The Spin Doctors: What do you think of the Bloc Quebecois’ $400,000 radio and newspaper ad campaign against the Liberals and Gomery?
Leslie Swartman Liberal Strategist “I think it’s a waste of $400,000!! “It was clearly conceived and produced prior to Prime Minister Martin’s exoneration by Justice Gomery. It shows that the BQ doesn’t want to hear the truth and that it is prepared to smear reputations of anyone who poses a threat. “And it reminds me […]
House’s election fever
The House has election fever, but if the three opposition parties really want to defeat the federal Liberals, then they should muster up some courage and do it. The Conservatives, the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP should introduce a non-confidence motion in the House this week to bring the Liberals down and put the Liberals […]
Harper’s proposed lobby reforms ‘like killing a fly with a hammer’
Many lobbyists say the five-year “cooling off” period for ministers and Hill staffers is overkill and that the proposals to curb the “revolving door” between government and the private sector may, in fact, wind up hurting both. Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper’s proposed reforms to lobby laws are like “killing a fly with a hammer,” […]
Gomery’s second report no panacea: whoever wins election will have rubbery flexibility to implement recommendations
Hey, does anyone here remember a judge named Gomery? No, apparently not.Two weeks ago, his first report on the Liberal theft of taxpayers’ money was the talk of this town. Now his second one, the one fixing failures that began with patronage and ended in corruption, is at risk of being blown away by the […]
Gomery Report sells 1,269 copies in one week
Have you read Gomery…It might never become a best-seller, but the Gomery report’s sales have already broken through the four-digit barrier. At the end of last week, the Public Works Department was reporting 1,269 copies of Justice John Gomery’s report on the federal sponsorship program sold.The full version of the report makes up nearly two-thirds […]
No nation in history has benefited more than Canada from its relationship with the U.S.
By persistently working at cross purposes to U.S. objectives, Ottawa appears willing to transform the bilateral relationship into one of guarded hostility. Is this really in Canada’s interest? WASHINGTON, D.C. – During the past several weeks, Ambassador Frank McKenna and Prime Minister Paul Martin amused themselves at U.S. expense. In speeches, respectively, in Toronto and […]
LETTERS
Parrish did not transfer money to ‘unspecified Liberal candidate’ Iwas surprised to read, in last week’s issue of The Hill Times, that I “transferred $10,000 to an unspecified Liberal candidate,” (“Conservatives out-fundraise governing Liberals, again,” Nov. 7). That is patently incorrect. An election rebate cheque from my 2004 campaign was sent to the Liberal Party […]
Aboriginals fear they were shut out of Supreme Court, push as selection committee winds up hearings this week
Justice Minister Irwin Cotler has excluded aboriginal candidates from his short list for an upcoming nomination at the Supreme Court of Canada, members of the Indigenous Bar Association alleged last week. “What it means is a significant loss of opportunity,”said IBA president Jeffery Hewitt.”To be clear. We’re not seeking a quota, but in terms of […]
Sheila Copps scrums, Transport Minister Lapierre attacks her
Former heritage minister Sheila Copps raised some eyebrows on the Hill this week as she weighed into a scrum with Transport Minister Jean Lapierre (Outremont, Que.). The newly-minted columnist for the Sun media chain repeatedly asked the Prime Minister’s Quebec lieutenant where the Liberal Party got the money it’s using to repay the $1.14 million […]
Conservative MP Forseth hires Casey as executive assistant: Davy Coyle joins Quebec Liberal Senator Lucie Pepin’s office as executive assistant
Conservative MP Paul Forseth,who has represented New Westminster-Coquitlam, B.C., for four terms, recently hired veteran Hill staffer Sean Casey in his MP’s office in Ottawa on Parliament Hill. Mr. Casey, who most recently served as an operations manager in the Leader of the Opposition Stephen Harper’s (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) office until last summer and also […]
