Climbers: cabinet shuffl e changes keep rolling in p. 15 Pro tip: Twitter isn’t the best place to talk identity politics Powers p. 10 PAKISTAN: ON HIS WAY Ontario: tackle inequality, Saudi Arabia p. 9 OUT, TOP ENVOY TAKES Cancel arms deal now: poverty before Taylor AIM AT TRAVEL WARNING beer prices Playing the sovereignty Diplomatic Circles p. 14 Whittington p. 10 card: Van Dusen TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 1558 CANADA’S POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2018 $5.00 News Public service News B.C. byelection Singh risked irrelevancy staying #DMsSoWhite: so out of B.C. race, say strategists, now ‘failure is not an option’ few visible-minority It would be ‘disastrous’ would have been a greater risk not to parachute Ontario-based for the NDP leader to New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh into the Burnaby South, lose the Burnaby seat, B.C., seat, NDP strategists say of senior public servants, says ex-NDP national what will be a must-win contest for the rookie leader. director Karl Bélanger, While the party had long played coy with his options, Mr. and with another NDP- Singh’s stated preference had feds won’t release stats been to challenge the Brampton held seat up for grabs riding where he held a provincial in Quebec a less sure seat for six years and his younger Fewer than 10 of 84 deputy ministers and associate DMs identify as visible minorities. brother just succeeded him. shot. It would have been the “riskier decision” not to run in a winnable BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN riding like Burnaby South, said for- mer NDP national director Robin ith two NDP-held ridings Wheaded for byelections, it Continued on page 6 News Election 2019 Parties boosting internal security in face of foreign interference fears Communications they’re boosting their internal security to protect against foreign Security Establishment interference in next year’s federal election. offi cials have met with But, according to critics and political parties, which experts, the real burden rests with the Liberal government to are among the most at do the necessary work to ensure Publications Mail Agreement #40068926 The Prime Minister's Offi ce and Privy Council Offi ce at 80 Wellington St. are pictured on Aug. 7. Top federal managers are the 2019 election remains free of appointed by the prime minister on the advice of the clerk of the Privy Council. Fewer than 12 per cent of them identify risk of cyber meddling cyber shenanigans. as people of colour. That's less than the 14.5 per cent of bureaucrats as a whole who identifi ed as visible minorities as of In a report about cyber threats March 2016, and the workforce availability estimate of 13 per cent. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade when Canadians head to the country’s democratic pro- to the polls next year. cess commissioned last year by BY EMILY HAWS That means fewer than 12 2016, according to Treasury Democratic Institutions Minister per cent of top federal managers Board’s latest annual employ- Karina Gould (Burlington, Ont.), ewer than 10 of 84 top-level say they are people of colour. By ment equity report. The workforce BY CHARELLE EVELYN the Communications Security Fpublic servants identify as visi- comparison, that’s less than the availability of people of colour in Establishment predicted that ble minorities: so few that the fed- 14.5 per cent of bureaucrats as a the labour pool from which the lthough they won’t get into “multiple hacktivist groups will eral government won’t pinpoint whole who identifi ed themselves Aspecifi cs, the country’s main exactly how many there are. as visible minorities in March Continued on page 3 national political parties all say Continued on page 7 2 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2018 | THE HILL TIMES Through dozens of interviews, news- After a paper reports in both English and French, generation and previously unreleased police reports, in the Upper Mr. Jenish takes a look into the October Chamber, Crisis and the FLQ. Anne Cools Heard on the Hill The 400-page book lays out the “me- retired on ticulous planning” that went into the FLQ Aug. 12. The kidnapping of James Cross and the “reck- Hill Times fi le by Neil Moss lessness” behind the kidnapping of Pierre photograph Laporte, according to a press release. Mr. Jenish also documents what became of the terrorists who threatened Canada Former Tory staff er’s for one fall month in 1970. The book is being published on Sept. 25 by Doubleday Canada and is $36. Mr. Jenish is a former Maclean’s writer th brewery launches ‘buck- who has