After Defence Merkel’s the policy beer flood review tent Remembering Time to prepare Rinaldo for more in Why the wait? breakup Hairdresser tamed the future, MPs say Lindsay Lisa Van tresses of top politicians p. 6 Rodman, p. 12 Dusen, p. 7 Heard on the Hill, p.2 TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 1437 CANADA’S POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 $5.00 News Conservative leadership News Senate The caucus that wasn’t: how the Conservative caucus rallies Independent Senate Group works BY PETER MAZEREEUW As the group grows larger, a around Scheer; Bernier’s Senate that for years was whipped The Independent Senators along party lines is becom- Group is still finding its feet more ing unpredictable. Sen. Ratna than a year after its first mem- Omidvar (Ontario), the group’s bers were appointed to the Upper scroll manager, used that word team knew unity would earlier this month to describe the Chamber, and trying to pin down principles to guide Independents future course of the government’s operating in what has become an transgender rights bill, C-16, and unpredictable Senate. several sources in and around the have been tough for him Senators in the group say they Independent Senators Group (ISG) don’t co-ordinate how they vote, agreed the Upper Chamber has nor, in most cases, do they tell the become harder to predict. group’s leadership how they will vote ahead of time. Continued on page 18 News Hill life & people There should be rules for MPs hiring interns, says ex-intern who did unpaid part-time work for a year BY CHELSEA NASH taking on interns, she said, given the definition of her own intern- former intern in a Liberal ship was unclear, even to her. A MP’s riding office says the The former intern asked to lack of clarity between what remain anonymous because she is constitutes a volunteer and an currently working full time for the intern contributed to her doing MP she interned for, whose name unpaid part-time work for she also asked not to publish so as roughly a year. not to lead to her identification. “There probably should be some kind of regulation” for MPs Continued on page 4 News Trade Maxime Bernier, left, lost the Conservative leadership to Andrew Scheer, right, on Saturday night in a tight race that saw Mr. Scheer squeak by Mr. Bernier with 50.95 per cent support, versus Mr. Bernier’s 49.05 per cent. They are pictured awaiting the results of the final ballot at the Toronto Congress Centre. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright Feds pursuing TPP revival, BY CHELSEA NASH they are unified in their support for him had he won, according to an crunching numbers on new deal new party leader Andrew Scheer, MP who worked on his campaign. espite his tight victory, Con- something Maxime Bernier was BY PETER MAZEREEUW background, when asked whether Publications Mail Agreement #40068926 Dservative caucus members say anticipating to be a challenge for Continued on page 14 the government would ratify the he government’s trade experts TPP text as-is, as Japan has done. Tare drawing up a playbook for Ratify or not, the Trans-Pacific talks on a reworked 11-country Partnership cannot come into effect Trans-Pacific Partnership trade unless the U.S. government reverses More Conservative leadership coverage agreement, trying to anticipate its decision to withdraw from the what the remaining members deal, or the clause that requires its Powers: Nice guys can finish first, p. 17 will want in order to swing a deal ratification by original members Whittington: Conservatives look back instead of forward, p. 13 without the United States. accounting for 85 per cent of the “I think it’s safe to say that group’s GDP is rewritten. Hébert: Tories get leader, but not big tent party needs, p. 16 there will be some changes,” said a government official speaking on Continued on page 19 2 wednesdaY, MAY 31, 2017 | THE HILL TIMES Mining for votes in the Nickel City NDP leadership hopefuls were in Sudbury on Sunday Heard on the Hill for the third official debate. by Marco Vigliotti Rinaldo Canonico, hairstylist to Ottawa’s political elite, passes away Six NDP leadership hopefuls gathered at Sudbury’s Cambrian College in the race to replace outgoing leader Thomas Rinaldo Canonico, Mulcair. pictured here in this undated photo at his then-salon in the World Exchange Plaza, has died. A popular figure in the city, he was famously known as the stylist to Ottawa’s elite. The Hill Times Quebec MP Guy Caron, left, and Ontario MP Charlie Angus, Former Ontario NDP deputy leader Jagmeet Singh, photograph by Janet right, prior to the debate. Mr. Angus was the de facto local left, appeared in his first debate of the race