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EXCLUSIVE:
Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo expects the feds to deliver promises to First Nations in next federal budget.
Elected Senate would give it legitimacy, but could create legislative gridlock, say experts
At the same time Bill C-7 doesn’t guarantee an entirely elected Senate. Opposition MPs say the Senate Reform Act will pose a ‘procedural nightmare’ to Parliament.
Conservatives pushing back long-gun registry House vote to wait for PM’s return from China
The majority governing Conservatives delayed final Commons debate over the controversial legislation to dismantle the federal long-gun registry because Prime Minister Stephen Harper would otherwise have missed a final vote planned for next week while on a hastily-planned trip to China, The Hill Times has learned. The final House vote on killing the long-gun registry will happen after the PM returns from China on Feb. 11.
Feds should've made information on long-gun registry available to MPs during debates on Bill C-19, says NDP MP Harris
'He can’t hide behind the fact, making arguments about dates for this and dates for that. This is a live issue before Parliament. The information should have been made available,' says NDP MP Jack Harris about the delay of making a report on the long-gun registry public.
Opposition parties say Conservatives now vulnerable on pension issue, and ‘they’re desperate to change the channel’
Prime Minister Stephen Harper cut short debate to push forward an obscure bill on private pension funds Tuesday to divert attention from the uproar over his plan to reduce or amend Old Age Security payments, the opposition parties claimed.
Second day back, Tories use time allocation on Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act
Prime Minister Stephen Harper approved the use of time allocation on Tuesday for the 11th time so far in this Parliament, to limit debate on an obscure private-sector pension bill the opposition parties say is an attempt to deflect attention from the firestorm Mr. Harper set off last week over the fate of government pensions for low-income seniors.
Toews' office contradicts RCMP on when it received potentially embarrassing report on long-gun registry
RCMP says Public Safety Minister Vic Toews received Commissioner's report on long-gun registry Dec. 16. Mr. Toews' office says it wasn't until Dec. 20. The government tabled it in the House in mid-January.
Parliament’s new poet laureate one of Canada’s greatest poets in 20th and 21st centuries
Prominent West Coast poet Fred Wah is expected to ‘rattle the old bones of the House’ when he steps into his new gig next month.
Reflections on John Napier Turner
John Turner is certainly human, but he is a quintessential Canadian, who loves this country, and was a highly-principled national leader, diminished by so-called political allies.
Atleo wants 2012 to represent a ‘critical mass for change for First Nations people’
AFN National Chief Atleo calls on PM to follow through on endorsement of UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Health Policy Briefing
February 6, 2012
- Despite ‘unilateral’ announcement on future of health-care funding, Aglukkaq says feds committed to collaborating with provinces and territories
- Accountability issues dominate talk on the future of Canada’s health care system
- Health human resources outpacing Canada’s population growth
- Federal government invests $6-million in national diabetes strategy
- The 81 Closest Ridings Where MPs Won by 10 Per Cent or Less
- Chiefs of Staff, Communications Directors, Press Secretaries to Cabinet Ministers
- Cabinet’s Directors of Communications and Chiefs of Staff List 2011
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