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Ontario, First Nations take giant step toward reconciliation with revenue-sharing deal: Coates and Crozier in The Globe

Resource revenue sharing supports Indigenous communities and backs their moves toward greater Indigenous self-determination, write Ken Coates and Stephen Crozier. By Ken Coates...

Putin’s bareknuckled propaganda comes to the Canadian War Museum: Marcus Kolga in The Toronto Sun

The Kremlin’s support for the revanchist glorification of Soviet symbols aims to subvert Canada’s European alliances and turn Canadians against each other, writes...

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Shuvaloy Majumdar

@shuvmajumdar

.@Sean_Speer and I in 2016 about Chinese SOEs: "It will require careful calibration to broaden our economic relationship given Canada’s market-based capitalist model and #China’s declining state-owned, centrally planned, single-party communism."#cdnpoli goo.gl/MsMqFY

3:23 am · May 24, 2018

Shuvaloy Majumdar

@shuvmajumdar

A major focus of @MLInstitute, this is the right decision. It came after @JustinTrudeau and @cafreeland had no choice but to respond to independent scrutiny on Canada's relationship with #China. So what now of its proponents who undermined Canadian national security? #cdnpoli twitter.com/globeandmail/s…

12:06 am · May 24, 2018

Sean Speer

@Sean_Speer

@robgillezeau @MikePMoffatt @dk_munro @AlexUsherHESA 3/ There are strategists who are better placed to judge whether it's politically wise to have no incremental promises. But it does create policy questions about what a re-elected government would do in years #2-4 of a renewed mandate.

11:44 pm · May 23, 2018

Sean Speer

@Sean_Speer

@robgillezeau @MikePMoffatt @dk_munro @AlexUsherHESA 2/ My experience is that the pre-election budget typically comprises a considerable portion of the incumbent government's platform but there are still some number of non-fiscal promises or ones that fall in the second half of a four-year mandate.

11:41 pm · May 23, 2018

Sean Speer

@Sean_Speer

@robgillezeau @MikePMoffatt @dk_munro @AlexUsherHESA 1/ I agree that the asymmetry of capacity and resources is a problem. Hopefully the experiment with PBO at the federal level helps to level the playing field. Apparently it works in Australia.

11:39 pm · May 23, 2018