MacKay has all it takes to be a phenomenal leader: But he doesn’t need party’s dead wood on his back to build party
TORONTO–Will Peter MacKay be the Conservative leader who will turf the Liberals from government? It’s a good question. Too many federal pundits have already quickly dismissed MacKay. Most answered this question by giving the thumbs down to the newly-elected leader. But I think the jury’s still out. Most of the smarty-pants pundits were caught off […]
PM to attend his last Gallery Dinner
On Saturday afternoon, Jean Chretien will likely put on his shirt, bow-tie and tuxedo, shine his shoes and tuck one of the year’s most highly-anticipated speeches into his inside breast pocket before setting off to the National Arts Centre for his final Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner as Prime Minister of Canada. Don Martin, a columnist […]
“Will Peter MacKay’s deal with David Orchard help the Liberals in the next federal election?”
Warren Kinsella Liberal strategist “What follows is Warren engaged in a conversation with Warren (something that, sadly, happens too often): “That wily old Paco Francoli… this one is clearly a trick question. It has to be. “I mean, it is so patently obvious that the answer is yes — it is so clear, so self-evident, […]
Last of Liberal Party leadership debates on Saturday
Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner in Ottawa this Saturday night too MONDAY, June 9 House Sitting–The House is sitting this week and is scheduled to remain in session until Friday, June 20. The schedule could change. For more information on the House calendar, please call the Government House Leader’s Office at (613) 952-4930. Senate Sitting–The Senate […]
Grits headed for another divisive vote
The federal government is headed for another clash with several members of its own backbenchers this week as it moves to restore $9-million from Transport Canada’s budget, funding which had been removed by Grit MPs on the House Transport Committee during their annual review of the federal department’s spending priorities. Although this latest showdown is […]
Radwanski hauled before Government Ops
Members of a House of Commons committee have hauled Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski before them to figure out if he tampered with evidence he provided to their committee, something which could put him in contempt of Parliament and possibly cost him his job. The Privacy Commissioner is set to appear before the Government Operations Committee […]
Once again the Prime Minister misses the point: ‘They were attacked. We are part of their coalition against terrorism’: Jean Chretien
WASHINGTON, D.C.–In the midst of the current hissing match between Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the U.S. Administration there is no comment that more epitomizes our differences than Chretien’s off-hand rebuttal of criticism, “We are part of their (emphasis added) coalition against terrorism.” Not “our war against terrorism” or even “the war against terrorism” but […]
Air India is Canada’s enduring shame
It is to Canada’s enduring shame the way successive Canadian governments have displayed political cowardice in the face of the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history, 18 years ago later this month, when Air India Flight 182 blew apart over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985, a date that […]
Masters of their own proceedings
Tory Leader Joe Clark raised a good point last Tuesday in the House of Commons when he said it’s absolutely ludicrous that MPs can’t get the minutes of Commons committee meetings, or the blues, in both official languages, and, promptly. This is a huge problem and it’s been escalating over the past several weeks. It […]
MPs’ and Senators’ Birthdays
*Alliance MP James Moore, 27, June 10, 1976 *Liberal MP Mark Joseph Assad, 63, June 14, 1940 *Independent Sen. Doug Roche, 74, June 14, 1929 *Liberal MP Mauril Belanger, 48, June 15, 1955 *Liberal MP Lucienne Robillard, 58, June 16, 1945 *Ind. Sen. P. Michael Pitfield, 66, June 18, 1937 *Liberal Sen. Rose-Marie Losier-Cool, 66, […]
