Getting rid of sexism in Indian Act to cost taxpayers $407-million annually: PBO
The latest iteration of legislation expanding Indian status eligibility to all Indigenous women and descendants who previously lost it or did not qualify would cost the federal government an additional $407-million each year, according to an assessment from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) released Tuesday. The PBO also estimated that one-time administrative costs could total roughly […]
Vox Populi on Canada’s energy industry
Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr addressing the First Nations’ National Energy Forum in Ottawa in March 2017: “The world is in the midst of an historic transition, a gradual move from traditional sources of energy—oil, coal, gas—toward new ones: solar, wind, tidal. The transition is unmistakable, but it won’t happen overnight. As large parts of […]
Canada’s energy future
What happens when 380,000 Canadians imagine our country’s energy future? You get a vision of what Canada can be; a country built on the three pillars of economic prosperity, environmental protection and Indigenous partnerships. That is just one of the many takeaways from Generation Energy, an ongoing conversation with Canadians about energy and what it […]
Conservatives, NDP vow to hammer away at Morneau’s bills, but government might not give them a chance in final weeks before Christmas
Conservative and NDP MPs will be using every chance to grill Finance Minister Bill Morneau in the House over the next two weeks, including debate on the bills Mr. Morneau has sponsored that are still in the Chamber, say House leaders for the Conservative and New Democratic parties. They may not get the chance, however, […]
Conservatives playing long game on daily Morneau attacks, Liberals accuse Tories, NDP of an ‘unholy alliance’
The federal Conservatives will keep hammering away at the ethical controversy surrounding Finance Minister Bill Morneau in the coming weeks as part of a long-term strategy, planting seeds for the next election campaign and taking the Liberals off message, say Conservatives. “We will keep pushing. The Canadian people want to have somebody who is in […]
Status of Women Minister Monsef hires two new advisers
Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef has a pair of new advisers working in her office, including new senior policy adviser Lori Lee Oates, a former co-chair of Equal Voice’s Newfoundland and Labrador chapter. Ms. Oates is a former part-time lecturer with Memorial University’s master of philosophy program, where she herself previously earned a master’s […]
The science of politics
OAKVILLE, ONT.—If you believe the latest in fashionable wisdom, the best of all possible national political leaders would be a reincarnation of Albert Einstein. After all, the current trend in media commentary (especially on the left) is to judge political parties and politicians on the basis of how much they revere “science.” For instance, it’s […]
New Supreme Court justice Sheilah Martin taught me how to think differently, so I made her a character in my book
TORONTO—Talk about life imitating art. When this writer started typing up what would become the novel Recipe For Hate, several things were not anticipated; positive reviews, for example. I’m not used to those. But then Publisher’s Weekly went and called it “riveting, an unflinching page-turner”—and Apple IBooks called it a “book of the month.” Not […]
Conservatives open nominations in their 92 held ridings, but deny new rules ‘advantageous’ to incumbent Tory MPs
With new nomination rules in place that some describe as “advantageous” to incumbent Conservative MPs, the federal party has opened up nominations in held ridings, but Conservatives deny the charge that they are favouring MPs in the 2019 nomination process. The nominations in the Conservative-held ridings opened up on Nov. 1 under the new rules […]
It’s time to seize opportunities and promote in-depth development of China-Canada relations: ambassador
OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is paying an official visit to China this week and will take part in the second annual dialogue between the Chinese premier and the Canadian prime minister. Given the then-governor general David Johnston’s visit to China in July, Canada is the only nation to have both its heads of state and government […]
