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till riding the momentum from
the bronze medal she won at the
2016 Games, Masse roared to vic-
tory in the 100-metre backstroke in
a world-record time Tuesday at the
world swimming championships in Buda-
pest, Hungary. In the process she became
Canada's first ever woman world champion
swimmer.
Masse powered to the wall in a time of
58.10 seconds, edging the previous long-
course backstroke record of 58.12 seconds
set by British swimmer Gemma Spofforth at
the 2009 world championships in Rome.
"I don't think it's really sunk in yet,"
Masse said in a conference call Tuesday. "I
touched the wall and looked back and had
to make sure I was looking at the right name
and the right time. I was just super excited.
In the moment I don't even know what I was
thinking but excitement and joy."
Masse is the first Canadian to hold the
100-metre long-course backstroke record
since Wendy Cook in 1974 and the first Ca-
nadian record holder in any discipline since
Annamay Pierce set the 200-metre long-
course breaststroke record in the semifinals
of the 2009 championships.
While she said she and her coaches have
been fine-tuning her technique — she men-
tioned her starts and turns as key areas of
focus — Masse is quick to credit the 2016
Olympics as a turning point. It was a mas-
sive success for Canada's women's swim
team which won six medals, including four
by Toronto teen Penny Oleksiak, and was
given The Canadian Press Team of the Year
award for 2016.
SWIMMING, B15
RECORD BREAKER‘I think it was incredible last summer to be a part of that Canadian
team and it really gave us confidence and momentum,
and showed we belong on the international stage’
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The transatlantic friendship
that has seen Europe and
the United States forge alliances
on everything from defence and
culture to trade and climate
change since the Second World
War seems to be unravelling.
German Chancellor Angela Mer-
kel said as much on Sunday,
after the particularly divisive
Group of Seven meeting in
Taormina, Italy.
Speaking at a political rally in
a Munich beer tent – she is
going into her fourth election –
Ms. Merkel did not mention
Donald Trump by name, but it
was obvious the U.S. President
had triggered her comments
about an emerging U.S.-Europe
rift. “The times in which we can
fully count on others are some-
what over, as I have experi-
enced in the past few days,” she
said. “We Europeans must really
take destiny into our own
hands.”
Brexit – Britain’s exodus from
the European Union – was also
on her mind. “Of course, we
need to have friendly relations
with the U.S. and with the U.K.,
and with other neighbours, in-
cluding Russia,” she said, but
added that “we have to fight for
our own future ourselves.”
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ANALYSIS
Europe-U.S. rift
develops after
a tense,
Trump-filled
G7 summit
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Priya had 40 egg donor profiles
to choose from. From her
phone in Mississauga, Ont., the
46-year-old scrutinized their
head shots, imagining her own
future child with their features:
Donor 13’s narrow nose, or Donor
26’s large eyes. Earlier in her
exhausting search for an egg
donor, she’d only paid attention
to colouring, but all these women
had glossy black hair and mocha
skin that matched her own, so
she could be pickier now.
A few months after making her
selection, Priya (not her real
name) bought a ticket to India.
She booked time off and, without
telling even her closest friends at
work the real reason for her trip,
she flew 11,000 kilometres to Del-
hi to have a stranger’s fertilized
eggs implanted in her uterus.
Thousands of other Canadians
who are infertile or have same-
sex partners have taken similarly
radical measures. Unlike in the
United States, where would-be
parents can buy eggs from a local
egg donor, in Canada, women
cannot legally sell their eggs. In-
tended parents here must either
find an altruistic donor – typi-
cally, someone they know, al-
though some clinics keep rosters
of volunteers – or look beyond
our borders, if they are willing to
pay. This process would be diffi-
cult enough without the added
challenges of ensuring the eggs
are from a donor who is a racial
match.
Under these circumstances,
most East and South Asians often
do have to purchase eggs from
markets outside Canada, a pro-
cess that can cost upwards of
$20,000, including medical and
travel expenses.
Eggs, Page 14
Egg donor laws force Canadians
seeking racial match to extremes
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DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is
hopeful Pope Francis will heed a
personal call to make a formal
apology to aboriginal survivors of
sexual and physical abuse at
Catholic-run residential schools
during a private audience with
his holiness at the Vatican on
Monday.
Mr. Trudeau will use the one-
on-one meeting in the Apostolic
Palace to request a papal apology
and an “open invitation” for the
pontiff to visit Canada to address
victims of the residential school
system.
“The Prime Minister is using
this opportunity to talk to the
Pope about Indigenous issues
and reconciliation and one of the
things aboriginal communities
want is an apology,” a govern-
ment official said.
Canadian and Vatican officials
have been working behind the
scenes to arrange the meeting,
which officials say is an opportu-
nity for Pope Francis to make
amends for a dark chapter in the
Catholic Church’s attempt to
“Christianize” Canada’s First
Nations, Inuit and Métis people.
In 2015, former prime minister
Stephen Harper met for 10 min-
utes with Pope Frances at the
Vatican and drew his attention to
the troubling findings of the
Truth and Reconciliation Com-
mission, but he stopped short of
inviting him to Canada to apolo-
gize.
Instead, Mr. Harper referred to
a letter sent by his Indigenous
affairs minister that simply not-
ified the Vatican that the com-
mission had spoken to thousands
of residential students and docu-
mented their experiences.
The Truth and Reconciliation
Commission issued 94 recom-
mendations, which Mr. Trudeau
promised to implement as Liber-
al leader. A key recommendation
was a call for a papal apology to
residential school survivors, say-
ing the church-run system
sought to remove Indigenous cul-
ture, identity and language in
what it deplored as “cultural gen-
ocide.”
Apology, Page 3
PM seeks papal apology for residential schools
Trudeau to use one-on-one meeting at Vatican to ask Pope Francis to address Indigenous survivors of Catholic-run institutions
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Trans Mountain plan
Kinder Morgan is facing hun-
dreds of fresh objections as it
plots its route for the $7.4-billion
pipeline expansion.
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Before new Conservative Leader
Andrew Scheer moves into Stor-
noway, the elegant Ottawa resi-
dence of the head of the Official
Opposition, a few things have to
change.
For one, Mr. Scheer recom-
mends the National Capital Com-
mission – which manages the
government-owned property –
have it kid-proofed for his
expanded brood.
“We told the NCC to take any-
thing of value and either put it
very high up or in storage for a
couple of years,” said Mr. Scheer,
whose five children range in age
from 11
⁄2 to 12 years old. “I hope
they have Scotchgard in the car-
pets.”
It’s the first indication of the
new reality for the Conservative
Party – and for Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau, too.
Young, family oriented and
friendly, Mr. Scheer was the sur-
prise winner in his party’s leader-
ship event on the weekend,
beating out front-runner Maxime
Bernier in 13 rounds by a margin
of 51 per cent to 49 per cent.
In the end, the well-liked 38-
year-old was seen as the best
choice to unite the party in all its
factions – especially social Con-
servatives, who helped propel
him to power.
Now, Mr. Trudeau, who is 45
with three kids, is facing his first
permanent foe in the run-up to
the 2019 election.
“I think he’s a perfect foil to
Justin Trudeau. He’s young, yet
experienced. He has a great, pos-
itive image. Photogenic. Yet also
has a lot of substance,” Conser-
vative Senator Denise Batters
said.
Scheer, Page 6
Scheer ready for ‘huge job’
of selling Tories – and himself
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DANIEL LEBLANC TORONTO
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Halt to LNG project dims
Canada’s export hopes
Malaysia’s Petronas has cancelled
plans for an $11.4-billion liquefied
natural gas terminal on the B.C. coast,
dealing a major blow to Canada’s
hopes of becoming a global LNG
supplier. The move to scrap the Pa-
cific NorthWest LNG plant, which
had been slated for Lelu Island near
Prince Rupert, comes after five years
of study and debate among politi-
cians, environmentalists and First
Nations. During the period, LNG pric-
es fell sharply as other countries such
as Australia and the United States
started up multibillion-dollar facili-
ties and demand weakened.
