| | | | |  | | By Zi-Ann Lum | | | Send tips I Email Zi-Ann l Subscribe here WELCOME TO OTTAWA PLAYBOOK. I'm your host, Zi-Ann Lum with Maura Forrest. Regrets, PEGGY NASH has a few. We cruise through how parties are talking about pocketbook issues, plus, a new tender reveals how much Canada is paying for smallpox vaccines. Did someone forward you this Playbook? Click here to sign up for your own subscription to this free newsletter.
| | | | A message from CPAC: Unfiltered access to the people and events that shape our democracy. | | | |  | DRIVING THE DAY | | A NEW HANDBOOK — PEGGY NASH regrets not jumping into politics earlier. "I waited many times to be asked to run for office," the former Toronto NDP MP told a gathering of dippers in the backroom of the Metropolitain Tuesday evening. Nash returned to the capital to promote her book, "Women Winning Office: An Activist's Guide to Getting Elected," billed as a how-to manual for getting women into public office. The 255-page read runs the gamut from explainers about how to handle media and a list of key campaign team positions. Tucked in the back pages, there are self-care reminders to avoid normalizing substituting protein bars for actual meals and some underrated pieces of advice such as ensuring the sound system is set up on election night. "Nothing irritates at a big gathering like not being able to hear the speaker," Nash writes. At the in-person event in Ottawa, the sound system was working. Former NDP MP MEGAN LESLIE hosted the event. She shared an anecdote about one of her first run-ins with the Old Boys Club on the floor of the House of Commons. "I'm like a brand new MP in 2008. I don't know anything about politics and I'm sitting in the deepest back benches of the Conservative Party," Lesile said. "I remember one day, a Liberal woman MP stood up, doesn't matter how it was, but she stood up and she was going to ask a question in question period. And these guys … they just started heckling her before she opened her mouth. She had not even said 'Mr. Speaker,' she got heckled … So this woman gets shouted down for her very existence." Spotted at the Metropolitain: NDP MPs LEAH GAZAN, LINDSAY MATHYSSEN, RACHEL BLANEY, CAROL HUGHES, RANDALL GARRISON and MATTHEW GREEN, who left early with a bag of books. The NDP leader's Chief of Staff JENNIFER HOWARD was in the crowd, as was the party's National Director ANNE MCGRATH. Caucus alumnus JACK HARRIS, ROMEO SAGANASH and NYCOLE TURMEL also made time in the day to join. The common joke of the night was politicians, former and current, riffing they wish they read the book before they ran for office. INFLATION'S STING — The wet weather in Ottawa this week isn't the only reason why people are talking more about rainy day funds. It hasn't been a year since JUSTIN TRUDEAU uttered the comment, "You'll forgive me if I don't think about monetary policy" on the campaign trail in August . It hasn't aged well, despite the promises of early learning and child care by the end of the year. — Pocketbook punch: The Conservatives are focusing on the cost of fuel and food, expenses any grocery store and gas bar regular will notice has jumped. The party wants Ottawa to cut taxes to stave off inflation. "People don't need a check from the government, they need taxes cut," Conservative Leader CANDICE BERGEN told reporters Tuesday. The NDP also senses an opportunity, hitting the Liberals on the same cost of living issues (e.g., rising housing, food and gas prices) as the Tories, but are also trying to pin corporate executive payouts at a time of crisis on the government. But it's a message the NDP are losing ground to the Conservatives with the party's deal to prop up Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU 's minority government until June 2025.
