Latest AG report speaks to frustrations of MPs: Audited departmental performance reports show MPs, Senators get bad information
Last week, Auditor General Sheila Fraser reported that the federal government departments continue to provide bad information in their annual performance reports which are normally tabled in the fall. Of the nine departments her team of auditors looked at — whose mandates are geared towards protecting Canadians from organized crime and terrorism – all had […]
Wayne’s world response
Regarding your editorial, “Wayne’s world,” (The Hill Times, May 19). Isn’t it interesting to note about three per cent of the correspondence received by Tory MP Elsie Wayne regarding her recent comments about homosexuals in the House expressed views contrary to hers, while about 97 per cent are in agreement with her. Russell Crosby Fredericton, […]
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 […]
Collenette: top priorities are airline industry, Bill C-26 and C-27: Federal Transport Minister David Collenette covers plenty of ground
Transport Minister David Collenette is defending his Straight Ahead document which is considered visionary and a first attempt to overhaul the federal government’s transportation policy, despite the fact that transport industry insiders say more money must flow into infrastructure and transit projects three months after the document was released. “That’s not really a criticism obviously. […]
What’s behind PM’s motives?
Regarding “PMO’s Quebec staffer working hard on Campaign Finance Bill,” (The Hill Times, May 26). I understand that part of Pierre Brodeur’s new job in the PMO is to explain Bill C-24, the Prime Minister’s Political Finance Bill. He is and I quote “trying to ensure that everybody understands the reasons why we are doing […]
Eggleton works on comeback
Eggs sunny side up… Former defence minister Art Eggleton is working his way back to the bacon, and word is he just might get his place back at the Cabinet table once the regime change has taken place. Eggs has been busy raising his profile, attending media and political functions on and around the Hill […]
A close call for PM
Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s government nearly suffered a major embarrassment last Tuesday when it came dangerously close to losing a vote on the estimates in the Committee of the Whole, when MPs met in a special sitting in the Commons to grill Justice Minister Martin Cauchon over his department’s spending priorities. Ever quick on the […]
MPs’ and Senators’ Birthdays
*Liberal MP Maurizio Bevilaqua, 43, June 1, 1960 *Liberal MP Aileen Carroll, 59, June 1,1944 *Bloc MP Pierre Paquette, 48, June 1, 1955 *Liberal MP David Price, 58, June 2,1945 *Liberal MP John Harvard, 65, June 4, 1938 *Bloc MP Bernard Bigras, 34, June 4, 1969 *Right Hon. Joe Clark, 64, June 5, 1939 *Alliance […]
Mideast about to face test
One of the most common ways so-called intractable international problems finally get resolved is by artful lying. The opposing sides agree to disagree, or pretend not to notice that the other’s interpretation of key parts of the proposed pact is entirely different from their own, and so allow a momentum to develop that bulldozes aside […]
PM’s ethics bill headed for roadblock: ‘I don’t sense that a majority of the caucus agree with him’: Sen. Grafstein
Another major plank of Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s legacy agenda risks being derailed by members of his own caucus, as several Liberal Senators gear up to challenge new legislation to create an ethics officer for the Red Chamber. The introduction of Bill C-34 last month has been met with near visceral disdain by a number […]