Petronas and its partners have
spent $400-million in preparation at
the site and an average of $2-billion a
year drilling for natural gas on lands
in northeastern B.C. acquired when
Petronas bought Progress Energy
Canada Ltd. for more than $5.5-billion
in 2012. The overall project, including
a pipeline, was expected to eventu-
ally cost $36-billion.
Nonetheless, board chairman Anu-
ar Taib ruled out any chance that the
project would ever be revived. “For us
the Pacific NorthWest LNG venture
has ended,” he told reporters.
LNG exports have long been a hot-
button issue in British Columbia and
doubts have dogged would-be devel-
opers. Former Liberal premier Christy
Clark had held it up as a cornerstone
of the province’s economic future, at
one time promising three operating
plants by 2020.
British Columbia’s new NDP ener-
gy minister Michelle Mungall said her
government respects the company’s
decision and will pivot to encourage
other LNG prospects. The NDP, which
during the spring election campaign
criticized Liberal enthusiasm for the
sector, said it seeks job-creation pros-
pects in LNG as long as it meets envi-
ronmental and other standards.
LNG, A12
Citing market conditions,
Petronas chairman rules
out possibility of reviving
Pacific NorthWest venture
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Trudeau says there's ‘no need for
a Plan B’ in NAFTA talks with Trump
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Canada lags on
biodiversity pledge
The country ranks far behind G7
counterparts and other industrialized
nations in meeting commitments
to protect its lands and fresh waters,
report says, with only three years left
to fulfill UN Convention
Canada is behind the world’s other economic leaders
when it comes to protecting its lands and fresh waters
and is well off pace of meeting the international com-
mitment it made seven years ago to nearly double the
size of its protected regions by 2020, according to a
new national study.
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s
(CPAWS) annual report takes a hard look at how
far Canada has gone toward complying with its ob-
ligations under the United Nations Convention on
Biodiversity, which was signed by the previous Con-
servative government and aims to halt widespread
biodiversity loss. The results suggest this country is
an environmental laggard.
Canada has 20 per cent of the Earth’s forests and
24 per cent of its wetlands, but has done far less than
many other countries when
it comes to putting areas be-
yond the reach of develop-
ment, according to the study
to be released Monday.
Protection of lands and wa-
ters is critical for our survival,
said Éric Hébert-Daly, CPAWS’s
national executive director.
“We’re a part of nature
and, if nature is not protected
around us, things like clean water and clean air and
things we rely on for the survival of the human spe-
cies, as well as every other species on Earth, is under-
mined,” Mr. Hébert-Daly said. “So protected areas are
the linchpin in our survival and the survival of the
planet.”
In 2010, when 9.6 per cent of its lands and fresh wa-
ters were protected, Canada agreed to meet the inter-
national target of protecting 17 per cent of its territory
within a decade.
But, with just three years left to go before that
deadline, the amount of land and water protected has
climbed by just one percentage point, to 10.6 per cent,
the report says.
BIODIVERSITY, A12
10.6%Percentage of lands
and fresh waters
protected in Canada,
the lowest rate
among G7 countries
A health summit will be held this fall
in the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, a col-
lection of remote Northern Ontario
reserves beset by a youth suicide cri-
sis and a perpetual lack of decent
medical care.
Ottawa and the Ontario govern-
ment announced that each will con-
tribute $150,000 to the summit after
federal Health Minister Jane Philpott,
Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins
and Alvin Fiddler, the grand chief of
the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN),
met on Monday to discuss long-term
plans for a “transformation” of the
health system in NAN communities.
The trio signed a five-page “char-
ter of relationship principles,” that is
intended to eventually give First Na-
tions control over how health care
is delivered in the territory, which is
home to about 45,000 people spread
over 49 communities.
They also agreed on an emergency
action plan for Pikangikum, a fly-in
reserve near the Manitoba border
where four young people, including
a pair of sisters, have taken their own
lives this month.
The plan could see the Department
of National Defence erect tents or oth-
er pop-up facilities to accommodate
the hundreds of people seeking men-
tal-health support in the community
ofabout2,800people,Mr.Fiddlersaid.
“One of the things [front-line
workers] keep saying over and over
again is the need for safe space in the
community for counselling to hap-
pen,” Mr. Fiddler said in an interview
after the meeting. “That’s something
that the federal government is pre-
pared to address through the Depart-
ment of Defence to ensure that they
build space in the community for that
work to happen.”
Dr. Hoskins said Sunday that his
government planned to dispatch an
additional 20 counsellors to Pikangi-
kum at a cost $1.6-million.
SUMMIT, A12
KELLY GRANT
Summit to be held for First Nation suicide crisis
T
wo-and-a-half hours before Sunday’s latest disaster against the Astros, Blue Jays fans
were lined up for blocks waiting to get in. It was Aaron Sanchez bobblehead day.
Though the game was a casual encounter between a very good baseball team and
a pretty bad one, more than 46,000 people showed up – a sell-out. When Houston
began laying an ugly beating on Toronto in the second inning, no one booed. Everybody stuck
around when it truly got out of hand in the sixth. They cheered a ninth-inning Toronto home run
like it actually mattered. Many were still wedged in their seats when it ended. The final score was
19-1. It was one out from being the biggest shutout loss in Jays’ franchise history. SPORTS
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OTTAWA
SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 BPB
Weak support
for supply
management
in NAFTA talks
A new survey shows most
Canadians would accept a weakening
of protections for domestic producers
Say that supply
management
should be on the
chopping block
without any
resistance
26%
U.S. President Donald Trump has called Canada's
restrictions on dairy imports a "disgrace," raising
expectations that Canada's policy of supply man-
agement will be under pressure when formal ne-
gotiations begin later this month to update North
America's trading regime.
Current television ads from the Dairy Farmers of
Canada showing young campers enjoying ice-cream
cones on the bus and ballplayers celebrating with
postgame pints of milk are aimed at instilling warm
feelings in the hearts of Canadians when it comes to
supply management.
But a survey by the Angus
Reid Institute shows those
farmers have a lot more per-
suading to do with the general
public.
Canada's supply-manage-
ment policy – which includes
extremely high import duties
to restrict imports and tight
quotas on the amounts a farm-
er can produce – are frequently
cited as an irritant by other countries when it comes
to trade. Canada accepted some concessions in its
trade deal with the European Union that will allow
for more agricultural imports, but the supply-man-
agement system was maintained.
The survey asked participants for their views on how
Canada should handle the supply-management is-
sue during the approaching NAFTA negotiations.
"If concessions are demanded at the negotiating
table, most Canadians seem quite comfortable with
the idea of at least talking about scrapping the sys-
tem," the institute states in a report. According to
the survey, just 29 per cent say they would want the
government to stand firm in negotiations and pro-
tect supply management.
NAFTA, B10
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Streetwise 6 Liquor Stores urges shareholders to resist as PointNorth starts proxy battle PAGE 2
Homeowners in several com-
munities around Toronto – in-
cluding the Greater Toronto Area
itself – put a record number of
homes up for sale in April as
they rushed to cash in on soaring
prices before the market peaked.
The Canadian Real Estate Asso-
ciation said the Greater Toronto
and Barrie areas set records for
new listings for any month on a
non-seasonally adjusted basis.
The Peterborough and the
Kawarthas region saw new list-
ings rise 32 per cent in April over
March, while Kitchener-Waterloo
recorded an 18-per-cent increase
in new listings.
The listings spiked in the same
month the Ontario government
imposed a suite of new measures
to cool the overheated housing
market in the so-called Greater
Golden Horseshoe Area, which
covers a broad crescent of the
province surrounding Toronto.
One measure announced April
20 is a new 15-per-cent tax on
foreign buyers who purchase
homes in the Golden Horseshoe
region.
