Justin Trudeau seems to feel the same way. The two men have doubled down on a cycle of recrimination that has poisoned relations in recent years.
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Politics Briefing: Patrick Brown removed as federal Conservative leadership candidate to keep party 'beyond reproach,' official says – The Globe and Mail
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Patrick Brown was removed as a candidate for the federal Conservative leadership to avoid the risk of having a prospect for the position under investigation, says the chair of the party’s leadership committee.
As the fallout over Mr. Brown’s disqualification continued Friday, the party issued a statement from Ian Brodie, head of the leadership election organizing committee (LEOC), to members of the Conservative Party.
“LEOC could not afford the risk of having a leadership candidate under the investigation of Elections Canada for breaking federal law – especially one that did not answer the questions we put forward to him to bring him into compliance,” the statement read.
“Our leadership race is to select a person to contend for the role of prime minister of Canada. The process must be beyond reproach and in full compliance with the law.”
Five candidates remain in the race: Ontario MPs Scott Aitchison, Leslyn Lewis and Pierre Poilievre, as well as former Quebec premier Jean Charest and Roman Baber, a former member of the Ontario legislature. The winner, based on a mail-in vote, is to be announced Sept. 10.
Mr. Brodie acknowledged transparency questions on the Brown issue. “I would love to share all that we have,” he said. “But we have legal restrictions of what we are to say when we are dealing with allegations of breaking federal law. That’s why we referred this case to Elections Canada.
“The reality is our party received credible, verifiable information alleging serious wrongdoing in the Patrick Brown leadership campaign that violated not only the leadership election rules, but the Canada Elections Act.”
He said the party spent a week, working with the party lawyer, looking for a path to bring the Brown campaign in compliance with party rules and federal law.
“To be clear, the Brown campaign knew full well what the allegations were. Any suggestion to the contrary is simply incorrect,” he said.
Meanwhile, a former campaign organizer for Brown says the disqualified candidate was aware that a corporation was paying her for campaign work, which is illegal under federal election laws. There’s a story by Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife and I here.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
ROGERS NETWORK OUTAGE – A widespread Rogers Communications Inc. network outage across the country Friday morning is interrupting internet, cellular and 911 services and affecting payment systems. Story here.
NEW CANADIAN SANCTIONS – Canada has imposed a new round of sanctions on Russia’s media machine that is designed to puncture disinformation campaigns about the war in Ukraine. Story here.
LICH DENIED BAIL – Freedom convoy leader Tamara Lich has been denied bail for violating the conditions of her release when she attended an awards gala in Toronto and had contact with another convoy organizer. Story here from CBC.
TRUDEAU DENOUNCES “HORRIFICALLY DISTURBING” ASSASSINATION OF ABE – The assassination of Japan’s former prime minister during a campaign speech is “horrifically disturbing” and demands pushback against rising violence and threats that are harming democracy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Story here. Globe and Mail Asia Correspondent James Griffiths reports on the assassination here.
AMBROSE BACK IN POLITICS – Former federal cabinet minister Rona Ambrose is back in politics, chairing the campaign of one of the contenders for the leadership of Alberta’s United Conservative Party. Story here from Global News.
SURPRISE JOB LOSS – The Canadian economy posted a surprise loss of jobs in June, the first monthly decline that was not associated with tighter public-health restrictions since the outset of the pandemic. Story here.
SCHOLZ COMING TO OTTAWA – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is coming to Ottawa next month to push for liquefied natural gas terminals on Canada’s East Coast and the release of a turbine, caught up in sanctions against Russia, critical to the flow of gas to Europe. Story here.
REVIEW OF AFN FINANCIAL POLICIES – First Nations chiefs from across Canada have voted in favour of reviewing the Assembly of First Nations’ financial policies, and if deemed necessary, conducting a financial audit. The vote, which took place on the final day of the AFN’s annual general assembly, solidified support for National Chief RoseAnne Archibald, who was suspended by the AFN’s executive committee last month. Story here.
JAMES SENTENCED – A man at the centre of one of the biggest spending scandals in the history of British Columbia politics has been sentenced. Story here from CTV.
CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP RACE
CAMPAIGN TRAIL – Scott Aitchison, Roman Baber, Jean Charest and Pierre Poilievre are all in Calgary. Leslyn Lewis was en route from Yellowknife to Calgary on Friday.
THIS AND THAT
The House of Commons is not sitting again until Sept. 19. The Senate is to resume sitting on Sept. 20.
GUILBEAULT IN SUDBURY – Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, in Sudbury, made an announcement on engaging youth in the fight against climate change.
WILKINSON IN ST. JOHN’S – In St. John’s, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson held a news conference at the conclusion of an energy and mines ministers’ conference.
PREMIERS MEETING NEXT WEEK – Canada’s premiers and territorial leaders – members of the Council of the Federation – will be holding a summer meeting next Monday and Tuesday in Victoria. Please check The Globe and Mail for coverage.
PUBLIC SERVICE APPOINTMENTS BY THE PM – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed Erin O’Gorman, current Associate Secretary of the Treasury Board, as the new president of the Canada Border Services Agency as part of a series of changes to the senior ranks of the public service announced Friday and detailed here.
THE DECIBEL
New episodes of The Decibel are not being published on Fridays for the months of July and August. You can check previous episodes here.
PRIME MINISTER’S DAY
Private meetings, and the Prime Minister participated in the unveiling of the Humanity Art installation in Ottawa, with Treasury Board President Mona Fortier, and Toronto Raptors President and Vice-Chairman Masai Ujiri attending.
LEADERS
No schedules released for party leaders.
OPINION
Andrew Coyne (The Globe and Mail) on how the very nature of a leadership race based on selling memberships as fast as you can is corrupting: “At the very least, the choice of party leader should be restricted to the party’s existing members at the start of the campaign. In the best of all worlds, they would be elected by the parliamentary caucus. Perhaps these could be supplemented by the candidates of record in ridings not held by the party. Or perhaps, for those who object to the choice being left to mere MPs – those nobodies, as our quasi-presidential system makes them out to be – some hybrid scheme could be adopted, like the one now used by the British Conservative Party: The caucus narrows the choice to two, on which the membership votes. Or we can stick with the present system, and endure more scandals, more takeovers by single-issue zealots, and still greater marginalization of MPs under leaders chosen not by them, but by a phantom electorate bought with gobs of cash.”
Lawrence Martin (The Globe and Mail) on how Pierre the Polarizer has got the Conservative Party and he could certainly take the country too: “Having already won with a Reform brand of conservatism under Stephen Harper, it’s hardly a stretch to think that a Conservative Party under Mr. Poilievre, a former Harper cabinet member, could win again. Mr. Harper was able to avoid the extremist tag, and benefited from a great run of fortune: the sponsorship scandal, the Jean Chrétien-Paul Martin split, the RCMP incredibly calling a midelection criminal investigation into the Liberals’ finance minister’s office – which was similar to what the FBI did to Hillary Clinton in 2016 as she was campaigning against Donald Trump. Throw in some breaks like that to the many trends already working in its favour, and a Poilievre-led Conservative Party could win the country handily.”
Rita Trichur (The Globe and Mail) on how dairy market protectionism is exposing Ottawa’s hypocrisy on free trade: “Canada wants the world to believe that it’s committed to free trade. But when it comes to dairy imports, other countries are calling our bluff. New Zealand is the latest trading partner to complain about fettered access to Canada’s dairy market, alleging that Ottawa is violating provisions of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. The Pacific island country’s grievance follows that of the U.S., which is pursuing its second such trade challenge of our dairy restrictions under the auspices of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. These dairy disputes are damaging Canada’s credibility as a free-trading nation, and the timing couldn’t be worse. Ottawa is busy negotiating bilateral trade agreements with other countries including Britain and India, but its protectionist dairy policies are under scrutiny like never before.”
