The sinking of the good ship SCC p. 14 HOH: The New Yorker’s Health Ronan policy Farrow’s coming to Path briefi ng Ottawa p. 2 forward pp. 21-32 on Canada’s Phoenix fi asco could have The pollution been prevented with good scourge of whistleblower protection Party Central: Taste of law p. 11 social media: p. 7 Nicholls p. 9 Arctic was lively p. 34 TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 1538 CANADA’S POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2018 $5.00 News Ontario election: June 7News Trans Mountain pipeline News NAFTA With Wynne ‘This is going to headed for big Trans Mountain purchase to loss, federal NDP create border and Conservatives expose Liberals on multiple chaos’: MPs to target ridings react to Trump for 2019 election, fronts, say pollsters: ‘they tariff s, Trudeau say veteran response political players wear everybody’s mistakes’ BY BEATRICE PAEZ BY ABBAS RANA he Trudeau government made ith Ontario Liberal Premier The Liberals will likely lose seats in British Columbia Tthe right call in retaliating WKathleen Wynne headed for with countermeasures to Wash- big loss in this week’s provincial over the controversial decision, says Shachi Kurl. ington’s move to enact tariffs on election, veteran federal political Canadian steel and aluminum, players say Thursday’s results will while also giving the issue some provide a roadmap for the federal breathing room to allow for a NDP and Conservatives for pos- Prime Minister Justin resolution before trade relations sible winnable ridings in the 2019 Trudeau, pictured last get worse, say some MPs. election, and they say the federal week at the National “It’s extremely important to Liberals won’t have the provincial Press Theatre in Ottawa, the country to know that our machine that helped them win a had one very busy, pivotal majority government in 2015. week in his leadership. His Continued on page 19 government announced it Continued on page 18 will buy the $4.5-billion Trans Mountain pipeline and it retaliated against News Politics & privacy the U.S. by imposing News Phoenix $16.6-billion in tariffs after U.S. President Donald House Ethics Trump announced tariffs Committee to Conservatives on steel and aluminum imports. The Hill Times release interim accuse photograph by Andrew Meade report on probe MacKinnon of into Cambridge trying to ‘direct’ Analytica- Grit MPs to defeat Facebook scandal motion asking this summer, says Wernick to testify Zimmer Publications Mail Agreement #40068926 about Phoenix BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT BY ABBAS RANA he House Access to Infor- BY PETER MAZEREEUW & will likely endanger seats in Brit- South Centre, Man.) and Finance Tmation, Privacy, and Ethics onservatives on the House BEATRICE PAEZ ish Columbia and Quebec without Minister Bill Morneau (Toronto Committee will deliver an interim CPublic Accounts Committee providing a boost in Alberta, say Centre, Ont.) on May 29 in Ot- report this summer on its sprawl- are accusing Liberal MP Ste- uying the $4.5-billion Trans pollsters. tawa, could alienate environmen- ing study into the Cambridge ven MacKinnon, parliamentary BMountain pipeline has made The controversial move, an- talists, Vancouverites worried Analytica-Facebook data breach, secretary to the Public Services the governing Liberals politically nounced by Natural Resources and last week it received some Continued on page 38 vulnerable on multiple fronts and Minister Jim Carr (Winnipeg Continued on page 16 Continued on page 20 2 MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2018 | THE HILL TIMES trade with Canada totaled an estimated This just in: There’s a new $673.9-billion in 2017. Exports were $341.2 billion; imports were $332.8 billion. The internship out there for U.S. goods and services trade surplus with budding journalists Canada was $8.4 billion in 2017.” Heard on the Hill Mr. Chrétien said that whatever agree- Bruce Anderson ment the three countries come to, Mr. Abacus Data pollster Trump will eventually take credit for it. by Shruti Shekar says he’s going to establish a new journal- “Change one comma, Mr. Trump would ism internship that will allow students say it is the biggest historic victory that itching to become journalists to work as America ever had,” he said. “And we reporters on the Hill. [should] say ‘Yes, sir, Monsieur Trump.” “Now that @jaimiesinterns has enough Former Chrétien-era money to be self-fi nancing, a group of us are creating a new internship for journal- Susan Lunn leaves CBC, ism students to spend summers working in minister Don Boudria Parliamentary News Bureaux more details joins Agriculture Canada to come!” Mr. Anderson tweeted on May 26. “This is a real thing, I’m happy to re- port!” iPolitics columnist Susan Delacourt to receive award from tweeted