Here’s a bright idea: how about smart tax and regulatory reform
Canada needs significant tax reform to reduce profit-insensitive taxes, such as capital and payroll taxes [Graph Not Transcribed] Small and medium enterprises play an important role in the Canadian economy. They account for 50 per cent of our GDP, and provide over half of all employment. The sector has also been more resilient post-Sept. 11th […]
Hill cameraman says he’s devastated after covering New York City [and the G8 summit in Quebec City]
Global TV’s Phil Nolan suffering post traumatic stress syndrome, on stress leave after 21 years in business Seasoned Parliament Hill cameraman Phil Nolan, who has been working for Global TV for 21 years, says he’s suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome after being attacked while covering Quebec City’s G-8 Summit last April and, more recently, […]
EI should be a separate, stand-alone insurance-based system
Return to system with contributions based on actuarial guidelines would result in significant savings for business Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for over 50 per cent of the GDP and over 50 per cent of total employment in Canada. Moreover, they have been a major engine of job creation and innovation in this country. […]
PCO’s deputy clerk to report on hunt for leak on anti-terrorism
Richard Fadden and assistants interviewed some 386 people to find out who leaked justice minister’s Bill C-36 The Privy Council Office’s powerful deputy clerk is expected to release his report on Nov. 20 on how the Justice Minister’s anti-terrorism bill was leaked to the media last month. After interviewing the 386 people who saw advance […]
Who’s coming to dinner? Hill folks raising landmines awareness
Mark Nov. 28, 29 and 30, it’s party time as Senators organize event, House staffers to meet at Club Soho It’s dinner with grace. Parliamentarians and Hill staffers have embraced the “Night of a Thousand Dinners” cause. Slated for Nov. 30, “Thousand Dinners” is a worldwide network of fundraising dinners that encourages members of the […]
Bevilacqua says Libs are proactive on small businesses front
On the eve of the next federal budget, House Finance Chairman Maurizio Bevilacqua talks small business As a child growing up in a small business family, Liberal MP Maurizio Bevilacqua, chairman of the House Finance Committee, says he learned a thing or two about Canada’s entrepreneurial spirit. His father ran a construction company in Toronto, […]
Shepherd says Libs privatized too much
Government MP Alex Shepherd says Liberals are talking it up in caucus Government backbencher Alex Shepherd told The Hill Times his own government has gone too far in privatizing airports in this country and should rethink the process of alternate service delivery. “I think when we look at transportation, it’s clear to me that some […]
Widening Metcalfe Street was rejected in 1860s, 1928 and 1961
William Lyon Mackenzie King lived in Roxborough Apartments, at Elgin and Laurier, now demolished [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] Prime Minister Jean Chretien may want his vista to Parliament Hill, but history shows the city of Ottawa has been shaped and reshaped by plenty of Prime Ministers. It was between 1930 and 1935 when […]
Faith and public life targets the Hill: where does Christian social action stop, abetting of terrorism begin?
When the Centre for Faith and Public Life started five years ago, its key people, Bruce Clemenger and Janet Epp Buckingham, had a great view of the Peace Tower and the offices beneath it. Those offices were often the targets of their mandate, perceived to be spokespersons for three million Canadians. Then the good folk […]
Multiculturalism has never become a policy for all Canadians: why is our policy not used to pull together francophones and anglophones and put to rest the Quebec issue?
[Graph Not Transcribed] It took terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City to force Canadian journalists to finally look at multiculturalism as a national issue. Too bad they focused on multiculturalism in Great Britain, and not Canada. It’s true, in the aftermath of Sept. 11, Canadian reporters and columnists began probing […]
