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View Article  Defence spending: Trudeau was tops in the last 40 years

The Ottawa Citizen’s top defence reporter David Pugliese crunches the numbers today and finds that ‘pinko’ PM Pierre Trudeau spent relatively more on national defence  than any of his successors including ‘hawks’ like Brian Mulroney or even Stephen Harper.

The Conference of Defence Associations — an advocacy group whose membership, ...   more »

View Article  This is not a circus, it's Parliament!

Paul Szabo, the Liberal who chairs the House of Commons committee that has Karl Heinz Schreiber in front of it right now, is in the midst of his opening statement. First, he said the committee was disgusted that the police had failed to protect Schreiber’s “personal dignity” when Schreiber was ...   more »

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