The proposed changes would basically be a return to the laws under the old Fisheries Act, which were ineffective and rarely enforced, said Mark Mattson, environmental lawyer and president of Swim Drink Fish Canada.
Does the fact the Liberals have passed basic income resolutions mean they will move forward with a basic income program soon? The answer is: it should, writes Leadnow campaign manager Claire Gallagher.
"It’s super important that we send this strong message, in that we’re already doing this, and put our policies in a framework that is palatable to young people and progressives."
Conservatives are accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of stacking Canada's courts with Liberal partisans, pointing to a recently appointed judge who has donated almost $26,000 to the governing party over the past 14 years.
The person tasked with the "back-breaking" job of rebuilding Ontario's Liberal party will need both strong organizational skills and the ability to adapt to an increasingly unpredictable political landscape, according to experts preparing to watch the party's leadership race unfold.
British Columbia could play a pivotal role in the formation of the next federal government, with four political parties locked in a battle for seats across the west coast province, where pipeline politics, Indigenous relations and housing affordability are all in sharp focus.
Imagine if the genocide of Indigenous nations, broken treaties, boil-water advisories, mass incarceration, mass surveillance, police brutality, torture complicity, security certificates, no-fly lists and indefinite detention were treated equally as scandalous as Trudeau in blackface.
The Liberal Party pledged on Saturday, September 21, 2019, to keep private the details of any conversation between NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau about the blackface scandal that rocked the federal election campaign this past week.
“We gave out the largest and most expansive waiver of cabinet confidence in Canada’s history,” Trudeau said, then stopped. For several seconds, no one spoke.