Policy menu at Texas summit needs red meat, not thin gruel: What’s on the policy menu is the future shape of North America
When Prime Minister Paul Martin sits down to lunch this week with Mexican President Vicente Fox and United States President George W. Bush at the latter’s ranch in Texas, the food surely will be superb. But what is on the policy menu is the future shape of North America, and the central question is whether […]
Public Security Minister McLellan wants more money for border security and more money to combat organized crime
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Anne McLellan says she expects to lobby for more money for border security and says Ottawa’s funding to fight organized crime groups by seizing their profits and assets was overlooked in last month’s federal budget and could have easily been doubled or even tripled. “We should put a lot […]
We don’t fight terrorism with traditional weapons: Serge Menard’s speech on Bill C-6, to establish Department of Public Safety
At first glance, one might think that, basically, all this bill is about is a change of designation, from Solicitor General Canada, to Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada. Even just that would be an improvement.The responsibilities of the new department are certainly better defined. As this bill is introduced, with the importance it is […]
Security certificate process a violation of the rule of law and judicial process, says Sen. Lynch-Staunton
While in separate appearances before the Special Senate Committee on the Anti- Terrorism Act, both the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and the Minister of Justice demonstrated convincingly that the more contentious provisions in the Act – investigative hearing orders and preventive detention, in particular – have been used sparingly, if at all. […]
AND THEN THERE’S STEPHEN
National Conservatives’ Media Vacation… There was a decidedly festive spirit among Hill media as they began flocking to Montreal last Wednesday for the Conservative Party policy convention. Whether it resulted in any long lasting positive attitude towards the opposition and its leader remains to be seen, but it is the first time in a long […]
Karygiannis wants Canada to give $1.7-million to Guyana
Five-term Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis, who recently returned from the South American country of Guyana, is urging the federal government to immediately donate $1.7-million to help the tiny country of about 750,000 people recover from the devastating January floods. Mr. Karygiannis (Scarborough-Agincourt, Ont.), who visited Guyana from Feb. 28 to March 2 on the request […]
McLellan on Air India
Well, I think first of all, it doesn’t speak to Canada’s reputation. As we saw with September the 11 (superscript th) ,tragedies, we saw Madrid, tragedies can happen, acts of terrorism such as this can happen in any country. Even the most developed, the world’s only superpower had to confront this horror on September the […]
Establishing homeland security threats: Parliamentary oversight a must, says NDP MP Comartin
In the post 9/11 world there has been a great preoccupation with terrorism and homeland security. It is said, almost to the point of cliche that the world has changed. Unquestionably, the world has changed since the tragic events of 2001, but, have Canada’s security threats truly increased or are we merely more aware of […]
Getting Bombardier off welfare: The sound you’re hearing: Conservatives cosying up to vote-rich Ontario and Quebec
“It’s getting under my skin the fact that every time that we win a contract and every time that there is anything that’s being said, especially about financing, there’s always somebody somewhere coming out with some nasty remarks that basically we’re at the public trough.” These were the words of Bombardier’s then-CEO Paul Tellier in […]
Lib or Tory majority win would reverse BMD decision
If the Liberals or Conservatives succeed at winning a majority government in the next election, Canada would decide to participate in U.S. President George W. Bush’s ballistic missile defence system, say proponents and opponents of the missile defence program, who also say the minority government was one of the key reasons for the government’s refusal […]
