Wonder if they’ll be serving beans?
One of the hottest parties on the Hill is coming up this week — the Liberal Quebec assistants’ summer bash — and this year it is going to be environmentally friendly. Oh, there will still be beer and wine and dancing and whatnot, but the twist is the party organizers are going to calculate how […]
Svend’s way
NDP MP Svend Robinson’s private members’ bill, C-250, which would amend the Criminal Code to include “sexual orientation” in the hate propaganda sections, has moved one step closer to receiving Royal Assent. It hasn’t been easy for the openly gay MP from Vancouver, first elected to the Commons in 1979. Mr. Robinson said his bill, […]
Canada needs an open and integrated North American transportation system: Alliance MP Moore
PARLIAMENT HILL–The 10th anniversary of the NAFTA recently passed. Canada-U.S. trade is the foundation of our economy, with 43 per cent of our GDP depending upon our trade with the United States, which constitutes 87 per cent of all our exports. Since the signing of NAFTA, Canadian companies have forged into new markets, establishing valuable […]
Transport Committee digs in its heels
Government House Leader Don Boudria’s attempt to kill a recommendation made by the Commons Transport Committee to chop $9-million from VIA Rail’s annual budget was dismissed as “pathetic” and disappointing by backbench Liberals last week. The dispute is just the latest sign of how bad relations between the federal Cabinet and Liberal caucus have become […]
Joe Clark, that’s who
Joe Clark, who will go down in the history books for getting elected leader of the Progressive Conservatives twice and as the youngest Prime Minister in Canadian political history, was celebrated by his Tories and a few Liberals last week in Toronto on the eve of the new leadership. He was acknowledged as one of […]
Merger talks ‘not a priority, nor a fixation’: Peter MacKay says Tory brand is best for uniting conservatives across the country/Merging with Alliance would be ‘kiss of death’: Orchard/Prentice: Canada’s sovereignty is no.1 priority/’There is a latent desire for change in Canada’: Brison/Chandler: ‘We need to get our party together with the Alliance’
Tory MP Peter MacKay, 37, is his party’s former House leader and represents the Nova Scotia riding of Pictou- Antigonish-Guysborough. Mr. MacKay has 1,166 delegates or 41.8 per cent of the vote. Son of former Brian Mulroney Cabinet minister Elmer MacKay. What would be your top three priorities as new leader of the Progressive Conservative […]
Comuzzi’s committee
The Globe and Mail recently described Liberal MP Joe Comuzzi’s House Transport Committee as one of the most independent on Parliament Hill, which in a world of the “democratic deficit” is a good thing. Mr. Comuzzi, who has represented Thunder Bay-Superior North, Ont., since 1988 also told The Globe that he tends to get into […]
The Long Goodbye…
Alberta Premier Ralph Klein is under growing pressure to announce his future plans. Some of his longest and most ardent backroom supporters are privately saying King Ralph should be preparing for abdication and should make up his mind this summer. Some of the talk is not so private. Art Smith, the former long-time head of […]
McDonough claims she was ‘dropped’ from committee trip: NDP MP Alexa McDonough: ‘It just seems like a hell of a petty decision to me’
Alexa McDonough, former NDP leader and a member of the prestigious House Foreign Affairs and International Trade Committee, says the Chief Government Whip’s decision to drop her name from the list of committee members who recently visited four countries to study Canada’s relations with Muslim countries is one of the rare examples of “pettier things” […]
COMARTIN RESPONDS
I must take exception to the letter to the editor “Comartin exaggerates nuclear fact,” (The Hill Times, May 12) from the William Clarke, President of the Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA) claiming that my article “contains exaggerations and errors.” Unfortunately, the CNA is once again misleading Canadians and with spurious declarations and accusations. The CNA contends […]
