Martin’s company is really a foreign company: Stark
OTTAWA–Paul Martin, the former federal finance minister and the front-runner in the leadership race of the Liberal Party, should sell Canada Steamship Lines to show Canadians that he wants the job of Prime Minister and is willing to perform it without facing future problems of any real or apparent conflicts of interest, says an academic, […]
Martin must make a choice
Paul Martin wants to keep his company and run Canada. I think that anyone who had respect for Canada would be willing to consider running Canada to be his or her full-time job. Whether or not Mr. Martin can be trusted to prioritize Canada over his business is irrelevant. Perception is extremely important for those […]
Do newspapers have ghosts?
Maybe. Either that, or we have a hoax on our hands or, even stranger, someone has found a way to keep a real secret in this burg. I’m referring to the http://www.ottawajournal.com web page. Under the banner of the paper that died more than two decades ago, the following message appears: “On September 1st, 2003, […]
Treasury Board’s lost control: Grit MP Alcock
OTTAWA–Liberal MP Reg Alcock, chair of the new Government Operations Committee, plans to call Treasury Board officials to the mat when Parliament resumes next Monday to find out why the government insists on tabling spending plans for the upcoming fiscal year that are regularly off by billions of dollars. On Feb. 16, Treasury Board President […]
What the pundits are saying about Martin’s holdings
The following is an edited transcript of CBC-TV’s The National’s ‘At Issue’ program from Thursday, Feb. 27. The guests were Allan Gregg of the Strategic Counsel, Andrew Coyne, a columnist with the National Post and Toronto Star columnist Chantal Hebert. PETER MANSBRIDGE: Okay. That’s where I want to move this conversation now to, and that’s […]
Cyrus Reporter is leaving the building as of March 24.
It’s time we formed a club… As you may have noticed in F. Abbas Rana’s Hill Climbers last week (March 3), Industry Minister Allan Rock’s long-time right-hand man Cyrus Reporter is leaving for new pastures. What you may not have heard is a key consideration in making the move is that he and wife Joanne […]
A brief history of gun control in Canada, 1867 to 1945: The history of federal government’s efforts to regulate ownership and use of guns
The huge cost overrun on the Canadian Firearms Program and the deadline for registering all firearms (originally Jan. 1, 2003, then extended by six months) has reignited intense controversy over the rationale and efficacy of Canada’s gun controls. But conflict in Canada over regulating firearms is nothing new. It has occurred many times since Confederation. […]
West Block liquor store open
I was enjoying your article on MPs’ health in the most recent issue of The Hill Times “House looks into healthier living for MPs on the Hill,” (March 3). You mention that the West Block Liquor store had been shut down. Unless this has happened very recently, I am certain you can still buy beer […]
Collenette and Dhaliwal on the blower
Time will tell… Staffers for Transport Minister David Collenette and Natural Resources Minister Herb Dhaliwal were quickly on the phone last Monday in response to an item in this column on the possibility of a Cabinet shuffle before the House returns from its March break. I’d suggested that their bosses, along with Intergovernmental Affairs Minister […]
Bills need sunset clauses, urges Grit Senator Banks: ‘Some pieces of legislation are sort of sitting there almost hanging over our heads’
OTTAWA–If the federal government passes a piece of legislation but never bothers to bring it into force, should it be allowed to sit there in suspended animation for years on end? This is a question that has been preying on the mind of Alberta Liberal Senator Tommy Banks who was astonished to learn recently that […]
