Deputy PM Manley sets Grit leadership stage, fired up
TORONTO–His campaign hasn’t even officially started yet, but Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister John Manley is talking tough and is all fired up to get to the top job in the Liberal Party of Canada. In an extensive and lively interview with The Hill Times last week, Mr. Manley, 53, (Ottawa South, Ont.), who […]
More talk of Senate reform
It’s not the kind of reform many have been pushing for for the Senate, but Nova Scotia Tory Senator Donald Oliver’s bill to have the Upper Chamber’s Speaker elected by secret ballot is bound to be seen as a start for many. The Nova Scotia Senator, appointed by former prime minister Brian Mulroney in 1990, […]
One more sacred cow
Regarding the column “Lack of leadership defines government’s online: strategy,” by Paco Francoli, (The Hill Times, March 17). As someone who is participating in the creation of the Canadian e-learning enterprise alliance, combined with the dealings I have had so far with those in the various government departments and agencies with regards to e-learning, I […]
International diplomacy is a two-edged sword: U.S. would not now want to push its two friendly neighbours too far
Following his speech to the Toronto Economic Club last week, U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci engaged in some unusual diplomatic activity. Usually, as guests in another countries, diplomats do not comment on the domestic affairs of the host country. Recently, when Lebanon’s Ambassador Raymond Baaklini made remarks about media ownership in this country, the same Canadian […]
Iraq still could have been disarmed: French Ambassador
OTTAWA–Iraq could have been disarmed of weapons of mass destruction without resorting to the use of force by the United States and Great Britain, says the French envoy to Canada. Moreover, Philippe Guelluy, France’s Ambassador to Canada told CPAC’s The Diplomatic World, last week that the United States, Great Britain and the coalition of the […]
MPs’ and Senators’ Birthdays
*Liberal MP Gilbert Normand, 60, March 31, 1943 *Liberal MP Lawrence O’Brien, 52, March 31, 1951 *Alliance MP Rob Anders, 31, April 1, 1972 *Liberal MP Denis Paradis, 54, April 1, 1949 *Liberal MP Alan Tonks, 60, April 2, 1943 *Liberal MP Karen Kraft Sloan, 51, April 3, 1952 *Liberal MP Robert Bertrand, 50, April […]
Stairway to heaven…
Sometimes the more serious stories do earn responses. Last week’s item on John Manley being slow to pick up membership forms in Alberta and B.C. is one such case. Examples of the comments – which blame the problem on stalling and other sneaky tactics by Paul Martin supporters who control the provincial wings and the […]
‘Deepening crisis’ grips Canadian democracy: Kingsley launches ambitious plan to get young Canadians to start voting
OTTAWA–Jean-Pierre Kingsley, the chief electoral officer, says that Canadian democracy is in the midst of a “deepening crisis” because of the steady decline in the voter turnout, particularly among youths, which reached an alltime low during the last general election in 2000. On March 21, at a conference at Carleton University in Ottawa, Mr. Kingsley […]
No Canadian grit there
Regarding “America is becoming unhinged,” (The Hill Times, March 17). It is you liberals who are becoming “unhinged.” Your view of how the Cold War was won is intellectually dishonest at best. The final line of your article made me burst out laughing…” Canadian grit?” Not sending in Canadian troops to help liberate Iraq, you […]
Parliament’s e-mail system clogged
Farmers, war and e-mail log jams… Ongoing woes with the parl.gc.ca e-mail system came to a head again this month when many MPs and staffers found their computers freezing up upon the return of the Commons from its two-week March break. Incoming e-mails were bouncing back to senders as “undeliverable” and many recipients were unable […]