While the new tax was only in
place for the later part of April, it
was widely debated and antici-
pated throughout April, and
economists believe many home
buyers moved to list their houses
before new measures could cool
off house prices, which rose by
more than 30 per cent in the GTA
in March compared with last
year.
Housing, Page 8
April saw 21,630 new listings in the Greater Toronto Area on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, a 33-per-cent increase
compared with the same month last year. COLE BURSTON/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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Toronto-area listings hit records
amid concerns of looming correction
JANET McFARLAND
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B.C. billionaire Jim Pattison has
acquired a 10.1-per-cent stake in
Canada’s largest lumber produc-
er, West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd.,
raising speculation about a
potential merger with Canfor
Corp.
The 88-year-old businessman is
the biggest shareholder in the
country’s second-largest lumber
firm, Canfor, in which he holds a
47.8-per-cent stake.
“We believe there are signifi-
cant synergies in the potential
combination of North America’s
two largest lumber producers,
including but not limited to
unprecedented scale and geo-
graphic diversification,” RBC Do-
minion Securities Inc. analyst
Paul Quinn said in a research
note.
Mr. Pattison has become the
second-largest shareholder in
West Fraser, holding 7,926,000
shares through Great Pacific Cap-
ital Corp., according to recent
regulatory filings. West Fraser
shares rose $1.19 to close at
$57.90 on Monday, increasing the
value of his stock to $459-million.
Lumber, Page 8
Pattison
acquires stake
in West Fraser
Timber
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BRENT JANG VANCOUVER
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While the first wave of damage
from last week’s “WannaCry”
global cyberattack has started to
recede, the extent of its reach in
Canada is still being revealed, as
experts warn that further damage
could come from more sophisti-
cated variants of the ransomware.
The incident’s halt, however,
may only be temporary, with
more versions of the malicious
software already popping up –
highlighting the need for a new
approach to security among all
parties involved: individuals who
leave their computers vulnerable,
software suppliers such as Micro-
soft Corp. that stop supporting
older platforms that are still wide-
ly used and governments that
hoard critical security flaws to
preserve their usefulness in offen-
sive cyberspying tools.
“There’s got to be a better solu-
tion than what we do right now,
which is just scramble every time
one of these things pops up,” says
security expert Mark Nunnikho-
ven, vice-president of Cloud
Research with Trend Micro Inc.
Cyberattack, Page 8
Experts cite
security gaps
as ‘WannaCry’
attacks abate
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JOSH O’KANE
SHANE DINGMAN
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Saudi Arabia and Russia have
agreed to extend production
cuts for nine months as the
world’s largest oil exporters seek
to instill market confidence in
their ability to manage supplies
and underpin prices.
Ahead of an OPEC meeting in
Vienna next week, the world’s
two largest oil exporters said
they are not only prepared to
renew the production agree-
ment reached last December,
but will extend it until March,
2018, to ensure inventories dis-
sipate and demand catches up
to supply.
The Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries wants to
reduce global oil inventories
to their five-year average, but
has struggled to do so. Stock-
piles are hovering near record
highs, partly because of rising
production in the United States.
OPEC members have suffered
tremendously from the price
slump that started nearly three
years ago because of oversupply.
The cartel members’ combined
revenues for oil exports fell by
15 per cent last year compared
to 2015. The OPEC countries’
revenues dropped to their
lowest level since 2004, even
as their governments faced in-
creasing demand for services
from growing populations as
well as ambitious development
projects.
In December, OPEC and lead-
ing non-OPEC countries such as
Russia agreed to cut production
so prices could go back up.
They were expected to
announce at their meeting
next week that they would
extend that agreement by six
months.
“The Saudis and Russians have
come up with this news to try
to surprise the market with a
longer-than-expected announce-
ment and really signal the com-
mitment is there from the
sector leaders,” Richard Mallin-
son, an analyst at London-based
Energy Aspects, said in an inter-
view.
Oil, Page 8
Russia, Saudis
to extend OPEC
cuts until 2018
Crude prices surge as OPEC members pledge
to continue efforts to curb oversupply
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SHAWN McCARTHY OTTAWA
................................................................
Globe Investor
Just three trading days after
going public, Real Matters Inc.
has given investors a better idea
of what to focus on: Ignore the
company’s quarterly losses and
focus instead on its blistering
year-over-year revenue growth.
Investors are willing to play
along, tentatively. The shares,
which began trading in Toronto
last Thursday amid a dearth of
Canadian initial public offerings
(IPOs), rose 0.8 per cent on Mon-
day. They closed at $12.50, up 10
cents.
New stocks aren’t for most
investors and Real Matters is no
exception. Analysts have not
weighed in on the company yet,
which means there are no pub-
lished financial targets or expert
commentary. Investors are large-
ly on their own.
Berman, Page 12
Real Matters’
past signals
future fortune
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DAVID BERMAN
INSIDE THE MARKET
dberman@globeandmail.com
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APPLE .................................................... B15
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CANFOR .................................................. B1
CPPIB ...................................................... B2
DICKS SPORTING GOODS ...................... B12
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HIGH LINER FOODS ............................... B15
HOME CAPITAL ....................................... B3
HOME DEPOT ........................................ B12
LIQUOR STORES N.A. .............................. B2
MACY’S .................................................. B12
NORDSTROM ......................................... B12
PATHEON NV .......................................... B11
PIERIDAE ENERGY ................................... B2
PLAZA RETAIL REIT ................................ B15
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PROOFPOINT ......................................... B13
PUREFUNDS ETF ................................... B13
PÉTROLIA ............................................... B2
REAL MATTERS ........................................ B1
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SNAP ..................................................... B12
SPLUNK ................................................. B13
STAPLES ................................................ B12
SYMANTEC ............................................ B13
TESLA .................................................... B15
THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC .................. B11
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UBER TECHNOLOGIES ............................ B11
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Companies
Ransomware threat 6
How secure is your
robo-adviser? Why using
'bug bounty hunters’ has
become common practice
Clare O'Hara, Page 13
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Market reaction 6
Continued threat from
hackers, malware good
news for tech security
companies
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and a rise in U.S. home builder
confidence, both the S&P 500
and Nasdaq closed Monday at
record highs, continuing their
positive performance this year.
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Bombardier begins Global
7000 luxury jet assembly
Bombardier Inc. has started building its new Global 7000 luxury jet for initial customers, capitalizing on new systems. REUTERS
Bombardier Inc. has started building
its new Global 7000 luxury jet for ini-
tial customers, capitalizing on new
factory systems to speed up manu-
facturing as it tries to get the plane
certified and into service by the end
of 2018.
The Canadian plane maker, which
received $372.5-million in federal
aid earlier this year – earmarked
largely for the new Global jet – said
it is running four Global 7000 planes
through final assembly in Toronto.
At the same time, three Global 7000
jets are in flight testing, with two oth-
ers expected to join them shortly.
“The program’s development and
certificationscheduleisontrack,”Mi-
chel Ouellette, senior vice-president
in charge of the Global 7000/8000
program, said in a statement to be
released Monday. “Our confidence
level is high.” The Global 7000, which
sells for a list price of about $72-mil-
lion (U.S.), and sister 8000 aircraft
are Bombardier’s biggest business
jets. Their development is a key pillar
of the company’s turnaround plan
as chief executive Alain Bellemare
and his team aim to build a luxury-
aircraft business that will generate a
minimum 8-per-cent pretax margin
on revenue of $10-billion by 2020.
It’s not unusual for a manufacturer
to start building the first units of an
all-new aircraft for customers before
testing on the plane is complete and
it wins certification from regulatory
authorities. But Bombardier says the
build-up for the Global 7000 is hap-
pening faster than with previous air-
craft, partly because of innovations it
has introduced on the factory floor
Those include the introduction of a
special interiors test rig at a facility in
Dorval, Que. The rig is a replica of the
plane’s actual fuselage. Using data
collected from the flight-test aircraft,
the rig simulates the kind of real-
world conditions the plane will be
subject to in order to determine the
impact on the jet’s highly-custom-
ized interiors.
