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Trudeau prorogues Parliament

Freeland sworn in as Canada’s New Throne Speech set for Sept. 23 PM promises confidence vote that
first woman Finance Minister to focus on COVID-19 recovery plans could trigger fall federal election

BILL CURRY
KRISTY KIRKUP OTTAWA

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

prorogued Parliament Tuesday,
saying he needs a Throne Speech
to launch a new recovery plan
and insisting the move is consis-
tent with his party’s pledge not to
misuse the procedural move.
Mr. Trudeau made the an-
nouncement the same day that
he named Deputy Prime Minister
Chrystia Freeland as the new Fi-
nance Minister, a position vacat-
ed Monday by the resignation of
Bill Morneau. She is the country’s
first woman in that role.
In proroguing Parliament until
Sept. 23, Mr. Trudeau shuts down
committee investigations into
the Liberal government’s WE
Charity controversy.
The Prime Minister promised a
Throne Speech when Parliament
returns and a confidence vote,
which could trigger a federal elec-
tion if the minority government
Liberals fail to win the support of
at least one of the three main op-
position parties.
The Prime Minister said proro-
gation and a Throne Speech are
necessary because the world has
changed since the government
approved its initial Throne
Speech in December, which was
based on the Liberal Party’s 2019
campaign pledges. Chrystia Freeland is sworn in as Finance Minister by
“We do not want an election. Clerk of the Privy Council Ian Shugart at Rideau Hall in Prorogation halts WE Charity
But it is obvious that the Throne Ottawa Tuesday. SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Speech we gave eight months ago
is no longer relevant for the real-
hearings, ends China probe
ity that Canadians are living and
that our government is facing,” STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA government operations commit-
Mr. Trudeau told reporters at a tee. As standing committees, they
news conference on Parliament We will not resort The prorogation we will be reconstituted when Parlia-
Hill. The decision by Prime Minister ment comes back. “This makes
“There are many things we to legislative tricks are doing right now Justin Trudeau to shut down Par- the investigation go dark for six
committed to Canadians in that to avoid scrutiny. is about gaining, liament for six weeks could dis- weeks,” Conservative finance crit-
Throne Speech that we will be Stephen Harper has or testing, the rupt opposition efforts to probe ic Pierre Poilievre said.
continuing to work on, but many used prorogation to confidence of the the WE Charity controversy and The Conservative Party and
others that aren’t the priority that mean the end of a special com- New Democrats also registered
they once were. … I think it is im- prevent Parliament House, which is the mittee investigating the crisis in serious concern Tuesday about
portant that Canadians have a from properly opposite of what the Canada-China relations, which the future of the Special Commit-
clear idea of the plan that we have reviewing and Conservatives did, the Liberals initially voted against tee on Canada-China Relations.
for building a stronger economy debating his that we rightly railed creating. As a special committee created by
that is more inclusive, that is Opposition MPs outnumber a vote in the House of Commons,
greener, that is fairer for all Cana- proposals. against back in 2015. the members of the minority Lib- it would need to be voted back in-
dians.” eral government on committees to existence when Parliament re-
THE LIBERAL PARTY’S JUSTIN TRUDEAU,
The Liberal Party’s 2015 elec- 2015 ELECTION CAMPAIGN AUG. 18, 2020 and can therefore override the turns.
tion campaign platform included PLATFORM governing party to call hearings, The committee was in the
a specific pledge not to abuse the but Mr. Trudeau’s move to pro- midst of preparing a report on the
use of prorogation, after criticiz- rogue Parliament shuts down all crisis in Hong Kong and was ex-
ing the former Conservative JO HN IBBITSO N committee activity until the new pecting to hear from former am-
prime minister’s use of the proce- PMO completes centralization session begins Sept. 23. Even after bassador John McCallum in Sep-
dural tool. that, there will likely be weeks of tember. Any planned reports can-
“We will not resort to legisla- of power by choosing Freeland A9 delay before committees resume not be issued now.
tive tricks to avoid scrutiny,” the operating. For its part, the finance com-
platform said. “Stephen Harper Three different Commons mittee had planned to hold more
has used prorogation to prevent KO NRAD YAK ABU SK I committees were investigating meetings on the WE controversy
Parliament from properly review- the WE Charity controversy, in- in August and early September,
ing and debating his proposals.” Freeland will have to balance PM’s cluding the finance committee, according to Mr. Poilievre.
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Trump campaign chair Hezbollah member found guilty in absentia

had close ties with Russian for car bombing that killed ex-Lebanese PM
intelligence officer: report MARK MACKINNON others. ons, and which wields wide influ-
SENIOR INTERNATIONAL It was a verdict that satisfied ence over a government that ig-
MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT few, while adding to the already nored repeated warnings about
BEIRUT sky-high tensions in Lebanon. the impending disaster – for both
The country’s deep political and explosions.
A sprawling report released Tuesday by a Republican-con- economic crises were exacerbat- The United Nations-backed
trolled Senate panel that spent three years investigating Rus- It was the explosion that shook ed by a massive Aug. 4 explosion Special Tribunal for Lebanon
sia’s interference in the 2016 election laid out an extensive Beirut, 15 years before another in the port of Beirut, which killed ruled that one Hezbollah mem-
web of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and one levelled entire neighbour- 180 people and made 300,000 ber, 57-year-old Salim Ayyash,
Kremlin officials and other Russians, including at least one in- hoods of the city. On Tuesday, an others homeless. who was tried in absentia, was
telligence officer and others tied to the country’s spy services. international court finally deliv- The more recent disaster is be- guilty of five charges related to
The report by the Senate intelligence committee drew to a ered something like justice for lieved to have been caused by an the assassination of Mr. Hariri. It
close one of the highest-profile congressional investigations the first blast, finding a single unattended stockpile of ammoni- was an act that rattled this coun-
in recent memory and could be the last word from an official Hezbollah member guilty of car- um nitrate. Many Lebanese try to its core, and helped ignite
government inquiry about the expansive Russian campaign rying out the 2005 car bombing blame Hezbollah – which is wide- sectarian tensions across the Mid-
to sabotage the 2016 election. that killed former Lebanese ly believed to have used the port dle East.
It provided a bipartisan Senate imprimatur for an extraor- prime minister Rafik Hariri and 21 for smuggling and storing weap- LEBANON, A15
dinary set of facts: The Russian government disrupted an
American election to help Donald Trump become President,
Russian intelligence services viewed members of the Trump
campaign as easily manipulated, and some of Mr. Trump’s ad-
visers were eager for the help from an American adversary.
The report showed extensive evidence of contacts between
Trump campaign advisers and people tied to the Kremlin – NU NAVU T MAL I EDU C ATIO N
including a long-standing associate of the one-time Trump Watchdog to probe President resigns Ontario schools win
campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Konstantin Kilimnik,
whom the report identified as a “Russian intelligence officer.” RCMP for racial bias after coup attempt approval to stagger
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ists, Black women played both
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first known Black suffragists. She
travelled throughout the U.S.
speaking at women’s rights con-
ventions and suffrage events, in-
cluding at the Akron, Ohio, wom-
en’s convention in 1851 where she
was credited with giving a power-
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bered as “Ain’t I a Woman?”
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questioned the wording.
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many prominent Black aboli-
tionists and suffragists who
worked in their own women’s
clubs and suffrage organizations
and sometimes side by side with
white suffragists, often working
for both voting rights and civil
rights.
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of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority
participated in the 1913 suffrage
march in Washington in their
first public act. The Howard Uni-
versity students took great per-
sonal risk and were not wel-
comed by some white suffragists
who ultimately insisted the Black
women march at the end of the
procession, said Cheryl Hickmon,
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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
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gation, if you will, even though it
was unsafe to march with the
other women and show their dis-
sension and feelings,” said Ms.
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Memorial that’s being construct-
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Va., and includes an overview of
the entire movement, including
Black suffragists.
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an opportunity to “honestly ex-
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white and Black women in the
women’s rights movement, said
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before,” Ms. Betch Cole said. “Un-
fortunately, one can be virtuous
in one form of oppression and
then turn around and victimize
others on another basis.”
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manded that Iowa State Universi-
ty remove the name of suffragist
and alumna Carrie Chapman
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white supremacist and anti-im-
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New probe launched in violent RCMP arrest
Oversight body launches
third investigation into
treatment of Inuk man
in Nunavut, will focus
on racial bias and his
beating while in custody
SEAN FINE JUSTICE WRITER
A civilian oversight body will in-
vestigate whether racial bias
played a role in the RCMP’s vio-
lent arrest of an Inuk man in Nu-
navut, and of his treatment in de-
tention.
A video posted on Facebook
soon after the June 1 incident
showed an RCMP officer drive to-
ward the man and knock him
down with the open door of the
vehicle. Five officers then arrested
him in a rough manner and
placed him under detention in
police cells, where court docu-
ments show that he was brutally
Mali president resigns after rebel soldiers detain him and PM
GEOFFREY YORK
AFRICA BUREAU CHIEF
JOHANNESBURG
Hours after mutinying soldiers
seized Mali’s top leadership in an
apparent coup, the West African
country’s president announced
on state television that he would
step down.
The resignation capped a day
of dramatic developments and
exposed the deepening instabil-
ity of a country that has become
one of Canada’s biggest recip-
ients of military and develop-
ment aid.
Earlier Tuesday, thousands of
people cheered and celebrated in
the streets of Mali’s capital, Ba-
mako, as the rebel soldiers drove
through the city in armoured ve-
hicles. The city has been con-
sumed by mass protests since
June as a result of widespread an-
ger over corruption, a weakening
economy and worsening armed
conflicts in much of the country.
President Ibrahim Boubacar
Keita and Prime Minister Boubou
Cissé were detained by soldiers
and escorted to the Kati military
base, about 15 kilometres from
the capital, according to photos
on social media.
The same military base had
been the origin of an earlier coup
in 2012, which in turn had ignited
years of deadly insurgency by Is-
lamist radicals and other militia
forces in northern and central re-
gions of the country, killing thou-
sands of people.
Since the beginning of the in-
surgencies, Mali has received an
outpouring of aid from Western
and African countries, including
thousands of French troops and a
United Nations peacekeeping
force.
Canada contributed by de-
ploying helicopters and hun-
dreds of peacekeeping soldiers to
northern Mali from 2018 to 2019.
Ontario lets school boards stagger first two weeks of new year as talks continue
MUGOLI SAMBA
CAROLINE ALPHONSO
Ontario school boards can stag-
ger the first two weeks of children
returning to classroom, the gov-
ernment says, as the Toronto Dis-
trict School Board looks at un-
used spaces for classrooms and
targets more resources for
schools in areas with high rates of
COVID-19.
In a memo to school boards
Tuesday, Education Minister Ste-
phen Lecce said some boards had
requested to stagger reopening
beyond the first week of school,
adding that the “foremost prior-
ity is the health and safety of stu-
dents and staff in the reopening
process.”
Trustees at the TDSB were
looking at several options on reo-
pening on Tuesday evening. Car-
lene Jackson, the TDSB’s interim
director, also confirmed that the
board was given the “green light”
on a new secondary school
model. It sees students doing a
combination of live, synchronous
online learning and independent
work at home, with about 40 per
cent of their time spent in class-
rooms.
High-school students learning
in person will be in classrooms for
the first half of every second day,
break between 12:30 p.m. and 2
p.m., and follow the remainder of
their lessons online at home.
beaten by a fellow inmate before
being airlifted to hospital in Iqa-
luit.
An RCMP statement said he
was charged with intoxication in a
public place, after members of the
public told a Mountie that a man
was fighting. The charge was later
dropped.
The investigation, initiated by
Michelaine Lahaie, chairwoman
of the Civilian Review and Com-
plaints Commission for the
RCMP, is the third into the epi-
sode. The Ottawa Police Service is
doing a criminal investigation, at
the RCMP’s request, into the con-
duct of the officer who hit the
man with the door, and the RCMP
is doing an internal review.
Ms. Lahaie said the commis-
sion’s review will be broader in
that it will also look at the beating
the man suffered in custody,
whether his jailers took reasona-
ble steps to ensure his safety,
whether his conditions in deten-
tion were adequate and whether
he received adequate medical
Members of the FAMa (Malian Armed Forces) are cheered as they parade at Independence Square in
Bamako on Tuesday after rebel troops seized the Malian president and Prime Minister. AFP/GETTY IMAGES
But the massive aid has failed to
quell the insurgencies or stabi-
lize the fragile government.
Mali has received nearly $1.6-
billion in development aid from
Canada over the past two dec-
ades, including more than $136-
million from 2017 to 2018, mak-
ing it one of the world’s top recip-
ients of Canadian aid. Over the
past 18 months, Canada has also
deployed units of police officers
in Mali to support peace efforts
and the reform of Mali’s security
forces.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Min-
ister François-Philippe Cham-
pagne, in a tweet on Tuesday,
said Canada is “very concerned”
by the Mali situation and “strong-
ly condemns” the military muti-
ny against the government.
Jim Spyropoulos, the TDSB’s
executive superintendent, said
the board still needs to finalize
what will happen over the mid-
day period aside from students
travelling back home.
“I don’t want to leave people
with an idea that teachers are go-
ing to be sitting on a lunch break
from 12:30 to 2:00, that’s not go-
ing to happen,” Mr. Spyropoulos
said.
Teachers could use the time to
provide additional help to stu-
dents, contact families whose
children have been missing class,
co-ordinate with colleagues
about lessons and more, he ex-
plained. “We still need to finalize
some of those details.”
The TDSB and other large ur-
ban boards in Ontario were sent
back to the drawing board late
last week after the province re-
jected their plans for in-person
elementary and secondary
school instruction. The TDSB’s
previous high-school schedule
had students in classrooms 25 per
cent of the time. Mr. Lecce recent-
ly said he wanted high-school stu-
dents in class for about 50 per
cent of the time.
The board, the country’s lar-
gest, also planned to shorten ele-
mentary school days by 48 min-
utes, a move that would have
kept classes between 15 and 20
students while ensuring teachers
maintain their daily 48 minutes
of preparation time.
care after the violent encounter in
the cell. “Consideration will also
be given as to whether racial bias
and/or discrimination played a
role in the man’s arrest and subse-
quent treatment,” Ms. Lahaie said
in a news release on Tuesday.
Consideration will also
be given as to whether
racial bias and/or
discrimination played a
role in the man’s arrest
and subsequent
treatment.
MICHELAINE LAHAIE
CHAIRWOMAN OF THE CIVILIAN REVIEW
AND COMPLAINTS COMMISSION
FOR THE RCMP
She said the commission will
also monitor the police and RCMP
investigations of the episode.
And, she said, the commission
Canadian embassy staff in Ma-
li are safe, he said. “We will con-
tinue to follow the situation
closely.”
The United States, France, the
United Nations, the African
Union and the Economic Com-
munity of West African States al-
so condemned the military rebel-
lion.
Moussa Faki Mahamat, chair-
person of the African Union
Commission, called for the “im-
mediate release” of the president
and Prime Minister from their
“forced detention.” In a state-
ment, he rejected any attempt at
“unconstitutional change of gov-
ernment” and urged the muti-
neers to cease all violence.
The UN Security Council is re-
ported to have called an emer-
The government is now asking
teachers to be flexible with their
prep time, typically used to grade
assignments, prepare lessons or
conduct research – a request the
province says teacher unions re-
fuse to discuss. The unions have
said the government is attempt-
ing to shift blame amid growing
unrest among parents and educa-
tors about last-minute changes to
reopening plans.
Carlene Jackson,
the TDSB’s interim
director, also confirmed
that the board was
given the ‘green light’
on a new secondary
school model.
TDSB trustees also revealed da-
ta from their parent pre-registra-
tion survey, to which 67 per cent
of parents responded. At the ele-
mentary level, 29 per cent of par-
ents said they would keep their
children at home if class sizes re-
mained the same. If they were re-
duced, 23 per cent of parents
would be doing the same.
Some 17 per cent of parents
with high-school students in the
TDSB system have opted for full-
remote learning.
This summer, experts from To-
ronto’s SickKids Hospital and the
Public Health Agency of Canada
will address whether the arrest of
the man was reasonable in the cir-
cumstances.
“I am concerned with the con-
duct of RCMP members involved
in this serious incident,” Ms. La-
haie said. “I am aware that there is
historical distrust by Inuit toward
the police and I am committed to
increasing RCMP accountability.”
The incident, which occurred
in Kinngait (formerly Cape Dor-
set), a community of about 1,500
people, is similar to another inter-
action this summer recorded on
video and posted to social media.
The second one happened Aug.
9, also in Kinngait, when a man
sleeping on a roadway was kneed
three times by an RCMP officer
during an arrest for public intoxi-
cation. (He was detained until so-
ber, then released without
charge.) And the Mounties in Nu-
navut have been involved in three
shootings, two of them fatal, since
February.
Ottawa police are investigating
and expected to report soon.
gency session for Wednesday to
discuss the Mali crisis. There are
about 13,000 soldiers and almost
2,000 police officers in the UN
peacekeeping mission in Mali.
France and West African coun-
tries also have thousands of sol-
diers in the country.
Bruno Charbonneau, a peace-
keeping expert and associate
professor at Royal Military Col-
lege Saint-Jean in Quebec, said
the mutiny and apparent coup
on Tuesday had been unforeseen
by experts but should not have
shocked anyone.
“It is unsurprising given the
stalemate of the last few years: A
peace process that was going no-
where, the mounting violence
notably in the central regions, a
government that seemed unable
both emphasized that smaller
class sizes were crucial to main-
taining physical distancing
among children and helping limit
the spread of COVID-19.
However, the task has proven
difficult across the country, with
provinces such as Alberta and
Ontario not mandating smaller
class sizes.
Children – who have been out
of schools since March – and their
parents are now trying to make
the difficult decision of either
pursuing education remotely or
returning to school buildings
amid warnings of a second wave
of the virus.
Ontario’s Ministry of Educa-
tion had earmarked $309-million
for the purchase of masks and
other personal protective equip-
ment, cleaning, and the hiring of
public-health nurses in school
boards across the province. It had
also committed $50-million for
heating, ventilation and air-con-
ditioning upgrades in schools,
and has designated $30-million
for the hiring of additional teach-
ers and assistants.
Last week, Mr. Lecce also an-
nounced school boards could use
their reserve funds to cover addi-
tional hiring costs, but boards
have said that it won’t be nearly
enough to lower all class sizes at
the elementary level.
Several boards, including the
Ottawa-Carleton District School
Board (OCDSB) and the Halton
NEWS | A3
Amanda Jones, the RCMP’s
commanding officer in the re-
gion, said in an e-mail that she
welcomes the investigation and
that the RCMP will assist in any
way it can.
Benson Cowan, the chief exec-
utive officer of Nunavut’s Legal
Services Board, which oversees le-
gal aid in the northern territory of
39,000 people, was encouraged
by the investigation of the door
incident, but said a wider review
of RCMP conduct in Nunavut is
necessary. He has called on the
commission, in letters last June
and this January, to begin such a
review.
“It’s heartening to see that
they’re taking action,” he said in
an interview.
“It would have been good to see
something sooner. Fundamental-
ly, what is needed is a broader
more systemic approach. … Sim-
ply investigating these as one-offs
does nothing to address the sys-
temic nature of the conduct. But
it’s a good start.”
and incapable of responding pos-
itively to the situation and a pres-
ident who often seemed discon-
nected or reluctant to change his
ways,” Mr. Charbonneau told The
Globe and Mail.
A recent report by a UN panel
of experts showed that Malian
government officials “were work-
ing against the peace process and
benefiting from it,” he said.
Moreover, there has been an
“undeniable failure” of the inter-
national approach to Mali and
the broader Sahel region, and a
new strategy might now be
adopted, Mr. Charbonneau said.
The international community
has allowed the conflicting
groups in Mali “to prolong and at
times avoid the peace process, to
make sure that it went nowhere,”
he said. The peace process has
been shaped by a counterterror-
ism agenda that created incen-
tives for armed groups and gov-
ernment officials to undermine
peace, he said.
Mr. Keita, president since 2013,
has been the target of growing
protests for months. Last month,
at least 11 people were killed dur-
ing clashes between protesters
and security forces. Many people
have been angered as Mali’s mil-
itary has increasingly lost control
of much of the country while the
insurgencies grow.
The insurgencies that began in
2012 culminated in an Islamist of-
fensive that drove south toward
Bamako from northern Mali un-
til it was halted by French mil-
itary intervention in early 2013.
But the continuing heavy pres-
ence of French troops and other
forces failed to prevent the latest
coup.
On Tuesday, as the mutiny be-
gan, Mr. Cissé issued a statement
appealing for dialogue with the
rebel soldiers. But he soon disap-
peared from view, until the muti-
neers took him and the 75-year-
old president to their base.
District School Board (HDSB),
have been scrambling to rework
timetables as the government
changed direction with just
weeks before school starts.
“Boards are now back at square
one with classes beginning in ex-
actly three weeks,” said Andréa
Grebenc, chair of the HDSB. “It is
time for the minister to start truly
listening and collaborating with
school boards as education part-
ners instead of making intermit-
tent proclamations that just sow
chaos.”
The board, she said, had to
pause its survey of how many stu-
dents are returning to the class-
room after Mr. Lecce changed di-
rection.
The OCDSB said the changes
from Mr. Lecce came three days
before its survey of families was
set to close.
Earlier this week, the Ottawa
board said that about 26.9 per
cent of its elementary students
opted for remote learning, while
21.5 per cent of secondary school
students did the same.
Other boards are seeing similar
results. The York Region District
School Board said 33 per cent of
elementary school families opted
for learning online, and 20 per
cent of high-school students
made that choice.
The Durham District School
Board said about 20 per cent of its
elementary and high-school stu-
dents chose remote learning.
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U of T school of
public health to
launch pandemic
research institute
Dalla Lana School’s new institution
will look at how global infections arise
and how to mitigate their effects on
health systems and economies

CHERISE SEUCHARAN

Canada’s first research institute dedicated to studying pan-

A blood sample is taken from a participant in a COVID-19 vaccine study at the Research Centers of America
in Hollywood, Fla. on Thursday. CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
WHO warns against ‘vaccine nationalism,’ urges
countries to join global pact to share supplies
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY GENEVA
KAREN LEMA MANILA
Countries that hoard possible CO-
VID-19 vaccines while excluding
others will deepen the pandemic,
World Health Organization chief
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
said Tuesday, issuing a last-ditch
call for countries to join a global
vaccine pact.
The WHO has an Aug. 31 dead-
line for wealthier countries to
join the “COVAX Global Vaccines
Facility” for sharing vaccine
hopefuls with developing coun-
tries. Dr. Tedros said he sent a let-
ter to the WHO’s 194 member
states, urging participation.
The global health agency also
raised concerns that the pandem-
ic’s spread was being driven now
by younger people, many of
whom were unaware they were
infected, posing a danger to vul-
nerable groups.
Dr. Tedros’s push for countries
to join COVAX comes as the Eu-
ropean Union, Britain, Switzer-
land and the United States strike
deals with companies testing pro-
spective vaccines. Russia and Chi-
na are also working on vaccines,
and the WHO fears national inter-
ests could impede global efforts.
“We need to prevent vaccine
nationalism,” Dr. Tedros told a
virtual briefing. “Sharing finite
supplies strategically and global-
ly is actually in each country’s na-
tional interest.”
The European Commission
has urged EU states to skirt the
WHO-led initiative, citing worries
over its cost and speed.
More than 21.9 million people
have been reported to be infected
by the novel coronavirus globally
and 772,647 have died, according
to a Reuters tally.
So far, the COVAX facility has
attracted interest from 92 poorer
countries hoping for voluntary
donations and 80 wealthier coun-
tries, a number little changed
from a month ago, that would fi-
nance the scheme, the WHO said.
Still, some countries are wait-
ing for the Aug. 31 deadline before
making a commitment as the fa-
cility’s terms are still being final-
ized, said Bruce Aylward, who
leads the WHO’s ACT Accelerator
initiative to speed supplies of CO-
VID-19 diagnostics, drugs and
vaccines.
“We are not twisting arms for
people to join,” Dr. Aylward said.
“We’ve had more and more dis-
cussions with a broader and
broader group of players … to
work through what might be the
barriers to collaborating – issues
around price, issues around tim-
ing, issues around national ex-
pectations.”
With more than 150 vaccines in
development, about two dozen
in human studies and a handful
in late-stage trials, the WHO said
even countries signing bilateral
deals boost their odds by joining
COVAX.
“Which one will be the candi-
date that will be successful, we
don’t know yet,” said Mariangela
Simao, a WHO assistant director
for drug and vaccine access. “By
joining the facility at the same
time that you do bilateral deals,
you’re actually betting on a larger
number of vaccine candidates.”
COVAX now covers nine vac-
cine candidates.
The WHO remains worried
that infections among younger
people are rising globally, putting
at risk elderly and sick people in
densely populated areas with
weak health systems.
“The epidemic is changing,”
WHO Western Pacific regional di-
rector Takeshi Kasai said. “People
in their 20s, 30s and 40s are in-
creasingly driving the spread.”
REUTERS
demics will help to address the biggest questions about the
current global outbreak of disease – and aims to be prepared
for the next one.
On Wednesday, the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at
the University of Toronto will launch the Institute for Pan-
demics, which will study how pandemics arise and how to
mitigate their effects on health systems and economies.
The institute is supported by a $1-million grant from the
Vohra-Miller Foundation, a philanthropic organization based
in Toronto. It will house three centres: the Centre for Pandem-
ic Readiness, which will study modelling early warnings
signs; the Centre for Pandemic Resilience, focusing on im-
proving public-health systems; and the Centre for Pandemic
Recovery, which will help in planning health systems and eco-
nomic recovery.
Adalsteinn Brown, dean of the Dalla Lana School, said pan-
demics touch on every aspect of life – and in order to create
effective health care systems and policies to deal with them,
experts from a broad range of fields must be included. But un-
til now, no facility existed in Canada to bring them all together
in one place.
It’s why the institute will focus on a holistic approach that
brings together epidemiologists, biostatisticians, doctors,
nurses, economists, social workers and more. They will work
with other institutions and the government of Canada to in-
form health and economic policy.
“We want to be able to take a Canadian perspective,” Dr.
Brown said. “This will allow us to
answer important questions …
everything from the sort of masks
to use, through to the issue of in-
equity and who the pandemic is We want to be able
affecting.”
Jennifer Gibson, a bioethics ex- to take a Canadian
pert with the Institute for Pan- perspective. This will
demics and director of the Univer- allow us to answer
sity of Toronto’s Joint Centre for important questions
Bioethics, said while pandemics
have long been an important top- … everything from
ic of study in public health, ex- the sort of masks to
perts weren’t fully prepared for use, through to the
the broad effects of this year’s issue of inequity and
novel coronavirus.
“Many of our health systems who the pandemic
had influenza pandemic plans, is affecting.
and a lot of those had been sitting
on the shelf for a period of time. … ADALSTEINN BROWN
DEAN OF THE
None of us really had the experi- DALLA LANA SCHOOL
ence to know what a total societal
response would look like,” she said. “We’ve learned a lot, and
this [institute] is a response to the need for that learning.”
Dr. Brown said that in the short term, the experts will focus
on how to best move forward in the face of a possible second
wave of COVID-19. They’ll address such issues as border clos-
ings, how to send children back to school or the best practices
for wearing masks.
But the prospect of another global pandemic is not a ques-
tion of if, but when, Dr. Gibson said. So while the coronavirus
pandemic will be the focus of study in the short term, the aim

Always
of the institute is also to be ready for future global contagions,
which may not be a long way off.
“This is not the only pandemic that we will experience,” Dr.
Gibson said. “We have an opportunity right now to take stock
of what we’ve learned so far from this COVID-19 experience

CONNECTED.
and ask ourselves how we may do things differently that
would minimize the adverse consequences for particular
populations within our society.”

‘FEAR’ LEADING TO ATTACKS ON

COVID-19 RESPONDERS AROUND THE WORLD

DAKAR Health care workers fighting the novel coronavirus

in dozens of countries are facing violence from fearful
communities who have attacked doctors and burned down
clinics, aid agencies said on Tuesday.
In Colombia, ambulances were blocked from entering a
town to screen for COVID-19 cases, said the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which recorded 611
incidents targeting health workers, patients and facilities
from February to July.
In South Africa, a testing station and a clinic were
torched by people who did not want responders in their
neighbourhood, medical charity Médecins sans frontières
(Doctors Without Borders) said.
“It’s a byproduct of the new, novel, infectious disease –
there’s a lot of fear,” said Sean Christie, a spokesman for
MSF in South Africa.
Drawing on first-hand accounts and media reports, the
ICRC said incidents – including physical attacks, verbal
harassment and threats – took place in more than 40 coun-
tries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh and the Philip-
pines.
The real figure was likely much higher, the global hu-
manitarian agency said. REUTERS

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Trump is targeting a cherished piece of American history

The post office tumult
is not only about the
present threat of voter
suppression nor the
future of mail – it is
also about the past

DAVID SHRIBMAN

ANALYSIS

T
he latest flashpoint in a
country that has politic-
ized almost everything –
wearing masks, the number of
people who can crowd around
the polished metal bar in the
neighbourhood pub, whether
college football teams play their
fall schedules – is perhaps the
most prosaic function of govern-
ment.
And so it was almost inevita-
ble in the Donald Trump years
that the local American post of-
fice – founded by Benjamin Fran-
klin, revered as a village gather-
ing place, dreaded by criminals
pictured on “most wanted” post-
ers, defended even by those who
revile Washington as perhaps the
only essential domestic function
of central government – has be-
come the most controversial
place in the United States.
But there it stands – the brick
building with the white trim and
the musty smell inside, on Main
Streets from coast to coast – as a
2020 election battleground.
Like the post office itself, the
contretemps is simply described.
The pandemic has made lines at
polling stations into a threat to
public health. Democrats, who
hope a big turnout will elect Joe
Biden, support massive mail vot-
ing. Mr. Trump sees peril in near-
effortless voting and seeks to
curtail postal services by limiting
funding, prompting mail delays
and undermining perhaps the
most favoured institution in
American life.
Indeed, according to the Pew
Research Center, the United
States Postal Service has a 91-per-
cent approval rating – higher
than Congress, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
and twice Mr. Trump’s own.
This month the President,
who for months has sowed dis-
trust in the postal service, op-
posed US$25-billion in emergen-
cy funding and a separate, sup-
plemental US$3.5-billion to han-
dle a flood of mail ballots.
The House of Representatives
A mail carrier drives past protesters during a Tuesday rally in Newport Beach, Calif., against changes to the U.S. Postal Service. According to the
Pew Research Center, the USPS has a 91-per-cent approval rating – higher than Congress and twice President Donald Trump’s own. JEFF GRITCHEN/AP
will hold a special session Sat-
urday to approve funding to as-
sure the postal service can re-
deem its revered motto that
“neither snow nor rain nor heat
nor gloom of night stays these
couriers from the swift comple-
tion of their appointed rounds.”
The rush to register for postal
ballots is real. In tiny Conway,
N.H., population 10,266, the
town clerk is getting 30 to 50 ap-
plications a day. Already North
Carolina officials have received
163,374 applications for mail bal-
lots – seven times the 2016 re-
quests. Ballot-drop boxes to by-
pass the post office are sprouting
on the landscape.
And Monday night, Eva Lon-
goria, the moderator of the vir-
tual Democratic National Con-
vention, made postal voting a
prominent theme, with Nevada
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
describing it as “a secure, pro-
ven” voting method employed
by Mr. Trump himself.
Senator Amy Klobuchar of
Minnesota complained the Presi-
dent’s actions meant “seniors
won’t be able to get their [mail]
prescriptions because he wants
to win an election.”
The controversy is less about
the USPS’s capacity to handle a
ballot flood than about oper-
ational changes – overtime, work
rules – being implemented by
Mr. Trump’s appointees that
could affect the processing and
delivery of mail ballots, and that
already are leaving mail in de-
pots for days.
On Tuesday, under heavy
pressure from state attorneys-
general, Democratic lawmakers
and the public, Postmaster-Gen-
eral Louis DeJoy announced the
suspension of changes until after
the election. It did little to quell
the furor.
This post office controversy is
not only about the present
threat of Trump voter suppres-
sion, nor about the future of the
mail in an era of texts, e-mails
and Amazon deliveries. It is also
about the past.
No institution is so embedded
in American culture as the post
office – and no art form is so es-
teemed in American life as the
letter.
William Hill Brown’s 1789
book, The Power of Sympathy,
structured as a series of letters, is
considered the first American
novel. (It was preceded by 20
years by the first Canadian novel,
The History of Emily Montague, al-
so an epistolary work.) The
horse-mounted 19th-century
mail carriers of the Pony Express
may have operated for 18
months, but they remain a well-
loved element of American folk-
lore.
The American Revolution was
foreshadowed by the publication
of Letters from a Pennsylvania
Farmer. The French-born J. Hec-
tor St. John de Crèvecœur, later a
Canadian cartographer who
served with Louis Montcalm and
was wounded in the 1759 Battle
of Quebec, introduced the new
American character to Europe-
ans through essays he published
in 1782 called Letters from an
American Farmer. Martin Luther
King Jr.’s 1963 civil-rights mani-
festo was called the “Letter from
the Birmingham Central Jail.” Ri-
chard Nixon’s resignation from
the presidency came in a letter. It
was a single sentence of 11 words.
And perhaps the most poi-
gnant American letter came
from Major Sullivan Ballou, a
Union soldier wounded and dy-
ing during an 1861 Civil War bat-
tle, addressed to his soon-to-be-
widowed 24-year-old wife: “If
there be a soft breeze upon your
cheek, it shall be my breath; or
the cool air fans your throbbing
temple, it shall be my spirit pass-
ing by.”
Mr. Trump’s offensive against
the post office has erased its
mystique. In the coming week,
the House oversight and reform
committee will question Mr. De-
Joy and USPS board chair Robert
Duncan; Mr. DeJoy will face the
Senate homeland security and
governmental affairs committee
in a separate hearing. Democrat-
ic representatives Ted Lieu of
California and Hakeem Jeffries of
New York of the House judiciary
committee this week called for
an FBI criminal investigation in-
to Mr. DeJoy over nationwide
USPS delays.
And yet the mail – especially
in a time of pandemic – endures
as a public necessity as well as a
symbol of romance.
Shakespeare’s double-death
1597 tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
was the result of the very sort of
failure of mail delivery Demo-
crats fear in 2020. Friar Lawrenc-
e’s letter about the plan to sal-
vage the fate of the famous lov-
ers never arrived. The letter car-
rier was quarantined, having
been “visiting the sick … in a
house /Where the pestilence did
reign.”
Special to The Globe and Mail

DeJoy suspends postal service

changes until after U.S. election
DAVID SHEPARDSON WASHINGTON
U.S. Postmaster-General Louis
DeJoy on Tuesday suspended all
mail service changes until after
the November election, bowing
to an outcry by Democrats that
the moves appeared to be an at-
tempt to boost President Donald
Trump’s re-election chances.
The reversal follows charges
by Democrats and others that
service cuts could slow the hand-
ling of mail-in ballots, the use of
which is expected to skyrocket
for the election as the coronavi-
rus pandemic raises fears of
crowds.
These critics have accused the
Republican President of trying to
hobble the U.S. Postal Service to
suppress mail-in voting as he
trails Democratic presidential
challenger Joe Biden in opinion
polls ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly and
without evidence claimed that
an increase in mail-in ballots
would lead to a surge in fraud,
although mail-in voting has long
been used in the United States.
Changes that threaten to slow
mail delivery – and in some
cases, already have – include re-
ductions in overtime, restrictions
on extra mail transportation
trips and new mail sorting and
delivery policies, enacted in an
attempt to cut costs.
“I am suspending these initia-
tives until after the election is
concluded,” Mr. DeJoy said in a
statement, adding that the
changes are to “avoid even the
appearance of any impact on
election mail.”
Mr. DeJoy, a major political do-
nor and ally of Mr. Trump, as-
sumed the job in June.
He has faced pressure from
multiple tiers of government,
with the Democratic-controlled
House of Representatives plan-
ning a rare Saturday session to
pass a bill blocking cuts, and sev-
eral states preparing lawsuits to
block the manoeuvres.
Mr. Trump kept up his attack
on mail voting on Tuesday, spec-
ulating that delayed results could
mean that the Nov. 3 election
would need to be held a second
time.
“It will end up being a rigged
election or they will never come
out with an outcome,” Mr.
Trump told reporters on Tuesday.
“They’ll have to do it again, and
nobody wants that.”
One in four ballots in 2016
were cast by mail and Mr. Trump
himself votes that way.
Mr. DeJoy also said that the
USPS will not change retail hours
at post offices, while mail collec-
tion boxes will remain where
they are and no mail processing
facilities will be closed.
The reversal followed a leng-
thy call by the postal board of
governors on Monday night, two
people briefed on the matter
said.
Mr. Trump said last week he
was against Democratic efforts to
include funds for the USPS and
election infrastructure in corona-
virus relief legislation because he
wanted to limit mail-in voting
during the pandemic.
Earlier on Tuesday, states in-
cluding Washington, Pennsylva-
nia, Connecticut and New York
said they were planning legal
moves to block the postal service
changes.
Pennsylvania Attorney-Gener-
al Josh Shapiro suggested he
might welcome Mr. DeJoy’s pro-
posed actions.
“I’ll believe it when I see it,”
Mr. Shapiro said. “Hopefully the
American people can breathe a
sigh of relief. But I will not let my
foot off the gas so long as the
postal officials continue to vio-
late the law.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
on Tuesday said she would go
ahead with plans to pass a bill
that would prevent the post of-
fice from reducing service levels
below what they were in January.
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Body cameras approved for Toronto police

Use of the technology
and other initiatives
see support from board
despite opposition from
activists, who see latest
report as little more
than ‘lip service’
MOLLY HAYES
CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTER
Toronto police officers will begin
wearing body-worn cameras this
month, after the police board
unanimously approved a $34-mil-
lion five-year contract with Axon
Canada Tuesday.
Front-line officers in the
“northwest area of the city” will
begin using the technology dur-
ing interactions with the public by
the end of August, the police ser-
vice said. By fall of next year, 2,350
cameras will be rolled out across
the city.
The technology has been criti-
cized by anti-police advocates
who argue the force should be
scaling back its budget, not
spending tens of millions more –
particularly given that studies
have shown the effectiveness of
body-worn cameras is inconclu-
sive.
“This is not a good way to spend
money,” John Sewell, former To-
ronto mayor and co-ordinator of
the Toronto Police Accountability
Coalition, said during a phone-in
deputation to the Toronto Police
Services Board meeting Tuesday.
But board chair Jim Hart said
he believes the cameras will ulti-
mately save the force money
through efficiencies.
In addition to the cameras, the
Protesters march at an anti-racism rally in Toronto in June. Some front-line officers in the city will begin using
body cameras during interactions with the public by the end of this month. MELISSA TAIT/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
board also unanimously ap-
proved a list of 81 recommenda-
tions drafted in response to four
days of public deputations earlier
this summer, amid global protests
against police brutality and anti-
Black racism.
But even though the board
hailed the report as a significant
step toward addressing systemic
racism, its “road map” was criti-
cized by human-rights advocates
and members of the public Tues-
day as little more than lip service.
The recommendations cover a
wide array of issues, ranging from
increasing the force’s financial
transparency and accountability
to strengthening anti-racism
training and revamping the ser-
vice’s response to mental-health
calls.
While some recommendations
called for immediate action, such
as publishing a line-by-line break-
down of the 2020 budget and in-
viting the city’s auditor-general to
audit police finances, the majori-
ty focus on long-term efforts.
In a deputation to the board
Tuesday, Ena Chadha, interim
chief commissioner of the Onta-
rio Human Rights Commission
(OHRC), said it was “confound-
ing” that this report was done
without any consultation by the
OHRC; particularly given that the
report came one day after the
OHRC published a report into sys-
temic anti-Black racism by the To-
ronto Police Service, which the
commission had provided to the
police board in advance of its own
report.
“While the language of collab-
oration sounds nice, it has not
been reciprocated here,” Ms.
Chadha said. “The commission
has provided you [hours of la-
bour, for free]. And yet you did not
provide us with the courtesy of a
call.”
Had the OHRC been consulted,
Ms. Chadha said it would have
stressed the need for “timelines
and measurable outcomes, [as]
essential to achieve true institu-
tional change.”
Ms. Chadha questioned why
the OHRC was not invited to re-
view the recommendations – and
why the commission’s report, ti-
tled A Disparate Impact – was not
on the agenda for discussion at
Tuesday’s police board meeting.
“Why weren’t Black communi-
ties and organizations given suffi-
cient time and acceptable need
and full opportunity to provide
input on the recommendations
that are meant to change their
lives?” she asked.
In an accompanying written
deputation, the OHRC expressed
concern that the service’s plan
“will amount to mere lip service –
another report on the shelf that
fails to result in substantive
change.”
But Mr. Hart said Tuesday that
he feels the recommendations are
“inaugural steps of a larger proc-
ess toward the development of
new systems, interventions and a
culture that will confront system-
ic racism and the other challenges
that result in disparate outcomes
for racialized communities in
their interactions with the ser-
vice.”
Vice-chair Marie Moliner, who
has been on the police board for
more than eight years, said Tues-
day that “this is, from my perspec-
tive, one of the first times I have
felt that we truly have a map and
now we need to build community
trust so that we can execute this.”
But Notisha Massaquoi, co-
chair of the board’s Anti-Racism
Advisory Panel, stressed Tuesday
that there have been many re-
ports before this one outlining
what is wrong in Toronto policing.
“Systemic anti-Black racism
can only be addressed when the
Toronto Police Service is made ac-
countable to Black communities,
and commits to the well-being
and survival of Black people,” she
said. “Until the Toronto Police
Service looks at what is wrong,
corrupt and unsatisfactory in
their engagement with Black
communities in the city, all re-
ports and subsequent recom-
mendations become useless.”

