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Residential schools engaged in “cultural genocide,” former prime minister Paul Martin said Friday at the hearings of the federal Truth And Reconciliation Commission, adding that aboriginal Canadians must now be offered the best educational system. “Let us understand that what happened at the residential schools was the use of [...] The post Paul Martin accuses residential schools of ‘cultural genocide’ appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. A Canadian Conservative has to do a lot to be punted by the Wildrose party and the Manning Centre. Thomas Flanagan did that on Wednesday by condoning child pornography. See the recorded video below of his response to a question on his views on child pornography. His argumentation basically noted that the individual act of [...] 
 Argumentation, Bill C-31, Broadcasts, CBC, child pornographers, child pornography, Conservative Groups, Conservatives, Justice Policy, Last Decade, Paul Martin, Personal Liberty, Political Science Department, politics, Pornographic Image, Previous Attacks, Siding, Speaking Programs, Thomas Flanagan, University of Calgary, Vic Toews The Canadian Progressive: Harper Government should consider options for Sea King replacement: ReportBy Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Feb. 11, 2013: OTTAWA – A major, deep-reaching report about the maritime helicopter procurement has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “The worst procurement in the history of Canada”: Solving the maritime helicopter crisis (PDF) was written by University of British Columbia political READ MORE
Advocacy, Canada, canadian centre for policy alternatives, Canadian Forces, Canadian Navy, Featured, Guest Blog, Harper government, International Relations, Maritime Helicopter Project, Paul Martin, Press release, Research And Study, Rideau Institute, Sea King Helicopter, think tanks, war and peace Former prime minister was the architect of the 2005 Kelowna Accord By Jennifer Clibbon | CBC News, Jan 17, 2013 4:58 AM ET Few Canadian leaders know the issues raised by Idle No More better than former prime minister Paul Martin. As Canada’s 21st prime minister, Martin will be remembered as the architect of the 2005 Kelowna Accord, which READ MORE As a perfect storm blows, Alison Redford’s strategic brain trust parries Opposition attacks about the conduct of her government. The premier is in the centre of the boat, wearing a cowboy hat. Actual Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Your blogger with Paul Martin; queue-jumping inquiry chief John Vertes. As the political … . . . → Read More: Alberta Diary: Everythinggate: Perfect storm lands Alberta premier in shark-infested waters! Last week, Martha Hall Findlay and Karen McCrimmon declared their candidacies for the Liberal leadership race. This week, George Takach has taken the plunge. I’ve posted one blog interview with David Merner, and will have others with David Bertschi and Alex Burton next week. Deborah Coyne, meanwhile, has already released more fresh ideas than we’ve seen from Stephen Harper during his entire tenure as Prime Minister. These are seven very different candidates with seven very different messages, but the one … → . . . → Read More: Calgary Grit: Canada’s Greatest Losers
--- 2013 LPC Leadership Race, Alison Redford, Audrey McLaughlin, Barack Obama, David Bertschi, deborah coyne, George Takach, history, jack layton, Jean Charest, Jean Chrétien, John Diefebanker, John Turner, Karen McCrimmon, Mackenzie King, Martha Hall Findlay, michael ignatieff, Paul Martin, Peter MacKay, Pierre Trudeau, Rob Anders, Stephane Dion, stephen harper, Stockwell Day, Warren Kinsella I’ve decided to add another part to my underlooked Harper series upon reflection with new information in mind. All of the Stephen Harper quotes, unless otherwise noted, are dug up from the leaked Harper database of controversial quotes. I’m covering them because these haven’t gotten the media or blogger attention I believe they deserve. You can (and should) read part one, two, three, four, five and six here. “Whether I agree with what he’s doing or not, Paul Martin is obviously in the top of his area,” Harper says. “He has good support within his party, (Read more…) Alberta Diary: Problems with their papers? No word yet on Conservative candidates for Calgary CentreMembers of the Calgary Centre Conservative Constituency Association puzzle over nomination papers presented by would-be candidates. Alberta political insiders may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: CPC Candidates Joan Crockatt, Joe Soares, Jon Lord and Richard Billington. Wherever are the Conservative Party of Canada’s Calgary Centre candidates? Or, more to the point, whoever are they? Nominations closed Thursday afternoon. According to a report published that day by the Calgary Herald, party officials indicated they expected their internal vetting process could take until this week to figure out who could officially join the race to replace former MP Lee Richardson, . . . → Read More: Alberta Diary: Problems with their papers? No word yet on Conservative candidates for Calgary Centre
