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 […]
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 […]
American won’t be summering in Canada
As an American who has always had a warm feeling for Canada and Canadians, having spent parts of six of the last eight summers in Canada, I am shocked at the anti-American attitudes within Canada. When Canadian officials and staff call Americans the names of recent, I have to revise my opinion of Canada. My […]
Canada’s respectable compromise
OTTAWA–While some decried Canada’s policy on the Iraq crisis as fence-sitting, it is ultimately being viewed as seeking a respectable compromise. The Canadian proposal currently circulating at the United Nations, especially among Security Council members, is asking the world community to consider imposing a March 28 deadline for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to completely disarm […]
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. […]
Martin must shoulder some blame
Paul Martin has been wandering around Canada for the past year, like some latter day Moses, telling how he will lead us to the Promised Land. He proclaims he brought fiscal stability to Canada and balanced the federal budget. Never mentioned is how: *By raising $45-billion from the workers of Canada and their employers through […]
U.S. and UN global twins
The great fear of multilateralists is that the United Nations will soon become a house divided against itself and thereafter will become an empty shell. This division could happen in either of two ways: France could respond to a Security Council vote in favour of the U.S. resolution that effectively calls for war on Iraq […]
Teaching world about Canada a never-ending job for DFAIT: ‘In Italy, we never think about Canada’
OTTAWA–Canada has long been seen by our neighbours down south and overseas as a country populated by hewers of wood and drawers of water. But Canada is actually a high-tech leader, or so the government has been determined to prove through various awarenessraising programs over the years. One of these rolled into town last week. […]
Campaign finance reform bill wrong
Prime Minister Jean Chretien wants to force all Canadian taxpayers to finance political parties whether they want to or not. That’s the upshot of his so-called campaign finance reform bill recently introduced into the House of Commons. Chretien’s plan, which will cost Canadian taxpayers about $30-million a year, is wrong for a lot of reasons. […]
Their ship has come in, finally…
For the past decade, the Canadian Alliance, formerly Reform, has hammered away at Paul Martin and his ownership of CSL, one of the world’s bigger shipping lines. The Honourable Member for Medicine Hat, Monte Solberg, has been particularly aggressive in this regard. For a decade the issue failed to catch on. Mr. Martin was up […]
