iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on May 3, 2021 6:31am The Chinese embassy in Ottawa (Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
Justin Li, who currently serves as director of the
National Capital Confucius Institute for Culture, Language and Business at
Carleton University, as well as the director emeritus of the University of Alberta’s China Institute. (6:30 – 8:30 PM)
Also on the witness list for the evening session: Two former top-level security officials one-time
national security adviser Richard Fadden and
Ward Elcock, who headed up the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
Over at
HEALTH, members continue their wide-ranging probe of the “emergency situation facing Canadians” as a result of the ongoing pandemic with expert testimony from medical and public-health experts, including representatives from the
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 month’s presentation, courtesy of the 366-page omnibus bill dropped onto the Commons docket on Friday.