Alberta Politics, Alison Redford, Arthur McComish, Belinda Stronach, Canadian Politics, Chris Turner, conservative party of canada, David Swann, Greg McLean, Harvey Locke, Joan Crockatt, Joe Soares, Jon Lord, Lee Richardson, Liberal Party of Canada, new democratic party, Paul Martin, Rahim Sajan, Richard Billington, Stefan Spargo, stephen harper, William Hamilton Theresa Lubowitz on the Death of Substantive Policy Canada is teetering dangerously close to the death of substantive policy as we know it, with the rise of a populist Conservative Government, a populist NDP Official Opposition, and a struggling Liberal Party so afraid of irrelevancy it has spent the last four years taking the safe road. Government used to stand for something and had a proud legacy in Canada of improving the lives of its citizens. Some blamed nearly a decade of minority parliament as the culprit yet Pearson arguably put into action more substantive policy than any other Prime . . . → Read More: The Equivocator: The Liberal Party: A Substantial Heritage, a Future of Substance (Co-written with Theresa Lubowitz)
Alexander Mackenzie, Canadian Politics, CDNPoli, Contributors, Guest post, Jean Chrétien, Lester B. Pearson, Liberal, Liberal leadership, Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Prime Ministers, Louis St Laurent, LPC, Paul Martin, Pierre Trudeau, politics, Theresa Lubowitz, Wilfrid Laurier “There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” – Pierre Trudeau While at university I made appoint of watching the Toronto Pride Parade a a member of the crowd. This year, thanks to my friends in the Queer Liberals, I was able to participate in the Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo Pride Festival, the Durham Region Pride and I marched in the Toronto Pride Parade. My experience at all 3 pride festivals was extremely positive. The Federal and Provincial Liberals have solid records on Queer issues. With Bill 13 in Ontario the fact that words matter and . . . → Read More: The Equivocator: Toronto Pride with the Queer Liberals Politics ain’t beanbag, people, and it’s not NERF ball either. But Liberal leaders Michael Ignatieff and Stephane Dion both played it that way, so it was easy for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Reform Party bullyboys to walk all over them. As for Paul Martin, that guy’s own Liberal team worked him over in the corners before he even got to face off with the Conservatives. Who knows what Jack Layton would have done, or how he would have played it? But when New Democrats chose Tom Mulcair as Canada’s Opposition Leader after Mr. Layton’s death, they chose someone . . . → Read More: Alberta Diary: Politics ain’t beanbag: Stephen Harper is attacking the most vulnerable Canadians As you have probably heard a hundred times over the past month, the Calgary Stampede turns 100 this year. Calgary has changed a lot over this time. A seat at the 1912 rodeo cost 50 cents. Calgary’s population was 70,000. And, oh yeah, back then Alberta was a Liberal bastion, with the Grits holding 6 of 7 federal Alberta ridings and 36 of 41 provincial seats. Times have changed. So maybe then-Prime Minister Robert Borden can be forgiven for not braving the hostile frontier known as Liberal Calgary to visit the first ever Stampede. The first notable political Stampede photo-opp . . . → Read More: Calgary Grit: 100 Years of Bad Photo Ops This is audio from an interview Mulcair did with Michael Enright on CBC radio this weekend where the eurozone financial crisis came up: That is a brief excerpt but I think it might indicate that the Conservative p.r. effort on Europe against the NDP may have worked. Mulcair mocks the Conservatives as having made the question of contributing to the IMF funds into a domestic partisan political game, rightly so. But he nevertheless refuses to take a position on it by stating it’s not about a “bailout,” it’s about being at the table. A central question though, of the . . . → Read More: Impolitical: Mulcair on the euro crisis Yeah they did: “Tories made a ‘major mistake’ in their approach to the euro crisis, Paul Martin says.” “The major mistake that the government has made is the way that it’s characterized this,” Mr. Martin said. “The role of the G20 is to strengthen the financial institutions and the other global institutions that exist. And so, for Canada to turn its back on the IMF when the IMF is saying ‘we want more money, not simply for Europe, we want to be able to deal with the huge imbalances that exist around the world,’ I think that was a . . . → Read More: Impolitical: You go, Paul Martin Tweet Premier Alison Redford is attending the 2012 Bilderberg Group conference. There are no shortage of internet conspiracy theories about the mysterious Bilderberg Group conference, but now Alberta Premier Alison Redford will know the truth about the invite-only private annual meeting of the world’s top neo-liberal financial, business, and political