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03/25/2023

Conservatives say virtual Commons proceedings allow government to dodge scrutiny :
CBGTN.COM
MPs will today debate whether to resume the hybrid format, which Liberals and NDP support
Conservative MPs will oppose a government proposal today to return to a hybrid format in the House of Commons, which has allowed MPs to participate virtually in proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conservative deputy leader Candice Bergen says her party fears hybrid sittings "let the government off the hook" and give ministers an excuse not to turn up to answer questions in the Commons.
MPs will today debate whether to resume the hybrid format, with both the Liberals and NDP supporting the move. They argue that it helps prevent the spread of COVID-19 and allows MPs who are ill, or have sick family members, the ability to participate from their homes or offices.
The Conservatives and the Bloc Quebecois both want to fully return to normal in-person sittings.
Bergen argued that the hybrid format is designed to protect the government from "scrutiny and accountability," not to protect Canadians from the deadly virus.
"The fact is that the government has been let off the hook because they haven't been here," she said, adding that she sometimes sat in the chamber during the last session of Parliament without a single Liberal MP or minister in the House.
She said the Government's enthusiasm for virtual proceedings "doesn't have anything to do with protecting themselves or anyone else from COVID."
"They are protecting themselves from accountability and scrutiny. We've seen that and we believe that it is time that it stopped," she said.
NDP supports hybrid model
The NDP backs the hybrid format because it allows all MPs — including those forced to self-isolate if they come in contact with someone with COVID-19 — to take part in Commons proceedings.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has said MPs should consider adopting the hybrid format permanently because it would allow MPs with young children to take part in debates from home. That, in turn, would make becoming an MP more attractive to people with caring responsibilities, he's argued.
But Bergen said voters expected newly elected or re-elected MPs to turn up to do their jobs.
"We don't agree that a hybrid Parliament is needed. We don't believe it is. And we are concerned the Liberals and NDP are just going to ram this through," she said.
She said ministers prefer "sitting in their offices evading answers" than facing questions from Opposition MPs in the House of Commons.
But government House leader Mark Holland said Tuesday the government is committed to a "full presence" in the Commons, regardless of the format.
Holland reiterated his concern that no one knows how many Tory MPs are unvaccinated, and appeared to question whether Tory medical exemptions are valid. He suggested that further validation of their doctors' notes might be required.
Bergen hit back at Holland's suggestion, saying it was "very dangerous" for a politician to question the integrity of medical professionals.
"I think that is reckless in many ways. Mark Holland is not a doctor. My colleague called him a "spin doctor," she said.
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole has said all 118 of his MPs are now either fully vaccinated or have medical exemptions. He has refused to say how many have claimed an exemption for medical reasons.
Quebec Tory MP Richard Lehoux, who is fully vaccinated, is currently at home after being diagnosed with COVID-19 on Saturday, two days after attending an in-person Conservative caucus retreat.

Liberal government launching third term with a throne speech focused on lingering COVID-19 crisis :CBGTN.COMGov. Gen. Ma...
11/26/2021