Haida Gwaii fishing lodges say For Canada to truly recover

business is at risk amid tourism ban economically, we need new
MIKE HAGER VANCOUVER come during a season that ends Labour Day
thinking around access to justice
weekend.
The wealthy guests of the Queen Charlotte JOHN PANUSA your share of the family property,
Two Haida Gwaii fishing resorts say next sea- Lodge drew the ire of local Indigenous people custody of your children, your fi-
son – and possibly their entire businesses – are fishing and harvesting shellfish in the same nancial supports and so on.
in jeopardy after British Columbia banned va- waters. OPINION Uncertainty can be just as omi-
cations to the rugged archipelago in response No one from the Haida Nation responded to nous in the business sector. When
to a community outbreak of COVID-19 on the requests for comment from The Globe and President and CEO of Legal Aid commercial disputes take years to
islands. Mail. Adeana Young, a spokesperson for the Alberta and the Western Canadian wind their way through the
For three weeks in July, the luxury resorts group of Indigenous locals camping out near representative for the Association courts, investment decisions are
had ignored the Haida Nation’s ban on tou- the Queen Charlotte Lodge to conduct their of Legal Aid Plans of Canada delayed or even cancelled. Parties
rism, enacted in late March. The two resorts traditional harvest of the ocean, said the prov- in many commercial disputes

T
had discussions with the Haida Nation prior to ince stepping up to ban the tourists points to he COVID-19 pandemic has now eschew the courts altogether,
opening, but ultimately decided their oper- B.C.’s honouring of a law passed last year re- forced governments to choosing to go to arbitration in-
ations posed no threat to locals as they were specting the United Nations Declaration on make tough policy deci- stead. But arbitration doesn’t set
respecting provincial health and workplace the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She said the sions quickly, with multiheaded, legal precedent and thus cannot
guidelines and flying workers and guests in situation on the water was very intense this Hydra-like consequences for citi- improve certainty – one key ingre-
and out of their remote sites. summer as Haida people restocking their fam- zens. While protecting us from dient in the entrepreneurial risk-
But Queen Charlotte Lodge and the West ily’s winter supply of fish navigated around the worst ravages of the coronavi- taking that will fuel economic re-
Coast Fishing Club closed their facilities and boats carrying tourists from the mainland rus, lockdowns and isolation are covery.
shipped out the last tranche of mainland paying thousands of dollars for the experi- exacting a toll we are just begin- There is an emerging sensitivi-
guests immediately after the provincial gov- ence. ning to pay. A rise in domestic vio- ty to the power imbalances in this
ernment prohibited non-essential travel to First Nations in several parts of B.C. have lence, more families splintering, country, in which the wealthy and
Haida Gwaii on July 30 in response to the com- expressed concern about the province easing increased mental-health and ad- connected have the most access
munity outbreak. (The latest update from the health restrictions aimed at containing the vi- diction issues, and higher levels of to legal services or are able to
Haida Nation on Aug. 8 con- rus, but Premier John Horgan crime – these are, and always have bend rules that are otherwise un-
firmed there have been 26 cases, has reminded travellers that they been, the products of economic yielding for the masses. Because
with five active.) For three weeks in should avoid communities not and social hardships. trust is the prerequisite for au-
Brian Legge, president and co- yet prepared to welcome tourists. A true economic recovery de- thority, these imbalances are
owner of the West Coast Fishing July, the luxury A Ministry of Indigenous mands paradigm shifts to address slowly but surely eroding our col-
Club, said this summer only 36 of resorts had ignored Relations and Reconciliation these issues. Indeed, over the next lective faith in our public institu-
the regular cohort of 115 employ- the Haida Nation’s spokesperson said B.C. is in talks months and years, pandemic-in- tions. A serious effort to elevate
ees were hired and a fraction of ban on tourism, with many First Nations to find duced adversity and misfortune access to justice would begin to re-
the normal flow of guests en- solutions to better managing the will send more Canadians crash- verse this narrative for Canadians
tered the lodge on Langara Island enacted in late pandemic in their communities. ing into the justice system – and and replace cynicism with hope.
at the northern tip of Haida March. The two Other tourism operators on they will bounce off a seemingly The pandemic has already bull-
Gwaii. resorts had the islands agreed to obey the impenetrable morass of rules, de- dozed new pathways in our jus-
Almost two-thirds of next sea- discussions with the Haida Nation ban and did not lays, processes and costs. tice system. Holding hearings vir-
son’s bookings are already full – open this summer, a show of re- The good news is that the topic tually, which would once have
many taken by people unable to Haida Nation prior to spect that experts say should be of access to justice in Canada has been unheard of, is now a com-
fish this year, he said. opening, but the norm for businesses operat- inspired a Niagara Falls-like cas- monplace approach. Our lawyers
But his business now faces an ultimately decided ing on unceded lands of B.C.’s cade of research papers over the can work from home and advise
existential threat and he says he First Nations amid a global pan- decades. The bad news is that, as and represent clients throughout
will decide by next spring wheth-
their operations demic. the years tick by, solutions some- a province, negating the need for
er to try to open next summer to posed no threat to Kelly Whitney-Gould, a lectur- how seem further in the mists anyone to pick up and trot down
guests who have taken a yet-to- locals as they were er at Royal Roads University and than ever before. to the local courthouse, which can
be-developed vaccine. respecting provincial University of Northern B.C. who Now is the time to make access be a very long journey for people
“You’d have to start letting ev- lives on Haida Gwaii, said tou- to justice a keystone in our recov- in rural areas. These new path-
erybody go and then build back
health and rism businesses will have to ery and an integral part of Cana- ways must be paved for good,
up again from scratch? That workplace guidelines work more closely with the com- dian society. even after this pandemic.
would be ridiculous,” he said. and flying workers munities near their amenities as In a justice system traditionally And while legal aid organiza-
“We have millions of dollars in- and guests in and the virus remains active. built around in-person appear- tions across the country play a
vested into those properties and Judith Sayers, president of ances, the numbers game is a pri- crucial role in access to justice,
with this [pandemic] going on
out of their remote Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council mary challenge. After all, there is a there is so much more that can be
those properties are basically sites. and adjunct professor of busi- finite number of courthouses done. The expansion of special-
worthless. ness and environmental studies housing judges and clerks to grind ized courts such as drug courts,
“I can’t see any other viable commercial op- at the University of Victoria, said First Nations through the never-ending stack of mental-health courts, Indigenous
eration taking place at Langara Island that communities across the province have set up cases during any given workday. courts and so on provide off-
would be remotely successful.” checkpoints to educate tourists entering their Within that already limited ca- ramps for those for whom tradi-
Brian Clive, vice-president of sales and cor- territory about the risks they pose to locals, pacity, there is a hierarchy of pri- tional justice measures are costly
porate relations at the Queen Charlotte Lodge, with mixed results. orities. Criminal matters are first and wouldn’t be effective. As Rob-
said he has no idea when B.C. will stop renew- She said she is part of a group of leaders still in line due to legal requirements ert Ingersoll, a noted lawyer and
ing the provincial state of emergency, under pressing Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Hen- that they be tried within a certain orator, once said: “Justice should
which tourism to the islands remains banned. ry’s agency to divulge when an infection is time frame. Family matters are le- remove the bandage from her
Mr. Clive said his company will decide next confirmed of someone near a First Nations gion, but the high costs of litiga- eyes long enough to distinguish
February whether to begin the complicated community, so that protections can be in- tion mean people often represent between the vicious and the un-
process of opening again next summer and, if creased. themselves, grinding the system fortunate.” Specialized courts rec-
it doesn’t reopen in 2021, he doubts the busi- Having been previously decimated by to a halt as they generally have no ognize that distinction and add a
ness could survive given guests that have de- smallpox, many First Nations are keenly aware fluency in the law and are forced panel to the access-to-justice mo-
ferred their trips this year are unlikely to do so of a pandemic’s devastating potential, said Dr. to stumble through as best they saic.
again. Sayers, whose ancestral name is Kekinusuqs. can. Humans are hard-wired for
“As long as that is in place there is no non- COVID-19 is especially worrisome for First Na- It can take two years for a cou- fairness. It allowed us to build our
essential travel to Haida Gwaii,” Mr. Clive said. tions given the toll it has taken on older pa- ple to finally part ways through great civilizations through co-op-
“It essentially moved the Council of Haida Na- tients, who are often invaluable resources to the courts, with all the stress and eration and community. Access to
tions to a position that they contended was their communities, she added. heartache that uncertainty en- justice reflects that fundamental
always theirs to have, which is: Haida law in “Our most vulnerable people are normally tails during that time. It’s tough to desire for fairness and is a founda-
Haida Gwaii.” our most knowledgeable: They hold our histo- be a productive member of socie- tion for our economic recovery,
His lodge welcomed roughly 420 guests this ries, our protocols, our family lines, our tradi- ty when so many questions re- our democracy and – ultimately –
summer, a fraction of the 3,100 that usually tional ecological knowledge.” main in doubt, as litigation affects our freedom.
W E DN E S DAY , AUGUST 19, 2020 | T HE GLOB E AN D MAI L O NEWS | A7

Democrats display big tent on Night 2

DNC highlights Mr. Kenyatta and 15 other
speakers led up to Stacey Abrams,
generational diversity the 46-year-old Georgian who in
in its second night, with 2018 narrowly missed becoming
speeches from party’s the first Black woman elected
governor of a U.S. state. Ms.
old guard – including Abrams also was among the 11
two former presidents women Mr. Biden interviewed as
– and its emerging stars finalists for his running mate.
The keynote was bookended
Monday by a lineup of the Demo-
cratic old guard, led by Mr. Kerry
BILL BARROW and two former presidents, Mr.
NICHOLAS RICCARDI Clinton and Mr. Carter.
Mr. Biden has made clear he’s
casting a wide net in November.

S
ustaining energy through
four days of a political con-
vention is never easy. It’s
even more challenging during
this, the first virtual convention.
On the second night of the Demo-
cratic National Convention, party
leaders tried to blend its past with
its future.
Here are key takeaways from
Night 2.
Joe Biden, who was being for-
mally nominated Tuesday night
in a virtual roll call of states,
doesn’t shy away from the obvi-
ous: He’s a 77-year-old white man
leading a party that celebrates its
racial and ethnic diversity and
gets a majority of its votes from
women.
He has at times offered himself
as a bridge to bring together that
coalition, calling himself a “tran-
sitional figure” for the party and
the country.
Democrats tried to put that on
vivid display, an ideological arc
that spanned the New Democrat
centrism of former president Bill
Clinton to the new century pro-
gressive, Representative Alexan-
dria Ocasio Cortez, who was born
in 1989, the year after Mr. Biden’s
first presidential run.
Democrats were trying to show
that their party tolerates differ-
ences in ways that the Republican
Party led by President Donald
Trump does not. The Democrats
honoured Mr. Clinton and former
Former president Bill Clinton speaks during the second night of the Democratic National Convention on
Tuesday. Democrats attempted to show an ideological arc that spanned the New Democrat centrism of
Mr. Clinton to the new century progressive of Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. ASSOCIATED PRESS
president Jimmy Carter, along
with the party’s nominee in 2004,
former secretary of state John
Kerry. Cindy McCain, whose hus-
band, John, was the Republican
nominee in 2008, appeared in a
video praising Mr. Biden.
Former president George W.
Bush, the only living GOP ex-
president, and Senator Mitt Rom-
ney, the party’s nominee in 2012,
will not be part of the Republican
convention next week.
In a 17-person keynote address
that was part relay, part reminder
of the party’s blended constituen-
cies, followed by a roll call of the
states, the ethnic and racial con-
trast with Republicans is obvious.
For Democrats, that was the
point.
Mr. Trump’s journey to the
presidency began with then-pres-
ident Barack Obama mocking the
reality-TV star relentlessly during
the White House Correspond-
ents’ Dinner in 2011 – a brutal rib-
bing that propelled the noto-
riously sensitive mogul toward
his 2016 run.
But nobody’s making jokes
now. During the first two days of
the Democratic National Conven-
tion, the party’s luminaries – and
even some Republicans – have
grimly warned the public that he
represents a fundamental danger
to democracy.
“He treats our country like it’s
his family business,” warned for-
mer assistant attorney-general
Sally Yates.
“America, Donald Trump has
quit on you,” Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer said.
Even senior leaders such as Mi-
chelle Obama and Mr. Clinton de-
voted chunks of their speeches to
warning that the president is a
fundamental threat to the coun-
try.
Usually conventions feature
stinging put-downs of the rival
standard-bearer and the occa-
sional lacerating speech. But the
2020 Democratic convention is
notable for the consistency of dire
warnings about the other party’s
leader.
Conventions usually follow a
standard ritual. But it’s not sur-
prising that a virtual convention
would change that.
Mr. Biden’s campaign used the
moment not to anoint a single
emerging party star, but rather 17
of them, reflecting the diversity of
race, age, geography and identity.
It was a stunt for sure, with self-
ies, ring lights and tightly scripted
hits on Mr. Trump. But it also
seemed effective to make the
point that Mr. Biden wants to pro-
vide a gateway for young leaders.
“A new generation of leaders is
rising up,” said Pennsylvania
state Representative Malcolm Ke-
nyatta, an openly gay lawmaker
who praised Mr. Biden for sup-
porting marriage equality earlier
than many older politicians.
The convention’s first night was
mostly showcasing ideological di-
versity. The keynote and the rest
of Tuesday showcased what Mr.
Biden hopes is generational di-
versity in his coalition.
Mr. Clinton has now spoken at
11 Democratic national conven-
tions. But he’s never had a more
tentative grasp on the party, or a
tighter window, than he had
Tuesday.
That Mr. Clinton spoke at all
was mildly surprising given how
his sexual dalliances appear to
some in the post-#MeToo era.
But the notoriously prolix presi-
dent – whose 2012 speech for Mr.
Obama ran nearly 50 minutes –
was kept to five minutes during
the tight, all-online convention.
And he wasted no time scorching
the man who defeated his wife in
the 2016 election.
“If you want a president who
spends his day watching hours of
TV or zapping people on social
media, he’s your man,” Mr. Clin-
ton said of Mr. Trump in his pre-
recorded speech. He slammed Mr.
Trump for making the Oval Office
“the storm centre” rather than
“the command centre” during
the pandemic, and for the na-
tion’s dismal track record fighting
COVID-19.
For once, Mr. Clinton showed
that less was more.
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Report: Manafort was compromised by his financial ties U.S., Russia

with Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, findings suggest
FROM A1
The Senate report was the first time the
government has identified Mr. Kilimnik as
an intelligence officer – special counsel
Robert Mueller’s report in April, 2019, had
labelled him as someone with ties to Rus-
sian intelligence. Most of the details about
his intelligence background in the Senate
report were blacked out.
Mr. Manafort’s willingness to share in-
formation with Mr. Kilimnik and others af-
filiated with the Russian intelligence ser-
vices “represented a grave counter-intelli-
gence threat,” the report said.
It also included a potentially explosive
detail: that investigators had uncovered in-
formation possibly tying Mr. Kilimnik to
Russia’s major election interference oper-
ations, conducted by the intelligence ser-
vice known as the GRU.
Democrats highlighted Mr. Kilimnik’s
potential ties to the interference oper-
ations in their own appendix to the report,
noting that Mr. Manafort discussed cam-
paign strategy and shared internal cam-
paign polling data with the Russian and lat-
er lied to federal investigators about his ac-
tions.
“This is what collusion looks like,” Dem-
ocrats wrote.
Their assertion was a sign that even
though the investigation was carried out in
bipartisan fashion, and Republican and
Democratic senators reached broad agree-
ment on its most significant conclusions, a
partisan divide remained on some of the
most politically sensitive issues.
The report is an exhaustive look at the
various ways that the Kremlin’s intelli-
gence services exploited ties to the Trump
campaign to help carry out a stealth attack
on American democracy. By focusing on
the Russian actions as a national-security
threat, the Senate investigation differed
from the Mueller inquiry, which examined
whether there was evidence to charge any-
one with specific crimes.
The Senate investigation found that two
other Russians who met at Trump Tower in
2016 with senior members of the Trump
campaign – including Mr. Manafort; Jared
Kushner, the President’s son-in-law; and
Donald Trump Jr., the President’s eldest
son – had “significant connections to Rus-
sian government, including the Russian in-
telligence services.”
Links between the Kremlin and one of
the individuals, Natalia Veselnitskaya,
“were far more extensive and concerning
than what had been publicly known,” the
report said.
The report’s findings about Mr. Kilimnik
and other Russians in touch with Trump
campaign advisers confirmed an article in
The New York Times from 2017 that said
there had been numerous interactions be-
tween the Trump campaign and Russian
intelligence in the year before the election.
FBI officials had disputed the report.
Although there was no evidence of any
agreement between the Russians and the
Trump campaign to work together, there
was clear co-ordination, said Maine Sen-
ator Angus King, who caucuses with the
at standstill in
Democrats and is a member of the intelli-
gence committee.
It cited Mr. Manafort’s ties to Oleg Deri-
paska, a Russian oligarch described as a
nuclear arms
“The Russians were doing things to dis- “proxy” for Russian state and intelligence
rupt American democracy and help the services who claimed that Mr. Manafort
discussions
Trump campaign and the Trump cam- owed him money. And it described at
paign was doing things to amplify and uti- length Mr. Manafort’s relationships with a DAVID RISING BERLIN
lize what the Russians were supplying,” Mr. cluster of pro-Russia oligarchs in Ukraine,
King said in an interview. “There may not who had paid him tens of millions of dol-
have been an explicit agreement but they lars as a political consultant in Ukraine. The United States and Russia
were both consciously pursuing the same “Manafort conducted influence oper- concluded two days of arms con-
end, which was the election of Donald ations that supported and were a part of trol talks Tuesday with the two
Trump. And for the Russians, the extra Russian active measures campaigns, in- sides still at odds over the U.S.
benefit was disrupting American democra- cluding those involving political influence demand to include China in any
cy.” and electoral interference,” the report said. new treaty but showing signs of
Members of Mr. Trump’s own party led Before, during and after he was forced a possible willingness to extend
the intelligence committee’s work. Much out as Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman, the existing New START deal,
of the investigation was overseen by North the report said, Mr. Manafort offered inside which expires next year.
Carolina Senator Richard Burr, but he tem- information and assistance to these Rus- U.S. negotiator Marshall Bil-
porarily stepped aside as the chairman of sian-aligned interests. Mr. Kilimnik was Mr. lingslea told reporters after the
the panel in May because of a federal inves- Manafort’s intermediary with both Mr. De- talks in Vienna ended that
tigation into stock sales he made before the ripaska and the Ukrainian oligarchs, ac- “there are some areas of conver-
coronavirus pandemic began rattling the cording to the report. It recounted how he gence between Russia and the
United States. He was replaced by Florida briefed Mr. Kilimnik at an August, 2016, United States, but we do remain
Senator Marco Rubio, although Mr. Burr meeting on the Trump campaign’s strategy far apart on a number of key is-
voted to endorse the report’s conclusions. to defeat Hillary Clinton, describing efforts sues.”
The report could have partisan benefits in the battleground states of Michigan, The U.S. argues that any new
for Democrats, who were using their con- Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Minnesota nuclear arms limitation treaty
vention this week as a plat- and the margins by which Mr. should cover all types of war-
form to portray Mr. Trump as Trump might win. heads, include better verification
unfit and incapable of being The report also shed new protocols and transparency mea-
President. Andrew Bates, a The Russians light on the interaction be- sures, and be extended to in-
spokesman for former vice- tween Russian intelligence clude China, which has been in-
president Joe Biden, said the were doing things and WikiLeaks – and be- creasing its own arsenal.
report shows “the Russian to disrupt American tween WikiLeaks and the China has rejected the idea as
government intervened in democracy and help Trump campaign. Wiki- an American ploy to avoid a new
2016 to help Donald Trump the Trump campaign Leaks, which released deal and said that it would gladly
get elected and to undermine tranches of stolen Democrat- participate if the U.S. would
our democracy. Donald and the Trump ic e-mails that helped dam- agree to nuclear parity among all
Trump welcomed it with campaign was doing age Ms. Clinton’s campaign, nations. China was invited to
open arms. They are working things to amplify not only played a clear role in participate in the Vienna talks
toward the same goals again and utilize what the election interference but but did not send a delegation.
this year, and Trump refuses also “very likely knew it was Russia, meanwhile, has said
to reject their assistance.” the Russians assisting a Russian intelli- that if China is part of a new trea-
Mr. Trump called the re- were supplying. gence influence effort,” the ty, Britain and France should al-
port “a hoax,” but a White report said. so be included.
House spokesman said it ANGUS KING The committee sent a let- The New START treaty was
MAINE SENATOR
helped confirm what the ter last summer to the U.S. At- signed in 2010 by then-U.S. presi-
President and his allies had torney’s Office in Washing- dent Barack Obama and then-
long said – “that there was absolutely no ton suggesting that Trump campaign ad- Russian president Dmitry Med-
collusion between the Trump campaign visers may have illegally made false or mis- vedev. The pact limits each coun-
and Russia. leading statements to congressional try to no more than 1,550 de-
“This never-ending, baseless conspiracy investigators conducting the panel’s inqui- ployed nuclear warheads and
theory peddled by radical liberals and their ry, according to four people with knowl- 700 deployed missiles and bom-
partners in the media demonstrates how edge of the letter, which was first reported bers.
incapable they are at accepting the will of by The Los Angeles Times. After both Moscow and Wash-
the American people and the results of the The committee said in the letter that Mr. ington withdrew from the 1987
2016 election,” said the spokesman, Judd Trump’s one-time chief strategist Stephen Intermediate-range Nuclear
Deere. Bannon and his former campaign co-chair Forces Treaty last year, New
The report is the product of one of the Sam Clovis may have committed a crime START is the only remaining nu-
few congressional investigations in recent by lying under oath, and they cast doubt on clear arms control deal between
memory that retained bipartisan support the testimony of Donald Trump Jr. and Mr. the two countries. It’s set to ex-
throughout. Lawmakers and committee Kushner. Prosecutors never filed charges. pire in February, 2021, unless the
aides interviewed more than 200 witnesses Attorney-General Bill Barr has appoint- parties agree to extend it for an-
and reviewed hundreds of thousands of ed a criminal prosecutor, John Durham, to other five years.
documents, including intelligence reports, review the actions that intelligence and Russia has offered an exten-
internal FBI notes and correspondence law enforcement officials took in 2016 to sion without any conditions. Mr.
among members of the Trump campaign. better understand the Kremlin’s interfe- Billingslea indicated the U.S.
The committee convened hearings in 2017 rence campaign and interactions between was willing to talk about an ex-
and 2018, but most of its work took place Russians and Trump campaign advisers. tension but only if there were a
out of public view. Last month, Mr. Barr told a congressional politically binding framework
The report suggested Mr. Manafort was committee he was determined “to get to for making changes to New
compromised by his financial ties with the bottom of the grave abuses involved in START, which he called “deeply
Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, who the bogus ‘Russiagate’ scandal.” flawed.”
themselves were connected to Mr. Kilim-
nik, the Russian intelligence operative. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A8 FOLIO
Cabinet: Freeland signals a focus on environment
and women in economic recovery plan
FROM A1
The platform said House of Com-
mons rules would be changed “to
bring an end to this undemocrat-
ic process.”
Mr. Harper faced criticism for
proroguing Parliament in Decem-
ber, 2008, during the onset of the
global financial crisis, at a time
when opposition parties were
planning to defeat his minority
Conservative government. The
prorogation bought the govern-
ment time and allowed it to sur-
vive confidence votes when Par-
liament resumed the next
month. Mr. Harper’s third of four
prorogations in power was also
controversial. The December,
2009, prorogation had the effect
of shutting down a politically sen-
sitive parliamentary investiga-
tion into the government’s hand-
ling of Afghan detainees.
During the Trudeau govern-
ment’s first four-year term, Parlia-
ment was never prorogued.
When asked about that cam-
paign pledge, Mr. Trudeau insist-
ed the current situation is differ-
ent.
“Stephen Harper and the Con-
servatives prorogued Parliament
in order to shut it down and avoid
a confidence vote. We are proro-
guing Parliament to bring it back
on exactly the same week it was
supposed to come back anyway
and force a confidence vote,” he
said.
The House of Commons was
scheduled to sit for one day next
week as part of an agreement
with the NDP earlier in the year to
continue the suspension of regu-
lar sitting days while allowing
some committee work to contin-
ue. There have only been 45 regu-
lar sitting days since the October,
2019, election because of suspen-
sions related to the novel corona-
virus.
Regular sitting days were
scheduled to resume on Monday,
Sept. 21. Mr. Trudeau could have
decided to allow committee work
to continue and to prorogue just
before the Throne Speech, rather
than immediately.
The effect of prorogation is
that regular committee work is
shut down as all bills and com-
mittee studies die.
The existing bills and commit-
tee studies are not necessarily
ended for good, however. Proce-
dural options exist for MPs to ap-
prove motions that would rein-
state bills and studies back to the
stages they were at at the time of
prorogation.
Mr. Trudeau said that docu-
ments related to the now-can-
celled contract with the WE Char-
ity designed to help students dur-
ing the pandemic would still be
released.
“I can say that we have re-
leased all those documents to the
members of the committee so
that they can spend their time go-
ing through those mountains of
documents over the coming
weeks so that they can continue
to ask any questions they like on
this issue,” he said.
Opposition MPs on the House
of Commons finance committee
are expecting to receive about
5,000 pages of documents.
At the time of the Speech from
the Throne, a new Conservative
leader will be in place. A leader is
to be named on Sunday and will
have to hit the ground running in
preparation for a possible elec-
tion.
The decision to prorogue Par-
liament was met with disdain
from opposition parties on Tues-
day.
Conservative Leader Andrew
Scheer said the prorogation is
aimed at blocking the WE Charity
investigation.
“Earlier this year, Justin Tru-
deau shamefully shut down Par-
liament to try and avoid account-
ability. Now he has locked out op-
position MPs who were working
hard to fix his government’s pan-
demic programs [and] help Can-
adians and get to the bottom of
his corruption scandal,” he said in
a statement. “Justin Trudeau is
walking out on Canadians in the
middle of a major health and eco-
nomic crisis, in a disgusting at-
tempt to make Canadians forget
about his corruption.”
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said
shutting down Parliament in the
middle of a pandemic and an eco-
nomic crisis is wrong.
“Canadians shouldn’t be
forced to pay the price for Mr. Tru-
deau’s scandals,” he said on Twit-
ter.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Singh
told reporters in Vancouver that
this week’s events are “deeply
troubling” and a sign that the Lib-
erals are more focused on them-
selves rather than dealing with
the pandemic.
“It seems like the Liberal gov-
ernment is more interested in
throwing the finance minister
under the bus than the Prime
Minister taking responsibility for
his own breaches of conflict-of-
interest laws and his own breach-
es when it comes to scandals,” Mr.
Singh said.
Prior to Mr. Trudeau’s proroga-
tion announcement, he was at Ri-
deau Hall for a ceremony to swear
in Ms. Freeland to the critical fi-
nance portfolio.
On Monday, Bill Morneau, who
had served in the role since 2015,
announced he was leaving the
Trudeau cabinet. Mr. Morneau is
also resigning as an MP. The resig-
nation followed several media re-
ports of disagreements between
the two men, but both praised
each other in their public com-
ments this week.
[Ms. Freeland]
expressed hope that her
appointment will inspire
other women.
Both are the subject of investi-
gations by the Ethics Commis-
sioner related to a now-cancelled
contract with WE Charity to ad-
minister a program for students
during the pandemic.
The Ethics Commissioner will
proceed with his report on Mr.
Morneau even if he is no longer
an office holder, his office con-
firmed on Tuesday.
At a committee hearing into
the issue last month, Mr. Mor-
neau revealed that he had reim-
bursed $41,366 to WE Charity for
travel expenses that the group
covered for personal trips his
family took to Kenya and Ecuador
in 2017.
He is the only finance minister
that Mr. Trudeau has had since
his government came to power in
2015.
Mr. Trudeau thanked Mr. Mor-
neau for his service, adding that
he counted on the minister’s
leadership, advice and close
friendship over the years.
The swearing-in of the new
cabinet was the first of its kind
during the pandemic. Those at-
tending the ceremony wore
masks, and chairs at the ceremo-
O T H E G LO B E AN D MA I L
ny were spaced out to enable
physical distancing.
Ms. Freeland, who was first
elected in 2013, will be the first fe-
male finance minister in Cana-
dian history, and she is regarded
in Liberal circles as a good listen-
er, strong communicator and as
being able to take on significant
undertakings for the govern-
ment.
From 2015 to 2017, Ms. Freeland
served as the international trade
minister and oversaw the renego-
tiation of Canada’s free trade
agreement with the European
Union.
From January, 2017, to Novem-
ber, 2019, she held the Foreign Af-
fairs portfolio and concluded the
renegotiation of the North Amer-
ican free-trade agreement be-
tween Canada, Mexico and the
United States.
Ms. Freeland is also a former
journalist and author.
She expressed hope that her
appointment will inspire other
women and signalled that her fo-
cus is on crafting an economic re-
covery plan that includes a strong
environmental focus and ad-
dresses the fact that the econom-
ic impact of the pandemic “is hit-
ting women particularly hard.”
“I am conscious of the fact that
I am Canada’s first woman Fi-
nance Minister,” she said. “It’s
about time that we broke that
glass ceiling. I’d like to say to all
the Canadian women across our
amazing country who are out
there breaking glass ceilings:
Keep going.”
Representing Canada during
trade talks with the United States
involved regular discussions with
provincial and territorial pre-
miers, who must approve aspects
of any trade deals that fall under
their jurisdiction.
As Deputy Prime Minister, the
Alberta-born Ms. Freeland was as-
signed to keep working closely
with the provinces on a range of
issues including sensitive such as
energy policy. That role increased
substantially at the onset of the
pandemic, as she was placed in
charge of a special COVID-19 cabi-
net committee and was Ottawa’s
main contact with the premiers
to co-ordinate Canada’s pandem-
ic response plan.
Ms. Freeland negotiated with
the provinces on a federal pan-
demic support package, which in-
| WE D NE S DAY , A U G U ST 1 9 , 2 0 2 0
creased from an initial offer of
$14-billion to $19-billion when it
was finalized in July.
“It’s very likely that all the pre-
miers would share the perspec-
tive that Minister Freeland, in her
previous roles, whether it was CO-
VID or prior to that with trade dis-
cussions, was very willing to re-
ach out to the premiers, me in-
cluded,” Manitoba Premier Brian
Pallister told The Globe and Mail
Tuesday.
“I appreciated that dialogue
and I think that’s going to be es-
sential moving forward.”
Mr. Pallister said “of course
he’s concerned” about the insta-
bility in Ottawa as the finance
minister is replaced in the middle
of a pandemic, but praised the
fact that Mr. Morneau’s replace-
ment was announced quickly.
Another Progressive Conserva-
tive Premier also had high praise
for Ms. Freeland and her appoint-
ment as Finance Minister.
“There’s no secret, I think the
world of Chrystia,” Ontario Pre-
mier Doug Ford told reporters at
an event in Scarborough that in-
cluded a call for more federal
funding for public transit.
“I sent her a message this
morning. She was strong as Depu-
ty Prime Minister, and if there is
one person I have confidence in,
it’s Chrystia Freeland, that we can
work together, we can sit down,
pick up the phone. And one of the
first phone calls – I’ll let her get
settled in – but we need money
for the transit system,” he said.
“There’s no better person I’d want
to work with than Chrystia Free-
land. She’s going to do an incred-
ible job. She’s a good friend and I
can’t wait to start working with
her to move our projects for-
ward.”
Jerry Dias, the president of Uni-
for, said Tuesday that he worked
hand-in-hand with Ms. Freeland
during the renegotiation of the
new U.S. free-trade agreement.
Mr. Dias said she will bring a
broad understanding of people to
her new role as Finance Minister.
“She is deeply principled … I
watched her dealing with the
United States, I watched her deal-
ing with [U.S. President Donald]
Trump on the softwood lumber
dispute. I watched her deal with
the aluminum tariffs during the
[free-trade] debate,” he said. “I
know her. I respect her.”
WE DNE S DAY, AUGUST 1 9 , 2 0 2 0
Parliament: ‘Trudeau is desperate
to hide the truth,’ Poilievre says
FROM A1
Mr. Poilievre accused Mr. Tru-
deau of proroguing to tamp
down a controversy that has hurt
his government. The Prime Min-
ister could have held off on pro-
rogation until the night before a
planned Throne Speech this fall
and let the committees keep op-
erating, Mr. Poilievre said.
“Justin Trudeau is desperate to
hide the truth,” Mr. Poilievre
said.
Before taking power, Mr. Tru-
deau campaigned against using
prorogation to avoid tough ques-
tions. “Stephen Harper has used
prorogation to avoid difficult po-
litical circumstances. We will
not,” the Liberal Party’s 2015 list
of campaign promises said.
Still, an estimated 5,000 pages
of documents related to the WE
Charity contract are being re-
leased. Mr. Poilievre said the
clerk of the Commons’ finance
committee has made this com-
mitment. The documents are be-
ing saved on USB sticks for com-
mittee members.
WE Charity is affiliated with
several related charities and the
for-profit ME to WE company. It
has been embroiled in controver-
sy since striking a deal with the
federal government for a con-
tract to run a $543.5-million pro-
gram to pay students for volun-
teer work. The agreement was
cancelled on July 3 amid conflict-
of interest allegations against Mr.
Trudeau.
The minority Liberal govern-
ment opposed the formation of
the China committee and voted
against its creation in December,
2019, but it was outnumbered by
opposition votes as the Bloc Qué-
bécois and NDP backed the Con-
servative motion. Relations be-
tween the two countries have de-
teriorated significantly since Chi-
na locked up two Canadians in
apparent retaliation for Ottawa’s
arrest of a Huawei executive on a
U.S. extradition request.
Conservative MP Garnett Ge-
nuis, who was a member of the
Canada-China committee, said
its dissolution interferes with an
urgent need to issue recommen-
dations on what Canada can do
to help Hong Kong as the Chi-
nese Communist Party cracks
down on democratic freedoms in
the former British colony.
| T H E G LO BE A N D MA IL O
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT:
WHAT DOES IT MEAN AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Parliament has been prorogued
until Sept. 23, when there will
be a Speech from the Throne.
Here is what that means and
what could come next.
Word – The term comes
through Middle English and Old
French from a Latin root, proro-
gare, to prolong.
Effect – Prorogation essentially
ends a session of Parliament,
allowing for a new beginning
with a Speech from the Throne.
Legislation – At one time,
prorogation killed all legislation
before Parliament, but rule
changes now provide that most
bills can be revived in the new
session at the same stage they
were at when the previous
session ended.
Committees – Committees,
including special and legislative
committees, cease to exist.
Membership on committees,
except the membership of the
standing committee on proce-
dure and House affairs, is termi-
nated and all chairs and vice-
chairs no longer hold these
positions.
Documents – No document
may be tabled until the first day
of a new session.
Quote – “Prorogation of a
session brings to an end all
proceedings before Parliament.
With certain exceptions, unfin-
ished business ‘dies’ on the
Order Paper and must be start-
ed anew in a subsequent ses-
sion.” – House of Commons
Procedure and Practice, Third
Edition, 2017.
Length – Prorogation can be as
short as a few hours, or as long
as several months. During this
period, the House of Commons
and Senate are shut down, but
the government remains in
power and MPs remain MPs.
NDP MP Jack Harris, another
member of the China committee,
said he’s angry about what has
happened and will seek to resur-
rect it.
Peter Fragiskatos, a Liberal
member of the committee, said
he would like to see the China
Frequency – Most Parliaments
are prorogued at least once and
often there are several proroga-
tions and sessions in the life of
a Parliament.
Authority – Prorogation is
ordered by the governor-general
on the advice of the prime
minister. It is not covered by
statute. Rather, it is a personal
legal power of the governor-
general and by convention the
prime minister has the right to
provide advice. And by conven-
tion it’s actually the prime
minister’s decision.
Granted – Prorogation is rou-
tinely granted. In December,
2008, then-governor-general
Michaëlle Jean took a few hours
before granting prorogation, but
that was a thorny case because
opposition parties were threat-
ening to defeat the government
and install a coalition govern-
ment shortly after an election.
Ceremony – At one time,
prorogation was done in a
formal ceremony in the Senate
chamber, but that hasn’t been
used in decades. A simple
proclamation signed by the
governor-general does the trick
today.
Liberal promise – In their 2015
election platform, the Liberals
said Stephen Harper’s Conserva-
tives “used prorogation to avoid
difficult political circumstances.
We will not.”
Limits – Governments can’t use
prorogation to shut down
Parliament indefinitely. That
would violate the constitutional
requirement that Parliament
meet at least once every 12
months. And without Parlia-
ment to approve a budget and
spending estimates, the govern-
ment would run out of money.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
committee resume after proroga-
tion. “I think the committee has
done very good work and we’ve
heard from some extremely
strong witnesses who have given
us a really good idea about the
nature of the Canada-China rela-
tionship.”
NEWS | A9
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President of the
Queen’s Privy Council for Canada Dominic LeBlanc look on
as Deputy Prime Minister and new Minister of Finance
Chrystia Freeland speaks during a news conference
on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday.
ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS
The centralization of power
in the PMO is now complete
with Freeland’s appointment
JOHN
IBBITSON
OPINION
W
hen Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed
Chrystia Freeland as the first woman to become
Canada’s finance minister, he also advanced her
prospects for becoming the first female leader of
the Liberal Party of Canada.
The appointment tells us something else. The centraliza-
tion of power in the Prime Minister’s Office is now complete.
Replacing Bill Morneau with Ms. Freeland as finance minister
ensures that there is no longer any counterforce to Mr. Tru-
deau’s will. He and Ms. Freeland get to write the cheques to-
gether, with no one left to object.
Whether, as Mr. Trudeau’s possible successor, Ms. Freeland
would assume the mantle of prime minister or of leader of the
opposition depends on events, which in 2020 come thick and
fast and hard.
No finance minister has ever been so deeply embedded
within the office of the prime minister as Ms. Freeland. She
was hand-picked by Mr. Trudeau’s team to run in a downtown
Toronto by-election in 2013, and that team worked hard to se-
cure her victory. She is one of them.
The team chose well. As trade minister, Ms. Freeland se-
cured ratification of the free-trade agreement with the Eu-
ropean Union. When Donald Trump became U.S. President
and threatened to tear up the North American free-trade
agreement, she skillfully negotiated a new accord in her role
as foreign affairs minister that protected Canada’s most vital
interests.
Mr. Trudeau’s imperious approach to federal-provincial re-
lations revived the Bloc Québécois and fuelled separatist fires
in Alberta. Mr. Trudeau sent Ms. Freeland in as intergovern-
mental affairs minister to ease strained relations with the
country’s premiers. She succeeded to the point that Ontario
Premier Doug Ford, once the sworn enemy of the Liberal gov-
ernment, said on Tuesday, “I absolutely love Chrystia Free-
land. She’s amazing. I’ll have her back, I’ll help her any way we
can.”
All of this would make her seem difficult to beat in any
leadership contest. Nonetheless, her appointment isn’t all
good news – for Ms. Freeland, for the government, or for the
Liberal Party.
There was a time, long, long
ago, when the prime minister was
No finance minister not the only locus of power within
the federal government. The for-
has ever been so eign-affairs minister had consid-
deeply embedded erable sway over foreign affairs.
within the office of The president of the Treasury
the prime minister as Board was in charge of govern-
ment operations. And no one, in-
[Chrystia] Freeland. cluding the prime minister, com-
mitted to anything unless and un-
til the finance minister of the day approved the spending.
The other departments have long since lost their power,
and Mr. Morneau had less autonomy than any previous fi-
nance minister. Now Finance, too, is completely subordinate
to the centre.
Mr. Trudeau clearly has big plans, promising “to embrace
bold new solutions to the challenges we face and refuse to be
held back by old ways of thinking,” as he put it at Tuesday’s
press conference. Whatever those plans, Ms. Freeland will be
all-in.
“The die has been cast,” Donald Savoie, one of this coun-
try’s leading authorities on public administration, said in an
interview.
Ms. Freeland “knows that Morneau tried to put the brakes
on without any success,” he said. “She knows what she’s get-
ting into.”
Nonetheless, the government’s situation is precarious. The
Liberals will have to survive a vote of confidence in Septem-
ber. Mr. Trudeau has been badly damaged by the WE Charity
controversy. And it’s never a good thing for a government
when a finance minister quits.
Also, proroguing Parliament for a month in the midst of
multiple crises, as the government did on Tuesday, will not go
down well.
A major ratings downgrade, a second wave of COVID-19, a
deepening recession, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse –
nothing that happens this fall should come as a surprise.
And then there is Ms. Freeland’s political persona. In these
frightening times, people expect plain talk. From Mr. Ford in
Ontario to John Horgan in British Columbia, the premiers are
delivering straight answers (well, mostly) to voters on what
their governments are doing to protect peoples’ health and
jobs.
But Mr. Trudeau and Ms. Freeland avoid that approach,
preferring to glide smoothly over whatever question they are
being asked, landing on the talking point of the day.
How will voters respond to the new Finance Minister’s in-
furiatingly calm refusal to engage?
One thing we can predict: Nothing will go as expected. In
politics, nothing ever does. With all that said, we wish the
minister, with whom I once worked at The Globe and Mail, ev-
ery success.
A 10 O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL | WEDN ESDAY , AUG UST 19, 2020

