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The federal authorities’s deputy secretary on emergency preparedness says cupboard was introduced with an ever-expanding menu of choices to assist resolve the rising protests blockading Ottawa streets and border crossings throughout the nation final winter.
Jacqueline Bogden is testifying on Friday on the Public Order Emergency Fee, which is scrutinizing the occasions and recommendation that led to the Liberals’ mid-February resolution to invoke the Emergencies Act.
The Canadian Press stories that Ms. Bogden says as soon as it grew to become clear protesters didn’t plan to go away downtown Ottawa, a number of cupboard ministers convened to evaluation what the federal authorities may contribute to finish the blockades.
She says as time went on and disruptions bought worse, deputy ministers throughout the nation have been tasked with brainstorming choices throughout the federal jurisdiction to cease the protests.
Additionally, involving the fee, the federal authorities used a broader definition of a national-security menace than what is printed within the Emergencies Act when it invoked the sweeping laws in response to final winter’s convoy protests. Senior political reporter Marieke Walsh stories right here.
And, on Thursday, the Finance Division’s most senior public servant stated the federal authorities was in a race in opposition to time to cease the escalating financial harm created by the February border blockades. Story right here. Reporter Shannon Proudfoot writes right here about how the testimony of Michael Sabia, the Deputy Minister of Finance, confirmed how the blockades represented existential menace to economic system and U.S.-Canada relationship.
In the meantime, Eric Stubbs, newly put in as chief of the Ottawa Police Service stated, on arrival in his new job, that the service is “not damaged” as he vowed to hear and study whereas constructing a strategic plan to hold the service past its present troubles. Story right here from The Ottawa Citizen.
BREAKING FRIDAY – David Eby, British Columbia’s former attorney-general, is being sworn in Friday because the province’s new premier, changing John Horgan. Please examine The Globe and Mail this afternoon for protection of Mr. Eby’s first information convention as premier.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
END OF THE LINE FOR 24 SUSSEX DRIVE – The prime minister’s official residence, 24 Sussex Drive, is to be cleared out and closed due to the declining state of the decades-old property, the fee that manages official residences within the Ottawa area says. Story right here.
BOOST IN CHILDREN’S PAIN MEDICATION COMING – Well being Canada officers say a big overseas provide of youngsters’s ibuprofen and acetaminophen is predicted to start out exhibiting up on pharmacy and retail cabinets subsequent week. Story right here.
STRONGER ROLE FOR ARMED FORCES IN INDO-PACIFIC: PM – The Liberal authorities’s long-promised Indo-Pacific technique will embody new investments to strengthen the position the Canadian Armed Forces performs within the area, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced Friday in Thailand. Story right here.
RALLY BEHIND NEW GREEN LEADER: INTERIM LEADER – The outgoing Inexperienced chief has written to each occasion member with a private plea to finish inner “energy struggles” and rally behind the brand new chief who takes the helm of the occasion this weekend. Story right here.
GLOBE PUBLISHER/CEO AMONG THOSE INVESTED IN ORDER OF CANADA – Forty-eight folks – starting from activists and enterprise leaders to writers and artists – have been invested into the Order of Canada Thursday. Among the many recipients was Phillip Crawley, writer and CEO of The Globe and Mail. Story right here.
OTTAWA AIMING FOR RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA – Ottawa will keep a respectful relationship with China, Worldwide Commerce Minister Mary Ng says. Story right here.
SMITH HAS FIRED ALBERTA HEALTH AUTHORITY BOARD – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith fired the board of the province’s well being authority on Thursday and changed its members with a single administrator whose focus might be on creating a long-term plan for well being care reform, bettering ambulance response instances and lowering wait instances for emergency rooms and surgical procedures. Story right here. In the meantime, Ms. Smith’s workplace says she has not carried out a “deep dive into her ancestry,” however stays pleased with her heritage, within the wake of a report calling into query her claims of Cherokee ancestry. Story right here from The Nationwide Submit.
