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“#Will every federal party agree to a ban on conversion therapy?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Politics Insider for Oct. 2: The Liberals re-table a bill that would ban the widely condemned ‘therapy,’ there’s a brand-new Heritage Minute and the feds get in the business of televised nostalgia\n <\/div>\n
\n Welcome to a sneak peek of the\u00a0<\/em>Maclean\u2019s\u00a0Politics Insider\u00a0news<\/a>letter.\u00a0Sign up to get it delivered\u00a0straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday,\u00a0Bardish Chagger<\/strong>\u2014the minister for diversity, inclusion and youth\u2014re-tabled a bill<\/a> that would ban conversion therapy<\/strong>\u2014a widely condemned practice that aims to alter the sexual orientation or gender identity of people who are forced into it. Tory leader\u00a0Erin O\u2019Toole<\/strong> complained that while he opposes conversion therapy, the bill could \u201ccriminalize talking.\u201d While Liberals insist the bill protects people who simply offer support to young people.\u00a0O\u2019Toole app<\/a>eared to disagree, saying his party would offer \u201cvery simple amendments that could fix this.\u201d He offered no further detail, so stay tuned when Bill C-6<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is sent to committee.<\/p>\n

$10 billion for 60,000 jobs:<\/strong> That\u2019s what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau<\/strong> announced yesterday<\/a> alongside Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna<\/strong> and Canada Investment Bank board chair\u00a0Michael Sabia<\/strong>. The three-year plan will spend federal dollars on new infrastructure that \u201cconnects more households and small businesses to high speed internet, strengthens Canadian agriculture and helps build a low-carbon economy.\u201d The money includes $500 million to \u201caccelerate high impact infrastructure projects in which the CIB expects to make a long-term investment<\/strong>.\u201d None of this money is, at this point, attached to specific projects. That is, of course, the hard part.<\/p>\n

The Canada Infrastructure Bank is in no sense a bank anymore<\/strong>, writes Paul Wells<\/strong>, about the announcement. Since its creation in 2016, the CIB had big plans to multiply public dollars by matching it with private or institutional investments.<\/p>\n

In the end the clouds didn\u2019t open and no part of that $16 trillion<\/strong> in global free money dampened the shores of Canada. This is not a tragedy nor even necessarily evidence of mismanagement: if turning on a gigantic global cash spigot were easy, probably somebody would have done it before Sabia, Morneau and Trudeau thought of it. No matter. The Bank has quietly adopted a new business model, in which the government money goes first and everyone simply hopes the private capital will show up later.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How much do Canadians dislike Donald Trump?<\/strong> A lot.\u00a0A new 338Canada\/L\u00e9ger poll<\/strong>\u00a0shows that the overwhelming majority of Canadians would prefer Joe Biden<\/strong> over the incumbent president. The only exceptions were in Alberta, where two-thirds of respondents still supported Biden, and among Conservatives, 59 per cent of whom still picked Biden.\u00a0Maclean\u2019s<\/em> contributing editor Philippe J. Fournier explained what this means for Canada\u2019s Tories:<\/p>\n

After last year\u2019s federal election, many observers believed that, to win back a majority of seats in the House of Commons, the Conservative Party of Canada would have to regain the centre of the Canadian political spectrum. This poll indicates that not only is it not happening, but many of the party\u2019s supporters are going in the exact opposite direction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another\u00a0new L\u00e9ger poll<\/strong> revealed some complicated electoral feelings<\/a> in British Columbia. The poll found that 47 per cent<\/strong> of voters favoured John Horgan\u2019s NDP<\/strong> (compared to 31 per cent for the Liberals),\u00a049 per cent<\/strong> opposed the election call altogether, and 49 per cent<\/strong> would also prefer a majority government. The results are good news for Horgan, who also polled as the most popular leader. But they\u2019ll only reinforce his cynical critics who dismiss him as an opportunist<\/strong>. (B.C. Conservatives, who were mostly invisible in the 2017 election, poll at nine per cent\u2014double 338Canada\u2019s current projection<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Saskatchewan is the new Alberta:<\/strong> An Abacus poll<\/a> that recorded steady Liberal support at 35 per cent<\/strong>, amid a two-point Tory decline to 30 per cent<\/strong>, also published a regional breakdown. More Albertans than Saskatchewanians plan to vote Conservative, but fewer respondents from Canada\u2019s most four-sided prairie province approve of the government\u2019s job. Only 33 per cent of Saskatchewan respondents gave a thumbs up, less than Alberta\u2019s 36 per cent.<\/p>\n

As small businesses struggle to pay rent today, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland<\/strong> doesn\u2019t yet have a replacement for the federal-provincial program that gave $1.68 billion to 120,000 businesses that needed the help. But Freeland tweeted<\/a> that\u00a0something<\/em> is on the way<\/strong>. \u201cWe are working with the provinces, territories, municipalities and businesses to do this in the best way possible,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are listening to you and we will have more to announce very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have you heard of\u00a0Elsie MacGill?<\/strong> Historica Canada\u2019s newest Heritage Minute<\/strong><\/a> showcases the story of MacGill, \u201cthe world\u2019s first female aeronautical engineer and Canada\u2019s first practicing woman engineer.\u201d In the 60-second short, MacGill tours a somewhat condescending journalist around the Canadian Car & Foundry factory that\u00a0churned out\u00a0Hawker Hurricanes<\/strong> during the Second World War.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Jimmy Carter<\/strong> turned 96 years old. The\u00a0Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em> reported<\/a> that a spokesperson for the former U.S. president said Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, \u201chave sequestered themselves\u201d in their home in Plains, Georgia, and will \u201cspend a quiet day together.\u201d Last autumn, as he awaited brain surgery, news cameras captured video<\/a> of Carter building Habitat for Humanity<\/strong> homes in Nashville. By December, he was back teaching Sunday School<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If nostalgia can get people to take cybersecurity seriously, the e-spies over at the Communications Security Establishment might have hit the jackpot. Enter the agency\u2019s 55-second opening intro for\u00a0Device Appreciation Time<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, a takeoff on a vintage \u201980s-era sitcom<\/strong>. Perhaps the most concerning detail is the Phone character\u2014yes, devices themselves are characters\u2014only has 25 per cent of its battery power. Maybe the next federal video should be\u00a0Charles Isn\u2019t Charged,<\/i>\u00a0a Public Healthy Agency of Canada faux-sitcom in which the main character obsessively charges his phone so his\u00a0COVID Alert<\/strong> apps can notify him of exposure.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t even the only nostalgia-fuelled ad pushed out by the feds yesterday. Two words: house hippos<\/strong><\/a>.
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