PHILLIP CRAWLEY

EDITORIAL PUBLISHER AND CEO

DAVID WALMSLEY
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures - Junius

The math on
Morneau’s exit
doesn’t add up
I
n 2005, philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote a bestseller
titled On Bullshit. In a tight 80 pages, the Princeton Uni-
versity professor defines his subject as speech whose goal
is persuasion without regard for the truth.
When Finance Minister Bill Morneau suddenly announced
his resignation on Monday night, the words he was forced to
use – starting with the howler that this was a long-planned,
voluntary “resignation” – were of the genus explored by Mr.
Frankfurt. As were high-level government leaks, each more
Frankfurtian than the last, which over the previous week had
been designed to besmirch Mr. Morneau and set the stage for
his departure.
Like someone emerging into the light after a long Maoist
struggle session, on Monday night Mr. Morneau said that his
abrupt leave-taking was, in fact, part of a “plan” he’d had
since entering politics. He’d always intended to serve for only
two terms. And so, in the middle of an economic crisis on
which he was the lead minister, just 10 months after re-elec-
tion and with the next fixed election date 38 months away, he
had to resign. Immediately.
And in any case, leaving would give him time to apply for
his real dream job: secretary-general of the Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development. So, it was time to
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
go. After a hastily called news conference. With Prime Minis- IN ’N’ OUT BURN, BABY, BURN note: This is on us.
ter Justin Trudeau not in attendance, but tweeting out ful- Anya Hageman Kingston
Re Trudeau Prorogues Parlia- Re The Cash Bonfire At B.C.’s Site
some praise – all the sincerity of a drugstore condolence
ment Until Sept. 23 After Ap- C (Aug. 17): In the 1970s, I lived in
TOUGH TIMES
card; all the personalization of a form letter – for someone his pointing Freeland Finance Minis- the Peace River area of British Co-
minions had spent the previous week smearing. ter (Online, Aug. 18): Chrystia lumbia when Site C was first pro-
Freeland as Finance Minister. And posed. I find The Globe’s editorial Re Ford Accuses Ontario Teachers
The explanation for Mr. Morneau’s surprise “resignation” Deputy Prime Minister, soon-to- is right on the money. Of Inflexibility (Aug. 18): Ontario
is as covered in Frankfurt as Mr. Trudeau’s surprise claim last be-former Intergovernmental Af- However, while inferred in re- and its teachers seem to be head-
fairs minister and former minis- lation to mounting costs, what ed toward yet another impasse on
month, before a House of Commons committee, that when ter of Foreign Affairs. Is there any- should not be forgotten are the reopening schools. These are the
he found out WE Charity was about to be awarded a huge thing that woman can’t do? engineering questions of wheth- same teachers who have contin-
None of these jobs are easy. er the planned dam will even be ued receiving salaries and bene-
contract, he “pushed back” and demanded more due dili- Hats off to her! technically viable. fits while many others have lost
gence. If that’s what happened, then why didn’t the PM and Marianne Orr Brampton, Ont. These are issues of dam stabil- their jobs.
ity, slumping reservoir banks and Now would be the time for
the ministers and bureaucrats defending him say a word The nitty-gritty of finance can be accumulation of sediment. teachers to give back.
about it, for weeks? Why was the most exculpatory explana- handled by talented bureaucrats. Location continues to be an Since the pandemic began,
I would much rather have my fi- engineering nightmare; two ear- doctors, nurses, health care work-
tion not the first thing he had to say, but the last? nance minister get the big picture lier dams upriver are in complete- ers and first responders have
In the parliamentary system, cabinets get shuffled, and and, for me, Chrystia Freeland’s ly different geography. stepped up and worked untold
writings on inequality qualify. I hope there is the political hours. I don’t recall any of them
ministers with them. It happens. There’s no reason for there With a Prime Minister open to courage to shut down construc- complaining about additional
to be anything dishonourable about the business. Mr. Mor- thinking big and a Finance Minis- tion – it always has been a dam time needed to care for patients.
ter who understands the impact too far. Most teachers have main-
neau, the only finance minister the Trudeau government has tained that their overriding con-
of inequality on Canadian life, we Don Chapman Surrey, B.C.
ever known, has been in the job for nearly five years. It was a could see the makings of a truly cerns are for the education of our
progressive legacy. Site C’s endless problems with ge- kids. I would say to them: Contin-
long run. It was a good run. If the PM felt it was time for a
Working with the NDP, this ological instability have forced BC ue to advocate for better and safer
change, a change could have been made with grace. government has a chance to inno- Hydro to admit the ultimate cost working conditions, but do show
vate with a green economy, basic of the project “cannot be deter- flexibility in spending more
If the PM believed Mr. Morneau’s oversights on the WE file
income, pharma care, affordable mined.” It seems that costs have teaching time in the classroom.
demanded a resignation, that could have been done, too. housing and more publicly own- gone so far beyond even the Michael Gilman Toronto
Apologize for the error, step down, do time in the penalty box ed enterprises, so that profit stays $10.7-billion figure from 2017 that
with the people, not corpora- further guesses would only result
and eventually return to the ice. In the old tradition of minis- PAY, PERCHANCE?
tions. in further embarrassment.
terial responsibility, that’s how it went. Though, owing to Mr. Roderick Benns Lindsay, Ont. While the BC NDP government
may find this degree of uncertain- Re Toronto Police Agree To Pay
Trudeau’s similar, bigger WE problem, perhaps that couldn’t Re Morneau Resigns; Insists He ty acceptable, bond rating agen- $16.5-million To Detained G20
be given as the public reason for Mr. Morneau’s removal. Was Not Pushed By PM (Aug. 18): cies are less likely to be satisfied. Protesters (Aug. 18): In what way
I see that The Globe’s front-page A Moody’s analysis from May, will the police be paying this
And if this was about making room for Mark Carney – photo depicts a true martyr. I am 2019, warned that “a weakening $16.5-million? Will the police
opening up a safe Liberal seat, and the most powerful min- sure Bill Morneau suggested his in BC Hydro’s financial metrics” budget be funded $16.5-million
resignation to Justin Trudeau in are a major factor that could lead less? Will officers who ordered
istry – then why not just say that? The government could sell the interest of the government to a downgrade of the province’s the G20 actions be sued person-
it as going from strength to strength. Ditto for moving Chrys- being able to carry on its work credit rating, meaning higher ally?
dealing with the pandemic. borrowing costs. I don’t think anyone in the po-
tia Freeland into Finance. His interest in the work of WE How much more money will lice will be made to pay.
But that’s not how this went down. Instead, anonymous Charity seems genuine. His be thrown at Site C before B.C. re- The headline should read:
apology seemed genuine. And he alizes that geology has mostly de- “Toronto taxpayers on the hook
Liberal sources were dispatched to insinuate that the Tru-
will continue working for Cana- termined it cannot be safely com- again for police screw-up.”
deau government was Animal Farm, and Mr. Morneau was dians, just not as an MP. pleted – and cancels the project? Norman Rosencwaig Toronto
Snowball. The tale being shopped around last week was that Peggy Hutchison Blaise Salmon Mill Bay, B.C.
Singhampton, Ont.
the erstwhile Finance Minister of The Middle Class and Those COUNTERPOINT
The Globe’s editorial describes
Working Hard to Join It had secretly been working hard to Re Crisis Shows The Liberals At dams as “antiquated and destruc-
Their Political Worst (Aug. 18): tive technology.” Re 617 Days That Michael Kovrig
stick it to hard-working Canadians – and it was only thanks to Bill Morneau made mistakes that, Indeed. If built, Site C would be And Michael Spavor Have Been
the PM’s intervention against this Conservative mole in his on balance, matter little to me. an ill-conceived, ill-fated mega- Jailed In China (Aug. 18): At the
Given the state of other dem- disaster; violate Treaty 8 Indige- bottom of The Globe’s front page,
cabinet that Ottawa’s generous pandemic economic bailout ocracies near and far, I’ll gladly nous rights; drown a fertile and there is a running tagline record-
package came to be. take a kerfuffle over a charity – irreplaceable agricultural valley; ing the number of days that Mi-
recommended by the public ser- poison fisheries with methyl- chael Kovrig and Michael Spavor
Who comes up with these whoppers? But these off-the- vice – and reimbursed trip if it mercury contamination; sever have been jailed in China.
record allegations against Mr. Morneau do serve a purpose, means having the steady hand, migration routes of precious In fairness, I think The Globe
compassionate vision and strong birds and caribou; and shackle should publish a parallel count of
namely aiming to brand the next election as a binary choice leadership that the Trudeau gov- British Columbia to ruinous hy- how long Meng Wanzhou has
between open-the-taps Liberals and cut-now Conservatives. ernment has practised. dro debt. waited, under arrest, to get her
I also gladly accept the finan- N.J. Pollak Vancouver case in front of a Canadian court
Right-leaning commentators have unwittingly furthered this cial debt incurred to keep my fel- for decision.
rebranding, by repeating it as gospel. low Canadians afloat. Moral debt The 55 square kilometres that Site This won’t happen, I under-
is far more difficult to repay, if not C would flood are Treaty 8 lands. stand, until next year. Both of
However, the trouble with a government smearing its these situations are scandalous,
impossible. The First Nations there have
most prominent minister is that, in trying to dirty him, it has Paula Jessop Toronto not given the consent that Cana- and they are joined at the hip.
da, as a signatory of the United Fintan Kennedy Toronto
mostly soiled itself.
Dare one say that Bill Morneau is Nations Declaration on the Rights
In a Trudeau cabinet of spokesmodels – men and women no more? of Indigenous Peoples, is sup- Letters to the Editor should be
Brian Summers Victoria posed to obtain. exclusive to The Globe and Mail.
who dutifully recite whatever script is handed them – Mr.
Amnesty International and the Include name, address and daytime
Morneau was one of the few who offered something more. UN Committee on the Elimina- phone number. Keep letters under
There aren’t many like that in this government, and today tion of Racial Discrimination 150 words. Letters may be edited for
have called for Site C to be can- length and clarity. E-mail:
there’s one fewer. celled. Canadians should take letters@globeandmail.com

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OPINION
Freeland gets the hardest job in Canada
As the new Minister
of Finance, she will
have to balance
the PM’s plans with
economic realities
KONRAD
YAKABUSKI
OPINION
R
amping up spending in the
face of the coronavirus
pandemic was the easy
part. It required no ideological
leap of faith for Bill Morneau to
go all-in on fiscal stimulus, de-
spite concerns about how so
much debt might mortgage the
country’s future.
Mr. Morneau will not be
around for the hard part, how-
ever. With his Monday resigna-
tion as finance minister, it will
fall to Chrystia Freeland to con-
vince financial markets that Ot-
tawa has a serious plan to pre-
vent a record deficit from becom-
ing the new normal.
Morneau sells one last story in service to the Trudeau machine
ROBYN
URBACK
OPINION
W
hen Bill Morneau an-
nounced his resignation
Monday – both as Can-
ada’s Finance Minister and as MP
for Toronto Centre – he insisted
the decision was his and his alone.
“No,” Mr. Morneau said point-
blank, when asked if Prime Minis-
ter Justin Trudeau had asked for
his resignation. “This morning I
went to the Prime Minister and I
tendered my resignation.”
Mr. Morneau had, until then,
been subject to a barrage of leaks
about a supposedly growing rift
between him and Mr. Trudeau.
Sources told Reuters Mr. Morneau
was being stingy on pandemic re-
covery plans and reluctant to in-
vest in green initiatives. They told
The Globe and Mail he was too
conservative on COVID-19 relief
measures.
Senior sources said Mr. Mor-
neau blindsided the PMO when
he revealed he repaid the WE or-
ganization for trips he and his
family took in 2017. And Bloom-
berg reported that the Prime Min-
ister had found a new informal fi-
nancial adviser in former Bank of
Canada governor Mark Carney.
Together, it was hardly more
subtle than if a PMO source had
gone on record to say: “Pssst, Bill.
The PM says pack your things.”
But for Mr. Morneau to concede
to the obvious – that an ethical
scandal had made his presence in
cabinet untenable – would mean
an undignified exit for him and
leave uncomfortable questions
for Mr. Trudeau about what made
Proroguing Parliament isn’t inherently nefarious – but it demands our vigilance
PHILIPPE LAGASSÉ
OPINION
Associate professor at Carleton
University. He researches the
Westminster system.
P
rime Minister Justin Tru-
deau has announced that
Parliament will be pro-
rogued until Sept. 23 – and Cana-
dians can be forgiven for thinking
that this move is suspect.
Ever since Stephen Harper ad-
vised governor-general Michaëlle
Jean to end the parliament ses-
sion in 2008, saving his minority
Conservative government, the ve-
ry word “prorogue” has been as-
sociated with controversy. And
prorogation’s bad rap probably
explains why Mr. Trudeau avoid-
ed proroguing the last Parliament
altogether; nothing prevented
him from proroguing, but not do-
ing so set him apart from his pred-
ecessor.
His decision now to prorogue,
amid the simmering scandal over
WE Charity and after the resigna-
tion of his finance minister, looks
cynical as a result.
Given that Parliament was to
return in late September anyway,
a prorogation of just over a month
Mr. Morneau’s apparent dis-
comfort with Prime Minister Jus-
tin Trudeau’s desire to seize on
the crisis to chart an even more
interventionist course for the
federal government explains his
resignation as much as the WE
Charity mess he got himself into.
Although the WE scandal served
as a convenient pretext for Mr.
Trudeau to throw Mr. Morneau
overboard, it had become clear
that the two men had been clash-
ing over policy matters, too.
And that is the most unset-
tling aspect of Mr. Morneau’s res-
ignation. He was a rare voice of
fiscal caution around a cabinet
table of progressives for whom
debt and deficits are an after-
thought. His departure leaves a
massive hole at the centre of
power.
Had that hole been filled by
former Bank of Canada governor
Mark Carney, as many on Bay
Street had hoped, Mr. Morneau’s
departure would be no big deal.
Most domestic and foreign in-
vestment analysts who cover
Canada would have hailed Mr.
Carney’s arrival as a good news
story. The addition to cabinet of a
Former finance minister Bill Morneau announces his resignation during a news conference on Parliament Hill
in Ottawa on Monday. JUSTIN TANG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
the finance minister’s WE-related
transgressions materially worse
than his own.
So, Mr. Morneau instead deliv-
ered a cheap and unconvincing
story about how Canada needs a
finance minister for a long-term
recovery, and since he never in-
tended to run for more than two
elections, the appropriate time
for him to resign was now: just 10
months after campaigning for re-
election, in the middle of a global
pandemic, with the federal debt
poised to cross the $1-trillion
mark and the country grappling
with economic upheaval unlike
anything we have ever before
seen.
Indeed, according to him, there
was simply no better moment for
may not seem all that dramatic,
but the fact that the committees
holding hearings into the WE
Charity will no longer be meeting
is significant. Whether this is a fair
characterization depends on the
government’s ability to show it
was necessary, and for Canadians
to decide if they agree.
But the mere mention of the
word “prorogue” need not, on its
own, trigger alarm bells. Proroga-
tion does serve a purpose and is
usually deployed without nefari-
ous intent. It is important to judge
each prorogation on its own mer-
its.
Prorogation ends one parlia-
mentary session and allows a new
one to start. This stops all parlia-
mentary business: Government
bills that haven’t become law
must be reintroduced, unless the
House of Commons reinstates
them, and committees cease to
function, their inquiries halted,
and they must be reconstituted
when the new session begins.
When Parliament resumes, the
governor-general reads a new
Speech from the Throne outlining
the plans for the new session – al-
lowing the government to high-
light new priorities, with the deck
cleared of parliamentary business
to make room for them – before
the legislature’s business gets un-
former governor of the Bank of
England would have offset con-
cerns of fiscal policy gone adrift.
For all her political talent, Ms.
Freeland does not have a compa-
rable profile. Her willingness to
stand steadfastly by Mr. Trudeau
through the SNC-Lavalin and WE
scandals, which have shed light
on the Prime Minister’s ethical
blind spot, could make investors
more than a little uncomfortable
about her closeness to her boss.
She will need to make clear
early and often that she is not a
rubber stamp for fiscal policy
concocted in the Prime Minister’s
Office.
That will not be easy. Mr. Mor-
neau essentially saw his respon-
sibility for fiscal policy pulled out
from under him as the PMO con-
sistently overruled him on the
rollout of income support pro-
grams adopted to deal with the
pandemic shutdowns. He had fa-
voured a less generous Canada
Emergency Response Benefit and
Canada Emergency Wage Subsi-
dy. No one else around the cabi-
net table appears to have had his
back as he warned about the
dangers of going so big.
him to pursue his new ambition:
to become secretary-general of
the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development
(OECD).
Mr. Morneau’s exit was of the
same tenor of his role in cabinet
over the past five years: enduring-
ly in service to the Trudeau ma-
chine, selling a line one gets the
sense he doesn’t really believe.
While he oversaw several bold
and successful initiatives – a more
equitable Canada Child Benefit,
the completion of a new health
accord with the provinces – he
was also the frontman in a battle
with small-business owners over
supposed tax loopholes, while us-
ing something of a loophole him-
self to maintain ownership of
der way again.
Prorogation, then, is an act of
renewal within a single parlia-
ment. Used in this way, it
shouldn’t raise eyebrows. If a par-
liament has been in session for a
while, it may be time for a refresh.
The problem is that this power
can be abused, especially in mi-
nority parliaments, to allow
prime ministers to delay scrutiny,
avoid votes of non-confidence or
otherwise undermine the will of
parliament. Mr. Harper’s 2008
prorogation prevented the oppo-
sition from bringing down his
government and replacing it with
a loose-knit and ultimately unsta-
ble coalition.
On Dec. 30, 2009, Mr. Harper
again prorogued Parliament, un-
til March 3, 2010, leading critics to
charge that he was interfering
with a committee inquiry into
Canada’s handling of Afghan de-
tainees.
Last fall’s attempted proroga-
tion of the British Parliament by
Prime Minister Boris Johnson,
which the U.K. Supreme Court
quashed in an unpredecented rul-
ing, was a naked effort to take
back control of Brexit.
Prorogations that last weeks or
months are usually bad news.
There’s no need for prorogations
to last very long – Canada has no
With Mr. Morneau’s departure
and Mr. Carney’s non-arrival, the
cabinet now consists almost en-
tirely of big government activists
with an abiding faith in the vis-
ible hand of the state and a
marked distrust of the invisible
hand of the market. Any ambi-
guity about the ideological orien-
tations of this government has
been eradicated.
For now, markets continue to
surf on the extraordinary mone-
tary stimulus that the Bank of
Canada has injected into the
economy since the pandemic
struck. The federal debt – which
will surpass the $1-trillion mark
on this year’s projected deficit of
$343-billion – is not a problem as
long as the central bank keeps
printing money to buy federal
bonds.
Markets, however, have a fun-
ny way of turning on countries
such as Canada when they least
expect it. We learned that lesson
in the 1990s – not that this gov-
ernment possesses any institu-
tional memory of the painful
reckoning Canada experienced
back then.
Whatever specific policy initia-
shares in his family business. Mr.
Morneau was tasked with defend-
ing his government’s ever-in-
creasing spending and higher-
than-projected deficits, ignoring
warnings from credit agencies
that Canada’s (pre-COVID) debt
made it vulnerable in case of eco-
nomic downturn.
Mr. Morneau was also respon-
sible for expanding the Canada
Pension Plan and delivering on
Mr. Trudeau’s 2015 promise to halt
the planned rise in Old Age Secu-
rity (OAS) and Guaranteed In-
come Supplement (GIS) eligibili-
ty from the age of 65 to 67 –
though he co-authored a book
about the misconception that
Canada is headed into a retire-
ment crisis. “Instead of expan-
standard length, but the British
average is eight calendar days –
and Parliament should sit as often
as it can. A long prorogation is ob-
viously made worse when com-
mittees are looking into troubling
government behaviour.
Ending a parliamentary ses-
sion when a vote of non-confi-
dence is looming amounts to a
constitutional crisis. When used
in these ways, prorogation is the
effective equivalent of what U.S.
constitutional scholar Mark Tush-
net calls “constitutional hard-
ball,” employing legitimate pow-
ers in ways that violate wider
norms.
Is there a way to prevent prime
ministers from abusing proroga-
tion? The 2008 prorogation led
many to argue that Ms. Jean
should have rejected Mr. Harper’s
advice to prorogue. Had she done
so, that would arguably have
prompted Mr. Harper’s resigna-
tion, leading to a change of gov-
ernment before the Commons
formally withdrew confidence.
Tempting though it may be, ex-
pecting the viceregal representa-
tive to refuse a prime minister’s
advice to prorogue – even if the
government appears on the cusp
of losing confidence – risks drag-
ging the governor-general into
partisan frays. In the end, Ms. Jean
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tives emerge from next month’s
cabinet retreat, which will set the
stage for a fall throne speech, it is
safe to assume they will not in-
clude a plan to return to a bal-
anced budget. That might be bad
enough were it not for all the Lib-
erals who advocate for a Cana-
dian version of the U.S. left’s
Green New Deal or for a state-led
industrial policy modelled along
the lines of presumptive Demo-
cratic presidential nominee Joe
Biden’s Build Back Better plan.
The difference is that the
Green New Deal and Build Back
Better plans are campaign pitch-
es, rather than serious policy
proposals. Mr. Trudeau’s minor-
ity government can pass just
about any postpandemic eco-
nomic plan it wants as long it
buys off a New Democratic Party
that is terrified of facing an elec-
tion that pits the activist Liberals
against the austerity-minded To-
ries.
Ms. Freeland may find herself
having to decide which comes
first: fealty to her boss, or cred-
ibility with the credit-rating
agencies. It is unlikely she can
have it both ways.
sions of the social safety net,” Mr.
Morneau and his co-author, Fred
Vettese, wrote in The Real Retire-
ment in 2013, “there must be mod-
erate cutbacks in social spending
phased in over time – or at least
growth that is not in excess of the
growth in GDP. Phasing in the eli-
gibility age for OAS and GIS from
65 to 67 is a step in that direction.”
A couple of years later, Mr. Mor-
neau was in the House of Com-
mons, eating his own words.
Such is the indignity of a life in
partisan politics. Back in 2015, Mr.
Morneau was pegged as a figure of
restraint and common sense in a
cabinet rife with cavalier ideolo-
gy. He was a Bay Street guy and
former chair of the C.D. Howe In-
stitute who was supposed to bring
his fiscal hawkishness and real-
world sensibilities to a govern-
ment with a distinct and lofty pro-
gressive bent. And he did bring
them with him – except he left
them outside the cabinet room
and instead rattled off the govern-
ment’s inane talking points.
Even in his exit, Mr. Morneau
was swallowed by the Trudeau
machine: delivering a story the
listener knows the speaker
doesn’t believe, in preservation of
a brand for which his job was
mostly to conform. The leaks
about Mr. Morneau’s sudden aus-
terity depicted him, rather ironi-
cally, fulfilling a role many on the
outside expected him to serve
when appointed as one of the
adults in cabinet in 2015. But on
the inside, his role was merely as
one of the PMO’s children.
In the end, this kid made the
PMO look too bad to stick around.
But to save face in front of the
neighbours, we’ll just say he’s go-
ing to college.
judged – rightly – that it was for
the Commons to decide Mr. Har-
per’s fate, rather than make that
decision herself.
Another option is to regulate
prorogation in law.
While the British Parliament
can do whatever it wants with the
prorogation prerogative, our leg-
islature is more constrained, giv-
en our codified constitution. The
power to prorogue Parliament be-
longs to the office of the governor-
general under paragraph 41(a) of
the Constitution Act, 1982, mean-
ing that passing a law to terminate
or modify the power would re-
quire the unanimous consent of
all the provinces and the two
Houses of Parliament. Imposing
statutory limits on prorogation
without a constitutional amend-
ment would be legally dubious.
In a Canadian context, prevent-
ing improper prorogations de-
pends on making them politically
costly.
Our heads of government
should be named and shamed if
they advise extended, tactical
prorogations rather than short,
purposeful ones. This isn’t a great
solution, but it may be the only
one we’ve got – now, it’s up to Can-
adians to decide if this proroga-
tion is too long given the Trudeau
government’s troubles.
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LIFE & ARTS
Vancouver writer explores the women in Chekhov’s life
In new novel, Caroline
Adderson offers an
imagined origin for the
Russian author’s classic
play The Seagull through
the eyes of his sister
MARSHA LEDERMAN VANCOUVER
T
he Russian author Anton
Chekhov is ill. His sister
Masha is devoted to him.
She introduces him to a beautiful
friend. Hearts are broken – and a
masterpiece is written. In her new
novel A Russian Sister, Vancouver-
based writer Caroline Adderson
imagines a backstory for Chek-
hov’s crafting of The Seagull. For
instance, in the opening line of his
classic play, the character Masha
is asked why she always wears
black. “I’m in mourning for my
life,” she responds. “I’m unhap-
py.” In Adderson’s imagining,
these words are said by the real-
life Masha and borrowed by her
brother for his play.
What made you want to write
about Chekhov? Or, more to the
point, the women around him?
I didn’t at first think I was going to
write about Masha; I actually
thought I was going to write about
Chekhov. I’ve had a lifelong love
of his writing and there was one
thing about his life that intrigued
me: He only married three years
before he died and he never lived
with his wife; he continued to live
with his mother and sister. That’s
what I thought I was going to write
about. Then I realized that would
be a story about a very sick man
quarrelling with his female rela-
tives in a really boring seaside
THE
Caroline Adderson has four books arriving this year, including her
novel A Russian Sister and three children’s titles.
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town. And then I started getting
curious about Masha.
The biographies always talk
about his women troubles in that
he could never commit to wom-
en. He had many, many lovers; he
broke everybody’s heart. Yet no-
body ever writes that there’s any
connection to the fact that he and
his two older brothers were bru-
tally, brutally beaten by their fa-
ther almost daily. What happens
to your psyche and your ability to
emotionally connect to people
because of that childhood
trauma?
I was on Draft 5 or something
when #MeToo was raging and
[Masha] was so implicated with
these lovers that he had; she
would in a way kind of supply
them. And I just thought, she
must be so angry.
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There’s an almost unhealthy co-
dependence in your interpretation
of their relationship. To what extent
was that invented and to what
extent did you draw from reality?
Her thoughts and feelings are
imagined, but all the actual out-
ward events in the book are true.
So that was my own interpreta-
tion. But there were so many fac-
tors that I felt would lead to that.
Firstly, her immense desire for
love. She goes along finding differ-
ent people or objects to love –
such as the mongoose – and
they’re always taken away from
her. The only person that stays
with her is the brother. The other
brother, Kolia, died of TB (tuber-
culosis) and Chekhov has TB, so
there’s always that feeling that
he’s going to die, and the whole
family was so dependent on him.
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So she actually had a pet
mongoose?
Yes. On his way back from Sakha-
lin Island, Chekhov stopped in
Ceylon and bought what he
thought were two mongooses,
but one was actually a civet cat.
The fact that [the mongoose] be-
comes [Masha’s] love interest for
a while is my own interpretation,
but he was certainly there.
Can you tell me about the research
process?
It was very pleasurable. I went to
Russia in 2015 and I went to all the
Chekhov sites: Taganrog, his
birthplace; and Rostov-on-Don,
where his parents met. I was in
Moscow, of course. And Yalta. And
Badenweiler, Germany, where he
died. I’ve been reading his fiction
all of my life, so I just really read
deeply over and over again; read
the plays, which I was less familiar
with. Then biographies, his let-
ters, everything I could get my
hands on.
At a certain point I realized I
had to stop. And that really was
the turning point for me. I pro-
duced some pretty turgid drafts
that were very biographical. Once
I said, “Forget this; I have every-
thing I need, now I have to be in-
side the book,” then everything
changed for me. I really could get
into the story on the emotional
and visceral level.
Major themes in this book include
women’s inequality and social
inequality. What was life like for
women in that class of that time?
Well, firstly, they were very lucky
to be in that class because Chek-
hov’s father was born a serf, a
slave – they were slaves. His
grandfather bought their free-
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dom when he was a young boy. So
Chekhov was very aware through
his whole life that he was not from
the gentry; every other writer was
from the gentry. This contributed
to this aspect of his personality
that you must always present as a
person of dignity and class; and a
lot of trouble with the two older
brothers who were terrible alco-
holics, as a result of their treat-
ment, I think, by the father. The
fact that Chekhov didn’t turn out
like them is a testament to who he
was.
After you returned from Russia,
was there anything you did to keep
yourself in that Russian mindset as
you were writing?
It was just there. This is one thing
about COVID that’s very trou-
bling; the importance of travell-
ing when you’re researching a
book. I really have to go some
place to feel it. Even when I set
something in Vancouver, I go to
the neighbourhood. It’s not for
the reader, it’s for me so I can
imagine it. I don’t know what’s go-
ing to happen if we can’t travel.
The internet is not the same. It
gives you certain facts, but I don’t
know how you can bring some-
thing to life without experiencing
it yourself.
What’s it like to release a book
during a pandemic?
Well, I actually have four books
this year, I have three kids’ books,
too. One thing is: Everybody’s in
the same situation. So it’s not like,
“Oh, boo-hoo, this terrible thing
happened to me.” The terrible
thing is happening to everybody,
so I just feel like you know what?
Big deal. We just have to go on.
Like a line from Uncle Vanya. We
have to keep on living.
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FIRST PERSON
Staycation incentives
are encouraging locals
MY WINTER to visit like tourists
GETAWAY DIANE SELKIRK

ILLUSTRATION BY MARY KIRKPATRICK
Waving away concerns about my age and travelling alone,
I made my way to Churchill, Man., both for research
and personal fulfilment, Anne Dalziel Patton writes
W
ith communities on Haida Gwaii adapting to
increased travel restrictions after a recent
COVID-19 outbreak, staycations have taken on a
new importance in the remote islands. The 20-
person outbreak is believed to have occurred after residents
who travelled off-island returned home. So now, in addition
to new provincial restrictions banning all visitors to Haida
Gwaii, Carla Lutner, chief operations officer of the Gwaii
Trust Society, says local leadership is encouraging residents
to stay on Haida Gwaii whenever possible.
To help, the Gwaii Trust is offering up to $250 in grants for
Haida and residents of Haida Gwaii (Haidagwaii’an) for stay-
cation expenses. “The grant helps locals explore and pro-
vides assistance for local tourism businesses,” says Lutner.
Lutner says the grants have been well received. They’ve
also provided some much-needed distraction on the hard-
hit islands. “A popular topic of conversation is people asking
each other, ‘What are you going to do with your staycation
money?’ ” she says.
Families can pool their money, and so far requests for the
funds have ranged from cabin rentals on North Beach to
cultural tours in Gwaii Haanas to fishing charters for entire
families.
A Tourism Industry Association of Canada report predicts
that without further support, about 61,000 tourism busi-
nesses in Canada, or 57 per cent, are projected to fail, putting
1.66 million Canadians out of work. To stem the losses, gov-
ernment programs have been offering emergency wage sub-
sidies and other grants. Meanwhile, professional organiza-
tions have been teaching tourism businesses enhanced
cleaning techniques and offering marketing tips to entice
locals. But there’s still a need to find innovative ways to get
people out exploring safely and spending money locally.
New Brunswick recently announced a $3-million stayca-
tion rebate program for residents. The province’s grant en-
courages locals to stay and spend in nearby communities,
and offers a 20-per-cent rebate of up to $1,000 a person.
Eligible expenses include travel costs such as fuel and car
rentals; accommodation includ-
ing hotels, motels, inns, B&Bs
and campsites; restaurant meals;
and activities such as museum A popular topic

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ou’re going where? In February? At your exuberance in each other, and shared the same fees and outdoor tours.
age?” awe for the barely touched northern terrain. I Local travel must include a of conversation is
Friends’ voices rang with disbelief quickly realized that wilderness outposts like paid overnight stay in the prov- people asking each
when I announced plans for my first- Churchill attract free spirits who think outside ince up to Sept. 30. According to a other, ‘What are you
ever solo holiday – a two-and-a-half-week jaunt mainstream cultural constraints. statement by Tourism, Heritage going to do with
from balmy Victoria to snowbound Churchill, Man. I threw myself into each new adventure. With and Culture Minister Bruce Fitch,
I listened to dire pronouncements about vicious snowshoes on my feet, I sank down mid-calf into “the rebate will not only encour- your staycation
polar bears, frigid temperatures, shut-down tourist fresh snow, as opposed to floundering waist-deep age New Brunswickers to travel money?’
facilities and expensive air-ambulance evacuation. without them. Yes, I could waddle adequately on a and discover the natural beauty
Having thoroughly researched my trip, I shared hard-packed trail, but I wanted to experience the and diversity of the province,” CARLA LUTNER
CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER,
none of these qualms. I explained that polar bears challenge of travelling through deep drifts. Each but support tourism businesses GWAII TRUST SOCIETY
are not skulking around town in February. They foot had to be drawn straight up with bent knee when they need it the most.
are far out on Hudson Bay, hunting seals on the and carefully placed a step ahead. It required Prince Edward Island is also exploring ideas that will spur
ice. In late winter, the average temperature in mental concentration to teach leg muscles this in-province travel. Internationally, Ireland has recently an-
Churchill is -20 C, familiar to me after 45 years on new way of walking, not to mention these same nounced its own program. Ireland’s staycation voucher of-
the Saskatchewan Prairies. February/March is the muscles protesting for several days. Now I have fers citizens a refund of 20 per cent on restaurant and hotel
aurora borealis season, so services would be open some understanding of the struggles my poor bills in the form of a tax credit. The rebate, which begins in
for tourists. Not as many as summertime but, on Highlanders faced on their 150-mile snowshoe trek October and is expected to run until April, 2021, is good for
the plus side, there wouldn’t be black flies or mos- to York Factory. individual expenses up to €625 (with the rebate worth up to
quitoes. Bill arranged an excursion across the Churchill €125, or roughly $195), and double that for couples. Region-
“At your age?” There was only one answer to River, about two miles wide at its mouth. My ally, 56,000 households in Kerry are receiving an additional
this rebuke: “I won’t be younger next year.” I have guide, Steve, took me in his side-by-side Ski-Doo. €100 that can be used for a range of registered county ac-
embarked on a campaign called “Embracing 80,” He assured me he was a Northern Ranger, so I was commodations, in an effort to keep them even closer to
doing 80 new things before I reach that venerable safe with him. Focused on the forthcoming adven- home.
age. The occasion of my 78th birthday seemed an ture, I hadn’t worried for an instant about my wel- James Cowpar, co-owner of Haida Style Expeditions,
ideal time to visit Churchill. And just in case – fare. But just in case, the rifle slung on his back which specializes in cultural adventure tours, says for busi-
Churchill has comprehensive hospital facilities. instilled confidence. Near both shores ice ridges nesses, the $250 individual grants are a lifeline. The Indige-
Besides, this was a research trip. I’m writing a erupted from the frozen surface like grotesque sea nous-owned company, which normally hosts travellers from
novel about Scottish Highlanders evicted from monsters. I yelled “Stop!” several times to take around the world on its daily tours, had been expecting a
their land in 1813 and forced to immigrate to the photos. banner season. Instead, as trips were cancelled and deposits
New World. Unforeseen circumstances caused On the far shore, Steve took me wherever I returned, the company initially fell through the cracks of the
them to spend the winter near the wanted to go. The first stop was federal stimulus funding.
small Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) Sloop’s Cove, an extended area of flat Now, Cowpar says they hope to run two to three tours a
outpost at the mouth of the Churchill rocks where various HBC employees week for August and September. “The benefits will help to
River. Obviously, I needed to experi- I have embarked on from the past had carved their keep local businesses alive, and will give people an opportu-
ence Churchill in winter to fully names. This was where my characters nity to visit Gwaii Haanas and enjoy outdoor recreation,” he
imagine their ordeal. This argument a campaign called had been dumped off their ship, says.
convinced my family there was a ‘Embracing 80,’ instead of at York Factory where Destinations that don’t have financial incentives to en-
compelling reason for my madcap doing 80 new things accommodation awaited them. At courage locals to visit are still hoping travellers bust out
adventure, other than incipient before I reach that the ruins of Fort Prince of Wales the their travel savings and splurge on local experiences.
dementia. only other footprints had been made Maya Lange, vice-president of marketing at Destination
Before embarking, I showed my venerable age. The by an Arctic hare. Another advantage BC, says local support is going to be crucial to the long-term
walking group my new waterproof occasion of my 78th of the off-season – I fully experienced survival of many tourism businesses: “When you support
hiking boots, guaranteed to protect birthday seemed an the isolation of the desolate, treeless tourism businesses, you support your friends, families and
to -40, Celsius or Fahrenheit. “Those ideal time to visit tundra. neighbours, and the small businesses that make up the
won’t be warm enough,” admonished When the wind was still, the foundation of our industry.”
well-meaning friends recently return- Churchill. And just in silence of the snow-shrouded tundra Equally important, Lange says, is the fact that tourism
ed from Mexican beaches. “I’ll wear case – Churchill has was overpowering. There was no businesses contribute to a region’s identity. “Tourism plays a
thick socks,” I countered. comprehensive sound except my own breathing. If I positive role in preserving, sharing and celebrating the rich
I did feel a twinge of anxiety about moved, I heard my footfall on the culture and history of B.C.’s diverse communities and peo-
being lonely, travelling on my own.
hospital facilities. creaking snow. On the frozen water ple,” she says. “Think about the things we enjoy that would
That concern was quickly dispelled. near shore, I heard ominous groan- not be as viable without the tourism engine: museums and
From my first phone call to the Churchill Chamber ing as the ice shifted with the flowing tide. At galleries; festivals and sports events; air, highway and coast-
of Commerce, I felt warmly welcomed. When I night, the Northern Lights evoked body-tingling al transportation; dining and wine touring; and parks and
chatted with Bill, the proprietor of the Iceberg Inn, awe no photograph could duplicate. These memo- recreational facilities.”
he promised to arrange personalized tours. In ries will enliven winter-survival scenes in my
addition, he offered to bake a birthday cake. A novel. Special to The Globe and Mail
woman I met on the plane ride north gave me a The railway station is a two-minute walk from
scenic tour of the area before dropping me off at the Iceberg Inn. During my birthday dinner, two
my cozy lodge. French guests started getting restless about mis-
After checking in, I donned my borrowed winter sing their 7 p.m. boarding time. At 6:45 p.m., Bill TODAY’S SUDOKU SOLUTION
gear – snow pants, down-filled coat, fur-lined mitts and Eva were just lighting candles for the cake.
– and took my first walkabout. My new boots were Well, who should emerge from one of the bed-
perfect for crunching over the dry snow that rooms but the train engineer after an afternoon
squeaked with every step. That sound reminded nap. Problem solved. We invited him to share some
me of winter in Saskatchewan. As I strolled down cake, knowing the train could not leave without its
the main street, the wind stung my cheeks. Pulling driver.
down my hat flaps, I carried on to the edge of When my own departure date arrived, I was torn
town, about 10 minutes away. The snow-swept flat- between reluctance to leave and giddy anticipation
lands extended to a line of trees far off on the of riding the rails. The train crew was another cast
horizon. I felt right at home. of quirky characters who pampered me for the
On the way back I stopped at Polar Bears next two days. Munching treats in the dome car, I
International House, the destination Bill had sug- watched tundra slip into forest and signs of human
gested for my introduction to Churchill. The in- habitation emerge bit by bit. When I couldn’t stay
stant I stepped inside, I was offered tea and cake. awake another minute, I snuggled into my own
The curator and I bonded and spent the next hour private sleeping cocoon.
play-fighting with polar bear skulls. Did I mention I At no point did anyone in Churchill imply that I TODAY’S KENKEN SOLUTION
was the only visitor? was too old to be there. We were all busy exploring
Back at my hostel, Eva, a 25-year-old traveller the environment and the history. The next time I
from Germany, had prepared supper for herself, have an opportunity for some offbeat adventure
Bill and me. Did I feel lonely? Not for a second. Eva I’m going to take it. And so should you. You won’t
became my close companion for restaurant meals be younger next year.
and strolls about town. The age difference didn’t
matter. We recognized the same curiosity and Anne Dalziel Patton lives in Victoria.

