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PBO report card shows municipalities will be left holding the bag on infrastructure projects
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Employment, Taxes, The Economy on August 9, 2010
OTTAWA, August 9, 2010 – A report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer today shows that delays by the Harper government in getting infrastructure stimulus funding out the door means municipalities – and, ultimately, the local taxpayer – could be left having to pay for millions of dollars worth of projects, Liberal Infrastructure Critic Gerard Kennedy said. Read on »
Busy Tony Clement is alienating voters
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Employment, Jobs, Science & Technology, The Economy on July 22, 2010
Carol Goar, The Toronto Star, July 21, 2010
Tony Clement is rapidly alienating large swaths of the population.
Folks in his goody-strewn riding of Parry Sound Muskoka think he’s a fine politician. But across the country, a large — and growing — segment of the electorate blames the industry minister for throttling Statistics Canada, allowing foreign acquisitors to pick off Canadian companies, chopping federal funding for dozens of tourist attractions and using last month’s world leaders’ meetings to funnel $50 million into his constituency. Read on »
CRTC warns against foreign control of telecoms
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Jobs, Research & Development, Science & Technology on April 14, 2010
Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press, Published April 13, 2010 in The Toronto Star
OTTAWA — Canada’s federal regulator has come out strongly against foreign control of the country’s telecom sector, saying doing so risks turning Canada’s communications industry into a “branch plant.” Read on »
Low expectations? Feds want to move Canada from 9th place to 10th on economy
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Jobs, The Economy on April 8, 2010
By: Julian Beltrame, THE CANADIAN PRESS, in The Winnipeg Free Press, 8/04/2010
OTTAWA – The Harper government wants Canada to be No. 10 in the world in economic competitiveness.
It sounds like a lofty goal, except for one thing – we’re already No. 9. Read on »
Innovation out of our hands in a branch-plant economy
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Jobs, Liberals, Research & Development, Science & Technology on March 23, 2010
By David Olive, Business Columnist, The Toronto Star, March 23, 2010
Nortel Networks Corp. on Friday quietly shed the last of its remaining major businesses, selling its optical and ethernet networking operations to U.S.-based Ciena Corp. for $774 million (U.S.). Read on »
Tory budget ‘walks away’ from renewable energy, environmentalist says
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Energy, Environment, Jobs, Research & Development, Science & Technology on March 13, 2010
Gloria Galloway, Ottawa — From The Globe and Mail, Mar. 10, 2010
The new federal budget is titled “Leading the Way on Jobs and Growth,” but environmentalists say it fails badly when it comes to creating new employment in fields that deliver energy from renewable sources like sun, wind and water.
Even before the new fiscal plan was released last week, the U.S. federal government was outspending Ottawa by a per-capita ratio of 14 to 1 on the technologies that many believe will be the energy sources of future generations. Read on »
Federal green strategy goes from bad to worse
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Research & Development, Science & Technology on March 9, 2010
By Tyler Hamilton, Energy and Technology Columnist, The Toronto Star, March 8, 2010
Thud.
You hear that sound? That’s the sound of nearly half a billion taxpayer dollars landing on the doorstep of Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. 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.
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