Here’s the deal: The Little Guy hates access to information: Prime Minister Chr tien’s quite willing to have PCO direct and control costly, secret government marketing
Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s moral outrage is reserved for blaming Access to Infor-mation users for much of his current troubles just because his government is taking some heat in the daily revelations on his dubious sponsorship program. But that’s so much rubbish and it’s hardly why his government is in crisis. Instead, he should look […]
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, […]
How Paul Martin spawned a ‘Martin Mania’ in Grit Party
Rarely in the history of Canadian politics has there been an individual who commands the loyalty of a devoted following in the same way as Paul Martin, Jr. It’s been a dozen years since Martin’s first and only leadership campaign, and yet the vast majority of Liberal Party members would identify themselves as his supporters. […]
Bunch of corporate whiners
A curious sound has been emerging from corporate boardrooms in the past few weeks. It’s the sound, loud, insistent and high-pitched, whining. “This cynicism about business has gone beyond reasonable questioning and threatens to be destructive,” Stanley O’Neil, co-head of the investment firm, Merrill Lynch, said the other day. “Never in my memory has business […]
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 […]
PM’s a pretty successful cad
In a Saturday Globe and Mail story headlined “Analyse this: If Chretien were a CEO, he’d be fired,” writer Alanna Mitchell cites author/psychologist David Stein as saying that the Prime Minister has none of the qualities necessary for successful business leadership while Paul Martin appears to be “the quintessential modern leader.” Stein is described as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
