Free speech works both ways
Ever since the wretched Sunera Thobani displayed her awesome ignorance to a mob of cheering feminists by blaming U.S. foreign policy for the Sept. 11 attacks, many have tried to portray the outcry against her as an attack on free speech. They’re wrong. Unless they believe free speech means the right for them say what […]
Parliament: who needs it, prime minister uses royal perogative
Prime Minister Jean Chretien used his royal prerogative to send Canada into U.S.-led war against terrorism While MPs and Senators spent the past nine days in their ridings meeting with constituents and eating leftover Thanksgiving turkey, Prime Minister Jean Chretien (Saint-Maurice, Que.) and some members of his cabinet were busy sending the country to war […]
War on terrorism sugar-coated, has nothing to do with morals
Phony moralizing aside, nothing is relevant to America’s attacks on Afghanistan except protection and revenge [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] The “war on terrorism” has been sugar-coated, packaged, and sold wholesale to the North American public as a cure-all, feel-good solution to all that ails us. At once, we’re led to […]
Security grip tightens on Hill: MP’s entrance to Commons foyer to be restricted
Parliamentarians, staffers and visitors will find it a little harder to get into the Parliament Buildings today, Oct. 15, as the Commons and Senate get back into full swing after the week-long Thanksgiving break. New security measures were implemented throughout the down week in the wake of Canada’s commitment of troops and equipment to fight […]
Senators look to amend controversial immigration bill
For Elinor Caplan to put Immigration Bill in context of Sept. 11 is wrong, says Tory Senator [Graph Not Transcribed] Senators are looking at making amendments to the controversial Immigration Bill, C-11, in areas such as the 72-hour background check and the bill’s constitutionality, says Tory Senator Marjory LeBreton, the Vice-Chair of the Senate Social […]
Parrish says NATO delegates warming to US NMD plan
‘Yes, I guess this is next on the agenda,’ says Parrish After the recent terrorist attacks on the United States, Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish says she believes NATO Parliamentary Assembly delegates have adopted an attitude of “resigned acceptance” towards America’s controversial National Missile Defence plan. Ms. Parrish (Mississauga Centre, Ont.), the chair of the Canadian […]
Save the couch, it stays where it is, says Guillon
[Graph Not Transcribed] This old couch is no small potatoes… Who would have thought that old ripped and battered couch in the sixth-floor gallery lounge of the National Press Building was so valuable? They should have wheeled it down to the National Art Gallery a couple of weeks ago for the Antiques Roadshow and gotten […]
Sovereignty iceberg slowly floats away
[Graph Not Transcribed] QUEBEC CITY–It has been a tough past couple of weeks for Quebec Premier Bernard Landry. Polls keep telling him he’s not as popular as his predecessor which is no big surprise and the sovereignty option he’s so trying to sell is not gaining any ground. In fact it is moving backward. The […]
Going to be a long, endless war
The proponents of One World in all trade and monetary policy, a single great Head Office nesting alongside the One World Bank, are now promoting a paradoxical multilateralism as a One World Foreign Policy. [Graph Not Transcribed] You can, in the new art of diplomacy, join the war against terrorism with a resolve studded with […]
Manley sees even greater role: John Manley, PM can’t be out of country together [National Security Committee]
[Graph Not Transcribed] Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley was on a plane coming back to Canada from Germany when the Twin Towers collapsed and the world we were living in changed. Now Mr. Manley is playing a crucial role in the federal cabinet, so important that he and the Prime Minister can no longer be […]
