Jan 8 2020 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Former Quebec premier Jean Charest, who is contemplating a run for the Conservative Party leadership, has been acting as a consultant to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in the Meng Wanzhou extradition case and the tech giant’s efforts to participate in Canada’s 5G wireless networks, a source says. Mr. Charest is part of a team at […]
Dec 19 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The Liberal government says it played no role in the settlement of criminal charges against SNC-Lavalin 10 months after a political scandal over the prosecution of the Montreal engineering giant ensnared Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his inner circle. The Prime Minister defended his conduct Wednesday while acknowledging he could have handled the SNC-Lavalin file […]
Dec 9 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The federal government faces increasing pressure to enact sanctions against officials in Hong Kong and mainland China who are responsible for human rights violations, despite threats of retaliation from China’s envoy to Canada. The pro-democracy group Canadian Friends of Hong Kong plans to send a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday urging the […]
Oct 31 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says Calgary petroleum giant Encana’s decision to move its headquarters to the United States is another example of what he calls the destructive policies of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government when it comes to energy development in Western Canada. “It’s not just about Encana. It’s about the broader decline of the […]
Oct 18 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The federal government has ordered an “urgent” investigation into the business activities of the Liberal-appointed chair of a Crown corporation after learning that she worked as a consultant for an Ontario construction company shortly after she resigned as its top executive to resolve a conflict of interest. The Globe and Mail discovered on Thursday that […]
Oct 17 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The former head of a Crown corporation responsible for awarding defence construction contracts is accusing a senior Liberal cabinet minister of failing to resolve a conflict of interest created after the head of a construction company was appointed as chair of the organization. In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, James Paul, the former chief […]
Aug 11 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — China’s hostage diplomacy and punishing economic sanctions against Canada have further hardened Canadians’ attitudes toward Beijing’s authoritarian government, according to a new poll. The July Nanos Research poll, conducted for The Globe and Mail, also found that 40 per cent of Canadians surveyed believe the Trudeau government has done a very poor or poor job […]
Jun 17 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Ethics in government is shaping up as the biggest issue for voters in the approaching federal vote, outdistancing the economy, the environment and trade with the United States, according to a new poll conducted for The Globe and Mail. A solid majority of 73 per cent of Canadians polled by Nanos Research say that ethics […]
Jun 13 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Jean Chrétien is floating the idea of having Canada’s Justice Minister exercise his legal authority to stop the U.S. extradition of senior Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou as the means to normalize diplomatic relations with China, sources say.The former Liberal prime minister, who last week offered to serve as Canada’s special envoy to China to help […]
Jun 12 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mulls whether to ban Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei from Canada’s next-generation 5G wireless networks on grounds of national security, a new poll shows more than half of Canadians favour barring the company. A majority of Canadians believe the federal government should follow the lead of several of Canada’s Five […]
May 30 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The federal government alerted New Brunswick’s Irving family that The Globe and Mail was seeking information from public servants about whether the family’s shipbuilding company had claimed an Alberta French fry plant as an industrial benefit of a contract to build warships for the Canadian navy. The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development said […]
May 23 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — U.S. Democratic Senator Mark Warner says Western countries, including Canada, must speak out more forcefully against China’s crackdown on its Muslim Uyghur minority and use of “bone-chilling” surveillance technology. Mr. Warner, vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee, told The Globe and Mail in an exclusive interview that the mass incarceration of Uyghurs in enormous detention […]
Apr 24 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — The chief executive officer of a U.S. company that sells cannabis technology attended a Liberal fundraiser featuring Justin Trudeau earlier this month in Toronto and later said in a news release that the Prime Minister encouraged him to make Canada a testing ground for using artificial intelligence to tailor medical marijuana products.
Mar 29 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Former attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould released an audio recording of a conversation with Canada’s top bureaucrat Friday in which she warned that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “was on dangerous ground” by attempting to interfere in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin. Ms. Wilson-Raybould recorded a Dec. 19, 2018 conversations with Michael Wernick, Clerk of the Privy Council, […]
Mar 15 2019 — Robert Fife and Steven Chase — Globe and Mail — Jody Wilson-Raybould says the SNC-Lavalin affair has served as a “wake up call” for many Canadians and inspired her to push to reform Canada’s democratic institutions and increase respect for the rule of law and prosecutorial independence. In a thank-you letter to constituents of Vancouver Granville, the former attorney-general expressed her disappointment at politicians who […]