OttawaThe solution to our MP problem is not more MPsLast week, Alan Broadbent made the case for more MPs. Andrew Potter nodded his agreement. Today, Alison Loat dissents slightly. As...
OttawaPolitics from MarsHannah Cooper considers the lack of women in our politics. An extended discussion ensues, including a cameo from Martha Hall...
OttawaThe Backbench Top TenAfter a week off to accommodate all that thinking in Montreal, here is the return of our weekly, and wholly arbitrary, ranking of...
OttawaThe problem with our MPs is that we need more of them (II)After withdrawing an earlier attempt to adjust the House seating arrangement, the Conservatives are apparently prepared to go...
OttawaThe Commons: A question of maturityFive letter writers connected to Helena Guergis, yet she claims ignorance. What a coincidence.
OttawaThe government respondsJustice Minister Rob Nicholson, with an array of backbenchers positioned behind him to fill the TV frame, began his remarks at...
OttawaThe problem with our MPs is that we need more of themAlan Broadbent throws out some ideas for improving our House of Commons.
OttawaExecutive assistant of the year (II)The Liberals sent up their designated expresser-of-outrage, Mr. Wayne Easter, to question the government side this afternoon about...
Ottawa’There will occasionally be inconsistencies’The Justice Minister dismissed yesterday a Liberal question on the latest redaction mystery , but when the Bloc’s Christiane...
OttawaThe Commons: Smirking towards the futureBaird slams the Liberals’ “thinking, spending, taxing conference”