Liberal Campaign Platform and Transport Minister Marc Garneau

Islamic State: The letters include key elements of the Liberal campaign platform, such as ending Canada combat commitment against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; holding an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women; rewriting the Conservatives' omnibus security bill; and initiating a process that will lead to the legalization of marijuana, according to Hamilton Spectator. But the missives also contain specific new commitments or provide a time frame to pre-existing promises. That direction is among the formal guidance the new Liberal prime minister spelled out Friday in detailed mandate letters to the 30 members of his cabinet. Transport Minister Marc Garneau, for instance, is instructed to immediately formalize a moratorium on crude oil tanker traffic on British Columbia North Coast. The Conservatives had asked the Supreme Court of Canada to hear an appeal of a ruling that said it was unlawful to prohibit women from wearing a face covering at a citizenship ceremony. The ban effectively ends the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, which would see Alberta crude oil flow to westward to the B.C. coast, said Karen Mahon, director of the group Forest Ethics Advocacy. "Without tankers, crude oil has no place to go." Wilson-Raybould, meanwhile, is expected to begin overhauling federal litigation Monday by abandoning the previous Conservative government planned — and highly controversial — challenge in a case involving the niqab. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.