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A Harper-era staffer says the question remains if the Carney Liberals are willing to act ‘a lot differently than the Trudeau government’ in reducing the regulatory burdens that have spooked investors for the past decade.
Launched on Sept. 15, the dashboard shows trends by department or by employment tenure over time. Parliamentary Budget Officer Annette Ryan calls it ‘one piece of the puzzle,’ with other data published by the Treasury Board Secretariat.
The prime minister needs to ‘come out with a big bang’ and dispel concern Canada is a hard place to do business, says one economist, while others say the investment summit raises questions about ‘who’s in the room,’ and which participants are ‘missing.’
New federal data show early-retirement applications nearing the scale of planned workforce reductions in some departments, but former senior officials say the effect on layoffs will depend on which jobs are vacated, and whether they need to be refilled.
The prime minister is ‘contrasting himself very clearly’ between the American president’s ‘juvenile approach to politicking and a mature one’ says Trudeau-era staffer Marci Surkes.
More than 100 civil servants have asked the Public Service Commission to run in local elections across the country this fall. Three local public servants spoke to The Hill Times about what inspired them to seek elected office.
‘You’re going to get situations where you will lose some good performers who you would not normally want to lose,’ says David McLaughlin, executive director of the Task Force for Modernizing Government.
Recent polling from Leger indicates Canadians may not be amenable to compromise in a trade deal with the U.S., and the Bloc Québécois says Quebec won’t accept concessions on supply management. But experts say some industries may need to ‘accept some base level tariffs.’
The July decision directs Correctional Service Canada to begin recording the temperature in the prison’s maximum-security area, and install air conditioning, but nearly a month later CSC has not committed to following the ruling.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has called the highest number of byelections in a short period since the 1950s—something strategists are putting down to ‘coincidence’ and a rapidly changing political sphere.
Conservative MP Dan Albas says he’s been ‘working as hard as I can’ to support his constituents, thousands of whom are under evacuation orders as wildfires continues to burn out of control and B.C. is under a state of emergency.
Despite ‘minor agreements’ on interprovincial trade between provinces over the past year, former senior public servant and ex-TD Bank top economist Don Drummond says ‘the major obstacles remain unchanged.’
While the tight Quebec riding is far from a slam dunk, if the Liberals were to win, ‘it would really show that Carney has a lot of forward momentum in Quebec,’ says Dalhousie professor Lori Turnbull.
Alex Silas with the Public Service Alliance of Canada says the decision outlines that the House needs to consult with unions before introducing AI tools into the workplace.
‘The Carney government has so far had a broad strategy … of non-retaliation,’ says Diamond Isinger, former Trudeau-era adviser on Canada-U.S. relations, but ‘we haven’t, unfortunately, seen results yielded from negotiation.’
The John Howard Society of Canada filed a complaint on behalf of prisoners who are ‘vulnerable to extreme heat due to their age and/or disability,’ as Canada’s prison watchdog says high temperatures put incarcerated people at risk.
