In advance of the throne speech from Justin Trudeau next week, Saskatchewan’s premier is sending the Prime Minister a letter. That letter from Scott Moe outlines what he feels are the priorities of Saskatchewan residents, who are currently not represented by the Liberal Party after they failed to win a seat in the province in […]
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is naming his shadow cabinet, including his predecessor Andrew Scheer as the party’s infrastructure critic. O’Toole is keeping Ontario’s Pierre Poilievre as finance critic and promoting Alberta’s Michelle Rempel Garner to health critic and New Brunswick’s Rob Moore to justice critic. Critics are government ministers’ main questioners in the House of […]
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says overcoming western alienation and helping Canada’s post-pandemic economic recoveries are among his top priorities. A fall election, he said, is not, though the Conservatives will be ready if it comes to that. O’Toole has been in his post for a little over a week. He named his House of Commons […]
The federal Liberals are rolling out a $37-billion income-support plan for workers whose earnings have crashed during the pandemic. The details released Thursday outline what will happen to some four million workers receiving the $500-a-week Canada Emergency Response Benefit, which is set to wind down starting next month. The CERB will be extended another four […]
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer is expected to mark a political milestone today: his final time rising in the House of Commons as leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. Today’s Commons sitting is one of two scheduled for August, but the second comes after party members will elect Scheer’s replacement, bringing an end to the long […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has full confidence in Finance Minister Bill Morneau and that any reports to the contrary are false. Trudeau’s office has taken the unusual step of issuing a statement in support of Morneau in a bid to shut down speculation the finance minister is about to be fired. Opposition parties […]
Anyone who owes the federal government taxes will now have until the end of September to pay. The Canada Revenue Agency says the payment deadline has been moved to Sept. 30 for individuals, corporations and trusts that had various deadlines through the month. Penalties and interest on owed taxes on a 2019 return will accrue […]
Members of the House of Commons finance committee will meet this afternoon to figure out the details of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s planned testimony. Trudeau and his chief of staff Katie Telford have agreed to speak with the committee as part of a parliamentary probe into the Liberal government’s aborted deal with the WE organization […]
Outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should resign over his role in the controversy involving the WE organization. Scheer has previously called for Finance Minister Bill Morneau to be fired for trips he and members of his family took in 2017, part of which were paid for by WE Charity. “In […]
Opposition parties are asking the federal ethics watchdog to widen his probe of Bill Morneau regarding the WE organization as the finance minister continues to face calls for his resignation. Conservatives and New Democrats have written to ethics commissioner Mario Dion to look into trips Morneau took three years ago, part of which were paid […]
