‘Hey, this is politics’: MacInnis. Liberal leadership spat rages, Prime Minister away
Liberal leadership contender Allan Rock — who launched a sensational public war of words with Paul Martin last week — should grow up and get over it, say Martin supporters and one leading former campaign operative from another leadership camp. David MacInnis, Brian Tobin’s former campaign manager, told The Hill Times that Mr. Martin’s supporters […]
Get back to supply
Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, a hot media commodity these days, says MPs were sent to Ottawa ultimately to hold the government to account. She is quite right. This is one of the central tenets of Parliamentary democracy. So MPs on both sides of the House should support Alliance MP John Williams and chairman of the […]
Kinsella unplugged, unhinged
Politics being what it is, it’s not easy for a hypocrite to rise above the mob. But self-proclaimed Liberal kneecapper Warren Kinsella has managed this prodigious feat with vitriolic complaints that Paul Martin is not playing by the political equivalent of boxing’s Marquis of Queensbury rules. While we’re on the subject, why would CBC television […]
‘It’s a breath of fresh air getting her out of this portfolio’: Telegdi. Grit MP Andrew Telegdi says Liberal MPs ‘cheered’ when PM shuffled Caplan out of Immigration portfolio
The proposed and controversial immigration regulations introduced by former federal immigration minister Elinor Caplan place too much importance on educational requirements and not enough on skills, say government and opposition Parliamentarians. Keeping up the pressure last week, MPs of all political stripes were denouncing the current proposed regulations and said the bar to enter into […]
Report is untrue, says Sorensen [Letter]
Regarding “Heard on the Hill,” (Jan. 28). Your newspaper reported that I was in Ottawa speaking to Liberal Party officials about N.W.T. Premier Stephen Kakfwi as a possible candidate for Member of Parliament in the Western Arctic. The report was not true. Your reporter would have learned this had I been contacted to determine the […]
IS JEAN CHR&Ea;TIEN NOW A LAME DUCK PRIME MINISTER
Un canard boiteux?… Or whatever the French expression is for lame duck. Is our Prime Minister on the way to becoming one? The signs are there. There’s open and ugly fighting over his job between two of Jean Chretien ‘s ambitious ministers — Allan Rock and Paul Martin. His government members recently elected Stan Keyes […]
What inequity? Female staffers hold some top EA and CA jobs
There may not be enough women in cabinet, as Toronto MP Carolyn Bennet lamented publicly earlier this month, but at least the fairer sex is well-represented among some of the top jobs in ministerial offices. Arguably, the executive assistant — a minister’s most senior adviser — and the communications assistant — the staffer doing spin […]
House, Senate back, PM’s trade junket heads to Berlin: Health-care experts converge on Parliament [Parliamentary Calandar]
MONDAY, FEB. 18 House Sitting — The House is sitting this week starting today at 11 a.m. It will sit until March 1, will take a one-week break and will return on Monday March 11. It will then sit until March 22. After a two- week break it will resume sitting again on Monday, April […]
MPs get to work, you bums: reader [Letter]
Canadians who love this country cannot tolerate this obtuse, arrogant Liberal government any longer. A caucus that has had no ideas and governed by doing as little as possible, now has nothing better to do but fight about party membership rules. To make matters worse, rumours circulate that so many backbench MPs are so bored, […]
PS starving for creativity, don’t want to be ‘political footballs’. Treasury Board website a forum for public servants to vent about life in government, surprisingly candid
At a time when the government is enforcing new rules to keep public servants from speaking out, one website stands out for its surprising frankness. A discussion board set up by the Treasury Board, which asks for comments on a draft “Statement of Principles” for public servants, has turned into a forum for public servants […]