on Wilson candidate in the debate as the sole leadership hopeful to Sunday. He’s pictured with NDP national director represent a riding in northern Ontario. Robert Fox. ttawa’s hairstylist to the stars has died. In fact, The Hill Times published a pro- Veteran B.C. MP Peter Julian was the first candidate to officially O Rinaldo Canonico, an immensely file decades earlier on Mr. Canonico and register for the leadership race. popular stylist who counted as clients one of his famous clients, then-wife to the numerous members of Ottawa’s political prime minister Mila Mulroney. elite, died last week after undergoing heart “Sad to hear about the passing of surgery at a hospital in the nation’s capital, Rinaldo. We hit it off after I wrote a piece the Canadian Press reported. on him & Mila Mulroney for @TheHill- He was 82. Times. A real gentleman,” Janet Wilson, the reporter who penned the story, wrote on Twitter last week. Mr. Canonico was also appointed by the Manitoba MP Niki Ashton speaks to reporters Mulroney government to the board of the after the debate. In a statement issued hours Federal Development Bank of Canada. Former veterans ombudsman Pat Stogran also made his debate later, Ms. Ashton confirmed that she is pregnant According to the Canadian Press, Mr. debut on Sunday. and expecting a baby in November. Canonico came to Canada from Italy in the mid 1950s after apprenticing at one of Italy’s top salons. He worked for more than The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade a decade in Montreal before setting up a salon at Ottawa’s Place de Ville complex. First elected in 2008, Ms. Ashton Mr. Bélanger, he said, expressed great In the early 1990s, he moved into the unsuccessfully sought the NDP leader- support for the museum and its mandate, city’s World Exchange Plaza building, and ship in 2012. She was eliminated on the and understood and appreciated the “heri- then opened a shop in the Byward Market first ballot in that leadership race, which tage and educational value” the collection nearly a decade ago. His salon was once was won by Thomas Mulcair (Outremont, of aeronautical artifacts on display at the voted the best in Canada. Que.) museum offered to Canadians. Mr. Canonico’s Rinaldo salons were fran- “Mr. Belanger was an indispensable chised and there are currently four locations ally who got to know museum officials and in Ottawa, though he stopped cutting hair Bélanger honoured by their concerns, and he worked relentlessly more than five years ago, according to CP. to have the new storage hangar built,” Mr. Ottawa museum Proulx told The Hill Times via email, not- ing that the late MP attended the facility’s NDP leadership contestant An Ottawa museum is paying tribute grand opening in December 2004. to an erstwhile supporter on the Hill by “His actions ensured that the museum’s The late Ottawa hairstylist Rinaldo Canonico is expecting rechristening its theatre. one-of-a kind objects will tell the stories of and his wife Pat pose with United Arab Emirates Management of the Canada Aviation Canada’s aeronautical heritage for genera- Ambassador Mohammed Saif Helal Al Shehhi in NDP MP and party leadership hopeful Niki and Space Museum announced late last tions to come.” December 2012. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia Ashton (Churchill-Keewatinook Aski, Man.) week that the museum’s theatre will be The federally-operated museum is lo- announced Monday that she’s pregnant. named in recognition of the late Mauril cated in Ottawa’s east end. For decades, Mr. Canonico tended to the Ms. Ashton publicly revealed the news Bélanger, a long-serving Liberal MP and In a statement, Catherine Bélanger, Mr. hair of the city’s political and cultural play- in a statement issued following a leader- former government whip who died last Bélanger’s wife, expressed gratitude to the ers, from Parliamentarians to local celebri- ship debate on Sunday in Sudbury. summer from the fatal neurological disease museum for recognizing her late husband’s ties. Most notably, he reportedly cut the She said she’s expecting in November. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known more contributions, calling him “one of the muse- hair of prime ministers Stephen Harper, “I’m happy to share the news that I’m commonly by the abbreviation ALS. um’s biggest fans and an ardent supporter Brian Mulroney and Pierre Trudeau, as expecting. Like millions of Canadian women In a statement, Fernand Proulx, interim of its staff, vision, and raison d’être.” well as some of their wives, according to I will carry on my work,” Ms. Ashton said. president and CEO of the Canada Science A reception celebrating the commemo- the Canadian Press.