While the CP Rail work stoppage has businesses calling for back-to-work legislation, the Liberal government and opposition MPs avoided discussing the idea as they debated next steps in the House of Commons Monday. Canadian Pacific rail cars in a yard in Scarborough, Ont. on March 21, 2022. About 3,000 unionized engineers, conductors and other train workers across…
The Liberal government is setting up an internal working group to study “the full or partial civilianization” of military prosecutors and defence counsels in uniform, CBC News has learned.The Liberal government is setting up an internal working group to study whether the civilian justice system should take over all the duties of military prosecutors and defence…
Liberal candidate Mark Gerretsen has written to Canada’s elections watchdog, asking him to investigate whether the Conservatives have broken the Canada Elections Act, alleging the party’s campaign director has been co-ordinating activities with the National Firearms Association.Kingston and the Islands Liberal candidate Mark Gerretsen, shown here during question period in the House of Commons in…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals successfully blocked an opposition bid Monday to force one of the party’s chief campaign strategists to testify about IT contracts paid for out of the taxpayer-funded budgets of Liberal MPs. The Conservatives say questions about the contracts remain.Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett is accusing Liberal MPs of taking part in…
A key element of the Liberal government’s reconciliation agenda is facing resistance from Conservatives inside the House and some First Nations leaders from the outside.
One of two Parliamentary investigations into sexual misconduct in the Canadian military is being shut down. The governing Liberals, with the support of the Bloc Quebecois, have called an end to defence committee hearings this week over the the objections of Conservatives and New Democrats.Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance sits in the front row during…
The Liberal Party has the people’s approval to form the next government of Newfoundland and Labrador, winning 22 of 40 seats after 10 weeks of electoral tumult.Liberal Leader Andrew Furey, pictured here after a televised debate in St. John’s on Feb. 3, has reclaimed the premiership in Newfoundland and Labrador. (Paul Daly/The Canadian Press)The Liberal…
Mandatory minimum sentences may be hard to defend as policy — politically, they have broad appeal. That explains in part why the Liberals took five and a half years to start taking steps to eliminate them.Demonstrators march in Toronto on June 5, 2020, a week after George Floyd’s death. That tragedy, and the movement it…