Sir John Abbott was Canada’s third PM
Regarding “The ‘You’re a Great Canadian’ Canada Day Quiz 2003,” (The Hill Times, June 30). Just a quick remark, aside from really enjoying the quiz. I noticed a mistake in the answer to question #14. John Abbott was Canada’s third Prime Minister, after John A. Macdonald and Alexander Mackenzie, not the 2nd PM Just thought […]
Cocktail reception with Minister Allan Rock this week
GG’s free summer concert series to continue in July, variety of musical performers MONDAY, JULY 7 House Sitting–The House has adjourned for the summer for a 13-week break and is scheduled to return on Monday, Sept. 15. For more information on the House’s schedule, please contact the Government House Leader’s Office at (613) 952-4930. Cocktail […]
Why Congress of Aboriginal Peoples supports Nault’s bill: This legislation is about change, transparency and accountability
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) is a national Aboriginal organization made up of provincial and territorial organizations (PTOs), which represents and advocates for the rights of off-reserve Indians (status and non-status) and Metis living in urban, rural and remote areas throughout Canada. In April, 2001, Minister Nault launched the First Nations Governance Initiative (FNGI), […]
Copps’ staffer Boyer denies a conflict of interest in new job
Charles Boyer, 38, executive assistant to Canadian Heritage Minister Sheila Copps, who will be leaving his job in the minister’s political office next month for a job as vice-president of external and government relations for the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, denies he will be in a conflict of interest in his new post. Mr. Boyer’s […]
Happy Radwanski’s gone
I hope former Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski gets an ulcer from all those drinks and rich foods he digested. To think that seniors have to pay taxes to feed people like this is outrageous. Chris McKeating Mississauga, Ont. I hope former Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski gets an ulcer from all those drinks and rich foods […]
Radwanski take II
Lost in all the media coverage of the George Radwanksi story in the last few weeks was a more detailed, complete picture of just how important and pivotal a role the House Government Operations and Estimates Committee played. The committee’s actions represent a critical turning point in Parliamentary history. The Government Ops Committee, in one […]
BN Hill reporter Dan Dugas was ‘funniest speaker’ of all
‘I don’t think the others combined, made me laugh as much:’ Don Macdonald Regarding “Some winners and some stinkers at Press Gallery Dinner,” (The Hill Times, June 23). I have had a chance to watch this year’s Press Gallery Dinner on CPAC and must say I found Broadcast News’ Dan Dugas to be the funniest […]
Noteworthy and notable quotes on Bill C-7
“This Indian Act was never ours. You do not modernize colonialization. You reject it. There’s no Indian Act for Italians, East Indians or Jews.” –AFN National Chief Matthew Coon Come, The Globe and Mail, May 5, 2003. “Given that the Member for LaSalle-Emard has said that if he became Prime Minister he would not proclaim […]
Unhappy Radwanski’s gone
The first question we should all ask ourselves about the Radwanski affair is why it took so long to figure out Mr. Radwanski had expensive tastes. It seems to me that the Privacy Commissioner was doing a good job of protecting Canadians. He was the only person taking those cowardly Liberals to task for passing […]
Integrity of the institution
Former Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski apparently once threatened that if he ever found the “rat” who tipped off the Government Operations and Estimates Committee, their careers in the public service would be over. This is an irony today. And although the George Radwanski scandal has done some serious damage to the integrity of the Office […]
