OttawaThe Commons: Thomas Mulcair and Stephen Harper play charadesThe Scene. What does it mean to act? What is change? What does one do when one takes something and makes it somehow smaller? How...
OttawaThe cost of reducing GHGsThe Conservatives sent up four MPs during members’ statements this afternoon to lament for the NDP’s cap-and-trade proposal. Among...
OttawaThe Commons: Explaining is losingThe Scene. Of the Petronas decision , Thomas Mulcair stood and suggested Christian Paradis had behaved like a "thief in the...
OttawaThe trouble with the Indian ActBob Rae spoke in the House this morning on his motion about replacing the Indian Act. Conservative MP Rob Clarke has a private...
OttawaTony Clement’s responseTony Clement’s director of communications lamented last night that this post did not recognize the estimates reforms Mr. Clement...
OttawaGreat work, but never mindIn June, Tony Clement commended the government operations committee on its study of estimates reform. This week, Tony Clement...
OttawaNavigating the budget’s watersDuring QP this morning, NDP House leader Nathan Cullen declared that changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act were not in...
GeneralMP pension changes fast-tracked through the Commons, split off from omnibus budget bill OTTAWA - The House of Commons has unanimously approved changes to the MP pension plan after splitting them off from the...
OttawaThe public shaming continuesNDP MP David Christopherson used his members’ statement yesterday to chide Conservative MP Lawrence Toet. See previously here...
OttawaEverything that C-45 touchesIn all, C-45 , the second budget implementation act, amends or affects the Income Tax Act, Excise Tax Act, Jobs and Economic...