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Rae, Veniez talk politics, policy

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 8:30pm
By: Brent Richter, Coast Reporter
 
More than 100 residents from Langdale to Powell River packed Roberts Creek Hall Monday (Aug. 9) for a chance to talk federal politics with West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country Liberal candidate Dan Veniez and Bob Rae, the Liberal heavyweight MP from Toronto-Centre.
 
Veniez and local Liberals organized the event to help get Veniez’s face out to the public in the riding, knowing another election is just one confidence vote away in the current minority Parliament.
 
In an opening speech, Rae listed a number of issues including the economy, the environment, social justice and running of parliament that he feels the Conservative government is failing at and where the Liberals can do better.

FOULDS: If gambling is good, why not legalize, tax and regulate pot?

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 12:10am
By Christopher Foulds - Kamloops This Week
 
I spoke to Kevin Krueger this week to ask him to explain the difference between his party’s voracious criticism of gambling expansion (in particular online wagering) while in opposition and the fact it is salivating as it expands gambling like no other government in North America.
 
(His comments can be read elsewhere under Opinion on this website.)
 
During the conversation, the Kamloops-South Thompson MLA and tourism minister compared government involvement in cyber-casinos to the failed prohibition experience of eight decades ago.

Harper lets the ethics slide

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Sun, 05/30/2010 - 2:16am
By National Post editorial board
 
When Stephen Harper’s Conservatives came to power in 2006, they took to calling themselves Canada’s New Government, determined to signal a break from the discredited Liberal way of running the country. It was to be all about accountability, openness and ethics in government.
 
Fast forward four years or so and the government is fighting a running battle to keep security documents from the eyes of Parliament, stonewalling the auditor general’s request to audit MP’s expenses and refusing to allow ministers’ aides to testify before committees. And now we have Tony Clement, the Industry Minister, flogging products to China on behalf of a private company.

Opposition calls for RCMP, ethics probes of Helena Guergis’ letter

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Sun, 04/18/2010 - 4:40am
Les Whittington Ottawa Bureau The Star
 
OTTAWA-- The Liberals and NDP stepped up demands for a full-scale investigation of Helena Guergis after revelations that the former Conservative cabinet minister used her parliamentary office to promote a business linked to her husband.
 
After a Toronto Star report on Guergis’ effort to tout the company, both opposition parties said the government must reassure Canadians that the RCMP and ethics watchdog will get to the bottom of the mushrooming controversy surrounding Guergis and her husband, former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer.

Decriminalize Marijuana

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 8:19pm
By Keith Martin, The Mark
 
Keith Martin, Liberal MP; MD: The lethal gun battles on the streets of Vancouver, the astounding number of murders in Mexico, and the insurgency that continues to grow in Afghanistan (which results in our soldiers being killed) all have one thing in common: the trafficking of illegal drugs.

Record doesn't support PM's claim that Liberal senators have blocked crime bills

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 12:51am
By: Joan Bryden And Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press
 
OTTAWA - Stephen Harper is appealing to Canadians' fear of crime to justify the appointment of five new Conservative senators.
 
"Our government is serious about getting tough on crime. Since we were first elected, we have made it one of our highest priorities," the prime minister said in a statement Friday announcing his latest Senate picks.
 
"The Liberals have abused their Senate majority by obstructing and eviscerating law and order measures that are urgently needed and strongly supported by Canadians."
 
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Harper names 5 to Senate

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 12:49am
CBC News
 
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has named five new senators, including former Ontario cabinet minister Bob Runciman, giving the Tories effective control in both houses of Parliament and greater sway over the legislative agenda.
 
 
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Crime bill exemption raises fears of Native exploitation

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 9:53pm
By: Andrew Hanon
 

EDMONTON -- When told about the Liberal-dominated Senate's revisions to the government's latest tough-on-crime bill, the former drug dealer howled with laughter.

"They wanna WHAT?" he said incredulously. "It's like they're encouraging grow-ops on reserves. It's so crazy; it's almost like a setup."

The Harper Tories are furious with the Senate's changes to Bill C-15, which they say weakens it to the point of uselessness.

But some members of Alberta's Native communities fear the revisions will allow organized crime to exploit impoverished, desperate people living on reserves, by paying them to grow weed.

"It will be like the Taliban and the opium trade in Afghanistan," said the former dealer.

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