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ATHENS 31/24S 33/24S 32/24S BARRIE 21/9S 23/17R 28/19PC
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BERLIN 27/16R 30/19PC 35/21PC CHARLOTTETOWN 24/16S 22/15PC 22/16PC
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FRANKFURT 25/17R 30/20PC 34/21S CORNER BROOK 21/15PC 19/13R 17/13R
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BRIDGE Errors of omission often are possibility by first performing spades. That effort is now certain
BY STEVE BECKER just as costly as errors of com- the necessary spadework. to bear fruit, regardless of the lo-
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19, 2020 mission. Take this case where After ruffing the spade lead, cation of the ace of diamonds.
you’re South, and West leads you draw two rounds of trump, Accordingly, you lead dum-
a spade against your five-club play a heart to the queen, ruff a my’s seven of hearts, and, in-
contract. You ruff and note that spade, play a heart to the king, stead of ruffing it, you discard
prospects of making the contract then ruff dummy’s last spade. a diamond! West wins with the
South deAler. are good, since you can score 11 These preliminary moves, al- jack but must either hand you a
EAst-West vulnerABle. tricks if the opposing hearts are though they don’t directly gain fatal ruff-and-discard by return-
divided 3-3 or, failing that, if East any tricks, are made to cater ing a spade, or lead a diamond,
has the ace of diamonds. to the possibility of an uneven establishing your king as a trick.
The Bidding: But if your thoughts stop there, heart division, with West holding One way or the other, you wind
you haven’t gone far enough. the greater length. up making the contract.
South West North East There also is a third chance to When you next play a heart The point of the hand is that
1 [C] PAss 1 [H] 1 [S] make the contract, even if the to the ace and East shows out, you should never just settle for a
3 [C] 3 [S] 4 [C] PAss hearts don’t divide evenly and you have a right to congratu- good chance to make your con-
5 [C] West has the ace of diamonds. late yourself for having had the tract without first looking for a
Opening LeAd – three of spAdes. You can avail yourself of this foresight to eliminate dummy’s better chance.

C H A L L E N G E C RO S S WO R D SUDOKU DIFFICULTY RATING: HHHII

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

9 10

11 12

13 14 15

16 17

18 19 20 21

22 23
INSTRUCTIONS Fill in the grid so that each row of nine squares, each column of nine
and each section of nine (three squares by three) contains the numbers 1 through 9
in any order. There is only one solution to each puzzle.

KENKEN
24 25
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Each row and each
CRYPTIC CLUES QUICK CLUES column must contain
ACROSS DOWN ACROSS the numbers 1 through
1 Disconcert (3,3)
6 without repeating.
1 Short of spares (6) 1 Unusually astute piece
4 Feature includes a work of work by an artist (6) 4 A shaking (6)
of the composer (6) 2 New cadet took part (5) 9 Without pausing (7) 2. The numbers within
the heavily outlined
9 Its residents live on eggs (7) 3 The rest of the foot 10 Vertical (5) boxes, called cages,
10 A minor prize (5) in the cavalry (7) 11 Small shoot (5) must combine using
11 A neat soft-drink 5 Centre of the earthquake (5) 12 Completely perplex (7) the given operation (in
dispenser (5) 6 It may be high but flat 13 Relevant example (4,2,5) any order) to produce
12 Ties the rest in knots (7) when reached (7) 18 Driving force (7) the target numbers in
20 Cluster of bees (5) the top-left corners.
13 One who calls cheerfully 7 Dim sun when out will
for spirits; just the hardly encourage it (6) 22 Momentary flash (5)
Freebies: Fill in
right amount (5,6) 8 Likely to snap under 23 Ill-matched (7) 3. single-box cages with
18 An assembly of police pressure (3-8) 24 Yield from investment (6) the numbers in the
– about a thousand – 14 Possibly married someone 25 Unorthodox opinion (6) top-left corner.
get together (7) who thought a lot
20 Expression of annoyance of you (7) DOWN
when the scores 15 Resentment shown 1 Impose penalty on (6) ©2020 KENKEN Puzzle LLC. KENKEN is a registered trademark of Nextoy, LLC. Dist. by Andrews McMeel
are levelled (5) when a futile plan has 2 General (5) www.kenken.com
22 Time of year in which gone astray (7) 3 Weariness (7) YESTERDAY'S CRYPTIC
Capri looks its best (5) 16 Fights are things 5 Come to fruition (5)
dogs enjoy (6) ACROSS: 1 Blanket, 5 Disco, 8 Future perfect, 9 Serac, 10 Olympia, 11 Raffia,
23 He puts up Oriental 6 Tearfully sentimental (7) 12 Gdansk, 15 Session, 17 Onset, 19 Maid of all work, 20 Danes, 21 Postern.
clergyman (7) 17 The porter has less 7 Of strong physique (6) DOWN: 1 Buffs, 2 After a fashion, 3 Karachi, 4 Tiptoe, 5 Derby, 6 Stepping stone,
24 Not what one expects on, it’s said (6) 8 Simple and obvious (4-3-4) 7 Outback, 11 Resumed, 13 Doodles, 14 Encamp, 16 Icons, 18 Token.
from a good writer (6) 19 Legally it’s relative (2-3) 14 Set officially (7)
25 Fisherman shows 21 To arrange unit on left (5) 15 Highly offensive (7) YESTERDAY'S QUICK
displeasure when 16 Be slow to depart (6) ACROSS: 1 Frantic, 5 Lapse, 8 Take a back seat, 9 Loose, 10 Centaur, 11 Bother,
lake is filled in (6) 17 To use (6) 12 Menial, 15 Elevate, 17 Aware, 19 Stop at nothing, 20 Denim, 21 Licence.
DOWN: 1 Fatal, 2 Ask for the moon, 3 Trapeze, 4 Chance, 5 Liken, 6 Prevarication,
Solutions to today's Sudoku and Kenken can be found in the Life & Arts content
19 Private teacher (5)
7 Enthral, 11 Blessed, 13 Elastic, 14 Vernal, 16 Alarm, 18 Eagle.
area of the A section. Crossword solutions will be with tomorrow's puzzles. 21 Shrewd (5)
W E DN E S DAY , AUGUST 19, 2020 | T HE GLOB E AN D MAI L O NEWS | A15

Lukashenko holds firm as strikes spread

Belarussian President
faces unprecedented
challenge as thousands
of blue-collar workers,
whose support he relies
on, walk off the job
YURAS KARMANAU MINSK
More workers in Belarus joined a
widening strike Tuesday to press
for the resignation of authoritar-
ian President Alexander Lukash-
enko, who has extended his 26-
year rule in an election the oppo-
sition says was rigged.
Mr. Lukashenko has refused to
step down after a harsh police
crackdown on peaceful protes-
ters in the days after the Aug. 9
vote. In a move intended to se-
cure the loyalty of law-enforce-
ment agencies amid the demon-
strations and strikes, he signed a
decree honouring more than 300
police officers for their service.
The opposition denounced the
awards as a national insult after
the suppression of protests with
rubber bullets, stun grenades and
clubs. Nearly 7,000 people were
detained, hundreds were injured
and at least two people died.
The Interior Ministry, which
oversees the police, insisted the
awards weren’t linked to the
crackdown that has galvanized
public anger and drawn interna-
of the world’s potash fertilizer
output.
In the city of Soligorsk, home
to the giant Belaruskali factory,
strike organizer Anatoly Bokun
said workers at all potash mines
have halted work. The factory,
which employs 16,000, is Bela-
rus’s major cash earner.
“They are putting pressure on
us and threatening us with mass
dismissals, but we will not return
to work until Lukashenko steps
down,” Mr. Bokun said as thou-
sands of workers joined a rally.
Belarus’s ambassador to Slova-
kia, Igor Leshchenya, became the
first government official to chal-
lenge Mr. Lukashenko on Satur-
day when he posted a video sup-
Employees in Minsk walk off the job Tuesday as supporters cheer them porting the protests before hand-
on, part of a wave of labour action in Belarus that included a strike at ing in his resignation.
a factory that produces a fifth of the world’s potash. SERGEI GRITS/AP He was joined Tuesday by the
ambassador to Spain, Pavel Pus-
tional criticism. In a tacit recogni- in Minsk, he was heckled and tavy, who posted a statement on
tion of a split in the ranks, the jeered by workers shouting, “Go Facebook urging authorities to re-
ministry’s spokeswoman said in a away!” count the vote and prosecute
statement that some officers had “The authorities should under- those who beat protesters.
resigned under pressure and stand that they are losing con- Nearly 1,000 people gathered
threats from the opposition. She trol,” the head of an independent in front of the Janka Kupala
didn’t say how many quit. miners’ union, Yuri Zakharov, National Theater in Minsk to sup-
Mr. Lukashenko’s actions told the Associated Press on Tues- port members of its troupe who
prompted thousands – including day. “Only Lukashenko’s quit en masse after its director,
workers at state-controlled facto- resignation and punishment of Pavel Latushko, was fired for
ries and plants, actors and broad- those in charge of rigging and siding with protesters. They heck-
casters – to walk off the job. beatings can calm us down. The led and jeered the culture minis-
The prospect of a nationwide strike will continue and grow ter who visited the theatre and
shutdown was an unprecedented until he steps down.” then threw a stack of resignation
challenge to Mr. Lukashenko, The labour action that began letters at his feet.
who has relied on blue-collar Monday quickly grew to several On Tuesday, Mr. Latushko, who
workers as his base of support. major industrial plants, including was culture minister and then
During Monday’s visit to a factory a factory that accounts for a fifth ambassador to France before tak-
ing the theatre director’s job,
emerged from a meeting of oppo-
sition activists who discussed
forming a “co-ordination coun-
cil” to negotiate a transition of
power. He later told reporters of
the growing dissent among pub-
lic servants, many of whom sup-
port the protests.
On Tuesday, workers searching
a wooded area found the body of
Konstantin Shishmakov, who
headed a small military history
museum in Volkovysk near the
Polish border. He was a member
of an election commission and
exposed alleged falsifications in
the Aug. 9 balloting. Local police
said they found no evidence of a
crime, but the death has raised
suspicions of foul play.
Several hundred demonstra-
tors also gathered outside a de-
tention centre in Minsk where the
husband of Mr. Lukashenko’s top
challenger in the vote, Sviatlana
Tsikhanouskaya, was being held
to cheer him on his 42nd birth-
day. Ms. Tsikhanouskaya joined
the race after the jailing of her
husband, Sergei, a popular oppo-
sition blogger who had wanted to
run for president.
Last week, Ms. Tsikhanouskaya
left for neighbouring Lithuania in
a move her campaign said was
made under duress. On Monday,
she declared her readiness to act
as a national leader to facilitate a
new election.
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mauritian police
detain captain
of Japanese vessel
that spilled oil
along coastline
ANDREW MELDRUM JOHANNESBURG

Authorities in Mauritius have arrested

Bahia Hariri, second from right, sister of assassinated former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, listens to the live broadcast of
the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in Beirut on Tuesday. RAFAEL YAGHOBZADEH/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Lebanon: Hezbollah leader has dismissed tribunal
as tool of Western powers, says group will ignore verdict
FROM A1
But The Hague-based tribunal acquitted
three other suspects, and ruled there was
not enough evidence to link either the
Hezbollah leadership or the regime of
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the
crime.
Mr. Hariri, who was backed by Saudi
Arabia, France and the United States, was
killed as he was lobbying for an end to
Syria’s 29-year military presence in Leba-
non. After the assassination, hundreds
of thousands of Lebanese took to the
streets in protests that forced the Syrian
army’s withdrawal from the country a
few months later.
But Hezbollah has remained, and has
tightened its grip on this deeply divided
country. Hezbollah is backed by Iran,
and its supporters are almost uniformly
Shia Muslims; Mr. Hariri was Lebanon’s
most prominent Sunni politician.
The 57-year-old Mr. Ayyash, who has
yet to be sentenced, is believed to still be
at large in the Hezbollah stronghold of
southern Lebanon. The group’s leader,
Hassan Nasrallah, has dismissed the spe-
cial tribunal as a tool of Western powers,
and has said the group will ignore the
verdict.
Speaking in The Hague after Tuesday’s
ruling, Mr. Hariri’s son, Saad, called for
Hezbollah to hand over Mr. Ayyash.
“Nobody should expect any more sacri-
fices from us. We have sacrificed what is
dearest to us. … Hezbollah is the one that
should make sacrifices today,” he said.
“We will not rest until punishment is
served.”
There was palpable tension in Beirut,
where a state of emergency has been in
place since shortly after the port explo-
sion. Soldiers drove in long convoys,
circling through empty streets that
would normally be clogged with traffic.
Anti-government protesters, who had
planned to march Tuesday toward the
official residence of President Michel
Aoun, an ally of Hezbollah, called off
their demonstration amid concerns that
emotions were already too high in the
country. “We’re trying not to be hot-
headed,” said Karl Karam, a key organiz-
er of the protests, which are affiliated
with none of the sectarian political blocs.
Instead, a crowd of several hundred of
Mr. Hariri’s supporters gathered at his
tomb in the centre of the city to listen to
the verdict as it was read out over loud-
speakers that were mounted on top of a
white van. The conviction of a single
Hezbollah member did little to satisfy
their desire for justice. “The person con-
victed belongs to an organization with a
very strict hierarchy,” said 29-year-old
May el-Masri, a member of Future Youth,
a pro-Hariri movement. The conviction
of one member, she said, means “Hez-
bollah is accused.”
The court didn’t go quite as far, saying
only that “the evidence also established
that Mr. Ayyash had affiliation with
Hezbollah.”
In a 2,600-page verdict that took
about five hours to read, the judges said
they had been convinced beyond a rea-
sonable doubt that Mr. Ayyash was the
owner of one of six mobile phones that
were critical in ordering and co-ordinat-
ing the attack. The owners of the six mo-
bile phones “had access to what could be
described as ‘military grade explo-
sives,’ ” and had “knowingly agreed to
murder Mr. Hariri,” the court found.
“They are thus co-conspirators.”
However, the tribunal ruled that the
evidence against three other suspects –
Assad Sabra, Hassan Habib Merhi and
Hassan Oneissi – was “insufficient” to
prove they were among the users of the
other mobile phones.
Charges against a fifth suspect,
Mustafa Badreddine, a top Hezbollah
commander, were dropped after he was
killed while fighting in Syria in 2016.
“We acknowledge that this verdict
may not bring the closure desired by
many in Lebanon. However, today’s ver-
dict upholds the principle of account-
ability and serves as a small but signifi-
cant step forward in the continued pur-
suit for democracy, justice and security
in Lebanon,” Global Affairs Canada said
in a statement. Ottawa contributed $8-
million to the special tribunal in the 11
years since it was established, and sever-
al RCMP officers were seconded to the
investigation.
Presiding Judge David Re said the tri-
bunal – a panel of 15 Lebanese and inter-
national judges that made its base in the
Netherlands for security reasons – had
determined that “Syria and Hezbollah
may have had motives to eliminate Mr.
Hariri, and some of his political allies.”
But, Judge Re added, “there is no evi-
dence that the Hezbollah leadership had
any involvement in Mr. Hariri’s murder
and there is no direct evidence of Syrian
involvement.”
Mohammed Obeidi, a political analyst
seen as close to the Hezbollah leader-
ship, said the tribunal was wise to focus
on the guilt or innocence of the accused
individuals, rather than the Hezbollah
leadership. “This is very important, be-
cause that means they are not going to
antagonize the political and security sys-
tem in Lebanon. This is not important for
Hezbollah – this is important for Leba-
non.”
The verdict was a disappointment for
those who believe Hezbollah is respon-
sible not only for the killing of Mr. Hariri,
but also a string of other assassinations
that have targeted pro-Western political
figures.
“There is a serial killer in Lebanon,
made up of Hezbollah and the Syrian
machine. I escaped, but many died,”
Marwan Hamadeh, a former cabinet
minister and political ally of Mr. Hariri’s,
told The Globe and Mail before the ver-
dict was announced. Mr. Hamadeh sur-
vived a 2004 car bombing that killed his
bodyguard. Mr. Ayyash also stands
accused of that attack, in a separate case
before the same special tribunal.
Nayla Tueni, the chief executive offi-
cer of the an-Nahar newspaper, said
Tuesday’s verdict and the form of ac-
countability it brought were nonetheless
important for Lebanon, especially in the
wake of the port explosion.
“But I am worried, of course. I am wor-
ried every second in this phase about
what will happen,” said Ms. Tueni, whose
father Gebran was killed in another car
bomb, 10 months after Mr. Hariri’s death.
“We do not know what price we Leba-
nese will pay.”
the captain of the Japanese ship that ran
aground on a coral reef and spilled 1,000
tons of oil on the Indian Ocean island’s
protected coastline.
Sunil Kumar Nandeshwar, captain of
the MV Wakashio, who is from India,
was charged with “endangering safe
navigation” and is in custody pending a
bail hearing next week, Sivo Coothen, a
police inspector, said Tuesday.
The ship’s first officer was also
charged and is being held, he said.
“We are carrying out a full investiga-
tion and interviewing all the crew mem-
bers,” Insp. Coothen said.
The Wakasio ran aground a coral reef
on July 25 and after being pounded by
heavy waves for several days the vessel
cracked and started leaking oil on Aug.
6. The damaged ship spilled more than
1,000 tons of its cargo of 4,000 tons of
fuel into the turquoise waters of the
Mahebourg Lagoon, one of the island’s
most pristine coastal areas.
Most of the remaining 3,000 tons of
fuel was pumped off the ship before it
split into two, but environmental
groups warned that the damage to the
surrounding coral reefs could be irre-
versible.
The Wakashio was meant to stay at
least 16 kilometres from shore, but it ran
aground just a mile from the island.
Owner Nagashiki Shipping Co. Ltd. is
investigating why the ship went off
course and it has sent experts to help
clean up the damage. The Mauritian
government is seeking compensation
from the company.
The Mauritian government is under
pressure to explain why immediate ac-
tion wasn’t taken to empty the ship of its
fuel before it began to leak. Prime Minis-
ter Pravind Jugnauth earlier blamed bad
weather for the slow response.
Environmentalists in Mauritius are
objecting to plans to pull the bow of the
ship – the smaller part of the Wakashio –
out to sea and allow it to sink. The larger
part of the ship will be dragged off the
coral reef where it ran aground and
towed away, possibly to India for sal-
vage.
“Authorities say they will tow the bow
eight nautical miles out to sea and sink it
in the waters that are 2,000 feet deep,”
said Sunil Dowarkasing, an environ-
mental consultant and former member
of parliament in Mauritius.
“But that area is where whales give
birth and nurse their young,” Mr. Dowar-
kasing said. “The sunken bow could
badly affect that critical area. So the
environmental impact of that plan
should be fully considered.”
The Mauritius government has closed
off the coastal area of the eastern part of
the island, where thousands of civilian
volunteers worked for days to try to
minimize damage to the Mahebourg
lagoon and protected marine wetlands
polluted by the spilled fuel.
United Nations spokesman Stéphane
Dujarric said the UN Development Pro-
gram has allocated US$200,000 to ad-
dress the immediate impact of the spill.
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Change of finance minister With Morneau’s

exit, the Liberals
raises concerns on recovery lose their voice
of moderation
Business leaders worry Freeland will act as less of a check on spending than predecessor
ANDREW WILLIS

JAMES BRADSHAW Mr. Morneau, who had the strongest when arguing for fiscal restraint, and
JOSH O’KANE business credentials of any current for not advocating forcefully enough OPINION
MATT LUNDY cabinet member from his career at the for business interests. He was not a

Upheaval in the federal Finance
Ministry has created renewed uncer-
tainty for business leaders awaiting the
next steps in the government’s
economic response to the pandemic,
as control shifts to Chrystia Freeland, a
close ally of the Prime Minister whose
mastery of business issues is relatively
untested.
Ms. Freeland, the Deputy Prime Min-
ister, was named Finance Minister on
Tuesday after Bill Morneau’s abrupt
resignation Monday evening amid ten-
sions with Prime Minister Justin Tru-
deau.
helm of benefits consultant Morneau
Shepell, was seen as a voice of reason
and fiscal restraint, acting as a counter-
weight to the government’s tendencies
toward persistent deficit spending.
Yet he exits with a mixed reputa-
tion, according to multiple senior
executives who spoke with The Globe
and Mail.
The Globe is not identifying those
sources to allow them to speak candid-
ly on a sensitive matter.
Mr. Morneau’s role as a counterbal-
ance is believed to have left him in-
creasingly isolated in the party, and
some business leaders are critical of
him for not prevailing more often
[ INVESTING ]
natural politician, sources said, and
was sometimes cautious in his stand
toward corporate Canada.
The response to his successor, Ms.
Freeland, is similarly fraught.
She is widely viewed as capable and
tenacious, and has proven successful
on high-priority files for the govern-
ment, including negotiating the United
States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on
free trade.
And she is hailed as a good listener –
something Mr. Morneau’s detractors
suggest he wasn’t – who could be more
sensitive to particular challenges con-
fronting Western Canada, sources said.
FREELAND, B6
O
ver five years as finance minis-
ter, Bill Morneau never stopped
sounding like the business exec-
utive he used to be. Losing that
voice in the federal cabinet during an eco-
nomic meltdown bodes poorly for Cana-
dians.
Over the course of the summer, it be-
came clear that Prime Minister Justin Tru-
deau and his crew didn’t like the doses of
fiscal reality they were getting from Mr.
Morneau – the one minister who had ac-
tually run a successful company, benefits
consultant Morneau Shepell – and his
number-crunching colleagues in the Fi-
nance Department. A series of leaks –
high-school dances cannot match the
backstabbing dramatics found in Liberal
cabinets – contrasted a Prime Minister
who wants to think big and green and
inclusive with a finance minister who
kept asking the awkward question of how
to pay for it all.
So Mr. Morneau walked. A proven chief

U.S. SHORT SELLER TARGETS executive who only entered politics to

serve his country was facing a legacy-de-
fining opportunity to guide Canada out of
WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPANY GFL a crisis and instead opted to resign.
This is a bad look for Team Trudeau.
There is growing evidence that this Prime
Spruce Point lists concerns over Canadian firm's path to profitability B3 Minister has no time for colleagues who
question his plans – unlike successful cor-
porate cultures that encourage vigorous
debate.
CEOs and the legions of consultants
who deal with the federal government all
say that, at some point during the pan-
demic, the Finance Department lost influ-
ence. Spending guidelines that used to de-
fine programs went out the window.
WILLIS, B6

S&P 500 rises

to record close,
erasing its
COVID-19 plunge
DAVID RANDALL
SAQIB IQBAL AHMED NEW YORK

The S&P 500 closed at a record high on

Shares of GFL, which went public earlier this year, were down as much as 12 per cent in Tuesday’s trading before
closing at $25.53, down 9 per cent from Monday’s close. MELISSA TAIT/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
‘I don’t see it ending any time soon’: Lumber shortage
fuels forestry stocks amid hum of building activity
DAVID BERMAN months. The stock fell 64 per cent over a
six week period, before bottoming out
on March 23 amid concerns that the
ANALYSIS novel coronavirus pandemic would
sideline building activity and weigh
engineered plywood used in construc-
tion), has risen 248 per cent.
But forestry stocks are still 20 per
cent or more below their 2018 highs,
suggesting that valuations are not yet
Tuesday, rebounding from huge losses
triggered by the coronavirus pandemic
and crowning one of the most dramatic
recoveries in the index’s history.
Trillions of dollars in fiscal and mone-
tary stimulus have made Wall Street flush
with cash, pushing yield-seeking investors
into equities. Amazon.com Inc. and other
high-growth tech stocks are viewed as the
most reliable to ride out the crisis.
The S&P record confirms, according to
a widely accepted definition, that Wall
Street’s most closely followed index en-
tered a bull market after hitting its pan-
demic low on March 23. It has surged
about 55 per cent since then. That makes
the bear market that started in late Febru-
ary the S&P 500’s shortest in its history.
Since the March 23 closing low, the S&P
posted the largest gain in a 103-day period
in 87 years, according to Refinitiv data.
Doubts about the underlying health of
the economy, however, persisted in Tues-

C
anadian forestry stocks have
enjoyed a spectacular rebound
after plunging catastrophically
during the lockdown of Febru-
ary and March. Good news for latecom-
ers: Some observers believe the rally
has plenty of room to run amid tight
lumber supplies and surging demand.
“I don’t see it ending any time soon,”
timber analyst John Duncanson said in
an interview. Mr. Duncanson is a princi-
pal at Corton Capital, which runs the
Corton Global Timber Fund.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. offers a
typical example of the head-spinning
market gyrations of the past six
heavily on lumber prices.
Wrong call. The stock has soared 213
per cent since March and is now well
above prepandemic levels amid a hum
of building activity and rising lumber
prices. West Fraser recently reported
that its profit, after adjustments such as
duties, increased to $1.13 a share in the
second quarter ended June 30. That’s up
substantially from 42 cents a share in
the first quarter.
Similarly, Canfor Corp.’s share price
has rebounded 190 per cent from its
March lows. Interfor Corp. has risen 267
per cent. Norbord Inc., which makes
oriented strand board (or OSB, a type of
stretched.
It turns out we need wood in good
times and bad – and a lot of wood when
we are stuck at home. Homeowners and
contractors working on renovation pro-
jects are struggling to find lumber sup-
plies, as detailed in a Globe and Mail ar-
ticle published earlier this week.
Some lumber prices have doubled
over the past year. The price of Western
SPF lumber (spruce, pine, fir) rose 12
per cent within the past week alone.
At the same time, home building ac-
tivity in the United States has proved re-
silient, helped by falling mortgage rates.
LUMBER, B6
day’s session, with lukewarm reactions to
bumper results from Home Depot Inc.
and Walmart Inc. limiting gains.
The S&P 500 flirted with all-time highs
for several sessions before finally hitting a
new record, raising questions about
whether this run of gains could last. “The
S&P 500 has been impressive and has cre-
ated a lot of wealth, but I am not sure that
reflects the overall health of the econo-
my,” said Patrick Leary, chief market strat-
egist at Incapital.
MARKETS, B6

COMPANIES

ATTABOTICS ........................................... B2
GFL ENVIRONMENTAL ............................ B3
HOME DEPOT ......................................... B4
ACQ U I S I T I ON S INVESTING GLO BE INVESTO R HUAWEI .................................................. B5
With no rival bids, Calgary’s Attabotics raises Robo-advisers need to ONEX ...................................................... B4
PARAMOUNT RESOURCES ...................... B3
Cirque creditors look $50-million for warehouse address clients’ insolvency WALMART .............................................. B3
set to take control B2 tech inspired by ants B2 fears, Rob Carrick writes B8

SPORTS HO CK EY Hall of Famer Dale Hawerchuk dies at 57 from cancer B10

B10-B15
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Cirque’s deadline passes with no new bids
Catalyst and a group
of senior lenders appear
set to win control of
Montreal-based troupe
NICOLAS VAN PRAET
ANDREW WILLIS
Toronto financier Newton Glass-
man’s Catalyst Capital Group Inc.
and other senior creditors of Cir-
que du Soleil look set to win con-
trol of the famed circus troupe af-
ter no other investors stepped up
with a competing bid.
Cirque suitors had until 5 p.m.
ET Tuesday to submit offers that
would trump a US$1.2-billion bid
by Catalyst and a group of about a
dozen senior lenders, but no su-
perior proposal materialized, Cir-
que spokeswoman Caroline
Couillard said. The winning offer
was seen as extremely hard to
beat by outside observers watch-
ing the process unfold.
Montreal-based Cirque now
finds itself without a local share-
holder in its ownership ranks for
the first time since its founding in
1984. Founder Guy Laliberté
cashed out his remaining 10-per-
cent stake for US$75-million this
year and pension fund giant
Caisse de dépôt et placement du
Québec also appears to be out of
the picture after writing down to
Teachers invests $50-million in Calgary tech firm Attabotics
JOSH O’KANE
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension
Plan is leading a US$50-million
investment into warehouse ro-
botics company Attabotics Inc.
to help the Calgary firm build out
its client roster and technology –
vertical storage structures in-
spired by ant colonies that it
claims can reduce warehouse
footprints by as much as 85 per
cent.
Attabotics has redesigned the
traditional warehouse from hori-
zontal to vertical and works with
a growing number of brands, in-
cluding the department store
chain Nordstrom Inc. Rather
than running around endless ais-
les, Attabotics’ robots scour a sin-
gle vertical structure to store and
move goods to workers who han-
dle packing and shipping.
Going vertical can lower rent
costs and can allow for more cen-
trally located warehouses – a cru-
cial factor in urban centres that
reduces both the financial and
environmental cost of delivery.
“The system allows for smaller
but more numerous sites, and
packages can be located much
closer to customers from the out-
set,” said Olivia Steedman, who
leads the pension plan’s tech-in-
vestment wing, Teachers’ Innova-
tion Platform. “Warehouse oper-
ations are ripe for disruption.”
Attabotics’ new financing is
rounded out by industrial con-
glomerate Honeywell Interna-
tional Inc., which is a returning
investor. The raise brings Atta-
botics’ total funding to US$82.7-
million, the company says.
Scott Gravelle and several
partners launched Attabotics in
2015, naming it after Atta, one of
the groups of species of leafcutter
ants. After watching a documen-
tary in which a scientist poured
molten aluminum into an ant
habitat, Mr. Gravelle realized that
ants’ networks of tunnels and
chambers took advantage of ver-
tical pathways and storage.
“With very few exceptions, all
Ontario Centres of Excellence to take over OneEleven startup hub
JOSH O’KANE
The Ontario Centres of Excel-
lence, a government innovation
agency, is taking over Toronto’s
OneEleven startup hub after a
months-long power struggle over
its future.
Both Oxford Properties Group,
which is OneEleven’s landlord
and long-time backer, and the
federal-provincial agency con-
firmed Tuesday that Oxford
would transfer OneEleven’s
brand and intellectual property
to OCE after talks that stretched
back into the spring.
Technology news websites The
Logic and Betakit reported the
OneEleven takeover on Monday
evening. Oxford spokesperson
Daniel O’Donnell said Tuesday
that the brand transfer would
come at no cost, and that any fi-
nancial terms would be for a lease
zero its entire US$170-million in-
vestment in the company.
The creditor victory doesn’t
mean that Cirque’s ownership is
set in stone, however. The lenders
could bring in other minority in-
vestors to bolster the group and
some could exit their positions if
the picture shifts in the weeks
ahead.
“Current creditors may not
want to remain full owners of the
entire company for long and they
may be seeking partners,” said
Louis Hébert, a business strategy
specialist at HEC Montréal busi-
ness school. What matters is that
Cirque get “back on its feet,” he
said.
Cirque filed for creditor protec-
tion on June 30 in Canada and
shortly afterward in the United
States, listing debt owing to se-
cured creditors of about US$1.1-
billion. The company’s revenue
fell to nearly zero in the spring as
its acrobatic live shows were shut
down by government-mandated
bans on public gatherings be-
cause of the coronavirus pan-
demic.
The creditors were negotiating
from a position of strength, as
they have effectively controlled
Cirque since the company de-
faulted on its debt by missing in-
terest payments in April after
closing its shows and laying off
4,700 employees. Their US$1.2-
billion bid became the offer-to-
the automated systems out there
were automated based off of hu-
mancentric environments,” Mr.
Gravelle told The Globe and Mail.
“Human beings are two-dimen-
sional: We walk on the ground,
we drive on the ground. Every-
thing for us has to be accessed
from the floor.”
When seeking ways to make
the systems more efficient, he
said, “I thought nature probably
had this figured out.”
Attabotics translated this to
warehouses and fulfillment by
designing vertical structures with
agreement. Neither party con-
firmed the agreement’s value.
OneEleven was launched in
2013 as a non-profit and rose to
become one of Canada’s most
well-known startup hubs. The
OCE, an agency that funds com-
mercializing new technologies,
was one of its original founders,
alongside Ryerson University and
the Ontario Municipal Employees
Retirement System pension fund,
better known as OMERS.
It became a for-profit startup
hub in 2018, with its chief backers
shifting to OMERS and Oxford
Properties Group, the pension
plan’s real estate wing.
But after the pandemic struck,
OneEleven said in April that the
prospect of future financial con-
straints was forcing the hub to
shut down permanently, leaving
dozens of startups uncertain
about their future and 15 staff laid
off – despite a staff proposal to
beat in the sales process for Cir-
que, usurping an initial bid by Cir-
que’s former shareholders – U.S.
private equity fund manager TPG
Capital, China’s Fosun Interna-
tional and the Caisse.
The lenders’ winning offer in-
volves swapping about US$1-bil-
lion in debt for 100-per-cent own-
ership of Cirque. They will also in-
ject up to US$375-million of new
money into the company, whose
debt would be reduced to
US$300-million. Cirque debt was
changing hands for 30 to 40 cents
on the dollar during the early
days of the pandemic in late
March and April.
Cirque’s U.S. creditors include
debt funds run by U.S. asset man-
agers CBAM Partners, BlueMoun-
tain Capital Management LLC,
THL Credit, Shenkman Capital
Management Inc., Providence Eq-
uity Partners LLC and Fidelity In-
vestments Inc. The group has
pledged to keep Cirque’s head of-
fice in Montreal for at least five
years.
Cirque creditors have consis-
tently said they are open to part-
nerships with an entertainment
company or a Quebec-based in-
vestor. Sources say there have
been no talks to date between the
creditors and the Caisse, an im-
passe that reflects the Caisse’s
contractual ties to the former
owners, led by TPG. Banking
sources said the creditors are will-
Attabotics CEO Scott
Gravelle leans on one of
his company’s robots in
Calgary on Tuesday. The
business designed a
warehouse that would
store inventory vertically
rather than horizontally,
taking inspiration from
how ants structure their
underground tunnels.
JEFF MCINTOSH/
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
OneEleven was
launched in 2013
as a non-profit and
rose to become
one of Canada’s
most well-known
startup hubs.
O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL
ing to wait for more venues to
open, and cash to come in, in or-
der to talk to additional potential
investors from a position of rela-
tive strength.
The Globe and Mail has agreed
to grant sources for this story con-
fidentiality because they were not
authorized to speak on the mat-
ter publicly.
Possible partners that could
jump back into the fray at some
point in the future include Mr. La-
liberté or Quebecor Inc., which
pulled out of the sales process
weeks ago when it looked like
creditors would win control.
Chief executive officer Pierre Karl
Péladeau this month expressed
his interest in striking a deal with
the creditors to get involved in
Cirque, saying the media compa-
ny is “considering this as a possi-
ble opportunity to grow” its busi-
ness.
In the near-term, the creditors’
priorities are getting a new Cirque
board in place and working with
management to reopen shows,
said one source close to the
group. There are no plans to re-
place Cirque CEO Daniel Lamarre,
the person said.
Dan Gagnier, spokesman for
the creditors’ group, declined to
comment. Anne Dongois, spokes-
woman for Mr. Laliberté, also de-
clined to comment.
More than two dozen potential
bidders signed confidentiality
robots that move along planes at
the top of the structure and un-
derneath the storage area.
Canadian robotics and auto-
mation companies have seen sig-
nificant increases in attention
since the start of the pandemic.
Demand for floor-scrubbing ro-
bots made by Kitchener, Ont.’s
Avidbots Corp. has doubled since
COVID-19 lockdowns began.
Clearpath Robotics Inc. in neigh-
bouring Waterloo has seen a 50-
per-cent increase in inbound
calls about its warehouse-roam-
ing robots. Mr. Gravelle estimates
keep the hub both open and cash-
flow-positive, sources told The
Globe and Mail in June.
Numerous suitors approached
Oxford about the OneEleven
brand, including Paramount Fine
Foods founder Mohamad Fakih,
who hoped to keep the startup
hub private rather than govern-
ment-funded, like many of To-
ronto’s other prominent startup
organizations.
OCE has offices in the same Ox-
ford building on Toronto’s Front
Street West as OneEleven. Oxford
said it would lease one floor to
run OneEleven, as opposed to the
two it operated on prior to the
pandemic. Oxford plans to even-
tually tear the building down for a
development called Union Park,
but does not expect to break
ground until 2023.
The government agency said in
an e-mailed statement that it
“looks forward to working closely
| WEDN ESDAY , AUG UST 19, 2020
agreements to win the right to ex-
amine the financials of cash-
strapped Cirque in the prelimina-
ry stages of the process. Among
them were U.S.-based investment
banking firm Goldman Sachs
Group and Feld Entertainment, a
U.S.-based live show production
company that began with the
now-defunct Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus, a source
has said.
“There’s something saddening
in seeing this important Mon-
treal-based cultural enterprise
that was built on creativity, inno-
vation and artistic excellence
pass from one investment firm to
another,” said Patrick Leroux, a
professor at Concordia University
in Montreal who has written
about the industry.
“At the same time, I’m sure
Catalyst is coming in with a clear-
headed plan to rekindle the value
of this company with interna-
tional brand recognition and the
ability to attract the best artists,
artisans and managers. There is
an opportunity for a leaner, more
focused company whose liveli-
hood in liveness and risk-taking
will survive the pandemic.”
A judge for the Superior Court
of Quebec now has to approve the
winning bid in a hearing that has
to take place within seven days.
The current scheduled deadline
to finalize the transaction is Sept.
30.
that Attabotics’ inbound inqui-
ries have increased fourfold.
Attabotics’ new funding will
help it expand its technology to
what it calls “networked micro-
fulfillment” – warehousing cen-
tres that can store and move
goods from multiple sellers.
Much like shopping malls, Mr.
Gravelle said, this would allow
smaller sellers to get access to
important infrastructure on a
collective basis – making fulfill-
ment more efficient without re-
quiring a warehouse of their
own.
“Shared infrastructure is the
only way to be competitive
against some of the big kids that
seem to be running away with
the market,” he said.
Before pandemic lockdowns
hit this year, Mr. Gravelle told The
Globe that he’d like to see Atta-
botics list as a public company in
three to five years. He said this
month that the pandemic hasn’t
changed that timeline. “The plan
is to grow Attabotics into being a
huge Canadian company,” he
said.
Attabotics is the first direct
Canadian investment for Teach-
ers’ Innovation Platform, the
pension fund’s dedicated tech-
nology arm that launched in
April, 2019, Ms. Steedman said.
Since its launch, the innova-
tion wing has made investments
in Elon Musk’s Space Exploration
Technologies Corp. – better
known as SpaceX – and the New
York financial-crime-detection
company ComplyAdvantage.
The pension fund also part-
nered with the Alphabet Inc. ur-
ban-planning firm Sidewalk Labs
for a dedicated company that in-
vests in technology-laced infras-
tructure. Sidewalk had previous-
ly spent 21⁄2 years developing a
plan to build a technology-first
neighbourhood in Toronto, but it
was cancelled in May. Earlier this
month, the Sidewalk-Teachers
partnership, Sidewalk Infrastruc-
ture Partners, announced plans
for an autonomous vehicle trans-
portation corridor in Michigan.
with all of our partners to support
the revitalization of an important
element of the local tech commu-
nity and we will share further
news in the coming weeks.”
An OCE spokesperson said in
June that the agency had been ap-
proached by several OneEleven
companies “to explore opportu-
nities to restore the community
and maintain continuity.” Oxford
said at the time that about a third
of the hub’s desks for startups
had been vacated since the April
shutdown announcement.
OneEleven’s alumni include
Canadian financial technology
companies Wealthsimple Inc.
and Borrowell Inc.
“Our involvement with OneE-
leven has always been driven by
our desire to assist Toronto’s tech
community and we are thankful a
solution has been found to
achieve this goal,” Mr. O’Donnell
said in an e-mailed statement.
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U.S. short-seller singles out GFL Environmental

