ON THE HILL [Earl Sculnier]
Name: Earl Sculnier Position: Senate Tradesman Age: 54 Place of Birth: Halifax, N.S. Time on Hill: 18 years Best thing about job: “I love the heritage and the history.” Worst thing about job: Doing the ‘tear down’ after the Throne Speech. Originally from Halifax, N.S., Eric Sculnier not only found a job on Parliament Hill, […]
Pollsters caution against snap election based on Gomery: Party standings expected to change in wake of explosive Gomery testimony; Liberals to take a hit
Pollsters agree. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper was wise to put a lid on talk of a snap election. Canadians don’t want to go to the polls again, less than 12 months since the last campaign. And the numbers aren’t quite there for the fledgling Conservative Party. At least not yet, despite the political storm caused […]
CORRECTION [Hill lobbyists not required to be ethical, April 4-10, 2005]
Last week’s story, “Hill lobbyists not required to be ethical” (The Hill Times, April 4-10) misspelled Nicole Foster Woollatt’s name. We apologize for the error. L
THE SPIN DOCTORS: ‘Was the Gomery publication ban well-handled?”
“I’d have to say yes. Given that Justice Gomery did not know what Jean Brault would say, it was prudent of him to place a publication ban on Brault’s testimony so as not to prejudice his criminal fraud trial. Once Brault was off the witness stand, Justice Gomery was quick to determine what was germane […]
Sponsorship stench
Conservative Deputy Leader Peter MacK- ay called it “the stench and the rot of corruption”starting to leak out of the Gomery Inquiry, subtly followed by,”the Liberal government is involved in a criminal conspiracy of the like never seen in this country before.” The House Speaker Peter Milliken warned Mr. MacKay about his choice of words […]
Not sold on best-dressed survey [13th Annual Best-Dressed/Politically-Savvy Survey, April 4, 2005]
Regarding the “13th Annual Best- Dressed/Politically-Savvy Survey,”(The Hill Times, April 4). I have just come across the above noted article and am quite annoyed with it. It really makes my blood boil that you would think the average Canadian really cares what the politicians are wearing these days much less how they rank on the […]
Federal Liberals dismiss Jean Brault’s bombshell allegations: Former Quebec wing caucus chair Marcel Proulx says abuses never showed up on the books
Liberal MP Marcel Proulx, former chair of the Quebec caucus, says he’s “not upset” by the shocking alleged abuses detailed by ad executive Jean Brault at the Gomery Inquiry and is more concerned about the reputations it will ruin if they are proven false. “Mr. Brault is making all kinds of allegations,” said Mr. Proulx […]
Senate Chamber and Senate reform
For your information, the Tory Guiding Principles for Senate Reform, affirmed as policy in 2000 and reaffirmed in Edmonton in 2002, were written to conform with the Canadian Constitution and the theory of second chambers as understood in Parliamentary federal states. These principles provide a constitutionally-based standard by which proposals for Senate elections would need […]
Is that really cutting debt? [Even bigger crash lies ahead, but few media reporting it, April 4, 2005]
Regarding Tom Korski’s column, “Even bigger crash lies ahead, but few media reporting it,”(The Hill Times, April 4). It got me to thinking. In the article, he says that per capita debt has doubled since 1982, and that mortgage debt has increased 157 per cent. It would seem that the Liberal Party’s conservative policy of […]
Leblanc leaves Emerson, joins Robillard’s office: And NDP Caucus Services hires a new director of operations Anne McGrath
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Lucienne Robillard who is also responsible for the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development has hired two new political aides for her ministerial political office. They are: press secretary Stephanie Leblanc and policy adviser Luc Desbiens. Minister Robillard’s (Westmount-Ville-Marie, Que.) ministerial office is headed by her long-time chief of staff Yves […]
