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Prorogue Ontario Style

Did anyone else see the irony in Premier McGuinty announcing yesterday that he was proroguing Parliament until sometime after the Olympics? You can read the article here.
Proroguing is something that all Parliaments do from time to time and it has been done over 100 times at the Federal level. What was interesting this time is […]

Posted on February 10th, 2010 by swatson in NCC Blog
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Tales From The Tax Trough

We just held our media release for Tales from the Tax Trough VI! With budget preparations taking place across the country and in Ottawa, it is more important than ever to remind our politicians that we are watching them closely.
Check out our official press release, by clicking this link.
We have mailed copies of Tales […]

Posted on February 4th, 2010 by swatson in NCC Blog
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Victory for Western Farmers: Supreme Court Ruling on Wheat Board

It was great to see the recent Supreme Court decision on January 22 when they declined to hear an appeal from the Canadian Wheat Board (“CWB”). The CWB had challenged an order from the federal government that had rightly asked the CWB to stop using forced members money to fight CWB political battles. You can […]

Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by swatson in NCC Blog
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Five New Senators Appointed - Start the Fake Outrage!

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 […]

Posted on January 29th, 2010 by swatson in NCC Blog
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Reckless Media Coverage of Prorogation?

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- […]

Posted on January 26th, 2010 by swatson in NCC Blog
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