No One Voted For Them Because They Had Scruples

Oh, heavens, no!:

Public Works Minister Anita Anand’s chief of staff personally vouched for a Liberal lobbyist seeking a federal contract for his son, internal emails show. The exchange was never reported to the Commissioner of Lobbying though federal law restricts undisclosed favour-seeking under threat of six months’ jail: “I vouch for Elly here.”

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Four Conservative MPs are calling on the Liberal government to suspend its mandatory hotel quarantine requirement for travellers arriving in Canada, after an alleged sexual assault took place in one of the hotels.

“The responsibility for the conduct of those overseeing the facilities and enforcing the rules lies with the Trudeau Liberals,” reads the statement from Michelle Rempel Garner, Shannon Stubbs, Jag Sahota and Richard Martel. “It is unthinkable that the federal government is mandating women into unsafe isolation scenarios that leave them vulnerable without the assurances they need to feel protected.”

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Quebec Superior Court Justice Martin Sheehan agreed to give the government a fourth extension — until March 26 — to bring the law into compliance with a 2019 court ruling.

The decision came just one day before the previous deadline was to expire.

The 2019 ruling struck down a provision in the law that allows assisted dying only for those whose natural deaths are "reasonably foreseeable."

Bill C-7 is intended to bring the law into compliance with the ruling, expanding access to assisted dying to intolerably suffering individuals who are not approaching the ends of their lives.

 

(Sidebar: because Nazis.)

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With Ontario's next election little more than a year away, the Ford government is proposing to increase campaign donation limits and to change rules governing political advertising by interest groups such as unions and Ontario Proud.

The changes are proposed in new legislation tabled Thursday afternoon that would make 19 amendments to Ontario's Election Act and Election Finances Act.

One change would double the maximum annual donation that an individual can make to a political party, boosting it to $3,300 effective this year.