CLIMATE CHANGE EXPOSES WEAKNESS OF DISASTER PROGRAM – For greater than 50 years, householders and companies hit by fires, floods or storms have had a federal program to assist governments determine who pays for the cleanup. Nonetheless, local weather change is exposing its weaknesses and renewing speak of huge modifications to come back. Story right here.
CRACKDOWN ON WEARING MILITARY UNIFORMS, MEDALS IN CIVILIAN COURT – The Canadian Armed Forces is cracking down on the sporting of uniforms and medals in civilian courts, saying such apparel might be banned from non-military trials besides in sure circumstances. Story right here.
THIS AND THAT
TODAY IN THE COMMONS – Projected Order of Enterprise on the Home of Commons, Nov.18, accessible right here.
DAYS SINCE CONSERVATIVE LEADER PIERRE POILIEVRE TOOK MEDIA QUESTIONS IN OTTAWA: 66
WITNESSES, FRIDAY, AT PUBLIC ORDER EMERGENCY COMMISSION IN OTTAWA:
-Jacquie Bogden, Deputy Secretary to the federal cupboard on emergency preparedness and COVID restoration, and Jeff Hutchinson, Assistant Secretary to the Cupboard, Emergency Preparedness.
-Janice Charette, Clerk of the Privy Council, and Nathalie Drouin, deputy clerk of the Privy Council.
MINISTERS ON THE ROAD – Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, in Vancouver, made a funding announcement on marine preparedness, response and partnerships throughout the subsequent part of the Oceans Safety Plan. Additionally current: Pure Sources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray. Well being Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, in Québec Metropolis, made a funding announcement for initiatives on the metropolis airport. Atmosphere Minister, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, held a a information convention to conclude his participation within the United Nations Local weather Change Convention, COP27; In St. John’s, Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan Jr. introduced $9.9-million in funding to assist renovations to the First Gentle Friendship Centre. Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal, in Winnipeg, introduced federal funding for innovation and financial development in Manitoba.
ANAND AT HALIFAX SECURITY FORUM – Defence Minister Anita Anand is in Halifax co-hosting the 14th annual Halifax Worldwide Safety Discussion board, which gathers defence and safety specialists and others to debate world peace and safety challenges. Audio system on the discussion board, which runs to Sunday, embody Estonian President Alar Karis, U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin, Canada’s Chief of Defence Workers Wayne Eyre and Normal Raymund Andrejczak, chief of the overall defence workers for the Polish Armed Forces. Ms. Anand was scheduled, on Friday, to carry a gap information convention, and ship a keynote speech. She was additionally scheduled to fulfill with U.S. Defence Workers Austin on Saturday.
KEY DANIELLE SMITH SPEECH – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, in Calgary, was scheduled to ship her inaugural keynote tackle to the Calgary enterprise neighborhood, adopted by a fireplace chat with Calgary Chamber President and CEO, Deborah Yedlin.
PRIME MINISTER’S DAY
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in Bangkok, Thailand for the APEC Financial Leaders’ Assembly, attended the official welcome by Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, participated within the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation Leaders’ Retreat I on balanced, inclusive and sustainable development.
Mr. Trudeau was additionally scheduled to fulfill with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, United States Vice-President Kamala Harris, and take part within the APEC Leaders’ casual dialogue with visitors. He was additionally scheduled to take part within the APEC Leaders’ dialogue with the APEC Enterprise Advisory Council. Mr. Trudeau was additionally scheduled to carry a media availability, have an viewers with Their Majesties the King and Queen of Thailand, and depart for the Djerba, Tunisia the place he’s attending the Summit of los angeles Francophonie on Saturday and Sunday.
LEADERS
Bloc Québécois Chief Yves-François Blanchet is in France on a visit, as occasion chief, that runs by means of to Nov. 26.
No schedules launched for different occasion leaders.
THE DECIBEL
Friday’s version of The Globe and Mail podcast options Rupi Kaur, some of the well-known poets on the earth. When she was simply 21, she self-published her first assortment of poetry, Milk and Honey. She’s written two extra collections since, and her books have offered over 11 million copies. Ms. Kaur talks about how it began, managing psychological well being within the pandemic and why she thinks different folks ought to begin writing. The Decibel is right here.
