8 March 2010
Can the Government Meet the Challenge of Program Review and Ensuring an Efficient Regulatory Approval System.
As Finance Minister Jim Flaherty knows, budgets are never easy. When times are good, a Finance Minister must manage the overwhelming expectations departments and stakeholders have for additional funding. When times are tough – like they are now – these same departments and stakeholders are manning the barricades against funding cuts. With the budget released [...]
Yesterday’s Speech from the Throne marked a significant change of direction for the Government. Less evident is the highly tactical, transactional focus of previous priority setting throne speeches, intended to appeal to various segments of the population. The government now seems to be signalling it is prepared to follow a longer term approach – some might argue a more visionary approach – as it unveils a longer term economic policy agenda.
Four o’clock today will indeed be the witching hour, when reporters, senior government officials, interest groups and associations, and the odd communications adviser or two, will emerge from a day-long “lock up” in Ottawa to release to Canadians details of the federal budget.
I really liked the way my old Washington colleague John Ibbitson summed up [...]
The second session of the 40th Parliament was prorogued on Wednesday, December 30, 2009. The third session of the 40th Parliament is now scheduled to reopen tomorrow March 3rd at 2:00 pm with a Speech from the Throne. This is an important event because the Speech from the Throne will present the Government’s broad priorities [...]
Michael von Herff and podcast host Mark Blevis talk about social media, MPs, the federal politics and Mark’s white paper, “House of Tweets: Twitter and the House of Commons.”
Click here to read more and download your own copy of the white paper.
For those of us who work in digital communication and follow politics, yesterday’s announcement by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty that the Finance Department will be Twittering the budget speech next week is another milestone in making Canada’s government more digitally engaged. Oddly, Mr. Flaherty is not a Twitter user himself.
In fact, only 20 per cent [...]
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