Top experts say ‘massive’ PS bill a ‘modest’ step forward: ‘There’s still a great deal of work to be done’: Donald Savoie
OTTAWA–Two of the country’s foremost experts on the machinery of government have dismissed the federal government’s attempt to overhaul the public service — what would amount to the first major reform in over 40 — as “modest” while admitting the legislation is on the right track. Donald Savoie, a public administration professor and author of […]
Proud of Prime Minister Chretien’s stand
I find it interesting that the politicians who feel that Canada should be involved in the Iraq conflict are people who have never served in the military. It is easy to tell someone to do a job that you are not familiar with or willing to do yourself. Instead, of complaining about our government, as […]
‘The personal is political’: NDP MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis
OTTAWA–Canadian Alliance MP Grant McNally, 41, lives every day with the fact that one of his four children has leukemia. The two-termer federal MP for Dewdney-Alouette, B.C., has talked about it over the years in the House of Commons, but definitely does not go out of his way to publicize it. In the House of […]
Ottawa boasts over 453,000 people on payroll: Jim Judd, secretary of Treasury Board, answers long-awaited question
OTTAWA–The federal government can count 453,568 people on its payroll working in jobs located across Canada and all over the world, the Treasury Board confirmed last week. Jim Judd, secretary of the Treasury Board and comptroller general of Canada, provided the information in a short, twopage report to the Commons Government Operations Committee on April […]
Fuddle-duddle?
That Gerry Byrne’s a real knee-slapper. The rookie Minister of State for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency was up on his feet in the Commons last Wednesday afternoon, defending Fisheries Minister Robert Thibault who had recently returned from announcing the shut-down of the cod fishery in St. John’s, Nfld., to angry fishers. Mr. Thibault is […]
Don’t like Chretien’s campaign bill
Canadians should be upset with a Prime Minister using flawed electoral reform legislation as tool to maintain his control of the Liberal Party. On the surface, we all agree that the influence of money needs to be removed from Parliament, but such a move should not create a further tax burden for the voters. As […]
“Was Sheila Copps just playing leadership politics when she publicly criticized Anne McLellan’s lack of leadership on SARS, or is there something deeper going on here we should all know about?”
Warren Kinsella Liberal strategist “Look, during leadership races — as with the Alliance’s race last year, the NDP’s a few months back, and the Tories’ ongoing one — candidates disagree with each other. They criticize each other, as well as the policies of the party they seek to lead. That’s normal. “Sheila Copps had no […]
Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources: Part 6
Mr. Anderson: I cannot, really. However, the more information you provide, the better off you are. There will be journalists who will pick up this aspect; salesmen will use it as a selling point for a stove or fridge or, indeed, a vehicle. Having said that, it is true that it is not the only […]
God bless America
Many of the Canadian opinions on the “Iraqi intentions” of my country are sadly inappropriate and are now being proven wrong by the overriding positive support of the liberation of Iraq by Iraqi citizens. It has been quite popular to be anti- American. But it is much more intelligent to be informed with facts. We […]
Showdown on Governance Act expected
OTTAWA–In what promises to be revealed as a showdown, Roberta Jamieson, chief of the Six-Nations reserve, says Bill C-7, the government’s First Nations Governance Act is “fatally flawed,” it “violates” native peoples’ rights, and that the only way it can be fixed is by withdrawing the increasingly controversial piece of legislation. “We take that position […]