Liberal government launching third term with a throne speech focused on lingering COVID-19 crisis :
CBGTN.COM
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon's first throne speech to lay out government's vision for the pandemic's late stages
The Liberal government starts its third term in office today with a speech from the throne delivered by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon — and a plan to pass a flurry of legislation before the Christmas break.
Just over a year ago, Simon's predecessor Julie Payette delivered a throne speech to a nearly empty Senate chamber as COVID-19 cases mounted and the economic picture looked murky at best.
The Liberal government — facing persistent questions about its handling of a summer student grants contract with WE Charity — had just prorogued Parliament to hit the reset button on a second term that had been consumed by COVID-19 and the fallout over that contract.
Today, the situation looks quite different. Payette is gone, social distancing rules have been relaxed. The pandemic isn't over but the country's high vaccination rate has kept COVID-19 in check.
The government is on reasonably solid ground politically after being returned to power in the September election. The economy, beset by snarled supply chains and rising inflation, is facing its own share of challenges but government largesse has bolstered household savings.
Their second term was really swallowed up by COVID-19," said Lori Turnbull, an associate professor of political science and director of the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University. "So this is a real moment of reset for the government, even more than a typical speech from the throne would be.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Liberal Government House Leader Mark Holland said Simon's speech will be focused on the health crisis and new programs to help a beleaguered country.
"It will focus very heavily on the circumstances of the pandemic and putting the pandemic behind us and continuing growth," he said.
Holland said the speech will announce new financial support for sectors that are still "adversely impacted by the pandemic." During the last election campaign, the Liberals promised to extend the Canada Recovery Hiring Program — which subsidizes businesses that hire new workers — until March 2022, and to prop up a hard-hit arts and culture sector.
Today's speech also offers the government a chance to telegraph some of its early legislative priorities.
After months of lobbying by the opposition NDP, unions and other groups, the Liberal government is expected to soon table legislation to require that all federally regulated workers have access to at least 10 days of paid sick leave. The Liberal election platform said that the goal is to solve the "dilemma" of workers "going to work sick or not having enough money to put food on the table."
To curb anti-vaccination protests at hospitals and other health care facilities, the Liberal government will introduce a bill to criminalize these demonstrations.
These are the folks who are on the frontlines of keeping us safe. I think it's the smallest thing that we can do to make sure that they themselves are safe in their work," Holland said.
"We have seen how they have been menaced in a number of different circumstances. That is totally and utterly unacceptable."
The conversion therapy ban
The government is expected also to re-introduce its bill to ban conversion therapy, which would criminalize the dangerous practice of trying to forcibly "convert" LGBTQ people to heterosexuality.
After months of debate and some Conservative opposition, the last bill on this topic died on the order paper when the government called the September election.
"I see no reason why we should delay this matter at all," Holland said, adding that he wants all of these bills passed by Christmas.
Greg MacEachern is a Liberal strategist and a senior vice-president at Proof Strategies. He said that while there are reasons to believe Canada is turning the tide on the pandemic, the government can't afford to look complacent.
"The election pressure is off the government in exchange for a much greater and, to most Canadians, a much more meaningful issue, and that's our health and wellness and how we get back to 'normal,'" MacEachern told CBGTN News.
The pressure to get things done
MacEachern said the Liberal government should use the time it has between now and Christmas — when partisanship may be at its post-election lowest ebb — to produce tangible legislative results.
He said the throne speech is also an opportunity to use the national stage to cajole Ontario — the lone provincial holdout on a bilateral child care deal with Ottawa — into signing an early learning and child care framework that will flow hundreds of millions of dollars to the provinces to help bring down the cost of child care services.
MacEachern said the Liberals must avoid the political trap that has ensnared U.S. President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats — the perception that little has actually been accomplished after a year on their watch.
"It's not about virtue-signalling. People don't want lofty goals right now when they've been looking at the four walls of their living room for the last 18 to 20 months. They want actual results," he said. "It's really important that the government shows rather than tells."
In a minority Parliament, the Liberal government needs at least one of the opposition parties to back its bills to get them through the House of Commons.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday he's willing to cooperate and "speed up" sick day legislation, the conversion therapy ban and new protections for health care workers — but he won't back any bill that reduces COVID-19 income supports.
"If they are going to hurt people, we are not going to support those bills," Singh told reporters.
MacEachern said the NDP has to strike a delicate balance between helping to pass legislation it championed in the last campaign and avoiding the appearance of being "Liberal lap dogs" — which would feed into a Conservative-driven narrative about a Liberal-NDP "coalition" in the works.
"It's a tough path to carve," he said.
Turnbull said the NDP probably will back the government on "pretty much everything" to keep the minority Parliament alive and avoid an election. She added that such support shouldn't be interpreted as a healthy form of cooperation among the parties.
'Mutual hellscape'
"They're basically saying, 'We're going to shout at one another, continue to throw mud and score points but we'll pass your legislation because we don't want to go to an election because we don't have any money,'" Turnbull said.
"That's not cooperation. That's like some sort of mutual hellscape."
As for the Conservatives, Turnbull said O'Toole should welcome Parliament's return because, as the leader of the Official Opposition, the Commons "confers some legitimacy on him" at a time when he's fighting off an internal challenge to his leadership.
"Parliament is a safer place for him than the media," she said.
Conservative squabbling over the Commons vaccine mandate — and new allegations from Holland and other Liberals that some Tories are ducking the requirement with questionable medical exemptions — have put O'Toole on the defensive, Turnbull said.
Speaking to reporters last week, O'Toole said he wants Conservative MPs focused not on his future but rather on the economy, "a corrupt and cover-up-prone Liberal government" and what he calls "a professional approach to dealing with the pandemic."

