Here’s the stories that I am looking at and working on and the one’s I’ve published over the last 24 hours.
Mark Carney has established a position we’ve never had in the PMO before, Chief Operating Officer.
The person holding that position, and acting as Carney’s top advisor on Canada U.S. relations is named Maia Johnson. We know little about her other than she’s an American, she is a Democrat and she worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Waste of time…
A top official in Trump’s Department of War thinks Mark Carney’s middle powerrs strategy is a dumb idea.
The Globe has more on this.
It’s never just one politician…
Doug Ford’s tourism minister, Stan Cho, was in plenty of hot water on Tuesday over hotel expenses. Read the details here, I mean, I didn’t break the story, Global did, but I lay out the problem with what Cho is doing pretty well in my Toronto Sun column.
The problem now, and a reason Cho won’t be popular at Queen’s Park, is that him getting caught sent reporters looking for other examples of abuse.
Every MPP’s expenses are about to get looked at.
What happens in Vegas…
Bad ideas don’t stay in one place, they have a habit of moving around and that means the Ontario tribunal ruling granting welfare payments to an illegal immigrant won’t stay in Ontario.
As I explain in my latest column, with 4 million visas expiring in Canada, we are going to have more people in Canada illegally accessing government services from welfare to domestic tuition and more.
And I don’t think this problem will stay within Ontario, it will spread.
