Jean-Pierre Blackburn

Conservatives will form government with the NDP as official opposition

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Keeping in mind that the Transport Minister’s spokesman has said the government is “very interested” in the possibility of a hockey arena being built in Quebec City and another cabinet minister has said the government “cannot ignore the wishes of the population” and a half-dozen Conservative MPs have donned Nordiques jerseys for the cameras and the Prime Minister’s spokesman has talked of the larger benefits of sports venues and the Prime Minister himself has both spoken hopefully of a professional hockey team for Quebec City and mused openly of funding sports venues across the country, here today the Prime Minister raises the small matter of a certain adjective in discussing the proposed hockey arena for Quebec City.

Veteran Affairs Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn explains why the federal government is interested in the return of an NHL franchise to Quebec City.

Do MPs generally have too little experience or too much?

The Dairy Farmers of Canada held a reception at the Fairmont Château Laurier. Below, Minister of International Trade Peter Van Loan.

The Liberals sent Wayne Easter up yesterday to berate Jean-Pierre Blackburn for whatever it is that happened awhile back with the Veteran Affairs Minister and his tequila. The Conservatives permitted Mr. Blackburn to respond for himself. His two responses were as follows.

For those needing closure, the Veterans Affairs Minister issues the following statement.

Jean-Pierre Blackburn has it out with airport security over a bottle of tequila

Lisa Raitt will likely be one of the casualties of Stephen Harper’s cabinet shuffle today

What A Girl Wants was a fundraiser for the Canadian Liver Foundation, which included a fashion show and Ottawa firefighters. Below, Justin Trudeau has a dance off with Kenzie Potter from Conservative House leader Jay Hill’s office.

 

Victims of Earl Jones’s alleged scam have a new target: the banks