Patrick Watson’s elitist idea
TORONTO–Globe and Mail columnist Roy MacGregor called it “an idea almost too easy to ridicule.” The National Post wrote, “nothing dies harder than a bad idea.” Whatever you call it, former CBC chairman Patrick Watson’s proposal for a “public” newspaper is both extraordinarily stupid, because it wouldn’t sell, and strikingly arrogant, because Watson assumes the […]
Time for Martin to answer questions
Paul Martin garners 124 to 127 MPs for support. These same elected Liberal MPs have either been brain washed, or promised greater things for this support. I cannot imagine anyone supporting the new “emperor,” when Martin has little or no opinion on any subject. He has not spoken out about his stance on gun control […]
Post’s ‘Dead Pool’ list gets bigger
The Dead Pool?… The last thing Paul Wells did after quitting as the National Post’s marquee Ottawa columnist last Wednesday morning was to leave a message on his bureau answering machine announcing that he no longer worked at the paper and that friends could reach him at home, but he wouldn’t be “too helpful” to […]
Missile defence: Copps and Axworthy get it wrong: Some Liberals want safety and sanctimony, snuggling under U.S. blanket
WASHINGTON, D.C.–In 1995, with the impending departure of foreign minister Andre Ouellette from DFAIT, thoughts at the U.S. Embassy turned to his replacement. It appeared as if Lloyd Axworthy, the Liberals’ foreign affairs critic during the Mulroney era, was to be anointed. Having served diligently, if unmemorably, in the purgatory of the Human Resources Development […]
‘Time to give Paul Martin the keys to party’: Mills
TORONTO–Toronto veteran Liberal MP Dennis Mills, who at one time contemplated running for the Grit leadership and then dropped out, is now throwing his support behind the party’s juggernaut, Paul Martin. In an exclusive interview with The Hill Times, Mr. Mills said he also now wonders what the point of the Liberal leadership race really […]
McSweeney, Goldenberg, Hartley, Munson, Wackid, Macerollo, Armour, Prest, Yanover and Murphy are the tops
Drum roll, please. The No. 1 Terrific Twenty-Five Staffer on Parliament Hill is the Canadian Alliance’s Eastern Ontario outreach coordinator Colin McSweeney. Really. The outgoing Hill staffer, easily took top spot in total votes cast in the all-around terrific category in the third annual “The Hill Times Terrific Twenty-Five Staffers” third annual survey. Colin McSweeney […]
Hey Paul, speak up
Paul Martin wants to have it both ways. He claims he cannot be held responsible for tax-evading tactics used by his company Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) when he was Finance Minister, but wishes to claim the of CSL’s success as an international company as an example of the kind of leadership he can provide if […]
You call this a leadership race?
Commentators covering the Liberal leadership debate in Edmonton last weekend unanimously decreed that it was boring and bland, if not comatose and constipated. Except for one shot by Deputy Prime Minister John Manley at former finance minister Paul Martin over who had contributed how much to Martin’s campaign, nobody said anything much about anything or, […]
Martinites bristle over coup, putsch accusations
MPs who support Paul Martin are bristling over accusations that they’re working behind the scenes to slow or kill Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s legislative legacy agenda last week. The accusations surfaced a day after more than 100 MPs and Senators who back Mr. Martin crowded into a local arena on the home turf of leadership […]
Martin’s on the road to Sussex Drive
Regarding the recent story in newspapers about Paul Martin slamming New Brunswick Tories in his bid to boost Liberal election prospects, I just want to say, as Finance Minister Paul Martin cut federal transfer payments and initiated the healthcare crisis without consulting the provinces. Is his conversion to preaching that “political leaders have to be […]
