Chief Whip Catterall “jokingly” threatens new PS McCallum
Justice Minister Anne McLellan to table on Oct. 15 long-anticipated anti-terrorism legislation in House [Graph Not Transcribed] It’s the kind of story House reform advocates like to point to when they argue why Commons committee chairs should be freely elected. But to understand the strange event in last week’s House Finance Committee, a flashback to […]
Swissair has collapsed, can Air Canada be far behind?
Okay, if no one else is going to say it… Do we really need a national carrier? In the wake of the collapse of premier airline Swissair and Belgium’s Sabena Air, industry experts in Britain are predicting only five super-national airlines will still be operating in Europe within a decade, with a handful of smaller […]
Prime Minister Chretien has been a puzzle: Yank observer
Tony Blair may be a socialist twit so far as American conservatives are concerned, but he’s now ‘our’ twit [Graph Not Transcribed] WASHINGTON, D.C.–As we reach the four-week mark after Black Tuesday, it might be useful to review the bidding a bit. First, Afghanistan Is in Ruins. The country is devastated and its people in […]
Tories grumbling, want some credit from Clark [Visit to World Trade Center site]
What’s with some of these press secretaries… Gotta wonder what Tory Leader Joe Clark’s press secretary Marie-Chantale Lepine was up to two Saturdays ago in New York. It sure wasn’t getting her boss any coverage during the visit by Jean Chretien and the leaders of the four opposition parties as they visited Ground Zero in […]
French minister checks out Canada’s public service renewal plans
Former Privy Council Office clerk Jocelyne Bourgon gives French minister tips on cutting public servants [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] Word of Jocelyne Bourgon’s cost-cutting ways during her tenure as Clerk of the Privy Council from 1994 to 1999 has made it across the Atlantic Ocean. It seems the French government is interested in […]
We Canadians are slow to judge
[Graph Not Transcribed] Perhaps we should revisit our long-lasting predilection for anti-Americanism. For many of us who enjoy being Canadian and who see the differences between Canada and the United States, America remains a nice place to visit, especially in winter, but we wouldn’t want to live there, especially in the summer. I am often […]
Libs blitz on anti-terrorism: Liberal MP Derek Lee to revive Security Committee
[Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] Freed up from Parliamentary secretary duties, a seasoned government backbencher plans to revive a House Subcommittee on National Security to keep an eye on the activities of secretive groups like CSIS and JTFS. Four-term Liberal MP Derek Lee (Scarborough-Rouge River, Ont.) said he will re-establish the House Subcommittee on […]
“Terrorism must be seen as a Nuremberg crime,” says MP Cotler
Anti-terrorist expert Liberal MP Irwin Cotler says struggle against terrorism must involve multi-layered strategy At a time when Ottawa’s unelected officials are taking on major roles in constructing Canada’s counter-terrorism policies, one elected government back-bencher is trying hard to be heard. As a special adviser to Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley, Irwin Cotler (Mount-Royal, Que.) […]
US House Speaker Hastert in Ottawa
Politically powerful U.S. statesman Dennis Hastert reaches out to Canada [Graph Not Transcribed] The third-highest ranking politician in the U.S. says he’s coming to this week’s NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Ottawa in order to reach out to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s member countries. Moreover, U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert told The Hill Times that […]
Americans are not evil, media shouldn’t paint them that way
It’s irresponsible to keep feeding hate against only superpower still capable, we hope, of protecting the world There’s plenty of people who don’t agree with American policies, either foreign or domestic. There’s also a manifest effort to explain, if not justify, the terrorist attacks against the Americans, as a reaction to those policies. One of […]