BOMBARDIER, B4
Executives are confident
the new series, which is a
key pillar of the company’s
turnaround, will be
delivered on schedule
‘Day of reckoning’
looms for consumer
debt bomb
T
im Hortons plans to expand to Spain, its
fourth venture abroad in recent months,
as it tries to overcome lagging sales and an
internal revolt from franchisees in Canada.
Restaurant Brands International, the parent
company of the coffee-and-doughnut chain, said
Wednesday it has signed a deal with a joint venture
partner to set up shop in one of the largest cafe mar-
kets in Europe. Chief financial officer Josh Kobza
said Spain provides an intriguing opportunity for
RBI in its quest to be a dominant player in the global
coffee industry following forays into Mexico, Britain
and the Philippines.
"We're building a lot of momentum in the inter-
national business," Kobza said in an interview.
"Some of our other potential partners are starting
to see how well the Tims brand is resonating in oth-
er countries outside of Canada around the world."
The announcement coincided with RBI's results
that showed same-store sales at Tim Hortons, an im-
portant metric in retail measuring sales at locations
open for at least a year, fell for the second consecu-
tive quarter.
TIM HORTONS, B10
Restaurant Brands
signs deal to take
Tim Hortons to Spain
That's the takeaway from a handful of recent stud-
ies, one of which warns a "day of reckoning" may be
looming, at least for those who have borrowed far
more than they should have.
This comes amid exceptionally high property val-
ues in some cities, even as prices ease somewhat in
regions such as the Toronto area, where recent pro-
vincial government measures are aimed at prevent-
ing a burst bubble.
But it also comes amid rising interest rates, which
is precisely the issue.
Let's start with prices. The latest study of afford-
ability by National Bank of Canada suggests we're
now experiencing the "least affordable market" in
nine years, based on mortgage payments as a per-
centage of income. This rose in the second quarter
of the year, meaning that, nationally, it takes 39.4
months to save for a down payment on a "represen-
tative home" at a savings rate of 10 per cent. That's
up from 35.3 months a year earlier.
"The worsening of affordability in Q2 was the
eighth in a row, the longest run in almost three de-
cades," said Matthieu Arsenau and Kyle Dahms of
National Bank.
Sports
NICOLAS VAN PRAET
BILL CURRY
MICHAEL BABAD ERIC REGULY
n OPINION
SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017A4
New White House chief of staff John Kelly,
in one of his first acts in his new post, called
Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reassure
him that his position was safe despite the
recent onslaught of criticism he has taken
from President Donald Trump.
Kelly called Sessions on Saturday to
stress that the White House was supportive
of his work and wanted him to continue his
job, according to two people familiar with
the call. The people demanded anonymity
because they were not authorized to speak
publicly about a private conversation. Kelly,
who was appointed to the post the day be-
fore, described the president as still miffed
at Sessions but did not plan to fire him or
hope he would resign.
Trump has seethed at Sessions, his one-
time close ally, since the attorney general
recused himself from the probe into Rus-
sia’s meddling into the 2016 election. The
president viewed that decision
as disloyal – the most grievous
sin in Trump’s orbit.
That simmering anger burst
to the surface last week. In an
unprecedented display of a
president publicly criticizing
a sitting member of his own
Cabinet, Trump unleashed re-
peated attacks via Twitter.
He called Sessions “belea-
guered” and “very weak” and
belittled his decision not to
investigate Hillary Clinton. He
said he was “disappointed” in Sessions and
suggested that, had he known he would re-
cuse himself, he never would had offered
him the attorney general post. And he dis-
missed the value in Sessions’ early endorse-
ment – he was the first senator to back
Trump – while privately musing to aides
about firing the attorney general.
“We will see what happens,” Trump said
of Sessions’ future when asked at a news
conference last week. “Time will well. Time
will tell.”
Trump is known for openly consider-
ing staffing changes without following
through. Likewise, Sessions’ newfound job
security could also be viewed as temporary
and subject to the president’s whims.
The White House did not immediately
respond to a request for comment about
the conversation. The Department of Jus-
tice also did not immediately respond.
White House press secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders said Monday that “the
president has 100 per cent confidence in
all members of his Cabinet” and dismissed
talk that Sessions or other Cabinet mem-
bers could be moved.
Kelly, a retired general, was brought in
from the Department of Homeland Secre-
tary to restore some discipline and stability
to a chaotic White House. The outreach to
Sessions appears to have been a top priority
in that effort.
Despite Trump’s anger, his allies quickly
recognized the danger in attacking Ses-
sions. The longtime Alabama senator was
the forefather of many of Trump’s hard-
line immigration policies and remains very
popular among the president’s conserva-
tive base.
Sessions and Kelly have also been allies
and travelled together to the Mexican bor-
der in April to highlight immigration plans
when the chief of staff was in his former
post as head of homeland security. Trump
is known for openly considering staffing
changes without following through. Like-
wise, Sessions’ newfound job security could
also be viewed as temporary and subject to
the president’s whims.
The White House did not
immediately respond to a re-
quest for comment about the
conversation. The Department
of Justice also did not immedi-
ately respond.
Moreover, many Republican
senators and influential mem-
bers of the conservative media
rushed to the attorney gener-
al’s defence when Trump went
on the attack last week. They
suggested that Sessions has
been the most effective mem-
ber of Trump’s Cabinet delivering on cam-
paign promises, while some White House
aides feared that firing Sessions could spark
a significant political backlash.
Instead, the White House has recently
embraced some of Sessions’ directives. On
Friday, Trump travelled to Long Island,
New York, to tout his administration’s ef-
forts to combat the MS-13 gang at the same
time Sessions was in El Salvador for events
concerning the same violent cartel. Though
Trump did not mention Sessions by name,
the attorney general told The Associated
Press that he hoped to remain in the post
and would serve as long as Trump wanted
him.
And on Wednesday, senior White House
aide Stephen Miller – a former Sessions
staffer who has written most of Trump’s
speeches on immigration – delivered a full-
throated case for slashing legal immigra-
tion. The proposal is unlikely to become
law since it is opposed by several Republi-
can senators, yet it is popular among much
of the president’s base.
T
he Republican Party sold
its soul long before Donald
Trump, a man who believes
in nothing but himself, executed
his 2016 reverse takeover of the
party of Abraham Lincoln.
Historians may quibble over
when exactly the GOP initiated
its pact with Satan, but it dates at
least to Newt Gingrich and his 1994
Contract with America. Under the
guise of a principled conservative
manifesto, the former House of
Representatives Speaker reintro-
duced a personal viciousness into
U.S. politics that, over two centu-
ries, had largely been purged from
public life.
The line from Mr. Gingrich to
Mr. Trump is a fairly straight one.
Starting in the 1990s, the GOP
became increasingly beholden to
a small clique of gassy talk radio
and cable news hosts who foment-
ed hate and resentment to boost
their ratings. These same people
spent the eight years of Barack
Obama’s presidency attacking his
legitimacy – spreading falsehoods
about the first black president’s
place of birth, religion and patrio-
tism – to fan the latent racism of
an insecure, white working-class
that had been steadily losing eco-
nomic ground.
A few Republican moderates
dared to take on these bile-filled
blowhards. But most in the party
remained silent, lest they become
the next target of Rush Limbaugh,
Alex Jones, Laura Ingraham, Ann
Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly,
Breitbart News or their like. Re-
publicans in Congress were willing
to indulge these agents of dark-
ness just because they could sway
votes.
By the time Mr. Trump an-
nounced his candidacy for the Re-
publican nomination in mid-2015,
the GOP no longer had much of a
soul to sell. It had become a collec-
tion of factions and free agents be-
holden to special interests. Its anti-
tax wing answered only to Grover
Norquist, the head of Americans
for Tax Reform, and the Koch
brothers. Its second-amendment
wing worshipped at the altar of
the National Rifle Association. Its
social-conservative wing curried
favour with money-sucking tel-
evangelists. Its anti-immigration
wing fed off the talk radio hate-
mongers. The GOP was still home
to a few principled fiscal conser-
vatives, free-traders, libertarians
and foreign policy hawks. But they
were largely marginalized in a par-
ty that had opted for the low road
at every turn.
