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* About Ed Hollett
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* Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background12 AUGUST 2019
HOW TO MAKE THE TELEGRAM BETTER #NLPOLI* Tony Collins
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RESTORING POWER: DESTROYING THE MONSTER #NLPOLI > _The threat from Muskrat Falls can only be removed by concerted > action that addresses the project’s financial burden, restores > integrity to the system of electricity regulation, and that breaks, > once and for all time, the fundamentally corrupt relationship > between the provincial hydro-electric corporation and the provincial > government. This is the only way to restore power to the > province’s people so that they may control their own future._ AND THERE SHALL BE PLANS, AND PLANNING FOR PLANS... This weekend, there’s a story at CBC about a recent study done by a provincial government department into why people from this province leave and what it would take to get them back. Don’t be bothered by that sense you’d heard the story before because you had. Danny Williams and an unidentified aide unveil the New Approach, 2003 (not exactly as shown). Some things are best left buried. The new CBC story came out of a recent two-parter in _TheIndependent_
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That came out of questions raised in the House of Assembly in June about the bits the government had cut out of the report it commissioned in 2018. Everyone fixated on the bits the government cut-out in the recent story but there’s something in the conclusions. The people surveyed were all under age 35, had higher education, and marketable skills. They left either to find work or find better work and they would come back to the province if they could find a job or a situation here comparable to the one they already have. This is something people in this province have known for the better part of a century and it is certainly something the provincial government has known for at least 30 years or more. Not even a hint of exaggeration in any of that. The study is part of the current administration’s effort to develop a plan to replace the strategy developed by the crowd that ran the place before now to attract what Danny Williamsused
to call the homing pigeons back to Newfoundland and Labrador. And the key feature of the ex-pat report is the same as the key feature of a study on immigration or young people who were thinking about leaving the province. If there are jobs, they will either stay, come back, or come here in the first place, depending on the current physical location of the group you arestudying.
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CANNABIS AND CULTURE #NLPOLI > _Politics and policy are much more complicated things than they > appear to many people. Change is possible, but effective change can > only come if we see the world as it is, not as some people imagine> it might be._
Canada’s legal cannabis policy in most Canadian provinces is afailure
.
There are not enough legal cannabis stores to meet demand. The gap in price between legal and illegal cannabis is growing. The supply of legal cannabis is spotty and there are still complaints about the quality of what stores have on their shelves. By contrast, the illicit market is apparently thriving. The reason that the policy failed is that it was driven by established bureaucratic interests from law enforcement and health and addictions who opposed legalization in the first place. That led to a policy that placed the maximum emphasis on restriction and limitation of access. What most governments in Canada ignored is the highly developed, private sector alternative that had been delivering cannabis to retail customers across the country for decades. The industry survived despite the most severe restrictions that Canadian law could impose. It *was* illegal to possess cannabis, after all, under any circumstances, for most of the last 60 years or more. Governments just don’t do “business” very well. They aren’t organized for it and – what’s more important – the people inside the organizations don’t think about problems the same way people in business do. In fact, they don’t think about most things the way people outside government do.Read more »
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26 JULY 2019
OSBORNE WHISTLING PAST FINANCIAL GRAVEYARD #NLPOLI Moody’s delivered a clear and serious message to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador on Wednesday night by lowering the government’s credit rating. The credit rating action came after a series of consistent warnings by Moody’s since it last lowered the government’s rating of credit-worthiness in 2016. Wednesday’s downgrade suggests that Moody’s has doubts the provincial government can hit its target of balancing the provincial budget by 2022. While Moody’s changed its trending to stable from negative, bear in mind that Moody’s rating period ends before the government’s budget period expires. It doesn’t mean – as both finance minister Tom Osborne and NDP leader Alison Coffin suggested on Thursday - that everything is fine.In a news release
issued on 24 July 2019, Moody’s cited three major reasons for thedowngrade:
* “Newfoundland and Labrador's elevated debt and interestburdens”,
* “continued expectation of material consolidated deficits over the next 2 years”, as well as * “heightened credit risk stemming from the large debt level and weak financial metrics of Nalcor, the province's wholly owned utility, which raises the likelihood the province will need to provide financial support to, or assume debt service from, Nalcor.” Finance minister Tom Osborne dismissed the downgrade, tellingreporters
that the downgrade was “not a reason for alarm” and “nothing to be alarmed about”. Osborne said lenders were not surprised by the action, which would be true since both the warnings from Moody’s and the province’s failure to heed them have been well known for twoyears.
