Archive for category Democracy
They don’t need no census in Muskoka
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Democracy on July 14, 2010
Kelly McParland, The National Post, July 13, 2010
Tony Clement must have thought he was looking at an easy summer, what with the G8 being over with, and such a resounding success too. Read on »
Tories keep MPs in dark on data, says Commons budget watchdog
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Democracy on May 11, 2010
By Kathryn May, The Ottawa Citizen May 10, 2010
When it is finally released, budget watchdog Kevin Page’s costing of one of the Conservative crime bills will suffer the same problem as his probes into First Nations schools and the war in Afghanistan — no hard data from the government. Read on »
Harper’s openness in dispute
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Democracy on April 13, 2010
Susan Delacourt, Ottawa Bureau of The Toronto Star, April 13, 2010
OTTAWA – The Prime Minister’s Office has declared this week that freedom of information is “the oxygen of democracy.”
Canada’s information commissioner, however, finds that the capital is somewhat oxygen-deprived under Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government. Read on »
Find Some Principles
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Democracy on March 3, 2010
Justin Trudeau, Member of Parliament, Papineau, QC. First published in The Mark, Mar 02, 2010
Even though it makes my job as a member of the Official Opposition a little easier, I am genuinely disappointed that this Conservative government didn’t hold true to the principles that brought it to power. Read on »
What has changed in Ottawa in two months?
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Democracy, Liberals, Taxes, The Deficit, The Economy on March 2, 2010
by Andrew Coyne, Macleans Magazine, March 1, 2010
Parliament returns, to a changed political landscape. As late as mid-December, the Conservatives were still leading the Liberals by eight to 10 points. Two months and one prorogation later, the parties are statistically tied. Read on »
Travers: Conservative motivations laid bare
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Democracy on February 23, 2010
By James Travers, National Affairs Columnist, The Toronto Star, February 23, 2010
Conservatives are out of their particular closet. Not since ripping into social and legal activists during a first year in power has the party so aggressively, or openly, imposed its ideology. Read on »
Stephen Harper’s troubling foreign policy
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Democracy, Foreign Policy on February 22, 2010
SHAWN KATZ, The Sheaf, from The Concordian, February 22, 2010
MONTREAL (CUP) – Since coming to office, the Stephen Harper Conservatives have sought to break with Canada’s consensus stance on the Middle East, developed since the birth of Israel 60 years ago and held to by governments of both conservative and liberal stripes over the years. Where once we were a candid (and when appropriate, critical) friend of Israel, we have now become their stooge — and it is Canada’s international credibility that has suffered greatly as a result. Read on »
MPs pile on `train wreck’ agency
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Democracy, Foreign Policy, Human Rights on February 18, 2010
By Bruce Campion-Smith, Ottawa Bureau chief, The Toronto Star, February 18, 2010
OTTAWA–Opposition MPs are calling on Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon to rein in the Rights and Democracy agency that they say has gone “rogue” and is “out of control.”
They’re vowing to hold a parliamentary probe of the government-funded agency’s woes when the House of Commons resumes sitting in less than two weeks. Read on »
Rights agency needs new head
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Democracy, Foreign Policy, Human Rights on February 17, 2010
From the Toronto Star, February 16, 2010
After trying for weeks to distance himself from the mess at Rights and Democracy, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon is finally taking responsibility for it. Read on »
Ignatieff outlines Liberal priorities in open letter to Harper
Posted by sitemaster in Aboriginals, Accountability, Canadian Armed Forces, Crime & Safety, Democracy, Employment, Energy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Pensions, The Economy on February 17, 2010
Please click here to read Michael Ignatieff’s open letter to Stephen Harper, dated February 15, 2010.
Ignatieff uses the pause
Posted by sitemaster in Canadian Armed Forces, Democracy, Liberals, Women's Rights on February 17, 2010
From The Globe and Mail, Published on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010
Crickets continue to chirp in the House of Commons chamber. But elsewhere in the prorogued parliamentary precinct, there is activity, with some help from Michael Ignatieff and the federal Liberal Party. In the absence of Question Period, Mr. Ignatieff has used the time to formulate some worthwhile policy proposals. Read on »
Conservatives follow recipe for foreign-policy decay
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Culture, Democracy, Foreign Policy on February 16, 2010
Muzzling NGOs and meddling in arms-length organizations like Rights and Democracy will only diminish Canada’s role on the world stage
David Eaves, Special to The Globe and Mail, Published on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010
Over the past few months a new pattern in Ottawa’s relations with internationally focused NGOs has begun to emerge. Through bullying, funding decisions, appointments and other means, the government is attempting to compel Canadian organizations that engage in international issues to parrot its opinions. Read on »
Canadian democracy is oxygen-starved
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Democracy on February 14, 2010
THE GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 14, 2010
The free flow of information is essential to a democracy, just as oxygen is essential to a human body. Citizens can’t make good decisions at the voting booth if they don’t have the facts, and the arguments, on all sides of the issues.
On many matters, much information is generated by, and controlled by, governments themselves. That’s why it is vital that the people have as much access as possible to government data and records. Read on »
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