| | | | DON'T MISS THE 2022 GREAT LAKES ECONOMIC FORUM: POLITICO is excited to be the exclusive media partner again at the Council of the Great Lakes Region's bi-national Great Lakes Economic Forum with co-hosts Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot. This premier, intimate networking event, taking place June 26-28 in Chicago, brings together international, national and regional leaders from business, government, academia and the nonprofit sector each year. "Powering Forward" is this year's theme, setting the stage to connect key decision-makers with thought leaders and agents of change to identify and advance solutions that will strengthen the region's competitiveness and sustainability in today's competitive climate of trade, innovation, investment, labor mobility and environmental performance. Register today. | | | | | CANADIAN FIRST — Today's the day Environment Minister STEVEN GUILBEAULT makes news about the government's carbon offset system. Municipalities and businesses will get new details about how one offset credit will be counted for every ton of greenhouse gas emissions that doesn't go into the atmosphere. A senior government official tells Playbook the credits are tradeable, and the minister will launch what the department is calling "new carbon offset protocols" that it envisages will include "refrigerants, agriculture, forestry, carbon capture and more." Do you enjoy Ottawa Playbook? Maybe you know others who may like it, too. Hit forward. Click here to sign up to this free newsletter. | | AROUND THE HILL | | DRAWING LINES — It's clear STÉPHANE PERRAULT has been thinking a lot about dank partisan memes and who's bankrolling the content creators behind them. Canada's chief electoral officer tabled a new report in Parliament on Tuesday, packed with 36 recommendations (some multi-part) to update the country's current laws and rules to meet challenges stirred by the digital age's misinformation industry. "It is not okay to deliberately undermine our electoral process by spreading information that a person knows to be false," Perrault told reporters. — A proposal to dump a yesteryear rule : One of the report's recommendations is to repeal the advertising blackout on Election Day. The rule has "largely been rendered meaningless in the digital age," the report said. The rationale is that nixing the provision will allow for quicker responses to any misinformation that pops up on Election Day. Hate is another topic that came up in the report. Ideologically motivated violence extremism and hate speech is on the rise, Perrault said, and it's a problem there's no mechanism in place right now to address the issue. — The issue: "If there is a hate group that wishes to register as a party right now it could do so — and in so doing would gain access to a number of benefits, party lists, electoral lists, free television [and] tax credits on contributions," he said. — Another blindspot: A separate report by Commissioner of Canada Elections YVES CÔTÉ (the first from the office) flagged there's no election law provision that bans false or misleading information on nomination papers. "It would be useful to have such a provision, particularly since nomination papers with false signatures were filed in the last two general elections," Côté's report read. | | | | A message from CPAC:   | | | | | CONSERVATIVE CORNER | | MIRROR MIRROR — ERIN O'TOOLE talked about the pressures he felt in his party's top job on the latest episode of Liberal MP NATE ERSKINE-SMITH's Uncommons podcast. "The easy way to describe it. …. the changes I was making — the way I view it, I was modernizing the party — which all parties should do to reflect the hopes, fears, aspirations of the country, but some of the changes I was making were pretty big ones for some in our party," O'Toole said. "And I really needed to win the election to sort of paint over the cracks that some of my changes were causing." The former Conservative leader also blamed China for losing a few of the party's seats. "We lost eight or nine seats to foreign interference from China. I think that would have given me a little more sturdy of a leg to stand on if I'd held it to a very small minority and we'd had a record win for the opposition, but that didn't happen and I wasn't willing to backtrack on some of the things I thought we were making progress on," O'Toole said.
| | For your radar | | ONTARIO NDP — It's never too soon to start speculating about leadership races, is it? Playbook spoke with CHARLIE ANGUS on Tuesday, and the NDP MP for Timmins—James Bay wouldn't say whether he's interested in taking up the reins from ANDREA HORWATH . What he actually said was this: "Mama Angus didn't raise her boy to answer questions like that, sorry." Color us intrigued. — Other names to watch: NDP MPP MARIT STILES told CBC News last week she would "certainly consider" a run for the leadership. FUNDING PUZZLE — One comment from Housing and Diversity and Inclusion Minister AHMED HUSSEN Monday offers a reminder for how hard it is to track government spending. Applications opened this week to fill a new position of Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia. Hussen announced the news during a press conference and inferred the special advisor to the government on Islamophobia will be backed with a funded team. — What Hussen said: "This individual will work with a team, they will be supported by funding through Budget 2022." — Finding financial transparency: The federal budget pledged C$5.6 million to support the special representative's work over five years, plus C$1.2 million on an ongoing basis. But the money isn't in Bill C-19, the budget implementation bill, because the funding isn't contingent on amending certain acts. Nor is it listed in the 2022-23 estimates because those spending plans were tabled before the budget dropped in April. The budget carved out C$85 million for "Canada's fight against racism." A quick Control+F search of the estimated-listed line items with "racism" yielded funding tallying C$37,938,293. More to come, as they say. Hussen's spokesperson AREVIG AFARIAN said the money for the special representative is expected to flow "in the next couple of months," over the course of the natural proceedings of parliamentary affairs.
