Politics This Morning: Dude, where’s our $19-billion?
Plus, McKinsey & Company faces OGGO.
Liberal MP Coteau urging fix to public input plan in federal riding redistribution process
Given its mandate, PROC has both a ‘responsibility’ and an ‘incredible opportunity’ to review and ‘strengthen’ the decennial process, Coteau says.
Meaningful bail reform requires community supports not ‘more policing, more court work, and more corrections’: Sen. Pate
NDP justice critic Randall Garrison says the overrepresentation of marginalized Canadians in prison poses a long-term threat to public safety that must be balanced with the immediate threat of repeat offenders.
Can Biden’s sunny message of continental co-operation be matched with policy reality?
‘The visit sets the stage for further conversation and I think we need to hold the president to his word,’ says former Canadian diplomat Louise Blais.
Freeland’s budget cuts ‘close to the line’ in balancing targeted investment with fiscal restraint: economist
In responding to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, the government faces ‘a herculean task,’ and must move quickly on proposals laid out in Budget 2023, says a Canadians for Clean Prosperity executive.
Scant new funding on defence and foreign policy in budget
Budget 2023 pledges $13.5-million for creation of National Counter-Foreign Interference Office and $48.9-million to combat diaspora harassment.
Politics This Morning: Budget day has arrived
Plus, Bob Rae briefs MPs.
Management of Hill reno gets thumbs up from AG, but faster choices needed
As of July 2022, PSPC has spent $880.7-million out of an estimated $4.5-billion to $5-billion on renovating Centre Block and constructing the final phase of the Parliament Welcome Centre.
Trudeau, Liberals should treat China’s election meddling controversy as politically ‘life-threatening event,’ say politicos, pollsters
The China interference controversy is more explosive than the SNC-Lavalin, blackface/brownface or WE Charity scandals, and could carry serious fallout for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, says Prof. Duane Bratt of the Mount Royal University.
Feds need to better communicate what Critical Election Incident Public Protocol does, says Rosenberg
‘Communication on the protocol needs to change,’ says Morris Rosenberg, who says the federal government did not do a good job communicating the panel’s work in 2021. ‘Nobody knew about it. It’s called the public protocol.’
