Questions raised by my post yesterday were brought up in the House of Commons today by James Bezan (Conservative MP, Selkirk-Interlake) to Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board Pierre Poilievre…
Former and likely future Liberal leadership candidate Bob Rae is working this weekend to get himself elected to the House of Commons in the riding of Toronto Centre. Rae is putting himself up as a fresh new ethical face…
The following is Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Statement of Claim against the Liberal Party of Canada and the Federal Liberal Agency of Canada filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Read this doc on Scribd…
… in the strictest Parliamentary sense that is. It would seem that the answer is no. The House justice committee chair Art Hanger (Conservative MP, Calgary North-East) has just denied a motion forwarded by Dominic…
From today’s Globe and Mail, details of the RCMP investigation and interview of then Finance Minister Ralph Goodale surface: Transcripts of RCMP interviews with Mr. Goodale and his staff show that, among other things…
As some of the air has been taken out of the so-called “Cadscam”, I thought it might be interesting to take a quick look at which communications goals were achieved by how this “scandal” was named and then let’s…
While is was inevitable for some time, Arizona senator John McCain only recently became the official nominee for the Republican Party. Most U.S. observers believe that Chicago junior senator Barack Obama will defeat…
On the so-called “Cadscam”, some reporters are re-writing history. Consider the following from an article by Lawrence Martin, a senior reporter for the Globe and Mail in the Parliamentary Press Gallery: Mr. Cadman, who…
Do you think it’s easy to get re-elected? Dion’s greatest liability is himself. “I think a responsible secessionist leader should not rush to a referendum, should first build strong support, a clear majority for…
The following is a transcript of NDP leader Jack Layton’s appearance on CNN’s Lou Dobbs tonight on March 6th, 2008: DOBBS: Let’s take a different perspective on NAFTA if we may tonight, this one the Canadian…