written books on Canadian his- She retired on her 75 birthday, which tory, geography, and hockey. is the mandatory retirement age for Sena- By the way, it’s worth watching video tors—after 34 years as a Senator. a-beer’ challenge, off ering on YouTube of the scrum with Trudeau and Sen. Cools was the fi rst Black Senator Ralfe, who was later reprimanded by CBC in Canada and the fi rst Black female Sena- management for his overly aggressive tor in North America. questioning of the prime minister. Sen. Cools listed among her most re- a cold brew and warm warding work being a member of the Joint Committee on Child Custody and Access Senator Mobina Jaff er and its For the Sake of the Children report, welcome to refugees which led to a “huge shift in public opinion” diagnosed with cancer revealing that Canadian fathers and chil- dren were getting “short shrift” in custody plier. He said those cases, according to an exit interview pub- As Ontario savings will be also Premier Doug lished by the Senate. donated to the cause, Before joining the Senate, Sen. Cools Ford plans in addition to the dol- to lower the was a social activist who founded one of lar per can sold. Bars Toronto’s original shelters for abused minimum and restaurants are beer price to women. She also was a Liberal candidate also stepping up to in the 1979 and 1980 federal elections. $1, Dominion make a contribution, City Brewing While initially serving as a Liberal Mr. McJannett said. Senator, Sen. Cools crossed the fl oor and Company will The brewery offer a ‘buck- joined the Conservatives in 2004 after tweeted its apprecia- panning the Liberals’ stance on same-sex a-beer’ to tion to the positive help resettle marriage. Her time in the Conservative response to its initia- caucus was short-lived as she was booted refugees. tive. Photograph out after criticism of then prime minister “On our good Liberal Senator Mobina Jaffer tweeted on Aug. Stephen Harper and her voting against the courtesy of days we get to make Twitter 8 that she has been diagnosed with cancer. The 2007 budget. For the next nine years, Sen. a product we believe Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade Cools sat as an unaffi liated Senator before in, share it with gen- joining the Independent Senators Group in erous, kind people & 2016. do some good along Liberal Senator Mobina Jaffer an- She was the longest-serving Senator the way,” the Domin- nounced that she has been diagnosed with since 2011 following the retirement of ion City Brewing cancer on Aug. 8 on Twitter. Conservative Senator Lowell Murray, who Company tweeted on Sen. Jaffer tweeted that her right toe served 32 years in the Upper Chamber. Aug. 9, the day after was amputated a few weeks ago and she “I’m told that I’ve made over 350 its ‘buck-a-beer’ an- is currently waiting to hear if the cancer [speeches]. Anybody who can make 350 nouncement. “Yester- has spread. She tweeted that she is “very speeches in this place, that is quite an day was a good day.” optimistic” and to send her “your positive achievement,” Sen. Cools said in the inter- The beer will be thoughts.” view. “Most people have diffi culty making uring Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s available on Domin- She was fi rst appointed to the Senate in one or two.” Delection campaign, he promised he ion City’s website and at the brewery. June 2001 by former prime minister Jean would bring minimum beer price down to Chrétien and represents British Columbia a buck a beer, and an Ottawa brewery—co- in the Upper Chamber. Who’s the funniest MP founded by a former Tory staffer—is meet- D’Arcy Jenish off ers a new Sen. Jaffer is the vice-chair of the Sen- ing that challenge, albeit with a twist. account of the October ate National Finance Committee, and sits on the Hill? Who is each The Dominion City Brewing Company on the Legal and Constitutional Affairs plans to launch its ‘buck-a-beer’ on Aug. 30, Crisis Committee and the Internal Economy, Bud- party’s best staff er? Have just days after the minimum price for beer gets, and Administration Committee. your say will drop from $1.25 to $1. The Ontario “Just watch While in Ottawa, Sen. Jaffer went to government’s plan is to offer incentives to me.” the hospital for a toe infection and doctors Want to tell us who are the best staffers brewers who price their offerings at the These are diagnosed her with malignant melanoma on Parliament Hill and who are the most minimum price fl oor of $1 plus deposit. arguably the in her right big toe. The toe was amputated savvy politicians? You have until the end of Dominion City’s beer won’t actually be three most on Aug.