Osborne *is* whistling past the financial graveyard here as he responds to the short-term political imperatives of his own party as opposed to the longer-term interests of the province. As SRBP notedin January
,
the provincial government abandoned its deficit plan from 2016 within 18 months of starting it. The spring budget understated the government’s financial state. The motivation was purely political just as the reaction to Moody’s is political. “If re-elected,” SRBP noted before the Mayelection
,
“Dwight Ball is unlikely to make any changes to the government’s current trajectory unless forced to do so. The members of the Liberal caucus, primarily interested in securing their pensions and possibly becoming ministers in a post-Ball Liberal administration, would have no interest in doing anything that would jeopardise their politicalfuture.”
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LUNCHEON SPEECH: FROM MUSKRAT FALLS TO THE FUTURE #NLPOLI Please note time change Your humble e-scribbler will be speaking to the St. John's Rotary Club about getting beyond Muskrat Falls. That's Thursday, August 1, 2019 at the Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland. Luncheon starts at 12:30 PM 1:00 PM with the talk at around 1:00PM 1:30 PM.
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THE BACKGROUND TO THE ROTARY SPEECH: 1. Restoring Power: Mitigating the entire impact of MuskratFalls.
(April
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2. Restoring Power: The tax option(July
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15 JULY 2019
RESTORING POWER: THE SECTION 92A OPTION #NLPOLI > _One of the potentially most valuable revenue sources would be a > new tax on electricity production that could yield upwards of $450 > million a year. The bulk of the tax would be paid by Emera and > Hydro-Quebec, both of which currently profit from free or near-free > electricity through two patently unfair agreements. _ The basic problem of the Lower Churchill was always how to pay forit.
Everyone who tried to build it before wanted people outside the province to use the electricity and pay for the whole project, with the profit flowing to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. When they couldn't get that to work, they simply didn't pursue theproject.
The politicians and bureaucrats behind what became Muskrat Falls were smarter. They decided in a meeting at The Rooms in April 2010 they would force the people of Newfoundland and Labrador to pay for the entire project through their electricity rates, even though they would use very little of it. The benefits would flow outside Newfoundlandand Labrador.
The Dwight Ball-Ches Crosbie rate mitigation scheme is still about having Newfoundlanders and Labradorians alone pay for Muskrat Falls with others reaping the benefit. On top of that, the Ball-Crosbie approach includes money that doesn’t exist. Their scheme also doesn’t address other problems with Muskrat Falls that are as troublesome as the problem of the government’s proposed scheme to have only one small group of people bear the whole cost. So, itwon't work.
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12 JULY 2019
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE #NLPOLI > _Coupled with comparable high rates of staff changes in the senior > ranks of the public service, unprecedented staff turn-over in a > critical part of Premier Dwight Ball's office raises questions that > need to be addressed._ Premier Dwight Ball has entered the history books. He has chewed up more communications directors than any Premier since1972.
Word from the Confederation Building is that Erin Sulley, right, who left community television for the communications business only last October, is now the Premier’s Director of Communications. It's the most senior political communications job in the provincial government Sulley was host of _Out of the Fog_ just before joining Ball's staff last fall in the media relations role. In what was a pretty clear conflict of interest, she also started writing a column for the _Telegram_ at the same time.Read more »
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08 JULY 2019
THE KICK IN THE GUTS #NLPOLI Those following the Muskrat Falls inquiry last week will likely have noticed that one of the big issues not discussed during Dwight Ball's testimony was the circumstances surrounding Ed Martin's resignation. It bears on the inquiry since the entire episode goes to the heart of the government's relationship to Nalcor, which itself shaped Muskrat Falls, and to the resolution of the Astaldi mess. Yet, for some reason, Commissioner Richard LeBlanc does not want to hear about Martin's departure. The incident that supposedly triggered Martin's departure (and that of the board) were a few sentences in the budget speech from April 2016. Ken Marshall described it as a "kick in the guts" for thefolks at Nalcor.
