Question period: who do you think of on Remembrance Day?
I have an uncle, or had an uncle, who I never got to see, quite frankly. I was born after the war and my uncle died in an airplane crash in England and actually, I’ll be placing a wreath for him on Nov. 11 in a ceremony in Brandon. So yeah, my thoughts will be […]
Privy Council Office’s Leadership Network gets a $10m budget boost
The Privy Council Office’s Leadership Network just got a $10-million boost in its budget to study how to rebuild morale and stop the brain drain in the federal bureaucracy, which has been subject to the biggest downsizing in Canadian history. The supplementary estimates tabled by the government two weeks ago, indicate the Leadership Network, the […]
Finance minister defends House Finance Committee: Hargrove says Finance Committee a farcical exercise [Prebudget hearings]
Finance Minister Paul Martin is defending the work of the House Finance Committee as it works on its much-hyped cross-country prebudget consultation process. Mr. Martin (LaSalle- mard, Que.) told The Hill Times that the House Finance Committee, chaired by Liberal MP Maurizio Bevilacqua, is “extremely important” to the Parliamentary process and said it’s one of […]
House may compensate MPs who own second home in Ottawa [Commons Board of Internal Economy]
The Commons Board of Internal Economy is thinking of compensating MPs from outside of the national capital area who buy a second home in Ottawa. The board has been considering the issue since June and it has been studied by a subcommittee of the board. Chief Government Whip Bob Kilger (Stormont-Dundas, Ont.) said the board […]
Reform Party staffer to hit hustings for l’Action democratique du Quebec in Hull: Buzan says Reform and ADQ have a lot in common
Reform Party Hill staffer Mark Buzan will run as a l’Action d mocratique du Qu bec (ADQ) candidate in Hull in the Quebec provincial election. While Mr. Buzan, a member’s assistant to Reform MP Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Alta.), said there are some similarities between Reform and ADQ like their stands on economics and both […]
New democratic model made it hard for Conservatives to vote
As a public service, and in order to fill the dead air and dark news hole left by the media, I humbly submit, with apology for the need to do so, a few obvious but unmentioned explanations of certain phenomena reported following the first ballot results of the Tory party leadership contest. It sometimes seems […]
Solomon wants to end privilege to stall subpoena [MPs protected from appearing in courts to give evidence: private member’s bill]
They can’t run or hide…MPs won’t be able to hide from courts cases on the Hill and will have to watch what they say about the poor if two private members’ bills become law. NDP MP John Solomon brought forward a motion which would end a privilege that protects them from appearing in courts to […]
Charest must campaign like a prime-minister-in-waiting
If Quebecers had to vote today, the Bouchard government would most probably receive a happy message from La Belle Province voters: don’t unpack your bags. We’re keeping you. The forces of good led by No-Referendum-Jean, the man especially drafted to rid the country of the separatists infidels, would be defeated by His Separatist Holiness and […]
$5.3b in new spending but nobody bats an eye
The Liberals have asked for another $5.3-billion in extra spending, pushing the government spending up to $152-billion, yet neither opposition nor the media seemed to notice. Last Thursday, the government tabled the supplementary estimates which appear to slip by the House and the press gallery unread. Under the new spending wish list, the House budget […]
The splendid highs and lows of Conrad Black’s National Post
Like so many other people last Tuesday, I rushed off to my local corner store to plunk down 50 cents for the inaugural copy of the National Post. As you’d expect from a first edition — any edition, actually — the newspaper contained some obvious flaws but also boasted some equally obvious strengths. First, the […]
