PARLIAMENTARY CALENDAR: Ottawa West Nepean candidates will be at National Press Club on Jan. 11 to debate and to discuss policies
MONDAY, DEC. 26 Deck the Halls- From Dec. 26-30 between 4:30 and 8:30 p.m., in addition to the House of Commons’ daily guided tours, visitors are invited to see Parliament Buildings in the evening and stroll at their own pace through the halls of the Centre Block, decorated in their festive splendor.Visitors can also take […]
Political reporters schlepping it across the country on campaign
Long days, early days, lots of cold sandwiches. That’s part of the life of a reporter whose news organizations pay $9,000 per week per person to follow the leaders of the federal political parties during this election campaign. In one day, the entourage of reporters, camera crew, political staffers and candidates can go from one […]
Liberals can lead in the ethnic vote if they choose
So how do the Liberals hold on to this core? The answer most likely lies in three things: vision, people and policies. Diverse countries are not easy to run. The only poll on the ethnic vote so far in this election revealed that the Liberals were losing their allure among minorities, although they still remained […]
Tory turns red over leadership
Tory leadership race? The campaign has hardly begun, and once again there are Tories in Quebec who are looking to replace their leader. Meeting with the Conservative candidate in Mansfield Lawrence Cannon, some locals joked that they wanted him to win in Pontiac riding so that he could take a run at the party leadership. […]
Candidates campaign for more civil servants in Quebec: Proulx warns sovereigntists would move Outaouais jobs to Montreal and Quebec City
But the Bloc is not able to say what would happen to existing or new public sector jobs in the Outaouais region, if Quebecers voted for sovereignty. Taking election promises at face value, some federal civil servants who work on the Ontario side of the National Capital Region might soon wind up seeing their workplace […]
Who’s winning the election campaign communications war, so say a couple of wiseguys
So far it is not clear what the Liberals’ theme is, maybe ‘give me a chance just because’: Powers Campaign Themes: Whose Message is Getting Out Powers: Creating the right identity is vital if you are going to have any chance of winning a campaign! Define or be defined. Go back to the 2000 election […]
Fisher says Paul Martin at ‘the bottom of the heap’ of Prime Ministers
The House is dwindling in its importance and Cabinet ministers are no longer as important as they used to be because federal politics is dominated by top strategists of the Prime Minister, says Doug Fisher, the dean of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. “Everything builds around the Prime Minister and, of course, the Prime Minister has […]
Issue-driven campaign so far
The early predictions were this election campaign would be negative, nasty, and downright dirty. Instead, it’s been heavy on policies and issue-driven.Thankfully. Some say this election campaign has been as substantive in the first two weeks than the entire five-week campaign in 2004. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper should be given a lot of the credit […]
Privy Council Office putting campaign platforms under the microscope
PCO planning for a transition in government is a lot more complex today, since there are many different scenarios to consider under the current context with four political parties, say experts. Every single campaign promise is now going under a microscope in the Privy Council Office as it applies its made-in- Canada remedy for political […]
Political leaders to go negative after Christmas, expect carpet bombing in second leg of campaign
The more the federal Conservatives talk about policy issues instead of the sponsorship scandal, the better it is for the federal Liberals, a top pollster said last week. “The Conservatives changed the channel on what people are focusing on,” said Nik Nanos, president and CEO of the polling firm SES Research. “Anytime Gomery is on […]
