Aug 14 2023 — Politico — Canada’s Liberal government picked a fight with two U.S. tech giants by passing legislation forcing Meta and Google to pay news publishers for content. But the battle hasn’t gone quite as expected. Now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says big Silicon Valley firms want to make an example out of his country as Meta, fronted by […]
Aug 1 2023 — Nick Taylor-Vaisey — Politico — Does anybody really know how much it would cost to renovate the official residence where prime ministers used to live? Rats and all? A low-profile heritage development group with a strong desire to save 24 Sussex Drive has doubts about the numbers at the heart of the public debate. Historic Ottawa Development Inc (HODI) — […]
Jul 21 2023 — Nick Taylor-Vaisey — Politico — Chrystia Freeland is not worried about Ukrainian resolve. She’s worried about the rest of the West. Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister and at times a key global player in the multilateral sanctions campaign against Russia, was asked at the Aspen Security Forum on Friday what concerns her most about the war on Ukraine.
Jul 6 2023 — Nick Taylor-Vaisey — Politico — It’s five sleeps until NATO leaders gather for a high-stakes summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. Canada will face persistent, awkward questions about failing to spend the alliance’s targeted 2 percent of GDP on defense. It’s getting more awkward by the day. BEN WALLACE, the U.K.’s defense secretary, was the most recent ally to jab Ottawa for […]
Jul 4 2023 — Politico — When POLITICO Ottawa headed south to Rosslyn, Virginia, for a company confab, we were lightheartedly ribbed around town for bringing Canada’s wildfire smoke along with us. The haze was so bad at one point last week that the Washington monument was nearly completely obscured in the view from our headquarters overlooking the Capitol. Yet Canadian […]
Jul 3 2023 — Zi-Ann Lum — Politico — At the Paris Air Show, under the piercing roars of fighter jet demos, Canada’s silver-haired, Canali-clad industry minister sells one executive after another on an unexpected pitch: Amid global disorder, boring is best for business. “When everything is high risk, you go to Canada and it’s very stable and predictable. It’s very attractive,” said François-Philippe […]
May 31 2023 — Zi-Ann Lum — Politico — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is so committed to selling the Trans Mountain pipeline it owns that the Liberal Cabinet recently approved an additional C$3 billion to finish the expansion project. More than a year ago, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced a public funding freeze on the pipeline. On March 24 and May 2, Cabinet […]
May 4 2023 — Politico — The answer will be debated in backrooms, bars and the convention floor as the Liberal party faithful gather in Ottawa. Four thousand Liberals have two things top of mind as they huddle here for their biennial convention: Pierre Poilievre and the next election. The Conservative is a feisty and unifying force who wants to be […]
Apr 27 2023 — Nick Taylor-Vaisey — Politico — Steve Verheul, the legendary Canadian negotiator, is on a mission to transform international trade policy. Few bureaucrats in Ottawa can claim a global network that rivals Verheul’s Rolodex of policymakers, business leaders, lobbyists and fellow deal-makers. He’s launched a second act outside of government.
Apr 27 2023 — Politico — Lisa Raitt says Canada needs to get out of its own way. “We have so much going on for us in this country, it would be a damn shame if we just couldn’t,” says the former Conservative Cabinet minister and now the vice-chair of global investment banking at CIBC.
Apr 14 2023 — Maura Forrest — Politico — The most powerful woman in Canadian politics is up against her biggest challenge yet. Katie Telford helped mastermind Justin Trudeau’s landslide victory in 2015, vaulting a Liberal prime minister into office and ending a near-decade of Conservative government. She has steered the Canadian leader through two more wins, a global pandemic, nail-biting NAFTA negotiations and […]
Mar 27 2023 — Nick Taylor-Vaisey — Politico — Ottawa’s cocktail scene creates some surreal partymates. Once Air Force One was wheels up from the Canadian capital Friday night, Justin Trudeau headed to an invite-only afterparty joined by plenty of people who are hurrying to end his longish run as prime minister.
Feb 16 2023 — Politico — President Joe Biden on Thursday said the U.S. still doesn’t know what it shot down in the skies over North America last weekend, when Air Force fighter jets took out three car-sized objects flying over Alaska, the Yukon and Lake Huron. He did, however, say they were “most likely balloons.” And as it turns out, […]
Feb 15 2023 — Philippe J. Fournier — Politico — Remember Wexit? The movement from Western Canada — well, mostly Alberta and Saskatchewan — was primed to fight Ottawa on everything from pipelines to provincial autonomy, backed by threats it would exit Confederation in the wake of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s reelection in 2019.
Feb 2 2023 — Politico — Today, a year after his ouster, we publish an exclusive interview with former Tory leader ERIN O’TOOLE. Three-hundred and sixty-five days have passed since the worst one of ERIN O’TOOLE’s political career. On his last day as Conservative leader, 73 members of his caucus voted to give him the boot. Only 45 supported him. With […]