Parliamentary budget officer to deliver speech at C.D. Howe Institute on Feb. 21 in Toronto
MONDAY, FEB. 19 House Sitting Schedule—The House is scheduled to sit for a total of 125 days in 2024. The House will break for one week (Feb. 19-23). It returns for one week (Feb. 26-March 1) and breaks for two weeks (March 4-15). The House comes back again on March 18 and sits for a […]
MPs push for Canada’s chief auditor to investigate the firm behind the ArriveCan app
The auditor general’s office says it’s ‘evaluating the request’ made by the House Government Operations and Estimates Committee to poke deeper into the myriad contracts obtained by GC Strategies.
Acting chief of staff, policy director now in place for Minister Tassi
Plus, there’s a new assistant in Tourism and Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec Minister Soraya Martinez Ferrada’s office.
The medical assistance in dying predicament: undermining disability advocacy
The Senate seems to be stuck in the past as their discussions on MAID are obviously deeply rooted in an outdated medical model.
Pollsters skeptical NDP would force an election over pharmacare
Meanwhile, former Liberal staffer Dan Arnold says the government has to decide whether it wants to invest big money into pharmacare versus its other policy priorities in advance of the next election.
‘Not sound strategy’: cracks forming in Senate support for supply-management bill
Four Senators on the Senate Committee for Foreign Affairs and International Trade have indicated their opposition or that they have concerns with Bill C-282.
A fresh look inside the Centre Block construction site
Port of Montreal: a long history of crime—and a lack of adequate responses
Organized crime and the inability on the part of elected leaders and bureaucrats to take the issue seriously has made Canada the source for stolen vehicle used car lots around the Middle East and Africa.
Feds doing terrible job of communicating climate policies: Toronto reader
Re: “The Liberals are paying the price for timid Government of Canada advertising,” (The Hill Times, Jan. 31). Éric Blais is so right: the federal government has done a terrible job of communicating its climate policies to the point that taxpayers who come out ahead financially have been easily led to believe that they are […]
Stepping into Centre Block: coming months will be key to maintaining ‘construction momentum,’ says PSPC’s Garrett
The Hill Times got an exclusive tour of the Centre Block site on Feb. 7.