Conservatives say virtual Commons proceedings allow government to dodge scrutiny :CBGTN.COMMPs will today debate whether...
11/26/2021

Conservatives say virtual Commons proceedings allow government to dodge scrutiny :
CBGTN.COM
MPs will today debate whether to resume the hybrid format, which Liberals and NDP support
Conservative MPs will oppose a government proposal today to return to a hybrid format in the House of Commons, which has allowed MPs to participate virtually in proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conservative deputy leader Candice Bergen says her party fears hybrid sittings "let the government off the hook" and give ministers an excuse not to turn up to answer questions in the Commons.
MPs will today debate whether to resume the hybrid format, with both the Liberals and NDP supporting the move. They argue that it helps prevent the spread of COVID-19 and allows MPs who are ill, or have sick family members, the ability to participate from their homes or offices.
The Conservatives and the Bloc Quebecois both want to fully return to normal in-person sittings.
Bergen argued that the hybrid format is designed to protect the government from "scrutiny and accountability," not to protect Canadians from the deadly virus.
"The fact is that the government has been let off the hook because they haven't been here," she said, adding that she sometimes sat in the chamber during the last session of Parliament without a single Liberal MP or minister in the House.
She said the Government's enthusiasm for virtual proceedings "doesn't have anything to do with protecting themselves or anyone else from COVID."
"They are protecting themselves from accountability and scrutiny. We've seen that and we believe that it is time that it stopped," she said.
NDP supports hybrid model
The NDP backs the hybrid format because it allows all MPs — including those forced to self-isolate if they come in contact with someone with COVID-19 — to take part in Commons proceedings.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has said MPs should consider adopting the hybrid format permanently because it would allow MPs with young children to take part in debates from home. That, in turn, would make becoming an MP more attractive to people with caring responsibilities, he's argued.
But Bergen said voters expected newly elected or re-elected MPs to turn up to do their jobs.
"We don't agree that a hybrid Parliament is needed. We don't believe it is. And we are concerned the Liberals and NDP are just going to ram this through," she said.
She said ministers prefer "sitting in their offices evading answers" than facing questions from Opposition MPs in the House of Commons.
But government House leader Mark Holland said Tuesday the government is committed to a "full presence" in the Commons, regardless of the format.
Holland reiterated his concern that no one knows how many Tory MPs are unvaccinated, and appeared to question whether Tory medical exemptions are valid. He suggested that further validation of their doctors' notes might be required.
Bergen hit back at Holland's suggestion, saying it was "very dangerous" for a politician to question the integrity of medical professionals.
"I think that is reckless in many ways. Mark Holland is not a doctor. My colleague called him a "spin doctor," she said.
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole has said all 118 of his MPs are now either fully vaccinated or have medical exemptions. He has refused to say how many have claimed an exemption for medical reasons.
Quebec Tory MP Richard Lehoux, who is fully vaccinated, is currently at home after being diagnosed with COVID-19 on Saturday, two days after attending an in-person Conservative caucus retreat.

Trudeau says he brought up P.E.I. potato trade to Biden during U.S. visit :CBGTN.COMPM says feds working closely with Am...
11/26/2021

Trudeau says he brought up P.E.I. potato trade to Biden during U.S. visit :
CBGTN.COM
PM says feds working closely with Americans to make it clear there's 'no scientific basis' for ban
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he raised the P.E.I. potato export suspension with U.S. President Joe Biden during his trip to Washington last week.
The prime minister said during question period Wednesday that the Canadian government is working closely with the U.S. to resume the fresh potato trade after John Barlow, Conservative MP for Foothills and shadow agriculture minister, asked whether Trudeau would reverse the suspension.
"In the matter of potatoes, we are obviously extremely concerned. I brought it up directly with the president last week when I was in Washington," Trudeau said.
"We've been working closely with Islanders and indeed with the Americans to make sure the Americans understand that there's no scientific basis for the ban of table potatoes. We're going to continue to stand up for Prince Edward Islanders, look for a solution to this based on science."
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced the suspension on Monday, a few days after Trudeau's U.S. visit. The CFIA based its decision on the discovery of potato wart in two Island fields in October.
Shortly after the announcement, P.E.I. Premier Dennis King said the province will be considering all options at its disposal to fight the decision, saying that it was not at all based in science.
Barlow pressed Trudeau on the matter, and blasted P.E.I.'s MPs, all Liberal, for not speaking out against the suspension.
"Obviously, Mr Speaker, the prime minister has no idea what I was talking about. But maybe he should ask his members of parliament from Prince Edward Island who haven't said a single word about this decision," Barlow said.
"With the stroke of a pen, Mr. Speaker, the prime minister has devastated Prince Edward Island's potato industry."
Trudeau reiterated comments made by Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau earlier in the week that the suspension was imposed to prevent the Americans from imposing their own ban, which he said would be much more difficult to reverse.

