The Conservative Party finished riding the Parliamentary rollercoaster this week as the week started out with Stephen Harper’s foot on the throat of a dying Liberal minority government facing certain defeat on its…
Stephen Harper reiterated yesterday that the Conservative Party needs to present itself as the credible federalist option to Quebecers. He noted that there wasn’t a single non-separatist MP from Quebec that voted agaist…
In the most dramatic vote that I’ve ever witnessed, the Liberals just squeeked by with Cadman casting his vote to prop up the government. Kingston Liberal MP and Speaker of the House cast the tie-breaker as per…
David Kilgour has just confirmed that he will vote against the NDP budget. I predict that Cadman will also vote against the budget. The budget vote is two hours away…
Today’s news is surly sour for all of us in the CPC, however perhaps we can take lemons and make lemonade to help us get that bitter taste of economic pie out of our mouths. Consider this: A senior Liberal cabinet…
On the sponsorship scandal: [Paul Martin is] part of the shameful mess or he is incompetent — Belinda Stronach On Liberal inaction on free trade: In the past few years the number of free trade agreements reached by…
Belinda Stronach has left the Conservative Party to sit as a cabinet minister in the Liberal cabinet for 3 days. Yes, I believe that the government will still fall on Thursday, Kilgour and Cadman will vote with the…
Her Excellency, Adrienne Clarkson is coming to Queen’s University on May 19th to launch the Governor General Lecture Series. It’s a free public lecture from 7:00-9:30pm. The lecture is about cognitive neuroscience and…
I decided to take an early weekend and continue working on my graduate thesis from the comfort of the parents’ home in Milton. The Halton CPC nomination was also on Thursday, so I got home a couple of hours earlier than…
The Conservatives led a motion today to adjourn the House. Prior to this motion they prompted the Government to call for debate and a vote on their budget. The Liberal government wants to hold off until next Thursday…