Robyn Urback (The Globe and Mail) on how poor Patrick Brown is the subject of a takedown again: “Maybe Patrick Brown is the most unfairly persecuted politician on the planet. Despite his deep fidelity to the rules and squeaky clean procedural history, trouble seems to find him – or rather, is maliciously assigned to him, in the form of repeated and deliberate political takedowns (which, not coincidentally, inspired the title of his 2018 memoir, Takedown). Perhaps there’s something about Mr. Brown that his many enemies, both past and present, have feared – enemies that have at times included the news media, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party and, now, the federal Conservative Party, which disqualified him from its leadership race Tuesday evening over “serious allegations of wrongdoing.” Is it his moderate form of conservatism? His vision for Canada that is radically … uh … inclusive? Why else would Mr. Brown – noted choirboy, scrupulous ethicist, the Ned Flanders of contemporary Canadian politics – so routinely be the subject of financial, moral and procedural scandal?”
Don Braid (The Calgary Herald) on federal Conservative candidate Jean Charest promising Alberta a new deal in Canada: Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest vows to break the bronco of Alberta anger with a unique special deal for the province. If he becomes Conservative leader and then prime minister, Charest said Thursday, he would immediately develop an “Alberta Accord – a specific agreement with Alberta on the issues Alberta cares about.” “I want this Alberta accord to say to the rest of the country that we are responding to the issues of Alberta,” Charest said in an interview before starting Stampede appearances. “We are going to answer. We’re not just going to pretend the problems aren’t there.” Charest says he would ask to meet the Alberta premier within 30 days of being sworn in. Shortly thereafter, he would co-chair a meeting with all premiers.”
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Any hopes that Canada and India might grow closer have been dashed by media reports this week that India’s foreign intelligence agency was linked to the killing of a Sikh separatist in Canada last year. On the same day, news broke that “Long Live Khalistan” slogans were shouted at a Sikh new year event attended by Trudeau (and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre) last weekend. India accused Ottawa of creating the space for “extremism and violence.”
The bad blood is baked into the relationship and it’s not clear that even a change in government in Ottawa would bring about a reconciliation.
The absurdity of the situation is that, substantively, both countries have much to gain from making nice. They profess shared values; there are nearly two million Indo-Canadians; and, the two governments have only scratched the surface of a trading relationship that both are keen to expand.
Yet, the politics are such that it seems to suit Modi and Trudeau to keep the feud festering.
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is currently seeking re-election (seven phases of voting began on April 19th and will end in early June). Polling suggests Modi’s party may win up to 400 of 543 seats. More than half of Indian voters are satisfied with its record in office, in part because of Modi’s leadership qualities and his Hindu nationalist agenda. This includes standing up to any hints of Western neo-colonialism.
It may be a flawed democracy but India is on the rise: a recent Newsweek edition that featured an interview with Modi has his photo on the cover under the word “Unstoppable.”
Karthik Nachiappan, a fellow at the National University of Singapore who specializes in Canada-India relations, said resisting foreign pressure plays in Modi’s favour.
“It suggests ‘we are a strong government willing to defend national security, even if it takes us outside our borders.’ They’re not admitting it but it says ‘this is the new India’,” he said.
The Indians allege that the Trudeau government’s indifference is inspired by ‘vote bank politics’
India is not in apologetic mood, even after this week’s Washington Post report that officers in Indian foreign intelligence were linked to the assassination of Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and a plot to kill his New York-based associate, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, which was foiled by U.S. law enforcement.
The report linked the assassination to India’s spy agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, and Modi’s national security adviser.
The Post said the Biden administration, conscious of India’s indispensability as a counterweight to China, said the U.S. would refrain from a punitive response if India held those responsible to account. The approach was viewed as too accommodating by some U.S. officials, the story said.
But at least the fallout was contained. Trudeau’s response was to announce in the House of Commons that Canada had “credible evidence” of Indian involvement. It was clear that labelling Modi an accessory to murder was going to cause a rift that will take years to heal.
“Canada has placed itself in a difficult corner,” said Nachiappan. “They can’t back down now.”
Trudeau has played his own domestic politics with the fracture in relations. At the Sikh event, he pledged to advocated for the community’s rights and freedoms. “Sikh values are Canadian values,” he said.
