Last of Liberal Party leadership debates on Saturday
Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner in Ottawa this Saturday night too MONDAY, June 9 House Sitting–The House is sitting this week and is scheduled to remain in session until Friday, June 20. The schedule could change. For more information on the House calendar, please call the Government House Leader’s Office at (613) 952-4930. Senate Sitting–The Senate […]
Canada needs an open and integrated North American transportation system: Alliance MP Moore
PARLIAMENT HILL–The 10th anniversary of the NAFTA recently passed. Canada-U.S. trade is the foundation of our economy, with 43 per cent of our GDP depending upon our trade with the United States, which constitutes 87 per cent of all our exports. Since the signing of NAFTA, Canadian companies have forged into new markets, establishing valuable […]
The Middle East roadmap: No shortage of hard-liners on both sides, only the brave and committed will deliver peace
There is cautious but also growing optimism in the Middle East this week. The credit for it goes to United States President George Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. There is obviously a supporting cast of world leaders who have contributed to this week’s unfolding of historic events. […]
A close call for PM
Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s government nearly suffered a major embarrassment last Tuesday when it came dangerously close to losing a vote on the estimates in the Committee of the Whole, when MPs met in a special sitting in the Commons to grill Justice Minister Martin Cauchon over his department’s spending priorities. Ever quick on the […]
Joe Clark, that’s who
Joe Clark, who will go down in the history books for getting elected leader of the Progressive Conservatives twice and as the youngest Prime Minister in Canadian political history, was celebrated by his Tories and a few Liberals last week in Toronto on the eve of the new leadership. He was acknowledged as one of […]
PM’s pretty well perfect, eh?
TORONTO–So Jean Chretien wants to be a newspaper columnist. To begin with, assuming that his writing style is equal to his convoluted verbal style, he’d certainly need a good editor. Chretien, as you likely know, was spouting off recently on this and other issues aboard the prime ministerial Airbus enroute to a Canada-E.U. summit in […]
Svend’s way
NDP MP Svend Robinson’s private members’ bill, C-250, which would amend the Criminal Code to include “sexual orientation” in the hate propaganda sections, has moved one step closer to receiving Royal Assent. It hasn’t been easy for the openly gay MP from Vancouver, first elected to the Commons in 1979. Mr. Robinson said his bill, […]
House Transport Committee believes it’s time for boldness: Why not raise foreign ownership limits for airlines, asks Grit MP Joe Comuzzi
PARLIAMENT HILL–The transportation industry is facing a number of challenges at the present time. Some are the result of 9/11 and the increased security initiatives that the transport sector has had to put in place. Others are long-term in nature and required long-term policy changes to address them, policy changes that have not been instituted. […]
Canada only G-7 country without a national transit investment: Federal dollars for transit are scarce, rhetoric overflowing: Ottawa Mayor Chiarelli
OTTAWA–Rapid transit is the City of Ottawa’s No. 1 priority. Ottawa’s main roads and highways are clogged at most hours of the day and with a projected population increase of 400,000 people over the next 20 years, there’s fear traffic gridlock will only get worse in the nation’s capital — as it has in so […]
Transport Committee digs in its heels
Government House Leader Don Boudria’s attempt to kill a recommendation made by the Commons Transport Committee to chop $9-million from VIA Rail’s annual budget was dismissed as “pathetic” and disappointing by backbench Liberals last week. The dispute is just the latest sign of how bad relations between the federal Cabinet and Liberal caucus have become […]
