Federal leadership on alternate fuels: fighting poisonous air with hot air: Twice as many North Americans die every year from air pollution than by traffic accidents
PARLIAMENT HILL–North American deaths caused by air pollution each year now equal deaths resulting from breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. We Canadians, of course, are justifiably terrified of breast and prostate cancer. We don’t seem to be nearly as terrified of pollution. If we were, Canada’s politicians would be paying a lot more attention […]
Policy on the Internal Disclosure of Information Concerning Wrongdoing in the Workplace
Effective: Nov. 30, 2001 Definition of wrongdoing in the Internal Disclosure Policy is defined as an act concerning: *a violation of any law or regulation, *misuse of public funds or assets, *gross mismanagement, or *a substantial and specific danger to the life, health and safety of Canadians or the environment. The policy provides employees with […]
Canada must act now in the Congo: It remains to be seen what Canada will do to take lead to help bring order, avoid genocide
Canada must act and act now in the Congo. For all its talk of wanting to be there when it counts, the time is now for Canada to take the lead and muster an international response to the daily killings and impending genocide in the Congo. Prime Minister Jean Chretien seemed to realize the urgency […]
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 […]
Bloc wants environmental assessment mechanisms: But things fall apart when government proposes creating a federal coordinator
PARLIAMENT HILL–I would like to remind the House that for Quebec, environmental assessment is a very important matter. Why? It is of course because Quebec adopted its own legislation back in the early 1990s. You must realize that it is perfectly legitimate for the Bloc Quebecois and the various successive governments of Quebec to ensure […]
Court judge as editor
TORONTO–Author Stephen Williams has written two books already about the infamous murderers/rapists Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. I haven’t read either one, and have no interest in reading a book about those monsters. That having been said, however, Williams has every right to publish as many books as he wants to on Bernardo and Homolka, […]
Blues backlog
Getting transcripts of House of Commons committee proceedings in a timely fashion has become a major pain for Hill reporters, MPs and staffers who find the minutes invaluable. That’s in large part because of the marathon sessions the Commons Aboriginal Affairs Committee has been holding over the past month to get through its review of […]
It’s time to take action on air pollution: NDP MP Comartin: Government needs to enact a Clean Air Act, standards for air pollutants and emissions
In less than one month, summer officially begins and with it the prospect of increased “smog days.” In Canada 16,000 people will die prematurely as a result of air pollution and 5,000 of those directly from smog. Last year, there were record number of smog days throughout Canada with the bulk of those days occurring […]
Silly season has come, mother
Countdown to summer…We’re just back from a week off and already the talk is turning to when the next break will beand for how long. We are now into the final stretch of the spring session, during which the Commons is scheduled to sit for five weeks until June 20, when it is scheduled to […]
Merger talks ‘not a priority, nor a fixation’: Peter MacKay says Tory brand is best for uniting conservatives across the country/Merging with Alliance would be ‘kiss of death’: Orchard/Prentice: Canada’s sovereignty is no.1 priority/’There is a latent desire for change in Canada’: Brison/Chandler: ‘We need to get our party together with the Alliance’
Tory MP Peter MacKay, 37, is his party’s former House leader and represents the Nova Scotia riding of Pictou- Antigonish-Guysborough. Mr. MacKay has 1,166 delegates or 41.8 per cent of the vote. Son of former Brian Mulroney Cabinet minister Elmer MacKay. What would be your top three priorities as new leader of the Progressive Conservative […]