| | PAPER TRAIL | | HARK, AN UPDATE — The tender Playbook flagged in April, before the word "monkeypox" entered the mainstream infectious diseases chat, has been officially awarded. — The more you know: A notice posted Tuesday put a USD price tag on the value of the contract: $56.25 million. The Public Health Agency of Canada previously identified Danish biotech company Bavarian Nordic as the recipient of its advance contract award notice published in the spring. Contract terms stipulate Bavarian Nordic will deliver 500,000 single dose vials before the end of 2024, with option for 250,000 additional single dose vials. The "third generation, live-attenuated and non-replicating smallpox vaccine" has a shelf life of nine years. — In related news: What researchers do — and don't — know about monkeypox. | | | | STEP INSIDE THE WEST WING: What's really happening in West Wing offices? Find out who's up, who's down, and who really has the president's ear in our West Wing Playbook newsletter, the insider's guide to the Biden White House and Cabinet. For buzzy nuggets and details that you won't find anywhere else, subscribe today. | | | | | | | TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS | | — Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU is in Los Angeles attending the Summit of the Americas. 10 a.m. Deputy Prime Minister CHRYSTIA FREELAND will attend the party's national caucus meeting, followed by question period at 2 p.m. 12 p.m. "What's Next for Conservatism in Canada?" is the topic du jour at a Canadian Club event featuring the Toronto Sun's ADRIENNE BATRA, former CPC MP LISA RAITT, Crestview's CHAD ROGERS and National Post's SABRINA MADDEAUX. 12 p.m. Environment Minister STEVEN GUILBEAULT holds a press conference to share details about Canada's Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System. 8 p.m. Labor Minister SEAMUS O'REGAN will hold a virtual press conference from Geneva, Switzerland where he's attending the 10th Session of the International Labor Conference. O'Regan will deliver a speech at the event.
| | MEDIA ROOM | | — Top of POLITICO this morning: Trump hits another snag: 6 takeaways from a big primary night. — The CBC has a story on JONATHAN KEHL, the young German man who saved the life of DOMINIC LEBLANC. — JAMES MOORE and GERRY BUTTS return to The Bridge for more super smart conversation — this time on political leadership. — Here's Maclean's SHANNON PROUDFOOT off the top of her profile of Trudeau's defense minister: "[Anita] Anand is one of a very few in this government with an instinct for transparency and normal human communication." — APTN's KENT DRISCOLL updates the case of Eric Dejaeger, a parish priest convicted on 24 counts of sex crimes against Inuit youth from his time as a parish priest in Igloolik, Nunavut between 1978 and 1982. — On the latest Backbench pod: Notes from a young Progressive Conservative. — Finally, in case you missed it, JUSTIN LING was on CBC's Front Burner with this timely explainer: Why conspiracies surround the World Economic Forum.
| | PROZONE | | If you're a POLITICO Pro subscriber, don't miss our latest policy newsletter by ANDY BLATCHFORD and ZI-ANN LUM: Continental concerns top PM's U.S. itinerary. In other headlines for Pros: — Online platforms now have an hour to remove terrorist content in the EU. — At UN, EU's Michel blames Russia for food crisis. — Global crises undermine efforts to get climate talks back to normal. — New York approves a $10B tax break to lure semiconductor companies.
