Patry won’t run for party’s presidency
OTTAWA–Francoise Patry, a potential candidate for the presidency of the Liberal Party of Canada, has decided not to enter the race due to an illness in the family. Ms. Patry, who is married to Liberal MP Bernard Patry (Pierrefonds-Dollard, Que.), told The Hill Times last week that she won’t run because her mother is ill. […]
Yanks, Americans
Regarding Gene M. Simon’s letter to the editor last week in The Hill Times (March 3) from Williamsville, N.Y. Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish’s comment was far too broad. I have great American friends although, from his tone, I doubt that Mr. Simon could ever qualify. From whom or what would he defend Canada? Millions around […]
What does Martin think?
While there has been widespread coverage of Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish’s ignorant anti-American outburst – part of a shameful crescendo of similar insults being hurled at our neighbours by Liberals – there has been one glaring oversight. To wit: what does Prime-Minister-in-waiting Paul Martin think of all this? Not to mention Sheila Copps and John […]
Easter hires a new staffer
Solicitor General Wayne Easter recently hired a new legislative assistant. Meredith Naylor joined Mr. Easter’s office as legislative assistant last month. Before Ms. Naylor joined the office, Ken Moreau, senior policy adviser to Mr. Easter, was performing the duties of legislative assistant. A native of Pictou, N.S., Ms. Naylor received her BA in English from […]
Martin’s choice
Originally, when the Ottawa Citizen, to its credit, broke the story on Feb. 17 that multimillionaire and Liberal leadership candidate Paul Martin had been briefed over the years by the Prime Minister’s ethics counsellor while he was finance minister on his multinational shipping company, Canada Steamship Lines, The Hill Times thought the story said more […]
It’s a phoney baloney world, I tell ya
TORONTO–What an interesting political year 2003 is shaping up to be, what with upcoming municipal and provincial elections and the changes of leadership at the federal level. But to get an idea of how freakishly phony and hypocritical this business can be, just take a look at the crowd at last week’s Heritage Dinner, the […]
Canada-U.S. name-calling
Regarding last week’s letter to the editor “Parrish’s lack of upbringing” (The Hill Times, March 3). Would someone please remind letter-writer Gene M. Simon of Williamsville, N.Y. that Canadians were fighting Hitler (and dying) for two years before the United States decided to get in the game, and then, only because of Pearl Harbour, and […]
Young Turk finds new Tory home…
A decade ago, a young university student by the name of Genevieve Breton was working away in junior jobs in the office of then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Today, the recently married Genevieve Breton-O’Brien is press secretary for Peter MacKay’s Tory leadership campaign. In the intervening years she has led an interesting life in political […]
It’s personal now: Parrish’s appalling comments
WASHINGTON, D.C.– “Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.” Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish This really should be a “more in sorrow than in anger” column. Somewhere there should be a residual memory that a diplomat, even an ancien diplomat , speaks and writes in modulated tones expressing regret for misunderstanding. We should respond in calm dulcet […]
Not so free estimates…
Time was when the government’s spending estimates were a news bonanza — a veritable feast of stories just awaiting for the picking. The lock-up for their release a couple of days or so after the budget was a major event. A combination of factors has taken a lot of the oomph out of the estimates […]
