Roundup: It’s like the market is deciding

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There remains a lot of insistence that Canada should be exporting more LNG, and confusion as to why we’re not. And lo, there are a bunch of market forces at work, as fully permitted projects are not getting underway. Justin Trudeau’s remarks about there not being a business case turns out to actually be true. Funny how that works.

 

Ukraine Dispatch, Day 345:

Russia hit more apartment buildings in Kramatorsk in overnight bombings, while they try and encircle Bakhmut in the East. Meanwhile, the UK is saying no to providing fighter jets to Ukraine because they say that training the pilots takes three years (and yeah, I can see that, not to mention the maintenance on them is hideously time-consuming). Ukraine is also restarting repairs to some of its power plants, which is relieving the electricity shortages brought on by attacks.

https://twitter.com/zelenskyyua/status/1621193898948182021

Good reads:

  • David Lametti spent the day pushing back against a Conservative Supply Day motion around demands for bail reform, in spite of it being a hugely complex issue.
  • Lametti also tabled the bill to extend the implementation of MAiD for certain mental health conditions by another full year, and has six weeks to pass it.
  • François-Philippe Champagne and Anita Anand are heading to Washington next week to talk about the need to bolster local defence supply chains.
  • NORAD has been tracking a Chinese spy balloon that flew over Alaska, Canada, and is now over Montana, and there may be a second one after it.
  • Health Canada says they are “exploring” policy changes to sperm donation policy when it comes to men who have sex with men.
  • Employment and Social Development Canada fired 49 employees after they found out they had availed themselves of CERB while still employed.
  • Former broadcaster Tom Clark has been appointed as the new consul general in New York. (Clark wrote the introduction for my book, incidentally).
  • Global has a longread that explores the threat assessments for political leaders and Cabinet ministers, and how the occupation last year made things worse.
  • CSE says that a Russian-linked ransomware group was responsible for 22 percent of all cyber-attacks in Canada last year, and remains a threat.
  • The Senate has now passed Bill C-11 with several amendments, so it remains to be seen which the government will agree with.
  • Ben Carr, son of former minister Jim Carr, has declared his intention to run for his later father’s seat. (We’ll see if the Liberals bother with an open nomination).
  • Yves-François Blanchet not only wants Almira Elghawaby fired, but wants the special representative position abolished, because structural racism.
  • Ontario claims they’ll happily turn over health data to the federal government—if they increase transfers to cover 35 percent of health costs in cash transfers.
  • Susan Delacourt calls out how politicians treated Almira Elghawaby and Dominic Barton this week as a sign of how unserious everything is becoming.
  • My Xtra column looks at why Conservatives’ attempt to introduce protection for “political beliefs or activities” into human rights legislation is a problem.

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