The words are from Liberal leadership candidate Gerard Kennedy.  The hyperlinks are mine.

Dear Prime Minister:
 
Yesterday, Canadians learned that the Conservative Party of Canada is selling your
position on the Middle East as a source of election funds even as people there are
suffering and dying.
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I was on holiday when Conservative Party executive director Michael Donison sent this out but, for the record, here is what generated a little heat last week:

Dear Mr. XXX,

Our Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper was amongst the first of the world's leaders to take a principled stand on ...   more »

Elections Canada will be sending out some big cheques this week to the country’s major political parties. These cheques, totalling about $27.2–million, represent the amount of money that taxpayers (via the federal government) reimburse to politicians to cover the cost of competing for seats in a federal election.

A quick and completely unscientific ...   more »

Before I moved here last year to join CTV’s Parliamentary Bureau, I lived in north Oakville, Ontario, precisely 60 kilometres from my office in the Globe and Mail building at Front and Spadina in Toronto. We lived in what was then Liberal Gary Carr’s riding but is now the riding of ...   more »

David Weinberger (left — in fact, really, really left :) )has just finished the first draft of his new book [Read: Why so long between issues] which means he might be out on a book tour some time early in 2007. (You remember David, don’t you? He and Doc ...   more »

Dan Sekulich (left)and I first met at high school, John F. Ross CVI in Guelph, and became good friends. He was a much better basketball player than me but despite that, I liked hanging around him because he can be a pretty funny guy — I’d call his sense of ...   more »

As you may have heard, Prime Minister Harper decided to take a hands-on approach to the problem of getting Canadians out of Lebanon. He ditched the journalists and his aides that travelled with him to Europe and is en route as I write this to Cyprus. Harper is also taking along a “skeletal staff” including . . .   more »

PARIS – Standing beside French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and with a sabre-armed French honour guard next to him, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had this to say about those who have said Canada has acted too slowly to extract an estimated 40,000 Canadian citizens in Lebanon:

“There have ...   more »

Prime Minister Stephen Harper toured Vimy Ridge this afternoon, the site of one of Canada's greatest military victories and the one, many say, that forged our nationhood. Harper stood in a WWI trench and, with a bevy of photographers in front of him - all of whom are members of ...   more »

The PM's entourage landed in Lille, France about an hour ago. Our itinerary here had us going to the Canadian memorial at Vimy Ridge. We took a surprise detour, though, heading to the out-of-the-way Barlin Community Cemetery in Barlin. A group of about 100 local veterans, dignitaries and students were ...   more »