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Canada’s Minister of State for Democratic Reform Pierre Poilievre. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)
Justin Trudeau is a new dad all over again, and nowhere near the House of Commons. Trudeau, a politician with family-man credentials up the wazoo, is frustrating the Tories. They heard over the weekend that their attacks on the Liberal leader aren’t gaining much traction. A new kid in the house can’t help their cause. Meanwhile, the NDP will continue to give the governing party grief over its proposed electoral reform, encouraged by a Hill Times story that quotes a cadre of experts—a former Elections Canada lawyer, a university professor, a pollster, a public policy analyst, and quote-machine Tom Flanagan—as saying the Conservative Party “will benefit most in the 2015 election campaign from its elections overhaul bill.”
The government might be pressed to explain why a judge came down so hard on a federal agency that purchased airport scanners unfairly. And maybe, if Elizabeth May is lucky, she’ll get a chance to push for a national Lyme disease strategy.
Who to watchPierre Poilievre will once again stymie the opposition’s complains about ongoing Conservative attempts at electoral reform. |
In the newsThe Canadian Air Transport Security Authority ran afoul of its own rules when it purchased airport scanners, says a federal judge. That’s an oops. |
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