And where did that get it? With
a man-child in the White House
whose capacity for pettiness and
vindictiveness is outmatched only
by his utter incompetence in all
matters of governing, domestic
and foreign. This is the Republi-
can Party’s reward for standing
silently by while Mr. Trump turned
the politics of the indispensable
nation into a sideshow of vulgar
tweets and banana republic im-
provisations. A President who is
supposed to set the policy agenda
has proved incapable of spelling
correctly, much less mastering the
art of sausage-making.
Health-care reform is all but
dead. Tax reform seems likely
to follow the same trajectory. A
destabilizing showdown with
Congress looms next month over
raising the U.S. debt limit, risking
the stock-market boom that Mr.
Trump naturally likes to claim
credit for.
Thankfully, there may yet be a
silver lining to the national night-
mare Mr. Trump has wrought.
More and more Republican in-
cumbents in Congress are com-
ing to see the President with the
lowest first-year approval rating
ever as a liability and are willing
to defy him, as they did in voting
nearly unanimously this month to
impose stiffer sanctions on Russia.
“If by 2017 the conservative
bargain was to go along for the
very bumpy ride because with
congressional hegemony and the
White House we had the numbers
to achieve some long-held policy
goals – even as we put at risk our
institutions and our values – then
it was a very real question whether
any such policy victories wouldn’t
be Pyrrhic ones,” Mr. Flake writes
in a new book. “If this was our
Faustian bargain, then it was not
worth it.”
Mr. Flake is up for re-election
next year in an increasingly purple
swing state with a rapidly growing
Hispanic electorate. His denun-
ciation of Mr. Trump has a whiff of
political opportunism to it.
The Republican
Party desperately
needs to search
for its soul
ADRIAN MORROW
n ANALYSIS
W
hen Donald Trump Jr.
was 12, he told his father
what he thought of him.
“How can you say you love us? You
don’t love us! You don’t even love
yourself. You just love your mon-
ey,” he said, according to a Septem-
ber 1990, Vanity Fair profile.
The young Trump was reeling
from his parents’ bitter divorce
and the collapse of his father’s em-
pire. As he grew up, being Donald
Trump’s son didn’t seem to get
easier.CollegefriendsrecallTrump
Jr. as a “drunk” who “despised” a
father who allegedly beat him. But
Donald Jr. continued to try to ap-
pease the man who denied him
love. He entered the family real
estate business, where he spoke
candidly about their overseas ven-
tures. “Russians make up a pretty
disproportionate cross-section of
a lot of our assets,” he said in 2008.
Now Donald Trump Jr. is in
trouble. On Tuesday, he confirmed
a New York Times article alleg-
ing that he had met with Russian
lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya along
with campaign manager Paul
Manafort and brother-in-law Jared
Kushner – a meeting all had previ-
ously failed to disclose – by tweet-
ing what he called “the full e-mail
chain” of how the meeting was ar-
ranged.
In one e-mail, Rob Goldstone,
the publicist for Emin, the pop-
star son of Moscow oligarch Aras
Agalarov, wrote that he had ac-
cess to “very high level and sensi-
tive information but [it] is part of
Russia and its government’s sup-
port for Mr. Trump.” Mr. Trump
Jr. agreed to meet and took Mr.
Manafort and Mr. Kushner along
with him, possibly breaking a
number of U.S. federal laws in the
process. These range from cam-
paign finance laws, which prohib-
it solicitation from a foreign pow-
er, to further confirming that Mr.
Kushner had omitted information
on his SF-86 security clearance
forms, which require government
employees to list meetings with
foreign officials. If one lies on an
SF-86, it is a federal crime that
usually results in loss of clear-
ance, termination, and even pris-
on time. There have been calls for
Mr. Kushner to be removed from
his position for months, but noth-
ing has been done.
Moreover, the younger Trump’s
tweets provide yet more evidence
of collusion and possible treason,
allegations that have only been
supported by President Trump’s
behaviour since his meeting with
Russian President Vladimir Putin
at the G20 meeting last week in
Hamburg. On Sunday, the Presi-
dent vaguely tweeted that he
“gave the country away.” The day
before, he announced the cre-
ation of a joint U.S.-Russia “cyber-
security group”, despite the fact
that Russia has not only inter-
fered in U.S. elections but hacked
U.S. infrastructure, including
recent attacks on nuclear plants
that may give Russians the ability
to impact U.S. power grids. In his
every action, Mr. Trump displays
enthusiasm for collaborating with
a hostile state threatening U.S. in-
terests.
In the midst of this morass is
Donald Trump Jr. who, unlike
his favoured sister Ivanka, has
never held a position in the White
House, seemingly sidelined in this
burgeoning dynastic kleptocracy.
After the Times broke the story
of Mr. Trump Jr.’s illicit meeting,
Mr. Trump Jr. hired a lawyer who
specializes in defending Russian
hackers, white-collar criminals,
and the Mafia. In one case, the
lawyer had a client turn on his fa-
ther to avoid jail.
Has Donald Trump Jr. turned,
cutting some sort of deal that
makes him comfortable posting
incriminating information? Or
are his tweets yet another exam-
ple of the Trump family assuming
they are above the law?
With the exception of former
national security adviser Michael
Flynn, no one implicated in the
Russian interference scandal has
faced repercussions – not Mr.
Manafort; not Mr. Kushner; not
President Trump, even after he
possibly committed obstruction
of justice by admitting in an inter-
view with Lester Holt that he fired
former FBI head James Comey to
get him off his back; not Attor-
ney-General Jeff Sessions, who
was s
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The transatlantic friendship
that has seen Europe and
the United States forge alliances
on everything from defence and
culture to trade and climate
change since the Second World
War seems to be unravelling.
German Chancellor Angela Mer-
kel said as much on Sunday,
after the particularly divisive
Group of Seven meeting in
Taormina, Italy.
Speaking at a political rally in
a Munich beer tent – she is
going into her fourth election –
Ms. Merkel did not mention
Donald Trump by name, but it
was obvious the U.S. President
had triggered her comments
about an emerging U.S.-Europe
rift. “The times in which we can
fully count on others are some-
what over, as I have experi-
enced in the past few days,” she
said. “We Europeans must really
take destiny into our own
hands.”
Brexit – Britain’s exodus from
the European Union – was also
on her mind. “Of course, we
need to have friendly relations
with the U.S. and with the U.K.,
and with other neighbours, in-
cluding Russia,” she said, but
added that “we have to fight for
our own future ourselves.”
Reguly, Page 4
ANALYSIS
Europe-U.S. rift
develops after
a tense,
Trump-filled
G7 summit
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Priya had 40 egg donor profiles
to choose from. From her
phone in Mississauga, Ont., the
46-year-old scrutinized their
head shots, imagining her own
future child with their features:
Donor 13’s narrow nose, or Donor
26’s large eyes. Earlier in her
exhausting search for an egg
donor, she’d only paid attention
to colouring, but all these women
had glossy black hair and mocha
skin that matched her own, so
she could be pickier now.
A few months after making her
selection, Priya (not her real
name) bought a ticket to India.
She booked time off and, without
telling even her closest friends at
work the real reason for her trip,
she flew 11,000 kilometres to Del-
hi to have a stranger’s fertilized
eggs implanted in her uterus.
Thousands of other Canadians
who are infertile or have same-
sex partners have taken similarly
radical measures. Unlike in the
United States, where would-be
parents can buy eggs from a local
egg donor, in Canada, women
cannot legally sell their eggs. In-
tended parents here must either
find an altruistic donor – typi-
cally, someone they know, al-
though some clinics keep rosters
of volunteers – or look beyond
our borders, if they are willing to
pay. This process would be diffi-
cult enough without the added
challenges of ensuring the eggs
are from a donor who is a racial
match.
