International cooperation minister Julian Fantino has announced a new business-focused international development policy, and said that it’s not CIDA’s business to keep funding NGOs forever. There’s no word on what kinds of programmes will be cut in order to make this shift in focus, but Fantino says that no, they’re not getting into the mining industry.
Campaign Research polling company has been censured by the industry body for their reprehensible calls into Irwin Cotler’s riding alleging that he’s about to retire.
Bill C-398, the latest iteration of the attempt to reform Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime – which aims to get cheap generic medicines to developing countries – was defeated in the Commons last night by seven votes.
Paul Wells is sceptical that the Canada-EU trade agreement is going to go ahead in its current form given that even the Europeans recognise that we would have to give up a lot of things for fairly limited benefit in the end. Andrew Coyne notes that this is what can be expected when one sends protectionists to negotiate free trade.
Kim Campbell thinks that we can do more for the environment while still being more of a force on the world stage – which we’ve pulled back from – and we need to invest in things like the CBC more in order to ensure national unity.
Further to the new vehicle emissions regulations announced this week, here’s a look at how much it’ll increase the price of cars, and a reminder that fuel efficiency standards don’t change driving behaviour (the ultimate goal here), but rather, gas taxes do.
Former colleagues of Joan Crockatt seem rather split on her – some say that she won because of hard work and very little ego. Others say that she’s the ultimate yes man, and will fit right in with the Conservative caucus. Meanwhile, it’s all tears and recriminations amongst the other parties in Calgary Centre, with comments about people not supporting the Liberals to victory, or “Liberal arrogance,” and the like.
Whether or not the Guinness of Book of World Records is Harper’s favourite book became a lengthy investigation for iPolitics.
Marc Garneau is now officially in the Liberal leadership race. iPolitics has helpfully provided an infographic of space puns and jokes that can be used throughout the campaign. John Geddes notes that Garneau was unwilling to take aim at Justin Trudeau during his launch, and only hinted at the competence gap between them. Trudeau, meanwhile, admits that his comments may have hurt the Calgary Centre campaign.
And here is the recap of last night’s political shows, with interviews with the president-elect of Mexico and Marc Garneau.