Mozilla Firefox (Private Browsing) The Trouble With Normal Is It Always Gets Worse Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Hire a man to get timely, factual data from our Government... So I had a conversation with Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page today. Lil' ol' me. I picked up the phone, called 613-992-8026, spoke to his secretary, explained who I was and left my number. Huh. I'd intended to only ask a few questions, keep it simple, try not to take up too much of his time. 30 minutes later I hung up feeling, to say the least, incredibly positive about this man - his clear love of his work and the system that he maintains (which, incidentally, helps to keep our Government accountable to us). The questions I asked were: How best can Canadians support you in your work to keep our Government accountable? What other departments should Canadians be supporting as they work to protect us? Do you have any advice for those Canadians who feel disenfranchised from the current Government? With that said: $5.4 billion is being cut in our budget but from where? What's the plan?
Dissident Voice In defense of the sanctimonious women's studies set. On Monday night, Donald Trump’s wife Melania touched hearts as she addressed the Republican National Convention, sharing the lessons she learned growing up as a black girl on the South Side of Chicago. As first spotted by journalist Jarrett Hill, Melania’s speech bore more than a passing resemblance to another speech at another convention about eight years ago — Michelle Obama’s 2008 address to the Democratic National Convention. The cribbed portion discussed the values that Michelle and Melania apparently share, including working hard for what you want in life and keeping your word. Read more → I apologize for Feministe’s long, long radio silence, and I hate that this is the occasion to break it. Read more → [Content note: mentions of transphobia and child sexual abuse] While Feministe has been down, an issue erupted in North Carolina about where trans people are allowed to pee. Here are some highlights, if somehow you missed it while you were missing us. Read more → Calm down. Read more →
Some helpful suggestions for would-be Liberal leaders Martha Hall Findlay made a brave move when she defied Liberal party custom and urged that special protected status be removed from the milk and egg industries. It was a brave precedent and a good start if, as seems to be the assumption, Ms Hall Findlay decides to run for the leadership. (It was common wisdom that Bob Rae would run as well, which tells you all you need to know about common wisdom.) Here are a few more ideas the Liberals might consider if they’re serious about being brave, daring and innovative as they restructure their party. • Tie the party to accountability. • In similar vein, develop a plan to change the proceedings in the House of Commons to comply with the various reform plans that have been put forward. • Televise the entire proceedings, not via the dull single camera now used, but with enhanced sound and multiple cameras, which would allow live commentary and simultaneous online response. • Expand and enhance the power of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
Center for American Progress NDP, Liberals urge government to make PBO officer of Parliament — now A House of Commons committee reviewing how federal politicians examine spending estimates is recommending the government conduct a review of one aspect of the review system: the Parliamentary Budget Officer. The committee is recommending the government consider a study about whether to make the spending watchdog an officer of Parliament, rather than an office inside the Library of Parliament. Becoming an officer of Parliament would give the PBO more independence from the government, and report directly to Parliament. However, the opposition parties weren’t happy with the idea of considering to conduct a study. The NDP and Liberals, in dissenting opinions attached to the report wanted the government to move faster and make the PBO an officer of Parliament, similar to the auditor general, privacy commissioner or information commissioner. The Liberals made a similar argument in their attachment to the report. Here’s what the majority report said: And the wording of the actual recommendation:
Peter Gabel Biography[edit] Early life and education[edit] Gabel is the only son of Arlene Francis and Martin Gabel. As a teenager he worked as a guide for the 1964 New York World's Fair, a fact he revealed on the game show What's My Line? Career[edit] Gabel taught law at Boalt Hall (the law school of the University of California, Berkeley) and at the University of Minnesota before becoming a law professor for 30 years at the community driven New College of California School of Law.[4] He also served as New College's president for 20 years. Gabel is active in the Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law, and Politics, a group in the San Francisco Bay Area that: "will bring together law teachers, lawyers, and law students in the Bay Area who share our group's aspiration to connect the inner and the outer in a fundamental transformation of legal culture Gabel is the bassist in Central Park Zoo, a dance band.[8]
The Commons: If Kevin Page has overstepped his mandate, maybe it’s time to expand it - Beyond The Commons, Capital Read The Scene. It was just two years ago, Peggy Nash reported to the House, that a Conservative MP was heard to remark that the Parliamentary Budget Officer had “improved the decision making of Parliament.” But just yesterday, Ms. Nash next recalled, the Foreign Affairs Minister had stood and suggested that the Parliamentary Budget Officer had “from time to time and on occasion … overstepped its mandate.” Ms. Tony Clement stood here to try to clarify the record. “Mr. Taking his iPad from his desk, Mr. The sentence cited here appears in this report authored by the standing joint committee on the Library of Parliament. What does this particular issue have to do with Mr. Ms. Mr. Bob Rae dared suggest next that the Conservatives rely on their own campaign promises. How then, Mr. This was less an explanation than an assertion. “In terms of specific information, we give information to all parliamentarians on a complete and timely basis,” Mr. Never mind now what precipitated the last election.
Press Release First time: U.N. puts Canada on human rights watchlist over Quebec demo law Contact: media1@unwatch.org Tel: +41 22 734 1472 GENEVA, June 17 – Canada will be put in the company of some of the world’s worst abusers of human rights tomorrow when the UN’s highest human rights official expresses “alarm” over Quebec’s new law on demonstrations during her opening address to a meeting of the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council, revealed the Geneva-based monitoring group UN Watch, which obtained an advance copy of her speech. Other states on the UN watchlist include Syria, Pakistan and Zimbabwe. “Moves to restrict freedom of assembly continue to alarm me, as is the case in the province of Quebec in Canada in the context of students’ protests,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will say tomorrow, according to her draft speech. The rights czar reserves her sharpest language for Canada. “She just needs to keep things in proportion.
Canada News: It’s like a movie:’ Tourists find Grand Prix protests fascinating zoom MONTREAL—The daily protests in Montreal have become a source of fascination for some the thousands of tourists descending on the city for Grand Prix weekend. Over the past few days, visitors to the city have been witness to a march of near naked protesters, crowds of people banging on pots and pans, and lines of riot police. Demonstrations have been held daily since festivities surrounding the Formula One race began on Thursday, and have become riveting viewing for many taking in the city. “It's like a movie,” one man said Saturday, as he watched a line of riot police block off a street in Old Montreal. Tourists were given a first-hand look at the protests during a daytime march on Saturday. A large crowd gawked and snapped photos as the protesters circled the street corner under the watchful eye of police. “I think the police have been well organized,” said Dragan Mlikota, visiting from Chicago for the race. “That’s a mistake,” he said.
Keep Canada in the United Nations! - Liberal.ca - Liberal.ca<link rel="canonical" href=" /><meta property="og:url" content=" Larry Miller, the Conservative MP for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, wants Canada to withdraw from the United Nations, outrageously suggesting we be the first of 193 countries to leave the international organization that has promoted peace, cooperation and human rights since 1945. In response, Liberal Foreign Affairs critic Dominic LeBlanc issued the following statement: “Conservative MP Larry Miller’s ignorant comments calling for Canada to withdraw from the UN are symptomatic of a government that has no interest in protecting Canada’s place on the world stage. Their foreign policy, comprised of press releases, criticizing others and throwing hissy-fits when others dare criticize them, has damaged our international reputation, and affected our ability to work collaboratively with other governments and multilateral organizations. We live in an interconnected world where we can only protect Canada’s interests by playing a positive role internationally. Fight to keep Canada in the United Nations.