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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join his
Special Representative for the Prairies
Jim Carr, as well as
Winnipeg-area MP Kevin Lamoureux to mark National Nursing Week with a livestreamed meet-up with Manitoba nurses and nursing students. (1 PM)
Later this afternoon, he’ll team up with
Brampton North Liberal MP Kamal Khera to pay a virtual visit to a pop-up vaccination clinic at the Brampton Islamic Centre, which, as per the notice, will also be livestreamed on the prime minister’s Twitter feed.(2:45)
He’ll also hold his usual Monday morning huddle with his front bench team, including
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who is also set to take the lead for her government during the opening round of question period this afternoon. (2 PM)
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Ottawa says it will create a new digital platform to help process immigration applications more quickly after the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for a faster shift to a new system.
The federal government pledged in the 2021 budget to spend $428.9 million over the next five years to deliver the platform that would gradually replace the existing case management system.
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The new platform will launch in 2023 to improve application processing and provide more support for applicants, the government said.
With Canada’s vaccine supply appearing to have stabilized, at least for now, the latest point of pandemic-related friction between the federal and provincial governments seems to be cross-border traffic specifically, the “non-essential travel” that at least one premier is openly blaming for the current third wave of infections.
As the Star’s Susan Delacourt reports,
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc “fired off a letter to Ontario this weekend, asking (Premier) Doug Ford and his cabinet to identify which international travellers they want banned from entering the province.”
“LeBlanc’s four-page letter … is a reply to Ford’s escalating bid to pin the blame on Trudeau for the third wave of the pandemic, which included an attack ad launched by the provincial Conservatives last week,” she notes.