On the subject of a Museum of Politics…
It seems no-one understands why Prime Minister Jean ChrZtien thinks coughing up $100-million of our money for a museum of politics is a good legacy move, or why Heritage Minister Sheila Copps thinks announcing this move last week will help her leadership bid. Count me among the confused. Mind you, I’d be for the idea […]
No museum in Canada puts spotlight on political history
Governing Grits say the recently-announced Canadian politics and history museum won’t unduly highlight the milestones of the Liberal Party and its prime ministers in political history, despite concerns from one of the country’s leading museum presidents. Liberal MP Carole-Marie Allard (Laval East, Que.), Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and a member of […]
House Transport Committee believes it’s time for boldness: Why not raise foreign ownership limits for airlines, asks Grit MP Joe Comuzzi
PARLIAMENT HILL–The transportation industry is facing a number of challenges at the present time. Some are the result of 9/11 and the increased security initiatives that the transport sector has had to put in place. Others are long-term in nature and required long-term policy changes to address them, policy changes that have not been instituted. […]
Anger management: dealing with the ‘take-your-policy and-shove-it’ problem and other PR foibles
Anybody can become angry — that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. –Aristotle Unrestrained fury, blood-vessel popping rage, wrathful indignation […]
Is e-consultation everything it’s cracked up to be? MPs debate merits of on-line consultations and reconnecting Parliament with Canadians
A guru on the future of technology and government, professor Stephen Coleman, believes that, “Parliament’s role is emerging as that of a mediator between the voice of the public and government.” At a recent round of engagements in Ottawa, the former first e-envoy of the British Parliament and current professor of e-government at Oxford University […]
Federal government lacks political will to use fuel tax revenues: Ottawa’s reluctance to break its dependency on fuel tax as a general revenue supplement
CALGARY–Organizations as diverse as the TD Bank, Canada West Foundation, Van Horne Institute and the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation all point to the lack of federal infrastructure funding for cities as a major threat to the continued economic health of our major cities and, by extension, our country. The federal government has at its disposal the […]
Apologies to the Glebies…
To residents of the Glebe who are not thrilled that the Ex will be around for at least one more year, more bad news. Richard Mahoney’s big summer barbecue is back with a vengeance. And apparently The Hill Times is to blame. In The Hill Times’ annual Hillites magazine an item on hot parties, I […]
Crawford joins Bill Graham’s Hill office as manager: Liberal MP Kraft Sloan hires a new LA
Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham has hired a new office manager for his MP’s Hill office. Lisa Crawford started her new job as manager of Mr. Graham’s Hill office last month. She has succeeded Carrie Wilson who currently has moved to Spain where she is studying Spanish and travelling throughout Europe. She also plans to […]
What Canadians need to know about mad cow disease: Over 2.8 million kilograms of potentially contaminated material was imported after 1996
Mad Cow disease, or its scientific name Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal brain-wasting disease in cattle which was first identified in the United Kingdom in 1986. No one knows for sure how the first cow (or cows) got BSE, but we know it spread throughout Britain and eventually the world through the cannibalistic […]
Zen and the art of lobbying…
HT columnist Sean Moore is on a sabbatical from his post as public policy adviser at Gowling Lafleur Henderson, officially to catch up on some fishing and reading and recharge the old batteries. Semiofficially, he’ll also be getting started on a book on lobbying with W.T. (Bill) Stanbury, professor emeritus at UBC and author of […]
