‘Buy ’em, but don’t stay bought’
The orchestrated indignation of the aggrieved Minister of Finance has already been heroically patient in waiting for his just entitlement. According to the important Ottawa media, Paul Martin has been a sure thing in the snail’s race for the succession because he has waited longest for the job, ran more miles in pursuit of it, […]
MUNSON WANTS HONOURARY MEMBERSHIP, MOVES ARE AFOOT
This old boy should still be a member of the club… A lot of people don’t want CTV purge victim Jim Munson gone or forgotten. Moves are afoot to have the 25-year news veteran declared an honourary member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery at the body’s AGM next month. Mr. Munson wouldn’t mind the honour […]
Parliament ‘abandoned’ constitutional responsibility [Catterall-Williams report]
Bob Marleau, the former top House bureaucrat and an expert on Parliament, says MPs have “almost abandoned” their constitutional duties to review how government spends money, a job that is considered one of the central tenets of Parliamentary democracy. “The last fundamental review of the supply process was in 1968 and it really needs to […]
He’s back, sort of
Joe Clark’s former chief of staff, Goldy Hyder, is back on the Hill. But it’s not what you think. Mr. Hyder, who quit as the Tory Leader’s top gun last fall to join the international lobbying firm Hill and Knowlton, is registered as a lobbyist on Bill S-26, a bill authored by Manitoba Tory Senator […]
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 […]
RODIER LEAVES ROCK’S OFFICE FOR PRIVATE SECTOR
Tobacco or not tobacco, that is the question… Except David Rodier has no doubt what is nobler in the mind. (Okay, no more butchering Shakespeare, I promise.) Young Rodier, special aide to Allan Rock for the past seven years, has cut out on his own as a communications and strategy consultant. He left just before […]
‘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 […]
Working on GOPAC
Canadian Alliance MP John Williams has hired a new Parliamentary assistant, Athena Elton, to work on an exciting project which will bring over 200 Parliamentarians from around the world to the nation’s capital. Ms. Elton’s first day on the job was Jan. 25. The 31-year-old, who hails from Lethbridge, Alta., will spend the bulk of […]
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, […]
Introducing Prime Minister Paul Martin: Stakes are raised in bid
Ladies and gents, the games are over: the next Prime Minister of Canada will be the Right Honourable Paul Martin. Industry Minister Allan Rock knows this, the former minister of Industry knows this and the Prime Minister knows this. Martin is going to be Prime Minister because he has worked hard and diligently as Minister […]