elites. Premier Redford has been invited the the event, which is being held in Virginia from May 31 to June 3. Only a small group of Canadian political leaders have been invited to attend, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, former Prime Ministers Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, and . . . → Read More: daveberta.ca – Alberta politics blog: alison redford attends the bilderberg. thomas mulcair visits the oilsands. A Sun News Network commissioned poll looks good for the Wildrose Party and bad for the Progressive Conservatives. Global leaders were shocked yesterday when a new poll commissioned by QMI-Sun News Media showed Danielle Smith‘s Wildrose Party has made significant headwaters against the governing Progressive Conservatives. There are serious questions being raised about the results of this poll, which make me question the results. For example, the regional breakdown of party support includes only 81 respondents surveyed from southern Alberta, which results in an unreliably high 11% margin of error (via @calgarygrit). The optimistic results for the Wildrose . . . → Read More: daveberta.ca – Alberta politics blog: alberta politics: stormy waters ahead. A new survey released in the National Post by Forum Research Inc. shows Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives with 38% province-wide support and the opposition Wildrose Party sitting at 29%. This survey shows the Liberals at 14%, New Democratic Party at 13%, and the Alberta Party with 3% province-wide support. Danielle Smith Surveys conducted by Environics, Angus Reid, and Lethbridge College in the final months of 2011 tell a different story, showing the Tories with a commanding lead placing more than 20% ahead of the opposition parties. Finding different results, the Forum survey shows the PCs up one-percent from a previous survey . . . → Read More: daveberta.ca – Alberta politics blog: surveys show big-tent tories and ideologically polarized opposition. Terry Glavin, last True Leftist™ in Canada, finds the late, lamented Kyoto treaty (and environmentalism in general) wanting — and apparently it’s all Al Gore’s fault. No, really: Kyoto could have been an instrument to force technological innovation in the world’s advanced economies in such a way as to clear a path for eventual and meaningful global reductions in greenhouse gases. But it didn’t turn out that way, and since nobody’s being especially parsimonious in the apportionment of blame for this, while we’re at it, there’s no good reason to ignore the pathological unseriousness that routinely attends to environmentalism, either. . . . → Read More: bastard.logic: …and Michael Moore is FAT! Last night I was sent a link to an article in the Winipeg Free Press about Bob Rae calling out Liberal cliques, Liberal navel gazing, and turf wars. The Globe and Mail pipes in as well. I couldn’t agree more. Mr. Rae has signaled that he wants C… . . . → Read More: CalgaryLiberal: RE: Rae calls for end to turf wars Needless to say, it’s a plus to see the NDP’s leadership contenders making sure to run a campaign that fit with a message of love, hope and optimism. But a word of warning: at least some commentators will be looking for any excuse to find just the oppo… . . . → Read More: Accidental Deliberations: On civil campaigns Dan Gardner goes in-depth on what is really a simple story. The Liberals established a solid economic foundation, preparing Canada in the case of hard times … or Conservatives. Both have happened.Once in power, the Conservatives promptly took the cre… . . . → Read More: Vancouver Sun: Canada’s economic miracle exposed Some sober reflections on the present state of the global economy by the former Prime Minister. Not a lot of insight beyond the obvious, but Martin does provide some sound advice regarding the current sovereign debt crisis in Europe (that … Continue reading → A message from BC. Last Friday in BC, Christy Clark announced that there will be no fall election. This amounts to a bloodless Coup of our fair province. Clark has no mandate. She is unelected. She sailed into power by the grace and deep pockets of the same group of suspects that may . . . → Read More: An Unprecedented Friday Afternoon Document Dump, cont… . . . → Read More: An Unprecedented Friday Afternoon Document Dump, cont… Just noting the occasion. While some of this is begrudging and framed a little backhandedly, it is relevant to remember that our economic situation today that is standing us in better stead than a lot of nations does indeed trace back to a Liberal gove… . . . → Read More: Impolitical: National Post hearts Liberals today As I write this review, Canada appears to be on the eve of an election call. It thus seems fitting to reflect on elections and campaigns past. For the past two weeks, I’ve been making my way through Divided Loyalties, Concordia political scientist … . . . → Read More: Pample the Moose: Brooke Jeffrey, <i>Divided Loyalties: The Liberal Party of Canada, 1984-2008</I> |
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