Opinion: The prime minister has drifted far from his old mantra of sunshine being the best disinfectant, althiaraj writes.
The Liberal government is failing to follow its own rules. That’s what auditor general Karen Hogan found when she looked into its plans to recoup billions of dollars in COVID-19 benefits given to ineligible recipients.
Everyone — the government, the bureaucracy, the opposition, the public — has an interest in exposing waste, fraud and mismanagement. So why is there such reticence to reform? Critics say our federal system discourages whistleblowers from coming forward by limiting who can make disclosures, what they can disclose, and to whom they can disclose. The public and even retired public servants have no formal avenue to flag wrongdoing. Bureaucrats who choose to go to the media with their concerns are offered no protection unless it’s an urgent, life-threatening matter.
When I asked the prime minister about reforming the law nearly two years ago, Trudeau was noncommittal. I was later told my question caught him off guard. To his credit, he tasked Fortier with reviewing the act, putting it in her mandate letter and devoting funds to it in the spring budget. If the government was serious about making needed changes, it would use the committee’s recommendations, echoed David Hutton, a whistleblower-protection advocate and senior fellow at the Centre for Free Expression at Toronto Metropolitan University.Fortier has no good answer to that question.
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Justin Trudeau takes fire from one of his own MPs over ‘problematic’ firearms bansMPs said they’re being thrust into playing the role of firearms analysts for Canadians bombarding them with technical questions about the proposed new gun restrictions.
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Trudeau, ministers emerge from Rouleau Commission testimony 'relatively unscathed,' say insidersPrime Minster Justin Trudeau, cabinet members, and high-level government officials who testified before the Public Order Emergency Commission emerged without too much political damage, say insiders and experts, as critics were hard-pressed to find successful lines of attack on the government. According to a document tabled on Nov. 25, a Feb. 14 first ministers’ conference call surrounding the Emergencies Act was convened prior to a final decision being made, with the prime minister concluding that he was “confident we can find a resolution to the situation,” and that he was conscious of concerns around inflaming the protest. Trudeau also said his recollection was that the use of the Emergencies Act would be “step by step, proportional, and not overreaching.” The prime minister invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canada’s history later that day to bring an end to the weeks-long occupation by protesters railing against pandemic restrictions. Police required two days to clear protesters out of downtown Ottawa before the declaration was revoked on Feb. 23. Pollster Nik Nanos said a lot of the testimony heard throughout the inquiry reinforced what most Canadians already knew, which was that there was a “hot mess” between different law enforcement agencies, and between the federal government and provinces such as Ontario and Alberta. “That said, all Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) had to do was not make a mistake, and he got through it without making a mistake, so from a public opinion perspective, that’s a win,” said Nanos of the prime minister’s highly anticipated appearance on the final day of the commission’s hearings. There are “inherent risks” in having any prime minister testify before an inquiry, but Nanos called it “very unusual” for a prime minister to gain support as a result of testifying before an inquiry. Pollster Nik Nanos says there are ‘inherent risks’ in having any prime minister testify before an inquiry, but that Trudeau got through witho
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Opinion | The pressure is on Justin Trudeau, after the Bank of Canada signals its fight with inflation is almost overOpinion: Something has changed in Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem’s thinking: it’s now all about “whether” he should continue to ratchet up the cost of borrowing at such an alarming speed, hscoffield writes.
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Canada 'watching closely' as Biden pressed to fix Inflation Reduction Act 'glitches'WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that Canada will be “watching closely” as the United States responds to complaints from Europe about the…
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Canada 'watching closely' as Biden pressed to fix Inflation Reduction Act 'glitches'WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that Canada will be “watching closely” as the United States responds to complaints from Europe about the…
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Trudeau's tilt away from China resonates in poll on trade tiesCanadian public opinion has turned against trade with China as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government promises to pivot toward democratic allies in Asia.
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