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COVID Spending Must Have On-going Parliamentary Oversight

Yesterday, Government House Leader Pablo Rodriguez announced that the House of Commons will be recalled to authorize the largest spending package in Canadian history, and that he’d like Parliament to do so by means of an expedited process, in which all of the normal procedural protections are stripped away. Normally any

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Essay #2: On Constituency Referenda

By Scott Reid Member of Parliament for Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston Open the PDF here: On Constituency Referenda   —————o0o————— This is the second in a series of essays that I will be publishing, during the course of the 2020 Conservative Party leadership race, with the goal of persuading any and all leadership

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Essay #1: Conservatives should be leading on democracy issues

By Scott Reid Member of Parliament for Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston Open the PDF here: CONSERVATIVES SHOULD BE LEADING, INSTEAD OF LAGGING, ON DEMOCRACY ISSUES   —————o0o————— Like one of the patriarchs in the Book of Genesis, I’ve been around Parliament Hill for a very, very long time. My colleague Cheryl Gallant and

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Responses to Kingston Whig-Standard candidate survey

Original Post: October 18, 2019 I provided my responses to a survey provided by the Kingston Whig-Standard to all candidates in Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston. The paper printed all responses it received in THIS STORY. Take a look! Note added: November 20, 2019 The Whig Standard asked some questions to which it decided

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Canada Summer Jobs 2019

Welcome! I am happy to provide additional information to my constituents on the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) program, and my own thoughts and actions respecting that program. Please see the links below. You can see my 2018-2019 annual report, in which I wrote about what made my get involved in

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On Quebec’s Bill 21

I am writing to express my admiration for Ichrak Nourel Hak, the courageous young Quebec woman who is challenging the province’s Bill 21. The new law makes it unlawful for a person to work for the provincial government, including schools, while wearing “any object, including clothing, a symbol, jewellery, an

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