OPINION
The Globe and Mail Editorial Board on how, on Chinese language election interference, the Trudeau authorities is speaking loudly and doing nothing: “The Trudeau authorities is within the midst of a long-overdue reappraisal of its beforehand naive relationship with China. It has in latest weeks been making an excessive amount of noise about this, and leaking particulars of a quick chat with Mr. Xi, after which having a public contretemps with him, is simply extra noise. What Canada wants on this file just isn’t loud political advertising and marketing however quiet, substantial motion – to vary our legal guidelines in order that overseas powers can’t mess with our democracy.”
Andrew Coyne (The Globe and Mail) on how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to be thanking Chinese language President Xi Jinping for his or her awkward G20 encounter: “Not for the reason that Zapruder movie has a clip been studied this intently: the 45 seconds of seemingly spontaneous back-and-forth between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese language President Xi Jinping on the G20 summit in Indonesia. A lot an excessive amount of has been fabricated from it, all in all. Mr. Xi is conceited and contemptuous, lecturing Mr. Trudeau on the foundations of worldwide diplomacy in protest at Canadian officers having shared the substance of their bilateral discussions with the media. Mr. Trudeau is understandably greatly surprised, however manages a considerably stagey reply about Canada’s dedication to openness and dialogue, earlier than the 2 males shake palms. However for these inclined to see the alternate as both an indictment of Mr. Trudeau’s weak point or a tribute to his power: conceited and contemptuous is Chinese language leaders’ default mode.”
Rita Trichur (The Globe and Mail) on how TMX CEO is correct that Ottawa’s proposed tax on share buybacks is `dangerous coverage’: “It is a dangerous coverage,” stated John McKenzie, chief government officer of TMX Group Ltd., Canada’s largest inventory alternate operator. He made these remarks on Wednesday throughout an occasion organized by the Canadian Membership Toronto. “I can perceive why governments would introduce a coverage like this as a result of it has a populist component to it and since there was an analogous one within the U.S. However a inventory buyback tax has an pointless influence on an organization’s means to handle their capital construction.” The proposed tax measure, which was unveiled earlier this month as a part of the federal government’s fall financial assertion, was certainly impressed by a 1-per-cent tax on company share buybacks lately imposed by the Biden administration. However as Mr. McKenzie factors out, the Canadian model of the tax is shaping as much as be extra punitive as a result of our capital markets are completely different from people who exist south of the border.”
Brian Day (Contributed to The Globe and Mail) on how, after many years of damaged well being care guarantees, Canada’s governments must show themselves: “Provincial and territorial governments appear to have ignored the teachings of the 2004 First Ministers’ assembly on well being care, at which they agreed on a 10-year accord with added spending of $41-billion. Then-prime minister Paul Martin referred to as it “the repair for a era”; it mounted nothing. Now, that era of politicians is gone, and accountability is a forgotten difficulty. Maybe that’s why our present politicians are looking for an analogous method – one other huge money infusion to the provinces and territories – slightly than in search of actual options.”
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskay (Contributed to The Globe and Mail) on how Canada might help put stress on Europe’s final dictator: “Canada has performed a pivotal position within the West’s response in opposition to Russia’s unlawful invasion, together with freezing and confiscating Russian property positioned in Canada. We name on Ottawa to enact the identical legal guidelines in opposition to Mr. Lukashenko and his cronies. Like others within the G7, Canada has levelled sanctions in opposition to Mr. Lukashenko and his regime. However they haven’t been enforced in full, as a result of the regime makes use of loopholes to evade them. We want extra financial and secondary sanctions concentrating on the state enterprises that gas Mr. Lukashenko’s repression equipment and Mr. Putin’s warfare machine. Punishing Mr. Lukashenko’s autocracy ought to keep away from inflicting hurt on harmless Belarusians. Canada needs to be cautious to not discriminate in opposition to Belarusians in Canada. Corporations whose founders have Belarusian passports shouldn’t be topic to restrictions, except the particular individuals or firms are beneath sanctions.”
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