Under these circumstances,
most East and South Asians often
do have to purchase eggs from
markets outside Canada, a pro-
cess that can cost upwards of
$20,000, including medical and
travel expenses.
Eggs, Page 14
Egg donor laws force Canadians
seeking racial match to extremes
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DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
................................................................
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is
hopeful Pope Francis will heed a
personal call to make a formal
apology to aboriginal survivors of
sexual and physical abuse at
Catholic-run residential schools
during a private audience with
his holiness at the Vatican on
Monday.
Mr. Trudeau will use the one-
on-one meeting in the Apostolic
Palace to request a papal apology
and an “open invitation” for the
pontiff to visit Canada to address
victims of the residential school
system.
“The Prime Minister is using
this opportunity to talk to the
Pope about Indigenous issues
and reconciliation and one of the
things aboriginal communities
want is an apology,” a govern-
ment official said.
Canadian and Vatican officials
have been working behind the
scenes to arrange the meeting,
which officials say is an opportu-
nity for Pope Francis to make
amends for a dark chapter in the
Catholic Church’s attempt to
“Christianize” Canada’s First
Nations, Inuit and Métis people.
In 2015, former prime minister
Stephen Harper met for 10 min-
utes with Pope Frances at the
Vatican and drew his attention to
the troubling findings of the
Truth and Reconciliation Com-
mission, but he stopped short of
inviting him to Canada to apolo-
gize.
Instead, Mr. Harper referred to
a letter sent by his Indigenous
affairs minister that simply not-
ified the Vatican that the com-
mission had spoken to thousands
of residential students and docu-
mented their experiences.
The Truth and Reconciliation
Commission issued 94 recom-
mendations, which Mr. Trudeau
promised to implement as Liber-
al leader. A key recommendation
was a call for a papal apology to
residential school survivors, say-
ing the church-run system
sought to remove Indigenous cul-
ture, identity and language in
what it deplored as “cultural gen-
ocide.”
Apology, Page 3
PM seeks papal apology for residential schools
Trudeau to use one-on-one meeting at Vatican to ask Pope Francis to address Indigenous survivors of Catholic-run institutions
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Complaints mount against
Trans Mountain plan
Kinder Morgan is facing hun-
dreds of fresh objections as it
plots its route for the $7.4-billion
pipeline expansion.
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For Muslims, the holiest month of the year begins
Many of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims marked the start of Ramadan this weekend, a period
of fasting and religous devotion that encourages reflection and compassion for those less fortunate
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Before new Conservative Leader
Andrew Scheer moves into Stor-
noway, the elegant Ottawa resi-
dence of the head of the Official
Opposition, a few things have to
change.
For one, Mr. Scheer recom-
mends the National Capital Com-
mission – which manages the
government-owned property –
have it kid-proofed for his
expanded brood.
“We told the NCC to take any-
thing of value and either put it
very high up or in storage for a
couple of years,” said Mr. Scheer,
whose five children range in age
from 11
⁄2 to 12 years old. “I hope
they have Scotchgard in the car-
pets.”
It’s the first indication of the
new reality for the Conservative
Party – and for Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau, too.
Young, family oriented and
friendly, Mr. Scheer was the sur-
prise winner in his party’s leader-
ship event on the weekend,
beating out front-runner Maxime
Bernier in 13 rounds by a margin
of 51 per cent to 49 per cent.
In the end, the well-liked 38-
year-old was seen as the best
choice to unite the party in all its
factions – especially social Con-
servatives, who helped propel
him to power.
Now, Mr. Trudeau, who is 45
with three kids, is facing his first
permanent foe in the run-up to
the 2019 election.
“I think he’s a perfect foil to
Justin Trudeau. He’s young, yet
experienced. He has a great, pos-
itive image. Photogenic. Yet also
has a lot of substance,” Conser-
vative Senator Denise Batters
said.
Scheer, Page 6
Scheer ready for ‘huge job’
of selling Tories – and himself
.....................................................................................................................................
LAURA STONE
DANIEL LEBLANC TORONTO
................................................................
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EUROPEAN BUREAU CHIEF
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Halt to LNG project dims
Canada’s export hopes
Malaysia’s Petronas has cancelled
plans for an $11.4-billion liquefied
natural gas terminal on the B.C. coast,
dealing a major blow to Canada’s
hopes of becoming a global LNG
supplier. The move to scrap the Pa-
cific NorthWest LNG plant, which
had been slated for Lelu Island near
Prince Rupert, comes after five years
of study and debate among politi-
cians, environmentalists and First
Nations. During the period, LNG pric-
es fell sharply as other countries such
as Australia and the United States
started up multibillion-dollar facili-
ties and demand weakened.
Petronas and its partners have
spent $400-million in preparation at
the site and an average of $2-billion a
year drilling for natural gas on lands
in northeastern B.C. acquired when
Petronas bought Progress Energy
Canada Ltd. for more than $5.5-billion
in 2012. The overall project, including
a pipeline, was expected to eventu-
ally cost $36-billion.
Nonetheless, board chairman Anu-
ar Taib ruled out any chance that the
project would ever be revived. “For us
the Pacific NorthWest LNG venture
has ended,” he told reporters.
LNG exports have long been a hot-
button issue in British Columbia and
doubts have dogged would-be devel-
opers. Former Liberal premier Christy
Clark had held it up as a cornerstone
of the province’s economic future, at
one time promising three operating
plants by 2020.
British Columbia’s new NDP ener-
gy minister Michelle Mungall said her
government respects the company’s
decision and will pivot to encourage
other LNG prospects. The NDP, which
during the spring election campaign
criticized Liberal enthusiasm for the
sector, said it seeks job-creation pros-
pects in LNG as long as it meets envi-
ronmental and other standards.
LNG, A12
Citing market conditions,
Petronas chairman rules
out possibility of reviving
Pacific NorthWest venture
JEFFREY JONES
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in B.C. Interior as large
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THE BIG READ ....................... A8-9
EDITORIAL & LETTERS................. A11
DETOUR: TRAVEL ..................... A13
THE ESSAY ............................ A15
WEATHER, PUZZLES, BRIDGE ......... A17
U.S. POLITICS ......................... A3-4
KEYSTONE XL ........................... A6
OPIOD CRISIS ............................ A7
B.C. WILDFIRES ......................... A8-9
HEALTH................................. A18
TOPICS SECTION A
STREETWISE ........................... B2
NAFTA:OPINION.......................... B3
PROPERTY REPORT ...................... B6
AGATE ................................. B17
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Canada lags on
biodiversity pledge
The country ranks far behind G7
counterparts and other industrialized
nations in meeting commitments
to protect its lands and fresh waters,
report says, with only three years left
to fulfill UN Convention
Canada is behind the world’s other economic leaders
when it comes to protecting its lands and fresh waters
and is well off pace of meeting the international com-
mitment it made seven years ago to nearly double the
size of its protected regions by 2020, according to a
new national study.
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s
(CPAWS) annual report takes a hard look at how
far Canada has gone toward complying with its ob-
ligations under the United Nations Convention on
Biodiversity, which was signed by the previous Con-
servative government and aims to halt widespread
biodiversity loss. The results suggest this country is
an environmental laggard.
Canada has 20 per cent of the Earth’s forests and
24 per cent of its wetlands, but has done far less than
many other countries when
it comes to putting areas be-
yond the reach of develop-
ment, according to the study
to be released Monday.
Protection of lands and wa-
ters is critical for our survival,
said Éric Hébert-Daly, CPAWS’s
national executive director.
“We’re a part of nature
and, if nature is not protected
around us, things like clean water and clean air and
things we rely on for the survival of the human spe-
cies, as well as every other species on Earth, is under-
mined,” Mr. Hébert-Daly said. “So protected areas are
the linchpin in our survival and the survival of the
planet.”
