Senator Lynch-Staunton floats wild trial balloon [Parliamentary reform]
The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate of Canada, John Lynch-Staunton, addressed the Rotary Club of Calgary yesterday on the need for Parliamentary reform, as he saw it. In other words, reform other than Senate reform. It was a very good speech, and one that must have fallen on receptive ears. While Sen. Lynch-Staunton […]
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 […]
Ethics guru says voters weight morality [A Question of Ethics: Canadians Speak Out by Maureen Mancuso]
As the world digests the graphic sexual details of U.S. President Bill Clinton’s sexual encounters with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, a Canadian expert on ethics in politics says Canadians, like most recently-polled Americans, would not likely want to throw the U.S. president out of office over his lying about an affair with Ms. […]
House bigwigs want to cut committees: Reform says government trying to keep MPs busy
House leaders will meet this week to decide how to cut the number of Commons committees in a bid to free up more House time for its 301 MPs, after the government lost last spring’s vote temporarily stripping them of their right to use closure. It was one of the bargaining chips on the table […]
Reform MPs tell why they opted in and out of pension plan
As the MP pension issue threatens to do some political damage to the Reform Party caucus, two Reformers told The Hill Times why they opted in and out of the so-called “gold-plated” plan. For second-term Reform MP John Duncan (Vancouver Island North, B.C), 49, who decided to opt into the controversial pension plan recently after […]