Spruce Point, which has
a history of targeting
Canadian companies,
questions Ontario
waste manager’s
path to profitability
DAVID MILSTEAD
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT
REPORTER
Spruce Point Capital Manage-
ment, a U.S. short-seller with a
fondness for Canadian targets,
has set its sights on GFL Environ-
mental Inc., casting doubts on the
debt-heavy company’s ability to
ever show consistent profits.
Shares of the Vaughan, Ont.-
based waste company, which
went public earlier this year, were
down as much as 12 per cent in
Tuesday’s trading before closing
at $25.53, down 9 per cent from
Monday’s close. In a statement af-
ter the market closed, GFL called
the report “baseless” and said it
contained “numerous inaccura-
cies and mischaracterizations.”
GFL did not specifically identify
inaccuracies or respond to any de-
tails in the report.
Short-selling is a bet that shares
will drop, with an investor bor-
rowing the shares, selling them
and repaying the loan by return-
ing new shares, preferably bought
at a lower price. Spruce Point has a
string of Canadian wins, but its
two most recent short picks have
shown resiliency.
Spruce Point chief executive
Ben Axler declined Tuesday to say
how large the firm’s short posi-
tion in GFL is.
Spruce Point’s 107-page report
questions past business connec-
tions of CEO Patrick Dovigi and
members of the board and execu-
tive team. It also raises financial
questions about the company’s
profits and heavy debt load –
something on the minds of Bay
Street when the company tried,
and failed, to go public in 2019. At
the time, Toronto’s Veritas Invest-
ment Research raised questions
about the company’s offering.
GFL ultimately relaunched its
initial public offering and sold
shares in March at US$19 amid the
COVID-19 market turmoil. All the
while, it’s continued its business
plan of acquiring waste-manage-
ment companies across the Unit-
ed States and Canada. It said last
week it will pay US$1.2-billion for
Houston-based WCA Waste Corp.
On Monday, it said it increased
a debt offering to US$750-million,
from US$600-million, because of
heavy investor demand.
Spruce Point’s Spruce Point believes GFL is
107-page report overpaying for acquisitions that
questions past it’s having difficulty integrating. It
questions whether GFL can
business achieve economies of scale, as it
connections of CEO says costs per employee seem to
Patrick Dovigi and be growing as quickly as revenue
members of the per employee.
It expressed concerns about
board and executive GFL’s accounting, identifying a
team. It also raises number of places in the compa-
financial questions ny’s financial reports where it said
about the numbers seemingly did not add
up. Spruce Point noted that GFL
company’s profits said prior to its IPO that it had
and heavy debt load. weaknesses in its internal finan-
cial-reporting controls, but has
since stopped making that partic-
ular disclosure.
And Spruce Point believes that
GFL’s metrics comparing its debt
with its profits and cash flow un-
derstate the burdens of its bor-
rowings. “Based on our research
and conversations with former
GFL employees, we believe it will
be unlikely that GFL stems its cash
burn and turns a profit any time
soon while it continues its torrid
acquisition pace,” Spruce Point
wrote.
GFL’s reported results, based
on International Financial Re-
porting Standards, show a string
of net losses, according to S&P
Global Market Intelligence. In the
past 12 months, it posted an oper-
ating loss of $88-million on $3.7-
billion in revenue. Then, it paid
$475-million in interest on more
than $5-billion in debt. Its free
cash flow – operating cash flow
minus capital expenditures – was
negative $175-million.
Ontario Teachers’ Pension
Plan, one of the company’s own-
ers when it was privately held, re-
mains a big public stockholder
with 50 million shares, more than
15 per cent of GFL’s outstanding
stock. In a statement Tuesday,
Jane Rowe, Teachers’ executive
managing director of equities,
said “we continue to believe in the
business and its ability to create
long-term shareholder value.”
Spruce Point’s 2018 short on
Maxar Technologies Corp. worked
out well, with the shares collaps-
ing 90 per cent in the months to
follow. Maxar and three previous
Canadian shorts fell an average 77
per cent, Spruce Point says.
However, its subsequent tar-
gets – Dollarama Inc. in October,
2018, and Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd.
in December, 2019 – are now trad-
ing above where they were when
Spruce Point issued its reports.
GFL ENVIRONMENTAL (GFL)
CLOSE: $25.53, DOWN $2.53

Walmart exceeds analyst forecasts as online sales nearly double

MELISSA FARES
AISHWARYA VENUGOPAL
Walmart Inc. posted its largest-
ever growth in online sales on
Tuesday as shoppers cashed in
stimulus cheques and ordered
everything from electronics and
toys to groceries from the safety
of their homes amid the CO-
VID-19 pandemic.
The near-doubling of online
sales in the second quarter
helped the retailer trounce Wall
Street expectations for quarterly
profit and same-store sales.
The results showed that the
unprecedented spike in demand
seen by big-box retailers at the
peak of the coronavirus lock-
downs has remained strong even
as restrictions ease, with shop-
pers using their stimulus cheques
to shop for discretionary items
such as sneakers and clothes. This
also helped Walmart reduce the
number of markdowns or dis-
counts.
However, as stimulus funds ta-
pered off, sales at Walmart re-
turned to normal, recording only
a 4-per-cent rise in comparable
sales in July.
“The health crisis has created
… both tailwinds and headwinds
to our business,” said chief finan-
cial officer Brett Biggs on a call
with investors.
“In Q2, we saw stronger-than-
expected sales due in large part to
stock-up buying and stimulus
spending, but the duration and
extent of future government
stimulus remains uncertain.”
Walmart executives also said
the back-to-school season has
been “choppy,” as more school
districts rolled back their reopen-
ing plans to curb the spread of
coronavirus and shoppers had
little-to-no need for backpacks
and uniforms.
“Hinting at back-to-school be-
ing a little bit weaker or more
spread out – and with no guid-
ance – always gives investors an
area of concern,” said Randy
Hare, portfolio manager at Hun-
tington Private Bank, adding that
shares might have traded higher Walmart says back-to-school sales have been ‘choppy’ as U.S. districts scale back reopening plans owing to
had they done so. the COVID-19 pandemic. The retailer’s online sales rose 97 per cent in the second quarter. MIKE BLAKE/REUTERS
Department store chain Kohl’s
also pointed to softer trends for mart said its margins improved in expands same-day delivery op- ter, while adjusted earnings per
its back-to-school selling season the quarter, helped by stimulus tions and pick-up services. share of US$1.56 also topped the
owing to the uncertainty around cheques that had consumers Its U.S. online sales rose 97 per average estimate of US$1.25.
reopenings. Kohl’s Corp. shares spending on bigger ticket items cent in the quarter. Sales at U.S.
were down 12 per cent. such as home furnishings and ap- stores open at least a year rose 9.3 REUTERS
Despite recording US$1.5-bil- parel. per cent, excluding fuel, in the
lion in COVID-19 related expens- Walmart’s online and grocery quarter ended July 31. WALMART (WMT)
es, which include higher wages businesses have been bright Operating income rose 8.5 per CLOSE: US$134.71,
and bonuses for employees, Wal- spots, seeing rapid growth as it cent to US$6.1-billion in the quar- DOWN 89 US CENTS

Waterous CEO ‘surprised’ Canadian Solar Securities Class Action

by Paramount’s call for cash Notice of Settlement Approval Hearing
payout in oil and gas merger Court File No. C-710-10

EMMA GRANEY
ENERGY REPORTER
A Calgary-based energy compa-
ny is demanding a cash payout
in the wake of Waterous Energy
Fund’s decision to merge two re-
source companies, and create
North America’s largest private
equity-owned oil and gas pro-
ducer.
Paramount Resources Ltd.
said Monday the amalgamation
of Strath Resources and Cona Re-
sources is not in the best inter-
ests of shareholders and exer-
cised its right of dissent under
Alberta Business Corporations
Act. The move means Paramount
is entitled to a cash payment of
the value of its common shares.
Waterous Energy Fund (WEF),
run by former investment bank-
er Adam Waterous, announced
last week it is merging its heavy
oil and natural gas companies
and has bought a large stake in a
privately held oil sands producer
to gain economies of scale and
maintain access to capital.
The new Calgary-based com-
pany, called Strathcona Re-
sources Ltd., will produce about
60,000 barrels of oil equivalent a
day, around two-thirds of which
is in the form of condensate and
heavy oil. The rest is natural gas.
According to Mr. Waterous,
WEF invested $1.5-billion in six
transactions to create Strathcona
Resources. The last acquisition
was Cona’s purchase of debt-hob-
bled Pengrowth Energy Corp. this
year, which brought with it the
Lindbergh steam-driven heavy
oil project near Cold Lake, Alta.
Paramount president and
chief executive Jim Riddell did
not return requests for com-
ment, but the company said in a
statement it didn’t think the
amalgamation – nor the process
under which the deal was ap-
proved – were in the best inter-
ests of shareholders.
Mr. Waterous told The Globe
and Mail in an interview Tuesday
he was “surprised” with Para-
mount’s decision, given WEF re-
ceived a comprehensive fairness
analysis from ATB prior to the
merger. “We had other very
large, very sophisticated share-
holders in WEF that had differ-
ent interests in each business
[Strath and Cona], and we had
unanimous support for this,” he
said.
In 2018, Strath bought Para-
mount’s oil and gas producing
assets in northwestern Alberta
for $340-million, with half paid
in cash and the rest by 85 million
common shares at $2 each.
The deal gave Paramount 15.6-
per-cent ownership of Strath and
a seat on its board of directors,
but Mr. Waterous said the merger
would have seen Paramount’s
share of the new business slip
back to single digits.
Paramount held common
shares of Strath valued at $170-
million prior to the amalgama-
tion, according to investment
analysts Stifel First Energy.
However, Stifel also noted the
value of those shares likely fell in
the face of the global economic
slowdown and oil price retreat
because of the COVID-19 pan-
demic. That decline was reflected
in Paramount’s second-quarter
results, which valued its “level
three” investments (including its
stake in Strath) at $97-million at
the end of June.
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The Settlement provides for the payment by the Defendants of the total amount of $13,000,000.00
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Canadian gold miners Onex overhauls executive

consider London,
New York listings as team with eye on growth
Toronto loses shine Company promotes Onex. I am confident he will con- ue to head the investment com-
tinue to be a positive force in our mittee at Onex Partners, the
JEFF LEWIS TORONTO veteran Robert Le Blanc future success.” company’s flagship private equi-
HELEN REID JOHANNESBURG to oversee all business Mr. Le Blanc is based in New ty platform. Senior managing di-
units, head flagship York and joined Onex in 1999 rector Seth Mersky, who joined
from Berkshire Hathaway Inc. He in 1997, will step back from his
Gold miners in Canada keen to tap new investors are eyeing private equity group also once worked at General broader role at the company and
secondary listings in London and New York, underscoring Electric Co. Last year, he took become vice-chairman of Glus-
pent-up demand for the precious metal from generalist home the smallest paycheque kin Sheff, the wealth manage-
funds. ANDREW WILLIS among the five senior executives ment firm owned by Onex.
Gold prices have soared 32 per cent this year as central who disclose their compensation Founded in 1984 as a private
banks dial up stimulus measures in response to the COVID-19 in Onex regulatory filings. equity firm with US$50-million
pandemic. Alternative asset manager Onex in capital, Onex has broadened
That has fuelled a cash surge for miners, who have hiked Corp. is reworking its manage- its reach into managing money
dividends and pledged cost discipline to broaden their ap- ment team by promoting veter- for high-net-worth individuals
peal beyond a shrinking pool of resource-only investors. an executive Robert Le Blanc to Having joined the firm by acquiring Gluskin Sheff in
A listing in New York or London opens the door for miners’ the newly created role of com- 2019, and overseeing a portfolio
shares to be included in many more exchange-traded funds pany president. more than 20 years ago, of credit investments that has
(ETFs) – guaranteeing substantial liquidity and broadening Mr. Le Blanc, 52, becomes sec- [Robert Le Blanc] doubled in size over the past five
their investor basis further. ond-in-command to Onex foun- represents the best of years to US$12-billion. In total,
“There is a lot of dumb money sloshing around in London der and chief executive Gerry Onex. I am confident he Onex oversees US$35-billion on
in the mining space, and the gold miners want to soak it up,” Schwartz, 78. behalf of clients, a portfolio that
said Henry Steel, London-based portfolio manager at Odey Mr. Le Blanc will oversee all of will continue to be a includes WestJet Airlines Ltd.
Asset Management, which manages US$4.9-billion. Onex’s business units and be positive force in our Earlier this month, Onex re-
That would help plug a large sole head of its flagship private future success. ported a US$689-million profit in
gap in the London market left by equity group. Prior to this move, the second quarter, bouncing
A listing in New York Barrick Gold’s 2018 tie-up with Onex split day-to-day responsib- GERRY SCHWARTZ
FOUNDER, CEO OF ONEX
back from a US$1.1-billion loss in
Randgold Resources, which had ility for the company’s oper- the first three months of the
or London opens the been listed in London. Mining ations between Mr. Schwartz, Mr. year, when it wrote down the
door for miners’ company listings in London have Le Blanc and three other senior Mr. Le Blanc earned a total of value of several investments. In
shares to be slowed in recent years. managing directors. US$6.3-million – US$400,000 in the release announcing the sec-
included in many Canada’s Yamana Gold Inc. Toronto-based Onex said the salary and the rest in share-based ond quarter results, Mr. Schwartz
and Endeavour Mining Corp. are move is part of the company’s compensation. The four other se- said: “As expected, valuations for
more exchange- among those weighing secondary longer-term leadership planning nior executives – two other se- the quarter rebounded signifi-
traded funds (ETFs) listings. and is meant to position the firm nior managing directors, the cantly. As important is the signif-
– guaranteeing Nearly half of global public for future growth. Part of Mr. Le company’s chief financial officer icant progress made within our
mining companies are listed on Blanc’s job will be allocating cap- and Mr. Schwartz, the CEO – were operating companies to ensure
substantial liquidity the Toronto Stock Exchange and ital and talent between existing paid between US$8.1-million and they manage any challenges
and broadening TSX Venture Exchange, owner and new investment platforms. Mr. Schwartz’s US$11-million. ahead and prosper as economies
their investor TMX Group said. But the number In a news release, Mr. As part of the new manage- gradually improve.”
basis further. of mining IPOs and new issues in Schwartz said: “Having joined ment structure, senior managing
Toronto has fallen since 2018, in- the firm more than 20 years ago, director Anthony Munk will be- ONEX (ONEX)
dicating the market is losing some lustre. Bobby represents the best of come vice-chairman and contin- CLOSE: $64.19, DOWN 40¢
In July, Yamana said it had applied for a secondary listing
on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), which it said lacked
sizable pure-play gold producers with annual production of
one million ounces or more. [ ENERGY ]
There is “a good hand-to-glove fit of what is being looked
for by investors and what we can offer,” said Peter Marrone,
executive chairman of Yamana, in an interview.
Toronto-listed Endeavour said it would decide by year-end
whether to pursue a secondary listing in either London or
New York after completing its acquisition of rival Semafo.
London investors have more risk appetite and are more
comfortable with the complexities of African mining juris-
dictions than in Toronto or New York, a Johannesburg-based
banker said. Endeavor has mines in Mali and Burkina Faso.
“That’s an unquantifiable aspect that I think is driving Lon-
don,” he said, declining to be named.
Greenland-focused gold exploration firm AEX Gold Inc.
listed on AIM, the LSE’s small company sub-market, on July
31.
“There’s definitely room for more,” said Paul Jourdan,
chief executive of Amati Global Investors in Edinburgh,
which holds a 6.9-per-cent stake in AEX Gold. “What AEX
shows is that there is appetite in the London market, even for
something early stage like that.”

REUTERS

IVANHOE SIGNS PARTNERSHIP WITH CHINA’S CNMC

ON SCOUTING, DEVELOPING MINES IN AFRICA

Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. on Tuesday an- Messy business

nounced a deal with China Nonferrous Metal Mining
(Group) Co. Ltd. (CNMC) under which the companies Workers high-step their way through a muddy patch of land
would jointly look for African mining projects to explore,
develop or acquire.
at a preliminary construction site for a petroleum plant
Ivanhoe’s co-chairmen Robert Friedland and Yufeng near Svobodny, Russia, on Tuesday
Sun said the strategic partnership would also see the
companies, both active in Democratic Republic of the
Congo, exploring production, smelting and logistics op- DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
portunities.
Mr. Friedland hinted at possible mergers arising from
the agreement with CNMC, saying the partnership would
begin by “examining the synergies between the oper-
ations currently owned by our two companies.”
CNMC chairman Wang Tongzhou said, “I strongly Home Depot sees same-store sales jump
believe that co-operation is the best way to achieving the
goals of both companies.”
Ivanhoe has previously said it is in talks with compa-
23.4% as COVID-19 leads to more DIY projects
nies over its Kipushi and Western Forelands projects in
the Congo, and its Platreef project in South Africa. UDAY SAMPATH KUMAR tioned that its sales might have ended Aug. 2.
CNMC in January launched Congo’s first large-scale hit their peak. That resulted in the company’s
copper smelter, the Lualaba Copper Smelter, 45 kilo- “These are record comparable highest ever profit sharing
metres from Ivanhoe’s Kamoa-Kakula copper joint ven- Home Depot Inc. reported its sales – it’s really tough to sustain payout to its hourly employees.
ture with Zijin Mining Group Co. in the country’s south- biggest rise in quarterly same- that,” Wedbush Securities analyst The company spent about
ern copperbelt. REUTERS store sales in at least two decades Seth Basham said. “We will see a US$480-million in additional
on Tuesday as demand for paint, slowdown in the back half of the benefits, including weekly bo-
tools and lawn mowers surged year – the question is the degree nuses and overtime, to compen-
from consumers stuck at home to which the slowdown occurs.” sate workers required to work in
U.S. STATES REPORTEDLY SEEK $26.4-BILLION because of the COVID-19 pan- The company said it could not stores and warehouses amid the
FROM DRUG COMPANIES IN OPIOID LITIGATION demic. determine whether strong de- health crisis.
The company’s same-store mand from earlier months would Still, net income rose 24.5 per
sales jumped 23.4 per cent in the continue for the rest of the year, cent to US$4.33 billion, or
U.S. states are seeking a combined US$26.4-billion from second quarter, surging past despite the U.S. housing market US$4.02 a share. Analysts had ex-
three major drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson to analysts’ average estimate of a performing better than the pected a profit of IS$3.71 a share,
settle opioid litigation against the companies, the Wall 10.5-per-cent rise, as the home broader economy. according to IBES data from Re-
Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar improvement chain emerged as People spending more time on finitiv.
with the matter. one of the corporate winners do-it-yourself home projects
About a dozen attorneys-general are seeking a collective during the pandemic. such as painting and gardening REUTERS
US$21.14-billion from the distributors, which include Shares of Home Depot, howev- pushed Home Depot’s overall
McKesson Corp., AmerisourceBergen Corp. and Cardinal er, fell about 1 per cent in morn- sales up 23.4 per cent to a record HOME DEPOT (HD)
Health Inc., and US$5.28-billion from J&J, the WSJ ing trading after analysts cau- US$38.05-billion in the quarter CLOSE: US$285, DOWN US$3.36
reported.
AmerisourceBergen declined to comment on the report,
while Cardinal Health, J&J and McKesson did not respond
to requests for comment. DILBERT
“We believe this latest settlement proposal would be
viewed as a favourable outcome and would expect the
stocks to react positively to the news as a global settlement
would put the uncertainty behind,” JPMorgan analyst Lisa
Gill said.
The lawsuits accuse drugmakers of overstating the bene-
fits of opioids while downplaying the risks and allege
distributors failed to flag and halt a rising tide of suspicious
orders.
A closely watched opioid trial pitting New York State
against McKesson, J&J and others was postponed in March
because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Shares of McKesson were up slightly in early trade, while
others were down marginally. REUTERS
W E DN E S DAY , AUGUST 19, 2020 | T HE GLOB E AN D MAI L O R E PO RT ON BUSINESS | B5

Huawei’s position as leading

smartphone maker threatened
by new U.S. restrictions
JOSH HORWITZ SHANGHAI
HYUNJOO JIN SEOUL
Ramped-up U.S. restrictions on
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
are likely to choke the Chinese
company’s access to even off-the-
shelf chips, threaten its crown as
the world’s largest smartphone
maker and disrupt global tech
supply, executives and experts
warned.
The Trump administration ex-
panded its curbs on Huawei Mon-
day and banned suppliers from
selling chips made using U.S.
technology to the firm without a
special licence – closing potential
loopholes in its May sanctions
that could have let Huawei access
the tech through third parties.
The curbs underscore the grow-
ing rift in Sino-U.S. ties as Wash-
ington presses governments to
squeeze Huawei out, alleging the
company would hand over data
to Beijing for spying. Huawei de-
nies it spies for China.
“If the choking of Huawei con-
tinues there will be reverber-
In July, the U.S. Mint urged the public to start spending their coins, depositing them or exchanging ations across the semiconductor
them at banks or coin-redemption kiosks as the supply system for coins became severely disrupted complex,” said Neil Campling,
by the COVID-19 pandemic. SEAN MCKEAG/THE CITIZENS' VOICE VIA AP head of TMT research at Mira-
baud Securities. “And the retalia-
tion from China remains un-
perts said.
In Asia, memory chipmakers
including South Korea’s Samsung
Electronics Co. Ltd. and SK Hynix
Inc., Japanese image sensor mak-
er Sony Corp. and Taiwanese
chipset maker MediaTek Inc. may
be affected, a chip industry
source said.
MediaTek said it was monitor-
ing new developments of rules to
remain in compliance, but that it
did not expect a material impact
to near-term operations, based
on available information.
In Europe, German chipmaker
Infineon Technologies AG, which
counts Huawei as a key customer
for its power management prod-
ucts, and Austrian sensor special-
ist ams AG said they were review-
ing the impact of the latest U.S. re-
strictions.
European tech stocks were
firmer, however, reflecting their
relatively low exposure to Hua-
wei, which accounts for 7 per cent
of sales at ams, 3 per cent at In-
fineon and 4 per cent at STMi-
croelectronics NV, according to
figures cited by Mirabaud’s Mr.
Campling.
Several questions remain
about how the new curbs will be
implemented, and how hawkish
a position Washington plans to

COVID-19 coin shortage known and a significant risk.”

The tech giant’s business has
suffered since America first black-
take.
But there are likely to be some
winners in the longer term if Hua-

hits U.S. retailers, laundromats listed it a year ago.

and even the tooth fairy
Change isn’t circulating as freely
as many businesses have been
closed and consumers aren’t
following usual spending habits
SARAH SKIDMORE SELL
Omaha to buy US$8,000 in quarters.
“It’s that or my businesses close,” he said.
Things have stabilized some, both for him-
self and his bank, in terms of supply. “I am not
complaining because our business stayed
open and everybody had a struggle, this just
happened to be ours,” Mr. Johnson said.
People who rely on coin-operated laundry
machines in laundromats and apartment
buildings are struggling as well.
If Huawei cannot source chip-
sets as a result of the expanded
curbs, its “handset business will
likely disappear,” Jefferies said in
a note.
Other brokerages, including JP
Morgan, echoed that view, adding
this would give players such as
Xiaomi Corp. and Apple Inc. an
opportunity to increase their
market share.
Earlier this month, Huawei
flagged it would stop making its
flagship Kirin chipsets from Sep-
tember because U.S. pressure on
its suppliers had made it impos-
wei is forced to relinquish its spot
as the world’s largest smartphone
maker.
“Huawei currently has 45-50
per cent market share in China
and, if this becomes vulnerable,
Xiaomi, along with Oppo and Vi-
vo, are likely to be the biggest
beneficiaries,” JP Morgan analyst
Gokul Hariharan said, referring to
Chinese smartphone makers.
“Huawei would also be likely to
lose further ground in the inter-
national smartphone space and
5G base stations, both of which
could benefit Samsung. The Ap-
ple food chain could also benefit

T
he national coin shortage has been an Stephanie Sabin of Portland, Ore., has a sible for its HiSilicon division to from potential iPhone share
unusual side effect of the pandemic. washing machine at her apartment complex keep making the chipsets that are gains.”
Among its victims? Retailers, laundro- that only takes quarters. She bought four rolls key components in mobile TSMC, which has said it would
mats and even the tooth fairy. of quarters in March. In mid-June, she bought phones. Huawei’s HiSilicon divi- not ship wafers to Huawei after
The Federal Reserve announced in June that two more. sion has relied on software from Sept. 15, will be slightly hurt in the
the supply system for coins had been severely But in July, her neighbourhood bank was U.S. companies such as Synopsys long run, Bernstein said in a note.
disrupted by the pandemic. While there are closed for in-person business. The next five Inc. to design its chips. It out- “TSMC is ‘everybody’s foundry’
still enough coins out there, they aren’t circu- locations she tried were either closed or un- sourced the production to Taiwa- eventually.”
lating as freely because many businesses have able to give her quarters. She’s been able to get nese contract chipmaker TSMC, The ban is also likely to affect
been closed and consumers aren’t out spend- her laundry done with quarters her family had which uses equipment from U.S. U.S. chipmakers such as Qual-
ing as usual. on hand or that she bought from her boss. companies. comm Inc., but those losses are
The U.S. Mint and Treasury Secretary Steven “Desperate times,” she said. “You can no The U.S. ban represents a set- likely to be offset in the longer
Mnuchin have urged Americans to use coins longer request rolls of quarters at grocery back for chip suppliers too, at term as Huawei’s rivals gain
or turn them in to banks to help for now. As stores or even get change back if you pay with least in the near term, as they ground, analysts said.
the economy recovers and businesses reopen, cash at a food drive-thru.” have to apply for licences that
the coin supply is expected to normalize. Toll booths, parking meters, vending ma- comply with the new rules, ex- REUTERS
In the meantime, people have been forced chines and other spots that were once coin-
to find workarounds. heavy have largely modernized to accept oth-
Retailers large and small have urged shop- er forms of payment. But pockets of problems
pers to use cards or exact change whenever still exist, such as at a gas station air pump or a ORACLE ENTERS RUNNING TO PURCHASE
possible. Some won’t provide do-it-yourself car wash. TIKTOK’S U.S. OPERATIONS, REPORT SAYS
change. Some people are finding
Grocery giant Kroger Co. is still About 56 per cent of themselves in need of change for
accepting cash, but offers cus- other situations. Oracle Corp. has held prelim- comment.
tomers the option to load their laundromats that Leigh Ann Tognetti of Rio inary talks with TikTok’s Chi- Reuters reported earlier this
change onto loyalty cards to use serve the public take Grande City, Tex., had just started nese owner, ByteDance, and was month that Twitter Inc. had
on their next visit or to donate quarters as the only her five-year-old daughter on an seriously considering buying the approached ByteDance to ex-
the balance to charity. form of payment. allowance in July: two quarters app’s operations in the United press interest in acquiring the
Convenience-store chain Wa- for every day she picks up her States, Canada, Australia and U.S. operations of TikTok, while
Wa offered customers a free bev- And 89 per cent take room. New Zealand, the Financial Microsoft Corp. was still the
erage at some of its stores if peo- quarters as some “It’s a lot of quarters to go Times newspaper reported on favourite to clinch a deal.
ple brought in US$5 worth of form of payment, through in a week,” she said. “I Monday. The Financial Times said on
coins, or a sandwich for US$50 or with cards, loyalty had no idea or even crossed my Oracle was working with Monday Microsoft has also
more. Community State Bank, a mind that there could be a coin some U.S. investors that already seriously considered a bid to
regional bank chain in Wiscon- programs or mobile shortage.” have a stake in ByteDance, take over TikTok’s global oper-
sin, even offered a US$5 bonus payments as an To keep good on her promise, including General Atlantic and ations beyond the countries it
for every US$100 worth of coins alternative, according she has used change from the Sequoia Capital, the newspaper outlined earlier in August.
that people brought in. They had reported, citing people briefed
to suspend it after a week be-
to the [Coin Laundry vending machine at work and
coins mailed to her by a friend. about the matter.
But ByteDance is opposed to
selling any assets beyond those
cause of the overwhelming re- Association]. She has also used a stack of ByteDance and TikTok did not in the United States, Canada,
sponse. dimes or doubles up two days’ have a comment on the FT Australia and New Zealand,
As the shortage persists, it’s become clear payments with a dollar bill instead. report, while Oracle declined to according to the report. REUTERS
that there are still some conundrums that only “If she would pick up every single day we
coins can solve. would have a problem,” she said. “So far
“It’s at the minimum an inconvenience … haven’t had to get too creative.”
at worst it’s a business challenge,” said Brian In late July, the U.S. Mint asked Americans HORIZON NORTH LOGISTICS CO-CEO TO STEP DOWN
Wallace, chief executive of the Coin Laundry to do their part, urging the public to start
Association, a trade group for laundromats. spending their coins, depositing them or ex-
“We provide a basic health service. People changing them at banks or coin redemption TORONTO Horizon North Logis- ensure a smooth transition.
need to do their laundry.” kiosks. Mr. Mnuchin took to Twitter last week tics Inc. says that Rod Graham is He will also remain a director
About 56 per cent of laundromats that serve to urge the same. stepping down as co-chief exec- until the next annual meeting.
the public take quarters as the only form of For the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine utive and president of modular Mark Becker will become
payment. And 89 per cent take quarters as Knoll Shores, a shutdown in March turned into solutions. chief operating officer and con-
some form of payment, with cards, loyalty pro- an unexpected opportunity to help offset lost The company says John Mac- tinue as president of the work
grams or mobile payments as an alternative, revenue and ended up helping address the Cuish, Mr. Graham’s co-CEO, will force, accommodation, forestry
according to the trade group. coin shortage, too. become the sole chief executive and energy services business.
Laundromats rely on coins, in part, because The aquarium shut down its waterfall so it and continue as president of its Horizon North provides work-
many of their customers are unbanked or un- could clear out about 100 gallons of coins that facilities management business. er housing in remote locations
derbanked, meaning they are among the mil- visitors had thrown in over the past 14 years. Under the plan, Mr. Graham as well as modular building
lions of Americans who rely solely on cash to The coins, which are still being washed and will continue to work with the solutions and facilities manage-
pay for things. counted, will go toward operating costs. company for up to 90 days to ment. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Daryl Johnson, who owns Giant Wash Laun- “We are definitely feeling the pinch,” said
dry – a chain of 11 laundromats in the Minnea- Danielle Bolton, a spokeswoman for the
polis area – said his company normally buys aquarium. “Every penny counts, literally.”
anywhere from US$4,000 to US$8,000 in quar- The shortage is even being felt by the
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Freeland: BMO economist expects it will be mostly ‘business as usual’ in short term
FROM B1
Yet there are also concerns in cor-
porate circles that she lacks Mr.
Morneau’s grasp of business, and
that she could prove more sym-
pathetic to Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau’s most left-leaning in-
stincts, acting as less of a check on
spending as the government’s re-
covery plans take shape.
Goldy Hyder, the president and
chief executive of the Business
Council of Canada, said Tuesday
he is urging the new Finance Min-
ister to plan a growth strategy for
Canada that can bring back jobs,
encourage investment, allow for
innovation and enable a rational
conversation about the transition
under way in the economy from
an environmental perspective.
The work that lies ahead for
the Finance Minister will be chal-
lenging, Mr. Hyder said, noting
that the country will have to
manage the pandemic for a long
period of time. “We are still very
much in a crisis,” he said. “Having
said that, we are in a new phase of
the crisis.”
Although it is highly unusual
to swap the key architect of a gov-
ernment’s crisis response at such
a fragile stage of the recovery, the
news has not unsettled markets.
Derek Holt, head of capital mar-
kets economics at Bank of Nova
Scotia, chalked up investors’ mut-
ed reaction to uncertainty over
Canada’s policy direction.
“What markets will care about
is whether [Mr.] Morneau’s resig-
nation signals a material coming
shift in the policy bias,” Mr. Holt
wrote in a note to clients. “If so,
then seeing more fiscal activism
is more likely than seeing less.”
The federal Liberals were elect-
ed in 2015 with a pledge to bal-
ance the books by the end of their
first mandate, but scrapped that
plan in favour of deficit spending
that amounted to roughly 1 per
cent of gross domestic product.
In the past six months, fiscal
plans were obliterated by the un-
precedented response to the pan-
demic, as direct federal spending
on COVID-19 support exceeded
$212-billion. In its fiscal snapshot,
released in July, the federal gov-
ernment projected a $343-billion
deficit for the 2020-21 fiscal year.
“It has never been a govern-
ment in a rush to provide a path
back to balance even before CO-
VID-19 hit and that’s unlikely to
change now,” Mr. Holt said.
He did, however, praise Ms.
Freeland as “extremely capable,”
and said a key consideration “will
be the amount of autonomy
granted to her by the Prime Min-
ister, given how little of it ap-
peared to have been given to Mr.
Morneau.”
The first sign that Ms. Freeland
is diverging from her predecessor
could come this fall, when either
a budget or economic update is
released, Bank of Montreal chief
economist Douglas Porter said. In
the short term, he expects it will
be “largely business as usual” for
fiscal policy. However, “the more
interesting question is what un-
folds a year or two down the
road” as COVID-19 potentially re-
cedes from view.
“Maybe then key differences
could emerge,” Mr. Porter said.
Though Mr. Morneau is credit-
ed with building massive stimu-
lus programs rapidly under ex-
traordinary pressure, certain
measures to help businesses – in-
cluding aspects of the Business
Credit Availability Program and a
commercial rent relief plan –
have been criticized as largely in-
effective.
Mr. Morneau also drew the ire
of Canada’s small-business com-
munity in 2017, when he pro-
posed income-splitting tax
changes that would have restrict-
ed entrepreneurs’ ability to trans-
fer income to others and reduce
their tax burdens, and those ten-
sions persisted.
Dan Kelly, the longtime head of
the Canadian Federation of Inde-
pendent Business, said Mr. Mor-
neau was the first finance minis-
ter not to take time to meet with
him in nearly three decades. “He
was afraid of debate,” Mr. Kelly
said. “He was in love with his own
views of things, and really strug-
gled to deal with people who have
a different opinion.”
Mr. Kelly said he was optimistic
about Ms. Freeland’s track record
in bringing together disparate
voices to compromise on signifi-
cant issues. With Parliament now
prorogued until September, how-
ever, he said he worries that
changes to important pandemic
relief programs will be paused, in-
cluding expanding the Canada
Emergency Business Account
loan program for small business-
es and overhauling the contro-
versial Canada Emergency Com-
mercial Rent Assistance program.
Concerns about the way Mr.
Morneau ran the Finance depart-
ment in the early months of the
pandemic, as described by Mr.
Kelly, are echoed by others in the
small-business sector, which con-
tributes nearly half of Canada’s
gross domestic product.
“We never could figure out
who they were listening to, or
how they made decisions,” said
Jon Shell, co-founder of Save
Small Business, a newer entrepre-
neur-focused lobby group that
launched in response to the pan-
demic. “It was a black box. I think
the terribly designed rent relief
program that eventually came
out is a direct reflection of that
approach.”
With reports from Kristy Kirkup
in Ottawa

