House Natural Resources Committee to look into dormant mining exploration
Members of the Natural Resources and Government Operations may be excused for feeling torn between two important issues, since they are charged with overseeing not only the vast array of issues related to Canada’s resource industries, including forestry, mining and energy, but also the business of government itself. With very little in the way of […]
Federal government’s unilateral decisions alienate mining exploration stakeholders
The natural resources sector is the backbone of our Canadian economy. I believe that the federal government and Parliamentarians have an important role in creating an environment where the responsible development of our resources can flourish. The natural resources sector makes an important contribution to the Canadian economy. The mining industry accounts for $26.5-billion of […]
Health Canada creates new Natural Health Products Office
The federal Health Department is slowly hiring staffers to head up the new $7-million Natural Health Products Office and recently named a naturopathic practitioner to lead it into the new century. After years of the Canadian public seeking a means of circumventing the doctor’s prescription pad — creating a $2-billion-a-year industry in the process — […]
Government information management in a crisis: John Reid says chaos undermines archives
The fight for more access to government information is useless if the federal government can’t sort out its thousands of files stored in buildings across the country, warns the country’s top access to information guru who described the situation as a “crisis.” “I cannot overstate the point: Information management in government is in crisis. The […]
Clarity Bill “major cause of concern” says chief
The chief of the Assembly of First Nations, who has been talking with Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Stephane Dion’s office about the government’s controversial Clarity Bill, says the latest national unity debate between Canada and Quebec is a “major cause of concern” for the 43 First Nations in Quebec. Phil Fontaine said although he partially endorses […]
Liberal party pollster says Internet not all it’s cracked up to be [E-politics not as profitable as e-commerce, voters not flocking to the Internet]
Despite all the hype around the Internet for business and communications, the Web is not the best way to spend campaign resources, says the Liberals’ top party pollster. Mike Marzolini says voters are not flocking to the Internet for their political information. “Is anybody using this information to make their electoral decision?” said Mr. Marzolini […]
Rabinovitch can tell CRTC where to stick its latest interference
The best thing about having a man head your organization who understands just how government works is that, well, he understands how government works. That is why CBC President Robert Rabinovitch, a veteran senior federal bureaucrat, knows that he can get away with telling the CRTC where to stick their latest attempt to interfere in […]
Powerful new chief justice of Supreme Court opens up
Cristin Schmitz, Parliamentary bureau chief for The Lawyers Weekly, recently interviewed Canada’s new Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin on CPAC. Schmitz: The Supreme Court is currently in the midst of one of the greatest shifts in personnel in its history. In the last two years, we had three new judges: Justice Ian Binnie, Michael […]
Quebec Liberal leader can’t get a break from Bouchard’s good luck
Political life in the Old Capital is at a near standstill at this time of year. The National Assembly is closed. Politicians are away, well those who can be and that’s pretty well all of them. Lucien Bouchard and Jean Charest are just back from their Christmas holidays. The Liberal leader pretty well stayed home, […]
Behind the back-door bidding at Government Service’s Consulting & Auditing Canada
Charges of favouritism, bureaucratic patronage and corruption seem inevitable as a result of Consulting and Audit Canada’s current contracting practices. Despite continued efforts by CAC to suppress and delay Access to Information requests, my year-long investigation has revealed that this Public Works and Government Services special operating agency is acting as a private sector contract […]
