Scott Gilmore: America has gone from bulwark of the western alliance to a threat. It’s time for a strategy to contain the U.S. and defend ourselves.
Tag Archives: G8
Canada must act in the face of Putin’s ruthless ambition
Tossing Russia from the G8 makes good sense. There’s no reason to allow Putin a sheen of respectability.
PM Harper uses star turn in London to tout free trade
Katie Engelhart reports from the Queen’s Robing Room
The r-word
The NDP has turned up more documents concerning Tony Clement and the G8 Legacy Fund. Specifically, they seem interested in the following passage from an October 2011 memo prepared for the deputy minister of industry, based on a conversation with a former employee of FedNor.
The Commons: Whatever he meant, Tony Clement stands by what he said
Irrelevance and sloppiness are his best explanations for the contested G8 spending
‘Baseless and outrageous’
After QP this afternoon, Tony Clement stood with the following point of privilege.
Down the paper trail again
The NDP says Tony Clement misled the public accounts committee when he testified three weeks ago. The emails in questions can be viewed here.
The Commons: Tony Clement comes clean
The government knows which gazebos, toilets and bike racks were built with that $45.8 million
Clement at committee
We are a few hours away now from Tony Clement’s appearance before the public accounts committee. Greg Weston offers five questions Mr. Clement needs to answer.
Parliament: now literally a joke
Pierre Poilievre, parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Transport, responding this afternoon to the NDP’s Alexander Boulerice, who asked if the government would allow a parliamentary inquiry into the G8 Legacy Fund to proceed.