Here’s the bottom line on PM’s Campaign and Elections Finance Bill: Highly controversial Bill C-24 back in the House this week
The government’s proposed political fundraising law, Bill C-24, has emerged from the House Affairs Committee and will be back in the House this week, with several key improvements. Perhaps the most significant change made by the committee was a reduction in the individual donation limit from $10,000 to $5,000. While this amount is still far […]
Grits headed for another divisive vote
The federal government is headed for another clash with several members of its own backbenchers this week as it moves to restore $9-million from Transport Canada’s budget, funding which had been removed by Grit MPs on the House Transport Committee during their annual review of the federal department’s spending priorities. Although this latest showdown is […]
Once again the Prime Minister misses the point: ‘They were attacked. We are part of their coalition against terrorism’: Jean Chretien
WASHINGTON, D.C.–In the midst of the current hissing match between Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the U.S. Administration there is no comment that more epitomizes our differences than Chretien’s off-hand rebuttal of criticism, “We are part of their (emphasis added) coalition against terrorism.” Not “our war against terrorism” or even “the war against terrorism” but […]
MacKay finishes the job
Peter MacKay has completed the job that Kim Campbell began of turning Canada into a one-party state. A decade ago, Campbell reduced the Conservatives from the alternate governing party to, with just two seats remaining, a bit of political nostalgia, still the possessor of an invaluable brandname but one that more and more Canadians, like […]
Radwanski hauled before Government Ops
Members of a House of Commons committee have hauled Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski before them to figure out if he tampered with evidence he provided to their committee, something which could put him in contempt of Parliament and possibly cost him his job. The Privacy Commissioner is set to appear before the Government Operations Committee […]
Air India is Canada’s enduring shame
It is to Canada’s enduring shame the way successive Canadian governments have displayed political cowardice in the face of the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history, 18 years ago later this month, when Air India Flight 182 blew apart over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985, a date that […]
MacKay has all it takes to be a phenomenal leader: But he doesn’t need party’s dead wood on his back to build party
TORONTO–Will Peter MacKay be the Conservative leader who will turf the Liberals from government? It’s a good question. Too many federal pundits have already quickly dismissed MacKay. Most answered this question by giving the thumbs down to the newly-elected leader. But I think the jury’s still out. Most of the smarty-pants pundits were caught off […]
Masters of their own proceedings
Tory Leader Joe Clark raised a good point last Tuesday in the House of Commons when he said it’s absolutely ludicrous that MPs can’t get the minutes of Commons committee meetings, or the blues, in both official languages, and, promptly. This is a huge problem and it’s been escalating over the past several weeks. It […]
MPs’ and Senators’ Birthdays
*Alliance MP James Moore, 27, June 10, 1976 *Liberal MP Mark Joseph Assad, 63, June 14, 1940 *Independent Sen. Doug Roche, 74, June 14, 1929 *Liberal MP Mauril Belanger, 48, June 15, 1955 *Liberal MP Lucienne Robillard, 58, June 16, 1945 *Ind. Sen. P. Michael Pitfield, 66, June 18, 1937 *Liberal Sen. Rose-Marie Losier-Cool, 66, […]
Anderson has no plan
Kate Malloy’s interview with Environment Minister David Anderson (“Cutting GHG ‘most important challenge facing the world,’” The Hill Times, May 26) shows that if the emperor had no clothes the minister has no plan. A plan, “noun: a way of making or doing something that has been worked out beforehand,” is more than just a […]
