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\n Politics Insider for Oct. 6: The feds repatriate a Syrian child of suspected Canadian ISIS fighters, Canadians are more mask-averse than Americans, and the Mounties auction off horses\n <\/div>\n
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Turkey sits fourth in the world in the most recent federal report<\/a> on Canadian arms exports,\u00a0$151,428,455<\/strong>\u00a0of which were destined for Turkey last year.\u00a0Amid\u00a0reports<\/a> that the Azerbaijani military, backed by Turkey, is using Canadian technology<\/a> to commit human rights abuses<\/strong> in an escalating conflict with Armenia in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, Foreign Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne<\/strong>\u00a0has \u201csuspended the relevant export permits to Turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Champagne also celebrated<\/a> the weekend\u00a0repatriation of a Syrian child<\/strong>, a five-year-old known as Amira<\/strong> whose Canadian parents\u2014suspected ISIS fighters\u2014died last year in Syria. Amira\u2019s uncle, Ibrahim, was represented by high-profile lawyer Lawrence Greenspon. The feds informed Greenspon of the operation on Sunday. Global News reported that Canada\u2019s special forces were \u201cinstrumental\u201d<\/strong> in getting Amira out of Syria.<\/p>\n

And Ralph Goodale<\/strong> is headed to London. The lion of the Liberal Party lost his Saskatchewan seat last year and, this past March, was named<\/a> special government advisor on the Flight 752 tragedy<\/strong>. Yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Goodale<\/a> as Canada\u2019s high commissioner in the U.K. He\u2019ll take over for\u00a0Janice Charette, a Harper-era clerk of the Privy Council.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth May<\/strong>, who\u2019s still the Green Party\u2019s parliamentary leader, lashed out yesterday<\/a> at the NDP for running a candidate in the upcoming Toronto Centre by-election, where brand-new Green leader Annamie Paul<\/strong> hopes to topple broadcaster-turned-Liberal Marci Ien<\/strong>. May cited a tradition, known as a \u201cleader\u2019s courtesy,\u201d that reduces competition for new party leaders so they can gain a seat in the Commons. But typically, seat-less leaders afforded that gesture run in safe seats. Toronto Centre, a Liberal bastion, is not that. May\u2019s seat is as safe as it gets for Greens. Elmer MacKay gave up his Nova Scotia seat to Brian Mulroney<\/strong> in 1983<\/a>. Preston Manning gave way to Stephen Harper<\/strong> in 2002<\/a>. May could follow\u00a0that<\/em> tradition, if she so chose.<\/p>\n

To mask or not to mask?<\/strong>\u00a0A new poll from\u00a0Leger<\/a>, in partnership with the Association for Canadian Studies, reveals that Americans are much likelier to wear masks<\/strong> outdoors than Canadians (48 per cent versus 17 per cent). Canadian respondents who identified with a visible minority were far more likely (57 per cent) than white respondents (13 per cent). Only 11 per cent of Albertans wear masks outdoors, compared to 23 per cent of Ontarians.<\/p>\n

Trump proves narcissism is no cure for COVID-19:<\/strong> The president\u2019s bout with COVID-19 mixes a dash of karma with a spell of schadenfreude, writes Andrew MacDougall in\u00a0Maclean\u2019s<\/em>. And while leaders who battle serious health issues often emerge more popular\u2014see Ronald Reagan<\/strong> in 1981 and Boris Johnson<\/strong> earlier this year\u2014they tend to exhibit some humility in recovery. This president, not so much.<\/p>\n

Trump can\u2019t conceive of a universe in which he is not the centre. Just ask the poor Secret Service agents in the presidential limousine who had to expose themselves to Trump\u2019s viral load because their narcissist boss needed a boost from the diehards gathered outside of the hospital. Quarantine? That\u2019s for losers.<\/strong> Far from embracing an opportunity to change the debate around COVID-19, Trump has instead managed to do what he does to everything: make the entire situation a five-alarm sh-tshow<\/strong> of misinformation and argument. In this scenario, Trump and his advisers are the pathogens, not the victims of disease.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yesterday, as his doctors insisted Trump was well on his way to a clean bill of health, the president got to his usual habit of tweeting<\/strong>. Trump announced his imminent discharge from hospital and\u00a0implored<\/a> Americans: \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid of COVID. Don\u2019t let it dominate your life.\u201d He\u2019d earlier fired off a cavalcade of issues-based tweets\u2014e.g. \u201cSTOCK MARKET HIGHS. VOTE!\u201d\u2014that offered an admittedly bizarre ranking<\/strong> of the importance of said issues to his base. The top three most-liked tweets app<\/a>ealed to the anti-abortion crowd<\/a>, the \u201cfake news\u201d haters<\/a>\u00a0and whoever it is who loves Space Force<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trudeau\u00a0acknowledged<\/a> yesterday that last month, when he felt a tickle in his throat<\/strong>, he got tested for COVID-19. The test came back negative.<\/p>\n

This morning, watch for a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Office<\/strong> on the Liberals\u2019 five-year, $900-million<\/strong> \u201cInnovation\u00a0Superclusters<\/span>\u00a0Initiative.\u201d Earlier this year, iPolitics<\/em> reported the government had doled out just a small fraction of that sum<\/a>\u00a0since the program\u2019s unveiling in 2018.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Maverick Party<\/strong>, a pro-Western independence party led by former Conservative cabmin Jay Hill<\/strong>, will target 49 super-conservative ridings in the next election. Hill told the\u00a0Hill Times<\/em><\/a> that his party would only contest ridings where the combined left-of-centre vote was marginal enough that none of them could sneak up the middle.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s nascent Wexit movement will face an electoral test in Saskatchewan on Oct. 26. The province\u2019s Buffalo Party\u00a0published its full platform<\/a><\/strong> yesterday\u2014a list of promises that doesn\u2019t include sovereignty. The party wants to move to an American-style election<\/strong> of Saskatchewan\u2019s lieutenant-governor and judges. The party would also \u201ctake over\u201d all taxation from the federal government.<\/p>\n

Horse<\/span>\u00a0auction<\/span>, anyone?<\/strong>\u00a0The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Foundation is putting some of the force\u2019s musically inclined equine\u00a0up for sale<\/a>.\u00a0Felina<\/strong>,\u00a0on auction\u00a0here<\/a>, is one of the dozen Musical Ride\u00a0horses<\/span>\u00a0to be\u00a0auctioned<\/span>\u00a0off this month. She\u2019s described as \u201cexceptionally friendly\u201d and \u201ckind,\u201d with a \u201cnatural desire to work.\u201d CBC News caught some of the\u00a0fast-paced action<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from one of the\u00a02018\u00a0auctions<\/span><\/a>\u2014which collectively\u00a0raised more than $500,000<\/a>.
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