New Title, Same Job The much-hyped Cabinet shuffle was about what you’d expect: retiring Ministers swept aside, talented backbenchers and Pierre Poilievre promoted, and a few big names swapping portfolios to give them a fresh start. The opposition will argue this is very much the same government as before, and
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Alberta Diary: User-pay disaster relief? A suddenly forgotten idea that needs to stay that way!
Canadian Forces soldiers piled sandbags as the water rose in Medicine Hat last weekend. CBC photo. Below: Chris Alexander, Parliamentary Secretary to the federal Defence Minister; CBC broadcaster Anna Maria Tremonti. If every dark and rain-filled cloud has a silver lining, one thing we can hope for from the horrifying
Continue readingImpolitical: An MP with a video
This is quite the video from MP Chris Alexander. Well produced, covers a real range of issues beyond his portfolio, makes his family part of it. It really is well done. Other than the little bits I would clearly disagree with. This is what one would call ambition personified.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – I’ll follow up with one extra note from Mark Carney’s address to the CAW – as the headlines seem to have missed a rather important point about the relative effect of the Canadian dollar and even the widest possible definition of labour
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Conservative MP insults Canadians with confused take on F-35 jet plan
Yesterday we’d a jolly good laugh when Yukon Tory MP Ryan Leef got overjoyed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit and invited those gathered to “join me in welcoming back to the Yukon, the Prime Minister of Cannibal.” Conservative MP, Chris Alexander’s recent take on the F-35 fighter jet controversy
Continue readingImpolitical: Idle Saturday speculation
Will the real Minister of International Cooperation please stand up? Chris Alexander, Parliamentary Secretary for National Defence, on behalf of the Honourable Julian Fantino, Minister of International Cooperation, is attending the Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan, to discuss international development efforts in Afghanistan for the next decade. As part of his
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