Chretien takes a different fork in fiscal road from Bush: Canada will focus on health care, child care, infrastructure and defence
OTTAWA–For the fun of it, let’s look back at just one idea Canadians held for 50 years as the key to their well-being and prosperity. I mean the role and use of deficit financing in managing the economy. From the end of World War II until 1995 and the beginning of Paul Martin’s war against […]
Committee business
British Columbia NDP MP Libby Davies’ lengthy campaign to have Parliament study the country’s sex trade finally paid off. On Feb. 7, the House approved her motion to have the Justice and Human Rights Committee review federal laws relating to solicitation. Chaired by Liberal MP Andy Scott, the committee – which is already undertaking a […]
Happy with Hoy
Regarding Claire Hoy’s column, “Diverse opinions in the media?” (The Hill Times, Feb. 3). This was a pleasure to read. J. Visser R
Media hype anti-Semitism
TORONTO–Maybe it’s just a coincidence. When former prime minister Brian Mulroney told a conference on anti- Semitism in Toronto that Canadians must confront growing anti-Semitism at home and abroad, and that “Israel has, in effect, become the new Jew,” it was front page news. When University of Arizona historian Leonard Dinnerstein, an expert in the […]
Hypocrisy At Its Finest
On April 28, 1998, I stood outside the House of Commons and asked MPs to vote their conscience that night during the controversial vote on Hepatitis C compensation. I was thrown out of the House of Commons following the vote when I clapped sarcastically after witnessing an incredible event. One by one, federal Liberal MPs […]
The Mommy Returns…
Commons Speaker Peter Milliken apparently loves directing Question Period so much, he won’t even let pneumonia keep him away. He took only two days off at the end of January when he came down with the illness and has been at work ever since, even though he is still recovering, says his director of communications […]
Beaumier’s trip to Iraq
Regarding last week’s article, “MP Beaumier says Iraq trip attempt to bring ‘a human face’” (The Hill Times, Feb. 10). Two unanswered questions remain after perusing this article. First, was Colleen Beaumier used as a propaganda tool by the Iraqis? The answer is contained in the text: obviously the Iraqis had very little to do […]
It’s show time for Mr. Manley
TORONTO–When Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister John Manley tells us how the federal government plans to spend more than $170-billion this year in his first budget to be released at 4 p.m. in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Feb. 18, it will be the result of months of complicated talks and the work […]
Call in the Copps to Tim Hortons
The Keystone Copps? There’s a whole lotta head-shaking going on over Heritage Minister Sheila Copps’ decision to run against Paul Martin for Jean Chretien’s job. Is she really so blind, or so full of herself that she really thinks she could even get close enough to see the dust? Is she setting herself up to […]
World order is shifting
OTTAWA–Is there a reconfiguration of alliances taking place on the world scene? Witness the recent, but previously unheard of, public disagreement among NATO military alliance members and continued disagreement among European Union (EU) member states on how to respond to the U.S.-proposed action against Iraq. The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council […]