Nachiappan said Trudeau’s penchant to support minority rights and appease the Sikh diaspora is important for the Liberal party’s election prospects next year.
India’s National Investigation Agency has identified individuals in Canada it accuses of extortion, terrorism, smuggling and money laundering and sought their extradition.
Canada has refused on the grounds that suspects could be tortured if returned to India.
At the same time, it has failed to crack down on suspected Khalistani extremists living in Canada. The enforcement record of the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (Fintrac), which monitors financial crime, is poor. When it comes to incitement to violence, Canada has laws that are rarely used because of Charter provisions on freedom of expression.
There have been calls to tighten those laws. In 2015, a Senate committee on national security recommended that hate laws should be updated to ban the glorification of terror, terror acts and terror symbols, such as the Khalistani parade float that celebrated the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi that toured the streets of Toronto in 2023. The recommendation was dropped by the Liberals.
The Charter may make it problematic to lay charges against someone who shouts: “Long live Khalistan.” But the Indian government’s allegation against Nijjar was that he ran a terror training camp for the militant Khalistan Tiger Force in Mission, B.C., yet was not arrested or charged with anything.
The Indians allege that the Trudeau government’s indifference is inspired by “vote bank politics.”
That charge has some validity, according to Omer Aziz, a former foreign policy adviser to Trudeau who wrote in the Globe and Mail that Canada should have clamped down on Khalistani terrorist financing but the prime minister “didn’t want to lose the Sikh vote to (NDP leader) Jagmeet Singh, so we dug in our heels.”
However, the world is becoming too dangerous to allow foreign policy to be dictated by diaspora politics.
India is becoming the new epicentre of geopolitics, as Canada acknowledged with the launch of its own Indo-Pacific strategy late last fall. It was designed to improve relations with democracies in the region like India by growing economic ties; expanding market access through a new trade agreement; bolstering visa processing on the sub-continent; and accelerating co-operation against climate change. It was out of date before the ink was dry, after the schism between Ottawa and New Delhi.
Elsewhere, the U.S. is working hard to drag India out of Russia and China’s orbit and into one that shares a vision of an open Indo-Pacific, based on a rules-based maritime order in the East and South China Seas. The Americans, Australians and Japanese have joined India in the Quad alliance, which Modi says is not against any one country but is “a group of like-minded countries working on a shared, positive agenda.”
France and the U.K. are similarly close to Modi, supporting India’s bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Canada is at the back of the pack, opposing the addition of new permanent seats as part of a group called United for Consensus (nicknamed “the coffee club”) that advocates instead for more elected seats.
Canada could buy some goodwill with Modi by shifting its stance but that looks unlikely to happen. Canada is against extending the security council veto and reconciliation is a two-way street, said one Canadian official.
But something has to give.
When she was foreign affairs minister, Chrystia Freeland once asked whether Canada is “an essential country” in making the world safe, sustainable and prosperous.
The truth is that Canada is an optional country; India is essential. At some point, Ottawa needs to figure out a way to strike a bilateral partnership that focuses on the issues that matter to both countries. In doing so, Canada will have to build a firewall between domestic political tactics and strategic foreign policy. That is impossible while the Trudeau government is still in power.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is taking steps to thaw relations with former President Trump, his primary-season rival, as he considers his next political move — including another potential White House bid in 2028.
DeSantis met with Trump in a private meeting in Miami over the weekend, the first time he had spoken with the former president since dropping out of the White House race following disappointing showings in the early-voting states.
The meeting underscores DeSantis’s need to repair relations with Trump if he intends to run for another office in the future, something many say is likely.
“It’s a win-win for both of them,” said Ford O’Connell, a Florida Republican strategist. “Trump can use as many strong fundraisers and strong messengers as possible, and I think being in Trump’s good graces bodes well for DeSantis’s political future.”
“It’s really that simple,” he added.
Florida Republicans say unity between the two was somewhat expected, but much needed given the political climate going into the general election.
“As a Republican who wants to see the party unite together to defeat Joe Biden, I was pleased that the two former opponents were able to meet face to face,” said Justin Sayfie, a Florida Republican strategist.
