CBCN - Friday, May 24, 2024 - 12:00 a.m. (ET) - Segment #6

>>> Back in this country, the government has moved to reinstate citizenship for kids of foreign born canadians who were also born outside the country. They've been barred from citizenship for the past 15 years, but now a new bill aims to undo that, and as raffy boudjikanian reports, there are an unknown number of lost canadians waiting to be found. >> Reporter: right now, susan burton's children can enjoy this view, but one thing is out of reach. >> My boys cannot have citizenship. >> Reporter: she cannot pass hers onto them as she was born in the U.S. >> It is not a citizenship of convenience. For us, it is a fundamental acceptance into a country. >> Reporter: in 2009, former prime minister stephen harper changed immigration law to crack down on so-called canadians of convenience, facing pressure after ottawa paid $85 million to extract canadians from lebanon three years earlier in a war between israel and hezbollah. >> This is a technical fix to a bill that should have been done a while ago. >> Reporter: but instead it's been a long time coming. The liberal government fought a legal batting against reversing the move, only dropping that after a court order last december found a law to contravene the charter. >> We want the law to be accessible with clear and transparent rules. Not everyone is entitled to it, but for those who are, it needs to be fair. >> Reporter: marc miller is proposing foreign born children of canadian parents who have spent three cumulative years in this country would become canadian citizens, unclear for now how many people would be impacted, but the bill does have N.D.P. support. >> I've talked to parents where their children are deemed stateless, lost in the system because of this punitive unconstitution law. >> Reporter: conservatives have said they're studying the bill, but the clock is ticking. The ontario superior court says the bill has to be fixed in less than a month. Raffy boudjikanian, cbc news, ottawa. >> Adrienne: confirmation earlier today that canada is getting a new wnba time. Idil mussa has more on when they're going to tip off and what this means for the country. >> Reporter: it's official. As cbc news first reported, the wnba is coming to toronto, the league's first international franchise, the 14 overall. >> It's a huge part of growing our fan base, enhancing the value of the wnba team here and around the world. >> Reporter: the announcement was star studded with canadian rap superstar drake, former raptors star kyle lowry, and current star scottie barnes in attendance. Larry tanenbaum owns maple leaf entertainment which currently owns the 2019 nba champions toronto raptors. Tanenbaum reportedly paid $115 million U.S. for toronto's yet-to-be-named team. Compare that to the billions needed to lure an nba expansion team to the city. >> You havesee it all the time, but investing in women's basketball is a smart thing to do. >> Reporter: but for some of those younger players in toronto, it's the inspiration that's most valuable. >> I can't wait. >> Most of the woman's basketball teams are in america, and this gives us an option to have one. >> Reporter: toronto's wnba team will play out of the coca-cola coliseum at rogers place but the team will have the opportunity to play at the 20,000-seat scotiabank arena as well as in ottawa and montreal throughout their season. >> Adrienne: T.D. bank is facing calls for fines in the U.S. what T.D. admits to doing wrong. [ ]

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>>> And at oxford university in the u.k., police cracked down on palestinian protesters after they staged a sit-in on campus offices. >>> Well, there's been a public admission from T.D. bank. The C.E.O. confirms that the company failed to stop money laundering at its branches. As nisha patel explains, it raises questions on how canada punishes financial institutions. >> Reporter: T.D. bank used its branches for criminal activity and the bank failed to stop them. >> There was instances where the bank failed to detect, report, and respond to suspicious activity. This is unacceptable. >> Reporter: the bank is one of several institutions under investigation by the U.S. department of justice and three different financial regulators. Court documents allege a former bank teller accepted money to launder for drug traffickers. >> They're going to have to look at their anticorruption systems because obviously there was a gaping hole there if this could happen. >> Reporter: T.D. says it's cooperating with U.S. officials and has terminated the employees responsible. Experts estimate total fines could end up costing the bank $2 billion. >> The fines in the U.S. are meant to punish and to be large enough to hurt your reputation and your bottom line. >> Reporter: T.D.s troubles have also shone a light on money laundering in canada. Experts say regulations here are less robust. >> It's not the measure of professionalism for the amounts of money flowing through canada. >> Reporter: in a similar case, T.D. was find $6 million by canada's watchdog for failing to report suspicious transactions. >> When we limit enforcement to fines alone, it's really easy fore a person or a business -- for a person or a business that puts profits first to just look at the size of the fine compared to profits and look at whichever is bigger. >> Reporter: canada ashas promised to establish a financial crimes agency but it's not clear when that will happen. Nisha patel, cbc news, toronto. >> Adrienne: how businesses are gearing up for the edmonton oilers oilers playoff excitement.

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>>> Well, edmonton oilers fans are buzzing tonight as the western conference finals get underway. The oilers are canada's last hope for stanley cup glory after 31 years, and as julia wong shows us, fans are all in. >> Reporter: when the oilers made it into the western conference final, this edmonton pub exploded with excitement. Now it's all hands on deck, anticipating big crowds even for away games, extra staff and security have been hired, and staff are working to make game days special. >> We have a deejay playing during the game, so any time a commercial starts, energetic music starts. >> Reporter: those who made the trek to dallas are showing their oilers pride, like this super fan who normally looks more like this. >> Got the people going, bring up the atmosphere, right? Like, bringing a lot of positivity, too. Puts some smiles on people's faces. >> Reporter: for this alberta-born oilers fan now living in dallas, he takes hometown loyalty seriously. >> I knew the oilers had won the series, so I took the day off. I needed to have some time to relax, clean the house, get my favourite spot on the couch ready. >> Reporter: this local burger shop once offered a game day burger served on a blue and orange bun, but the oilers lost, so that colorful bun had to go. >> I am really superstitious. It had to go. One and done. >> Reporter: the dallas stars may be favoured, but the oilers have their own star power. >> Having stars like connor

