Canada needs an independent international role in Zimbabwe: the CMAG meeting in London to discuss sanctions against Zimbabwe was split almost along racial lines
On his first day in the House as the new Foreign Affairs Minister, Bill Graham, in a fiery and firm tone, declared, “We strongly believe that we live in an independent country…” The context was nothing new to Canadians because Canada’s independence of the United States of America is a perennial subject of discussion. While […]
PS integrity officer says lack of legislation could be a good thing
‘The availability of court and legislation may actually be less efficient and more onerous on everyone’ Starting this week, tormented public servants with dark secrets to tell can walk two blocks south of the Prime Minister’s Office to 60 Queen St. and enter the new office of Canada’s first whistle-blower boss. [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph […]
Liberals have dismal record on endangered species legislation
Alarmingly, government is ready to roll back modest improvements made by Environment Committee Nowhere is the Liberal government’s lack of leadership more evident than its dismal record on the environment. In three terms, the Liberals have yet to pass a single significant piece of environmental legislation. Last year, the OECD annual report on Canada criticized […]
Stan Keyes election was a kick in the pants, period
No Florida for Keyes… Newly-minted Liberal caucus chairman Stan Keyes definitely won’t be invited on any golfing trips to Florida with the PM, and you are darned tootin’ that is the reason he has his new job. That this is even being debated is ridiculous. It is true that in politics the fact that something […]
Jean Chretien’s new cabinet ministers take time hiring aides
Since PM’s big shuffle, new faces on cabinet have struggled to fill their ministerial offices with qualified help Maybe it’s the strange weather, or maybe it’s something in the water, but many of the 10 new ministers promoted to cabinet last month are having a hard time finding qualified help to work in their ministerial […]
House breaks for a week, returns Feb 18 for three more: meanwhile, Senate will sit this week, Library of Parliament closes for renovations next month [Parliamentary calendar]
MONDAY, FEB. 11 House Sitting — The House is not sitting this week. It returns at 11 a.m on Monday, Feb. 18. Then it will sit until March 1, will take a one-week break and will return on Monday March 11. It will sit until March 22. It will then take a two-week break and […]
Gagnon raring to go in run for Lib presidency
The presidential race is underway… No we are not talking about George W. Bush already working on a second term, but about the race to replace Stephen LeDrew as president of the Liberal Party of Canada. While prime ministers, in theory at least, can stay on forever, the Liberal Party imposes the same limit on […]
Yukon and N.W.T. are always wrongly portrayed as competitors: Not true, says Pat Duncan who supports both Alaska Highway Pipeline Project and Mackenzie Delta development [Energy Policy Briefing]
Despite recent volatility and softening prices, market conditions have renewed interest in exploring, developing, and commercializing the immense natural gas resources of northern Canada and Alaska. Although it’s difficult to predict how the September terrorist attacks in the United States or recent economic uncertainty may affect natural gas markets, most analysts agree that North American […]
Some solid perspective, please
Sometimes, people can’t see the worse guys for the bad guys. Take the short-sighted decision of The Canadian Association of Journalists and the Quebec Federation of Professional Journalists to fire off a joint submission to all Parliamentarians demanding a Parliamentary inquiry into what they see as “a disturbing pattern of censorship and repression of dissenting […]
Immigrant MPs blast new rules: most immigrant MPs wouldn’t get in: Hill Times survey
A majority of MPs and Senators who came to Canada as immigrants would have failed to secure Canadian immigration had they applied under the proposed new immigration law, according to a Hill Times survey. And it’s unclear even if natives of Canada, like Prime Minister Jean Chretien (Saint-Maurice, Que.) and former immigration minister Elinor Caplan […]
