Opportunities missed in rural Canada without adequate investments
When you travel throughout Canada there is a certain expectation of safety. At our airports, you expect innovative navigational aids to be used for safe landings and you expect the runway to be paved and well lit. When travelling by land, you anticipate our roads, especially the Trans-Canada Highway, to be safe and well maintained. […]
O’Regan’s humility will get him far in Ottawa
OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau changed up parts of his cabinet this week, in response to Judy Foote’s departure and an apparent dissatisfaction with the state of the Indigenous Affairs Department. Having worked in that department in a previous life, it comes as no surprise that yet another prime minister finds the place backwards. However, one of the […]
Illegal border crossings can no longer be overlooked
GATINEAU, QUE.—The influx of mostly-Haitian asylum seekers across the Quebec border could hardly have come at a more delicate time. In the United States, of course, the embers of racism and xenophobia are regularly fanned by an unstable president with no moral centre and little common decency. While Canada isn’t immune from the contagion, so […]
Canadians want Trudeau to offset Trump on welcoming refugees
OTTAWA—Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t. Such is the dilemma facing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with the increase in ambulatory migrants arriving from the United States in the wake of American removal rumblings. News reports say that more than 7,500 people have streamed across the Canada-United States border in the past three months. […]
Canada missing out on business, emissions-cutting opportunity of LNG
Canada has a unique opportunity to use our abundant and clean-burning natural gas to offset coal-fired electricity all over the world, but it will only happen if our governments—federal and provincial—recognize that they are having a severe and negative impact on the investment necessary to help Canada realize this potential. If Canadians truly care about […]
Politics This Morning: Freeland to deliver speech urging public support for NAFTA overhaul
Good Monday Morning, All eyes are on Ottawa today as Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland heads to the nation’s capital to drum up public support for reforms to the North American Free Trade Agreement, in advance of the start of renegotiation talks later this week. Ms. Freeland will be at the University of Ottawa […]
‘B.C. is burning and we’re only right at the very beginning,’ says MP Doherty as British Columbia’s wildfires season officially starts
British Columbia is in a state of emergency as the forest fires continue to burn out of control in the province, and the MPs whose ridings have been impacted the most say that while the federal government’s response so far has been adequate, resources are tapped, emotions are running high, and much more assistance will […]
Feds should match wildfire donations
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited parts of British Columbia this week where wildfires have burned down homes and businesses and have displaced thousands of people. The federal government has done a lot of good things in responding to this crisis. It acted quickly to set up an ad-hoc cabinet committee chaired by Minister for Sports […]
Alberta Tory MPs lining up behind Kenney in provincial leadership race
Ex-federal minister Jason Kenney is expected to enter the leadership race for Alberta’s new United Conservative Party with support from numerous federal Conservative MPs from the province. Several federal Tories from Alberta told The Hill Times they supported Mr. Kenney’s expected candidacy to lead the new United Conservative Party, and believed the ex-Calgary Midnapore MP […]
Still on cabinet leave, Judy Foote resumes public appearances in home province
Public Services and Procurement Minister Judy Foote has started making public appearances again in her home province three months after taking a leave of absence for undisclosed personal reasons from her ministerial role, though her office says she remains on leave from cabinet. In recent weeks, Ms. Foote (Bonavista-Burin-Trinity, N.L.) has appeared at several ribbon-cutting ceremonies […]