In 2010, when 9.6 per cent of its lands and fresh wa-
ters were protected, Canada agreed to meet the inter-
national target of protecting 17 per cent of its territory
within a decade.
But, with just three years left to go before that
deadline, the amount of land and water protected has
climbed by just one percentage point, to 10.6 per cent,
the report says.
BIODIVERSITY, A12
10.6%Percentage of lands
and fresh waters
protected in Canada,
the lowest rate
among G7 countries
A health summit will be held this fall
in the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, a col-
lection of remote Northern Ontario
reserves beset by a youth suicide cri-
sis and a perpetual lack of decent
medical care.
Ottawa and the Ontario govern-
ment announced that each will con-
tribute $150,000 to the summit after
federal Health Minister Jane Philpott,
Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins
and Alvin Fiddler, the grand chief of
the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN),
met on Monday to discuss long-term
plans for a “transformation” of the
health system in NAN communities.
The trio signed a five-page “char-
ter of relationship principles,” that is
intended to eventually give First Na-
tions control over how health care
is delivered in the territory, which is
home to about 45,000 people spread
over 49 communities.
They also agreed on an emergency
action plan for Pikangikum, a fly-in
reserve near the Manitoba border
where four young people, including
a pair of sisters, have taken their own
lives this month.
The plan could see the Department
of National Defence erect tents or oth-
er pop-up facilities to accommodate
the hundreds of people seeking men-
tal-health support in the community
ofabout2,800people,Mr.Fiddlersaid.
“One of the things [front-line
workers] keep saying over and over
again is the need for safe space in the
community for counselling to hap-
pen,” Mr. Fiddler said in an interview
after the meeting. “That’s something
that the federal government is pre-
pared to address through the Depart-
ment of Defence to ensure that they
build space in the community for that
work to happen.”
Dr. Hoskins said Sunday that his
government planned to dispatch an
additional 20 counsellors to Pikangi-
kum at a cost $1.6-million.
SUMMIT, A12
KELLY GRANT
Summit to be held for First Nation suicide crisis
T
wo-and-a-half hours before Sunday’s latest disaster against the Astros, Blue Jays fans
were lined up for blocks waiting to get in. It was Aaron Sanchez bobblehead day.
Though the game was a casual encounter between a very good baseball team and
a pretty bad one, more than 46,000 people showed up – a sell-out. When Houston
began laying an ugly beating on Toronto in the second inning, no one booed. Everybody stuck
around when it truly got out of hand in the sixth. They cheered a ninth-inning Toronto home run
like it actually mattered. Many were still wedged in their seats when it ended. The final score was
19-1. It was one out from being the biggest shutout loss in Jays’ franchise history. SPORTS
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The transatlantic friendship
that has seen Europe and
the United States forge alliances
on everything from defence and
culture to trade and climate
change since the Second World
War seems to be unravelling.
German Chancellor Angela Mer-
kel said as much on Sunday,
after the particularly divisive
Group of Seven meeting in
Taormina, Italy.
Speaking at a political rally in
a Munich beer tent – she is
going into her fourth election –
Ms. Merkel did not mention
Donald Trump by name, but it
was obvious the U.S. President
had triggered her comments
about an emerging U.S.-Europe
rift. “The times in which we can
fully count on others are some-
what over, as I have experi-
enced in the past few days,” she
said. “We Europeans must really
take destiny into our own
hands.”
Brexit – Britain’s exodus from
the European Union – was also
on her mind. “Of course, we
need to have friendly relations
with the U.S. and with the U.K.,
and with other neighbours, in-
cluding Russia,” she said, but
added that “we have to fight for
our own future ourselves.”
Reguly, Page 4
ANALYSIS
Europe-U.S. rift
develops after
a tense,
Trump-filled
G7 summit
................................................................
Priya had 40 egg donor profiles
to choose from. From her
phone in Mississauga, Ont., the
46-year-old scrutinized their
head shots, imagining her own
future child with their features:
Donor 13’s narrow nose, or Donor
26’s large eyes. Earlier in her
exhausting search for an egg
donor, she’d only paid attention
to colouring, but all these women
had glossy black hair and mocha
skin that matched her own, so
she could be pickier now.
A few months after making her
selection, Priya (not her real
name) bought a ticket to India.
She booked time off and, without
telling even her closest friends at
work the real reason for her trip,
she flew 11,000 kilometres to Del-
hi to have a stranger’s fertilized
eggs implanted in her uterus.
Thousands of other Canadians
who are infertile or have same-
sex partners have taken similarly
radical measures. Unlike in the
United States, where would-be
parents can buy eggs from a local
egg donor, in Canada, women
cannot legally sell their eggs. In-
tended parents here must either
find an altruistic donor – typi-
cally, someone they know, al-
though some clinics keep rosters
of volunteers – or look beyond
our borders, if they are willing to
pay. This process would be diffi-
cult enough without the added
challenges of ensuring the eggs
are from a donor who is a racial
match.
Under these circumstances,
most East and South Asians often
do have to purchase eggs from
markets outside Canada, a pro-
cess that can cost upwards of
$20,000, including medical and
travel expenses.
Eggs, Page 14
Egg donor laws force Canadians
seeking racial match to extremes
.....................................................................................................................................
DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
................................................................
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is
hopeful Pope Francis will heed a
personal call to make a formal
apology to aboriginal survivors of
sexual and physical abuse at
Catholic-run residential schools
during a private audience with
his holiness at the Vatican on
Monday.
Mr. Trudeau will use the one-
on-one meeting in the Apostolic
Palace to request a papal apology
and an “open invitation” for the
pontiff to visit Canada to address
victims of the residential school
system.
“The Prime Minister is using
this opportunity to talk to the
Pope about Indigenous issues
and reconciliation and one of the
things aboriginal communities
want is an apology,” a govern-
ment official said.
Canadian and Vatican officials
have been working behind the
scenes to arrange the meeting,
which officials say is an opportu-
nity for Pope Francis to make
amends for a dark chapter in the
Catholic Church’s attempt to
“Christianize” Canada’s First
Nations, Inuit and Métis people.
In 2015, former prime minister
Stephen Harper met for 10 min-
utes with Pope Frances at the
Vatican and drew his attention to
the troubling findings of the
Truth and Reconciliation Com-
mission, but he stopped short of
inviting him to Canada to apolo-
gize.
Instead, Mr. Harper referred to
a letter sent by his Indigenous
affairs minister that simply not-
ified the Vatican that the com-
mission had spoken to thousands
of residential students and docu-
mented their experiences.
The Truth and Reconciliation
Commission issued 94 recom-
mendations, which Mr. Trudeau
promised to implement as Liber-
al leader. A key recommendation
was a call for a papal apology to
residential school survivors, say-
ing the church-run system
sought to remove Indigenous cul-
ture, identity and language in
what it deplored as “cultural gen-
ocide.”
Apology, Page 3
PM seeks papal apology for residential schools
Trudeau to use one-on-one meeting at Vatican to ask Pope Francis to address Indigenous survivors of Catholic-run institutions
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Complaints mount against
Trans Mountain plan
Kinder Morgan is facing hun-
dreds of fresh objections as it
plots its route for the $7.4-billion
pipeline expansion.
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For Muslims, the holiest month of the year begins
Many of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims marked the start of Ramadan this weekend, a period
of fasting and religous devotion that encourages reflection and compassion for those less fortunate
...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
A man prays prior to breaking fast on the first day of Ramadan at a camp for the displaced in Iraq. KARIM SAHIB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Before new Conservative Leader
Andrew Scheer moves into Stor-
noway, the elegant Ottawa resi-
dence of the head of the Official
Opposition, a few things have to
change.
For one, Mr. Scheer recom-
mends the National Capital Com-
mission – which manages the
government-owned property –
have it kid-proofed for his
expanded brood.
“We told the NCC to take any-
thing of value and either put it
very high up or in storage for a
couple of years,” said Mr. Scheer,
whose five children range in age
from 11
⁄2 to 12 years old. “I hope
they have Scotchgard in the car-
pets.”