Willis: Morneau’s blind

spots undermined credibility
when it was most needed
FROM B1

Suddenly, no one cared about the absolute size of the deficit –

A worker loads lumber onto a forklift in Maple Ridge, B.C., in June. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Lumber: Ramping up production will take time
as companies are already operating near capacity
FROM B1
The S&P Homebuilders Select In-
dustry Index, consisting of com-
panies that consume massive
amounts of lumber, earlier this
month hit its first record high in 15
years. That’s right, home building
stocks have surpassed their highs
last seen during the housing bub-
ble that precipitated the financial
crisis in 2008.
So why stick around in the hope
that these ideal conditions linger
and Canadian forestry stocks rise
even higher? The bullish take is
that the supply and demand dy-
namics that are supporting the
current conditions for lumber are
showing no signs of abating.
Companies can’t just flick a
switch to produce more lumber,
because they are already operat-
ing close to full tilt. Mr. Duncan-
son said that 13 sawmills have
been shuttered permanently in
the B.C. Interior since 2019 be-
cause of the infestation of the
mountain pine beetle. That has
removed an estimated 2.6 per
cent of North American lumber
supply that isn’t coming back.
In the U.S. South, another big
lumber-producing region, com-
panies delayed a number of ex-
pansion projects because of the
spread of COVID-19, leading to a
tight regional market that Mr.
Duncanson expects will persist
into 2021.
“I don’t see lumber prices col-
lapsing here because there is no
major supply wave coming on,”
he said.
A number of analysts agree. Da-
ryl Swetlishoff, at Raymond
James, noted that the lumber
market corrected in 2018 because
a glut of lumber encountered a
weakening U.S. housing market
after the Federal Reserve began to
raise its key interest rate.
“With year-to-date shipments
outstripping production and pos-
itive U.S. housing indicators, we
do not see the same scenario to-
day,” Mr. Swetlishoff said in a re-
cent note.
That should translate into surg-
ing profits ahead. Hamir Patel, an
analyst at CIBC World Markets, ex-
pects that West Fraser will pro-
duce adjusted EBITDA (earnings
before interest, taxes, deprecia-
tion and amortization) of $600-
million in 2020, up nearly 12 per
cent from his previous forecast of
$538-million. In 2019, West Fraser
reported EBITDA of just $134-mil-
lion.
“Rising U.S. home prices, low
mortgage rates and an ageing U.S.
housing stock suggest repair and
remodelling demand should re-
main strong into 2021,” Mr. Patel
said in a note.
If he’s right, forestry stocks
could end the year as one of the
best ways to navigate the CO-
VID-19 economic upheaval, after
starting the pandemic with some
of the hardest-hit casualties.
$343-billion and counting – or the ratio of government debt to
GDP. Instead, corporate critics say the Liberal cabinet seems
intent on rolling out a series of expensive programs without
doing a basic cost-benefit analysis or establishing an overall
strategy for an economic recovery.
In Bay Street circles, there are concerns that the federal
government is shrugging off record-setting deficits because,
hey, there’s a pandemic and interest rates are low. One telling
sign of a frayed relationship: Numerous corporate executives
say the Prime Minister’s Office recently began reaching out
directly to private-sector economists to discuss budgets and
borrowing, bypassing its own experts in the Finance Depart-
ment.
Mr. Morneau’s parting line Monday evening about still
wanting to serve his country rang true. His next point – that
the best way to do so is to head the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development – kind of clanged. Quick,
name the current head of the OECD. And for bonus points,
rhyme off a noteworthy achievement of the organization.
Blanking? The secretary-general is Angel Gurria. He’s been
there since 2006. His bio states that his biggest win over 14
years was welcoming five new countries to the club – hello,
Latvia.
As a second-generation business owner, Mr. Morneau
learned to balance what he wanted with what he could afford.
He did it well. On his watch, Morneau Shepell grew from a re-
gional player with a few hundred employees to a global com-
pany that employs more than 4,000. Successful CEOs get that
way by saying no to expensive ideas more often than they say
yes. The opposite is true of successful cabinet ministers.
As a rookie politician, the finance minister was something
of a Boy Scout. He came into the job with a reputation for in-
tegrity and significant personal wealth. He was blind, or na-
ive, to the conflicts of interest that become scandals in the
gotcha political arena – forgetting to declare a home in France
or to pay back $41,000 in travel expenses to WE Charity. Those
who know and respect Mr. Morneau winced at his unforced
errors. They served to undermine his credibility when he
needed it most.
Canada’s new Finance Minister – Deputy Prime Minister
and former journalist Chrystia Freeland – may well be a more
skilled politician than Mr. Morneau. However, Mr. Morneau
and his most successful predecessors – think of Michael Wil-
son and Paul Martin – entered federal politics after posting
winning records in cutthroat industries. During a defining
moment for the country, no one else in the Liberal caucus has
the credibility in business circles that comes from actually
running a major company.
Former finance minister Bill Morneau departs after announcing
his resignation in Ottawa Monday. Mr. Morneau entered the
cabinet position with a reputation for integrity and significant
personal wealth. JUSTIN TANG/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Markets: Heavy weighting in energy keeps Canadian benchmark below record high
FROM B1
“The rally has more to do with as-
set inflation, which is fueled by all
the liquidity and all the contin-
ued support in the economy as
well as the weakening dollar,” he
added.
The Dow Jones Industrial Aver-
age fell 66.84 points, or 0.24 per
cent, to 27,778.07, the S&P 500
gained 7.79 points, or 0.23 per
cent, to 3,389.78 and the Nasdaq
Composite added 81.12 points, or
0.73 per cent, to 11,210.84.
In Canada, the S&P/TSX Com-
posite Index fell 30.06 points, or
0.18 per cent, to 16,626.06,
weighed down by a decline in en-
ergy stocks.
The Canadian benchmark in-
dex remains more than 7-per-
cent below its all-time high set in
February of this year, in part be-
cause of its heavy weighting in
the oil and gas sector and its mini-
mal exposure to technology
names.
Meanwhile, Nasdaq clocked its
18th record closing high since
early June, when it confirmed its
recovery from the coronavirus
selloff. Tuesday’s record was its
34th record close so far this year
compared with 31 record closing
highs in 2019 and 29 in 2018.
Commonly defined as a drop
of 20 per cent or more from a
peak, the S&P 500 has seen about
a dozen bear markets, or near-
bear markets, since the late 1960s,
in most cases accompanied by a
Nasdaq clocked its recession.
18th record closing While 2020’s bear market was
the S&P 500’s shortest-lived, it
high since early still packed a punch. The index
June, when it fell 34 per cent from its February
confirmed its high to its March low, just slightly
recovery from the below its average bear market
coronavirus selloff. loss of 37 per cent.
However, declines in the in-
dex’s most recent bear market
were not as deep as its two previ-
ous downturns.
The 2009 bear market after the
financial crisis destroyed 57 per
cent of the S&P 500’s value, while
the Wall Street slump in 2002 af-
ter the implosion of the dot-com
bubble eliminated almost half of
its value.
Data on Tuesday showed U.S.
home building accelerated by the
most in nearly four years in July in
the latest sign the housing sector
is emerging as one of the few ar-
eas of strength in an economy
suffering a record slowdown.
That further added to market op-
timism.
Minutes from the Federal Re-
serve’s recent meeting due on
Wednesday may provide some in-
sight into how the central bank
sees the recovery playing out.
The Fed has cut rates to near
zero to bolster business through
the pandemic.
REUTERS
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GLOBE INVESTOR
No slowdown
expected for
tech-fuelled rally
SAIKAT CHATTERJEE
THYAGARAJU ADINARAYAN LONDON

T
oday’s US$72-trillion question
for investors: To buy or not to
buy into the global equities
rally? Notwithstanding inflated
share prices, politics and the pandemic,
the answer from many is a resounding
“yes.”
That’s not just because unpreceden-
ted stimulus – US$20-trillion and count-
ing – is forcing a structural change in
how financial assets are valued. It’s also
down to years of societal shifts, innova-
tion and now, the pandemic, which
could transform forever the way people
work, study and shop – playing into the
dominant hand of tech stocks.
So while renewed coronavirus out-
breaks and a looming U.S. election have
made some investors cautious, many
equity bulls are hanging in there, having
already boosted the value of stocks glob-
People visit Tencent's booth at the World 5G Exhibition in Beijing in November, 2019. The Shenzhen-based company is among the ally by US$24-trillion since end-March.
digital equities that have led gains in the MSCI Emerging Markets Growth Index this year. JASON LEE/REUTERS As global equities near record highs,
strategists say the quickfire bear-to-bull
switch was not only justified, but de-

Digital companies from

serves to go further.
“The COVID pandemic has taken ex-
isting trends – greater dependency on
tech, online shopping, remote working,

emerging markets enjoy

etc. – and supercharged them,” said Ben-
jamin Jones, a senior multiasset strate-
gist at State Street Global Markets.
With technology stocks holding on to

their own FAANG-style boom their eye-popping gains, investors say

Technology stocks have been
outperforming wider indexes
by a large margin beyond
just the Western world
REGINA CHI
OPINION
Vice-president and portfolio manager
at AGF Investments Inc.
the next leg of the rally is likely to come
from value stocks – so called because
they trade at cheaper valuations than
their growth-oriented peers.
to 19.6 per cent, according to Bloomberg, panies on the MSCI index are already Stocks are benefiting of course from
representing a remarkable 88-per-cent listed there; JD.com listed on the HKSE above-average equity-risk premiums,
increase. just this summer, and Alibaba tapped the return one can earn by holding
This year, the overall MSCI Emerging the exchange last November, while stocks compared with risk-free assets.
Markets Index is up 1.8 per cent through maintaining its American depositary re- Global stocks carry an equity-risk premi-
July 31 in Canadian dollars; remove the ceipt listing on the New York Stock Ex- um of 4.6 per cent, while for U.S. stocks,
digital element from the equation, how- change. it’s at 4 per cent.
ever, and the return falls to minus 3.6 per We are constructive on the entire sec- That might erode over time, but for
cent. tor, but given the recent strong perform- now, interest rates appear firmly stapled
Importantly, the digital universe in ance, it makes sense to look for relative to the floor.
EM equities has become very wide and value. That, thankfully, is not too diffi- As for valuations, they are hovering
deep. It transcends the BAT stocks. In In- cult, because many smaller-cap stocks near 22 times forward earnings for the
ternet & Direct Marketing Retail, publi- without significant earnings have been U.S. S&P 500 index, the highest since the
cly traded companies include not just caught up in the wave of digital enthusi- dotcom bubble in early 2000. But then,
Alibaba, but also Chinese e-commerce asm, and they have outperformed some the index too has changed dramatically

T
he quintet of Facebook Inc., Ap-
ple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Net-
flix Inc. and Google’s Alphabet
Inc. has outperformed the
broader market for years now, and the
FAANG group’s exceptionalism has only
been boosted by the COVID-19 environ-
ment, what with just about everybody
staying home and putting their digital
devices into overdrive. While the S&P
500 is up 4.9 per cent for the year – and
that’s after a near-five-month rally – the
FAANG group in 2020 has risen more
than 40 per cent.
But the FAANG stocks are not the only
digital game in town. In emerging mar-
kets (EM), a similar revolution is under
way, and it’s being reflected in the surg-
ing share prices of digital-economy com-
panies.
The ascension of EM digital compa-
nies, of which Baidu Inc. (search), Aliba-
ba Group Holding Ltd. (e-commerce)
and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (services) –
known as the BAT stocks – are probably
the best-known, is clear in the perform-
ance split between growth and value
stocks.
Since the start of the year, the MSCI
Emerging Markets Growth Index, which
includes the important new economy
names, has gained 13.4 per cent, through
July 31, according to Bloomberg, while
the corresponding value index is down
9.7 per cent.
When we look specifically at the sub-
sectors of the MSCI Emerging Markets
Index that include digital-economy
companies – Internet & Direct Market-
ing Retail, led by Alibaba, and Interactive
Media & Services, led by Tencent – the
differentiation is even clearer.
Between October, 2018, and June,
2020, the benchmark weight of those
two subsectors grew from 10.4 per cent
competitors JD.com Inc. and Pinduoduo more familiar names. with technology by far its biggest sector
Inc., as well as Meituan Dianping, an on- The digital subsectors of the MSCI component. Making up around a third
line food delivery service. Emerging Markets Index have gained of the benchmark index, they are the ul-
In Interactive Media & Services, 34.1 per cent year-to-date, but if you ex- timate pandemic stay-at-home benefici-
Shenzhen-based Tencent clude Alibaba and Ten- aries, especially those known as FANG-
is now joined by Naver cent, the return has been MAN – an expanded tech group com-
Corp., operator of South 36.6 per cent, according to prising Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google,
Korea’s most popular Importantly, the Bloomberg. That suggests Microsoft, Amazon and chipmaker Nvi-
search engine platform, there is more upside in the dia.
and Kakao Corp., which of- digital universe in EM two larger-cap equities, Their multiples of 80-100 times for-
fers one of the country’s equities has become which both have strong ward earnings have led the broader mar-
most widely used messen- very wide and deep. earnings growth and mul- ket higher.
ger applications. It transcends tiples that seem reasona- Until a few decades ago, bank, oil &
In India, meanwhile, ble when compared with gas, and industrial stocks made up a
conglomerate Reliance In- the BAT stocks their small-cap EM coun- bulk of the S&P 500. These sectors typ-
dustries Ltd. is poised to [Baidu, Alibaba terparts. Alibaba’s valua- ically trade at lower multiples, given
become a digital giant and Tencent]. tion in particular looks at- commodity price volatility and high ca-
through its Reliance Jio tractive even when com- pex needs – a major reason behind this
Platform subsidiary. In total, there are 22 pared with its American counterparts: year’s underperformance of Britain’s
companies in the two relevant MSCI EM Its price-to-earnings ratio on the Hong FTSE benchmark.
subsectors, and they are not all based in Kong exchange is around 30 times earn- “What’s odd about the market debate
China. ings, according to Bloomberg, while is that it’s set up as follows: look at the
This transformation and correspond- Amazon was recently trading at 140 S&P 500 and the response is the equity
ing equity outperformance look poised times. market is expensive. Then you ask peo-
to continue. That’s not just because of Of course, as with their FAANG coun- ple what they like and they favour a lot
the remarkable rate of innovation in terparts, the fortunes of EM digital stocks of the secular-growth, high-multiple
some emerging markets, but also be- might depend on the course of the pan- stocks,” said Morgan Stanley chief cross-
cause of continuing tensions between demic – how long it lasts, what the world asset strategist Andrew Sheets.
China and the United States. The Hold- will be like once it’s under control and A ratio of U.S. stocks on a market
ing Foreign Companies Accountable Act, whether the elevated valuations they weighted basis to an equally weighted
passed by the U.S. Senate in May, would have enjoyed while the world is under index of shares is at its highest levels
require any company listed on a U.S. ex- lockdown will continue to be justified since the 2008 crisis, indicating the dom-
change to submit to audits by the Public when the world gets back to “normal.” inance of the handful of large tech stocks
Company Accounting Oversight Board Yet, for now, and given that no one in the market. The valuations make all
(PCAOB) – and China is the only country knows what “normal” will look like in a the more sense because of the lower for
in the world that bars its companies year or a decade, Western investors longer interest rate environment, said
from participating in PCAOB audits. would do well to realize that the impact Maximilian Kunkel, CIO of Global Fam-
If ratified, the law could incentivize of the digital revolution – and its oppor- ily Offices at UBS.
Chinese executives, who may or may not tunities – extend far beyond their own “As a result we remain constructive
have already listed in the United States, borders. on risk assets even after the rally.”
to turn to the Hong Kong Stock Ex- Many others would seem to agree. On
change (HKSE), at the very least to AGF owns stock in Facebook Inc., Apple derivative markets, the put-to-call ratio
hedge regulatory risk through a co-list- Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc., for U.S. stocks, a measure of positioning
ing. Alphabet Inc., Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sentiment, is the lowest since 2010. The
Many of the smaller-cap digital com- and Tencent Holdings Ltd. ratio is inversely related to equity per-
formance.
Some caution is although warranted,
given that asset classes of all stripes have

Investors have increasingly bullish view: survey
LONDON bound in economic activity after record
plunges.
Of the 181 survey participants, who
The long gold trade was the second
most crowded, with a net 31 per cent
saying the metal was “overvalued,” the
gained. A portfolio with a 25 per cent
split in stocks, bonds, cash and gold
would have earned a record 18 per cent
in the past 90 days, BofA analysts calcu-
late.
But the edifice is vulnerable to a rise
in inflation, many argue, with investors’

I
nvestors are their “most bullish” on
financial markets since February,
when world stocks hit a record high,
a Bank of America fund manager
survey showed, as hopes of a COVID-19
vaccine and a steady revival of econom-
ic activity boost confidence.
A net 46 per cent of investors sur-
veyed by BofA said “it’s a bull market,”
up from 40 per cent the previous
month. A secular bull market is one
where the prevailing trend is for higher
prices, with short corrections interrupt-
ing it.
World stocks have bounced back by
51 per cent from their mid-March lows,
adding US$24-trillion in value in five
months as investors bet on a rapid re-
manage half-a-trillion U.S. dollars in as-
sets, a net 79 per cent expect a stronger
economy, the strongest reading since
December, 2009.
“Asset allocation stubbornly skewed
toward U.S. growth stocks,” BofA said.
But it added “green shoots” were ap-
pearing for inflation assets and rotation
into Europe and emerging market equi-
ties, which have lagged tech-heavy U.S.
stocks.
The survey found that the “most
crowded” trade for the fourth month
running was a long position in U.S. tech
and growth stocks, the ultimate bene-
ficiaries of pandemic-led transforma-
tions in the way people work, study and
shop.
most since 2011 after no participants
said they considered it to be so last
month. Gold rose above US$2,000 an
ounce for the first time earlier this
month.
As global equities near record highs
again, strategists told Reuters that
the quickfire bear-to-bull switch was
not only justified but deserves to go fur-
ther.
But evidence of a fresh rise coronavi-
rus infections in some countries has led
to caution and the survey showed that
a “second wave” of the pandemic was
still seen as the biggest risk to markets
for the fifth straight month.
REUTERS
holdings of yield-sensitive investments
up US$8.1-trillion over 18 months, ac-
cording to Morgan Stanley.
Though prices have rebounded from
deflationary territory fairly quickly, in-
flation remains far below central bank
estimates, indicating equity valuations
will remain attractive.
Latest flows data shows investors are
switching from cash to equities.
“I would still say investors are under-
weight equities and that provides a fairly
decent backdrop for risk assets to rally,”
said Jason Borbora-Sheen, portfolio
manager at Ninety One Asset Manage-
ment.
REUTERS
B8 | RE P O RT O N BUS I NES S
How safe is it to invest
with Wealthsimple and
other robo-advisers?
Online platforms are
looking increasingly
attractive, but they still
need to inform investors
of the safety nets
available to them
ROB
CARRICK
OPINION
T
he stock market drama of
2020 may prove to be the
making of robo-advisers.
New account openings surged
as the markets crashed in March
and April, negating the argu-
ment from advisers that a bear
market would expose the lack of
hand-holding from the app- and
web-based service provided by
robos.
Investors seem open to the
idea of paying a small fee for
management of an exchange-
traded-fund portfolio tailored to
their investing objectives and
risk tolerance.
But robos still have some
work to do, as shown by a recent
e-mail from a reader. “How safe
is investing with Wealthsimple?”
he wrote. “Are they reputable?
Any chance of collapse and tak-
ing my money with them?
Where can I find how stable and
reputable they are?”
All robo-advisers should be
anticipating this question from
prospective clients, particular in
current market conditions. All
robos should have something
within a click of their homepage
to definitively answer the ques-
tion.
The big banks own the trust
Electric car startup Canoo set to go
public this year at value of $2.4-billion
BEN KLAYMAN DETROIT
Canoo Holdings Ltd., a U.S. elec-
tric vehicle startup already work-
ing with South Korea’s Hyundai
Motor Co., will go public later
this year at a value of US$2.4-bil-
lion and aims to start delivering
vehicles by the second quarter of
2022.
It has joined forces with a so-
called special purpose acquisi-
tion company, or SPAC, and the
combined company will be
called Canoo Inc. after the closing
of the deal with Hennessy Capital
Acquisition Corp IV in the fourth
quarter. It will trade on the Nas-
daq under the ticker symbol
“CNOO,” the companies said.
Tuesday’s announcement
comes as investors are looking to
ride the global shift to EVs and
echo the surging stock price of
segment leader Tesla.
A SPAC is a shell company that
raises money through an IPO to
buy an operating entity, typically
within two years.
“A SPAC has for us a huge ad-
vantage because we can generate
enough funding to accelerate our
EYE ON EQUITIES DAVID LEEDER
SPIN MASTER (TOY-TSX)
CLOSE $30.60, UP 70¢
After “less bad than feared”
second-quarter financial results,
Spin Master Corp.’s “operating
problems [are] on the mend,” ac-
cording to D.A. Davidson’s Linda
Bolton Weiser, leading her to raise
her rating for the Toronto-based
toy maker to “neutral” from “un-
derperform.”
Target: After raising her earnings
expectations for 2020 and 2021,
Ms. Weiser moved her target for
Spin Master shares to $27 from
$20. The consensus target on the
Street is $29.20.
franchise in Canadian investing
and personal finance. If you go
up against them, you need to es-
tablish your reliability. The im-
portance of this requirement in a
business sense can be seen in the
particulars of the reader who
asked about Wealthsimple.
He said he has a seven-figure
portfolio and is paying $17,000 a
year in fees. “To be honest, I
don’t think I’m getting value for
money.” According to his own
calculations, Wealthsimple’s fees
would amount to roughly one-
third of that amount.
What does Wealthsimple say
in response to this reader’s ques-
tions? I asked and got a helpful
response that our reader should
have been able to find for him-
self while researching Wealth-
simple.
Basically, Wealthsimple Inc.
has an affiliate called Canadian
ShareOwner Investments Inc.,
which is where money managed
in a Wealthsimple account is
kept. ShareOwner is a member
development process,” Ulrich
Kranz, Canoo’s co-founder and
chief executive, said.
The former BMW executive cit-
ed Hennessy’s long track record,
which includes taking school bus
maker Blue Bird Corp. public in
2015.
Hennessey CEO Daniel Hen-
nessy said he looked at more
than 12 EV startups and preferred
Canoo’s faster path to commer-
cialization.
The deal, including additional
money from BlackRock Inc. and
other institutional investors, will
raise US$607-million in pro-
ceeds. Hennessy raised US$300-
million in its March, 2019, initial
public offering.
Canoo has developed a “skate-
board” – a low-rise platform that
bundles batteries and electric
motors with such chassis compo-
nents as steering, brakes and
wheels – on which a variety of ve-
hicle body types can be built.
Canoo projects 2024 revenue
of US$1.43-billion and its first
profit at US$188-million, officials
said during a conference call.
In February, Canoo, based just
outside Los Angeles, announced
APHRIA (APHA-TSX)
CLOSE $6.13, UP 9¢
In response to recent share price
depreciation, CIBC World Mar-
kets analyst John Zamparo raised
his rating for Aphria Inc. to “out-
performer” from “neutral.”
“There is no fundamental change
to our thesis on APHA, but the 8-
per-cent decline in the stock since
the company reported its FQ4 re-
sults now creates an attractive 25-
per-cent upside to our target,” he
said.
Target: Mr. Zamparo maintained
a target of $7.50. Consensus is
$9.05.
ISTOCK
of the Canadian Investor Protec-
tion Fund (CIPF), which protects
up to $1-million in eligible ac-
count assets from investment
deal insolvency.
As well, ShareOwner is regis-
tered as an investment dealer in
each jurisdiction of Canada and
is a member of the Investment
Industry Regulatory Organiza-
tion of Canada (IIROC), a self-
regulatory body that oversees in-
vestment dealers and their trad-
ing activity. Wealthsimple also
mentioned its strong financial
backing through majority share-
holders Power Corp. of Canada
and Allianz Group.
All robos need to be pro-active
in telling current and prospec-
tive investors about the safety
net available to them in case of
an insolvency, and they need to
do it in a transparent fashion
where the legalese is kept at bay.
Not addressing insolvency fears
head on may be costing them
customers big and small, espe-
cially in a trying year like 2020.
a deal to develop EVs with Hyun-
dai. Hyundai also has invested in
British electric van startup Arriv-
al, another potential SPAC target.
The first of Canoo’s lineup –
the pod-like, seven-seat canoo –
will be available through sub-
scription to U.S. consumers start-
ing in the second quarter of 2022,
followed by a small commercial
delivery vehicle in 2023 and a
sport sedan in 2025, Mr. Kranz
said. The canoo will have an elec-
tric driving range of more than
250 miles.
Canoo expects to build 10,000
canoo vehicles in 2022, rising to
50,000 in 2024, the same annual
rate it expects to reach for the de-
livery vehicle and sport sedan in
2026, officials said.
Canoo plans eventually to ex-
pand to China, Mr. Kranz said.
Canoo has a letter of intent
and is in talks to finalize a deal
for Canadian company Magna In-
ternational Inc. to assemble its
vehicles, Mr. Kranz said. Magna,
which also may build vehicles for
another EV startup, Fisker Inc.,
confirmed the talks.
REUTERS
CURALEAF HOLDINGS (CURA-CN)
CLOSE $11.60, DOWN 85¢
After better-than-anticipated
second-quarter financial results,
Canaccord Genuity analyst Matt
Bottomley raised his financial ex-
pectations for Curaleaf Holdings
Inc. and reaffirmed it as his top
pick. “We note that Curaleaf cur-
rently has a revenue run-rate that
is likely in excess of US$750-mil-
lion – making CURA by far the
largest global cannabis company
by revenues,” he said.
Target: Keeping a “speculative
buy” rating, Mr. Bottomley in-
creased his target to $16 from $15.
Consensus is $15.09.
O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL | WEDN ESDAY , AUG UST 19, 2020
Markets summary
CANADIAN STOCKS
Canada’s main stock index closed in the red as energy
weighed down the index, while the S&P 500 hit a record high.
The S&P/TSX Composite Index fell 30.06 points to 16,626.06.
The energy sector led the decline with shares in the sector,
on average, losing 1.58 per cent of their worth as the price of
oil retreated.
U.S. STOCKS
The S&P 500 closed at a record high, rebounding from huge
losses triggered by the coronavirus pandemic and crowning
one of the most dramatic recoveries in the index’s history.
Trillions of dollars in fiscal and monetary stimulus have
made Wall Street flush with cash, pushing yield-seeking in-
vestors into equities. Amazon.com Inc. and other high-
growth, technology-related stocks have been viewed as the
most reliable to ride out the crisis.
The S&P record confirms, according to a widely accepted
definition, that Wall Street’s most closely followed index en-
tered a bull market after hitting its pandemic low on March
23. It has surged about 55 per cent since then.
That makes the bear market that started in late February
the S&P 500’s shortest in its history.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.24 per cent, the
S&P 500 gained 0.23 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite add-
ed 0.73 per cent.
Amazon, which rose 4.1 per cent, was the largest gainer in
the S&P 500.
COMMODITIES
Oil prices steadied as high compliance with supply cuts from
the OPEC+ producer group offset demand fears from the
new coronavirus.
Gold rose more than 1 per cent to reclaim the key US$2,000
an ounce level again as the dollar plunged to two-year lows
and the U.S. Treasury yields ticked lower, while investors
awaited minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest meet-
ing.
FOREX AND BONDS
The Canadian dollar strengthened to its highest level in
nearly seven months against its U.S. counterpart as the
greenback broadly declined and investors weighed the po-
tential impact on policy of the new finance minister.
The U.S. dollar index fell to its lowest level in more than
two years, as the continuing effects of the Federal Reserve’s
stimulus programs weakened the dollar broadly for the fifth
consecutive day and lifted U.S. stock indexes to record highs.
Canadian government bond yields eased across the curve
in sympathy with U.S. Treasuries, with the 10-year down 2.2
basis points at 0.562 per cent. Last Thursday, it notched a two-
month high at 0.642 per cent.
U.S. Treasury yields drifted lower as the market looked
ahead to an auction of 20-year bonds and the release of Fed-
eral Reserve meeting minutes.
REUTERS AND THE CANADIAN PRESS
HEDGE FUND STARBOARD SEEKS $300-MILLION
FOR BLANK-CHEQUE ACQUISITION
Starboard Value LP said on Tuesday it plans to raise US$300-
million through a blank-cheque acquisition vehicle, becom-
ing the latest major hedge fund to jump on this year’s frenzy
for such deals.
Starboard, launched in 2011 by chief executive Jeffrey
Smith, joins the ranks of William Ackman’s Pershing Square
Capital Management LP and Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC,
which have also raised these pools of capital, known as
special purpose acquisition vehicles (SPACs).
SPACs have raised US$22.5-billion this year to spend on
deals, exceeding the record US$13.6-billion raised in 2019, as
more private companies choose them as an alternative to
initial public offerings.
There are 104 SPACs, which have raised together US$32.4-
billion, currently chasing deals, according to SPAC Research.
Starboard, which has US$5.8-billion in assets under
management, said in a regulatory filing the new vehicle will
be called the Starboard Value Acquisition Corp. (SVAC). It
will use the money it raises in an IPO to acquire a company
that it has not identified in advance.
Mr. Smith will be SVAC’s chairman and M.J. McNulty, a
Starboard executive, will lead the new vehicle as CEO, the
filing said.
SVAC counts Nigel Travis, a former CEO of Dunkin’
Brands Group Inc.; Greg Waters, a former CEO of Integrated
Device Technology; Erin Russell, a former principal at mid-
dle-market private equity firm Vestar Capital Partners; and
Anthony Sanfilippo, a co-founder of investment firm Sorelle
Capital, as its industry advisers.
Starboard, which has secured more board seats at compa-
nies than any other hedge fund this year, is known for its
operational expertise and for ushering in changes at compa-
nies ranging from Darden Restaurants Inc. to Papa John’s
International Inc.
REUTERS
AVICANNA (AVCN-TSX) INVESQUE (IVQ.U-TSX)
CLOSE $1.42, UNCHANGED CLOSE $2.01, DOWN 1¢
Raymond James analyst Rahul Invesque Inc. is “showing tre-
Sarugaser upgraded Avicanna mendous leadership and doing
Inc., citing his optimism motiva- the right thing given [the] cir-
ted by a “recent succession of pos- cumstances,” said Echelon Part-
itive announcements. “We be- ners analyst Frederic Blondeau,
lieve two important, recently re- who sees its current valuation re-
ported events will contribute to a maining “attractive” for long-
material revenue inflection point term investors. Last week, the In-
for AVCN, beginning 2H20 and ac- diana-based health care real es-
celerating into 2021,” he said. tate company reported largely in-
Target: Moving the stock to “out- line second-quarter financial re-
perform” from “market perform,” sults.
Mr. Sarugaser maintained a $2.50 Target: Maintaining a “hold” rat-
target, matching the consensus ing, he lowered his target to
on the Street. US$3.50 from US$4. Consensus is
US$3.20.
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TSX INFORMATION T 166.85 0.38 0.23 3835 41.48 YRI YAMANA GOLD I 8.25 -0.09 -1.08 2636 60.51 DC-A DUNDEE CORP 1.53 -0.01 -0.65 35 28.57 SRX STORM RESOURC 1.89 0.09 5.00 642 15.24
TSX MATERIALS CAP 351.08 -1.48 -0.42 55146 30.80 PEY PEYTO EXPLORA 3.08 0.12 4.05 2632 -18.95 DC-PR-B DUNDEE CO 17.90 0.00 0.00 10 18.78 TOCC TD ONE-CLICK 15.04 0.00 0.00 N-A
TSX REAL ESTATE C 277.32 -0.06 -0.02 8474 -19.95 NDM NORTHERN DYNA 2.02 -0.27 -11.79 2418 260.71 EQX EQUINOX GOLD 17.65 0.07 0.40 1569 76.68 TOCM TD ONE-CLICK 15.09 0.00 0.00 N-A
TSX GLOBAL GOLD I 389.29 -3.24 -0.83 83032 48.93 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 4.03 -0.19 -4.50 2351 -45.47 GOLD GOLDMINING I 2.79 0.17 6.49 1253 109.77 TFII TFI INTERNAT 59.67 2.38 4.15 559 36.33
TSX GLOBAL MINING 102.50 -0.75 -0.73 140385 24.32 CPG CRESCENT POIN 2.62 -0.07 -2.60 2303 -54.75 XAU GOLDMONEY INC 3.27 0.36 12.37 515 74.87 TOU TOURMALINE OI 17.27 -0.03 -0.17 1222 13.47
TSX INCOME TRUST 193.73 -0.77 -0.40 8432 -16.37 FM FIRST QUANTUM 12.67 0.27 2.18 2297 -3.80 GPR GREAT PANTHER 1.36 0.03 2.26 860 102.99 VCM VECIMA NETWOR 12.50 0.22 1.79 2 20.77
TSX PREFERRED SHA 569.08 0.50 0.09 1717 -7.64 LUN LUNDIN MINING 8.17 0.34 4.34 2244 5.28 GIQG GUARDIAN I3 20.26 0.13 0.65 1 VGCX VICTORIA GOL 19.28 0.41 2.17 226 127.63
TSX TELECOM SERVI 164.23 0.94 0.58 6244 -8.35 ATD-B ALIMENTATIO 45.30 -0.09 -0.20 2133 9.92 GIQG-B GUARDIAN I 20.09 0.09 0.45 1 WDO WESDOME GOLD 14.85 0.16 1.09 588 46.02
TSX UTILITIES CAP 291.63 0.02 0.01 7364 0.99 BMO BANK OF MONTR 77.31 -0.47 -0.60 2127 -23.18 GUY GUYANA GOLDFI 1.82 0.00 0.00 281 160.00 WFT WEST FRASER T 70.70 -0.11 -0.16 250 23.43

TSX GAINERS TSX LOSERS TSX 52-WEEK LOWS

TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE STOCKS $1 OR MORE

CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
COG CONDOR GOLD P 1.15 0.17 17.35 13 167.44 LAC LITHIUM AMERI 10.06 -1.74 -14.75 934 141.83 DRMD DESJARDINS R 21.90 0.00 0.00 N-A GIQG GUARDIAN I3 20.26 0.13 0.65 1
XAU GOLDMONEY INC 3.27 0.36 12.37 515 74.87 NDM NORTHERN DYNA 2.02 -0.27 -11.79 2418 260.71
BBL-A BRAMPTON BR 6.25 0.65 11.61 2 -2.34 GFL GFL ENVIRONME 25.53 -2.53 -9.02 940 13.97
PDV PRIME DIVIDEN 5.66 0.58 11.42 1 -18.91 BTO B2GOLD CORP 8.84 -0.66 -6.95 11322 69.67
WRN WESTERN COPPE 1.70 0.16 10.39 448 58.88 HMMJ-U HORIZONS M 5.11 -0.38 -6.92 N-A -24.30
PHX PHX ENERGY SE 1.34 0.12 9.84 27 -52.65 HND BETAPRO NAT G 7.24 -0.48 -6.22 1654 -28.95
IDG INDIGO BOOKS 2.30 0.20 9.52 71 -47.13 FAH-U FAIRFAX AFR 3.20 -0.20 -5.88 3 -45.85
EGLX ENTHUSIAST G 1.99 0.17 9.34 277 -3.86 BDI BLACK DIAMOND 1.65 -0.10 -5.71 26 -23.26
SBB SABINA GOLD A 2.55 0.21 8.97 1564 32.81 USA AMERICAS SILV 3.87 -0.20 -4.91 1370 -4.91
FCCV FIDELITY CAN 26.63 2.13 8.69 N-A 8.47 CRRX CARERX CORPO 4.37 -0.22 -4.79 106 -7.02
AND ANDLAUER HEAL 42.83 3.02 7.59 18 113.62 GAU GALIANO GOLD 2.21 -0.11 -4.74 546 30.77
NEXA NEXA RESOURC 9.79 0.64 6.99 N-A -7.47 IMP INTERMAP TECH 1.03 -0.05 -4.63 2 368.18
GOLD GOLDMINING I 2.79 0.17 6.49 1253 109.77 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 4.03 -0.19 -4.50 2351 -45.47
HNU BETAPRO NAT G 16.08 0.93 6.14 1253 -48.38 FVL FREEGOLD VENT 1.54 -0.07 -4.35 13122466.67
SBT PURPOSE SILVE 16.09 0.93 6.13 1 64.35 POU PARAMOUNT RES 3.09 -0.14 -4.33 875 -59.02
SPG SPARK POWER G 1.64 0.09 5.81 31 36.67 GLXY GALAXY DIGIT 3.60 -0.16 -4.26 185 239.62
PMTS CPI CARD GRO 3.30 0.18 5.77 N-A 184.48 MOGO MOGO INC 2.27 -0.10 -4.22 93 -32.24
WEF WESTERN FORES 1.15 0.06 5.50 1472 -5.74 PRM BIG PHARMA SP 13.61 -0.59 -4.15 3 -3.13
AXU ALEXCO RESOUR 3.86 0.20 5.46 691 28.67 SWP SWISS WATER D 3.08 -0.13 -4.05 16 -55.49
SRX STORM RESOURC 1.89 0.09 5.00 642 15.24 TBL TAIGA BUILDIN 1.20 -0.05 -4.00 46 4.35

