Voters have decided how they want the assembly divided. Why undermine the tradition of a non-partisan Speaker?
This changes everything. Or nothing. Or something.
Should Parliament decide when we fight?
On parliamentary accountability and military action
Why the royal succession law matters
The House passes a problematic bill
Why the Conservatives must rethink their approach to succession
The Conservatives have now tabled the legislation that will, in the words of the official news release, “end the practice of placing male heirs before their elder sisters in the line of succession” and “remove legal provisions that render heirs who marry Roman Catholics ineligible to succeed to the Throne.”
Global News journalists were told to leave Attawapiskat yesterday, apparently at the behest of Chief Theresa Spence, which brings about the following two paragraphs in this Globe story.
Reuters, the Canadian Press, Star, Globe and CTV report that a four-person panel will review the options for a new jet fighter and John Ivison says the price tag for the F-35 will be $45.8 billion, but John Geddes notes that a panel review is not the same as an open competition.
The NDP will convene two public roundtables this morning on the Hill to hear what Winslow Wheeler, Philippe Lagasse, Alan Williams and Scott Taylor have to say about the F-35. Official parliamentary hearings on the matter were closed in May.
Philippe Lagassé offers some free advice to the opposition.