Mar 21 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — After weeks of resistance, and ahead of a vote that could have compelled it to happen, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office announced Tuesday that his chief of staff Katie Telford will testify about foreign election interference, before a committee that has been studying the issue for months. “While there are serious constraints on what can […]
Mar 20 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — The coming 2023 federal budget will “exercise fiscal restraint” while also making “significant” investments in health and building Canada’s clean economy, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Monday. In a speech detailing the Liberal government’s priorities ahead of next week’s budget release, Freeland said the budget will include “targeted inflation relief” to […]
Mar 20 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — In an effort to keep the foreign interference story at the forefront, and to do an apparent endrun around the Liberal filibuster blocking one study from going ahead, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is forcing MPs to debate and then vote on a motion instructing an opposition-dominated House committee to strike its own review. Monday is […]
Mar 15 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — The 2023 federal budget will include new affordability measures aimed at helping Canadians’ navigate the ongoing cost-of-living crunch, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “In our budget, we’re going to be putting forward measures that will directly help Canadians, measures around affordability,” Trudeau told reporters during a media availability in Newfoundland and Labrador on Wednesday. […]
Mar 13 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — More than 130,000 people have signed an e-petition calling on Canada to give transgender and non-binary people fleeing harmful laws in their home countries the right to claim asylum, but that’s already possible in this country. The online petition asking the federal government to take action launched in January has been recently gaining traction on […]
Mar 9 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Liberal and NDP MPs are calling out Conservative MP Michael Cooper over what they described as a “shameful” and “completely unacceptable” comment he made to Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly during a hearing on foreign interference. “You’ve talked tough. You’ve talked tough with your Beijing counterpart, so you say. You even stared into his eyes, […]
Mar 8 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Questions over interference by China in Canada’s last two federal elections continue to rise in Ottawa, as do the accusations the Liberals aren’t doing enough to answer them, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau digs in, declining to offer any details about what he knew and when. “To be quite honest, I know that no matter […]
Mar 6 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — The RCMP says it has launched an investigation into violations of national security information law in connection to media leaks of Chinese foreign interference allegations. “The RCMP has initiated an investigation into violations of the Security of Information Act (SOIA) associated with recent media reports,” said a spokesperson for the federal police force in a […]
Mar 2 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Opposition MPs passed a motion Thursday calling for the federal government to launch a national public inquiry into allegations of foreign interference, after hearing hours testimony from top intelligence officials who sought to assure that the integrity of Canada’s last two elections was upheld despite meddling attempts by China. After debate spanning two meetings of […]
Mar 1 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — As reports of alleged Chinese interference in the last two federal elections stack up, a panel of Canada’s highest-ranking intelligence officials told MPs that while they understand Canadians’ concerns about foreign meddling, they should be assured that “the last two federal elections were fair and legitimate.” That’s how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s National Security and […]
Feb 22 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is knocking Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s call for the federal government to close the Roxham Road irregular border crossing in Quebec as a “simplistic solution,” saying the best approach is to renegotiate the Canada-U.S. migrant pact known as the Safe Third Country Agreement. “Could somebody put up barricades and a big […]
Feb 15 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says Toronto Mayor John Tory’s decision to resign after admitting to a recently-ended affair with a staff member was the right and necessary thing to do. In a late-night press conference last Friday, Tory announced he would step down as mayor of Toronto after the Toronto Star […]
Feb 13 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there is a pattern with four aerial objects shot down over Canada and the United States in the last 10 days, with more to be learned from the ongoing efforts to recover and analyze debris. “I think obviously there is some sort of pattern in there. The fact that we […]
Feb 8 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Condolences are pouring in on Parliament Hill after a Laval, Que., city bus crashed into a daycare on Wednesday morning, with federal politicians of all stripes expressing their sympathies with the families affected and gratitude to the first responders. As of 2:50 p.m. ET, two children are dead and six others are in hospital with […]
Feb 8 2023 — Rachel Aiello — CTV News — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says that if he becomes prime minister he would uphold the 10-year deals Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is looking to ink with provinces and territories that would inject $46.2 billion in new funding into Canada’s strained health-care systems. “Yesterday he announced sums that are not adequate—according to the premiers— to fix […]