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Budget’s ‘slow rollout’ pharmacare funding leaves program vulnerable to change in governments, say policy experts

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• The Liberals know they need to ‘crawl before they run’ when getting provincial deals done, says former Liberal staffer Muhammed Ali. But it's ‘a pipe dream’ they will be able to ‘show benefits before the 2025 election’ says former Ontario PC staffer Carly Bergamini.

Budget’s ‘slow rollout’ pharmacare funding leaves program vulnerable to change in governments, say policy experts

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• The Liberals know they need to ‘crawl before they run’ when getting provincial deals done, says former Liberal staffer Muhammed Ali. But it's ‘a pipe dream’ they will be able to ‘show benefits before the 2025 election’ says former Ontario PC staffer Carly Bergamini.

What’s in the budget for federal procurement? More money for housing, less for long-term projects

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Broad support for Senate modernization motion, says Sen. Gold as Tories accuse government of ‘ramming’ through rule changes

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‘Insufficient for the scale of need’: foreign service reform gets initial ‘down payment,’ but follow-up needed, say Parliamentarians

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‘Overtaxed and overburdened’: cannabis industry suffocating under regulatory regime as feds take puff past excise relief in budget

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Canada going ahead with Ecuador trade talks despite Mexican Embassy raid rebuke

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Canadians should not settle for last place

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Parties have ‘free rein’ with voter data, finds report, but veteran party ops say that’s vital for democratic engagement

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Freeland’s budget seen as last hope to turn Trudeau’s electoral fortunes around, say politicos

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Liberal MP Hepfner may have to duke it out with NDP MPP Monique Taylor in ‘progressive bellwether’ riding of Hamilton Mountain in 2025, say Liberal and NDP insiders

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Conservatives ‘riding the stronger horse’ in competing narratives about budget: pollster Lyle

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• The Liberals made it ‘eminently clear’ the change to capital gains tax ‘is a fight that they want,’ says former Liberal staffer Carlene Variyan. But so far the Tories have ‘batted it down pretty well,’ says former Conservative staffer Laura Kurkimaki.

Conservatives ‘riding the stronger horse’ in competing narratives about budget: pollster Lyle

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• The Liberals made it ‘eminently clear’ the change to capital gains tax ‘is a fight that they want,’ says former Liberal staffer Carlene Variyan. But so far the Tories have ‘batted it down pretty well,’ says former Conservative staffer Laura Kurkimaki.

Cyber threat ‘continuously evolving,’ with autocratic states posing ‘greatest strategic cyber threat to Canada,’ Senate committee hears

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Budget 2024 provides key themes for advocacy strategies in advance of anticipated election budget, says lobbyists

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ArriveCan contractor admits ‘mistakes,’ faces historic public rebuke in Parliament; RCMP search contractor’s home day before House admonishment

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Sponsored travel climbed back to pre-pandemic levels in 2023 as MPs accept trips to Israel, Taiwan, U.K.

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Parliamentary Calendar

Senator Pate, PPC Leader Bernier to talk social injustice April 27

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Jane Philpott on how to fix health care

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The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books of 2023

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Cabinet’s communications and chiefs of staff list, 2024

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Should political parties be exempt from privacy laws?

Procurement watchdog to probe ‘bait and switch’ practices across departments amid ArriveCan revelations

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• Procurement Ombud Alexander Jeglic's January report found most of the subcontractors pitched to secure a contract with the government on the ArriveCan application did not perform the work.

Procurement watchdog to probe ‘bait and switch’ practices across departments amid ArriveCan revelations

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• Procurement Ombud Alexander Jeglic's January report found most of the subcontractors pitched to secure a contract with the government on the ArriveCan application did not perform the work.

The Canadian Conservative movement is tired of apologizing for their ideas

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Canada’s updated defence policy muted on UN peacekeeping as historic low contributions persist  

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House to pilot pay-per-use electric vehicle charging for MPs, staff

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Canada’s ‘win-win’ EU pact met with mounting concerns amid drawn-out confirmation

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Centre Block project contracting ramps up as focus shifts from demolition to rebuild

NewsBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Struggling low-cost air carriers require feds’ intervention on price competition, says aviation expert

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Parliamentary Calendar

Ng to lead trade mission to South Korea

Podcast

The online hate speech bill, with Justice Minister Arif Virani

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Housing Minister Fraser a 2023 fan favourite on Parliament Hill: All Politics Poll

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U.S. election preoccupies Canada’s top 50 foreign influencers as feds’ focus gets pulled from Asia strategy

Podcast

Brian Mulroney: the person, the politician, with Arthur Milnes

Defence over diplomacy spotlighted in Liberal budget, with modest initial spending on foreign service reform

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• The government’s spending plan will add $664.4-million exclusively to GAC, while billions more have been allocated for the Canadian Forces over the next 20 years.

