Sep 19 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — Minister of Natural Resources Seamus O’Regan says Canadians have to be open to the idea of more nuclear power generation if this country is to meet the carbon emissions reduction targets it agreed to five years ago in Paris. O’Regan spoke to CBC’s The House in advance of next week’s speech from the throne, which […]
Sep 12 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — A senior Conservative MP is comparing a government proposal for online voting in the House of Commons to the dating app Tinder. Chief opposition whip Blake Richards said using an app to determine the fate of important bills after the Commons returns on Sept. 23 is inappropriate because it makes it more difficult for voters […]
Sep 5 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — The prime minister insisted all this week that he doesn’t want an election — but even with two recent public opinion polls suggesting the Liberals’ lead is evaporating, not everyone is convinced. Justin Trudeau did the rounds of news outlets from one end of the country to the other, defending his decision to prorogue Parliament […]
Sep 3 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — Five years ago, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau gambled that Canadians were tired of austerity when his party’s election platform took the heretical step of promising to run budget deficits over the medium term. Now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is preparing to gamble again that Canadians will support even more deficit spending when his government rolls […]
Aug 22 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says he’s not looking to force an election this fall if the Liberal government follows through on commitments to help women and other marginalized groups affected by the COVID-19 lockdown. Topping the list is child care, Singh said in an interview airing Saturday on CBC’s The House. “Right now, the pressing […]
Aug 15 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — Andrew Scheer says whoever succeeds him as Conservative leader next weekend will have to deal directly with the growing sense of Western alienation that’s spawned the Wexit movement and talk of separation in Alberta. “I do think that there’s a real angst out there, there’s a real sentiment of frustration and people are getting ready […]
Aug 12 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — Lisa Raitt has one message for Conservative members as she looks at the still unopened party leadership ballot on her own desk. “Get them in the mail,” she says. “They have to be in our hands by Aug. 21. Not postmarked before then, but in our hands, or they won’t be counted.” With the Conservative […]
Jun 27 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canadian companies need to shift critical supply lines home from overseas as the world prepares for a second wave of COVID-19. “I think that one of the consequences of coronavirus is going to mean, for the economy, a shift from a sort of just-in-time, get-the-very-cheapest-input-possible model, to a model […]
Jun 20 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — Reactions this week to Canada’s failure to secure a spot on the UN Security Council ran the gamut — depending on who you were asking, or your political stripe. Some (Conservatives, mostly) called it a waste of time and money — a failed vanity project for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Others (Liberals, mostly) argued the […]
Jun 13 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — Canada’s first parliamentary budget officer says the Liberal government has no good reason to withhold a fiscal update — not even the economic uncertainty generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview airing Saturday, Kevin Page told CBC’s The House that the British government has been providing monthly spending updates since tabling a budget in […]
Jun 11 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — In any ordinary year, the annual G7 summit would be in full swing this week, with leaders from that select group of industrialized nations conferring collegially on the biggest challenges facing the world and what they intend to do about them. This is no ordinary year, of course. And with U.S. President Donald Trump hosting […]
Jun 6 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — A Nova Scotia senator says Canada must confront its own “pandemic of racism” as demonstrators continue to flood city streets around the world to condemn the death of another unarmed black man in police custody in the United States. George Floyd died after a white police officer in Minneapolis pinned him to the ground for […]
May 30 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — One of this country’s leading experts on the social causes of disease argues Canada’s failure to collect race-based data on COVID-19 infections amounts to discrimination by “neglect”. “Discrimination is is not necessarily about what you do. It’s often about what you don’t do,” Dr. Kwame McKenzie said in an interview airing Saturday on CBC Radio’s […]
May 28 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — Meng Wanzhou lost the first round in her bid to avoid extradition to the United States on Wednesday. But it’s clear the B.C. court ruling doesn’t help the Trudeau government much either. Relations between Canada and China are arguably at their lowest point since the prime minister’s father was prime minister and established diplomatic ties […]
May 9 2020 — Chris Hall — CBC — The April employment figures released on Friday were every bit as staggering as the experts predicted. More than two million people lost their jobs last month because of COVID-19 — the largest monthly drop ever — after another million jobs were shed in March. But those numbers give only a partial view of the devastation […]