Research is nice but health under assault from other fronts: high tax structure an impediment for private health companies to invest in their own research: Martin
Never before have there been so many assaults on our most cherished social program, health care. In the spectrum of health issues, one of the brightest spots that holds untapped potential is the area of medical research, one of the bleakest is our medical manpower crisis. In the last two years we have seen an […]
Investment in research shows Grits ahead of public opinion
It was over three years ago at the Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Medical Association in Victoria when I really became worried that our “healing” profession had lost its way. There was actually a resolution on the floor of the Council that suggested that all new health care dollars would go to acute care. […]
House debating idea of Internet at every desk in Commons
Strahl worried MPs on House duty will pay even less attention to debates if they can surf the net Liberal MP Reg Alcock considers himself ‘wired.’ Like many other Canadians, he has a laptop computer and the ability to navigate the vast ocean of information available online through the Internet. But when he steps into […]
Big surprise, Landry’s offended by Summit of Americas snub: no goodbye party for outgoing premier Bouchard, who might find home with big Montreal law firm
If anyone is surprised to see the PQ government whine about being treated unfairly as we approach the big Quebec City Summit, then surely they must be from a foreign country. The summit offers such a juicy occasion for the sovereigntists to quarrel with Ottawa that no one who has ever read anything about Canadian […]
Secretive selection process of new auditor general all wrong: Treasury Board shouldn’t have all the power in deciding who will be bugging them for the next 10 years
Canada’s chief government critic, the Auditor General, is chosen every 10 years by the Governor in Council – quietly, without much public oversight, and on the advice of a selection committee of top government insiders. Parliament currently has no control whatsoever on the Auditor General’s selection, and will not unless the Auditor General Act is […]
Dalton McGuinty should build next election platform on youth, education
The easiest and most expedient way for an opposition party to come to power is essentially by default. If the government self-destructs and there is only one viable alternative, then avoiding any major campaign setbacks is often the only real prerequisite to electoral success. The federal Liberals, for example, swept to office in 1993 mostly […]
Gagliano’s troubles could happen to any of us, says Alliance MP
Obhrai says cuts to Citizenship & Immigration means way more responsibilities for MPs’ constit offices Other MPs could easily run into the same problems that Public Works Minister Alfonso Gagliano recently experienced because of the sheer volume of immigration casework, says Canadian Alliance MP Deepak Obhrai. Mr. Gagliano (Saint-Leonard-Saint-Michel, Quebec) has been dogged by questions […]
Bid to drop voting age to 16 among crop of private members’ bills: other MPs craft bills dealing with capital punishment, farm subsidies, child custody and Native veterans
Just about every MP has had one at some time or another, and a few have even had hundreds. While only a handful of Private Members’ Bills every get passed, their key points do occasionally make it into future government bills. At the very least, they’re an attempt to draw some public attention to an […]
Controversial citizenship legislation not among rehashed bills: MPs ready to tackle Species at Risk bill in committee
With the Liberal government busy clearing the legislative deck of all bills that died in the fall, Little has been heard of C-16, the Citizenship Bill that died in the Senate last October. But Derik Hodgson, press secretary for Minister Elinor Caplan, said his boss hopes to table it again in the coming year. Caplan […]
Hey, what happened to the debate on diplomatic immunity?
Canada’s foreign affairs department must end culture of secrecy regarding diplomats who screw up The debate over diplomatic immunity is not dead yet. And perhaps it shouldn’t, because not much has been resolved since the unfortunate death of an innocent Ottawa pedestrian Catherine MacLean at the hands of a drunken Russian diplomat Andrei Knyazev. The […]
