Maloney’s riding disappears, Whelan fights to keep farming area: MPs, Cabinet ministers plead their cases to Subcommittee on Electoral Boundaries Committee
A flurry of Ontario Liberal MPs, where the governing Liberals hold 98 of the 103 seats, has descended upon the Procedure and House Affairs Subcommittee on Electoral Boundaries on the Hill armed with maps, pens, pencils — and their own ideas about how the Ontario electoral map should be redrawn. The committee is hearing presentations […]
Wayne’s world response
Regarding your editorial, “Wayne’s world,” (The Hill Times, May 19). Isn’t it interesting to note about three per cent of the correspondence received by Tory MP Elsie Wayne regarding her recent comments about homosexuals in the House expressed views contrary to hers, while about 97 per cent are in agreement with her. Russell Crosby Fredericton, […]
On the subject of a Museum of Politics…
It seems no-one understands why Prime Minister Jean ChrZtien thinks coughing up $100-million of our money for a museum of politics is a good legacy move, or why Heritage Minister Sheila Copps thinks announcing this move last week will help her leadership bid. Count me among the confused. Mind you, I’d be for the idea […]
Is e-consultation everything it’s cracked up to be? MPs debate merits of on-line consultations and reconnecting Parliament with Canadians
A guru on the future of technology and government, professor Stephen Coleman, believes that, “Parliament’s role is emerging as that of a mediator between the voice of the public and government.” At a recent round of engagements in Ottawa, the former first e-envoy of the British Parliament and current professor of e-government at Oxford University […]
What’s behind PM’s motives?
Regarding “PMO’s Quebec staffer working hard on Campaign Finance Bill,” (The Hill Times, May 26). I understand that part of Pierre Brodeur’s new job in the PMO is to explain Bill C-24, the Prime Minister’s Political Finance Bill. He is and I quote “trying to ensure that everybody understands the reasons why we are doing […]
Anger management: dealing with the ‘take-your-policy and-shove-it’ problem and other PR foibles
Anybody can become angry — that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. –Aristotle Unrestrained fury, blood-vessel popping rage, wrathful indignation […]
Crawford joins Bill Graham’s Hill office as manager: Liberal MP Kraft Sloan hires a new LA
Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham has hired a new office manager for his MP’s Hill office. Lisa Crawford started her new job as manager of Mr. Graham’s Hill office last month. She has succeeded Carrie Wilson who currently has moved to Spain where she is studying Spanish and travelling throughout Europe. She also plans to […]
MPs’ and Senators’ Birthdays
*Liberal MP Maurizio Bevilaqua, 43, June 1, 1960 *Liberal MP Aileen Carroll, 59, June 1,1944 *Bloc MP Pierre Paquette, 48, June 1, 1955 *Liberal MP David Price, 58, June 2,1945 *Liberal MP John Harvard, 65, June 4, 1938 *Bloc MP Bernard Bigras, 34, June 4, 1969 *Right Hon. Joe Clark, 64, June 5, 1939 *Alliance […]
Apologies to the Glebies…
To residents of the Glebe who are not thrilled that the Ex will be around for at least one more year, more bad news. Richard Mahoney’s big summer barbecue is back with a vengeance. And apparently The Hill Times is to blame. In The Hill Times’ annual Hillites magazine an item on hot parties, I […]
“Who or what do you think should be highlighted in the new $90-million Canada History Centre to be located in Ottawa’s old train station?”
Warren Kinsella Liberal strategist “Oh, this one is going to be fun. “There are the obvious political exhibits, of course: Pierre Trudeau’s canoe. Dief’s desk from the House of Commons. Mike Pearson’s bowtie. Jean Chretien’s water ski from the summer of 1993. “But there are also the less-obvious exhibits, once again with a decidedly political […]