mcdavid and leon draisatl, it's almost like having wayne gretzky and mark messier. You can't ever count them out. >> Reporter: julia wong, cbc news, edmonton. >> Adrienne: now let's breakdown the week in politics. Rosie is here with "at issue." >> The conservative leader is wearing more make up than I am. >> Rosemary: this time, the deputy prime minister had to apologize for that comment. >> With so many empty stomachs, isn't it a little bit wacko to be raising prices on farmers and food? >> Rosemary: with the election still months away, is it crazy to be doing this? Let's break it down with our panel, chantal hebert, andrew coyne, and althia raj. We've now entered what we call silly season here, where, for the next five weeks, M.P.s do not not get to go back to their ridings for a week, and this is the first week of that. I'm not sure where we're going to end up by the end of june. Althia, on a more serious note, what do you make of sort of the tenor of discourse and debate given chrystia freeland's comments and poiflierre poilievre, too. >> One thing, the liberals have decided to fight fire with fight, which is not a good look for them after a lot of hard work. You see miss freeland, the deep prime minister, going out of their way to attack the opposition leader. The other thing is tieing mr. Poilievre to a strategy that worked in 2020 and 2021, and that's mr. Poilievre is a phony. Andrew scheer was a dual citizen. With erin o'toole, they had him on vaccine mandates and abortion and guns, and you see that starting to happen with the conservative leader. You saw miss freeland withdraw her comments, and after that, she called him a phony. They started laying the groundwork for the abortion question, but they went there on carbon pricing, they went there today on homelessness, on support for our veterans. I think those two things have given the liberals a bit of a swing in their step. They seem much happier this week than they have from their week in their constituency and the slight rise in the polls. >> Rosemary: chantal, that's like framing a leader which everyone wants to do, is paint a picture of someone. But those personalized attacks that are pretty petty, to be honest, does that tend to work or is that anything that canadians would be listening to and think oh, no, she's right? >> She's right that he's wearing more make up than she is. If he was she and that person was a man saying that to a woman in the house of commons, we'd be in deep trouble today. It's a stupid comment but it's also a demeaning comment, and it didn't particularly work. Why should anyone stop doing whatever serious things they're doing to worry about the make up on the face of the leader of the opposition or the minister of finance? Yes, it is silly season. Does anybody remember the elbowing episode when the prime minister stormed across the aisle some years ago at the same time in the session because he was angry because it was taking too long to get a vote underway? We've seen unpleasant scenes in the past. I've covered thomas mulcairn and stephen harper, and I've rarely seen two leaders who dislike each other as much as justin trudeau and pierre poilievre, and framing it that way. But the liberals may want to look back in history to how the conservatives were successful in framing liberal leaders. When they tried it with justin trudeau, it wasn't third time it works.

it just didn't work, and I suspect we're at that place in the cycle where what worked for scheer, what worked with o'toole will not work with poilievre. >> Rosemary: well, I would argue that scheer and o'toole gave much more ammunition to the liberals, to make their point. But talk to me about where this level of debate tells us where we're at? >> Well, I can think of 100 things that are wrong and parliamentary decorum is the 101. For all the things that are going on in parliament, I can assure you that a lot worse is happening on social media and during the campaign, a lot worse will be happening. We talked about framing or defining. Let's call it what it is, smearing, and that's what they do to each other. That has become part of, as I say, the world of politics. There's no doubt that pierre poilievre has brought a particularly snippy elbows up style to politics in general, but the liberals have a number of ways of showing contempt for parliament procedurally. This is a government that has stonewalled committees, refused to let witnesses appear before them, refused to release documents that parliament has demanded. So procedural contempt and rhetorical smears, I think I know which is worse for parliament, except with the proviso that if poilievre were in power, we'd have both. I'll just close with this point, that when you see people behaving as childishly as M.P.s do, it is usually a signal of their own lack of self-respect. If parliamentarians were a bigger deal, if being a member of parliament was a more dignified decision, I suggest you'd see less of the childish displays that you do, but when people standup and sit down when they're told, that is the behaviour that you get. >> Rosemary: maybe, but social media is a big player, as well. Chantal? >> Except when the liberals invented what's called the rat pack, basically a group of M.P.s whose only role was to make life miserable for the mulroney government, and still, that is the antics that they go to, if that put a spring in their step, the liberals, they're in pretty bad shape. Do you think that chrystia freeland and those around her are proud of her tonight? Do you think it enhances her reputation? It doesn't. If you think it does, god, that kool-aid must be good. >> Does anybody know what that line on earth was trying to get at, other than poilievre was wearing make up. The thing that's interesting with poilievre, talking about the rat pack, it used to be the leader stayed above the fray and you left that to your backbenchers and your extremes and your henchmen. With poilievre, he's the guy that's keeping the people's party people in the tent and he's still the best attack dog, so he's pioneering a new style leadership policy in that regard. >> Rosemary: last quick word to you, althia? >> Well, I think with the comment, she was trying to paint a picture that poilievre is a phony, that who he thinks he is is not who he is. The liberals are going to these lengths is because they don't have any money. They aren't pushing out any ads so they're using politicians to deliver those ads, and I don't think that's a wise strategy. >> Rosemary: okay. We'll leave it there. We covered make up and decorum and everything in that conversation.

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