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BigCityLib Strikes Back (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
OTTAWA — The Conservatives may have damaged the reputation of Liberal MP Irwin Cotler by sending taxpayer-funded flyers into his Montreal-area riding which suggested the Opposition party was anti-Semitic, Speaker of the House of Commons Peter Milliken ruled Thursday. The practical consequences to this decision--it ...opens the door for federal politicians to investigate the matter in a parliamentary...
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Impolitical (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Update (8:55 p.m.) below. Pushing back hard achieves results: "Speaker rules flyers may have damaged MP's reputation." A clear ruling by the Speaker in response to MP Irwin Cotler's complaint on the egregious ten percenters authored by the Conservative party: The Conservatives may have damaged the reputation of Liberal MP Irwin Cotler by sending taxpayer-funded flyers into his Montreal-area...
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Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
By popular demand (okay, LynnTO asked in the Comments under Mitchel’s photographic account of a reception held by the Direct Sellers Association of Canada), we invite one and all to submit captions for this photograph of the actual Speaker of the actual House of Commons hanging out at the Mary Kay table. (Please check out [...]
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
On Sunday, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff wrote to Parliamentary Speaker Peter Milliken asking that stringent new guidelines be imposed on MPs' use of "tenpercenters," the free mailings each MP may send to voters in ridings other than his or her own. Members of Parliament are permitted to send such far-flung flyers, brochures or postcards -- equal in number "to a maximum of 10% of...
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Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A special reception was held at the NAC to honour Peter Milliken, who recently became Canada’s longest serving Speaker. The food was crap, but the place was packed. Below is the Speaker and Labour Minister Rona Ambrose. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin. Heather Bradley from the Speaker’s office. Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt. Liberal MP Ralph Goodale. Immigration Minister Jason...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Our local MP, Peter Milliken, recently became the longest-serving Speaker in the history of the House of Commons. Wednesday night in Ottawa there was a big party at which he was feted, sponsored oddly enough by a lobbying firm. Eight-and-a-half years is not that long really, given that many MPs marinate leisurely in the House for twice that time. Indeed, Milliken himself has been the MP for Kingston...
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Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
After Question Period yesterday, and after the House had finished celebrating the career of Peter Milliken, Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt rose on the following point of privilege. Mr. Speaker, earlier this month, the member for Mississauga South rose in the House and accused me of intimidation. I was not in the chamber when he raised [...]
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Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Speaker Peter Milliken talks to the Globe and considers the House he has presided over longer than anyone else. Q: How much has the Hill changed, or what’s changed the most? A: I think the biggest change has been in the increased partisanship in the House. When I was first elected we had morning sittings and a [...]
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Peter Milliken, who has now served in his post longer than anyone else, explains what's wrong with Parliament today
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Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Peter Milliken, now the longest-standing speaker in Parliament’s history, reflects on the state of the House. Although many complain that the House has become a bedlam in recent years, Milliken remembers sitting in the galleries as a student in the 1960s, when the boom of fists slammed on desk tops could be deafening. ”There was a lot [...]
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Peter Milliken has done his job, Speaker of the House of Commons, longer than anyone in Canadian history. As of Monday, he has held the job for 3,178 days.
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