| | Playbookers | | Birthdays: HBD to Canadian economist DAVID DODGE. Conservative MP DANE LLOYD wished the Governor General's foot guards a happy birthday on Tuesday. "I am a proud foot guard myself," he told the House. "Please join me in paying tribute to … this milestone of 150 years of service to Canada." Send birthdays to ottawaplaybook@politico.com. Spotted: Stittsville's LITTLE LIBRARY, returning to Amethyst Crescent. BOB RAE, quarantining for seven days with Covid. Movers and shakers: The Canadian Journalism Foundation held its annual awards Tuesday at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario, feting some of the country's top journalists. CJF also named this year's Black journalism fellowship recipients: WENDY-ANN CLARKE, KIERNAN GREEN, DORCAS MARGO and ASHLEIGH-RAE THOMAS … Former La Presse scribe MICHÈLE OUIMET received a lifetime achievement award … RENÉE LILLEY and ERIN BLONEAU were named Indigenous journalism fellows. Globe journalists RYAN MACDONALD, KATHRYN BLAZE BAUM, JEFFREY JONES and ADAM RADWANSKY took home the award for climate solutions reporting. Congrats to the new class of Massey College fellows: OMAYRA ISSA, NATASHA GRZINCIC, VALÉRIE OUELLET, HANNAH HOAG, WANJA GATHU and ZUHAL AHAD. Media mentions: Global News' DAVID AKIN aboard RCAF01, covering Trudeau abroad, emphasizing the broadcaster "receives zero 'media bailout' dollars" … Former MP KERRY DIOTTE announced that he's joining Rebel News as political correspondent and Alberta legislature bureau chief. Farewells: CLIFFORD SMALL, MP for Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, paid tribute to artist CHRISTOPHER PRATT, who died Sunday. "He was known not only for his brilliant artwork, but also for his great sense of humor," he told the House on Tuesday. Send Playbookers tips to ottawaplaybook@politico.com.
| | HOUSE BUSINESS | | Keep up to House committee schedules here. Find Senate meeting schedules here. WEDNESDAY 9 a.m. The Parliamentary Budget Office releases its latest report, "The impact of the Canada Emergency Response Benefits and the three Canada Recovery Benefits on the Canada Child Benefit program." 10 a.m. The U.S. House natural resources committee markup of 15 bills, including one that would establish the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies, which would investigate and document "the attempted termination of cultures and languages of Indigenous peoples, assimilation practices, and human rights violations" carried out against U.S. Indigenous people. 10 a.m. The U.S. House science committee holds a hearing on detecting and quantifying methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and reining in emissions was a major target in the House-passed Build Back Better package that ultimately stalled in the Senate. 12 p.m. The Senate national finance committee meets to pick up on its study of the budget implementation bill. 12 p.m. The Senate national security and defense committee continues its study of Bill S-7, with Citizen Lab fellow Lex Gill and Michael Nesbitt included on the witness list. 12 p.m. "What's Next for Conservatism in Canada?" is the topic du jour at a Canadian Club event featuring the Toronto Sun's Adrienne Batra, former CPC MP Lisa Raitt, Crestview's Chad Rogers and National Post's Sabrina Maddeaux. 12 p.m. The Parliamentary Internship Programme hosts a webinar about "practical action on climate change." Speakers include Dave Carey of the Canadian Canola Growers Association, the Canadian Cattlemen's Association's Jennifer Babcock and Desjardins' Gildas Poissonnier. 3:30 p.m. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is at the House health committee, plus deputy minister Stephen Lucas, to take MPs' questions about their department's spending plans. 3:30 p.m. The House official languages committee will hear from Liane Roy and Alain Dupuis of Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada. 4:15 p.m. The Senate legal and constitutional affairs committee meets to consider a draft report discussing elements of the budget implementation bill. 5:30 p.m. Toronto Liberal MP Julie Dzerowicz hosts an AMA about the 2022 budget. 6:30 p.m. The Senate banking, trade and commerce committee meets partially in camera to talk "future business" and its two separate studies on business investment and cryptocurrency. The cameras flip on for senators' clause-by-clause review of Bill S-6. 8 p.m. Labor Minister Seamus O'Regan will hold a virtual press conference from Geneva, Switzerland where he's attending the 10th Session of the International Labor Conference. O'Regan will deliver a speech at the event. Behind closed doors: 3:30 p.m. The House natural resources committee meets to review a draft report of their study into greenhouse gas emissions for the oil and gas sector. 3:30 p.m. The House international trade committee meets to go over drafts of two separate reports into Canada's exports of environmental and clean tech goods and services and the Canada-U.S. relationship "and its impacts on the electric vehicle, softwood lumber and other sectors." 3:30 p.m. It's an in-camera day at the House national defense committee where MPs are reviewing a draft report of their study on analyzing threats affecting Canada and military readiness. 4 p.m. The Senate social affairs, science and technology committee meets to consider a draft report on provisions of the budget implementation bill and to discuss "future business."
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