Pat's Posts

Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP): Mr. Speaker, the triple E Senate is just the latest in a string of Conservative Party principles jettisoned in the interest of political expediency. Who says so? Premier Christy Clark, Premier Brad Wall, Premier Dalton McGuinty and now Roger Gibbins of the Canada West Foundation say so.

    Despite election promises, the Prime Minister has abandoned real reform and undermined accountability by stuffing the Senate chock-full of Conservative packs and flacks and bagmen.

Robert Hiltz - Ottawa Citizen - April 30th, 2012

   A decades-old pro-asbestos lobby group, currently funded by the Quebec government, will be shutting its doors after notifying the federal government of its plan to dissolve.

On February 23, 2012, I appeared before the national media to speak in response to the important issue of “Robocalls” in the 2011 general election.  At that time I expressed my personal outrage along with the outrage of the caucus of the official opposition upon learning about the serious allegations of electoral fraud.

MARIANNE WHITE, Postmedia News

   After the oilsands and the seal hunt, asbestos has become Canada's new sin, tarred as an evil at home and abroad.

   In just three years, asbestos went from being one of the country's great exports, supported by all political parties at the House of Commons, to being vilified by politicians of all stripes, including some Conservatives.

Mia Rabson, Winnipeg Free Press

   Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared Thursday there is nothing in a federal court ruling on his government's wheat board legislation that prevents the government from continuing to push the bill forward.

   But a leading expert on parliamentary procedure said the courts can - and likely will, if asked - issue an injunction against implementing the bill until the court case is completed.