S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX STOCKS

LARGEST STOCKS BY MARKET CAPITALIZATION

CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
ARE AECON GROUP I 14.65 0.16 1.10 242 -16.38 CSH-UN CHARTWELL 10.33 0.03 0.29 322 -25.68 IFP INTERFOR CORP 17.32 0.18 1.05 486 18.06 QSR RESTAURANT BR 72.29 0.51 0.71 653 -12.67
AEM AGNICO EAGLE 108.29 -0.61 -0.56 488 35.40 CHP-UN CHOICE PRO 12.89 0.08 0.62 229 -7.33 IIP-UN INTERRENT 13.01 -0.09 -0.69 349 -16.82 RCH RICHELIEU HAR 35.72 0.57 1.62 126 31.66
AC AIR CANADA 15.87 -0.31 -1.92 3298 -67.29 CGX CINEPLEX INC 8.33 0.14 1.71 602 -75.39 ITP INTERTAPE POL 15.66 -0.32 -2.00 159 -5.78 REI-UN RIOCAN REA 15.42 0.01 0.06 866 -42.38
ASR ALACER GOLD C 8.66 -0.14 -1.59 1205 25.51 CCA COGECO COMMUN 103.14 -0.58 -0.56 41 -8.89 IVN IVANHOE MINES 5.15 0.01 0.19 890 21.18 RBA RITCHIE BROS 82.67 -0.99 -1.18 177 48.37
AGI ALAMOS GOLD I 14.00 -0.17 -1.20 801 78.80 CIGI COLLIERS INT 82.45 0.53 0.65 38 -18.45 RCI-B ROGERS COMM 56.14 0.40 0.72 628 -12.93
AQN ALGONQUIN POW 18.20 0.20 1.11 1098 -0.93 CUF-UN COMINAR R 7.07 0.04 0.57 575 -50.07 JWEL JAMIESON WEL 37.04 0.95 2.63 123 43.84 RY ROYAL BANK OF 97.32 0.22 0.23 1384 -5.28
ATD-B ALIMENTATIO 45.30 -0.09 -0.20 2133 9.92 CSU CONSTELLATION 1504.25 -6.30 -0.42 42 19.28 RUS RUSSEL METALS 19.06 0.05 0.26 170 -14.03
AP-UN ALLIED PROP 38.66 -0.33 -0.85 369 -25.75 CJR-B CORUS ENTER 3.07 -0.09 -2.85 1806 -42.29 KEY KEYERA CORP 24.61 -0.10 -0.40 753 -27.66
ALA ALTAGAS LTD 18.05 0.10 0.56 339 -8.75 CPG CRESCENT POIN 2.62 -0.07 -2.60 2303 -54.75 KMP-UN KILLAM APA 17.91 -0.07 -0.39 150 -5.44 SSL SANDSTORM GOL 12.13 -0.12 -0.98 460 25.18
AIF ALTUS GROUP L 48.28 0.32 0.67 123 27.19 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE 13.11 0.13 1.00 218 -17.75 KXS KINAXIS INC 195.24 -0.63 -0.32 116 95.20 SAP SAPUTO INC 35.05 -0.19 -0.54 224 -12.81
APHA APHRIA INC 6.13 0.09 1.49 1786 -9.59 CRON CRONOS GROUP 7.28 -0.11 -1.49 538 -26.98 K KINROSS GOLD CO 12.14 -0.13 -1.06 4751 97.08 SEA SEABRIDGE GOL 24.60 0.21 0.86 179 36.97
ARX ARC RESOURCES 6.72 0.09 1.36 1125 -17.85 KL KIRKLAND LAKE 71.23 0.97 1.38 1028 24.44 VII SEVEN GENERAT 4.69 0.11 2.40 2043 -44.63
ATZ ARITZIA INC 17.30 -0.35 -1.98 239 -9.19 DSG DESCARTES SYS 73.76 1.28 1.77 113 32.90 GUD KNIGHT THERAP 6.69 -0.03 -0.45 127 -11.74 SJR-B SHAW COMMUN 25.08 0.06 0.24 382 -4.82
AX-UN ARTIS REAL 8.69 0.04 0.46 221 -26.97 DOL DOLLARAMA INC 50.07 0.54 1.09 443 12.19 SHOP SHOPIFY INC 1348.61 12.58 0.94 148 161.21
ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 40.91 0.29 0.71 137 -17.80 DIR-UN DREAM INDU 11.28 0.08 0.71 222 -14.16 LIF LABRADOR IRON 28.89 0.18 0.63 108 17.34 SIA SIENNA SENIOR 10.39 -0.09 -0.86 434 -43.10
ATA ATS AUTOMATIO 20.09 -0.06 -0.30 214 -6.25 D-UN DREAM OFFICE 19.99 -0.06 -0.30 139 -35.79 LB LAURENTIAN BAN 27.66 -0.17 -0.61 161 -37.74 SVM SILVERCORP ME 10.50 -0.29 -2.69 787 43.25
AUP AURINIA PHARM 19.01 -0.14 -0.73 139 -27.69 DPM DUNDEE PRECIO 9.60 -0.21 -2.14 469 72.04 LSPD LIGHTSPEED P 39.28 -0.25 -0.63 263 8.90 SIL SILVERCREST M 12.58 -0.27 -2.10 351 43.44
ACB AURORA CANNAB 13.18 -0.21 -1.57 1079 -60.63 LNR LINAMAR CORP 42.24 -0.20 -0.47 64 -14.02 ZZZ SLEEP COUNTRY 20.16 -0.29 -1.42 77 -0.25
ECN ECN CAPITAL C 4.98 -0.10 -1.97 885 3.97 L LOBLAW CO 71.00 0.29 0.41 429 5.97 SRU-UN SMARTCENTR 20.57 -0.05 -0.24 405 -34.09
BTO B2GOLD CORP 8.84 -0.66 -6.95 11322 69.67 ELD ELDORADO GOLD 15.63 -0.04 -0.26 775 49.86 LUG LUNDIN GOLD I 12.25 -0.05 -0.41 462 47.06 SNC SNC-LAVALIN S 24.30 -0.45 -1.82 457 -18.86
BCE BCE INC 56.91 0.47 0.83 1403 -5.40 EFN ELEMENT FLEET 10.92 -0.15 -1.36 840 -1.53 LUN LUNDIN MINING 8.17 0.34 4.34 2244 5.28 TOY SPIN MASTER C 30.60 0.70 2.34 401 -22.61
BAD BADGER DAYLIG 36.45 -0.20 -0.55 87 3.73 EMA EMERA INCORPO 53.76 0.40 0.75 430 -3.64 SSRM SSR MINING I 26.79 -0.36 -1.33 529 7.20
BLDP BALLARD POWE 20.92 0.38 1.85 1186 125.43 EMP-A EMPIRE COMP 35.67 -0.18 -0.50 461 17.10 MAG MAG SILVER CO 21.96 0.11 0.50 264 43.16 STN STANTEC INC 42.75 -0.12 -0.28 173 16.49
BMO BANK OF MONTR 77.31 -0.47 -0.60 2127 -23.18 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 43.41 -0.01 -0.02 6171 -15.92 MG MAGNA INTERNAT 69.08 -0.46 -0.66 2006 -2.98 SJ STELLA JONES I 45.82 -0.29 -0.63 160 22.12
BNS BANK OF NOVA 57.03 -0.18 -0.31 1523 -22.25 EDV ENDEAVOUR MIN 37.03 0.53 1.45 554 50.96 MFC MANULIFE FIN 19.67 -0.10 -0.51 2690 -25.38 SMU-UN SUMMIT IND 12.21 0.03 0.25 159 1.24
ABX BARRICK GOLD 39.59 -0.25 -0.63 5222 64.14 ERF ENERPLUS CORP 4.05 -0.08 -1.94 494 -56.22 MFI MAPLE LEAF FO 29.60 0.07 0.24 168 14.37 SLF SUN LIFE FINA 55.74 -0.22 -0.39 1796 -5.86
BHC BAUSCH HEALTH 22.82 -0.74 -3.14 564 -41.29 ENGH ENGHOUSE SYS 75.05 1.20 1.62 194 55.77 MRE MARTINREA INT 10.30 -0.09 -0.87 264 -28.02 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 22.12 -0.33 -1.47 5385 -48.03
BB BLACKBERRY LIM 6.32 -0.03 -0.47 894 -24.31 EQX EQUINOX GOLD 17.65 0.07 0.40 1569 76.68 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 4.03 -0.19 -4.50 2351 -45.47 SPB SUPERIOR PLUS 12.17 -0.02 -0.16 433 -3.11
BEI-UN BOARDWALK 30.60 0.01 0.03 201 -33.38 EQB EQUITABLE GRO 79.40 -0.77 -0.96 31 -27.39 MX METHANEX CORP 28.00 -0.36 -1.27 192 -44.17
BLX BORALEX INC 33.20 0.11 0.33 813 35.73 ERO ERO COPPER CO 18.69 0.30 1.63 97 -20.84 MRU METRO INC 60.20 0.33 0.55 292 12.33 TRP TC ENERGY COR 65.06 -0.04 -0.06 708 -5.93
BYD BOYD GROUP SE 205.37 -4.16 -1.99 54 1.17 EIF EXCHANGE INCO 30.91 -0.09 -0.29 132 -30.83 MSI MORNEAU SHEPE 28.12 -0.38 -1.33 222 -16.78 TECK-B TECK RESOU 15.61 0.05 0.32 1152 -30.68
BAM-A BROOKFIELD 44.32 -1.10 -2.42 1320 -11.40 MTL MULLEN GROUP 9.75 0.02 0.21 354 5.18 T TELUS CORP 24.22 0.16 0.67 1144 -3.66
BBU-UN BROOKFIELD 43.21 -0.40 -0.92 24 -19.58 FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 409.86 1.35 0.33 50 -32.78 TGZ TERANGA GOLD 15.20 0.08 0.53 511 116.52
BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 57.67 -0.62 -1.06 191 -11.09 FTT FINNING INTL 20.43 -0.23 -1.11 260 -19.25 NA NATIONAL BANK 66.27 -0.14 -0.21 553 -8.06 TFII TFI INTERNAT 59.67 2.38 4.15 559 36.33
BPY-UN BROOKFIELD 15.71 -0.15 -0.95 807 -33.80 FCR-UN FIRST CAPI 14.90 0.51 3.54 803 -27.91 NFI NEW FLYER IND 16.25 -0.18 -1.10 329 -39.02 NWC THE NORTH WES 30.29 0.16 0.53 43 10.83
BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 57.45 -0.29 -0.50 164 -4.73 FR FIRST MAJESTIC 15.77 -0.26 -1.62 999 -1.00 OSB NORBORD INC 44.91 -0.69 -1.51 159 29.31 TRI THOMSON REUTE 99.56 0.24 0.24 395 7.18
DOO BRP INC 66.22 2.67 4.20 304 11.93 FM FIRST QUANTUM 12.67 0.27 2.18 2297 -3.80 NPI NORTHLAND POW 36.61 0.21 0.58 276 34.60 X TMX GROUP LIMIT 136.33 0.24 0.18 97 21.24
FSV FIRSTSERVICE 154.78 2.28 1.50 53 28.03 NVU-UN NORTHVIEW 34.74 0.01 0.03 62 17.21 TXG TOREX GOLD RE 21.80 -0.23 -1.04 399 6.24
CAR-UN CDN APARTM 46.64 -0.70 -1.48 587 -12.02 FTS FORTIS INC 52.81 -0.34 -0.64 934 -1.99 NWH-UN NORTHWEST 11.56 0.13 1.14 287 -3.10 TIH TOROMONT IND 73.58 0.08 0.11 120 4.24
CNQ CDN NATURAL R 26.46 -0.31 -1.16 3556 -37.00 FNV FRANCO-NEVADA 200.00 -2.07 -1.02 252 49.15 NG NOVAGOLD RES I 12.44 0.06 0.48 388 7.06 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 62.40 -0.56 -0.89 1844 -14.32
CWB CDN WESTERN B 23.90 -0.20 -0.83 244 -25.05 NTR NUTRIEN LTD 52.13 0.70 1.36 1004 -16.15 TOU TOURMALINE OI 17.27 -0.03 -0.17 1222 13.47
GIB-A CGI GROUP I 91.11 0.02 0.02 376 -16.16 MIC GENWORTH MI C 36.39 -0.47 -1.28 87 -35.96 TA TRANSALTA CORP 8.61 0.08 0.94 326 -7.22
CIX CI FINANCIAL 19.07 -0.24 -1.24 504 -12.16 GEI GIBSON ENERGY 24.86 0.15 0.61 357 -6.51 OGC OCEANAGOLD CO 3.47 -0.09 -2.53 1563 36.08 RNW TRANSALTA REN 15.68 -0.04 -0.25 205 1.03
CRT-UN CT REAL ES 14.01 0.14 1.01 124 -13.20 GIL GILDAN ACTIVE 26.69 0.47 1.79 523 -30.48 ONEX ONEX CORP 64.19 -0.40 -0.62 187 -21.88 TCL-A TRANSCONTIN 15.73 0.17 1.09 105 -0.88
CAE CAE INC 20.69 -0.20 -0.96 598 -39.82 GRT-UN GRANITE RE 77.41 -0.32 -0.41 146 17.32 OTEX OPEN TEXT CO 57.65 0.12 0.21 489 0.75 TCN TRICON CAPITA 9.86 -0.03 -0.30 290 -7.24
CCO CAMECO CORP 13.68 -0.03 -0.22 537 18.54 GC GREAT CANADIAN 28.00 -0.52 -1.82 203 -34.94 OR OSISKO GOLD RO 15.52 0.08 0.52 588 22.98
GOOS CANADA GOOSE 30.53 -0.18 -0.59 265 -35.06 GWO GREAT-WEST LI 26.67 -0.06 -0.22 331 -19.81 VET VERMILION ENE 5.97 -0.19 -3.08 1532 -71.88
CM CANADIAN IMPER 96.61 -0.72 -0.74 758 -10.60 PAAS PAN AMERICAN 46.00 -0.35 -0.76 522 49.54
CNR CANADIAN NATI 137.62 0.19 0.14 861 17.15 HR-UN H&R REAL ES 10.20 -0.08 -0.78 725 -51.66 PXT PAREX RESOURC 18.91 -0.38 -1.97 355 -21.70 WSP WSP GLOBAL IN 87.79 1.35 1.56 157 -0.99
CP CANADIAN PACIF 396.24 2.37 0.60 163 19.70 HCG HOME CAPITAL 23.74 -0.32 -1.33 183 -27.97 PKI PARKLAND FUEL 39.36 -0.96 -2.38 306 -17.50 WCN WASTE CONNECT 131.67 -0.30 -0.23 210 11.63
CTC-A CANADIAN TI 130.19 -0.46 -0.35 165 -6.84 HBM HUDBAY MINERA 5.35 -0.16 -2.90 987 -0.56 PSI PASON SYSTEMS 6.24 -0.10 -1.58 151 -52.40 WDO WESDOME GOLD 14.85 0.16 1.09 588 46.02
CU CANADIAN UTILI 33.18 0.06 0.18 229 -15.29 HSE HUSKY ENERGY 4.73 -0.11 -2.27 1996 -54.61 PPL PEMBINA PIPEL 35.31 -0.16 -0.45 849 -26.64 WFT WEST FRASER T 70.70 -0.11 -0.16 250 23.43
CFP CANFOR CORP 17.23 -0.05 -0.29 362 41.93 H HYDRO ONE LIMIT 27.83 0.19 0.69 925 10.96 POW POWER CORPORA 25.75 0.02 0.08 1230 -23.02 WN WESTON GEORGE 100.42 0.84 0.84 139 -2.52
WEED CANOPY GROWT 22.30 -0.08 -0.36 1225 -18.34 PSK PRAIRIESKY RO 9.59 -0.12 -1.24 589 -37.03 WTE WESTSHORE TER 17.98 -0.15 -0.83 78 -5.12
CPX CAPITAL POWER 29.40 0.13 0.44 292 -14.51 IMG IAMGOLD CORP 5.85 -0.08 -1.35 1935 20.62 PBH PREMIUM BRAND 98.21 -0.38 -0.39 69 7.97 WPM WHEATON PRECI 69.58 -0.29 -0.42 757 80.07
CJT CARGOJET INC 181.46 -1.05 -0.58 47 75.61 IGM IGM FINANCIAL 32.73 -0.15 -0.46 147 -12.20 PVG PRETIUM RESOU 16.25 -0.20 -1.22 915 12.46 WCP WHITECAP RESO 2.79 -0.06 -2.11 2051 -49.73
CAS CASCADES INC 15.24 0.35 2.35 261 35.95 IMO IMPERIAL OIL 22.17 -0.51 -2.25 624 -35.46 PRMW PRIMO WATER 19.44 0.03 0.15 98 -2.56 WPK WINPAK LTD 45.81 -0.96 -2.05 104 -2.49
CCL-B CCL INDUSTR 49.66 -0.05 -0.10 154 -10.23 IAG INDUSTRIAL AL 48.29 -0.13 -0.27 193 -32.30 WIR-UN WPT INDUST 17.50 -0.07 -0.40 76 -8.09
CLS CELESTICA INC 10.62 -0.24 -2.21 175 -1.39 INE INNERGEX RENE 22.36 -0.06 -0.27 565 32.62 QBR-B QUEBECOR IN 33.84 0.12 0.36 234 2.11
CVE CENOVUS ENERG 6.64 -0.25 -3.63 3106 -49.70 IFC INTACT FINANC 143.15 1.89 1.34 279 1.94 YRI YAMANA GOLD I 8.25 -0.09 -1.08 2636 60.51
CG CENTERRA GOLD 17.23 -0.22 -1.26 787 66.80 IPL INTER PIPELIN 14.21 -0.03 -0.21 1055 -36.96 REAL REAL MATTERS 29.76 -0.18 -0.60 238 141.56

ETFS BONDS CURRENCIES

STOCKS $1 OR MORE CANADA FOREIGN EXCHANGE CROSS RATES

CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD TERM YIELD CHG CAD USD AUD EUR GBP JPY CHF
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
2-YEAR 0.29 -0.01 CAD - 0.7593 1.0484 0.6363 0.5731 80.037 0.6856
CGL ISHARES GOLD 16.72 0.16 0.97 187 31.34 HZU BETAPRO SILVE 24.68 0.41 1.69 607 89.85 5-YEAR 0.39 -0.03 USD 1.3165 - 1.3806 0.8381 0.7549 105.42 0.9031
DLR-U HORIZONS US 10.10 0.00 0.00 306 0.00 MKC MACKENZIE MAX 25.90 -0.12 -0.46 262 3.23 10-YEAR 0.58 -0.03 AUD 0.9530 0.7238 - 0.6066 0.5464 76.301 0.6537
DLR HORIZONS US D 13.31 -0.03 -0.22 656 1.37 SVR ISHARES SILVE 14.66 0.19 1.31 213 55.13 30-YEAR 1.09 -0.04 EUR 1.5703 1.1930 1.6472 - 0.9006 125.75 1.0772
FIE ISHARES CDN F 6.19 -0.02 -0.32 186 -14.27 XEG ISHARES S&P T 5.39 -0.09 -1.64 408 -42.29 GBP 1.7430 1.3239 1.8283 1.1096 - 139.55 1.1955
HGD BETAPRO CDN G 6.89 0.10 1.47 1602 -76.14 XFN ISHARES S&P T 34.13 -0.19 -0.55 210 -13.68 JPY 0.0125 0.0095 0.0131 0.0080 0.0071 - 0.8561
HGU BETAPRO CDN G 36.18 -0.63 -1.71 469 92.96 XGD ISHARES S&P T 24.25 -0.20 -0.82 722 48.86 RATES RATE CHG CHF 1.4569 1.1066 1.5278 0.9274 0.8353 116.67 -
HND BETAPRO NAT G 7.24 -0.48 -6.22 1654 -28.95 XIU ISHARES S&P T 25.23 -0.03 -0.12 780 -1.29
HNU BETAPRO NAT G 16.08 0.93 6.14 1253 -48.38 XSP ISHARES CORE 36.73 0.06 0.16 162 3.23 BOFC OVERNIGHT TARGET 0.25 UNCH
HQU BETAPRO NASDA 33.05 0.62 1.91 156 48.77 ZAG BMO AGGREGATE 16.82 0.04 0.24 173 6.05 CANADIAN PRIME 2.45 UNCH
HSD BETAPRO SP500 7.11 -0.03 -0.42 452 -34.65 ZEB BMO S&P TSX E 25.22 -0.12 -0.47 489 -13.92 Source: wires
HXT HORIZONS S&P 37.81 -0.05 -0.13 151 0.35 ZPR BMO LADDERED 9.07 0.03 0.33 243 -7.92
HZD BETAPRO SILVE 2.82 -0.06 -2.08 796 -72.19 ZSP BMO S&P 500 I 49.12 -0.01 -0.02 150 6.55

U.S.

COMMODITIES TERM YIELD CHG

2-YEAR TREASURY 0.14 0.00

PRICE NET PRICE NET PRICE NET 5-YEAR TREASURY 0.27 -0.02
CHG CHG CHG 10-YEAR TREASURY 0.67 -0.02
30-YEAR TREASURY 1.40 -0.03
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SPORTS
The US Open will have
40 ‘social-distance
ambassadors’ to watch
over tennis players B12
Golfer Danielle Kang
looks to be a serious
contender for this year’s
British Open B15

[ FLYERS VS. CANADIENS ]

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The Montreal Canadiens’ Jesperi Kotkaniemi gets checked into the boards by Justin Braun of the Philadelphia Flyers during
the second period of Game 4 of their first-round series at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday. The Habs are on the cusp
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Flames fall to Stars, again, Jets phenom Hawerchuk dies

now face elimination game at 57 after cancer battle
MARTY KLINKENBERG out of its first line, which went silent in NEIL DAVIDSON Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister
last year’s defeat by Colorado. That se- added: “All Jets fans mourn the loss of
ries was a romp; this one has been one of the NHL’s all time greatest play-
For the second year in a row, the Cal- tightly played but the Flames are still Dale Hawerchuk, a hockey phenom ers.”
gary Flames have gotten exceptional on the wrong end. who became the face of the Winnipeg Former Jets star Teemu Selanne said
goaltending in the postseason. As in “We didn’t have the fight last year Jets en route to the Hall of Fame, has he had a chance to talk to Hawerchuk
2019, it still may not be enough for that this team has,” Ward said. “This died at the age of 57 after a battle with on Monday and say goodbye.
them to advance to the second round of team is going to battle back. I know stomach cancer. “What an incredible human being,”
the Stanley Cup playoffs. comparison’s will be made, but to me The Jets and Ontario Hockey Selanne tweeted.
Calgary’s high-flying offence re- these are two totally different situa- League’s Barrie Colts, a team Hawer- NHL commissioner Gary Bettman
mained grounded on Tuesday night in a tions. chuk coached, confirmed the death on called Hawerchuk “one of the most dec-
2-1 loss to the Dallas Stars, and now the The Flames were 12 seconds from Twitter on Tuesday. orated players in our game’s history.”
Albertans face an elimination game taking a 3-1 series lead on Sunday when “After an incredibly brave and diffi- In September, 2019, Hawerchuk took
two days hence. The loss came after a they surrendered the tying goal and cult battle with cancer, our dad has a leave of absence from coaching the
heartbreaking defeat in overtime on then gave up the winner late in the first passed away. My family is so proud of Colts to undergo chemotherapy treat-
Sunday, and the Flames now trail in the extra period. They were badly outshot him and the way he fought. #Hawer- ment.
best-of-seven series 3-2. and were similarly outplayed again at chukStrong,” Eric Hawerchuk, one of “For some reason, the Lord put me in
After having the second-best record the start on Tuesday. Dale and wife Crystal’s three children, this kind of fight and I’m ready to fight
in the NHL in 2018-19, they were elim- By the time Benn put Dallas ahead wrote on Twitter. it,” he told TSN in October, 2019. “I want
inated in five games by the Colorado 1-0 midway through the first period, the A teenage star, Hawerchuk was draft- to live to tell the story.”
Avalanche. Calgary’s goalie in that se- Stars had already outshot Calgary, 9-2. ed first over all by the Jets in 1981. He Eric Hawerchuk said in July on Twit-
ries, Mike Smith, was by far the team’s Benn’s goal came from in close off a went on to play nine seasons in Winni- ter that the cancer had returned after
best player, but he didn’t get much help crisp cross-ice pass from Tyler Seguin. peg and five in Buffalo before finishing his dad completed chemotherapy in
from anyone else. The Flames coughed up the puck to up his distinguished 16-year NHL career April.
The same is true of Cam Talbot, who the Stars’ tenacious defence 12 times in with stints in St. Louis and Philadel- Dale Hawerchuk, the longest-serving
turned away 30 of 32 shots in another the first 20 minutes. phia. coach in Colts history, was going into
tight game. He has faced Despite being out- Hawerchuk recorded his 10th season behind
30 or more in four of the played, Calgary went into 518 goals and 1,409 points Barrie’s bench. He had led
five games, and was del- the intermission tied at in 1,188 regular-season the Colts to the playoffs in
uged with 62 on Sunday. The Flames were 12 1-1 behind a hard wrist games (he added 30 more A teenage star, six of his nine previous
John Klingberg, the shot from Mikael Back- goals and 99 assists in 97 seasons.
Stars defenceman, scored seconds from taking lund that beat Khudobin playoff games). Hawerchuk was At Barrie, Hawerchuk
the winning goal on a a 3-1 series lead on with just 46 seconds left “A low-maintenance drafted first over all coached the likes of Aaron
long wrist shot 72 seconds Sunday when they in the period. superstar,” said Craig by the Jets in 1981. Ekblad, Mark Scheifele,
into the third period. An- surrendered the Talbot, who made 57 Heisinger, Winnipeg’s se- He went on to play Tanner Pearson and Ryan
ton Khudobin had 28 saves on Sunday and nior vice-president and Suzuki.
saves in the win for Dallas. tying goal and then faced 159 shots in the first director of hockey oper- nine seasons in Calgary Flames defen-
The game ended with Tal- gave up the winner four games of the series, ations. Winnipeg. ceman Rasmus Anders-
bot on the bench and Cal- late in the first extra was sharp again. He stop- At 5 foot 11 and 190 son, a former Colt, paid
gary on a two-man advan- period. ped 13 of Dallas’ 14 shots pounds, Hawerchuk wasn’t blessed tribute to Hawerchuk hours before his
tage for the final 21 sec- in the first 20 minutes. with size or blistering speed. But the team’s playoff game against the Dallas
onds. Before the game started, a ceremony five-time all-star had a knack for getting Stars in Edmonton.
Flames coach Geoff Ward felt that his was held to honour Dale Hawerchuk, to loose pucks and then creating some- “Rest In Peace Dale, was an honour to
players had the jitters at the start for whose family announced on Tuesday thing out of nothing. Hawerchuk could play for you,” Andersson said.
the first time in this series. They gave that he had died from stomach cancer. breeze past opponents and knew what The NHL held a moment of silence
up a shorthanded goal by Jamie Benn The 57-year-old member of the Hockey to do when he neared the goal. for Hawerchuk before Tuesday’s open-
midway through the first period and Hall of Fame scored 100 points six times “Dale Hawerchuk put Winnipeg and ing playoff game between the Montreal
were pinned in their end and outshot and is best associated with his tenure the Jets on the map the day he arrived Canadiens and Philadelphia Flyers in
14-7 over the first 20 minutes. with the Winnipeg Jets. in our city in 1981, and his love for our Toronto.
“Our team has not been in a 2-2 sit- Dallas coach Rick Bowness, who community and Hall of Fame career will Born April 4, 1963, in Toronto, Hawer-
uation going into a Game 5 yet,” Ward coached Hawerchuk in Winnipeg dur- keep it there for many generations to chuk grew up in nearby Oshawa, get-
said. “We don’t have many players with ing the 1980s, was visibly moved by the come,” the Jets said in a statement. ting his first pair of skates at the age of 2
more than 20 games of playoff experi- presentation. The Flames’ Rasmus An- “Dale had a relationship with our fans and playing competitively at 4. As a
ence. When you know that the team dersson and Andrew Mangiapane, both unlike any player in the history of our peewee, he broke Guy Lafleur’s record
that loses is going to be going into an of whom played for Hawerchuk in the franchise. by scoring all eight goals in an 8-1 victo-
elimination game, it’s tough to handle. Ontario Hockey League, expressed re- “Whether at home or on the world ry in the final of a tournament in Mon-
“It’s the first time I have seen us have grets about his death after the game. stage, ‘Ducky’ was embraced by so treal.
a case of the nerves and it is understan- “Dale was just a great man,” Mangia- many, so often because of his humility At 15, he was offered a tryout by the
dable.” pane said. and the grace by which he always car- Oshawa Generals.
Calgary didn’t get any production FLAMES, B11 ried himself.” HAWERCHUK, B11
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Calgary goalie Cam Talbot makes a save on the Dallas Stars’ Corey Perry as the Flames’ Rasmus Andersson defends during the first period
of their game in Edmonton on Tuesday. Dallas won 2-1. JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Flames: Frustration a waste of emotion, Lucic says
FROM B10
“I don’t know where I would be without
him. This was very sad news today,”
Mangiapane said.
Calgary was much better in the sec-
ond period, but Talbot still had to make
a handful of brilliant stops to keep the
score tied. After another giveaway, he
denied Benn on a wrist shot from 25 feet
away seven minutes into the period. He
stopped Benn again and Corey Perry
twice on dangerous chances during a
flurry of shots in the last eight minutes
of the period.
Hawerchuk: Player was the youngest in NHL history to reach
100 points, until Sidney Crosby broke the record in 2006
FROM B10
He ended up playing instead for the Osh-
awa Legionaires in the Metro Jr. B Hockey
League in 1978-79.
Some 23 years later, he remembered
his Oshawa days during his 2001 induc-
tion speech at the Hockey Hall of Fame.
“I started my career just down the road
in Oshawa here, maybe a 45-minute drive
– well maybe a little further now with the
traffic,” he said. “I had many dreams and
aspirations to make the National Hockey
League. And I was very fortunate I got to
live those dreams for 16 years in the Na-
tional Hockey League.”
“I enjoyed every city and organization
I played in,” he added.
Hawerchuk was highly touted coming
into junior and was drafted sixth over all
by the Cornwall Royals, who then played
in the Quebec league but took part in the
Ontario draft.
Hawerchuk led the Royals to back-to-
back Memorial Cups in 1980 and ’81 with
teammates who included Scott Arniel,
Marc Crawford, Dan Daoust and Doug Gil-
mour.
Hawerchuk was named Memorial Cup
MVP in 1981 when he set a tournament re-
cord with eight goals and tied another
with 13 points.
He collected 103 points in being named
the QMJHL’s top rookie. The next season,
as a 17-year-old, he led the Quebec league
in goals (81), assists (102) and points
(183) when he was named Canadian ma-
jor junior player of the year.
A grateful John Ferguson drafted Ha-
werchuk in 1981. Hawerchuk went to Win-
nipeg as an 18-year-old and spent nine
years there, saying he felt as if he grew up
in the Manitoba capital.
The Jets had finished last in the league
prior to drafting Hawerchuk, who signed
his first pro contract before a bevy of Ma-
nitoba notables, including the mayor, at
the corner of Portage and Main after ar-
riving in a Brinks truck.
He did not disappoint. The teenager
scored 45 goals and collected 103 points,
was named rookie of the year – the
youngest recipient at the time – and led
Winnipeg to a 48-point improvement,
the largest single-season turnaround in
the NHL.
He was the youngest player in NHL his-
tory to reach 100 points, a record broken
by Sidney Crosby in 2006. No wonder his
early career came with comparisons to
Wayne Gretzky.
“He has the same instincts, that puck
sense, of Gretzky,” said Mike Doran, Win-
nipeg’s director of player personnel in
1981.
In 1987, Hawerchuk made history with
Gretzky at the Canada Cup in Hamilton.
He won the face-off in his own end that
led to a Gretzky-Mario Lemieux rush and
HOCKEY B 11
Flyers deal
Habs yet
another blow
JOSHUA CLIPPERTON TORONTO
The Montreal Canadiens could
seemingly do no wrong Friday
night.
They scored early and often in a
5-0 demolition of the Flyers that
saw star goalie Carter Hart chased
from Philadelphia’s crease in a
mercy pull.
That was then. And for Cana-
diens fans, it probably feels like a
lifetime ago.
Now after two anemic offen-
sive performances, Montreal is on
the cusp of having its playoff bub-
ble burst.
Hart made 29 saves for his sec-
ond straight shutout as the Flyers
smothered the Canadiens for the
second time in less than 48 hours
to pick up a 2-0 victory Tuesday
and grab a 3-1 stranglehold on
their first-round series.
Montreal – which played that
near-perfect Game 2 to even the
matchup 1-1 – was bested by Hart’s
23 saves, 24 blocked shots, three
posts and two crossbars in Sun-
day’s 1-0 loss. It was more of the
same Tuesday for a team that has
now been blanked for 129 minutes
25 seconds dating back to Jesperi
Kotkaniemi’s goal midway
through Friday’s third period.
“Our backs are against the
wall,” said Canadiens captain
Shea Weber, whose team will look
to avoid elimination in Wednes-
day’s Game 5. “We’ve got to take
our lumps here and correct a few
things.
“[We’ve] definitely got to come
The Flames’ best chance came on a said the Flames were too passive at the with our best effort.”
wraparound attempt by Sam Bennett start. That effort wasn’t there at
that was knocked away by Khudobin “The lesson there is that we have to times Tuesday as the Flyers once
less than two minutes before the sec- be ready at the get-go,” Lucic said. again scored early and then
ond intermission. “Right now, frustration is a waste of locked things down. A bad goal on
Klingberg put the Stars up at the start emotion. We have to look at what we Carey Price, who finished with 20
of the third period and they simply held can do to give us our best chance to win saves, late in the second period
on for dear life the rest of the way. Cal- on Thursday.” forged a lead that felt insur-
gary put tremendous pressure on Dallas The Flames have played better than mountable.
late in the game but could never score last year, but find themselves in a tough “We just have to put this behind
the equalizer. spot again. us,” Montreal winger Tomas Tatar
“I still think we have more than what “It’s time for us to come back and win said. “It’s not pretty when you
we have showed here,” Mangiapane a series when we are down,” Backlund don’t score for two games.”
said. said. “It is time for us to show we can Michael Raffl and Philippe
Milan Lucic, the veteran forward, have success in the playoffs.” Myers provided the offence for
Philadelphia, the No. 1 seed in the
Eastern Conference.
“Everybody’s just committed
to winning right now, and battling
hard,” said Hart, a netminder of
few words.
Searching for any type of spark
in what would be another fruit-
less third period, Canadiens inter-
im head coach Kirk Muller put his
lines in a blender, benching Bren-
dan Gallagher and Jonathan
Drouin for long stretches.
Montreal’s leading scorer the
past three years, Gallagher has
failed to find the net in the post-
season despite coming in with a
league-high 31 shots.
The 24th of 24 teams included
in the NHL’s resumption to its
pandemic-delayed season, the
Canadiens haven’t helped them-
selves much over the past two
games.
“I feel like once we get one, it’ll
just started rolling,” Tatar said.
“Just be a little more hungrier on
the net. It’s not over until it’s over.
“We will regroup.”
If they don’t, the Canadiens will
be heading home Thursday.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Dale Hawerchuk, right, takes a breather with teammates during practice for the NHL’s
Heritage Classic Alumni game in Winnipeg in 2016. JOHN WOODS/THE CANADIAN PRESS BLUES’ TARASENKO TO MISS
REST OF FIRST-ROUND SERIES
Lemieux’s famous winning goal in a 6-5 and lows. But when I look back on it, I WITH SHOULDER INJURY
victory that decided the tightly contested wouldn’t change a thing. … Even though I
three-game series. didn’t win a Stanley Cup, I still wouldn’t
“It turned out fantastic,” said Hawer- change a thing. I think to ask for more Vladimir Tarasenko will miss the
chuk, who often answered Canada’s call. would be greedy.” rest of the St. Louis Blues’ first-
When he was inducted into the Hall of Known as Ducky by his teammates, round series against the Van-
Fame, the Jets were no more (the team Hawerchuk was inducted into the Jets’ couver Canucks after aggravat-
was revived in Winnipeg in 2011). But he Hall of Fame prior to their game against ing his surgically repaired left
said the Jets “are etched in my mind every the visiting Arizona Coyotes in Novem- shoulder.
day that I live.” ber, 2017. The team said Tuesday that
The franchise moved to Phoenix in “Tonight we fly Ducky’s number high,” Tarasenko is returning to St.
1996 and became the Coyotes. Eleven said a tribute video, to the sounds of Mot- Louis to have the shoulder
years later, Hawerchuk joined Bobby Hull ley Crue’s Home Sweet Home, before his looked at by team doctors. His
and Thomas Steen on the No. 10 was raised to the raf- status will be updated Monday,
Coyotes’ ring of honour. ters. “Please welcome home which is scheduled to be the day
Hawerchuk rewrote the perhaps the greatest Jet of off before the start of the second
Jets record book before be- I’ve gotten to see all time,” the PA announcer round.
ing traded to Buffalo during said. Tarasenko missed Games 3
the 1990 NHL draft. As an Manitobans, seen Hawerchuk played 713 and 4, which the Blues won to
unrestricted free agent, Ha- their passion not games as a Jet, recording 379 tie the series. Game 5 is Wednes-
werchuk signed with the St. only for their goals and 929 points. He al- day.
Louis Blues in 1995 before province and the so served five seasons as “He’s not feeling right, and so
being dealt to Philadelphia, captain. that’s why he’s going to get it
which he helped to the Stan- game of hockey, but “I’ve been to every part of looked at,” coach Craig Berube
ley Cup final in 96-97 sea- their passion for the [Manitoba], either golfing said. “It’s concerning, but we
son, his final season. Jets. I’m honoured or playing [softball],” Ha- don’t know a lot yet, so I’m not
Slowed down by a hip is- and I’m very werchuk said. “I’ve gotten to going to jump to conclusions on
sue, he retired at the age of see Manitobans, seen their anything.”
34. humbled. passion not only for their The 28-year-old Russian win-
Hawerchuk was inducted province and the game of ger missed the majority of the
DALE HAWERCHUK
into the Hockey Hall of FORMER WINNIPEG JETS hockey, but their passion for season after having his dis-
Fame in 2001 along with Via- STAR the Jets. I’m honoured and located shoulder operated on in
cheslav Fetisov, Mike Gartn- I’m very humbled.” October. He returned to the ice
er and Jari Kurri in the player category. After retiring, he became part of the for training camp but had zero
“It’s like going back down memory ownership group of the Tier II junior Or- points and 10 shots in goal in
lane,” he said in his induction speech. angeville Crushers, stepping behind the four games since the NHL res-
“All the experiences have been fantas- bench in 2007 prior to joining Barrie. tarted and clearly didn’t look
tic,” he added. “I mean, sometimes they like himself.
didn’t feel so great. You had your highs THE CANADIAN PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS
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‘Social-distance ambassadors’ to monitor players at US Open

HOWARD FENDRICH
Forty “social-distance ambassa-
dors” will monitor the US Open
grounds to make sure players
and others are avoiding close
contact and wearing face cover-
ings – the U.S. Tennis Associ-
ation bought 500,000 masks to
distribute – as part of efforts to
avoid a coronavirus outbreak
during the fan-free Grand Slam
tournament.
“We’re trying to leave nothing
to chance,” Billie Jean King Na-
tional Tennis Center chief oper-
ating officer Danny Zausner said
in a telephone interview with
The Associated Press, “and make
it as stress-free for the players as
possible.”
The USTA announced Tues-
day that one person, who is not a
player, turned up positive for
COVID-19 out of 1,400 tests ad-
ministered in the controlled en-
vironment set up for the US
Open and another tennis tour-
nament preceding it at the same
site in New York.
The Western & Southern
Open, moved this year from Cin-
cinnati because of the pandem-
ic, begins Saturday. The US Open
starts Aug. 31.
Two tests are taken 48 hours
apart when a player or member
of an entourage arrives at one of
the two official hotels or one of
the private homes the USTA
made available for rent on Long
Island. The person, who is
asymptomatic, came up positive
on the second test and will be
isolated for 10 days. Contact trac-
ing will attempt to determine
who might have been exposed.
“We expected this to happen,”
USTA chief executive Mike
Dowse said during a conference
call with reporters. “Mathemati-
cally, we expected to have a posi-
tive, if not more than one. So we
did anticipate this and we have
put very specific protocol in
place to prevent this from
spreading broadly. … Our No. 1 tween the hotels and tourna-
priority is to take care of this per- ment site, about 60 buses will be
son first, and secondly to pre- used, filled to 50-per-cent capac-
vent the spread from going any ity.
further.” Every room on the 40-acre
Once the US Open begins, a USTA campus was measured and
player testing positive would be had its air flow analyzed. Some
kicked out of the tournament. rooms were shuttered, others
Among the elements of the outfitted with filtration systems
USTA’s plan, described to the AP to rotate air and “meet hospital
by Zausner: criteria,” according to Zausner.
Similar to the on-site ambas- Arthur Ashe Stadium locker
sadors, who will be split into two rooms that normally hold up to
shifts of 20, monitors at the ho- 300 people are limited to 30 at a
tels will make sure people don’t time – and only players, not
leave their rooms for 24 hours af- coaches or other entourage
ter an initial COVID-19 test. members.
Instead of individual cars fer-
rying players and others be- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NHL NBA PLAYOFFS

AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE FIRST ROUND FIRST ROUND
W L Pct GB W L Pct GB
EAST DIVISION EAST DIVISION (Best-of-7) DALLAS 2, CALGARY 1 All Times Eastern Friday
New York 16 6 .727 — Atlanta 14 10 .583 — FIRST PERIOD All Games at Orlando, Fla. Denver vs. Utah, 4 p.m.
Tampa Bay 14 9 .609 2 /1
2 Miami 9 7 .563 1 EASTERN CONFERENCE 1. Dallas, Ja.Benn 2 (Seguin) 10:13 (sh). (Best-of-7)
Baltimore 12 10 .545 4 Philadelphia 8 9 .471 2 /1
2
2. Calgary, Backlund 4 (unassisted) Sunday, Aug. 23
Toronto 8 11 .421 6 /1
2 New York 10 14 .417 4 PHILADELPHIA (1) VS. MONTREAL (12) 19:14. EASTERN CONFERENCE Denver vs. Utah, 9 p.m.
Boston 6 17 .261 10 /
1
2 Washington 8 12 .400 4 (Philadelphia leads series 3-1) Penalties — Oleksiak Dal (holding) 4:47;
CENTRAL DIVISION CENTRAL DIVISION Tuesday Andersson Cgy (hooking) 8:13; Radulov MILWAUKEE (1) VS. ORLANDO (8) HOUSTON (4) VS. OKLAHOMA CITY (5)
Minnesota 15 8 .652 — Chicago 14 7 .667 — Philadelphia 2 Montreal 0 Dal (interference) 8:54; Dallas bench (too (Orlando leads series 1-0) (Houston leads series 1-0)
Cleveland 13 9 .591 1 /1
2 Milwaukee 10 10 .500 3/
1
2
many men, served by Radulov) 13:10.
Chicago 12 11 .522 3 St. Louis 5 5 .500 3/
1
2
Wednesday SECOND PERIOD Tuesday Tuesday
Detroit 9 11 .450 4 /1
2 Cincinnati 9 11 .450 4/
1
2
Montreal vs. Philadelphia, 8 p.m. No Scoring. Orlando 122 Milwaukee 110 Houston 123 Oklahoma City 108
Kansas City 9 14 .391 6 Pittsburgh 4 14 .222 8/
1
2 Penalties — None.
WEST DIVISION WEST DIVISION Friday THIRD PERIOD Thursday Thursday
Oakland 16 8 .667 — Los Angeles 17 7 .708 — x-Philadelphia vs. Montreal, TBA 3. Dallas, Klingberg 1 (Janmark) 1:12. Orlando vs. Milwaukee, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City vs. Houston, 3:30 p.m.
Houston 13 10 .565 2 /1
2 Colorado 13 10 .565 3/
1
2 Penalties — Giordano Cgy (delay of
Texas 10 12 .455 5 Arizona 13 11 .542 4 TAMPA BAY (2) VS. COLUMBUS (9) game) 15:08; Cogliano Dal (slashing) Saturday
Saturday
Los Angeles 8 16 .333 8 San Diego 13 12 .520 4/
1 (Tampa Bay leads series 3-1) 19:37. Houston vs. Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.
2
Milwaukee vs. Orlando, 1 p.m.
Seattle 7 17 .292 9 San Francisco 9 16 .360 8/
1
2
Monday SHOTS ON GOAL BY
Tuesday Tuesday Tampa Bay 2 Columbus 1 Monday, Aug. 24
Calgary 7 7 15—29 Monday, Aug. 24
Milwaukee vs. Orlando, 1:30 p.m. Houston vs. Oklahoma City, 4 p.m.
Wednesday Dallas 14 12 6—32
Houston 2, Colorado 1, 11 innings Houston 2, Colorado 1, 11 innings Goal — Calgary: Talbot (L, 5-4-0). Dallas:
San Francisco 8, L.A. Angels 2 San Francisco 8, L.A. Angels 2 Columbus vs. Tampa Bay, 12 p.m. x — played only if necessary.
Khudobin (W, 3-3-0). TORONTO (2) VS. BROOKLYN (7)
San Diego 6, Texas 4 San Diego 6, Texas 4 Power plays (goals-chances) — Cal- (Toronto leads series 1-0)
Arizona 10, Oakland 1 Arizona 10, Oakland 1 Friday
gary: 0-4; Dallas: 0-2.
PGA TOUR
Cleveland at Pittsburgh Cleveland at Pittsburgh x-Tampa Bay vs. Columbus, TBA
Attendance — 00 at Edmonton. Monday FEDEX CUP LEADERS
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees N.Y. Mets at Miami
WASHINGTON (3) VS. N.Y. ISLANDERS (7) Toronto 134 Brooklyn 110
Seattle at L.A. Dodgers Seattle at L.A. Dodgers
Washington at Atlanta (N.Y. Islanders lead series 3-0) PLAYOFF SCORING LEADERS Through Aug. 16
Philadelphia at Boston Wednesday
Toronto at Baltimore Philadelphia at Boston Tuesday Points Money
G A Pts Brooklyn vs. Toronto, 1:30 p.m.
Detroit at Chicago White Sox Milwaukee at Minnesota Washington vs. N.Y. Islanders 1. Justin Thomas 2,458 $7,251,402
Sebastian Aho, Car 3 8 11
Milwaukee at Minnesota St. Louis at Chicago Cubs Connor McDavid, Edm 5 4 9 2. Collin Morikawa 1,902 $5,144,088
Thursday Friday 3. Webb Simpson 1,878 $4,765,242
Cincinnati at Kansas City, ppd. Nazem Kadri, Col 4 5 9
Monday x-N.Y. Islanders vs. Washington, TBA Toronto vs. Brooklyn, 1:30 p.m. 4. Bryson DeChambeau 1,657 $4,974,555
Pierre-Luc Dubois, Clb 4 5 9
Monday Elias Pettersson, Vcr 4 5 9 5. Sungjae Im 1,633 $4,316,341
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At Charlottetown
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4 tied at 17. Penalties — Laughton Pha (tripping) Victoria 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 Channel, 5:30 a.m. (Thursday)
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Third Period– No Scoring.
Bieber, Cleveland, 4-0; G.Cole, New Wheeler, Philadelphia, 3-0; Senzatela, Winnipeg 1 0 1 0 0 2 0
York, 4-0; Dobnak, Minnesota, 4-1; Colorado, 3-0; M.Kelly, Arizona, 3-1; Penalties — Mete Mtl (high-sticking)
Note: Three points awarded for a win, Sunday, Aug. 23 NHL: Columbus vs. Tampa Bay, Game 5,
Lynn, Texas, 3-0; Maeda, Minnesota, 3- Stripling, Los Angeles, 3-1; Darvish, 10:20; Myers Pha (tripping) 13:18; Chia-
one for a tie. L.A. Clippers vs. Dallas, 3:30 p.m. SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 12 p.m.
0; Bielak, Houston, 3-0; J.Hernandez, Chicago, 3-1; Peterson, New York, 3-1; rot Mtl (delay of game) 16:01.
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Montreal 7 10 12–29 360, 5:30 p.m.
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Fried, Atlanta, 1.24; Lamet, San Diego, Wednesday Monday NHL: Montreal vs. Philadelphia, Game 5,
EARNED RUN AVERAGE
1.59; Wainwright, St. Louis, 1.64; Montreal: Price (L, 4-4-0). All Times Eastern Denver 135 Utah 125 (OT) CBC, SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 8 p.m.
Lynn, Texas, 1.11; Bieber, Cleveland,
1.30; Dobnak, Minnesota, 1.42; Bundy, M.Kelly, Arizona, 1.71; Darvish, Power plays (goals-chances) — Phila- NHL: Vancouver vs. St. Louis, Game 5,
Los Angeles, 1.57. Chicago, 1.88; S.Gray, Cincinnati, 2.05 delphia: 0-3; Montreal: 0-2. Ottawa vs. Winnipeg, 1 p.m. Wednesday CBC, SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific,
Not including Tuesday’s games Not including Tuesday’s games Attendance — 00 at Toronto. Halifax vs. Hamilton, 8 p.m. Utah vs. Denver, 4 p.m. 360, 10:30 p.m.

