Liberals ‘not out of the woods’ politically on foreign interference, but Poilievre must avoid ‘alienating’ voters, say politicos
When announcing a special rapporteur on election interference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s messaging rightly responded to an ‘erosion’ of public trust, says Liberal strategist Carlene Variyan.
MPs blame Tory Genuis for stalling House Foreign Affairs Committee reproductive health study
MPs say the work on the 12-member Foreign Affairs Committee has slowed to a crawl due to the filibustering of one lone member: Garnett Genuis.
Greater regulation of political party nomination contests needed to prevent foreign, domestic election interference: Democracy Watch
The watchdog organization and a former would-be Liberal candidate are calling for stricter regulations on third-party registration and disclosures, and enforcement of rules on where and when nomination contests are held.
Poor vetting no excuse for Anderson meeting, say politicos
‘When you end up in a meeting with someone controversial, it’s not an accident,’ says former NDP staffer Cameron Holmstrom.
Former U.S. president Carter hailed for his ‘honesty’ and ‘enormous decency’
Canada-U.S. relations were ‘as good as one can hope between two close countries during [Jimmy] Carter’s time’ as the American president, says former Pierre Trudeau cabinet minister Marc Lalonde.
Feds’ sustainable jobs plan a good start, but too soft on emissions reductions, say environmental experts
The federal government released its interim Sustainable Jobs Plan on Feb. 17, which will guide efforts to help transition workers away from the fossil-fuel industry and toward clean energy.
Amid TikTok ban, Canadians left ‘to their own devices’ as feds dither on updating privacy rules: Geist
The Liberals’ latest attempt at modernizing the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, Bill C-27, has only made it to its second reading nine months after being introduced.
Politics This Morning: PM and European Commission president to tour Canadian Forces base before attending joint session of Parliament
Plus, former senator Lillian Eva Dyck returns to discuss sex-based discrimination in the Indian Act that continues to affect First Nations women and their descendants.
Experts welcome Rouleau’s call to combat misinformation, say ‘whole-of-society approach’ needed
The current information landscape is a feedback loop where ‘you come for the ideology, and you stay despite the science-free lunacy,’ says health misinformation expert Timothy Caulfield.
On China’s meddling, ‘there’s a massive cost to standing still,’ and Trudeau needs to ‘get ahead of the story,’ say Liberal MPs, pollsters
Trying to keep the issue of Chinese meddling in elections to parliamentary committees is the same ‘playbook’ the Liberals used for the SNC-Lavalin scandal, ‘and they nearly lost the [2019] election as a result of it,’ says Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs.
