{"id":113774,"date":"2020-11-17T17:29:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/please-come-to-ottawa-ottawa-says-to-joe-biden\/"},"modified":"2020-11-17T17:29:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:29:53","slug":"please-come-to-ottawa-ottawa-says-to-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/please-come-to-ottawa-ottawa-says-to-joe-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"#Please come to Ottawa, Ottawa says to Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Please come to Ottawa, Ottawa says to Joe Biden<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Politics Insider for Nov. 17: The House unanimously requests a Biden-Harris visit north of the border, Bill Morneau lands a Yale gig and always watch out for the virtual hot mic\n <\/div>\n
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Canada\u2019s elected officials are not hiding their eagerness to have President-elect Joe Biden<\/strong> come north of the border. The House of Commons unanimously passed a motion<\/a> to congratulate Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris<\/strong>. They invited both to visit Parliament. And they invited Biden to address Parliament. The formalized longing for a presidential address might be an effort to simply out-hustle the other front-runners for First Foreign Visit in Mexico City. Back in 2001, George W. Bush<\/strong> famously \u201csnubbed\u201d Canada by heading to Mexico first<\/a>. Barack Obama<\/strong> picked Ottawa (where cookies still remember).<\/p>\n

Bill Morneau<\/strong> has a new gig. No, not the fancy Paris posting as secretary-general<\/a> of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Yale University<\/strong> appointed Morneau<\/a> as a senior fellow at its Jackson Institute. The former federal FinMin will teach \u201ca graduate course on global economic policymaking during the Spring 2021 semester.\u201d Say what you will about his untimely\u2014or timely?\u2014exit from Justin Trudeau\u2019s cabinet, but Prof. Morneau knows more than anyone else in Canada about the possibilities and pratfalls<\/strong> of pandemic policy. Fingers crossed he shreds his old talking points.<\/p>\n

Hot mic alert:<\/strong> This young Parliament has a new contender for most cringeworthy moment<\/strong><\/a>. During a vote in the Commons, Speaker Anthony Rota<\/strong> called on indie MP\u00a0Jody Wilson-Raybould<\/strong>. But\u00a0Maryam Monsef<\/strong>, the\u00a0gender equality minister, hadn\u2019t muted herself. And she was caught saying the following: \u201cThe question they\u2019re going to ask me\u2026How much do I make now? Like 250?\u201d Only then was she muted. For the record, Monsef\u2019s salary is now\u00a0$269,800<\/strong><\/a>\u2014along with a $2,000 car allowance. StatsCan pegged the media<\/a>n after-tax income of Canadian families in 2018 at $61,400<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Commons smacked down an NDP motion<\/a> that supported a wealth tax<\/strong>\u2014specifically, a one per cent levy on income earned over $20 million. The New Democrats only found dance partners in the Green Party, and\u00a0292 votes against<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear exactly how big a role Canada\u2019s military will play in vaccine distribution, but the brass told a parliamentary committee yesterday<\/a> that the Armed Forces are helping to develop a logistics support plan. Military planners are reportedly already embedded at the Public Health Agency of Canada.<\/p>\n

Clickbait of the day:<\/strong>\u00a0In an interview with the\u00a0National Observer<\/em><\/a>, new Green leader Annamie Paul<\/strong> made the credible claim that\u00a0Donald Trump<\/strong> was a better slayer of carbon emissions than\u00a0Trudeau\u2019s Liberals. \u201cCanadians don\u2019t like to hear it, and I don\u2019t like to say it, but even under Donald Trump, the Americans did a better job at tackling the climate emergency over his four years than Canada did,\u201d she said. Coincidentally, the day after<\/em> the presidential election, Paul spoke to\u00a0Maclean\u2019s<\/em> senior writer Paul Wells about her plans for the federal Greens. Watch that conversation here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The horse race:<\/strong> Abacus Data has the Liberals up eight points<\/a> over the Tories, and the firm\u2019s latest poll says Trudeau\u2019s team leads everywhere but the Prairies<\/strong>. The biggest issues on voters\u2019 minds are finding a way to cope with COVID-19<\/strong> and saving the country\u2019s economy. A little less than one-quarter of Canadians cited climate change<\/strong> as a top issue.<\/p>\n

This might be the mother of all federal consultations<\/a>. Justice Minister David Lametti<\/strong> has asked the Canadian people to share their thoughts on the Privacy Act<\/strong>. Much in the world has changed since the mid-1980s, when the law on the books came into force. Back then, Al Gore hadn\u2019t invented the internet and grown adults used to store data on floppy disks without even giggling about it. As always, the feds offer reams of background reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The wrath of the watchdog:<\/strong> Two reports drop today that might knock politicians off their talking points and force public servants to endure some anxiety. The information commissioner will table a report on her \u201cinvestigation into systemic issues<\/strong> affecting the processing of access to information requests\u201d sent to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police<\/strong>. And the parliamentary budget officer turns his eyes to the high seas, where he\u2019s tallying the costs of Canada\u2019s expensive program to build new replenishment ships for the Navy<\/strong>\u2014and its interim replacements refurbished by a Quebec shipyard.
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