel “Looking ahead to the reopening of our window of right thing?” project is essential for their economy. economies post-COVID, climate-concerned the kind that “Maybe. But then you’re still not out of “Fortunately, we can eliminate GHG emis- citizens hear an incessant clamour for influenced the woods. Politicians have short attention sions without destroying our economy or more government spending on climate, right-of-centre spans. You probably need to convince them completely transforming our behaviour and more ambitious climate targets and behav- politicians in to create regulatory institutions that will economic system. We just need to stop the ioural changes by consumers and busi- the mid-2000s sustain the policies regardless of the next open burning of coal, oil products, and natu- nesses. As readers of my book know, while like Arnold distraction. Something like the California ral gas. But for that to happen, we need more these may have some value, this is only Schwarzeneg- Air Resources Board. Tell the politicians climate-concerned citizens to see this simple if paired with the essential rising carbon ger, John Mc- this delegation of climate policy responsi- truth—and that is why I wrote this book. price and tightening regulations. Thus, the Cain and Mitt bility is in their best interests, since effec- “I wrote it to explain to non-experts what book is more important today than ever as Romney in the tive policies are not vote-getters!” virtually all experts agree on: that the simple a guide to climate-concerned citizens, help- U.S., and Gor- She had left nothing for me to say. But path to climate success can still involve fossil ing them focus strategically on the simple don Campbell I really appreciated her response. It made fuels, but only if we use them without emit- path to climate success.” in British me too reflect on my responsibilities as a ting carbon dioxide. Because this alternative, The Hill Times Columbia.” citizen. Until then, I was generally satis- “But how fied with my comfortable role as indepen- does a policy dent expert, helping sincere politicians window hap- with policy advice and analysis, exposing pen? Do we insincere politicians with my energy-policy need more modelling for think tanks, non-government devastating hurricanes, floods and wild- organizations, and the media. But with the fires?” climate threat, was that enough? “Probably. Our political system is not When I later recounted this exchange to configured to take difficult steps in the my research group, one grad student said, present to avoid great harm in the future. “You should produce a flow chart.” He noted We don’t reward politicians for thinking that engineers draw flow charts to guide and acting that way.” them with contingent decisions—if A, do X; “So that’s it? There’s no hope? Nothing if B, do Y. That night I produced the diagram that might change their minds before the in Figure 13.2. While it might strike some as We provide full service corporate, calamity?” playful, it’s not meant to be. It’s my ‘guide to government and social catering in “There certainly is. Politicians will citizen behaviour for climate success.’ the greater Ottawa-Gatineau region. abandon a position if the political costs are The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: excessive. 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