Durham
Riding Information: DurhamElections Canada Electoral district profile (Links to Map, Past Candidates, and Past Election Results) Member of Parliament for Durham / Durham (Via Parl.gc.ca) Name: Hon. Bev Oda (Via Parl.gc.ca) Law professor Michael Geist has a Tag on his BLOG for articles about Heritage Minister Oda. Toronto lawyer Rob Hyndman also has a tag on his BLOG for Ms. Oda.
Elections Canada Issues Writs of Election for Calgary Centre (Alberta), Durham (Ontario) and Victoria (British Columbia)Elections Canada has announced 3 by-elections.
Bev Oda's departure from ParliamentA statement from PM Harper reads as follows
51'st State: It's US vs U.S. in the battle for Canadian SovereigntyGordon Duggan at Appropriation Art has published a comic (PDF) about Canadian Copyright revision. It is a classic battle of good vs. evil of comic proportions where the "Evil Emissaries of American Interests try to suppress the Fantastic Freedom of Expression Fighters". The cast of characters is somehow familiar. Evil Emissaries (Or just misinformed?): Harper, Bush, Prentice, Henderson, McTeague, Wilkins, Feinstein / Cronyn, Schwarzenegger, Glickman, Frith, Oda Fantastic Freedom Fighters: Angus, Doctorow, Geist, Knopf, Murray, Page, McOrmond
Prime Minister Harper presents new MinistryPrime Minister Harper presents new Ministry (See Press release). Changes include past Heritage Minister Bev Oda moving to Minister of International Cooperation, past Industry Minister Maxime Bernier moving to Minister of Foreign Affairs, with Honourable Josée Verner taking over Heritage and Honourable Jim Prentice taking over Industry.
G&M: PM faces tough choices replacing female ministersThe Globe and Mail has an interesting article by Campbell Clark speculating about the upcoming cabinet shuffle. The article talks about the female cabinet positions, and whether the PM will promote other women to replace Heritage Minister Bev Oda, viewed by many Tories as a weak communicator, and Revenue Minister, Carol Skelton, who has announced she will not run for re-election. Will backbenchers Diane Ablonczy, Joy Smith or Lynne Yelich be brought into cabinet? See also: G&M article by Val Ross.
Toronto Star: Oda's ouster would not be mournedAccording to Martin Knelman of the Toronto Star, Bev Oda being shuffled out of Heritage would not be mourned by the arts community. An interesting dynamic was mentioned.
With two Quebec by-elections underway, would this be the best time for a shuffle? Would the Conservative candidates, if they won, make good Ministers?
Heritage Minister Bev Oda expected to be shuffled? If not her, then who?According to the CTV there is a cabinet shuffle, government being prorogued, and a new Throne Speech when parliament returns. It is all speculation, and it includes suggestions that Ms. Oda would be shuffled. We might as well join the speculation: who do you think would make a good Conservative Heritage Minister, and who do you think would make an extremely bad one?
Behind the Scenes of Canada's Movie Piracy BillMichael Geist's weekly Law Bytes column (Toronto Star, MG's website) uses documents obtained under the Access to Information Act to provide a behind the scenes look at Canada's new movie piracy bill. The documents reveal that the bill is based largely on draft legislation directly provided by the industry and that the Minister of Canadian Heritage was advised by department officials that there was little evidence that the proposal would prove more effective than current Canadian law.
Heritage boondoggle in the making says AngusAn article on the NDP website includes:
See also: CanWest News
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