The former president confirmed the meeting in a Truth Social post Monday, saying he was “very happy to have the full and enthusiastic support” of DeSantis.
“The conversation mostly concerned how we would work closely together to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” Trump wrote. “Also discussed was the future of Florida, which is FANTASTIC! I greatly appreciate Ron’s support in taking back our Country from the Worst President in the History of the United States. November 5th is a BIG DAY!!!”
The meeting signals a thaw in Trump and DeSantis’s previously frosty relationship, which took a turn for the worst following DeSantis’s decision to challenge Trump for the Republican presidential nomination. Trump relentlessly targeted DeSantis over the course of the primary campaign, labeling him “DeSanctimonious,” among other things.
But DeSantis and Trump were not always campaign rivals. The Florida governor tied himself to the president during his first gubernatorial campaign in 2018 and campaigned for Trump’s reelection bid in 2020. By then, DeSantis was already seen as a top rising Republican star, earning praise from conservatives, including Trump, for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
By the time the 2022 midterms rolled around, Trump and his allies were closely watching DeSantis as he oversaw a successful election for Florida Republicans while a blue wave swept across much of the rest of the country.
By the time DeSantis officially jumped into the presidential race in May 2023, some observers speculated that he could surpass Trump as the new GOP standard-bearer.
Ultimately, though, the former governor’s campaign failed to live up to expectations. He faced constant negative press over his often stilted performances on the campaign trail and consistently polled behind Trump leading up to the Iowa caucuses.
After coming in a distant second to Trump in Iowa, he dropped out of the race just days before the New Hampshire primary, leaving many asking what the 45-year-old governor would do next.
“DeSantis really, I think, hurt himself with that campaign in terms of the future,” said one Republican strategist. “The best way that he can revitalize or reenergize his brand is by being as close to Trump as possible.”
And the two men have much in common, coming from the same wing of the GOP and sharing a support base of voters and donors.
“There’s a lot of crossover between Trump presidential donors and DeSantis gubernatorial donors, too,” O’Connell said.
Republican donor Dan Eberhart supported DeSantis during the Republican primary but switched his support to Trump following the governor’s decision to drop out.
“No other governor has accomplished more for the conservative cause than Gov. DeSantis,” Eberhart said. “If Trump wasn’t running, DeSantis would be the nominee.”
DeSantis supporters argue that his fundraising prowess and star power among conservatives will be a major factor in ultimately rallying and unifying the conservative base ahead of November.
While recent polling has shown Trump narrowly leading President Biden, the former president has trailed the current president in fundraising. Biden ended last quarter with $155 million in the bank compared to Trump’s $42 million. But filings from last quarter suggested Trump and his allies are working to close that gap with Biden.
“Trump’s fundraising numbers could certainly use a DeSantis boost,” Eberhart said.
The detente between Trump and DeSantis in South Florida comes as Democrats increasingly eye the Sunshine State as part of their broader electoral map strategy. Vice President Harris is set to visit the state this week to highlight the state’s six-week abortion ban, which was signed into law by DeSantis and is set to go into effect.
While most Republicans say the chances of Democrats winning Florida are slim, their strategy of targeting the state forces Republicans to spend money there when they could target other states. Some Republicans argue that the show of unity between Trump and DeSantis, who both call Florida home, will help offset those efforts.
“In Florida right now, at least at this stage, Republicans are marching in lockstep together,” O’Connell said. “I think [Democrats] were looking for some chinks in the armor, and they’re not finding it in Florida, at least not certainly in this cycle.”
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Speaker kicks Poilievre out of the Commons after he calls PM a 'wacko' in tense question period exchange – CBC News
Speaker Greg Fergus kicked Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre out of question period Tuesday after a particularly nasty exchange with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Poilievre’s day-long removal from the House of Commons came after he called Trudeau a “wacko” for supporting B.C.’s past policy of decriminalizing some hard drugs in an attempt to reduce the number of overdose-related deaths.
Poilievre said it was a “wacko policy” backed by “this wacko prime minister.” Fergus asked him to withdraw the “unparliamentary language.”