CORNERED OFF THE MARK SPEED BUMP BIZARRO

W E DN E S DAY , AUGUST 19, 2020
Fred VanVleet drives to the bucket past Brooklyn Nets defenders during Game 1 of the teams’ first-round
playoff series in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on Monday. VanVleet had 30 points. KIM KLEMENT/GETTY IMAGES
VanVleet’s steely play
is no surprise to those
who know him best
Raptors star’s former
coach says guard has
long been a special
player and the mayor
of his hometown lauds
his off-court actions, too
LORI EWING
I
t will forever be one of the icon-
ic images of last year’s NBA
championship run – Fred
VanVleet on his back, arms out-
stretched, with his eyes looking
up at the Oracle Arena ceiling
while blood streamed from a gash
under his eye.
It was nothing new to Anthony
(Doc) Cornell.
VanVleet played for Cornell’s
AAU team Pryme Time in his
hometown of Rockford, Ill., and
the coach said even as a seventh
grader the Toronto Raptors guard
had nerves of steel.
There was the tournament,
Cornell recalled, where VanVleet
reached in for a steal and took a
headbutt to the eye.
“His eye literally is swollen
shut, he looks like Rocky,” Cornell
said. “So the physician at the tour-
nament was like ‘Doc, this boy
can’t play, he’s gotta go get stitch-
es.’
“Fred looked at me and said
‘I’m playing.’ The doctor was like
‘Fred, you can’t see.’ Not only does
Fred play, he leads us in scoring
and assists with one eye in the
championship game. People were
like, ‘Man, Fred has one eye, and
he’s killing y’all,’ ” Cornell said
with a loud laugh.
“Those type of moments were
always like, ‘Man, he’s just on a
different level.’ ”
The undrafted star out of Wich-
ita State was cut under the eye
and chipped a front tooth in
Game 4 of the Finals against Gold-
en State. His battered face lent an-
other layer to the already rich sto-
ry when he poured in 22 points,
including a huge three-pointer,
late in the Raptors’ title-clinching
Game 6 win over the Warriors.
The 26-year-old has picked up
where he left off last postseason,
erupting for 30 points in Mon-
day’s Game 1 win over Brooklyn in
the opening round of the playoffs
in Florida. VanVleet knocked
down eight three-pointers and as-
sisted on another seven.
On one late three-pointer,
VanVleet pulled up to leave his
defender, skidding by him like a
puppy on linoleum.
VanVleet said he’s been work-
ing on shooting from longer dis-
tances, sparked by conversations
with coach Nick Nurse during last
year’s playoffs. The six-foot guard
was getting blocked too often,
and the Raptors needed him scor-
ing.
“So I started putting it in my
game and I’ve just been working
on it more and more since then,”
VanVleet said Tuesday. “Obvious-
ly with the playoffs, it’s a little bit
harder to get your shot off, and
guys are flying around a little bit
more. If you can knock it down
from distance, it just makes it that
much harder for the defence to
run out to you. Sometimes you
catch ’em off guard or you just
avoid that extra couple inches of
hand to contest.”
Mr. Bet on Yourself has always
loved a good challenge.
Cornell’s Pryme Time roster,
which VanVleet helped transform
into the most successful in Rock-
| T HE GLOB E AN D MAI L O
BRISSETT HEADS BACK
TO TORONTO FOR
KNEE PROCEDURE
TORONTO Raptors forward
Oshae Brissett has left the NBA
campus in Florida to undergo a
procedure to clean out loose
bodies in his right knee.
The procedure will be per-
formed by Dr. Paul Marks at
Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto.
Brissett, a native of Mississau-
ga, has split time between the
Raptors and Raptors 905 of the
G League this season. He has
averaged 1.9 points and 1.4
rebounds in 19 games with
Toronto this season.
Under NBA rules, the Raptors
can’t replace Brissett with anoth-
er player. The roster stands at 15
players.
The Raptors lead the Brooklyn
Nets 1-0 in their best-of-seven
Eastern Conference quarter-final
in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Game 2
is Wednesday.
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ford AAU history, was unconven-
tional. Where other AAU teams
would load up with four or five
bigs, Cornell preferred guards and
shooters. They were the smaller
team in any game. They usually
played up an age group, often
against powerhouse teams boast-
ing shoe deals.
Cornell has loads of stories of
VanVleet’s heroics from the five
years he played for Pryme Time.
There was a memorable Friday
night game of a major AAU tour-
nament. Pryme Time, which was
short-handed, needed to beat the
Wisconsin state champions to get
to the bracket round. With about
10 seconds left, one of VanVleet’s
teammates tried to set a pick to
get him the ball.
“Fred yells, ‘Give me the damn
ball!’ Then Fred takes one dribble
from outside the three-point line
and shoots it right down the mid-
dle,” Cornell said. “Nothing be-
yond net. Walks off and says, ‘I
told you we wasn’t going home.’ ”
“I think I was 10 times more ex-
cited than him, I got on the phone
and called his mom, I said ‘Sue, I
know people say this all the time
about different players, but this
boy is going to the league.’ I said,
‘You should have seen what he
just did. He shot it like ice water in
his veins, like it was nothing.’ ”
VanVleet committed to Wichi-
ta State ahead of his Grade 12 year,
so Shockers coach Gregg Marshall
caught most of his final two AAU
seasons.
“Pryme Time was this little
team out of Rockford, just a
bunch of dudes, a ragtag group.
But they were beating all of the
great shoe-company, elite AAU
programs and Fred was just or-
chestrating the whole thing,”
Marshall said. “I’m sitting there
going, ‘Wow.’ I mean, he’s literally
taking this group and winning.”
He did the same thing at Wich-
ita State, taking the Shockers to
the Final Four in 2013.
“No matter what the stage, he
believes he’s put in the work, and
he’s got the mindset and the
calmness, and he’s precocious if
you will,” Marshall said. “And he
just seems to will his team to be …
the sum is better than the individ-
ual parts, right?”
VanVleet was just a freshman
when he led the Shockers to an
upset of Gonzaga at the 2013
NCAA tournament. With a little
less than two minutes to play,
Wichita was up by a couple of
points, and VanVleet fumbled the
ball toward his team’s bench. He
managed to retrieve it but not in
time to fully turn to face the net.
“He didn’t hesitate, he just shot
it, and as a freshman, to take a
shot like that,” the coach marvel-
led. “And as it was going through
the net, he just looked at me like,
‘Oh, that was good the whole way’
and gave me this little shrug.
“It reminded me so much of
some shots that he hit in the
clinching game for the title last
year.”
VanVleet, who’s earning just
more than US$9-million this sea-
son, will be a hot commodity in
free agency come October, and re-
signing him should be a top prior-
ity for Toronto.
Rockford Mayor Tom McNam-
ara said he believes there’s no
putting a pricetag on VanVleet’s
efforts off the court as well, and
the guard’s commitment to his
hometown.
“Kind of weird to say about
someone with such star power as
Fred, but he’s a better person off
the court than he is a basketball
player on the court,” said the 37-
year-old McNamara, whose dad,
John, was Rockford’s mayor in the
1980s.
The city of 150,000 is infamous
for being listed among the most
dangerous cities in the United
States in past years, with a violent
crime rate ranking worse than
nearby Chicago.
VanVleet’s roots there still run
deep. He sells his “Bet on Your-
self” sportswear line out of his
downtown shop. The city held
viewing parties – “our own mini-
Jurassic Parks,” McNamara said –
during last year’s Raptors playoff
run. He was presented with a key
to the city. McNamara joked the
city’s nickname would forever be
“Fredford.”
“He’s made a lifelong Bulls fan
into a Raptors fan,” McNamara
said.
VanVleet organizes annual
backpack giveaways for Rockford
kids. He posted a message to
Rockfordians at the beginning of
the COVID-19 pandemic urging
them to stay safe. When McNam-
ara implemented the Mayor’s Of-
fice on Domestic Violence and
Human Trafficking Prevention,
he reached out to VanVleet for
support.
“Obviously with his schedule,
he can’t go into every high school
with me. But he did videos for us.
I’ve never once called and asked
him for anything where he’s said
no to, that benefits the communi-
ty,” McNamara said.
VanVleet’s father – also named
Fred – was shot to death in 1999 in
what’s been reported as a drug
deal that went bad. VanVleet was
5 at the time, and was raised by his
mom, Sue, and stepfather, Joe
Danforth, a police officer who in-
troduced him to basketball at a
young age to steer him away from
trouble.
Kids in Rockford look up to
VanVleet, McNamara said, but
the appreciation goes beyond
what he’s able to do on the court.
“It’s different with Fred, it’s dif-
ferent because he is just such a
class act. He is quietly, steadily
showing how to just be a good hu-
man, not just an exceptional bas-
ketball player but someone who
cares, and doesn’t forget about
where he came from,” he said.
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R E PO RT ON BUSINESS | B 13
Bighill, Mitchell say cancelled
season a chance to bolster
league-player relationship
DAN RALPH
T
he COVID-19 pandemic has cost the CFL a season, but
Adam Bighill and Bo Levi Mitchell believe it also has
given the league a glorious opportunity.
The CFL cancelled the 2020 campaign Monday af-
ter its quest for a $30-million, interest-free loan from Ottawa
fell through. The league said it needed financial assistance
from the federal government to stage an abbreviated season.
Bighill and Mitchell, in separate media availabilities Tues-
day, offered similar opinions on what the cancellation could
mean for the league. Bighill, a middle linebacker, helped the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers capture the Grey Cup last year after
quarterback Mitchell guided the Calgary Stampeders to the
2018 CFL title.
“This is a good opportunity for us to strengthen,” Bighill
said during a conference call that also involved Bombers
quarterback Zach Collaros. “We need to build a better rela-
tionship [between] the CFLPA and CFL as far as how well
we’re communicating and build a real relationship that we
can move forward on.”
CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie “has said multiple
times the business model has been broken so how do we fix
it? Those are things that need to be addressed and we’ve got
time to do that,” Bighill said.
Mitchell agreed.
“I just want to see the CFL and CFLPA work together in a
more unified sense,” Mitchell said. “I think right now we can
just come together and really find a way to make the CFL bet-
ter, not just for 2021 … but the next 50 years, for guys who are
going to come after us. I think this is a good chance to do it, so
whatever that looks like I’m all for it.”
The CFL and CFLPA have had a sometimes-acrimonious
relationship, especially during collective bargaining talks.
But the two sides were said to be close to having an amended
CBA that would have allowed for a season to be played with
federal funding.
But even that wasn’t an entirely smooth process. In June,
CFLPA executive director Brian Ramsay took to Twitter to ex-
press his frustration that the union hadn’t heard from the
league regarding its 2020 plans.
“We really didn’t an offer to sit at the table and talk until
June and then we really didn’t get to look at a collective bar-
gaining agreement until July,” Bighill said. “There could’ve
been a lot of things, I think, that could’ve been done earlier.
“We need to work better together as a league and player
reps and players union to make this product better.”
Many CFL players will have to find alternate sources of in-
come. Mitchell considers himself lucky as he received a sign-
ing bonus from Calgary as part of a restructured contract in
December. Bighill, 31, who also won a Grey Cup with B.C. in
2011, will also be busy, working as a financial adviser.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Adam Bighill – centre, shown at a training camp in Winnipeg in
May, 2018 – says now is the time to fix the league’s business
model, which even CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie has
described as broken. JOHN WOODS/THE CANADIAN PRESS
‘We miss going to the games’:
Fans disappointed they can’t
enjoy the CFL this year
KELLY GERALDINE MALONE WINNIPEG
J
ohn Couture has gone to every Grey Cup since 1974 and
has made great memories and lifelong friends along the
way. The recently retired Winnipeg Blue Bombers super-
fan was hoping to fill up his summer schedule with
football games.
“All hell broke loose,” he said Tuesday.
He was disappointed to learn his team won’t be able to
defend its Grey Cup championship this year. However, he’s
not letting the CFL’s decision to scrap the season affect his
unbroken streak – he is considering 2020 a lost year.
“It’s not my fault they aren’t playing this year, so I’m going
to consider my streak alive,” he said. “If it was happening this
year in Regina, I would be going.”
Fans across the league shared in the sadness of the lost
year after commissioner Randy Ambrosie announced the de-
cision to cancel the 2020 season and focus on 2021.
There was hope Winnipeg – home of the 2019 champions –
could serve as a hub city for the league. But the CFL was un-
able to secure financing from the federal government or re-
solve some other issues. It marks the first year the Grey Cup
won’t be presented since 1919.
Fan Mike Goodchild had a lot more time for vacation and
house projects this summer in Manitoba, but said he’d rather
be watching football games.
“We miss going to the games, watching our favourite play-
ers,” Goodchild said Tuesday. “It is what it is right now.”
That the Bombers remain the reigning champions is a
small silver lining to the news, Emile Morrissette said. The
Manitoba team won its 11th CFL championship with a 33-12
victory against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats last November, end-
ing a 29-year drought.
Morrissette, a season-ticket holder, wanted to see what the
champions would have done to defend the title on the field.
“Finally we win the Grey Cup and we have a very compet-
itive team and we are probably going into the season to be
one of the favourites again and then that COVID hit,” Morris-
sette said.
“You know, it just makes it tough as a fan.”
Some people plan their summers around the cottage or
the beach, but Morrissette and his sister make their plans
around going to football games together. He supports the de-
cision if the league can become stronger and more financially
stable for future seasons.
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Messi’s future with Barca in question

Rumours have surfaced
that other clubs are
interested in team’s
biggest star, including
Manchester City
TALES AZZONI
Barcelona is on the verge of an-
nouncing a new coach, and it may
have a new president next year.
The club is also promising
“wide-ranging” and “profound”
structural changes after one of its
most humiliating defeats ever –
the 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in
the quarter-finals of the Cham-
pions League on Friday.
The one big question that re-
mains is whether it will be able to
keep Lionel Messi. The team’s big-
gest star for more than a decade
has a contract with Barcelona un-
til 2021, but he hasn’t been hiding
his dissatisfaction with the club.
“I haven’t spoken with Messi,
but I talked to his father,” Barce-
lona president Josep Maria Barto-
meu told Barca TV on Tuesday.
“Messi is disappointed and frus-
trated, just like everyone else. It
was painful but we have to pick
ourselves up. It’s what we all have
to do.”
Messi has been more outspo-
ken than ever this season, talking
about the team’s problems and
pointing to poor decisions by
club directors. Although he has
never really hinted about leaving,
his recent actions have raised
doubts about his future.
“Football is a game that comes
and goes very quickly in your life,
so this next two years, where he’s
still going to have the power to in-
fluence games the way he does, is
he going to want to be doing that
not really competing for the big
titles? I don’t know,” former play-
er Rio Ferdinand said.
Spanish media have reported
that negotiations to extend
Messi’s contract beyond next
June have been on hold since the
problems at the club escalated.
One Brazilian outlet, Esporte In-
terativo, said Messi actually
wants to leave now instead of
waiting until next year.
Rumours of clubs wanting to
sign Messi started to surface im-
mediately after the team’s loss to
Bayern, with Pep Guardiola-
coached Manchester City report-
edly among the front-runners.
Many think the humiliation
against Bayern may have been
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi regroups after Bayern Munich’s third goal in the
Champions League quarter-finals in Lisbon on Friday. Messi has been
unusually quiet after the loss. MANU FERNANDEZ/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
the tipping point for the Argenti-
na great. Messi looked as if he had
already given up at halftime,
when images showed him sitting
at one end of the bench looking
down and biting his nails while
waiting to go back on the field.
Messi and his teammates had
to face furious Barcelona fans
who confronted them and criti-
cized the team at the club’s train-
ing centre after the squad return-
ed from Portugal.
Messi has been unusually quiet
since the loss in Lisbon and hasn’t
made any public statements, un-
like after the team lost the Span-
ish league title to Real Madrid a
few weeks ago and he came out to
openly talk to the media.
Earlier this season, Messi criti-
cized Barcelona directors for
some of their decisions. He was
especially upset with sports direc-
tor Éric Abidal after he criticized
players’ efforts amid a series of
poor results. Barcelona said Tues-
day that the club and Abidal had
reached a mutual agreement to
part ways.
Messi had also said that he
didn’t think Barcelona would suc-
ceed in the Champions League
the way things were at the club.
The club is also facing a diffi-
cult financial situation because of
the coronavirus pandemic, which
could make it harder to negotiate
with Messi. Still, Barcelona presi-
dent Bartomeu has always said he
expects Messi to finish his career
at the club, and that Messi wants
the same.
The result of next year’s presi-
dential elections will likely play a
crucial role in Messi’s decision,
and it will also be important
whether he is happy with the
work of the team’s new coach.
After the club announced
“profound changes to the first
team,” many were wondering
what that meant for Messi.
Bartomeu was quick to include
Messi among the players not up
for transfers at the club.
“He is the best player in histo-
ry,” the president said.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Barcelona
expected to
hire Dutch
coach Koeman
as manager
BARCELONA

Facing an institutional and sport-

ing crisis after its 8-2 Champions
League defeat to Bayern Munich,
Barcelona looks set to return to its
roots by turning to Ronald Koe-
man, a member of Johan Cruyff’s
“Dream Team” who delivered the
Catalans’ first European Cup.
A club source confirmed on
Tuesday that Barca is negotiating
a deal to release the Dutchman
from his current contract as coach
of the Netherlands national team,
whose fortunes he has trans-
formed. The imminent appoint-
ment of Koeman comes after Bar-
ca sacked coach Quique Setien on
Monday and brought forward
presidential elections after in-
Neymar reacts to PSG’s third goal against Leipzig in the Champions League semi-final in Lisbon on Tuesday. MANU FERNANDEZ/REUTERS cumbent Josep Maria Bartomeu
faced widespread calls to resign
over his leadership of the club.

PSG reaches Champions League final
RORY SMITH
After all the wrong turns, all the heartache
and disappointment, the humiliations and
the turnarounds and the gut-wrenching
collapses, Paris Saint-Germain has finally
done what it was designed and built to do.
Nine years after it became home to one of
the most expensive and ambitious projects
in world soccer, the French champion has
reached the Champions League final.
Given the club’s recent history in this
competition – its ability to snatch defeat
when victory seemed assured, its many
and varied ways of falling at the last hurdle
– it did so in the most uncharacteristic
manner imaginable: with no drama, no
tension and while barely breaking a sweat.
PSG cruised past its overmatched and in-
experienced German opponent, RB Leip-
zig, by 3-0 in the first of the competition’s
two semi-finals Tuesday night in Lisbon.
Manager Thomas Tuchel’s team seized
control with an early goal – a wonderful
header from Marquinhos, its Brazilian de-
fensive midfielder – and then doubled its
advantage when Angel Di Maria seized up-
on a loose pass from Peter Gulacsi, Leipzig’s
goalkeeper, and completed a quick se-
quence of passes involving two teammates.
Leipzig’s vanishing hopes of a comeback
disappeared early in the second half, when
another defensive error allowed Juan Ber-
nat to stretch PSG’s lead to three. Although
Leipzig offered an improved display in the
second half, PSG rarely seemed threat-
ened; Neymar and Kylian Mbappé, the
team’s twin stars, could afford to smile at
missed chances or wasted opportunities.
Either Bayern Munich or PSG’s domestic
rival, Olympique Lyonnais, await the
French champions in the final Sunday.
Those teams will meet Wednesday.
Tuesday’s victory was the culmination of
a project that began when Qatar Sports In-
vestments, the Gulf country’s sovereign
wealth fund, took over the club in 2011.
PSG’s squad is among the most costly ever
assembled. But Champions League success
has been a long time coming. This was
PSG’s first appearance in the competition’s
semi-finals since 1995.
It has been eliminated by both Real Ma-
drid and Manchester City in previous years.
Most painful, of course, was the team’s 2017
elimination at the hands of Barcelona in
the round of 16, on the strength of a stun-
ning 6-1 defeat at Camp Nou after PSG had
cruised to victory in the first leg at home.
That defeat was orchestrated by Neymar;
months later, PSG more than doubled the
previous world transfer record to bring the
Brazilian forward to Paris. It was a signing
with a single purpose: to transform the
club that regularly competed in the Cham-
pions League into one capable of winning.
Three years since the defeat, Neymar
and PSG are, at last, on the cusp of fulfilling
that mission.
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
Should he take the Barca job,
Koeman will miss out on leading
his country into the European
Championships next year after a
stellar qualifying campaign.
Koeman, 57, spent six years as a
Barca player and won their hearts
in 1992 with his goal from a free-
kick in the European Cup final
against Sampdoria to end the
club’s long wait for Europe’s big-
gest prize.
The former defender returned
to Barca as assistant coach to
compatriot Louis van Gaal in
1998. He then embarked on a ca-
reer as a head coach with Dutch
side Vitesse Arnhem before land-
ing the job at Ajax Amsterdam,
going on to win two league titles.
Koeman has coached the three
biggest clubs in the Netherlands
in Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV Eind-
hoven plus AZ Alkmaar, Benfica,
Southampton, Everton and Va-
lencia.
REUTERS

LIGUE 1 SEASON OPENER

FIFA creates new national-team game dates to cut backlog POSTPONED AFTER TEAM
REPORTS COVID-19 CASES

GRAHAM DUNBAR GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
FIFA on Tuesday created a new window for
national team games in the middle of Eu-
rope’s 2021-22 soccer season to catch up on
fixtures that were postponed during the
pandemic.
FIFA updated its calendar with fixture
slots on Jan. 24-Feb. 1, 2022, for all confeder-
ations except UEFA to replace games origi-
nally scheduled next month. European na-
tional teams are still set to play twice from
Sept. 3-8, before most domestic seasons
start, and won’t get the newly created win-
dow.
FIFA’s decision could still force a 10-day
shutdown for European clubs, which have
long pressed the world governing body to
limit the number of times they must re-
lease players to travel worldwide and risk
injury playing for their country.
Top-tier leagues in Europe, which have
to skip a weekend program during nation-
al-team match windows, have yet to dis-
cuss the FIFA move, the European Leagues
group said Tuesday.
The request for new FIFA dates came
last month from South American soccer
body CONMEBOL, which has fallen far be-
hind its planned qualifying program for
the 2022 World Cup.
FIFA also confirmed it has created a slot
for the African Cup of Nations to be played
in January, 2022, instead of January next
year. That move had already been an-
nounced by the Confederation of African
football, but exact dates have yet to be an-
nounced. That tournament has tradition-
ally forced European clubs to release Afri-
can players for several midseason weeks.
The FIFA calendar dictates when teams
around the world have to release players
for national-team duty, and European
clubs have spent more than a decade try-
ing to decrease those dates. European
leagues must now decide whether to add
an extra break during an already congest-
ed 2021-22 season. It is due to finish early to
help the next season start sooner to ac-
commodate the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Clubs have previously succeeded in get-
ting FIFA to remove slots in February and
mid-August typically used for friendly
games. They also pressed FIFA to fund in-
surance for salaries of players injured with
national teams, and pay clubs a share of
World Cup revenues.
The FIFA calendar now typically in-
cludes two-game slots in each of March,
September, October and November. In
June, there is either another double-head-
er of qualifying games or longer interna-
tional tournaments.
FIFA needed to make changes after the
pandemic shut down soccer worldwide
ahead of the March double-header slot.
South America is yet to start its 10-coun-
try qualifying group and postponed the
2020 Copa America by a year. Asia’s World
Cup qualifying groups paused in March
and also need make-up dates in January.
North American’s CONCACAF changed its
format to an eight-team final group.
European soccer body UEFA postponed
its continental championship, Euro 2020,
by one year and must still fill the last four
places in the 24-team lineup.
UEFA member countries plan to start
their next Nations League groups on
schedule on Sept. 3, and World Cup qualify-
ing groups next March.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS Ligue 1’s opening match of
the new season has been post-
poned from Friday night after
Olympique de Marseille said
they had confirmed four cases of
COVID-19, French professional
soccer’s governing body the LFP
said on Tuesday.
“In view of medical results
passed on by Olympique Mar-
seille … the LFP has decided to
postpone the Olympique de
Marseille/AS Saint-Étienne game
to Sept 16 or Sept 17,” the LFP
said in statement.
The game was the only fixture
set for Friday, with the rest of
Ligue 1’s first round of 2020-21
matches spread out over Sat-
urday and Sunday.
Among the “Big Five” Europe-
an soccer countries, France was
the only one to end its season
prematurely because of the
pandemic. Paris Saint-Germain
was awarded the Ligue 1 title.
REUTERS
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Toronto in 1950 to Jim and
Elaine Bigelow and died
suddenly on August 14, 2020
after struggling with dementia
for eight long years.
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the final chapter of his life, he
was married to Susan, AKA
Danielle Kang plays a tee shot during the Ladies Scottish Open Beane, for 50 years. He leaves
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share the news of her
peaceful passing on August
14th at the age of 81. She will
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her three children, Geoff
Taylor (Debbie), Janice
Webster (Marc) and Heather
Rowland (Jamie) her
grandchildren William, Kyra,
Taylor and Brad. Beyond her
immediate family was a
special group of friends and
"extended" family that she S US A NNE MARIE WATSON
loved and cherished so ( née Englert)
dearly. September 2, 1953
Nancy attended Havergal N ovember 21, 2017
College (Class of 1957) and
Nursing at the University of One thousand days and nights
Toronto (Class of 1961) have gone by but the loss of your
working proudly with the passing is little diminished for
Victoria Order of Nurses and your family and closest friends
later as a volunteer at the who love you and continue to
Sunnybrook Cancer Centre. quietly mourn your loss and
Shortly after graduation she deeply cherish our memories of
married Alan E. Taylor in 1962 you, Susanne.
having 42 wonderful years of
marriage before his passing in
2004
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then Balsam Lake. She was a
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accomplished artist and
passionate about music, art,
movies and exotic food.
When Susan referred to her
better half, she truly meant it;
American golfer is hoping to build on J a y w a s k i n d ,
fifth-place finish at Ladies Scottish Open generous, loving, supportive,
gregarious, funny, intelligent
and come up big on another links course, and a good friend and
colleague. One of his
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Kim haven’t travelled to Scotland, either.
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In addition to his long-running column for the Toronto Star, he was a popular panelist
on Ontario’s TVO, and his books included two volumes on Sir John A. Macdonald
FRED LANGAN
R
ichard Gwyn was one of Cana-
da’s most influential political
journalists of the past 60 years.
He worked at a number of out-
lets, from the old news agency UPI to
Time Canada, but he was best known
for his political and foreign affairs co-
lumns in the Toronto Star. Mr. Gwyn,
who died on Aug. 15 at the age of 86, was
also the author of seven books, includ-
ing a two-volume history of Sir John A.
Macdonald and The Northern Magus, a
portrayal of the enigmatic prime minis-
ter Pierre Trudeau.
Most of all, he was a reporter, a man
who never gave up on a story and often
embarrassed his peers by beating them
to a scoop. His first big exclusive came
in 1958, when he was working in Ottawa
for UPI.
“Gwyn scored a world exclusive that
Princess Margaret, then 27, had asked
that John Turner, a 29-year-old Montreal
bachelor, be added to the guest list for
an official ball in Vancouver in the sum-
mer of 1958, where they danced the
night away,” said Bob Lewis, former edi-
tor of Maclean’s, who interviewed Mr.
Gwyn for his book, Power, Prime Minis-
ters and the Press: The Battle for Truth on
Parliament Hill.
“Richard was the journalist you want-
ed to be,” Mr. Lewis said. “You could
never stay ahead of the guy.”
Mr. Gwyn, who became such a part of
Canada’s political commentariat, was an
alumnus of a British public school. He
had one of those hyphenated surnames
and never quite lost his English accent,
though he did drop the hyphen once he
landed in Canada.
Richard John Philip Jermy-Gwyn was
born on May 26, 1934, in Bury St. Ed-
munds, a picture-book English town 130
kilometres northeast of London. He was
the son of Brigadier Philip Jermy-Gwyn,
an army officer who served in India, and
the former Elizabeth Edith Tilley. Young
Richard went to Stonyhurst, a private Je-
suit school for the Anglo-Catholic elite.
He remained a Catholic all his life.
He next went to Sandhurst, the Brit-
ish military school, but soon left for
Canada. He was 19 and found life in
postwar Britain stifling. His first stop
was Newfoundland, where he eked out
a living selling subscriptions to a Cathol-
ic magazine. He then landed a job at a
Halifax radio station. On the ferry over,
he met Sandra Fraser, the Newfoun-
dland-born woman who became his
wife and literary partner.
They went on to become the journal-
istic power couple of Ottawa, she as a
writer and contributing editor for Sat-
urday Night magazine, he as a high-pro-
file columnist for the Toronto Star. Both
became officers of the Order of Canada;
she won the Governor-General’s Literary
Award, and he was nominated for the
same honour.
After a stint in Ottawa’s press gallery,
Mr. Gwyn went on to be executive assist-
ant for the Liberal minister of commu-
nications, Eric Kierans. Two years later,
he moved into the civil service under
deputy minister Allan Gotlieb. Most
people who leave journalism for such
jobs never return. But Mr. Gwyn, forti-
fied with insider knowledge of how gov-
ernment worked, returned to work as a
journalist, eventually joining the Toron-
to Star.
When the paper hired Mr. Gwyn for
its Ottawa bureau, the managing editor,
Martin Goodman, told him: “What we’re
looking for from you is a sense of the
inside.” He delivered on that. Mr. Gwyn
didn’t wait for something to pop up in
Question Period or hang around the
media scrums. He was out digging, us-
ing his contacts with civil servants, poli-
ticians and their army of aides.
In 1984, other columnists mused
about when an election might be called.
He gleaned the date through a careful
analysis of inside dope, not guesswork.
He knew that prime minister John Turn-
er had flown to London to meet secretly
with the Queen, asking her to postpone
her visit because he wanted to call an
election. “Circle the date September 4
on your calendars,” he wrote in his co-
lumn. The prime minister’s office de-
nied it all. But when the election was
called, it fell on the date Mr. Gwyn had
predicted.
In 1985, Mr. Gwyn was posted to En-
gland as the Star’s international affairs
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RICHARD GWYN JOE GOSNELL
REPORTER, WRITER, 86 NEGOTIATOR, POLITICIAN, 84
Nisga’a chief
helped lead
nation to
landmark treaty
NEW AIYANSH, B.C.
J
oe Gosnell, a renowned treaty
negotiator, politician and leader
of the Nisga’a Nation, has died at
the age of 84.
The Nisga’a Lisims government
said Tuesday that Mr. Gosnell died in
his home in New Aiyansh after a
long battle with cancer.
Mr. Gosnell was a hereditary Nis-
ga’a chieftain of the Eagle Clan and
was president of the nation when it
finalized a landmark treaty in 2000
that gave the First Nation control
over its land, including forestry and
fishing rights. It was the first mod-
ern-day treaty signed in B.C. since
the 1800s.
Nisga’a Nation President Eva
Clayton said Mr. Gosnell’s wisdom,
dignity and determination helped
lead the First Nation into self-gov-
ernment over its territory northeast
of Prince Rupert.
“Today, we have lost a giant,” Ms.
Clayton said in a statement. “His leg-
acy will help shape the project of
reconciliation for generations to
come.”
Mr. Gosnell was admitted to both
the Order of Canada and the Order
of B.C., and held an honorary docto-
rate of laws from Royal Roads Uni-
versity in Victoria.
He leaves his wife of 64 years, Au-
drey, their seven children and nu-
merous grandchildren and great-
grandchildren.
Mr. Gosnell grew up in the Nass
River Valley in B.C.’s northwest. He
worked as a commercial fisherman,
carpenter and traditional carver be-
fore he was elected as a band coun-
cillor and chief of the Gitlaxt’aamiks
Band, one of the Nisga’a village gov-
ernments.
Mr. Gosnell was appointed chan-
cellor of the University of Northern
B.C. last year and served until his
death.
University interim president Ge-
offrey Payne said Mr. Gosnell’s dedi-
cation to education was evident
Richard Gwyn, shown around 2001, interrupted his career in news to work for the during his time as chancellor.
federal government for five years. The experience gave him the benefit of insider “The world has lost a tremendous
knowledge of Ottawa’s inner workings when he returned to journalism. leader, a man who repeatedly dem-
onstrated a love for his community,
columnist. He covered everything from 1994 he was a regular on Studio 2, the his people, education and a com-
the fall of the Berlin Wall to the end of daily current-affairs program on TVO. mitment to enhancing the lives of
apartheid in South Africa. He returned That was so popular TVO expanded it to others,” Dr. Payne said in a state-
to Canada in 1992. a program called Diplomatic Immunity, ment.
Ian Urquhart, a former managing edi- where he would appear with his fellow Ms. Clayton said Mr. Gosnell’s
tor of the Toronto Star, said in addition panelists, Eric Margolis and Janice Stein. work to negotiate the Nisga’a Treaty
to being a natural journalist, Mr. Gwyn Steve Paikin said Mr. Gwyn was a nat- produced a “beacon of hope” for
had two great strengths: “He worked in ural on television. people around the world.
government for five years, so he had in- “The guy could communicate. He “His focus was always on what
sights most of us didn’t have. And he could organize his thoughts well and ar- the Nisga’a, British Columbians and
had the perspective of an outsider, com- ticulate them well, and he played well Canadians can achieve together,”
ing from England as he did,” Mr. Urqu- with others. He could disagree with she said.
hart said. somebody else if he was in the midst of When a bill to accept the treaty
That outsider’s point of view applied a debate without being personal or re- was introduced in the legislature in
not only to Mr. Gwyn’s journalism but to sorting to ad hominem attacks. That’s December, 1998, Mr. Gosnell told the
his books on Canada. Mr. what made him so good house the agreement proved to the
Urquhart remembers be- at what he did,” Mr. Pai- world that reasonable people can sit
ing at a book launch for kin said. down and settle historical wrongs.
one of Mr. Gwyn’s volumes “Richard was a partic- “It’s a triumph because under the
on Sir John A. Macdonald His genius was to ular kind of guy. He didn’t treaty, we will no longer be wards of
when he was chatting with know about sports, noth- the state, no longer beggars in our
University of Toronto his- take two giant steps ing about the Leafs or the own land. It’s a triumph because un-
torian Michael Bliss. back and analyze the Blue Jays, he didn’t golf, der the treaty, we will collectively
“Michael said to me: ‘Ri- situation. He was and as a result, his pas- own approximately 2,000 square
chard has put the profes- incredibly reliable, sion in life was issues, the kilometres of land, far exceeding
sional historians of Canada country and the world. the postage-stamp reserve set aside
to shame,’ ” Mr. Urquhart and he was a great Policy, thinking, writing for us by colonial governments.”
recalled. digger. Pundits and reading were the He said the treaty proved that ne-
John Honderich, editor today do it off the things that he loved to gotiations – not lawsuits, blockades
and then publisher of the top. Richard always do, and he could do all of or violence – are the most effective
Toronto Star, said above all them with the best of and honourable way to resolve In-
Mr. Gwyn was a hard-work- did the work. them,” Mr. Paikin said. digenous issues.
ing reporter. Mr. Gwyn was modest “It’s a triumph, I believe, that sig-
JOHN HONDERICH
“His genius was to take FORMER EDITOR about his success. He said nals the end of the Indian Act, the
two giant steps back and AND PUBLISHER OF he was lucky to be born end of more than a century of hu-
analyze the situation. He THE TORONTO STAR when he was, 11 years be- miliation, degradation and despair
was incredibly reliable, and fore the start of the post- for the Nisga’a Nation.”
he was a great digger. Pundits today do war baby boom. Premier John Horgan said in a
it off the top. Richard always did the “The big thing in life is to time your tweet that everyone can learn from
work. He was a great reporter,” Mr. Hon- birth. I was just ahead of the baby Mr. Gosnell’s legacy of working to
derich said. boomers. You didn’t have to worry make life better for people and that
The author Charlotte Gray says Mr. about getting jobs. [Today] I would be he’ll be missed.
Gwyn was helpful and generous to col- struggling,” he told Mr. Lewis. “He was instrumental in helping
leagues. Mr. Gwyn felt he was lucky to come to the Nisga’a chart a new path of self-
“At one point, someone plagiarized Canada. governance through BC’s first mod-
one of his books, but he thought the “The Canadian values of tolerance, ci- ern treaty.”
novel was so good, he never said any- vility, and decency are precious and are The nation said funeral arrange-
thing,” said Ms. Gray, who was Mr. becoming more and more rare the ments will be announced by the
Gwyn’s friend. “He didn’t pass a lot of world over,” he wrote in 1997. family.
moral judgments. He was quite amused In one of his last columns in the To-
when Sir John A. Macdonald or Joey ronto Star in 2016, he said: “For some THE CANADIAN PRESS
Smallwood flirted with scandal. He was time now, it’s been obvious that Canada
a pragmatist and understood what poli- is one of the most successful countries
tics requires.” in the world.”
Mr. Gwyn was also a force on televi- Mr. Gwyn stopped writing and ap-
sion even though he was not naturally pearing on television as he realized he
telegenic. He did several programs at was suffering from dementia. He leaves
TVO, the Ontario public TV network, his wife, Carol Bishop-Gwyn.
starting with Realities, a program he did
with journalist Robert Fulford. From Special to The Globe and Mail
Joe Gosnell