Roundup: MPs deliver dumb eclipse tweets

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For Eclipse Day, we had an event where after Question Period, a lot of MPs all headed out of West Block to watch it happen.

The exception to this was the prime minister, who did so from the roof of the Building Formerly Known as the Langevin Block, and of course, made a dumb tweet about it.

Poilievre decided to be very classy with his tweet.

In fact, a number of Conservatives were playing circulating this extremely stupid meme about Poilievre eclipsing Trudeau, but didn’t actually think through what that was supposed to mean—was Poilievre supposed to bring a period of darkness? Followed by Trudeau’s brightness returning? Like seriously, did they put any amount of thought into this at all? (Of course not. They figured this would “own the Libs,” which is all they care about, even when it results in a self-own).

But at least no one went blind (that we know of)!

Ukraine Dispatch:

Russia launched 24 attack drones against Ukrainian targets (17 being destroyed) hitting critical infrastructure in the central city of Zvyahel, while attacks by missiles killed three in Zaporizhzhia, and guided bombs killed a woman in Bilopillia. Russia and Ukraine are trading accusations of just who launched the drone attack against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant over the weekend.

Good reads:

  • Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland and Bill Blair were in Trenton to unveil the updated national defence policy, which has some vague twenty-year figures in it.
  • Part of that update are considerations about replacing our submarine fleet, and Trudeau says they’re not ruling out nuclear-powered ones.
  • Here’s a look at what the updated plan hopes to do to solve the recruitment crisis.
  • The foreign interference inquiry heard from senior civil servants monitoring the election that they struggled with what an actual attempt and if it met a threshold.
  • The Sudanese diaspora community want the government to do more about the civil war in Sudan, and say that no promised family reunifications have happened.
  • The Pathways Alliance is looking for more government assurances before they begin their carbon capture project, but the government wants more action from them.
  • Members of the tech sector are hoping that the AI funding can lead to faster commercialisation (never mind that generative AI is pretty much all bad).
  • MPs have voted to summon one of the contractors in the ArriveCan procurement to the bar of the Commons to face the Speaker’s admonishment.
  • The Supreme Court of Canada released their year-in-review.
  • Mark Holland told the Canada-China committee that sometimes scientists lie in their security applications, as happened at the Winnipeg Lab.
  • Conservative MP Adam Chambers is asking the taxpayers’ ombudsman to review the CRA’s handling of bare trust reporting requirements.
  • Doug Ford is forcing the LCBO to offer paper bags once more, because priorities.
  • Stephen Saideman has his initial thoughts on the defence policy update.
  • Paul Wells is growing a bit cynical about the pre-budget rollout, including the lack of detail in the defence policy update that would indicate actual seriousness.

Odds and Ends:

My Loonie Politics Quick Take explains why it’s highly unlikely that foreign interference could do much in a leadership campaign.

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