Ottawa Insider

The NDP and Unifor are sounding the privatization alarm after documents reveal the federal government is only entertaining public-private partnership funding models for a mostly electric rail megaproject in Canada’s busiest service corridor.

Multiple Bloc Québécois MPs are concerned a bill currently being debated in the House of Commons threatens to weaken transparency around changes to Canada’s oil, gas and petroleum regulations.

A recent parliamentary report on Arctic security missed the mark, according to one MP, by failing to recommend solutions tackling a huge threat to the Arctic: climate change.

The Alberta Energy Regulator’s president and CEO was in the hot seat Monday at a parliamentary committee meeting where MPs quizzed him on the regulator’s role in failing to quickly communicate information about multiple tailings leaks in northern Alberta to downstream communities and various levels of government.