Overhaul “dated” CSIS Act: Inkster
Former RCMP chief Norman Inskter says terrorism has changed The CSIS Act is dated and should be brought up to date if the federal government seriously wants to strengthen its intelligence network, says the former commissioner of the RCMP and the former deputy director of CSIS. Former RCMP commissioner Norman Inkster, who portrayed Sept. 11 […]
Canada must rethink approach to national defence: MP Benoit
We risk lives of all Canadians in terms of offshore search and rescue capability, other inadequate equipment It’s time for a new White Paper to redefine what our military should be and should provide for Canadians. More important, Canada needs a government that really believes in a strong military. We have had 30 years of […]
Lib MP Graham’s foreign correspondent son
Bill Graham’s son, National Post reporter Patrick, returns home from Afghanistan More than 40 years after Liberal MP Bill Graham visited Afghanistan as an intrepid university student, his son Patrick Graham was trekking through the mountain paths of the Hindu Kush under very different circumstances. Patrick Graham — a foreign correspondent for the National Post […]
PCO’s intelliegence staff strained, overworked
Privy Council’s Richard Fadden says staff’s energy and time severely ‘taxed’ [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] Most of the staffers in the influential Privy Council Office’s security and intelligence directorate have been working overtime since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States and PCO’s top security and intelligence bureaucrat […]
Defence budget shrinks from $12-billion to $9.4-billion since 1993
The legacy of cuts has seriously hampered key areas of our military’s capabilities, it’s time to increase budgets In 1790, Irish statesman and orator John Philpot Curran said; “The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.” Although that same sentiment has been repeatedly echoed in the collective history of western […]
Only one degree of separation between Canadian MPs and NYC
‘My son witnessed the events from his office, not a mile away,’ says Metro-Toronto Grit Senator Jerry Grafstein Canadian federal politicians on Parliament Hill needed less than six degrees of separation to make a personal link to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. Many MPs and Senators had immediate […]
I’m wary of Pentagon briefers
[Graph Not Transcribed] While our allied air forces continue the redistribution of the rubble in Kabul, the objectives and purposes of this “new war” become, like the dust rising from that battered city, more difficult to comprehend. Historically, there have been necessary wars and wars fought whether necessary or not. But it is a futile […]
No party can claim to have conceived ideal healthcare system
Greatest contribution politicians can make to revitalizing health care is to stop treating it as a partisan issue If any issue should draw policy-makers together, it is health care. After all, we all have families, loved ones, and our own health to consider. Indeed, the issue hits close to home and elected representatives regularly hear […]
Rock looking at ways to bring down costs of pharmaceuticals
Health Minister Allan Rock says he wants to use the power of the government to bargain for lower prices Health Minister Allan Rock, who went through a gruelling political week, says the future of Canada’s healthcare system looks very promising, but he believes there are short-term problems. In a wide-ranging interview with The Hill Times […]
Coon Come’s Durban speech a sweeping indictment [United Nations World Conference Against Racism]
AFN’s Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come places all blame on a malign Canadian government [Graph Not Transcribed] I know it’s been two months, but it’s time to deal with the outrageous statements made by Matthew Coon Come, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, who played the raging Rotweiller with his address to the […]
