MPs jump in to help constituents, Public Safety Minister Goodale visits damaged areas after tornadoes rip through Ottawa-Gatineau
DUNROBIN, ONT.—Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale joined Ottawa-Gatineau MPs this week, visiting residents in the region recovering in the aftermath of tornadoes that ripped through their neighbourhoods on Friday. After hunkering down during the storm, including one MP in his constituency office, Parliamentarians representing the affected areas went to work helping constituents and meeting with […]
Is Canada under siege from asylum seekers?
Is Canada under siege from asylum seekers? Far from it. Canada is by nature a welcoming country. While it has been experiencing an influx of asylum seekers this past year, this increase must not be viewed as a crisis because it is neither unprecedented in Canada nor relatively substantial when compared to its European allies […]
Trudeau government has a distinctly different vision for federal Corrections
Three weeks ago, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale released, for the first time ever, his mandate letter to the newly appointed commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada. The new commissioner, Anne Kelly, is a seasoned veteran of Corrections, having started her career as a federal parole officer before becoming a senior manager over a […]
Cybersecurity talent gap ‘mission critical’ for innovation sector, as feds move on national strategy
The federal government is betting on its half-a-billion-dollar national cybersecurity strategy to help make Canada a global hub for the growing cyber protection industry, but advocates warn that goal will be impossible to achieve without addressing Canada’s shortage of skilled cyber talent. “It’s mission critical,” Katherine Thompson, chair of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance’s (CATA) […]
Liberal handgun-ban study could put 2019 seats in play, but not enough to topple majority: strategists
Firearms enthusiasts are vowing that the government’s examination of a nationwide handgun ban will cost the Liberals in the next election, but political strategists say they aren’t so sure the issue will be enough to boot them out of office in 2019. In his mandate letter, published Aug. 28, new Minister of Border Security and […]
Would-be Canadian terrorists are often made in Canada
OTTAWA—What is a citizen? Well, it depends. The concept appears to date back to city states in ancient Greece, but in the modern era each state decides what the rules are. For the average person citizenship is determined by the particular country in which they were born. There are, however, exceptions. Some nations recognize anyone […]
Let’s put Daesh leader’s threat to Canada into perspective
OTTAWA—Last week there was a media flurry in Canada over a new audiotape allegedly released by the sinister evildoer Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic extremist group Daesh (also known as ISIS, ISIL, and Islamic State). The only reason his comments garnered any attention in Canada was that in his latest diatribe he […]
China’s repression of Uyghurs targets symptoms, not cause of unrest
LONDON, U.K.—Two weeks ago Professor Gay McDougall, co-chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, alleged that up to a million people belonging to the Uyghur and other Muslim minority groups in China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang have been detained in concentration camps to be “re-educated” about religion. Hu Lianhe, who shapes […]
Canada must criminalize all gun possession
Among developed nations, Canada has one of the highest levels of gun violence. The most telling comparison is with Japan, which has an absolute ban on handguns. Japan reports an average of 0.027 gun-related deaths per 100,000 people per year. Canada, by the same measure, has an average of 2.31. This is nearly 86 times […]
400 per day? Advocate questions reliability of summer border-crossing predictions after figures fall short
Recent figures on monthly border crossings show that a prediction made by the Quebec government on flows of people coming into Canada this summer—and one frequently cited by the media and federal Conservatives—has so far fallen flat, raising questions about how border-crossing predictions are handled, says one advocate. In April, the Quebec government told the […]
