Tories facing crunch: PCDRC a double-edge sword, strains Tories’ shrinking budget
A cash crunch and the resulting lack of rewards and advancement opportunities for staff is playing havoc in the Tory caucus ranks in Ottawa. The Progressive Conservative caucus lost two researchers last week, including top staffer Carl Hnatyshyn, son of the former Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn and long-time cabinet minister in the Tory governments of […]
Martin says “options open” for budget
Finance Minister Paul Martin: No. 1 priority is of national security The federal government will do “whatever possible to stay out of a deficit” and could still release a fall budget, says Canada’s federal Finance Minister. The Finance Minister told The Hill Times that the government will remain fiscally responsible but he said that national […]
Economic prosperity inextricably linked with the new economy
Governments responsible for implementing, maintaining communications networks to ensure stability Hardly had I began to familiarize myself with my new duties as the Bloc Quebecois Industry, Science and Technology Critic, when The Hill Times got in touch with my office and asked me to write something about the new technologies — a broad theme if […]
Osama bin Laden can be caught without bloodshed, US must release the proof
[Graph Not Transcribed] Osama bin Laden’s name became synonymous with international terrorism long before the Sept. 11, 2001 gruesome terrorist attacks in the U.S. In fact, Mr. bin Laden’s name became “well-known” around the world after the Aug. 7, 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, where 220 […]
Government’s biotech strategy supports biotech corporations
CBAC and CGSB reports greeted with more cynicism than enthusiasm, neither recommended changes The latest chapter in Canada’s debate over genetically engineered (GE) food was written this summer with an unprecedented appeal to the Prime Minister and two controversial reports to government. The appeal was in the form of an open letter to Jean Chretien […]
Parliamentarians search for spiritual guidance in face of attacks
‘We are too much fearful of being misunderstood and thereby dividing rather than uniting our people’ U.S. President George W. Bush quoted the Bible last week, when he spoke at a National Cathedral service in memory of those who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. His approach was in […]
Our “branding” problem in international investment community
Branding especially important as today’s capital highly mobile, moves unimpeded to friendlier jurisdictions Despite current turbulence in knowledge-based industries, technology is essential to wealth creation in Canada and the world. Government can play a leadership role, through innovative public policy, in creating a better environment for knowledge-based industries. Smart tax policy would be a good […]
Jaw jaw is better than war war [Emergency debate]
[Graph Not Transcribed] Winston Churchill once famously said that “jaw jaw is better than war war,” by which he meant it is better to exhaust the potential benefits of conciliation or negotiation before resorting to violence. Tuning in to the debate in the House of Commons on Monday, almost all the jaw jaw I heard […]
House must take leadership role on regulating genetic revolution
Canada seems incapable of informed, rational public discussion on any subject of strong polarized opinions The two main pillars of the knowledge economy of the 21st century are education and science. The private and public sectors must give increased support and attention to both if Canada’s future economy is to be strong and competitive and […]
CA MP Jaffer, only Muslim in the House, rises to tragic occasion
Rahim Jaffer has arguably played a more valuable role as candid, credible representative for visible minorities [Graph Not Transcribed] Last spring, in the aftermath of his embarrassing “appearance” on a national radio program, the Canadian Alliance’s Rahim Jaffer struggled through the most trying experience of his political career. Now, as all of us endure one […]
