Silly season has come, mother
Countdown to summer…We’re just back from a week off and already the talk is turning to when the next break will beand for how long. We are now into the final stretch of the spring session, during which the Commons is scheduled to sit for five weeks until June 20, when it is scheduled to […]
Blues backlog
Getting transcripts of House of Commons committee proceedings in a timely fashion has become a major pain for Hill reporters, MPs and staffers who find the minutes invaluable. That’s in large part because of the marathon sessions the Commons Aboriginal Affairs Committee has been holding over the past month to get through its review of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
McCallum’s riding top five in province on memberships
TORONTO–His appointment 365 days ago raised many eyebrows. How do you turn a successful economist into a federal Minister of Defence? Sure an economist knows how much a tank costs, but what does a former chief economist know about running an army, or a navy, or an air force? John McCallum is the economist who […]
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” […]
Yukon’s protected area strategy and seeking a balance: Time to end the bickering and proceed on existing measures to protect environment
WHITEHORSE, YUKON–Seeking a balance between a healthy economy and protecting the wilderness for future generations will always stimulate a thoughtful and passionate debate among Canadians. There are unique land features in each province and territory that should be protected for the future. There are Yukoners, like other Canadians, who require good paying jobs to nurture […]
Let’s stop the fiction, GDP is not enough: Canada needs to adopt natural capital indicators to monitor the economy’s ecological foundations
Canada’s decision-makers have no way of measuring whether we have adequate ecological resources to maintain our current level of economic activity and prosperity into the future. Because we haven’t kept track of our ecological resources, we don’t know if we are running down our stocks of this “natural capital” to the detriment of future generations’ […]
