CFN – Mounting opposition to the Keystone XL project shouldn’t have come as a surprise. In this day and age of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other forms of social media, any government (both politicians and bureaucrats) is at a disadvantage when they promote a policy or back a decision. EveryContinue Reading
CFN – The Liberals held their biennial convention this past weekend in Ottawa. For the most part a good show and I am sure the delegates went home with a warm and fuzzy feeling. While it was billed as the convention to reinvent the Liberal Party, I didn’t see muchContinue Reading
CFN – In my previous post I looked at some steps that could be implemented to improve Question Period and at the same time help to fix our dysfunctional parliament. These included allowing the Speaker to skip over disruptive MPs whose names are on his list of questioners for thatContinue Reading
CFN – Unfortunately our parliament often reflects what we would expect to see in a school yard. We have the bullies, the name callers, those that shout and disrupt and some pretty decent kids who work hard and who for the most part don’t get the same attention or recognitionContinue Reading
CFN – As we move forward from the Christmas/New Year’s season and face another year of political warfare in Canada, it is time to reflect on what awaits us. Fortunately, this time of the year provides plenty of opportunity to discuss politics, be it at family gatherings, neighbourhood parties orContinue Reading
CFN –Speaker Andrew Scheer has delivered his ruling on the Conservative Party’s attempts to undermine Irwin Cotler in his riding of Mont Royal. The ruling Scheer presented today referred to the organized telephone contact program conducted on behalf of the Conservatives in Cotler’s riding. The questions in this survey leftContinue Reading
CFN – As I predicted a few days ago, the situation in Attawapiskat has deteriorated into a blame game with politics becoming the most important exercise… lost in this are the people who need help. It became a political issue as soon as the Chief stood with a provincial andContinue Reading
CFN – Yesterday, Bob Rae stood in the House of Commons and delivered a thundering attack aimed at the Conservative government’s lack of action and compassion for the families living in third world conditions in Attawapiskat. Along with the other attacks from the NDP it is clear that the fingerContinue Reading
CFN – It was Pierre Trudeau who famously said that MPs were nobodies once they were 50 yards from the Hill. That reference could certainly apply to the present day NDP leadership campaign. It’s a bit of a con game, IE a campaign of nobodies. While the candidates are aContinue Reading
CFN – What are Canadians reading about today? Is it the new government pension proposal which is a good news story or is it Pat Martin’s Twitter comments and the “Dummy” comments made by both a minister and opposition members in the House of Commons yesterday? What are Canadians talkingContinue Reading
CFN – Anyone watching the House of Commons in action over the past few weeks could be excused for thinking that we were back in the days of a minority Conservative government. Certainly behavior back then from both the NDP and Conservatives wasn’t much different from now. The ConservativesContinue Reading
CFN – Yesterday Frank Graves and I had an interesting discussion with Don Martin on CTV’s PowerPlay. We looked at Prime Minister Harper’s first six months with his majority government and then at where we felt things might go down the road. I thought this would be a good timeContinue Reading
CFN – With some six weeks to go before MPs break for the Christmas holidays their focus remains on whether the Conservative nominee for the position of Auditor General has a level A, B or C proficiency in the French language. The Conservatives have chosen Michael Ferguson who’s French isContinue Reading
CFN – Canadian consumers are growing increasingly frustrated that we pay more than our American neighbours for the same products even though our dollar is comparable to the US dollar. The problem for the Harper government is how do you contain that frustration and prevent it from turning into anger,Continue Reading
CFN – It was nice to see the NDP out there defending Canadians from the recent $5.50 US surcharge that will be applied to tickets sold to Canadian air and ship travelers who visit the United States. When President Obama signed this into law on October 21st, he removed Canada’sContinue Reading
CFN – John Turner made some telling points when he was interviewed recently about his political career. Some of his comments are worth following up and hopefully it will lead to some discussion by current MPs from all parties. Turner said “Who wants to be a Member of Parliament whenContinue Reading
CFN – Did anyone other than the media know that Canada was occupied over the weekend? I woke up to that realization as the media were out in full voice to tell me so. At first I thought we had been invaded by hoards of War of 1812 reinactors, butContinue Reading
CFN – The Harper government has decided to intervene in the negotiations between Air Canada and its flight attendants and the government has indicated that it will move to quash a legal strike mandate. One has to question the motives behind this and the government’s insistence that they are movingContinue Reading
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