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Post by the ottawa senators on Jun 19, 2013 17:55:04 GMT -8
Justin Trudeau proposes to shine light on expenses of MPs and senators -- June 6, 2013 OTTAWA – Justin Trudeau ventured outdoors Wednesday to announce a four-point plan to expose the expenses of MPs and senators to the bright light of day. www2.macleans.ca/2013/06/06/justin-trudeau-proposes-to-shine-light-on-expenses-of-mps-and-senators/Transparency with Public Funds: What are an MP’s Obligations? The background that led to the CBC transparency project was obvious. In May 2009, Auditor General Sheila Fraser got in a tussle with a little known group called the ‘Board of Internal Economy.’ This committee of the House of Commons oversees over $140 million of public monies used for MP expenses for things such as travel, entertainment, staff and housing. The Board is made up of the House leaders for each party, the Speaker of the House and a few others. Fraser wanted to look at the books of the reimbursed expenses for MPs. The Board said ‘no.’ In the wake of the UK scandal in which MPs had taxpayers reimburse them for outlandish personal expenses, including the cleaning of one MP’s castle moat, Canadians might want to look at the details. elizabethmay.ca/in-the-news/island-tides/transparency-with-public-funds-what-are-an-mp%E2%80%99s-obligations/__________________________ Mr. Justin Trudeau: Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I think if you sought it, you would find unanimous consent for the following motion. I move that the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs be directed to develop guidelines under which the Auditor General is asked to perform more detailed audits of parliamentary spending and report these guidelines to the House no later than December 10, 2013.The Speaker: Does the hon. member have the unanimous consent of the House to propose the motion? Some hon. members: Agreed. Some hon. members: No. The Speaker: There is no consent. __________________________ 41st PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION EDITED HANSARD • NUMBER 272-A Wednesday, June 19, 2013 www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Pub=hansard&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=41&Ses=1#Int-8074988
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Post by who what where on Jun 19, 2013 21:44:25 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Jun 23, 2013 5:17:02 GMT -8
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Post by events on Jun 23, 2013 18:06:39 GMT -8
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Post by centre ice on Jul 2, 2013 12:35:05 GMT -8
#ViewFrom501 -- Jan 21 Embassy celebrates US inauguration with Timbits and poutine 3:47 pm, January 18th, 2013 WASHINGTON - Nothing says presidential inauguration like beavertail pastries, poutine and Tim Hortons' coffee. There will also be lots of Molson beer, too, for the Canadian Embassy's tailgate party Monday during US President Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony and parade. It's the second time the embassy - located at "centre ice," according to Ambassador Gary Doer, halfway between the White House and the Capitol - is having a tailgate party. more: www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/world/archives/2013/01/20130118-154724.htmlHudson's Bay red Olympic mittens, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, Crown Royal pipeline, a files poppy.
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Post by Bank of England on Jul 2, 2013 13:39:19 GMT -8
Yesterday 07:32 GMT BBC World Service Monday is the first day of work for Mark Carney. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01b67wrMark Carney is a Canadian and a keen ice hockey player. BBC Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders, went to Canada to see whether his reputation is based on good judgement or just good fortune. Backup goalie Harvard, "working class hero," they love him, Oxford/Goldman Sachs, Parliament building like Britain's houses of Parliament, even a mini clock tower like Big Ben Flaherty: Team 2008, share credit. Housing, Toronto - 4x, insured mortgages - rowing in the same direction - Chancellor George Osborne, Carney jumps. - Stephanie Flanders, BBC economics editorView from bench, as it were: motivational management, British inline hockey team, player, war and sport metaphors, end goal, strategy, behaviors, brain/ threats. Andrew Sillitoe, Managing the MistC-suite: Bank of England switches, corporate America terms, heads to president, governor/ deputy governor (3), chiefs, "officer"/ military/ police, Goldman Sachs many thousands of VPs, Managing Director versus CEO-CFO-COO- Chief Learning Officer, Chief Visionary Officer, Chief ____ Officer, coo-coupe-coop- the final vulgarity - Lucy Kellaway
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Post by clone on Jul 2, 2013 13:53:37 GMT -8
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Post by Sub central Cmte on Jul 2, 2013 15:03:49 GMT -8
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Post by time out on Jul 6, 2013 13:35:50 GMT -8
Don Newman schools John Baird www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL76A5jUq1kDecember 4, 2008 <snip> Don Newman: This isn't football. We don't have Time Outs while, you know, it's... it's the House of Commons and the government has just met the House. We've been here for two weeks. You have the confidence of the House until you lose the confidence of the House and now that you're faced with the prospect of losing the confidence of the House, you want to turn it into football and take a Time Out. And if you're the Governor General, uh, she knows it's not football, and doesn't she just have to follow the rules, and say, well, you've got the confidence of the House so far, Mr Harper, ... uh, Why wouldn't you continue until something happens that you don't or, you continue to have it and you just keep rolling along. John Baird: W-- Don Newman: Prorogation is a part of the system. Prorogation after two weeks without any legislation passed, without any legislation except one bill introduced, prorogation when you've already had your Throne Speech accepted and then done nothing else, that is unheard of, so, while prorogation is part of the system, prorogation like this has never been a part of the system. John Baird: W-- Don Newman: ... But if you get legislation through only with their support, I mean, if they're, the suggestion now is being made they're an illegitimate group even though they've been ...
