The Opposition parties are primed to pounce on Prime Minister Paul Martin in the final TV debates tonight and tomorrow over ongoing controversy over Liberal ethics. Just as the RCMP investigation into a possible income trust leak got underway last week, the Liberals found themselves with a new scandal to worry about. Heritage Canada has […]
In the first week of the final phase of the Jan. 23 federal election campaign, the Liberals held off unleashing negatives ads about their opponents to boast about their fiscal and economic record while in office. The tactic may be risky because with the exception of tax cuts, economic issues have been getting short shrift […]
The sponsorship scandal is just one more incident in Ottawa’s culture of entitlement
Call it a new campaign, next phase or an election finally beginning in earnest. Regardless of label, the Conservatives now have momentum and the Liberals are struggling to re-establish theirs.There has been a spate of polls since Dec. 27 when news broke of a formal RCMP criminal investigation into possible leaks of the Liberals’ income […]
Whatever we all said about this election campaign being a surprise contest of issues and ideas is now off.Days before the Christmas ceasefire, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper are back to their old form of exchanging insults and ugliness, this time over national unity.It had been expected of course that the nastiness of the last […]
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper must now know what it feels like to work hard just to stand still.There is general agreement Harper looks a lot better on television in this campaign than in the last federal election. In fact he is beginning to look like he is enjoying himself. The visuals he used for the […]
Where is the voice of the investment sector in defence of income trusts?
Reinstatement of corporate tax cuts, promised by the Liberals, has been nixed by finance minister in order to keep the NDP happy
Royal Canadian Mint head is the fifth Crown corporation leader to resign under Martin
Radio satellite and softwood lumber issues are more typical of the political warfare in Washington