The PM gets some HR advice Did someone forward you this newsletter? Sign up here to get it delivered weekday mornings. Erin O'Toole and Jagmeet Singh pinned the blame for various threads of a toxic military culture on two different people. O'Toole kicked off the week by demanding Justin Trudeau fire Katie Telford, his chief of staff, claiming she knew and failed to tell Trudeau about a serious allegation made against General Jonathan Vance. If Telford keeps her job, said O'Toole, "it will be an admission that [Trudeau] ... has been complicit in this cover-up." Singh, for his part, resisted the urge to make human resources decisions on Trudeau's behalf. "It's not good enough for me for a staff member to take the fall, or a minister to take the fall," said the NDP leader, referring more broadly to Liberal inaction on a culture that he said is unsafe for women. This is all on the PM, he said. Neither set their sights on the minister who oversees the Department of National Defence. Nobody called on Harjit Sajjan to take responsibility for his six years in charge. Excuse me?! Yesterday, a disturbance in the Commons. Conservative MP Pierre Paul-Hus had just wrapped up a question about military sexual misconduct that Sajjan was starting to answer when, out of nowhere, an exclamation: "Ohh, f--k! Did you send that to Sajjan?" The minister offered a brief, quizzical look before the House erupted at the colourful interruption. Speaker Anthony Rota soon gave the floor to Government House Leader Pablo Rodriguez, the utterer of the words who sheepishly apologized. It's not real until there's a bill: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled Bill C-30, the first budget implementation bill that clocks in at 366 pages. The very last section of the legislation seeks to amend federal elections law—that's a funny place for a non-budgetary item—by making it illegal for candidates to make false statements about political opponents only if they knowingly do so. Suffice to say there's a lot more to this bill, which gifts us useful evening reading material. Something's wrong here: Yesterday, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization blew up Twitter when it offered new recommendations on the single-dose Johnson & Johnson shot. NACI's advice, which hasn't really budged since the first approvals, is that the Pfizer and Moderna shots should be "preferentially offered" because of their top-notch efficacy and lack of rare, serious side effects. That sounded a lot like the panel was saying the other shots were less safe. In an interview on CTV's Question Period, NACI's chair didn't help matters when she referred to the risk of death from thrombosis. Some journalists mused that the panel might unintentionally spike vaccine hesitancy. A contrary view: The panel is doing its job properly, but was built to communicate with provincial health authorities and health providers who have their own conversations directly with patients. The general public was never part of the equation. Carbon savings appeal: The pollster Angus Reid tested the new Tory climate plan on the Canadian electorate and turned the response into a bevy of charts. Only 45 per cent of Conservative voters in 2019 support the Tories' approach, and 19 per cent of them say they're less likely to vote for the party next time. Here's a number to watch: 11 per cent of Liberal voters say Erin O'Toole's pitch makes them "a little more likely" to side with him at the polls. A Conservative familiar with the party's climate plan was rather unconcerned about the poll. "The aim of this climate policy was to say to voters for whom climate change is an important issue, but one of several, that the Conservatives care about it and have a credible plan. We feel we’ve accomplished that," the source, who's bullish on the plan's prospects in coveted 905 ridings, tells Maclean's. "It would not take shifting too many Liberal votes to make the Conservatives competitive." 1.5 per cent: That's how many international travellers test positive for COVID-19 on the day they land in Canada, according to data crunched by the Canadian Press. The total number of infected travellers since February has surpassed 5,000. Flashback: Sean Speer, an erstwhile policy advisor to former prime minister Stephen Harper, recalls for The Hub a wild 24-hour period during which two extraordinary events occurred. First, the world learned that American commandos had killed Osama bin Laden. The next night, Harper's team won the first conservative majority in 23 years. Speer, who cracked this year's Maclean's Power List, was in the middle of it all. Place your bets: If international man of money Mark Carney ends up running for the Liberals, his choice of ridings in Ottawa is somewhat limited. The city touches nine ridings. Mona Fortier, the minister for the middle class, occupies the Ottawa-Vanier riding in which Carney lives. Pierre Poilievre, in suburban Nepean, might salivate for a showdown—but that's too far afield. The Hill Times has sources saying Carney would run in Ottawa South. Only one problem: David McGuinty, the longtime incumbent, has no plans to leave politics. You aren't all horrible people: In January 2019, regular readers might have soaked up Scott Gilmore's epic takedown of people who complain about Amber Alerts. "You are horrible people," he wrote after one late-night alert woke up millions of Ontarians. Most readers saw it Gilmore's way. Now, polling conducted for the CRTC pinpoints the number of people who will actively complain about a phone buzz: 17 per cent of respondents were dissatisfied with Amber Alerts, and 18 per cent of that subset said they resented being awakened. Now we know that roughly three per cent of us are horrible people. —Nick Taylor-Vaisey | 
