MacKay, Clement in Afghanistan for Remembrance Day
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Industry Minister Tony Clement attended Remembrance Day ceremonies in Kandahar on Wednesday.
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Industry Minister Tony Clement attended Remembrance Day ceremonies in Kandahar on Wednesday.
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Globe reports that Industry Minister Tony Clement has sent a letter to the telecom industry asking for comments by November 18th on the CRTC's Globalive decision. The request is described as a "pre-cabinet review" of the issue.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the National Research Council Canada (NRC), today announced the reappointment of Margaret Lefebvre as a member of the Council.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
INGERSOLL, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable Sandra Pupatello, Ontario Minister of Economic Development and Trade, were in Ingersoll, Ontario, today to congratulate General Motors of Canada Limited and CAMI Automotive Inc. (CAMI) on a $90-million investment. The investment adds capacity to CAMI's operations in order to meet the strong demand...
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Crown copyright concerns were raised repeatedly during this summer's copyright consultation as many groups expressed the view that government works should be treated as public domain. The issue generated some surprise from Industry Minister Tony Clement, who asked for examples about why crown copyright was a problem. This morning, the Auditor General provided a helpful example as her office has sent...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Iggy asks why, Layton does some digging and Tony Clement takes a break
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Read Tony Clement's lips: "six million doses"
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
OTTAWA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement said on Tuesday he would take his time in reviewing a regulator's ruling against start-up wireless company Globalive, delaying a competitive threat to the Big Three carriers.
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The Hill Times runs a special section on copyright in its upcoming issue. I've contributed a piece on the lessons we can draw from the copyright consultation that I'll post shortly, but in the meantime there is an important interview with Industry Minister Tony Clement. Of particular note is his perspective on the current state of copyright law in Canada. Notwithstanding the persistent fear mongering,...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Today at a meeting of the Canadian Automotive Partnership Council (CAPC), the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, introduced changes to the Government of Canada's Automotive Innovation Fund (AIF) in order to increase investment in automotive research and development (R&D). The total investment threshold required to qualify for AIF funding has been lowered...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) On behalf of the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, the Honourable James Flaherty, Minister of Finance, today announced the Government of Canada's investment of more than $1.4 million to support the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair as part of the Marquee Tourism Events Program.
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The CRTC this afternoon issued its decision on whether Globalive, a new wireless competitor about to operate as Wind Mobile, complies with the foreign ownership restrictions currently found in the Telecommunications Act. While Industry Canada previously concluded that Globalive met the Canadian control requirements for the purposes of the Radiocommunications Act in its bidding for spectrum, the CRTC...
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
I wonder what a Canadian prime minister who engages with Canadian news media would be like. Say it ain't so, prime minister. Even Stephen Harper's own cabinet seems to be having trouble accepting that the man with the famously frosty relationship to the national news media doesn't consume Canadian news. "I tend to watch American news," Harper said this week during a question-and-answer session...
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Bill C-27, the anti-spam bill, passed through the Industry Committee late Monday with the bill largely intact. Indeed, Industry Minister Tony Clement was true to his word as the several provisions that would have watered down the legislation were dropped (third party referrals, exceptions for survey companies and self-regulated industries) as was a provision promoted by the copyright lobby that would...
Scott's DiaTribes (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A hat tip to Steve V on his excellent blogpost on this new bit of partisan pork barrel hilarity and hi-jinks from Industry Minister Tony Clement. After reading this and finding out that Clement has engaged in more pork barrel partisan shenanigans for his riding, I really want to know – did Clement secretly [...]