on May 29. Mr. Anderson, who is also the chairman of Summa Strategies’ Summa Communica- Canadian Association of tions, is also the creator of the successful Jaimie Anderson Parliamentary Internship. That internship, named after his Former Parliamentarians daughter, gives paid summer internship opportunities to young people “who have a keen interest in learning more about and he Canadian Association of Former The award is presented to a former making a contribution to the political life CBC Radio reporter Susan Lunn shows off Parliamentarians (CAFP) is awarding Parliamentarian “based on his or her T of our country.” some of her tags that she has acquired over the Distinguished Service Award on June contribution to public life while in offi ce, Mr. Anderson started out in 1980 as the years as a reporter. She announced she 4 to former Liberal cabinet minister and and on their continued interest and activity a Hill staffer. In 1983 he joined Decima is leaving journalism for a gig at Agriculture MP Don Boudria, 68, who is now a lobbyist in the promotion of human welfare and Research and in 1989 became a founding Canada. Photograph courtesy of Twitter in Ottawa at Hill and Knowlton Strategies. parliamentary democracy in Canada and partner of Earnscliffe Strategy Group. “The fi rst reaction is that there are all abroad.” kinds of people who have done bigger During his time on the Hill, Mr. Boudria Longtime reporter Susan Lunn an- things than me, and I’m just a bus boy,” Mr. was minister of public works and govern- Crestview welcomes all nounced on May 31 on Twitter that she Boudria laughed during a phone call after ment services, minister for international was leaving journalism for a new role at meeting with his physiotherapist. cooperation, and he was also House leader for post-Ontario election Agriculture Canada. He was recently diagnosed with poly- and party whip. after-party “It’s true. After 32 years of reporting I’m myalgia rheumatica, an infl ammatory leaving to work for Agriculture Canada to disorder that causes muscle pain and stiff- It’s safe to say that everyone deserves a contribute hopefully in a different way,” the ness. That ordeal started not too long after Get to know the personal CBC Radio reporter tweeted. Christmas. good after-party once the Ontario election lives of Canada’s PMs wraps up this week. Ms. Lunn replied to comments on her So if you haven’t booked your after- Twitter post that she would be joining through a new book party yet, or you haven’t fi gured out what the government department as a policy you’re doing, then you should make sure analyst. For all the history to RSVP to government relations fi rm Ms. Lunn started her journalism career nerds out there, there’s Crestview Strategy’s annual summer working at the Chronicle Herald in Halifax. a new book coming celebration. The party is also dubbed “the She started working at CBC Radio in the soon all about former post-election” party. early 90’s and has worked in several loca- prime ministers and It’s going to be on Wednesday, June 13, tions including Sudbury, Saskatoon, Re- what it’s like to live at The Campbell House, which is located gina, Toronto, and most recently in Ottawa their lives. downtown Toronto on Queen Street West. working on the Parliamentary beat. History professor Sorry Ottawa folks, this one might be J.D.M. Stewart has hard to get to! Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, written a new 344- The party starts at 6 p.m. Queen’s Park veteran Don Boudria, and his son, Dan Boudria, age book titled Being Geoff Turner joins Bluesky pictured in the government lobby on the Hill. Prime Minister, to be Photograph courtesy of Twitter published by Dundern Ex-PM Chrétien says he Strategy in Ottawa Press this June. Mr. Boudria was elected into the House The book delves into what Canada’s would speak French to in 1984 to represent the riding of Glengar- Consulting fi rm prime ministers were like as people and ry-Prescott-Russell, Ont., which he repre- Bluesky Strategy gives a behind-the-scenes picture of what U.S. President Trump sented from 1984 to 2006. Group has hired it’s like to be Canada’s leader. Geoff Turner Before that he had several jobs, Former Liberal prime minister Jean Chré- on , a “From John A. Macdonald to Justin including working as a bus boy in the tien said on CBC’s The Current last Thurs- longtime provincial Trudeau, readers get a glimpse of the parliamentary kitchen on the Hill, which day that if he met U.S. President Donald political staffer, as a prime ministers as they travelled, dealt he’s still proud of to this day. He wrote an Trump he would say “Bonjour.” senior consultant to with invasions of privacy, met with celebri- entire book about it, titled Busboy: From “Bonjour—and he won’t understand,” its team in Ottawa.