Trudeau’s decisive galvanic effect on Nationalism
With his shrug to English Canadians, Trudeau gave us a paradoxical brand of nationalism that flourishes today The puzzle about Pierre Elliot Trudeau – one of his many, if not innumerable, puzzles and paradoxes – is how someone so utterly indifferent to English-Canadian nationalism could have had such a decisive and galvanic effect upon it. […]
Teachers want to know: ‘Are lobbyists necessary?’: Some handy tips of survival with and without a lobbyist in Ottawa
The naming of the session was brilliant: “Lunch with the Lobbyists.” “Lunch” and “lobbyists” — two words, two thoughts, that go together like, like, gin and tonic, or Wayne and Shuster — a perfect pair of nouns that conjure up the perfect stereotype: What do lobbyists do? Of course, they lunch. Well, we’ll have to […]
The U.S. has no choice
No wonder the U.S. government continues to consider Canada as a source of potential security threats. Canada’s External Affairs Minister Bill Graham has refused to sanction the activities of the humanitarian wing of Hezbollah. His rational that the humanitarian arm has no relation to the militant arm is ludicrous. Any organization that sponsors terrorism is […]
Tories big on Parliamentary reforms
No one should be suckered by Paul Martin’s attempt to make Canadians believe that he is genuinely interested in Parliamentary reform. What a miraculous conversion considering that Martin was part of the Liberal Cabinet and still is a member of a party that has only paid lip service to the idea of making Parliament more […]
Prime Minister Chretien should go early, now
I have a bottle of champagne chilling in the frigidaire in anticipation of Prime Minister Jean Chretien leaving office sooner than later. Frankly, I don’t believe he will be able to take the “heat” to which he will be subjected to over the next few weeks. It is my fervent hope that we will be […]
Liberal hypnonis over Ontario lifting
Typical of this Liberal government — first they will scrap the GST, now they’re talking about possibly raising it to pay for health care for us poor, overtaxed Canadians. Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn’t the GST instituted to pay down the debt? So now, with the debt still there, it is also […]
The real skinny on the government’s so-called Public Safety Act, known as Bill C-17
The U.S. invasion underway in the air and on the ground is intruding into Canadians’ privacy rights. Moreover, with official support from the Canadian government, this not-too-friendly fire directed at Canadians’ privacy protection makes forced integration a much more personal and painful reality. On the ground — at least for targeted Canadians from up to […]
Camera-shy Grit staffer making a name for himself at Defence: Francesco Del Bianco has risen through the ranks to become Defence Minister McCallum’s senior policy adviser [Rock gets new advisor]
Francesco Del Bianco could easily be considered one of the rising stars within the Liberal Party, but you won’t get that from just talking to him. Softspoken and a little shy, he’s only too happy to play down the fact he’s become Defence Minister John McCallum top policy adviser, a position he graduated to after […]
ROBILLARD LIKELY TO GET $2-BILLION INFRASTRUCTURE
Super War Fund… It looks like the Prime Minister is lining up the as yet untapped $2-billion national super- infrastructure fund as heavy artillery for the fall. The first clue was when Minister of FLOSS (Finance and Lots of Other Serious Stuff) John Manley declined to be interviewed for The Hill Times policy briefing supplement […]
Federal Treasury Board floats plan to deal with poor performers: Auditors paid more in private sector, public relations directors better off in public sector: documents [Farewell]
Following sharp criticism from an outside advisory panel, Treasury Board has quickly developed a plan to deal with poor performers in the public service. In March of this year, the Advisory Committee on Senior Level Retention and Compensation – which is led by Lucent Technologies Canada President and CEO Carol Stephenson – found that “there […]
