Parliament’s US-watchers predict closer ties following tragedy
Sen. Doug Roche says missile defence system futile, more money should be put into intelligence and security The recent, unparalleled terrorist attacks on the United States of America have led some of Parliament’s top U.S. watchers to call on Canada to move closer to the U.S. when it comes to foreign policy. Last week, U.S. […]
We Americans have acted too proud for gutter fight: protracted conflict begins, the struggle against terrorism will define us now and forever more
[Graph Not Transcribed] WASHINGTON, D.C.–It was like scenes from the 1996 pop science fiction film Independence Day with great buildings collapsing and crowds fleeing in terror. But they were very real World Trade Center buildings falling on Sept. 11 and yet uncounted thousands of Americans are dead not in momentary fantasy but in crude reality. […]
Liberal MPs in New York City and Washington, DC
[Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] Redman and Kraft Sloan took refuge in D.C. hotel’s basement From the vantage point of his room at the UN Plaza’s Millennium Hotel, just a few blocks away from the World Trade Center in New York City, Liberal MP Janko Peric witnessed first hand the gruesome […]
Forget anti-American hysteria
[Graph Not Transcribed] Shortly after the horrific events Monday morning in New York City, your correspondent ran into a veteran radio broadcaster whose initial reaction to this disaster was as follows: “Somebody in Washington has to pay for this. What a terribly embarrassing breakdown of U.S. intelligence. What on earth was the CIA doing. They’re […]
“It can happen here”: and House Speaker Peter Milliken expects sombre House as MPs return
No government in the world, including Canada’s, can ever totally protect itself from the type of suicide hijacking attack visited upon our American neighbours last week, House Speaker Peter Milliken says. “It can happen here,” Mr. Milliken (Kingston and the Islands, Ont.) said Sept. 11, only two hours after the realization of the magnitude of […]
Question period: “Where were you when you heard about terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and how did you react?”
[Graph Not Transcribed] “It was about 9:50 a.m. when I heard about these terrorist attacks. I was in my office at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and getting ready to meet my first class. My first reaction was disbelief. Like everybody else, I was shocked. After my class, I went home and turned […]
Alliance hillite anxious for family in wake of Zimbabwe conflicts
Bloc caucus enlists Hugues Theoret as new press attache, replacing Louis-Pascal Cyr who is now in Quebec City Though Terence Scheltema, the executive assistant to Alberta Alliance MP Peter Goldring, has made a career in Canadian politics, his thoughts are never far from the political situation of Zimbabwe. Following the civil war the country experienced […]
Canadian Alliance fundraisers turned off by Day’s ultimatum
CA Leader Stockwell Day’s threat keeps Tory Leader Joe Clark’s leadership alive, says Alliance party fundraiser Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day’s ultimatum last week to the “dirty dozen” rebel MPs has not been welcomed by many people in the party and less so by the ones who hold the purse strings to the party’s finances. […]
Canada lobbying to influence US environment plan: Anderson
‘We have good contacts,’ in the United States White House, says Environment Minister David Anderson When U.S. President George W. Bush pulled out of the Kyoto agreement on global warming, the Americans promised to draft a policy of their own by October. But in an interview with The Hill Times recently, Canada’s Environment Minister David […]
Bloc says time for feds and Quebec to work together on greens
Bloc Quebecois critic Bernard Bigras is in favour of environmental harmonization with federal Liberals Now more than ever, we are all concerned about the environment. Evidence of this can be found in the Leger Marketing poll that appeared in The Gazette on Aug. 13: it found that 77.2 per cent of the population thinks the […]
