At committee: Broadcasting-regime overhaul, offshore safety By Kady O Malley. Published on May 10, 2021 6:31am Parliament Hill (Andrew Meade/iPolitics) CANADIAN HERITAGE members are set to resume debate on a Liberal-initiated pitch to get clause-by-clause review of the proposed broadcasting overhaul back on track after the last-minute removal of a blanket exemption for social media sparked widespread outrage which, in turn, led opposition members to instigate a pause in the proceedings.
“On Friday,
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather tried to break the deadlock with a motion that would ask
Justice Minister David Lametti to provide the committee with “a revised Charter statement on the bill … as soon as possible,” as well as “invite both Lametti and
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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.