Canola industry tops most-active voices in 2022 lobbying
Lobbying activity surged in 2022, with two organizations related to canola among the top ten most active organizations for the year.
Politics This Morning: House committee begins probe into McKinsey contracts
Plus, Families Minister Karina Gould looks to write the federal government’s long-term child care funding commitments into law.
Senators say they’re planning to return to a more deliberate approach to vetting legislation
Some Senators chafed against the pressure to fast-track COVID-era bills that they believed warranted deeper study, and say the circumstances that called for such haste have receded.
Central bank’s ‘definitive’ language on pausing future rate hikes an ‘appropriate’ choice, say economists
The Bank of Canada’s projection that inflation will drop to around three per cent later this year sounds ‘pretty heroic,’ says economist Don Drummond, but the numbers indicate it’s possible.
Politics This Morning: Tanks to Ukraine
Plus, the PM and the opposition leader will address their caucuses on the Hill.
‘Disappointing comment’ to see Trudeau describe Ford’s health-care changes as ‘innovation,’ says Toronto Liberal MP Sgro
It’s ‘critical’ that the federal government put in place strict conditions in the ongoing negotiations about Canada Health Transfer to ensure provinces don’t open the door to for-profit health-care providers, Liberal MP Judy Sgro says.
On Rogers-Shaw, Champagne faces policy choice
Last month the Competition Tribunal rejected the Competition Bureau’s case against the merger, which the Federal Court of Appeal upheld Jan. 24, and now it is at the finish line, pending Champagne’s blessing.
Liberal MPs say affordability top of mind heading into winter caucus retreat
Now that the cabinet retreat has wrapped in Hamilton, Ont., Liberal backbenchers are returning to Ottawa for this week’s caucus meetings.
Politics This Morning: The view from up North
Plus, a king comes to town.
Cost of living, climate action, and foreign interference top priorities on parliamentary agenda, says Holland
Government House Leader Mark Holland says the Liberals will address ‘global challenges’ facing Canada in forthcoming legislation on three themes: rising cost of living; environment and climate change; and protecting the economy and infrastructure from foreign interference.
