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 […]
Liberals hoping ethics chill thaws out in Pontiac riding
Liberals warn that fluently bilingual Conservative candidate Lawrence Cannon might leave the staunchly federalist Pontiac riding with an unpleasant surprise on Jan. 23: A Bloc Quebecois MP. FORT-COULONGE,QUE.-With the wind chill, it was somewhere near -20 C on the streets of this Outaouais town last week in the western part of the Pontiac riding. It’s […]
Recently Released Books [Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry] [Canada Among Nations 2005: Split Images] [Magnificence at Work: Living Faith in Business]
Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971 , by Dimitry Anastakis. University of Toronto Press, 285 pages, $29.95. Blurb from the back cover: “At a time when Canada’s most important industry faces unprecedented challenges stemming from unregulated global trade, the arrival of Dimitry Anastakis’s Auto Pact could not be more timely. A […]
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 […]
Corrections and clarifications
In last week’s photograph on page 6, The Hill Times (Dec. 5) incorrectly identified Jim Judd as the former DM of Public Works in 2003. Mr. Judd, who is currently the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, was the secretary of the Treasury Board in 2003. ******* In NDP incumbent Peter Julian’s column in […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A Liberal national media? The evening the government fell, Prime Minister Paul Martin gave a speech to his caucus. Usually the caucus room just has Liberal MPs and a few staffers inside. That night, of course, it was a staged media event, and the room was filled with reporters. As he was getting started, he […]
Martin’s entourage should better understand what makes Quebec tick half as well as Duceppe’s palace guard
If there is another Quebec referendum anytime soon, Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe will be the man to beat. He may turn out to be as tough a proposition for bewildered federalists as the charismatic Lucien Bouchard. Many Canadians were surprised by Duceppe’s strong performance in the 2004 televised leaders’ debates. The fact that the […]
‘We’re mere mortals this time’: Grit Mahoney: Now that the NDP’s ‘Saint Ed’ Broadbent is out of the race, the Liberals think they can win Ottawa Centre
Now that the enigma that was Saint Ed, as in Ed Broadbent, is gone from Ottawa Centre, there’s new blood vying to represent the riding. Although many are putting the odds on the Liberals to regain the seat from the NDP. The Liberals held the riding under Mac Harb from 1988 to 2003 before he […]
