Today, 80 per cent of Israelis want peace and most are willing to trade land for peace than ever before in the Middle East
TEL AVIV–Israel’s peace movement, generically referred to as “the Left,” was dealt a major blow when the intifada began in October 2000. In res-ponse to Palestinians’ rejection of then-prime minister Ehud Barak’s peace offer at Camp David, and the ensuing wave of suicide bombings, Israeli politics shifted radically right-ward, and support for the peace movement […]
Guit&ea;’s been through this before, Mulroney years too
Chuck Guite, one of two public servants fingered by the Auditor General as having “broken just about every rule in the book,” in awarding controversial government contracts and who is now refusing to testify before a Commons committee, was involved in similar controversies during former prime minister Brian Mulroney’s years in power too. Last week, […]
Martin’s exit bad for Liberals
When there are two leaders and both are convinced they are right, the end result is that the organization they belong to will be destroyed. Both Prime Minister Jean Chretien and former minister of finance Paul Martin are convinced they’re right. To make matters worse, it looks like they both really are right. Let’s see. […]
PM Chr&ea;tien keeps eye on Grit enemies: ‘People underestimate the Prime Minister’
Prime Minister Jean Chretien has apparently been preparing to deal with former finance minister Paul Martin’s exit from Cabinet for months, say Liberal sources who also say the Prime Minister will wage a fierce public relations war against his former colleague-turned-foe over the next few months and is keeping his eye on MPs who support […]
Cabinet ministerial staffers to pick up lobbying slack: ethics: ‘We just want to protect our bosses’: Minister’s EA
Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s new ethics package limiting the contact ministers have with the country’s many Crown corporations is bound to place ministerial staffers in ethically-compromising situations, opposition MPs argued last week. Under the new rules, ministers will no longer be able to contact heads of Crown corporations which don’t fall under their control on […]
Some of the top spenders in the House of Commons
Top 10 Staff/Riding Office Expenses 1. Liberal MP Nancy Karetak-Lindell (Nunavut, Nunavut) – $245,902 2. Alliance MP Scott Reid (Lanark-Carleton, Ont.) – $237,950 3. Liberal MP Reginald Belair (Timmins-James Bay, Ont.) – $234,892 4. Liberal MP Rick Laliberte (Churchill River, Sask.) – $232,628 5. Liberal MP Joe Comuzzi (Thunder Bay-Superior North, Ont.) – $226,943 6. […]
Unhealthy Grit split
Former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna was on ROBTV last week and told The Bottom Line’s host, Michael Vaughan, that the current split in the federal Liberal Party is actually healthy for the party. Now a practising lawyer, a member of several corporate boards and a high-flyer, Mr. McKenna, who is widely believed to be […]
Don’t like your Lib list: MP Macklin
I write today with regards to a list of ‘supporters’ of the Prime Minister, and former finance minister Paul Martin, respectively, painted in a divisive light in the June 10 issue of The Hill Times. I would like to stress that currently there is no formal leadership race in the Liberal Party of Canada, and […]
Jean Chr&ea;tien’s long-term plan
It is surprising the former finance minister Paul Martin has only now recognized what has been long self-evident outside of the bureaucratic mindset of Ottawa. The country has been drifting for years. The Chretien government drifted into the Quebec referendum just like they are now drifting through the shutdown of our softwood lumber industry and […]
PM to steamroller over any demons that get in his way
Never have so many, owed so much… Deputy Prime Minister John Manley’s tribute to his boss at the Grits’ big Ottawa fundraising dinner last Thursday night could have been summed up by changing the last words of Winston Churchill’s famous Battle of Britain quote from “to so few” to “to one man.” Mr. Manley waxed […]
