Industry tops lobbying efforts: top 20 departments most lobbied
Top 20 Departments Most Lobbied: 1. Industry Canada 2. Finance Canada 3. Foreign Affairs/International Trade 4. Environment Canada 5. Revenue Canada 6. Transport Canada 7. Health Canada 8. Natural Resources Canada 9. Privy Council Office 10. Public Works 11. Treasury Board Top 20 Departments Most Lobbied: 1. Industry Canada 2. Finance Canada 3. Foreign Affairs/International […]
Question period: do you think US President Bill Clinton should resign?
“No, I don’t think President Clinton should resign. I think he needs to make peace with his own family and I don’t think it should affect the presidency. [The focus on the Clinton-Lewinsky affair] shows the news has moved into tabloid television and it shows news at its worst.” Liberal MP Bob Speller Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant, Ont. […]
Cardinal denies ousted from PCO
She had spent virtually her entire career within the public service, and had risen to one of the top communications positions within the entire government. But last June, when Ruth Cardinal, then assistant secretary to Cabinet for Communications and Consultations, got a call from the newly privatized Canada Communication Group Incorporated, she recalled: “I got […]
Public entitled to know issues of public morality
Regular readers will know that your correspondent has serious reservations about the veracity of public opinion polls. That having been said, however, polls often serve as an easy measure by which to compare — albeit not as accurately as pollsters would have you believe — public sentiments at a given moment in time. I’m thinking […]
[Appointments to the Immigration & Refugee Board]
A former contender for the Liberal nomination in the Mississauga riding of Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish remains in the saddle at the Refugee Determination Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board. Raza Naqvi, who ran for the Toronto-area seat in 1993, was appointed a part-time member of the IRB last fall. His reappointment to the […]
PM names Saada to Canada-US security post
First-term Quebec Liberal MP Jacques Saada is taking over from former Ontario Liberal MP Jesse Flis as chair of the Canadian section of the Canada-United States Permanent Joint Board on Defence, run on the Canadian side, by the Foreign Affairs Department. Mr. Saada’s appointment to replace Mr. Flis was made on Aug. 28. He is […]
[Taking stock: assessing public sector reforms]
Taking Stock: Assessing Public Sector Reforms is the second of three volumes on the subject of governance and public management produced by the Canadian Centre for Management Development. It contains the reflections of 13 academics, including five from the U.S., four from Canada, one from the U.K., one from France, one from Sweden and one […]
A just-the-facts-ma’am site
From time to time I come across a site that I can’t wait to tell others about. It reeks of tangible matters well-presented, well-linked, and free of graphic clutter, a Just-The-Facts-Ma’am kind of place that you know will excite others. Here is one, hosted by the Media Awareness Network. I was recently turned on to […]
Why Clark and Segal cancelled televised debates
CBC Newsworld offered the five candidates for the Tory party’s national leadership a half-hour of free time for a debate to be carried both by Newsworld and CBC National. The debate was to be held before a live audience in Toronto, with Nancy Wilson as moderator; the subject was to be economics. The date, Sept. […]
Rookie MP shakes up senate [Chairship of Greater Toronto Area caucus]
Senate block vote…Meanwhile, rookie Ontario Liberal MP Bryon Wilfert is vying for the chairship of the Greater Toronto Area caucus but he’s going to have to face off with Ontario Senator Lorne Milne before it’s over. Sen. Milne, who co-chaired the Liberals’ Ontario election campaign in the last federal election, said she’s not too pleased […]
