Posts Tagged ‘debate’
Blood Inquiry
12 December 2017 Senator Wallin rose to call the attention of the Senate to the federal government’s legal obligation to protect and maintain Canada’s voluntary blood system and to examine the issues surrounding commercial, cash- for- blood operations This past November, we marked the twentieth anniversary of the Krever commission. Judge Horace Krever investigated Canada’s…
Read MoreTransportation Modernization Bill
5 December 2017 Debate on Bill C-49, An Act to amend the Canada Transportation Act and other Acts respecting transportation and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts I am pleased to rejoin the debate over Bill C-49 and resume my remarks on the need to strengthen air passenger rights through a bill that…
Read MoreDebate on Bill C-25
24 October 2017 Debate on Bill C-25, An Act to amend the Canada Business Corporations Act, the Canada Cooperatives Act, the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, and the Competition Act Honourable senators, it was former First Lady Michelle Obama who once said: When you’ve worked hard and done well, and you’ve walked through the doorway of…
Read More“Sober Second Thinking” Proposal
16 May 2017 Honourable senators, “Progress is impossible without change,” said George Bernard Shaw, “and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” Or, as our former colleagues, Senators Hugh Segal and Michael Kirby, wrote recently, “A new play is unfolding in the upper chamber and it is not unnatural that many actors are…
Read MoreSouthern Alberta Council on Public Affairs
Speaking at the SACPA’s 50th Anniversary Forum – 21 September 2017 The SACPA hosts independent forums to debate local, provincial, national and international issues of concern to the residents of Lethbridge and Southern Alberta. The rationale of the Council is that the strength of a political democracy is lodged in the freedom of citizens to…
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