Calls for more flexible project delivery models as Canada Infrastructure Bank is reviewed
The Canada Infrastructure Bank is engaged in its first five-year review to evaluate its legislative mandate.
Politics This Morning: House Veterans Affairs Committee to hear from women veterans
Plus, the House Environment Committee will hear from Indigenous leaders whose communities lie downstream of a massive tailings pond leak in northern Alberta.
‘Coalition government in everything but name’: experts say NDP-Liberal agreement in good shape one year in, don’t expect election any time soon
But NDP strategist Cam Holmstrom says the ‘only wild card is the foreign interference piece,’ and that if the public sees the government failing to protect democracy, it makes it ‘near impossible’ for the NDP to keep the agreement going.
Ottawa Liberal MP Arya sponsors e-petition calling on government to reconsider proposed foreign influence transparency registry
The federal government’s proposed foreign influence registry has the potential to be abused against ethnic minorities in Canada, says Liberal MP Chandra Arya. And British Columbia ISG Senator Yuen Pau Woo says it will ‘do more harm than good.’ If the e-petition garners 500 signatures, the government will have to respond.
Telford sticks to script as Tories say their questions were ‘skirted’ or ‘shut down’
The government’s messaging makes it hard for the prime minister to ‘pretend he didn’t know’ about concerns of foreign interference, which means the answer to the question ‘what did he do about it?’ becomes even more important, says pollster Greg Lyle.
Politics This Morning: Telford testifies
Plus, recapping the PBO budget report.
Qualtrough looks to leverage trust of disability community as Senate committee studies landmark benefit
Bill C-22 would create a major social program to address the high poverty rates for people with disabilities, but the ‘framework bill’ relies on not-yet-written regulations to do the heavy lifting.
Hajdu’s office wants Alberta government to ‘do a lot more’ on Indigenous child welfare agreements
Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu and Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller met with provincial cabinet ministers in Ontario and Alberta to mark agreements to transfer control of child and family welfare services to local First Nations on April 11.
Politics This Morning: PBO weighs in on budget 2023
Plus, MPs are in Taiwan.
Former MPs talk about the ‘tug of war’ between personal and party politics on new Samara Centre podcast
In the latest episode, former Liberal MP Adam Vaughan said it ‘became really weird to have your voice taken from you’ if the party position was different than one’s own.