11/18/2021
11/18/2021
It’s been difficult to watch what's happening in British Columbia. To British Columbians, know that Canada stands with y...
11/18/2021

It’s been difficult to watch what's happening in British Columbia. To British Columbians, know that Canada stands with you during these trying times.

Thank you to all of the first responders and volunteers for your courage and commitment to keep people safe.

The Canadian province of British Columbia suffered a devastating   and fires this summer.And now, extreme rainfall has t...
11/18/2021

The Canadian province of British Columbia suffered a devastating and fires this summer.

And now, extreme rainfall has triggered floods and mudslides, both in Canada and the US State of Washington.

Thousands of people have been evacuated and casualties have been reported. The floods have caused major disruption to energy, infrastructure and transport, with major routes to Vancouver severed.

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Get to know First Soloist Donald Thom who dances in  , onstage until November 27. Learn more about Donald including his ...
11/18/2021

Get to know First Soloist Donald Thom who dances in , onstage until November 27. Learn more about Donald including his favourite ballet, favourite costume and why he thinks he'd be a good ice dancer – hint, he'd bring DRAMA to the ice >> https://bit.ly/3oIV7N4

Spencer Hack and Donald Thom. Photo by Johan Persson.

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We know some of you are worried about   vaccine side effects, so let’s talk about them 👇All vaccines can cause side effe...
11/18/2021

We know some of you are worried about vaccine side effects, so let’s talk about them 👇

All vaccines can cause side effects and reactions. It’s normal – it’s your body’s natural response. These usually last from a few hours to a few days after vaccination.

As with all vaccines and any medication, there’s a very small chance that there will be a serious side effect. These are rare, but they do happen.
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نعلم أن البعض منكم قلق بشأن الآثار الجانبية للقاح # Covid19 ، فلنتحدث عنها 👇

يمكن لجميع اللقاحات أن تسبب آثارًا جانبية وردود فعل. إنه أمر طبيعي - إنها استجابة جسدك الطبيعية. تستمر هذه عادة من بضع ساعات إلى بضعة أيام بعد التطعيم.

كما هو الحال مع جميع اللقاحات وأي دواء ، هناك احتمال ضئيل جدًا لحدوث آثار جانبية خطيرة. هذه نادرة ، لكنها تحدث.
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Through the Rural Opportunities in the Gulf of Fonseca project/ Proyecto Oportunidades Rurales en el Golfo de Fonseca / ...
11/18/2021

Through the Rural Opportunities in the Gulf of Fonseca project/ Proyecto Oportunidades Rurales en el Golfo de Fonseca / Honduras, 🇨🇦 contributes to improving the technical capacities of youth as well as the competitiveness of the dairy sector to promote inclusive and sustainable economic development in the region. 🐄

Congratulations to Swisscontact and partners on the graduation ceremony 🎓 for youth who completed a technical vocational training program, the Inauguration of the Dairy Process Model Plant and Laboratory of the Regional University Center of the Pacific Coast/ Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Pacifico/, and for organizing a successful 2nd Cheese Fair in Choluteca with producers supported through the project.

Today 🇨🇦 Counsellor Jevone Nicholas and Col. Earl Vandahl laid flowers at the Freedom Monument to mark 103 years since t...
11/18/2021

Today 🇨🇦 Counsellor Jevone Nicholas and Col. Earl Vandahl laid flowers at the Freedom Monument to mark 103 years since the proclamation of the independent Latvian state on November 18, 1918🇱🇻

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