The Boys in Short Pants

Canada's best political podcast, bringing hot takes, irreverent analysis, and lively debate. Emphatically not Crossfire. iTunes & Google Play. #podcast #cdnpoli

[The Boys in Short Pants @shortpantspod]

New episode up! Featuring @fbouchard of the #BouchardReport - Everything you ever wanted to know about federal science policy! https://t.co/hQPTHcxjyg

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Remarkably the worst quote isn’t Duff’s but instead this one:

"Rules changing back and forth between different ethics commissioners isn’t problematic because responsibility lies with people subject to the Conflict of Interest Act to keep up with any revisions."

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Hill Times coverage of the ethics interpretation changes. https://t.co/oYy5jyMNoH

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So if there is a change of government, 500 or so government staffers hit cooldown on the day a new cabinet is sworn in.. but they can’t go work for an MP without a waiver?

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New interim ethics commissioner walks back the Dion-era provisions that bizarrely meant former DPOHs couldn’t work for government without a waiver.

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Also seeks to align the gifts rules to the new lobbying code of conduct. Remains unclear to me why it seems like the revised public entities interpretation still catches Senate and HoC.

[The Boys in Short Pants @shortpantspod]

New episode up! Featuring @fbouchard of the #BouchardReport - Everything you ever wanted to know about federal science policy! https://t.co/hQPTHcxjyg

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It's true!

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[Alessandro @polisisti]

Yesss new episode of @shortpantspod!

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between this and the titanic hailstorm that immediately followed this tweet it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trudeau dynasty has lost the 天命

https://t.co/5qhEKjL9t6

[Graham Richardson @grahamr299]

Breaking : #lrt will not resume Monday. It will require “additional work” at least 10 more days of shutdown #ottnews #ottawa

[The Boys in Short Pants @shortpantspod]

this does not really strike me as plausibly being the full story

[Mackenzie Gray @Gray_Mackenzie]

The biggest reason David Lametti was dumped as Justice Minister, regional parity.

A Montreal MP needed to go, to get new Tourism Minister Soraya Martinez Ferrada in, according to a Sr. Government source

Here's my story, with more on why Lametti was fired, and Anand was shuffled

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What in the world? https://t.co/WNlEX0cApc

[Dylan Robertson @withfilesfrom]

#cdnFOI folks: Have you ever been asked to provide government ID to confirm your identity? Maybe it’s common for some federal agencies, but this is new to me. (This is only ATI for RCMP briefing notes and not privacy… not sure how this relates to preventing a privacy breach.)

[The Boys in Short Pants @shortpantspod]

@paulvieira Wasn't targeted at you at all, apologies! I saw a lot of very big pronouncements made about this over the morning

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Lot of people not bothering to read the fine print here. Economic impact of *construction* is what PBO is looking at - no surprise that that is marginal. Report on impact of actual production is apparently coming in next few months - that's the real question

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Industrial policy is back in a big way and it doesn't serve anyone's interests to have the debate be vague, opaque boosterism from the government and incomplete analysis from critics/PBO

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I'm pretty bearish on the VW (and Stellantis) deals but I'm also concerned that PBO hasn't demonstrated much ability or willingness to model dynamic economic effects. If we have crude modelling on both sides of the question that's deeply unfortunate.

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Duff's comments really miss the mark, given these waivers don't exist to replacement to the safeguards of the public service hiring process.

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Remaining on this beat, its pretty absurd to think that CoI waivers are required for folks to move jobs across the GoC.

https://t.co/rbm4NQ4CrO

[Andrew House @adixonhouse]

1/3 Hard to imagine how this happened. This would have been a warrant dealing with “activities…constituting threats to the security of Canada”– foreign interference in elections, in an election year. The very weight of the thing would crush a desk.
https://t.co/ddcdHeJqN2

[The Boys in Short Pants @shortpantspod]

We got a Belgian website with human coaches under that name, doesn't seem to be that.

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Can anyone tell me anything about what happened to this $20 million supercluster mental health chat bot? https://t.co/9HmqPNlMIF