HEARD ON THE HILL
A few months back, during an interview with Policy Options editor L. Ian Mac- Donald, Treasury Board President John Baird was asked about the potentially cataclysmic impact that his government’s tough new Federal Accountability Act could have on Ottawa’s restaurants, for which the regular patronage of politicians, powerbrokers and public servants has long been a […]
Conservatives to meet for national caucus retreat on Aug. 2-4 in Cornwall, Ont., in Conservative territory
MONDAY, JULY 31 Deadline for nominations for Parliamentary Poet Laureate for Canada-Nominations close July 31. Poets Laureate must be residents of Canada. They are selected alternately from each official language community, and the 2006-2008 poet will be English-speaking. For more information please call 613-992-4793 or 1-866-599-4999 or e-mail info@parl.gc.ca. Joe Bentivoglio Memorial Golf Tournament-Take part […]
Who’s going to win the Grit leadership? Frank McKenna, say some Liberals
TORONTO-If you ask some Liberals whom, among the 11 candidates, is going to win the leadership campaign, the answer is now the twelfth, Frank McKenna. But when you point out that he’s not in the race, the said Liberals will explain to you that the time to register is not up and there’s still the […]
POLITICAL STREETER ON MIDEAST CRISIS
Interim Liberal Leader Bill Graham Interview with The Canadian Press July 27 “Everybody watching Canada at this time is concerned about whether or not Canada is, by its actions, making itself irrelevant in terms of being able to contribute to the possibility of a long-term peace in the Middle East.” U.S. President Bill Clinton Speaking […]
So that’s what the war was about, Justin Trudeau posing as Papineau
The First World War started 92 years ago this week. It is still poignant. The Prime Minister’s wife, Laureen, sobbed at the gravesite of a great uncle killed in action while on a recent visit to France. Tears are an eloquent remembrance. A few journalists have found other meaning in the conflict-as justification for free […]
We want to hear from Prime Minister Harper’s Cabinet
Since the Middle East crisis began on July 12 with Hezbollah’s killing of eight Israeli soldiers and the kidnapping of two others, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made his opinions clear. He stands firmly behind Israel. Canadian public opinion is split over Prime Minister Harper’s stance and over his voice as an effective arbiter on […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Whatever happened to Canada’s role as a respected neutral peace broker? I am dismayed at the callous indifference displayed by the Harper government to the slaughter that is taking place in the Middle East. When eight members of a Canadian family in the south Lebanese village of Aitaroun died as a result of bombing by […]
There will be no mass exodus of Jewish votes from the Liberals to the Conservatives in next election
Soon after the dust settles, and an agreement is finalized on the cessation of hostilities in the Middle East, one of many Conservative backroom boys, cubby-holed deep into the Gothic corridors of Parliament Hill, will be charged with the task of determining the electoral consequences of the PM’s foreign policy shift. If this backroom boy […]
Playing the tough guy would jeopardize Canada’s international image
After wisely staying out of the Iraq war, Canada is being drawn toward the Middle East quagmire that is its aftermath. One step deeper is the suggestion that NATO troops should be deployed in Lebanon-a bad idea with troubling implications at home as well as abroad. For many Canadians, the suggested Atlantic alliance intervention and […]
‘Federal Accountability Act’ doesn’t contain 21 promised measures
As others have before him, Robin V. Sears uses a combination of false and exaggerated claims that ignore fundamental democratic principles, in his attack on the proposed Bill C-2 (the so-called “Federal Accountability Act”) which Sears wrote about in the July 17 issue of The Hill Times. Sears’ first claim is that “political participation by […]
