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 […]
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 […]
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 ready for election: Reynolds
The Conservative Party’s national campaign chairman says “the planes and buses are all reserved” and his party is ready for the next federal election, upping the ante and political bravado involved in the timing of either defeating the government or the government wanting to get defeated, forcing an election. “Our war room is set up, […]
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 […]
THE SPIN DOCTORS: “What do you make of Peter MacKay’s outburst that the Conservative Party would be in ‘jeopardy’ unless it supports giving every riding equal representation at conventions?”
“Well it certainly made for good television!! Too bad CPAC didn’t pick up the chair-kicking incident too – finally some emotion out of Stephen Harper! “MacKay’s outburst served to undermine Stephen Harper’s first convention as leader. His actions were impulsive, ill-timed, self-serving and bordered on sabotage. It took gall for him to claim that the […]
