Both will endure 90 minutes of questions.
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But while Mendicino tries to free himself of this controversy, the opposition will set its sights on a pair of his Cabinet colleagues.ĭeputy PM CHRYSTIA FREELAND and Emergency Preparedness Minister BILL BLAIR will testify today at the parliamentary committee that is poking around the government's February declaration of emergency powers (work that the Act mandates parliamentarians to do). Tory MP SHANNON STUBBS joined PIERRE POILIEVRE in calling for the public safety minister's head. Recall Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU, who told the House on April 27 that “police were clear that they needed tools not held by any federal, provincial or territorial law.” Public Safety Minister MARCO MENDICINO is deep in a rhetorical hole for repeatedly insisting that based on police advice the government invoked the Emergencies Act to quell various Freedom Convoy blockades and occupations.Īs Monday's Playbook explained, current and former police chiefs have said they never explicitly requested the Act's invocation.īut, of course, the minister is only saying law enforcement agencies needed more tools, which the invocation offered. HOT SEAT OF THE DAY - Sometimes in Ottawa, you sense the sharks circling. "The legislation is intended to flesh out Liberal government efforts to protect critical infrastructure following last month’s announcement that Chinese vendors Huawei Technologies and ZTE will be banned from Canada’s next-generation mobile networks." Incoming: Mandatory reporting of cyberattacks expected in security bill coming today, CP's JIM BRONSKILL reports.
Follow the science, follow the advice."īut as he walked into the Commons, O'Regan left with a parting comment: "Watch this space." The other mandate: On Monday afternoon, Labor Minister SEAMUS O’REGAN was asked whether it was time to lift the vaccine mandate for federal public servants. Victory lap: Expect every Conservative politician who ever called for an end to mandates to soak up the news - and lay it on thick by saying the government waited too long to drop the.
The Star's ALTHIA RAJ is reporting that the announcement "includes dropping the public sector requirement that all bureaucrats be vaccinated." The broadcaster had unnamed sources saying the feds would kibosh vaccine mandates for "domestic travel on planes and trains, as well as outbound international travel." THIS JUST IN - CBC is reporting a monumental shift in federal vaccine mandates is coming. Plus, have you never heard of the World War 2 ship landing craft that sank off the coast of Vancouver Island?ĭid someone forward Ottawa Playbook to you today? Are you ready to be a forwarder, not a forwardee? Click here to sign up to this free newsletter.
Plus, the overhaul of broadcasting laws will rush through another committee. Plus, the deputy PM will defend the invocation of the Emergencies Act at committee. Today, a new era in vaccine mandates approacheth. I'm your host Nick Taylor-Vaisey with Maura Forrest. Send tips | Subscribe here | Email Nick | Follow Politico Canada