Weekly Commentary
New Year’s Vote?
New Year’s Vote? That's a question I've been getting a lot around the constituency at Christmas business receptions and family gatherings. We already answered...
Gas And Class
Even though Parliament was not in session last week the wheels of government roll on. In case you missed it, there was a positive announcement made jointly last...
Lighthearted Comments
Wow. Check out the stuff we did this week (And full credit to all opposition MP's who helped make it happen). We passed bills establishing the first ever First...
Top Brass and Top of Class
What can you say about a week that started with the resignation of the Commissioner of the RCMP? Well, there’s some things that can be said: First, as a...
Global Warming?
Hey who knows, maybe Al Gore is right. Maybe all my constituents living high up on the West Bench, or Lakeview Heights, or the hills of Logan Lake will soon be...
Mafia & Taxes
What were you doing at 5:30 last Wednesday morning? Probably not rushing into the lair of a mafia boss or a Hells Angel drug dealer. That's exactly what 700...
Immigration Queue Jumping
Heartbreaking ironies this week. First came calls of support for a South Okanagan immigrant family facing deportation. Then came calls of frustration that BC...
Every Vote Counts
When the blunders of your adversaries don't even help you it's a sign you're probably in for a bad hair day. So it was for the Republicans in the US elections...
Income Trusts
No sense trying to gild the lily here. You know I always try to tell it like it is. The fact is, when it comes to breathtaking surprises the income trust...
US Sex Offenders
Sex offenders who commit their crimes in the US shouldn't think that living in Canada will get them a 'get out of jail free' card. I won't mention names...
Dangerous Offenders Law
Breathing easier is what a lot of people are telling me they're doing after seeing two of our new pieces of legislation this week. First, was the Dangerous...
Bad Guys, Bad Air & Not Fair
He had 22 prior convictions, most of them violent. Many were sexual in nature. And the crazy thing is he kept getting released from jail after serving...
Addressing The Recent Cuts
If you read my column last week you will recall that I talked about the fact that all federal ministers had completed 'value-for-money' audits of their...
Pains, Planes and Gains
There they stood. Ten peace officers from a variety of policing and security agencies from across the country. Each officer held the headdress of a comrade who...
Lumber Deal Passes
Like a blaze across the sky, this last week 'On the Hill' was a matter of aiming a rocket full of events in what you hope was the right direction and then...
Fall Forward
Summer? What summer? We need to get some space physicist to figure out why two months of summer passes before our eyes so much faster than two months of winter....
Electing The Senate
He made history this week. Prime Minister Harper did something this week no other Prime Minister has ever done. He came up with a plan to reduce his own power....
Olympic Spending
Olympian spending. Ok, whenever a mega-project is first announced and we hear the proposed price tag we all kinda know there's no way that's going to be the...
Ambassadors You Must See
Sorry, if you're a regular reader of this column looking for political grist and gore, come back next week. I may as well tell you right now, you...
Pork or Principle?
Picture this. Three hundred and eight MP's from coast to coast, each having three or four special building projects within their own constituencies which...