Fed up with Libs
Is it not time to make our elected officials accountable for their action? A Cabinet minister sells Canadians on the idea of gun control at a cost of $2-million. The cost to taxpayers escalates to $865-million. The minister now has a new job and accepts no responsibility. Who is running the show? Who is ultimately […]
Budget notes…
Budget notes… All eyes seem to be looking to Feb. 25 — the traditional “last Tuesday in February” — for Finance Minister John Manley’s first budget. Some of Mr. Manley’s thunder will likely be stolen this week, however. If he is true to form, Mr. Chretien will stamp his name all over the healthcare issue […]
This week [in Parliament]
The Senate returns this week, while the House continues work on a number of bills, including Bill C-6, an Act to Establish a Centre for the Resolution of First Nations’ Specific Claims, and Bill C-20, which proposes to close several loopholes in child pornography laws and increases the maximum jail time for abandoning a child […]
Really, we’re just like you: It is occasionally useful to celebrate similarities between U.S. and Canada
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Throughout most of last year, Canada and the United States celebrated differences. Indeed, we have belaboured them, sometimes in pointedly political terms. Examining differences is useful and helpful; after all, even identical twins raised together will have clear differences to a discerning observer. And U.S. diplomats have been cautioned for years that saying, “You’re […]
Diverse opinions in media?
TORONTO–A funny thing is happening at the God channel. People are taking notice of it. It’s not really the God channel, of course. It’s Crossroads Television Systems, or CTS. And, as the name implies, it is licensed under CRTC’s religious programming, broadly defined by them as “anything directly relating to, inspired by, arising by, or […]
Reynolds vows ‘a rocky winter session’: Committee travel sacrificed until private members’ business dispute resolved
Alliance House Leader John Reynolds has vowed to continue blocking most standing committees from travelling and to delay the government’s agenda at every turn, in protest over a decision by the Procedures and House Affairs Committee to tie up a proposal to make all private members’ bills votable. In a letter circulated to all MPs […]
Jaded about Chretien’s campaign finance bill
Canadians should be upset with a Prime Minister using flawed electoral reform legislation as tool to maintain his control of the Liberal Party. On the surface, we all agree that the influence of money needs to be removed from Parliament, but such a move should not create a further tax burden for the voters. As […]
Beer and ballots…
Beer and ballots… In olden times, politicians were allowed to get their constituents drunk on Election Day in order to obtain their vote. Alas no more. However, there is still a link between beer and politics, according to a contract abstract currently posted on the Government’s Merx website. The contract calls for collapsible voting compartments […]
Public Accounts
In a rare occurrence, a member of the opposition got to answer a question during Question Period last Wednesday. Replying to a question posed by colleague Garry Breitkreuz, Alliance MP John Williams announced that the Public Accounts Committee — which he chairs — has called on a number of high-profile witnesses to shed some light […]
Banning corporate donations a big mistake
Regarding “Corporate ban a mistake: Grit MP Discepola,” (The Hill Times, Jan. 27). Quebec Liberal MP Nick Discepola is right. Banning corporate and union donations to political parties and/or candidates would be a mistake. It would make political party funding dependent on the government of the day, a very bad idea. And it would limit […]
