Feds should revisit CRTC’s pick-and-pay TV policy
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that his first priority is to grow the economy. Meanwhile, the CRTC is about to undermine that goal. Finance Minister Bill Morneau is gathering ideas for his first budget this week. He might see the wisdom of asking the CRTC to reconsider some of its decisions last year. These […]
Trudeau’s off to slow, weak start on transparency record
OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is starting off with a mixed and weak transparency record. Refusing to make fully public a 2015 Saudi Arabia human rights report puts a dent in his promise of “information by default.” South of the border in the United States, the government annually release reports on other countries’ human rights records. […]
Politics of cooperation: redeeming private members’ bills
OTTAWA—In his mandate letters to Cabinet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau writes that his “will be a government that governs for all Canadians.” This altruistic notion is rightly included and any government, regardless of political stripe, will always need to navigate the tension between satisfying their electoral base and the rest of the electorate. But when […]
