Tag Archives: politics
Canada lobbying American administration as pipeline delays mount | CBC News
Amarjeet Sohi met with U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry on Wednesday in Houston at the CERAWeek energy conference. The focus was on TransCanada’s Keystone XL project and Enbridge’s Line 3 replacement pipeline. #cdnpoli
Thousands of Canadians are on the hook for CPP overpayments after Ottawa fixes IT error | CBC News
“ESDC has resolved these issues and will reinstate the collection of debts …”
A
parallel technical glitch is also preventing the collection of Old Age
Security (OAS) overpayments on inactive accounts, something which the
department is still working to resolve.
Singh’s Quebec strategy has the NDP fishing in a small pool | CBC News
He unveiled the opening act of his plan on Monday, when he named Alexandre Boulerice as the party’s deputy leader and charged him with leading the NDP’s election campaign in the province. It was the first in what Singh says will be a series of announcements meant to woo Quebecers back into the orange fold.
Singh certainly has an uphill climb ahead of him.
After winning 59 seats in Quebec in the 2011 federal election, the NDP dropped to just 16 seats and 25 per cent of the province’s vote in 2015. These days, the NDP would happily take those 2015 numbers again. #cdnpoli
Liberal MPs shut down SNC committee before vote on recalling Wilson-Raybould
The meeting was called as an emergency session by the three Conservatives and one New Democrat MP, after the Liberals used their majority last week to put off having the discussion on future witnesses until March 19. That is also the day the federal government will drop the 2019 budget. #cdnpoli