Prime Minister Harper today announced the appointment of 5 new Senators to fill the vacancies in the Senate. As a result of this move, the Conservatives now outnumber Liberals in the Senate with a 51-49 edge, with an additional 5 independent senators for a total of 105 Senate seats. Please see this article in the […]
This blog is a follow up to a blog last week where we talked about prorogation- we got lots of comments back and some were critical of the blog when we made reference to the fact that prorogation had been done many times and by the Liberals as well who are so critical of this- […]
The federal government cabinet shuffle yesterday, while not a major one, had all the usual pundits pontificating as to what the shuffle would mean.
With every government, there comes a time where you have to move underperforming cabinet ministers around, demote some, promote some and move some sideways into new roles and yesterday was no exception […]
There was a lot of debate in the year end media interviews with Prime Minister Harper over whether or not he was going to shut down Parliament until after the Olympics and proceed with a new Throne Speech followed by a budget in early March.
With the decision to prorogue having been made, if you follow […]