Defence over diplomacy spotlighted in Liberal budget, with modest initial spending on foreign service reform

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• The government’s spending plan will add $664.4-million exclusively to GAC, while billions more have been allocated for the Canadian Forces over the next 20 years.

Liberals continue ‘big budget’ spending trend, increasing capital gains tax to maintain deficit

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Feds changed procurement strategies to favour McKinsey, says procurement watchdog

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Senate amends rules for regional offices, spares East Block cafeteria

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Poilievre pitches ‘common-sense Canadian consensus’ at Canada Strong and Free conference, casts Trudeau as ‘illiberal’ outlier

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‘Polls are bullshit’ Broadbent Progress Summit hears as politicos talk of potential NDP ‘collapse’

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• ‘Nobody can say what's going to happen in an election campaign a year away, or even a week away, based on polls,’ says Anne McGrath, principal secretary to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.

‘Polls are bullshit’ Broadbent Progress Summit hears as politicos talk of potential NDP ‘collapse’

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• ‘Nobody can say what's going to happen in an election campaign a year away, or even a week away, based on polls,’ says Anne McGrath, principal secretary to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.

Thousands of border security workers heading towards strike votes

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Thousands of border security workers heading towards strike votes

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Senate’s committee system ‘does not work’: Senators consider cutting membership and dropping a day

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Senate’s committee system ‘does not work’: Senators consider cutting membership and dropping a day

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Poilievre’s communication record shows corporate lobbyists shouldn’t panic, say lobbyists

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Poilievre’s communication record shows corporate lobbyists shouldn’t panic, say lobbyists

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Politics This Morning

Politics This Morning: Budget tour pivots to electric vehicle cash 

Politics This Morning: Inside the UN’s Ottawa office

Politics This Morning: Blair goes North

Politics This Morning: Canadians think Poilievre’s a problem solver

COVID-19

Finishing the fight against COVID and the ‘global race’ to the top of Mount Vaccine

Hill staffers look back on the COVID-19 pandemic from their front-row seats to history

‘We still only have a fragmented picture’: new report on COVID response finds critical institutions exposed both strengths and weaknesses in the federal system

‘May you govern in interesting times’: MPs, Senators look back on the COVID-19 pandemic and the day ‘everything changed’

Election

Poor polling numbers, NDP MPP’s rumoured candidacy, and Mideast conflict turns Toronto-St. Paul’s, Ont., byelection into tight three-way race, say Liberal MPs

Poilievre is fundraising and advertising aggressively before next election call and limits set in

CSIS director did not tell PM Canada was ‘far slower’ than allies in responding to foreign interference despite briefing note, Trudeau says

Public inquiry’s spotlight on ‘absurd’ Liberal nomination rules already paying dividends, says former Grit riding hopeful

Politics

Heather McPherson says her party’s next leader should be a woman

The personal transformation of Pierre Poilievre

The CAQ’s language shell game fooled everyone

Feds’ groceries bill is worth less than the paper on which it’s printed

Foreign Policy

Canada’s investment in AI should inform a global ‘rights-based’ approach

Military mutiny or political collapse: Ukraine is running out of options

Canada’s military procurement: a laundry list of broken promises

Trump, the John Gotti of U.S. politics

Finance and Budget

Budget 2024 offers promising pledges for science, but falls short in a few ways

Canada is struggling and government is part of the problem

Stop looking abroad for investment success, there is opportunity here at home

How green was this budget?

Lobbying

Beef farmers seek exemption from federal carbon price in March dominated by environment lobbying

Democracy Watch wants lobbying commissioner’s office to probe firm with links to top Conservative adviser Jenni Byrne

First phase of pharmacare must not ‘create new gaps’ in existing coverage, say lobbyists

Ministers’ letters, advertising, and lobbying: advocates make final requests as 2024 budget process nears its end

Legislation

Internet freedom can co-exist with child protection

Space systems are too important to leave unprotected against cyber attack

Time to act on Canada Disability Benefit promise

Pharmacare bill offers too much ambiguity and too little ambition

Public Service

ArriveCan failings demonstrate deep structural flaws in senior public service ranks

Eight years after Phoenix launch, unions demand ‘ongoing damages’ for affected employees as new system still in development

Systemic change needed to recognize harms of antisemitism in the public service

ArriveCan accountability remains top question as federal spending watchdog says she found ‘disappointing failures’ everywhere she looked

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