This week, the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise announced that it is launching investigations into allegations that two Canadian companies, Nike Canada Corp. and Dynasty Gold Corp., benefitted from the use of Uyghur forced labour in their supply chains and operations in China.
This episode of In Conversation with David Frum features discussion on rising illiberalism in Mexico
and the need for Canada and the United States to pursue a more ambitious bilateral agenda on clean energy, cross-border shipping, and labour mobility.
Western governments now have powerful proof point of just how weak Putin’s hold on power is and it is far more fragile than they ever imagined up to this point in the conflict. Avoiding a collapse of the Russia regime will now be the West’s paramount policy.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the parade of federal ministers who have failed to receive important briefings on key issues. Plus, the upcoming byelections on Monday and what they could tell us about the political landscape.
David Johnston appeared before members of Parliament on Tuesday to defend his conclusion that Canada doesn’t need a public inquiry into foreign interference in the country’s elections, but found himself handling accusations of multiple conflicts of interest in his role as “special rapporteur.”
A plot by the Chinese government to intimidate Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family in Hong Kong continues to dominate Parliament Hill, but experts are warning that the Chinese…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security advisor admitted on Thursday that something went wrong with how the government handles reports from intelligence agencies but denied opposition claims that it was a wide-ranging systemic failure of Canada’s government machinery.
The Hub’s editor-at-large Sean Speer spoke with Ian Brodie, the former chief of staff to Stephen Harper, for some insight into how governments handle classified and top secret information.
Diplomacy works best when the hand that reaches out is an iron fist in a velvet glove. It shows our enemies and even the enemies of our enemies that while we favour peace, we are prepared to fight with all our resolve for what we believe in.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that he expects further retaliation after expelling the diplomat responsible for an intimidation campaign against an MP’s family. But Trudeau said it’s more important to send a message that this kind of behaviour is unacceptable in Canada and that he won’t be “intimidated.”
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