News making
High-flying bureaucrats
Senior bureaucrats are flying around the world on lavish multi-destination trips on the taxpayer dime, all under the guise of “leadership training”, and seeing…
Tag: Deficit
8 posts tagged "Deficit".
Foreign Affairs and Defence
What’s on the agenda for G8/G20?
China Prior to the G8, Prime Minister Harper will hold bilateral with President Hu from China on June 24th who is in Canada for a state visit. The visit will…
Tim Hudak
Tim Hudak interview at the Manning Centre Conference
I asked Hudak about principle vs pragmatism in opposition compared to government, about how he would balance the deficit, the difference between…
Digital Politics
Call and answer
I like Warren Kinsella. One of the reasons I like him is because he went for my open question, brought in the other side to weigh in, and now this allows us to…
Michael Ignatieff
Liberals: election now, before the economy gets better
In politics, one is usually driven to action to prevent a problem from developing, or to act to make something better when it is going in the wrong direction.…
Elections
July election on EI? Possible but quite improbable
Is there election fever in Ottawa? This seems to be the question on Parliament Hill whenever we move through the months of May and June in a minority…
Parliament of Canada
Liveblogging Flaherty’s economic statement
4:09pm: Persuant to a standing order I do not recall, the Minister of Finance tables his economic statement. 4:10pm: Time of unprecedented economic…
Conservative Party of Canada
Jim Flaherty at the Fraser Institute
Last night, supporters of the Fraser Institute gathered in the Adam hall of the Chateau Laurier to listen to federal finance minister Jim Flaherty deliver an…