THE HILL TIMES • 2013 • $8.95 STEPHEN HARPER Christian Paradis BEVERLEY MCLACHLIN JJimOHN Flaherty BAIRD Jason Kenney Rob ALLISOFonberNg JAMES MOORE REDFORD WJenniayne WoutersByrne MICHAEL HORGAN PETER Andrew MACKAY MacDougall 101 LEONA Tony AGLUKKAQ Clement JUSTIN MOST Morris TRUDEAU INFLUENTIAL Rosenberg CHRIS STEPHEN WOODCOCK PEOPLE IN CARTER MICHAEL FERGUSON GOVERNMENT RAY Rona & POLITICS NOVASergeK Amb Dupont rose John TOM Knubley MULCAIR Raoul BRAD Gébert WALL TOM LAW SON Ted MICHELLEArthur Hamilton D’AURAY Men Nathaziesn Ed ISSN 1929-2473 Simon Kennedy Fast Yaprak Baltacioglu Cullen 12 Top 100 list 8 The Top 25 30 The politicians 46 The political staffers Contents 49 The public servants 56 The lobbyists & consultants 59 The media 62 Other public fi gures 63 Energy & environment 66 MPs and art 70 Château Laurier Hotel 73 MPs’ tattoos 76 Best parties 79 Best watering holes 8 Stephen Harper He’s the central fi gure of the most centralized federal government in the country’s history. 10 Jim Flaherty So far, he’s Canada’s untouchable Finance minister. 10 Jason Kenney He’s the Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Immigration and Citizenship Laureen Harper, pictured on June 7, 2012, minister with the killer in Paris after a bilateral meeting with political instincts. 8 French President François Hollande. 11 John Baird He’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Photograph courtesy of the PMO go-to guy on just about everything. 11 Tony Clement This Treasury Board president is 74 one fi erce partisan player. 13 Ed Fast International Trade minister has a big job, but stays below the radar. 14 Mark Carney Bank of Canada Governor starts a new gig in England in July, but he’s still infl uential until then, and a Rookie NDP MPs Christine Moore little more controversial now. and Rosane Doré Lefebvre. 16 Jenni Byrne She’s considered the most powerful woman in political Ottawa. Published by Hill Times Publishing Inc. © 2013 Hill Times Publishing All rights reserved. The Hill Times Publications Mail Agreement No. 40068926 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN 69 ADDRESSES TO: CIRCULATION DEPT. 69 Sparks Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5A5 e-mail: [email protected] www.hilltimes.com NDP MP Peter Stoffer in his 14 (613) 232-5952 • Fax (613) 232-9055 offi ce of many hats and buttons. NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair. ISSN 1929-2473 Photographs by Jake Wright, Power & Influence, 2013—1 Contents Diplomacy power: Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Gary Doer pictured with U.S. Ambassador to Canada 51 David Jacobson. 15 PMO power: PMO Chief Political and bureaucratic clout: Public Works Minister of Staff Nigel 31 Rona Ambrose pictured with her DM Michelle d’Auray Wright. and Defence Minister Peter MacKay. 16 Political party power: Conservative Party lawyer Arthur Hamilton. Media power: Ottawa Citizen news reporter Glen McGregor 61 and Postmedia national columnist Stephen Maher. Watering holes: The places Ottawa’s politicos and media frequent. Jeff O’Reilly strikes a pose at D’Arcy McGee’s. Legal power: Supreme Court Chief Justice Out on the town: Conservative Yukon MP Ryan Leef at one of the 79 Beverley 25 76 McLachlin. Top 10 must-attend political parties. 2—Power & Influence 2013 Editor’s Note Power & Infl uence bigger, better BY KATE MALLOY hen it comes to power and infl uence in Ot- tawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, consid- Editor Corporate Account Executives Production Manager Kate Malloy Craig Caldbick Benoit Deneault ered one of the most powerful prime minis- [email protected] Deputy Editor Steve MacDonald Graphic Artist ters in Canadian history, is, of course, at the Bea Vongdouangchanh [email protected] Joey Sabourin W top of the heap. A handful of Cabinet ministers also have Reporters Martin Reaume Web Designer Mark Bourrie [email protected] Hao Guo signifi cant power and infl uence, but there are many federal Jessica Bruno Chris Eldridge bureaucrats, political staffers, lobbyists, provincial politi- Christopher Guly [email protected] Web Developer Peter Du Chris Plecash Director of Reader Sales and Service cians, and members of the media who need to be included Laura Ryckewaert Ryan O’Neill General Manager in the wielders of power and infl uence in the federal scene. [email protected] Andrew Morrow Photographers Six years ago, we started The Hill Times annual list of Sam Garcia Subscription Sales Reception Steve Gerecke Brent McInnis Alia Heward “The 100 Infl uential People To Watch in Government and Jake Wright [email protected] Associate Publisher Politics.” We borrowed the idea from Washington’s For- Director of Advertising Circulation Anne Marie Creskey Don Turner Heather Marie Connors eign Policy magazine’s “100 Top Global Thinkers.” Here, in [email protected] [email protected] Publishers Ross Dickson Canada’s capital, we wanted to shed more light on who Advertising Coordinator Finance and