Your humble e-scribbler posted this as part of a bigger piece back in 2016 but just for the fun of it, here are Bennett's words,in
total:
> As the province’s energy corporation, Nalcor belongs to every > citizen of Newfoundland and Labrador. > Since its creation in 2007, taxpayers have invested over $2.25 > billion yet have received no dividends. For all corporations and > their shareholders, this would be unacceptable. > The previous administration allowed Nalcor’s organizational > structure, compensation and benefits packages to grow beyond what > taxpayers would consider reasonable, particularly given our current > fiscal and economic circumstances. > Through Budget 2016, initial steps have been taken to identify > operational savings at Nalcor approximating $6.7 million. > However, due to prior year commitments by the former administration, > the required equity the province will need to invest in Nalcor this > year is $1.3 billion, bringing the total investment by the people of > the province to $3.6 billion. > Further actions will be taken to maximize the return on investments > made by our province. > Like government departments and public entities, Nalcor will be > expected to take a zero based budget approach to their > administration and operations effective with Budget 2017. > The Nalcor Board will be directed to review their operational > structure to achieve efficiencies and develop a plan to bring their > compensation, benefits, and gender equity policies more in line with > similar positions in other public sector bodies. > Work at the Muskrat Falls Powerhouse is significantly behind> schedule.
> Faced with these schedule delays and expected cost increases on the > project - a concern to all of us - government is doing and will > continue to do everything possible to help get this project back on> track.
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Today's post was originally supposed to be a much longer look at Dwight Ball and Muskrat Falls. This turned out to be a much bigger subject than anticipated. Stay tuned for it to appear later thissummer.
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02 JULY 2019
WOMEN IN POLITICS: WOMEN POLITICAL STAFFERS IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA#NLPOLI
Feodor Nagovsky and Matthew Kerby, “Political Staff and the Gendered Division of Political Labour in Canada,” _ParliamentaryAffairs
_,
24 August 2018.
> SUMMARY: While there is considerable research on elected > legislators in a variety of contexts, the academic knowledge about > their advisors is very limited. This is surprising, given a > considerable portion of work attributed to legislators is performed > by political staff. Further, political advising increasingly serves > as a training ground for future politicians in many professionalised> legislatures.
> We use a mixed-methods approach to understand how the influence of > men and women differs in political advising positions in the case of > Canada’s House of Commons, and how this may affect women’s > political ambition. > We demonstrate while close to an equal number of men and women work > for MPs in a political capacity on Parliament Hill, men continue to > dominate legislative roles while women continue to dominate > administrative roles. Further, legislative work increases political > ambition, which means more men benefit from the socialising effects > of legislative work than women. Marija Taflaga and Matthew Kerby, “Who Does What Work in a Ministerial Office: Politically Appointed Staff and the Descriptive Representation of Women in Australian Political Offices, 1979–2010”, _Political Studies_, 19
June 2019.
> SUMMARY: Women are underrepresented within political institutions, > which can (negatively) impact policy outcomes. We examine women’s > descriptive representation as politically appointed staff within > ministerial offices. Politically appointed staff are now > institutionalised into the policy process, so who they are is> important.
> To date, collecting systematic data on political staff has proved > impossible. However, for the first time we demonstrate how to build > a systematic data set of this previously unobservable population. We > use Australian Ministerial Directories (telephone records) from 1979 > to 2010 (a method that can notionally be replicated in advanced > democratic jurisdictions), to examine political advising careers in > a similar manner as elected political elites. > We find that work in political offices is divided on gender lines: > men undertake more policy work, begin and end their careers in > higher status roles and experience greater career progression than > women. We find evidence that this negatively impacts women’s > representation and their later career paths into parliament.-srbp-
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QUEBEC APPEALS COURT DECISION ON CHURCHILL FALLS CONTRACT NO WIN FOR NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR #NLPOLI > _Media reports, political comments, and pundit opinions are wrong > about the decision last week by the Quebec Court of Appeal in a case > about the renewal clause of the 1969 Power Contract between > Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation and Hydro-Quebec._ > _The Court decision leaves Hydro-Quebec with virtually all of the > electricity produced from Churchill Falls and, most importantly, > operational control of water flows on the river. This will have an > adverse impact on Muskrat Falls. As a result, CF(L)Co is likely to > appeal the decision._ __________________________________________________The
Quebec Court of Appeal ruled last week that Hydro Quebec retained operational control of electricity production at Churchill Falls. It made a minor change to an earlier decision by the Quebec Superior Court in a decision from2016.
That’s why Hydro-Quebec issued a statement that it was satisfied with the outcome of the decision. In other words, English-language media reports and political commentary got it wrong when they claimed “Quebec's top court rules for N.L. in Churchill Falls dispute with Hydro-Québec” (CanadianPress
)
or “A Victory For NL In Long-Standing Legal Battle With Hydro-Quebec On Upper Churchill” (VOCM).
