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.
I’ve spent the last few days trying to find out where the Ontario Conservatives stand on pension reforms. I’m a bit surprised that I haven’t found much.
Pensions have been getting a lot of attention of late – Canada’s Finance ministers met in December in Whitehorse to talk about how best to encourage Canadians to save [...]
It is fitting that the weekend after the running of NASCAR’s Daytona 500, engines are revving up around Ottawa as Parliament prepares to return with a throne speech on March 3 and a budget on March 4.
Over the last few days, the NDP and Liberal caucuses have sent a list of their priorities to the [...]
It is hard to believe that 2009 is almost over and 2010 is less than a month away. If you read the papers, there is a lot of talk about how ONLY last year Stephan Dion was leader of the Liberal Party and holding the PM’s Government hostage with the threat of a federal election. [...]
A by-election vote is scheduled for Nov 9, 2009 in the riding of New Westminster – Coquitlam. The riding was previously held by Dawn Black, provincial NDP MLA for New Westminster. Black won the riding back from Reformer / Conservative Paul Forseth in the 2004 election. The Liberals have never held the seat and usually [...]
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