Harper has the right strategy on Senate reform: Senator Elect
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is serious about Senate reform and is taking a strategic approach by tackling the issue in incremental steps, says Link Byfield, an Alberta Senator elect. “Serious Senate reformers realized a long time ago-some time between the death of the Meech Lake Accord and the death of the Charlottetown Accord-that the total-package […]
PM touts northern tourism
Northern tourism will play a large role in the future of Canada’s territories, Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) said in a speech from Whitehorse, Yukon on Aug. 17. Mr. Harper also used the speech to announce an extra $9.5 million in funding for the 2007 Canada Winter Games to be hosted by Whitehorse. […]
Tories should take responsibility for toxic sites in the North: MP Angus
Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor (Carleton-Mississippi Mills, Ont.) needs to acknowledge the Defence Department’s responsibility for numerous toxic sites in Ontario’s North, NDP MP Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay, Ont.) said at a news conference last week. The Department of National Defence built and then abandoned 17 radar bases in the early 1960s in the James Bay-Hudson’s […]
Parliamentarians go to South Africa
A delegation of MPs is headed to South Africa this week to meet with their Parliamentary counterparts from Aug. 27 to Sept. 3. House Speaker Peter Milliken (Kingston and the Islands, Ont.) is leading the delegation to Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria. Conservative MP Jay Hill (Prince George-Peace River, B.C.), Liberal MP Karen Redman (Kitchener […]
Bernier joins Summa Strategies
Last week, Summa Strategies announced that it hired Tory Daniel Bernier, formerly chief of staff to Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, to head up the firm’s new research division. The Hill Times caught up with Tim Powers, vice president at Summa. HT: What was the impetus for creating the new research division? Will it be servicing […]
Liberals are united and ready to fight Conservatives: Goodale
After a productive caucus meeting in Vancouver, the Liberal Party is getting its groove back, says Liberal MP Ralph Goodale (Wascana, Sask.). “The one thing that I’ve noticed from this caucus and I felt it growing since June, through July, through August, is a very real sense among liberals that we’re getting our morale, our […]
Catherine Clark to host CPAC show
CPAC announced last week that Catherine Clark, daughter of former prime minister Joe Clark, will host a new, weekly phone-in public affairs program called Sunday Sound Off. The live, weekly, bilingual program is scheduled to start on Sept. 17 on CPAC. “I’m looking forward to speaking with Canadians from one end of the country to […]
Tories more ready than any other party for an election: MP Turner
Conservative MP Garth Turner (Halton, Ont.) says the Conservatives are “more ready” for a fall election, from strategy to organization, than any other political party. “My knowledge is that we are more ready than anyone else for an election this fall. We have had an election readiness team in place since about March. We have […]
Visible minorities continue to be underrepresented in the federal public service: Employment equity report to Parliament
The federal public service has met its targets to hire women, aboriginals and persons with disabilities to reflect the Canadian population, but the statistics are nothing to be proud of, especially since visible minorities continue to be underrepresented, says one of the largest federal public service unions. The 2004-2005 annual report, Employment Equity in the […]
CONSERVATIVE NOMINATION CONTESTS UNDER FIRE
A Conservative Party member says he is “very disappointed” in his own party after his nomination papers for potential candidacy in a B.C. riding were rejected “without any specific reason” last week. “I’m very disappointed, I’m hurt, I’m a longtime member of the party. This is not a way to treat someone who’s volunteered thousands […]
