Alliance would massively increase fines for illegal oil dumping: Fines should be equal to the fines imposed in the United States: Alliance critic Bob Mills
PARLIAMENT HILL–The most powerful force for improving our environment is people. It’s every Canadian’s aspiration to make our environment cleaner, healthier and safer for our future. To that end, the Canadian Alliance environment policy is based on experience, science and wisdom. It affirms that people are the most important natural resource and that we must […]
A tribute to Joe Clark that’s who: New leader will inherit a party on the rise
Joe Clark has been accused of being a man ahead of his time. Now, as he enters his final week as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, the verdict is in – he is guilty as charged. The evidence is simply overwhelming: *Youngest Prime Minister in Canadian history (age 39). *Appointed first woman […]
Parliamentary sovereignty
Regarding “Opposition attacks Paul Martin’s use of privilege,” (The Hill Times, May 19). The issue of the Parliamentary privileges of MPs is not an issue dealing with, as the Canadian Alliance’s John Reynolds would have it, Paul Martin’s campaign to become leader of the Liberal Party. Rather, Parliamentary privilege are the rights and immunities given […]
Federal leadership on alternate fuels: fighting poisonous air with hot air: Twice as many North Americans die every year from air pollution than by traffic accidents
PARLIAMENT HILL–North American deaths caused by air pollution each year now equal deaths resulting from breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. We Canadians, of course, are justifiably terrified of breast and prostate cancer. We don’t seem to be nearly as terrified of pollution. If we were, Canada’s politicians would be paying a lot more attention […]
Breaking Nunavut’s oil addiction: Environmental damage of fossil fuel use has a direct impact on Arctic ecosystem
IQALUIT, NUNVUT–The wise use of resources has long been a trademark of Inuit. Inuit hunters have always harvested animals in order to sustain their families. The meat is used for food, while by-products of the animals are used for clothing, tools, shelter, heat and light. The oil from marine mammals provided the precious fuel to […]
Canada must act now in the Congo: It remains to be seen what Canada will do to take lead to help bring order, avoid genocide
Canada must act and act now in the Congo. For all its talk of wanting to be there when it counts, the time is now for Canada to take the lead and muster an international response to the daily killings and impending genocide in the Congo. Prime Minister Jean Chretien seemed to realize the urgency […]
MPs’ and Senators’ Birthdays
*Liberal MP Claude Drouin, 47, May 26, 1956 *Tory Sen. Pat Carney, 68, May 26, 1935 *Liberal MP Brent St-Denis, 53, May 27, 1950 *Liberal MP Andrew Telegdi, 57, May 28, 1946 *Liberal Sen. Jack Wiebe, 67, May 31, 1936 *Liberal MP Claude Drouin, 47, May 26, 1956 *Tory Sen. Pat Carney, 68, May 26, […]
Court judge as editor
TORONTO–Author Stephen Williams has written two books already about the infamous murderers/rapists Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. I haven’t read either one, and have no interest in reading a book about those monsters. That having been said, however, Williams has every right to publish as many books as he wants to on Bernardo and Homolka, […]
PM’s ethics bill headed for roadblock: ‘I don’t sense that a majority of the caucus agree with him’: Sen. Grafstein
Another major plank of Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s legacy agenda risks being derailed by members of his own caucus, as several Liberal Senators gear up to challenge new legislation to create an ethics officer for the Red Chamber. The introduction of Bill C-34 last month has been met with near visceral disdain by a number […]
Cities say government stalled on urban agenda: Some waiting for Martin to take over for action to start
When it comes to urban issues, Canada’s mayors are keeping a close eye on candidates in the Liberal leadership race. The annual meeting of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which will be held in Winnipeg, Man., later this week, has long been a favourite speaking venue for Cabinet ministers and opposition politicians alike. Federal Cabinet […]
