Harper to talk cities this week
PCO Clerk Himelfarb to talk to APEX on Tuesday MONDAY, June 2 House Sitting–The House is sitting this week and is scheduled to remain in session until Friday, June 20. For more information on the House calendar, please call the Government House Leader’s Office at (613) 952-4930. Alliance Leader’s Speech–Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper will […]
Federal government lacks political will to use fuel tax revenues: Ottawa’s reluctance to break its dependency on fuel tax as a general revenue supplement
CALGARY–Organizations as diverse as the TD Bank, Canada West Foundation, Van Horne Institute and the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation all point to the lack of federal infrastructure funding for cities as a major threat to the continued economic health of our major cities and, by extension, our country. The federal government has at its disposal the […]
Canada only G-7 country without a national transit investment: Federal dollars for transit are scarce, rhetoric overflowing: Ottawa Mayor Chiarelli
OTTAWA–Rapid transit is the City of Ottawa’s No. 1 priority. Ottawa’s main roads and highways are clogged at most hours of the day and with a projected population increase of 400,000 people over the next 20 years, there’s fear traffic gridlock will only get worse in the nation’s capital — as it has in so […]
C-24’s subsidy scheme violates Charter: ‘This one issue alone should be enough to hold the bill over until the fall sitting’
With Liberal MPs clamouring for more time to get a better picture of the full consequences of Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s Political Finance Bill, a leading constitutional lawyer has come forward to denounce the legislation for discriminating against minority groups. Errol Mendes, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and an expert in ethics […]
What Canadians need to know about mad cow disease: Over 2.8 million kilograms of potentially contaminated material was imported after 1996
Mad Cow disease, or its scientific name Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal brain-wasting disease in cattle which was first identified in the United Kingdom in 1986. No one knows for sure how the first cow (or cows) got BSE, but we know it spread throughout Britain and eventually the world through the cannibalistic […]
‘We must do more on long-term plan for sustainable system to protect our environment and build a transit/transportation’
TORONTO–Liberal MP Judy Sgro, a former Toronto councillor, and chair of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Urban Issues, says she is one of strongest proponents of a national strategy for transportation. The highly-anticipated final report released in November, 2002, recommended an urban strategy for Canada with three priority programs; housing, infrastructure and transit/transportation. During […]
No museum in Canada puts spotlight on political history
Governing Grits say the recently-announced Canadian politics and history museum won’t unduly highlight the milestones of the Liberal Party and its prime ministers in political history, despite concerns from one of the country’s leading museum presidents. Liberal MP Carole-Marie Allard (Laval East, Que.), Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and a member of […]
Those darned Liberals
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t read letters from people complaining about the abhorrent Liberals, what with all the boondoggles and other wasteful schemes they have cooked up since they have been in power. I couldn’t agree more with those people as I am far from being a fan of the federal Liberals […]
Transit a crowbar cities can use to pry away from urban sprawl: Transit investment is one of the best ways for Ottawa to address transportation challenge
One of the wisest investments in cities the Government of Canada could make is supporting public transit. That’s one conclusion drawn in a recent report issued by the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy. Certainly, our cities are in need of aid from the senior tiers of government. While parts of their […]
Is e-consultation everything it’s cracked up to be? MPs debate merits of on-line consultations and reconnecting Parliament with Canadians
A guru on the future of technology and government, professor Stephen Coleman, believes that, “Parliament’s role is emerging as that of a mediator between the voice of the public and government.” At a recent round of engagements in Ottawa, the former first e-envoy of the British Parliament and current professor of e-government at Oxford University […]
