Il ne se précipite pas pour revenir aux difficiles périodes des questions : Hughes ELLIOT LAKE, ON — Quelques jours avant la Journée internationale de la démocratie (15 septembre), le premier ministre a annoncé qu’il allait proroger le Parlement, ce qui retardera d’un mois entier le [Read more]
not rushing back to difficult question periods: Hughes ELLIOT LAKE, ON – Just days ahead of the International Day of Democracy (September15th ), the Prime Minister announced he will prorogue parliament which will delay the start of the fall sitting for a full month. While the move was [Read more]
Ceux qui ont regardé la période des questions pendant les cinq dernières semaines de la session parlementaire du printemps dernier auront peut-être remarqué les absences répétées du premier ministre. Lorsque Stephen Harper se trouvait à la Chambre pendant cette période, il naviguait [Read more]
If you watched Question Period during the last five weeks parliament sat in the spring, you didn’t see much of the Prime Minister. When Stephen Harper was around over that stretch, it was anything but smooth sailing. Day after day he faced a tough line of questioning from Tom Mulcair about [Read more]
“We must clean up corruption and lift the veils of secrecy that allow it to flourish. We must do nothing less than replace the culture of entitlement with the culture of accountability.” That was Stephen Harper’s opinion only one year before he became Prime Minister. Much has changed [Read more]
The Auditor General gave the Conservative government a $3.1 billion dollar black eye this week when he revealed that amount of money is missing in action from Canada’s anti-terrorism efforts. Stephen Harper says this is just ‘an issue of lack of clarity,’ but for a party that rode into Ottawa [Read more]
Give’em enough rope: Senators doing a great job of showing why we don’t need the place The recent investigation into questionable housing allowance claims for Senators has put the Red Chamber under a spotlight that leaves many Canadians wondering how useful the institution really is. One [Read more]
NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO – Saturday, January 5th members of the Pic River and Pic Mobert First Nations showed their support of Attawapiskat First Nations Chief Theresa Spence and the Idle No More Movement with peaceful protests near their communities. Ojibways of the Pic River First Nations had a [Read more]
You may have heard: the retirement security of Canadians is under threat. At the World Economic Forum in January, Stephen Harper called the future of Canada’s Old Age Security (OAS) program into question. OAS provides supplementary income to 98% of Canadians over the age of 65. The government has [Read more]
Dans ses promesses électorales de 2008, Stephen Harper a pris des engagements au sujet du pétrole brut tiré des sables bitumineux du Canada : il a promis que le pétrole ne serait pas exporté à l’état brut pour être enrichi et raffiné ailleurs (abstraction faite des contrats déjà [Read more]
Stephen Harper’s promises in the 2008 election included commitments about bitumen (heavy oil) from Canada’s tar sands: That we would not export the raw material to be upgraded and refined elsewhere (existing US contracts aside) and; that we would not trade the resource to countries with lesser [Read more]
Future of health care weakened by Prime Minister’s inaction ALGOMA-MANITOULIN-KAPUSKASING , ON – One of the items central to Canadian identity is Medicare. Publicly funded health care system is a great leveller in our society, especially when compared with the largely private system in [Read more]
Time to fix Ottawa say New Democrats ELLIOTT LAKE, ON – New Democrat candidate Carol Hughes kicked off her re-election campaign today in Algoma – Manitoulin – Kapuskasing following an historic vote that found the Conservative government in contempt of parliament. “Stephen Harper has [Read more]
Health Canada gets it right after a decade of shame In the good news file, children in this country will face one less threat in their toy-boxes as Canada finally banned products containing phthalates this week. These chemical additives are used to soften plastic and vinyl, have often found their [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – New Democrat National Revenue Critic, Carol Hughes (Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing), rose in the House of Commons today calling on Stephen Harper to put his money where his mouth is when it comes to getting tough on tax evasion. “Billions of dollars are sent offshore to sunny [Read more]
