Opportunity ripe for Canada to work on energy security with Indo-Pacific allies, says Japanese envoy
In a world where geopolitics and the geo-economy evolve quickly, it’s necessary for like-minded countries, such as Japan and Canada, to co-operate on energy security, says Japan’s ambassador to Canada. The two countries have been working towards the realization of a free and open Indo-Pacific—home to well more than half the world’s population—since April 2019, […]
‘Freedom Convoy’-prompted pause to Centre Block work cost estimated $3-million: PSPC
Work to renovate Centre Block and build a new underground visitor’s welcome centre is running apace to where where it was before a 16-day suspension caused by the “Freedom Convoy” that occupied downtown Ottawa last month, an interruption that Public Services and Procurement Canada estimates cost roughly $3-million. “PSPC is currently assessing the cost and […]
House of Commons spends $366.8-million by 2021-22 third quarter, up 6.6 per cent: report
With pandemic restrictions easing, the House of Commons spending rebounded in the third quarter of 2020-21, and used $366.8-million of the $561.4-million approved this fiscal year, putting spending up 6.6 per cent compared to the year before. That’s $22.6-million more than the $344.2-million that was allocated as of Dec. 31, 2020, with roughly the same […]
Peckford says COVID restrictions violate Charter of Rights he helped draft, but leading constitutional lawyer disagrees
Brian Peckford, who helped write the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is the last surviving first minister involved in drafting the defining document in 1982, says the federal government’s COVID-19 measures and the now-revoked Emergencies Act violate the Charter, but a leading constitutional lawyer disagrees. Peckford was the Progressive Conservative premier of Newfoundland from […]
Conservatives say next federal election will be a ‘change election,’ amping up stakes and division in current leadership contest
Conservatives say they expect their next party leader to most likely be the next prime minister of Canada, which is why the leadership race, unofficially begun last month when MP Pierre Poilievre announced his candidacy, will be ugly and divisive. “The stakes are higher, and when the stakes are higher, people’s elbows start to go […]
Inflation, affordability top of mind for MPs, economists following BoC interest rate hike
After years of rock-bottom interest rates, the Bank of Canada moved its key rate up for the first time since 2018 last week, a move some economists say will help provide stability to financial markets in particularly uncertain times, but others also say the move will do little to help manage a worsening affordability crisis. […]
Everybody doesn’t love Justin: why Trudeau is on the receiving end of so much hate
From “Fuck Trudeau” refrains to former U.S. president Donald Trump calling him a “left-wing fascist,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has come to be on the receiving end of an unprecedented level of personal vitriol from the right wing. Political scientists and pollsters say Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) has become an “easy target” for disdain from political […]
Politics This Morning: Trudeau and ministers barnstorming across Europe
Good Monday morning, The House is adjourned for two weeks until Monday, March 21, but the Finance committee is meeting twice today. It will meet at 11 a.m. Ottawa time to discuss the draft report on its pre-budget consultations. The committee will convene again at 2:30 p.m. to continue its study of the invocation of […]
Russia-Ukraine conflict changing the channel for Trudeau but PM’s brand damaged by trucker protest, say pollsters
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict has changed the channel, but it’s unclear if he will be able to repair the damage done to his leadership after he was widely criticized for how he handled the recent Freedom Convoy protest, say political insiders. “You can do well on an issue, but it […]
Global transition to electric vehicles is ‘absolute battle’ and Canada needs strong collaboration with U.S. to triumph, say automakers
Automakers warn that the zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) sales mandate proposed by the federal government could put the auto industry at risk by taking Canada’s regulatory regime out of step with that of the U.S. “There is an absolute battle underway globally in this transition to electrification, and North America as a region is competing with […]
