Marco Mendicino’s office allegedly knew about the transfer of convicted killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison nearly three months before it happened. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office claims Trudeau learned about the prison transfer the day it happened. Why didn’t they do anything to stop it?

Plus, a new Abacus Data poll shows that only 20% of Canadians say that Trudeau’s Liberals deserve to be re-elected while 80% want a change of government.

And the so-called feminist Liberal government voted down a Conservative bill that aimed to strengthen protections for vulnerable pregnant women.

These stories and more on The Daily Brief with Rachel Emmanuel and Lindsay Shepherd!

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  • Rachel Parker

    Rachel is a seasoned political reporter who’s covered government institutions from a variety of levels. A Carleton University journalism graduate, she was a multimedia reporter for three local Niagara newspapers. Her work has been published in the Toronto Star. Rachel was the inaugural recipient of the Political Matters internship, placing her at The Globe and Mail’s parliamentary bureau. She spent three years covering the federal government for iPolitics. Rachel is the Alberta correspondent for True North based in Edmonton.

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  • Lindsay Shepherd

    Lindsay holds an M.A. in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory from Wilfrid Laurier University. She has been published in The Post Millennial, Maclean’s, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, and Quillette.

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