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The bills will — at the very least — signal the government's intention to fulfil key promises, but they are unlikely to be debated by MPs in any serious way until the fall.
The National Energy Board's top public servant said it was a "good idea" to hire a private security firm to investigate staff to find out who told the media that she made a bad joke.
The federal government broke its own privacy rules this spring when it expanded the Five Eyes intelligence network to automatically share 1.2 million confidential Canadian files a year.
Transport Canada has been secretive and evasive about closed-door meetings where Indigenous partners in the Northern Gateway pipeline asked for 'accommodation' if the project fell through.
The leaking of these details, from a town hall meeting for all NEB staff, didn't sit well with senior management. That's what brought the private investigator into the mix.
It was a time of profound uncertainty. Emails show public servants assembled a “ministerial briefing” on the implications of Trump's election victory on major Canada-U.S. issues.
The regulator told National Observer it launched the investigation to defend against a "security risk." But the evidence emerging indicates something else entirely.