The farce goes to Leduc
An excerpt from an op-ed in the Leduc Representative by Conservative MP Blaine Calkins. Here again is the rough guide to the...
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Leon Benoit defers to the authority of Stephen Gordon
Conservative MP Leon Benoit seems to have issued a news release that uses the expertise of Stephen Gordon to bolster the case that...
Navigating the farce, Terrence Young
An exchange from Monday’s budget debate between the NDP’s Kennedy Stewart and Conservative MP Terrence Young. Cap-and-trade is, of...
Navigating the farce, Joy Smith and Royal Galipeau
An interesting exchange from the very end of yesterday’s debate on the budget. The problem for Mr. Galipeau and Ms. Smith is that...
’It is a tax because it will raise costs’
In protesting the NDP’s cap-and-trade proposal, Vic Toews adds to the definition of a tax. The Conservatives have already posited...
The farce reaches Flin Flon
The following appeared in the Flin Flon Reminder yesterday as Conservative MP Rob Clarke’s MP report. Here again is a rough guide...
John Baird’s guide to polite conversation
The Commons: ’So much for the Leader of the Opposition raising the tone of political debate in this place’
Cheryl Gallant’s farce
The Conservatives sent up four backbenchers during members’ statements today to complain about a carbon tax. Among them was Cheryl...
Pointing out the farce
Conservative MPs made 23 references to a "carbon tax" in the House on Friday. Two other references were made by Liberal MP Scott...
Canadian climate change regulations: how *not* to do the simple, sensible thing
For the same current total cost, we could be cutting 38 per cent more GHGs