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 […]
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 […]
Young Turk finds new Tory home…
A decade ago, a young university student by the name of Genevieve Breton was working away in junior jobs in the office of then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Today, the recently married Genevieve Breton-O’Brien is press secretary for Peter MacKay’s Tory leadership campaign. In the intervening years she has led an interesting life in political […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Martin’s company is really a foreign company: Stark
OTTAWA–Paul Martin, the former federal finance minister and the front-runner in the leadership race of the Liberal Party, should sell Canada Steamship Lines to show Canadians that he wants the job of Prime Minister and is willing to perform it without facing future problems of any real or apparent conflicts of interest, says an academic, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Treasury Board’s lost control: Grit MP Alcock
OTTAWA–Liberal MP Reg Alcock, chair of the new Government Operations Committee, plans to call Treasury Board officials to the mat when Parliament resumes next Monday to find out why the government insists on tabling spending plans for the upcoming fiscal year that are regularly off by billions of dollars. On Feb. 16, Treasury Board President […]
