The federal government could foster these solutions by holding firm on their caribou deadlines next spring. It gets even better. Protecting caribou habitat can be part of goal to meet the Aichi Convention on Biodiversity, to conserve at least 17 per cent of lands by 2020.

Canada and Mexico could keep the shell of NAFTA alive until Trump is replaced. This is the strategy Japan hopes to use with the remnants of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal from which Trump has already removed the U.S.

We shouldn’t let the issue fade without hacking away the false claims and apocalyptic predictions surrounding the massive, now doomed, infrastructure project.

It all comes down to leadership. Leaders break down barriers, address myths and fears, and counter racist and discriminatory rhetoric and practices and remind everyone that inclusion is about both values and economics.

Canada's Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence should be in the Heritage Department, not Public Safety.

Successive bureaucrats have wanted to put a damper on the public use of access to information legislation. Now they have found hope in Bill C-58 and a willing dupe in Treasury Board President Scott Brison.

Rookie Conservative MP John Nater has written a paper on the Thursday Question, owns bound copies of Hansard, and is working on a PhD on government caucus meetings. ‘I completely accept it as nerdy,’ he says.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland also has a new press secretary, while Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef has bade farewell to hers.

‘Of course people are getting tired. It’s only natural. But they’re willing to do it, and they know why they’re here,’ says NDP Whip Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet.