MPs want to review DM appointments: House committees want selection criteria for senior public service jobs to be made public
MPs studying government appointments want Prime Minister Paul Martin to publicly produce job descriptions and qualifications for hundreds of top senior service jobs, and are also calling for the Parliamentary review of mandarins such as deputy ministers and assistant deputy ministers. The steps would represent a big departure from what the Martin government has in […]
Kilgour says Libs should hold a public inquiry into Air India: Government MP David Kilgour says inquiry should be focused, ‘shouldn’t be lawyers’ feast’
Ever since British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Ian Josephson delivered the sensational not guilty verdicts on March 16, acquitting Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri of conspiracy to murder in connection with the bombings of Air India Flight 182 and at Japan’s Narita Airport on June 23, 1985 which killed 329 people on board, […]
Senate: a cheap photocopy of the House
TORONTO – What’s the difference between people in Dante’s Inferno, people who work out in a gym and Senators who work in the Upper Chamber? Not much.They’re all doing useless, hard work. The Canadian Senate is filled with mostly distinguished individuals who work long hours in tedious committees. They prepare indepth reports that nobody uses, […]
Canada’s seal hunt: beyond the rhetoric
Like the fishery, the annual seal hunt is an important industry and a time-honoured tradition for people in Canada’s coastal communities. Seals are a valuable natural resource that provide income in remote towns and villages where few other economic opportunities exist. Unfortunately, this industry and its importance to thousands of Canadians are often misunderstood and […]
PARLIAMENTARY CALENDAR: N.W.T. Premier to talk on ‘new land of opportunity’: Outgoing military ombudsman to outline vision for effective civilian oversight
MONDAY, MARCH 28 The House-The House of Commons is not sitting this week, but will return on Monday, April 4 at 11 a.m. Gomery Inquiry-The Gomery Inquiry, or officially, the Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities, headed by Mr. Justice John H. Gomery, will hold hearings in Montreal until May 6. […]
Registrar has weak attitude on enforcement: Conacher [Behind the wizard’s curtain, an interview with new Lobbyist Registrar Michael Nelson, March 21, 2005]
Regarding, “Behind the wizard’s curtain, an interview with new Lobbyist Registrar Michael Nelson,” unfortunately, your interview with the new Lobbyists Registrar, was inaccurate in many key ways, although it was usefully revealing of the registrar’s incredibly weak attitude towards enforcement (The Hill Times,March 21). First, the registrar is not “an independent office”as stated in the […]
ON THE HILL [Peter Bregg]
Name: Peter Bregg Age: 56 Position: Chief photographer for Maclean s magazine Place of Birth: Hull, Qu . Years on the Hill: 39 Best thing about job: I don t consider it a job, I consider it a lifestyle.There is a great satisfaction about what I do. Worst thing about job: Being away from his […]
Government should do right thing on autism [Birth of a child shouldn’t become health care roulette, March 21, 2005]
Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre’s column,”Birth of a child shouldn’t become healthcare roulette,”(The Hill Times, March 21) describes very well the plight of parents whose children suffer from autism. Our son was diagnosed on the severe end of the autism spectrum at the age of 26 months in October 2002. We applied for services with the […]
Conservatives urge Harper to broaden Quebec organization
Like Brian Mulroney before him, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper’s only hope of gaining real traction in vote-rich Quebec is by aligning his nascent party with the province’s well established political forces, even if it means getting in bed with soft nationalists, says Red Tory Hugh Segal. In an interview at this month’s party convention in […]
Conservatives want Elections Canada to run nominations, leadership
Regarding “Governing Libs await fall signal to gear up for next election,” (The Hill Times, March 2). In your article, you say that it was “recently suggested Elections Canada should take the running of nominations from all parties,”but that “all four parties with seats in the House of Commons strongly oppose such reform.” This is […]
