MODERNIZING MILITARY LAW/PRIME MINISTER’S QP/BILL CASEY 100TOP most POWERFUL & INFLUENTIAL IN GOVERNMENT & POLITICS IN 2016 ROSEMARY BARTON >> JUSTIN TRUDEAU KATIE TELFORD BILL MORNEAU MICHAEL FERGUSON CATHERINE MCKENNA HARJIT SAJJAN BOB FIFE IS CANADA SIMON KENNEDY REALLY MÉLANIE JOLY BRIAN BOHUNICKY BACK? ROLAND PARIS DIPLOMATS ARE READYING FOR CANADA’S BIGGER BRUCE HEYMAN ROLE IN THE WORLD $6.99 Winter 2016 CHANTAL HÉBERT Power & Infl uence hilltimes.com/powerinfl uence RONA AMBROSE MENDING FENCES ANNA GAINEY THE PUBLIC SERVICE’S RELATIONSHIP AND MORE WITH A NEW GOVERNMENT CANADA’S NON-COMBAT SHIPBUILDING PARTNER Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems Canada Building Canada’s Maritime Future through the Government of Canada’s National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS). www.seaspan.com CONTENTS FEATURES IS CANADA REALLY BACK? 18 The Liberal government has pledged to renew Canadian diplomacy and Winter 2016 “recommit to supporting international peace operations with the United Nations.” Vol. 5 No. 1 What’s in store for Canada’s foreign affairs portfolio? PUBLIC SERVICE 180 22 Over the last decade, public servants have felt like implementers of commands as opposed to creators and innovators of ideas or solutions. They will have to retrain themselves to think differently. THE TOP 100 MOST POWERFUL & INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS 2016 24 26 54 35 47 COLUMNS CONNECTING THE DOTS: Trade and health care ethics 12 INSIDE THE POLITICAL TRENCH: A Prime Minister’s QP? 13 CANADA’S BIG CHALLENGES: Small businesses and the Canadian economy 16 COMMONS UNCORKED: Canadian terroir 76 THE AGENDA Doing Politics Differently 6 Steve Patterson on The Debaters 8 IDEAS On the cover: THE ESSAY: Women deserve and merit an equal voice at the political table 66 Modernizing Canada’s military law 14 MODERNIZING MILITARY LAW/PRIME MINISTER’S QP/BILL CASEY Big diversity in 21st century Canada 60 Society’s responsibility to strive for social compassion, public good 72 100TOP PEOPLE most POWERFUL SPOTLIGHT: Meet the new House of Commons Speaker Geoff Regan 62 & INFLUENTIAL IN GOVERNMENT & POLITICS IN 2016 VISUAL CV: Bill Casey’s principles over partisanship 64 ROSEMARY BARTON >> JUSTIN TRUDEAU KATIE TELFORD BILL MORNEAU MICHAEL FERGUSON PLACES CATHERINE MCKENNA HARJIT SAJJAN BOB FIFE IS CANADA Ottawa’s best-kept political secret: Ola Cocina 78 SIMON KENNEDY REALLY MÉLANIE JOLY BRIAN BOHUNICKY BACK? ROLAND PARIS DIPLOMATS ARE READYING FOR CANADA’S BIGGER BRUCE HEYMAN ROLE IN THE WORLD $6.99 Winter 2016 CHANTAL HÉBERT 4S[IV -RÂYIRGI LMPPXMQIWGSQTS[IVMRÂYIRGI CULTURE RONA AMBROSE MENDING FENCES ANNA GAINEY THE PUBLIC SERVICE’S RELATIONSHIP AND MORE WITH A NEW GOVERNMENT Politics and the Pen highlights the best of political writing 74 Rosemary Barton THREE WORDS: New MPs dish on their orientation session 61 photograph by Jake Wright. 20 QUESTIONS: Sommelier, former minister and Conservative star Michelle Rempel 80 CONTRIBUTORS RACHEL AIELLO CHRISTOPHER ANJA joined The Hill GULY is a KARADEGLIJA Times team in contributing has a BA in 2014. Between writer to The Hill political science covering parties, Times and has and a bachelor’s policy briefings been a member in journalism from and Parliamentary of the Canadian Carleton University. process, she revels in being able Parliamentary Press She freelanced out to sink her teeth into a glossy Gallery since 1993. of Ottawa and Montreal before magazine feature. joining The Wire Report in 2013, where she’s the editor. She spends her days writing about telecom and MARTHA ILBOUDO media, with a focus on business and MARK BURGESS is a freelance policy, an experience that’s made was deputy journalist in her fully conversant in both tech and editor of The Hill Ottawa whose CRTC lingo. Times for two work has years, where he appeared in regularly reported the Ottawa Sun, on lobbying and the Ottawa Business CYNTHIA MÜNSTER public service. He’s now a writer and Journal and Our Homes Magazine. is a freelance editor with a magazine in Toronto. Originally from Ghana, she was five photojournalist years old when her family moved whose work has to Canada and settled in Montreal, appeared in most Que. When she’s not chasing her major Canadian SIMON DOYLE next big story she doesn’t mind publications. She is a freelance getting lost in a good book or two. previously worked journalist in as a reporter at The Hill Times Ottawa who and Quebecor and recently writes about ANTHONY MARS photographed for iPolitics. When business and she’s not taking photos she’s JENKINS was born politics, especially travelling the world or painting it. where they intersect. in Toronto where He teaches journalism at Carleton he delivered University and previously worked the Globe and Mail in his youth, as an editor in various roles at Hill JAKE WRIGHT Times Publishing. He’s on Twitter at then worked at the joined The Hill @sdoyle333. newspaper as a cartoonist for nearly 40 years. He now lives in Times in 2002 bucolic Mono (pronounced Moe- and has since no), Ont. His work can be viewed at covered five federal elections, ALLY FOSTER www.jenkinsdraws.com. is a countless political freelance journalist conventions and most, who previously if not all, of Ottawa’s political elite was a staff writer through his camera lens. In 2010, he for The Hill Times’ spent three months in Afghanistan sister paper, embedded with the U.S. military, Embassy, for almost where he never felt more alive. two years after graduating from Carleton University’s journalism program in 2012. After hours, she is a very dedicated self-teaching sommelier, and a somewhat less dedicated runner. 2—Power & Influence, Winter 2016 When you choose VIA Rail for your business travel, you help reduce government expenses and create value for taxpayers. Plus, you maximize your productivity along the way. So get on board with train travel today. TMTrademark owned by VIA Rail Canada Inc. 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And, with the Liberal government’s ours since 1938. Martha Ilboudo Anthony Mars Jenkins fiction (who has time to read for pleasure in this promise to be more collaborative, the opposition Anja Karadeglija bubble?); and watched a lot of Netflix. parties will have more room to influence. It will Cynthia Münster I did miss the newsroom, especially when big be the media’s job (page 54) to keep everyone Columnists Since the devastating dust bowl conditions of the Great Depression, Keith Beardsley stories broke, but one thing I did not miss was on their toes and accountable. David Crane compiling the annual Top 100 Most Influential Both power and influence are changing Ducks Unlimited Canada has conserved wetlands. These habitats trap Asha Hingorani People in Government and Politics list (page 58). in this country, which is why this list is an Jacquie LaRocque and store massive amounts of carbon – second only to tropical rainforests.