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I watched the politics shows so you don't have to.

Supreme Court says solicitor-client privilege is not absolute Lawyers facing charges can use the innocence at stake exception to access a client’s privileged communications for their own defence

New from me at @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social: Supreme Court says solicitor-client privilege is not absolute #SCC #cdnlaw

Supreme Court says solicitor-client privilege is not absolute Lawyers facing charges can use the innocence at stake exception to access a client’s privileged communications for their own defence

The Supreme Court of Canada has found that while solicitor-client privilege is near-absolute, it is not absolute. @journodale.bsky.social has the details. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...

I do understand. Better than you do.
But you can't just say "Do something" and "Use the constitution." That doesn't actually mean anything.

That's not an answer. That's hand-waving.

Which powers, pray tell, does the federal government use to do that?

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For the Saturday crowd, my weekend Loonie Politics column: The bid to reform Question Period #cdnpoli

Roundup post: The annual Standing Orders debate #cdnpoli

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For the late/west coast crowd, my weekend Loonie Politics column on @coreyhogan.ca's suggestions about reforming Question Period #cdnpoli

YouTube video by IlleniumVEVO ILLENIUM, Ellie Goulding - Don't Want Your Love (Official Visualizer)

Late to this, but New Music Friday is the new Illenium with Ellie Goulding.

It's not the federal government's job to hold the premiers to account.

A little annoyed with the results of tonight's #RuPaulsDragRace. The wrong girl won, the wrong girl was in the bottom, and the wrong one went home. Just a complete mess.

Do you understand how the Canada Health Act actually works?

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New column from me at Loonie Politics: The bid to reform Question Period #cdnpoli

How am I saying to go over their heads? I am quite literally saying we should hold them to account so that they do their gods damned jobs.

But does that not set up a moral hazard where provinces will reduce funding even more because they know the feds will backstop them?

Responsibility was always provincial, but the federal government made contributions. They were also told by the provinces in the nineties that they should stay out because the provinces had the "expertise" and to just give them money in the social transfers, and that money didn't go to housing.

But they won't, because "if you're explaining, you're losing," so instead they pat themselves on the back for what they are doing.

They can only claw back certain amounts. They cannot withhold transfers entirely.

Instead of anyone saying "Right, so why aren't we talking to the premiers?" we saw the federal government create a bunch of carrots and sticks and just implicate themselves further while the premiers once again skated while the situation got progressively worse.
How is this any way to run a country?

Sorry, I can't let this go.
The collective freak-out the country had when Trudeau *correctly* said that the federal government has very little carriage over housing issues should have been a warning, and it turned this into something the federal government has been forced to own as an issue.

Heather McPherson in particular likes to stand up in Question Period to demand that the federal government *do something* about Danielle Smith .
No, that's not how this works. The federal government is not the parent and provinces are not children. They are co-equal divisions of power.

Brief thread.
My head is going to explode from the sheer civic illiteracy that We The Media have fostered by making everything a federal issue, and being absolutely allergic to holding premiers to account for failures in their jurisdictions.

Millions in restaurant tips are missing from a major Canadian fintech platform - The Logic Complaints have been pouring in from clients of Edmonton-based Everyday Payments. It’s a major test for the Bank of Canada, which now oversees payments companies.

Yikes!

My secret is masochism.

Hard same.

And that was Friday #QP.

McPherson mischaracterises the ownership of Rivera long-term care facilities and demands they be nationalised.
Church lists supports for seniors. #QP

Kwan decries federal cuts to civil servants and Friendship Centres.
Osborne thanks civil servants but notes how much it has grown and it needs to return to a “sustainable level.” #QP