The Prime Minister’s Office just distributed the following letter that Stephen Harper has just released to his caucus colleagues:
Prime Minister Harper’s Letter to Caucus – Jan 2012 Continue reading Harper to his caucus: "Dear Colleague: It's been quite a year …"
Month: January 2012
University of Western Ontario makes presidents of the Liberal Party of Canada
This is now beyond coincidence.
Mike Crawley was just elected President of Liberal Party of Canada.
Through playing an active role on local campaigns, leading the University of Western Ontario Liberals as Student Director for the Ontario Young Liberals… Continue reading University of Western Ontario makes presidents of the Liberal Party of Canada
Now on to that issue of who should be Liberal leader …
Sheila Copps, during what turned out to be an unsuccessful campaign to become the next president of the Liberal Party of Canada, was quite open about the fact that she thought Bob Rae would be perfectly suitable as a permanent leader.
That idea was controversial within the party. Continue reading Now on to that issue of who should be Liberal leader …
Praise for PM Harper's hair
The Sunday Magazine of the New York Times has a feature called the “One-Page Magazine.” This week, that feature includes praise for the PM’s hair.
The topics that shall not be broached: NDP-Lib merger
A second post from Beardsley (the Tory):
Back in 2002 when Harper first sat down with Joe Clark to talk about a potential merger, as a party researcher, I made a chart (later updated in 2003) of all of our PC and Reform/Canadian Alliance election platforms and matched them up word for word. I did the same for the party constitutions. We agreed on something like 75-80% of the items. I wonder if anyone has done this for the Liberal and NDP platforms. Just how different are they?
via Based on today, the Conservatives will have a long reign – BLOG – A look at Canadian politics.
An Old Tory reflects on the Liberal convention: Living in a time warp
Keith Beardsley was “on the inside” as a member of Stephen Harper’s inner circle both while Harper was in opposition and, later, as deputy chief of staff to the Conservative prime minister. After visiting the Liberal biennial convention in Ottawa this weekend, he blogged some observations. Click through Continue reading An Old Tory reflects on the Liberal convention: Living in a time warp
Convention attendance: Liberals show lots of life
Liberal MP Ralph Goodale said on Twitter that 3,300 people had registered for the LIberal Party of Canada’s biennial convention being held this weekend in Ottawa. For a party that has people writing its obituary, that’s a very good turnout. In fact that easily leads the turnout at political conventions held since the election on May 2, 2011. Continue reading Convention attendance: Liberals show lots of life
Undoing same-sex marriages in Canada
The very first point that a federal government lawyer makes in a case in Toronto involving a non-resident same-sex couple that wishes to divorce here is that they cannot divorce in Canada because they were never legally married to begin even though the couple came to get married after same-sex marriages were made legal. Confused? Here’s the paragraph Continue reading Undoing same-sex marriages in Canada
MVP MPs
Today, across our newspaper chain, I try to highlight what I’ll call MVP MPs, as voted on by MPs themselves. Before Christmas, I asked about three dozen MPs from all parties to list one or two MPs from any party they thought had done a good job of serving their constituents and Canadians.
All right, then, let's vote for a Liberal Leader
The Liberal Party of Canada isn’t supposed to pick its permanent successor Michael Ignatieff until the middle of 2013. But interim leader Bob Rae gave such a fiery speech to his caucus today that many think — despite a rule set by the party leadership to prevent him from running for the permanent job — he may yet end up with that job. Continue reading All right, then, let's vote for a Liberal Leader