Administration Jim Creskey these powerful and infl uential people are in the federal Amanda Keenan Tracey Brydges government and politics, try to explain the source of their Published by Hill Times Publishing Inc. 69 Sparks Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5A5 strength, and put it all together in one comprehensive © 2013 Hill Times Publishing. All rights reserved. (613) 232-5952 • Fax (613) 232-9055 • hilltimes.com package. Readers liked it. Last year, we decided to take it further. We published it as a glossy magazine, called it Power & Infl uence, and a little star was born. So here we are, back with the seventh edition, bigger and better. But it’s not easy coming up with top 100 lists, however, we try to offer the best list possible. This year it’s 101. Bea Vongdouangchanh, deputy editor of The Hill Times, who has been putting together the top annual 100 list for the last fi ve years, spent about two months talking to Conservatives, lobbyists, New Democrats, and Liberals about this year’s list. Mark Bourrie, a bestselling author and journalist, wrote 60 profi les in this year’s Power & Infl uence 2013 magazine. Ms. Vongdouangchanh, along with Hill Times reporters Jessica Bruno and Laura Ryckewaert, each wrote a handful more profi les. Not every person on the list has been profi led this year, but they are all the top players to watch in 2013. In addition to the top 101 list, Power & Infl uence features some of the powerful places, innovative ideas, and some personal stories about life on the Hill that extend beyond the Ottawa bubble. Ms. Bruno and Ms. Ryckewaert tracked down MPs with interesting art, both in their offi ces and on their bodies. Ms. Bruno also gives readers the rundown on the best political parties of the year as well as the best bars and watering holes where politicos like to hang out in Ottawa. Adding to that, Christopher Guly writes about the Château Laurier’s glamorous 100-year history in the nation’s capital and how it has been the venue for many major federal politi- cal events. Hill Times reporter Chris Plecash tackles the energy and environment fi les through a Q&A interview with Alberta Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford and in-depth story on Canada’s energy policies. It’s Jimmy: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, We hope you enjoy this issue of Power & Infl uence 10 photographed by Jake Wright, in his 2013. We’re already looking forward to 2014 and to of- Parliament Hill offi ce on Dec. 7, 2012. fering you an even bigger and better package. Power & Influence 2013—3 Contributors KATE MALLOY, 47, got her fi rst CHRIS PLECASH, 30, who grew up in reporting job in 1988 with The Yel- Wawa, Ont., reports on public policy, energy, lowknifer in Yellowknife, N.W.T., after and environmental issues for The Hill Times. graduating with a BJ from Carleton Plecash studied documentary fi lmmaking University. She stayed in the North at Algonquin College’s school of media and for a year, but returned to Ottawa design before joining the paper during the and has been at The Hill Times ever 2011 federal election campaign. He holds a since it began in 1989. She was BA in philosophy and political science from made editor of The Hill Times, today the University of Western Ontario and an MA an award-winning newspaper, in in philosophy from York University, where he 1999. An Ottawa native, Malloy lives specialized in bioethics. His hobbies include in Ottawa’s Little Italy neighbour- apartment-based horticulture and racking up hood with her husband, CTV Ottawa big Scrabble wins. assignment editor John Crupi, and their two teenaged daughters. Malloy likes exclusive, important LAURA RYCKEWAERT, stories, a happy newsroom, and 23, has been a reporter at overuses the word “juicy.” The Hill Times since 2011, after graduating with a bachelor of journalism and BEA VONGDOUANGCHANH was a minor in history from two weeks old when she immigrated to Carleton University. Ryck- Canada with her family as refugees from ewaert, raised in Toronto, Laos. She holds an honours BA and an MJ Ont., interned at The Hill from Carleton University and a BJ from Times before being hired the University of King’s College. Vongd- full-time. From old jail cells ouangchanh, 32, joined The Hill Times news- in Centre Block, to talk of room in 2005 and was promoted to deputy ghosts in the East Block, editor in 2008. That same year, she spent Ryckewaert—a history two months working at The New Times in lover—seeks to uncover the Kigali, Rwanda through Carleton University’s little-known details of Parliament’s historic precinct. now-defunct Rwanda Initiative program. Vongdouangchanh previously worked as a reporter and copy editor at The Record in Sherbrooke, Que. The sign over her news- JAKE WRIGHT is an Ottawa native room desk reads, “Deadlines amuse me.” who fell in love with photography in high school, but somehow found himself working later on lasers at Nortel MARK BOURRIE who wrote most of and JDS Uniphase.