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Post by PBO on Jul 7, 2013 19:27:26 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Jan 18, 2014 6:12:49 GMT -8
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Post by Guest on Dec 6, 2014 5:12:23 GMT -8
Senate, MP Expenses: Politicians Can Claim $90 A Day For Food Without Showing Receipts MPs and senators are allowed to claim up to $89.95 per day for breakfast, lunch and dinner, without having to show how they spent the money, while working in the national capital region. Members of Parliament are also eligible for per diems while traveling across the country or abroad and may also charge taxpayers for meals while traveling in their own riding. www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/10/senate-mp-expenses-politi_n_3415818.htmlUpdated: 06/10/2013 7:27 pm EDT
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Post by Job 1 on Dec 13, 2014 10:53:50 GMT -8
Senate poised to pass error-filled bill at 17:27 on December 12, 2014, EST. OTTAWA - The Conservative-dominated Senate has discovered inadvertent drafting errors in a bill targeting labour unions — but is poised to pass it anyway. Conservatives used their majority on the Senate's legal and constitutional affairs committee Friday to reject Liberal amendments that would have corrected the mistakes in C-525. Amending the bill would be tantamount to killing it, they argued. A bill that is amended by the Senate must be sent back to the House of Commons for reconsideration. Because C-525 is a private member's bill, sponsored by Conservative backbencher Blaine Calkins, it would go to the bottom of the list of bills to be dealt with by the Commons. Given that "cumbersome" process, Tory Sen. Scott Tannas warned that amending the bill to correct the errors "will likely guarantee that this bill will never see the light of day." "It's clear to us, to me, that the amending procedure for private member's bills is fraught with danger," Tannas, who is sponsoring the bill in the Senate, told the committee. Instead, Tannas said the Senate should pass the bill as is, with an "observation" that there are errors that should be fixed before the legislation goes into force. His Conservative colleagues agreed, voting down proposed Liberal amendments to fix the mistakes. James Cowan, the Liberal leader in the Senate, argued that the Senate isn't doing it's job as the chamber of sober second thought. "We've just had the Supreme Court of Canada tell us that our job is legislative review. That's Job 1," Cowan told the committee."Here we have done what we're supposed to do: We've identified a problem and we know what the solution is. So why don't we do it?" The bill is expected to be put to a final vote in the Senate next week. C-525 would require a majority secret ballot vote by employees before bargaining units in federally regulated public service unions can be certified or decertified. Union leaders maintain it would make it harder for bargaining units to get certified but easier to disband them. The bill involves changes to a number of existing laws, including the Public Service Labour Relations Act, which is where the drafting mistakes crept in. The bill moves one section of the act into a new section, without simultaneously amending other provisions of the act that make reference to the moved section. Catherine Ebbs, chair of the Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board, told the committee the technical error means her board would lose its power to regulate the evidence that must be filed when an employee organization applies for certification of a bargaining unit. "The impact of this change is not trivial because our current specific regulations will be effectively removed from our tool kit to deal with applications for certification," she said. Ebbs added that the mistakes are not "fatal," that the board can probably work around them until the legislation is fixed. Still, she said the board would prefer that they be corrected before the legislation goes into effect. Michel Bedard, parliamentary legal counsel for the Senate, played down the impact of passing a flawed bill. He advised the committee that the courts will generally correct any obvious drafting errors when confronted with defective legislation. It won't be the first time the Senate has passed legislation that it knew to contain technical errors. Last spring, the upper chamber passed a private member's bill sponsored by Conservative backbencher Parm Gill, aimed at making it a crime to recruit young people into gangs. That bill contained a number of drafting errors that would have led to inconsistent provisions in the Criminal Code. In that case, amendments to fix the errors would certainly have killed the bill. Gill had been promoted to parliamentary secretary after shepherding his bill through the Commons. Had the Senate sent the bill back to the Commons, procedural rules would have prevented Gill — no longer a backbencher — from reintroducing it and would not have allowed anyone else to do so in his stead. In the case of C-525, Cowan argued there's no such impediment to fixing the mistakes. And he said there's still plenty of time before next fall's scheduled election for the Commons to deal with any amendments approved by the Senate. "There's lots of time to get this fixed up," he said, "and that's what we should do." www.baytoday.ca/content/news/national/details.asp?c=70472
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Post by anon on Mar 23, 2015 0:25:51 GMT -8
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Post by Father of Lies on Apr 8, 2015 22:15:22 GMT -8
John 8:44 May 16 2013 Poillivere: personal cheque to protect taxpayers May 17 2013 Macdougall: PM has full confidence and wright is staying on May 19 2013 Wright: announces resignation May 19 2013 Harper: accepted resignation w great regret (I accept that Nigel believed he was acting in the public interest) May 28 2013 Harper: Wright made a very serious error and he has accepted sole responsibility May 29 2013 Harper: very very clear that wright informed him on May 15 June 5 2013 Harper: wright's personal decision not communicated to PM or PMO Oct 24 2013 Harper: what wright did was wrong; he took responsibility; and he informed very few people Oct 28 2013 Harper: I had a Chief of Staff who made an inappropriate payment to Mr Duffy - he was dismissed. Wright told four people about his decision to personally provide $90,000 to Duffy. Those named were Benjamin Perrin, formerly Harper’s legal adviser; Wright’s assistant David van Hemmen; then-PMO issues manager Chris Woodcock, and Sen. Irving Gerstein, one of the Conservative party’s top fundraising officials. Perrin, who has left the PMO, has denied any knowledge of the Wright-Duffy deal. Woodcock is now chief of staff for Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. - Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc said Ray Novak, a longtime Harper aide who is now PMO chief of staff, was also involved in an alleged effort to cover-up the Wright-Duffy arrangement. Harper told MPs that allegation about Novak was “completely false.” - NDP asserted another eight people, including the late Conservative Sen. Doug Finley, were aware www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/10/24/stephen_harper_says_nigel_wright_told_others_about_cheque_to_mike_duffy.htmlwww.cbc.ca/player/Radio/The+Current/ID/2662765098/
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