It’s the first indication of the
new reality for the Conservative
Party – and for Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau, too.
Young, family oriented and
friendly, Mr. Scheer was the sur-
prise winner in his party’s leader-
ship event on the weekend,
beating out front-runner Maxime
Bernier in 13 rounds by a margin
of 51 per cent to 49 per cent.
In the end, the well-liked 38-
year-old was seen as the best
choice to unite the party in all its
factions – especially social Con-
servatives, who helped propel
him to power.
Now, Mr. Trudeau, who is 45
with three kids, is facing his first
permanent foe in the run-up to
the 2019 election.
“I think he’s a perfect foil to
Justin Trudeau. He’s young, yet
experienced. He has a great, pos-
itive image. Photogenic. Yet also
has a lot of substance,” Conser-
vative Senator Denise Batters
said.
Scheer, Page 6
Scheer ready for ‘huge job’
of selling Tories – and himself
.....................................................................................................................................
LAURA STONE
DANIEL LEBLANC TORONTO
................................................................
ERIC REGULY
EUROPEAN BUREAU CHIEF
TAORMINA, ITALY
................................................................
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Halt to LNG project dims
Canada’s export hopes
Malaysia’s Petronas has cancelled
plans for an $11.4-billion liquefied
natural gas terminal on the B.C. coast,
dealing a major blow to Canada’s
hopes of becoming a global LNG
supplier. The move to scrap the Pa-
cific NorthWest LNG plant, which
had been slated for Lelu Island near
Prince Rupert, comes after five years
of study and debate among politi-
cians, environmentalists and First
Nations. During the period, LNG pric-
es fell sharply as other countries such
as Australia and the United States
started up multibillion-dollar facili-
ties and demand weakened.
Petronas and its partners have
spent $400-million in preparation at
the site and an average of $2-billion a
year drilling for natural gas on lands
in northeastern B.C. acquired when
Petronas bought Progress Energy
Canada Ltd. for more than $5.5-billion
in 2012. The overall project, including
a pipeline, was expected to eventu-
ally cost $36-billion.
Nonetheless, board chairman Anu-
ar Taib ruled out any chance that the
project would ever be revived. “For us
the Pacific NorthWest LNG venture
has ended,” he told reporters.
LNG exports have long been a hot-
button issue in British Columbia and
doubts have dogged would-be devel-
opers. Former Liberal premier Christy
Clark had held it up as a cornerstone
of the province’s economic future, at
one time promising three operating
plants by 2020.
British Columbia’s new NDP ener-
gy minister Michelle Mungall said her
government respects the company’s
decision and will pivot to encourage
other LNG prospects. The NDP, which
during the spring election campaign
criticized Liberal enthusiasm for the
sector, said it seeks job-creation pros-
pects in LNG as long as it meets envi-
ronmental and other standards.
LNG, A12
Citing market conditions,
Petronas chairman rules
out possibility of reviving
Pacific NorthWest venture
JEFFREY JONES
New evacuation orders
in B.C. Interior as large
wildfires grow THE BIG READ, A8-9
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Trudeau says there's ‘no need for
a Plan B’ in NAFTA talks with Trump
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MOMENT IN TIME ...................... A2
THE BIG READ ....................... A8-9
EDITORIAL & LETTERS................. A11
DETOUR: TRAVEL ..................... A13
THE ESSAY ............................ A15
WEATHER, PUZZLES, BRIDGE ......... A17
U.S. POLITICS ......................... A3-4
KEYSTONE XL ........................... A6
OPIOD CRISIS ............................ A7
B.C. WILDFIRES ......................... A8-9
HEALTH................................. A18
TOPICS SECTION A
STREETWISE ........................... B2
NAFTA:OPINION.......................... B3
PROPERTY REPORT ...................... B6
AGATE ................................. B17
GLOBE SPORTS ......................... B11
OBITUARIES ............................ B16
SECTION B
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Canada lags on
biodiversity pledge
The country ranks far behind G7
counterparts and other industrialized
nations in meeting commitments
to protect its lands and fresh waters,
report says, with only three years left
to fulfill UN Convention
Canada is behind the world’s other economic leaders
when it comes to protecting its lands and fresh waters
and is well off pace of meeting the international com-
mitment it made seven years ago to nearly double the
size of its protected regions by 2020, according to a
new national study.
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s
(CPAWS) annual report takes a hard look at how
far Canada has gone toward complying with its ob-
ligations under the United Nations Convention on
Biodiversity, which was signed by the previous Con-
servative government and aims to halt widespread
biodiversity loss. The results suggest this country is
an environmental laggard.
Canada has 20 per cent of the Earth’s forests and
24 per cent of its wetlands, but has done far less than
many other countries when
it comes to putting areas be-
yond the reach of develop-
ment, according to the study
to be released Monday.
Protection of lands and wa-
ters is critical for our survival,
said Éric Hébert-Daly, CPAWS’s
national executive director.
“We’re a part of nature
and, if nature is not protected
around us, things like clean water and clean air and
things we rely on for the survival of the human spe-
cies, as well as every other species on Earth, is under-
mined,” Mr. Hébert-Daly said. “So protected areas are
the linchpin in our survival and the survival of the
planet.”
In 2010, when 9.6 per cent of its lands and fresh wa-
ters were protected, Canada agreed to meet the inter-
national target of protecting 17 per cent of its territory
within a decade.
But, with just three years left to go before that
deadline, the amount of land and water protected has
climbed by just one percentage point, to 10.6 per cent,
the report says.
BIODIVERSITY, A12
10.6%Percentage of lands
and fresh waters
protected in Canada,
the lowest rate
among G7 countries
A health summit will be held this fall
in the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, a col-
lection of remote Northern Ontario
reserves beset by a youth suicide cri-
sis and a perpetual lack of decent
medical care.
Ottawa and the Ontario govern-
ment announced that each will con-
tribute $150,000 to the summit after
federal Health Minister Jane Philpott,
Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins
and Alvin Fiddler, the grand chief of
the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN),
met on Monday to discuss long-term
plans for a “transformation” of the
health system in NAN communities.
The trio signed a five-page “char-
ter of relationship principles,” that is
intended to eventually give First Na-
tions control over how health care
is delivered in the territory, which is
home to about 45,000 people spread
over 49 communities.
They also agreed on an emergency
action plan for Pikangikum, a fly-in
reserve near the Manitoba border
where four young people, including
a pair of sisters, have taken their own
lives this month.
The plan could see the Department
of National Defence erect tents or oth-
er pop-up facilities to accommodate
the hundreds of people seeking men-
tal-health support in the community
ofabout2,800people,Mr.Fiddlersaid.
“One of the things [front-line
workers] keep saying over and over
again is the need for safe space in the
community for counselling to hap-
pen,” Mr. Fiddler said in an interview
after the meeting. “That’s something
that the federal government is pre-
pared to address through the Depart-
ment of Defence to ensure that they
build space in the community for that
work to happen.”
Dr. Hoskins said Sunday that his
government planned to dispatch an
additional 20 counsellors to Pikangi-
kum at a cost $1.6-million.
SUMMIT, A12
KELLY GRANT
Summit to be held for First Nation suicide crisis
T
wo-and-a-half hours before Sunday’s latest disaster against the Astros, Blue Jays fans
were lined up for blocks waiting to get in. It was Aaron Sanchez bobblehead day.
Though the game was a casual encounter between a very good baseball team and
a pretty bad one, more than 46,000 people showed up – a sell-out. When Houston
began laying an ugly beating on Toronto in the second inning, no one booed. Everybody stuck
around when it truly got out of hand in the sixth. They cheered a ninth-inning Toronto home run
like it actually mattered. Many were still wedged in their seats when it ended. The final score was
19-1. It was one out from being the biggest shutout loss in Jays’ franchise history. SPORTS
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OTTAWA