Poilievre refused, saying only that he agreed to replace “wacko” with “extremist” or “radical.” Poilievre’s refusal prompted Fergus to remove him.
“There are a couple of things that are going on here today that are not acceptable,” Fergus said.
He later called it a “remarkable question period” after MPs from all sides yelled at one another and called each other names.
Following Poilievre’s removal, the Conservative caucus left the Commons chamber en masse, following their leader.
Trudeau fielded a few more questions Tuesday from Bloc and NDP MPs and then left the chamber after the fracas.
WATCH: Speaker tosses Poilievre from House of Commons
After asking Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre several times to withdraw comments made during question period Tuesday, Speaker of the House Greg Fergus orders Poilievre to withdraw from the House of Commons.
Poilievre turned to social media after getting the boot. “The Liberal speaker censored me for describing Trudeau’s hard drug policy as wacko,” he posted.
“Six people dying from overdoses every day in B.C. is wacko. Nurses worried about breastfeeding after breathing in toxic drug fumes is wacko. This is a wacko policy from a wacko PM that’s destroying lives.”
Trudeau calls Poilievre ‘spineless’
Trudeau also engaged in name-calling, saying at one point that Poilievre was a “spineless” leader.
He said Poilievre is trying to “earn votes through personal attacks” after the Conservative leader raised Trudeau’s past episodes of wearing blackface.
Trudeau accused Poilievre of courting “white nationalist groups” with his visit to an anti-carbon tax protest camp in the Maritimes earlier this month.
While at the camp, Poilievre stepped into a trailer that had a symbol associated with Diagolon drawn on the door.
That’s a group the RCMP has said supports an “accelerationist” ideology — the idea that civil war or the collapse of western governments is inevitable and ought to be sped up.
“He will not denounce them and everything they stand for,” Trudeau said of Poilievre, while also citing American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ endorsement of Poilievre.
“This is a 19-year career politician who knows exactly what he’s doing and thinks he can get away with it,” Trudeau said.
“It is a choice to pander to white nationalists. It’s a choice to not condemn them and everything they stand for in his quest for votes.”
Poilievre at one point said he wouldn’t take lessons on racism from a prime minister whose government gave anti-racism training money to Laith Marouf, a Montreal man who had a history of making antisemitic remarks in social media posts.
The government cut off funding to Marouf’s company in 2022 after public scrutiny of his hateful tweets.
WATCH: Alberta Conservative MP kicked out of the House of Commons
Speaker of the House Greg Fergus orders Conservative MP Rachael Thomas to withdraw from the House of Commons for ‘disregarding the authority of the chair.’ Thomas was heard saying ‘the chair is acting in a disgraceful manner.’
Before Poilievre’s removal, Fergus had Conservative MP Rachael Thomas removed from the chamber after she shouted at him and called him “a disgrace” for not immediately demanding that Trudeau withdraw his comment about Poilievre being “spineless.”
Trudeau’s “spineless” remark did result in a rebuke from Fergus. The Speaker told Trudeau not to make comments that “call into question the character of an individual member of Parliament.”
It’s highly unusual for a Speaker to remove the Official Opposition leader from the Commons during question period.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was forced out of the chamber in 2020 after he called a Bloc Québécois MP racist.
A spokesperson for Poilievre framed his leader’s removal as an attempt by Fergus to “protect the prime minister” from tough questions and silence the Conservative leader.
“By any reasonable measure, these policies are wacko. The prime minister knows that and that’s why he refuses to answer why he is keeping dangerous drugs legal in British Columbia,” the spokesperson said.
Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks told reporters earlier that Ottawa hasn’t made a decision on what to do with B.C.’s request to make illicit drug use illegal in all public spaces after ending a federally sanctioned pilot project that decriminalized their possession.
“It’s under review by Health Canada,” Saks said.
As for Conservative claims that Poilievre is somehow being silenced, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said it’s nonsense.
“That guy has never shut his mouth in his life. Who silences him? He keeps saying dumb things,” Miller said.
“It would be good if he shut his yap once in a while. The stuff that he does in the House of Commons is disgraceful.”
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