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Thursday March 14, 2019

March 21, 2019 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday March 14, 2019

‘Trudeau? Scandal? I don’t believe it’: As controversy rocks Canada’s PM, the world winces — then shrugs

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political crisis has shaken Ottawa — and now, the tremors are starting to register abroad.

December 21, 2017

Outside the white-marble Newseum building in Washington on Thursday, the morning’s copy of the Globe and Mail sat behind glass, displayed alongside the front pages of newspapers from all 50 U.S. states, plus the District of Columbia.

Janet McCarty, a retired civil servant living in Washington, perused the headlines. Only one publication — the Globe — led with the latest on the SNC-Lavalin scandal, in which the Prime Minister’s Office stands accused of meddling in a criminal prosecution case against the Quebec engineering giant.

McCarty grimaced. Like many others on the political left, she’s always considered Trudeau an unimpeachable moral authority and darling of the international left.

“If this is true, then Justin is not the person that we thought he was,” she said.

McCarty lamented that another world leader with a global outlook, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has decided not to seek re-election. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Theresa May, a Conservative, has faced at least eight cabinet resignations in less than two years over her controversial Brexit deal.

January 18, 2019

“Justin. I mean, they’re all — Angela Merkel, Theresa May — everybody’s going down the toilet,” McCarty said.

Trudeau’s brand as a global liberal icon is strong in some parts of the U.S., which might explain why Manuel Macias, 36, was so shocked to hear about the SNC-Lavalin affair when he stopped to scan the Newseum headlines this week.

“Trudeau? A scandal? I don’t believe it.

“In this day and age, we don’t really have a lot of shining light all across the world,” said Macias, who identifies as a liberal. “Unless something really comes out that’s proven facts, why throw dirt on him when we’ve got such a good positive role model?”

March 2, 2019

If the SNC-Lavalin debacle has been slow to gain traction outside of Canada, it may also have to do with domestic-scandal fatigue, at least in Britain and the U.S.

In London, John Prideaux, the U.S. editor for The Economist, cited Washington’s woes, as well as Britain’s mismanagement of a plan to withdraw from the European Union, as reasons why some Britons and Americans might not be tuning in.

“What’s happening in Canada looks to me like a more conventional political scandal that you get in a healthy political culture, where people are really held accountable for what they’ve done,” Prideaux said.

That said, the SNC-Lavalin affair has “broken through” the British press — no easy feat. (Continued: CBC) 

 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: 2019-10, beach, Brexit, Canada, Florida, Justin Trudeau, march break, scandal, SNC-Lavalin, Theresa May, Vacation

March 11 to 21, 2017

March 11, 2017 by Graeme MacKay

On vacation

Please check back for a new cartoon on March 22, 2017.

Posted in: Cartooning Tagged: beach, march break, Vacation

Saturday March 10, 2012

March 10, 2012 by Graeme MacKay

By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Saturday March 10, 2012

Air Canada stoppage during March Break averted

Labour Minister Lisa Raitt has asked the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to investigate Air Canada’s disputes with two of its unions — pilots and ground staff — a move that will buy time to reach agreement and avert a strike and lockout threatened for midnight Sunday.

Raitt told reporters in Ottawa on Thursday that she will ask the board to investigate what a work stoppage would mean to Canadians, based on “health and safety concerns.”

“Air Canada can carry some cargo that is related to the health industry, related to pharmaceuticals, and certainly those kinds of things related to remote communities that, simply put, nobody else flies to because Air Canada has jurisdictional responsibility to fly to certain remote areas,” Raitt told CBC News.

“The other side of it, of course, is passengers and whether or not people rely upon that link to get to life-saving treatments that they need to have in other parts of Canada.”

Referral of the matter to the industrial relations board bars the airline and its unions from undertaking a work stoppage while the board is investigating.

On its website, Air Canada said that there will be no disruption of service and that its full schedule remains unchanged.

“We thank our customers for their patience and loyalty during this time,” the company said. “Customers should continue to book with confidence.”

Raitt said she did not know how long it would take the board to conduct its investigation. (Source: CBC News) 

 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: Air Canada, airplane, Canada, holiday, jet, march break, Stephen Harper, tourists, Vacation

Friday March 9, 2012

March 9, 2012 by Graeme MacKay

By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Friday March 9, 2012

Air Canada stoppage during March Break averted

Labour Minister Lisa Raitt has asked the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to investigate Air Canada’s disputes with two of its unions — pilots and ground staff — a move that will buy time to reach agreement and avert a strike and lockout threatened for midnight Sunday.

Raitt told reporters in Ottawa on Thursday that she will ask the board to investigate what a work stoppage would mean to Canadians, based on “health and safety concerns.”

“Air Canada can carry some cargo that is related to the health industry, related to pharmaceuticals, and certainly those kinds of things related to remote communities that, simply put, nobody else flies to because Air Canada has jurisdictional responsibility to fly to certain remote areas,” Raitt told CBC News.

“The other side of it, of course, is passengers and whether or not people rely upon that link to get to life-saving treatments that they need to have in other parts of Canada.”

Referral of the matter to the industrial relations board bars the airline and its unions from undertaking a work stoppage while the board is investigating.

On its website, Air Canada said that there will be no disruption of service and that its full schedule remains unchanged.

“We thank our customers for their patience and loyalty during this time,” the company said. “Customers should continue to book with confidence.”

Raitt said she did not know how long it would take the board to conduct its investigation. (Source: CBC News) 

 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: Air Canada, airport, Canada, labour, march break, picket, picketing, pilots, Union, Vacation

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