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At committee: Arms-export permits, targeted infrastructure spending By Kady O'Malley. Published on May 4, 2021 6:01am Parliament Hill (Andrew Meade/iPolitics) FOREIGN AFFAIRS members will hear from former Liberal MP Gar Knutson, who now serves as chair of the  Canadian Turkish Business Council and will testify alongside representatives from the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries, Aerospace Industries Association of Canada and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. (3:30 – 5:30 PM) Later this evening, members of the SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHT...

iPolitics By Kady O'Malley. Published on May 2, 2021 4:00pm Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured working in Ottawa in February, could be a facing a House call to fire his longtime chief of staff, Katie Telford. (PMO handout/Twitter) Having secured the necessary — albeit grudging — approval of the House for the policy outlined in her inaugural budget speech, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland now faces a second, possibly even higher-stakes cross-aisle challenge: convincing at least one opposition party to back her bid to implement some of the measures laid out in last mon...

Posted: Apr 20, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 20 A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18F Super Hornet drops two flares as it performs during the T150 Defence Force Air Show on October 15, 2016, in Townsville, Australia. Boeing's military division was on track to sell the Royal Canadian Air Force a handful of Super Hornet jet fightersi n 2017, but the deal that went sideways. (Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images) The federal budget fired what appears to be a warning shot at defence contractors — perhaps one in particular — by resurrecting an old policy statement in a move that may...

The Globe and Mail John Boyko Published April 9, 2021 AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP/Getty Images John Boyko is the author of The Devil’s Trick: How Canada Fought the Vietnam War. We Canadians try to be on the right side of history – but too often we fail. We fail largely because morality and money are seldom on speaking terms. Consider our role in two immoral wars. Canada was officially neutral in the slow-motion tragedy that was the Vietnam War – but we were not. Canadian soldiers and diplomats were in Vietnam throughout the war as part of the International Control Commission, charged with obs...

Europe’s Aviation Sector Welcomes Digital Green Certificate Proposal Brussels -  Europe’s aviation sector welcomed today’s proposal by the European Commission for a Digital Green Certificate system. This proposal requires EU States to issue common, inter-operable and mutually-recognized certificates for COVID-19 vaccination, testing and recovery status that will facilitate free movement during the COVID pandemic and support the restart of travel. Industry associations Airlines for Europe (A4E), ACI EUROPE (Airports Council International), ASD (Aerospace and Defence Industries Associ...