What the pundits are saying about Martin’s holdings
The following is an edited transcript of CBC-TV’s The National’s ‘At Issue’ program from Thursday, Feb. 27. The guests were Allan Gregg of the Strategic Counsel, Andrew Coyne, a columnist with the National Post and Toronto Star columnist Chantal Hebert. PETER MANSBRIDGE: Okay. That’s where I want to move this conversation now to, and that’s […]
Canada’s respectable compromise
OTTAWA–While some decried Canada’s policy on the Iraq crisis as fence-sitting, it is ultimately being viewed as seeking a respectable compromise. The Canadian proposal currently circulating at the United Nations, especially among Security Council members, is asking the world community to consider imposing a March 28 deadline for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to completely disarm […]
Senior bureaucrat urges changes to voting system: ‘There is a sense of fatigue about our democratic institutions’: Des Rosiers
OTTAWA–If the government is really serious about restoring faith in the political system, it should seriously consider fixing the distorted way politicians are elected to the House of Commons, says a senior federal official who’s spearheaded a major review of the country’s winner-take-all electoral system. The government is currently in the midst of reforming political […]
West Block liquor store open
I was enjoying your article on MPs’ health in the most recent issue of The Hill Times “House looks into healthier living for MPs on the Hill,” (March 3). You mention that the West Block Liquor store had been shut down. Unless this has happened very recently, I am certain you can still buy beer […]
U.S. and UN global twins
The great fear of multilateralists is that the United Nations will soon become a house divided against itself and thereafter will become an empty shell. This division could happen in either of two ways: France could respond to a Security Council vote in favour of the U.S. resolution that effectively calls for war on Iraq […]
Minister Dhaliwal has been busy shaking up office
OTTAWA–Federal Natural Resources Minister Herb Dhaliwal recently hired three new staffers in his ministerial political office on the Hill. Mr. Dhaliwal hired Franco Iacono as his Quebec assistant last month. Mr. Iacono has replaced Pierre Lacoursiere who has joined the office of Liberal MP Claude Drouin. Mr. Drouin is also Secretary of State for Canada […]
Gordon Wilson was never B.C. Premier
Regarding the Hill Climbers column “Volpe’s staffer proposes to fiancee on Hill in the snow,” (The Hill Times, Feb. 24.) Gordon Wilson was never premier of B.C. He has been, variously, leader of a party he founded, then the B.C. Liberal Party, and finally, a minister in the NDP. Garth Millar Regarding the Hill Climbers […]
America could liberate Iraq without civilian casualties
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has clearly revealed Iraq’s continuing efforts to hide its program to develop biochemical weapons of mass destruction while pretending to cooperate with the UN weapons inspectors. Most experts think that it takes a small amount of laboratory space to develop these bio-chemical weapons of mass destruction. A modern lab […]
Libs may turn leadership into policy convention
OTTAWA–The lack of candidates interested in running for the federal leadership of the Liberal Party threatens not only to take the sizzle out of the race, but could force the party to “refashion” next November’s highly-anticipated convention into a policy convention, says Grit Party President Stephen LeDrew. “If there are insufficient candidates, we’ll have to […]
Forget the slow boat they’ll be jetting to China…
Ottawa Citizen news digger Glen McGregor and his wife Ottawa Citizen columnist Shelley Page are also adding to the Hill’s growing adoption club and will be heading off to China next month to embrace a sister for their daughter Cleo. The McGregors got word of their new baby just before the House rose for the […]