The English-language reports focused on the idea that Hydro-Quebec could only buy electricity from Churchill Falls up to a maximum each month under the terms of an automatic renewal to the 1969 power contract between Hydro-Quebec and Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation. VOCM went a step further in the mistake department my making it sound like both Hydro-Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro could sell electricity from Churchills Falls. The clue that something was amiss in the English-language coverage is the statement from Nalcor that said the Quebec Court of Appeal “had ruled substantially in favour” of CF(L)Co on the question ofContinuous Energy.
Here’s why.
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CRITICAL THOUGHT IN A TECHNOLOGICAL AGE #NLPOLI Some thoughts from Simon Lonoon
civil discourse.
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17 JUNE 2019
WOMEN IN ELECTED POLITICS: IS IT A CHOICE? #NLPOLI > _The number of women in elected office in Newfoundland and Labrador > remains below the numbers one would expect based on changes in > society over the past 40 years. _> _Why is that?_
> _Maybe, it's a choice._Luana Maroja is a
biology professor at Williams College, a small liberal arts college inMassachusetts.
Maroja wrote recently in _The Atlantic_that
for most of the decade that she’s taught evolutionary biology and genetics, “the only complaints I got from students were about grades. But that all changed after Donald Trump’s election as president. At that moment, political tensions were running high on our campus. And well-established scientific ideas that I’d been teaching for years suddenly met with stiff ideological resistance.” The resistance she is getting is not from MAGA-hat wearing Trumpians. On the contrary, the criticism Maroja takes has come from those who would fancy themselves progressives. They reject evidence of the biological basis of some differences among humans based on ideologicalassumptions.
When confronted with evidence that contradicts their assumptions, some “students push back against these phenomena not by using scientific arguments, but by employing an _a priori_ moral commitment to equality, anti-racism, and anti-sexism. They resort to denialism to protect themselves from having to confront a worldview they reject—that certain differences between groups may be based partly on biology.” An example of the type of evidence to which Maroja pointed was a study published in _Psychological Science._ It compared the percentage of women STEM graduates in a country with its Global Gender Gap Index. Countries with the highest gender equality scores also had the lowest percentage of female graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.Read more »
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THE NEW SRBP
After a couple of years of irregular posting, SRBP has been back since the start of the year with at least one new post every Monday. Some of you have likely noticed this already. What you may also have noticed is the appearance of a longer form paper as well. They are a return to the original idea for this space: a series of detailed papers on major issues affecting theprovince.
From the production end of things, that's been the most significant development. The longer papers allow for a bit more background and a bit more discussion of the conclusion. That's important for people who want to better understand the issues involved and, as in the paper on rate mitigation, a better explanation of the proposedsolution.
So far there has been one paper, the one on rate mitigation.
There is another in the works on barriers to medical care,a
subject the Atlantic region's governments have made a top priority. This is one of those well-known problems that no one has come to grips with so far. The SRBP paper will describe the scope of the problem and highlight some solutions to it. The solutions are practical and workable. They will only need a decision from those in authority since the problems - quite ridiculous once you see them laid out - aretheirs to fix.
There's also one on reforming the provincial political system. This is a bit different as the ways to achieve goals many people desire are not quite so easy to attain as some imagine. All the same, the paper should give anyone interested in the subject both a better understanding of how we got to the place we current find ourselves in and of the potential ways to get to the end goal. There may be some other changes as the year progresses. Stay tuned to see what happens.-srbp-
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03 JUNE 2019
JACK HARRIS: GOOD BYE AND GOOD NIGHT #NLPOLI > _From 2006 to early 2010, Simon Lono wrote Offal News, a > commentary on local politics, debating, and whatever caught Simon's> eye. _
> _When Jack Harris quit as leader of the provincial New Democratic > Party, Simon turned his sharp eye to Harris' legacy. Simon > respected differences of opinion but he had no time for anyone who > fell below the high standards that Simon set for himself. _ > _Harris jumped to federal politics not long after and represented > St. John's East until he was defeated by Nick Whelan in 2015. > Since Harris announced last week that he wanted to be the NDP > candidate again, here's a second look at __Simon's obituary for > Harris' provincial political career. _ JACK HARRIS: GOOD BYE AND GOOD NIGHT by Simon Lono (April, 2006)Like
many of us of a certain age, I had the period in my life where the ideas of democratic socialism had a certain appeal. And why wouldn't they? They expressed some of the highest ideals of human generosity, belief of control over our destiny and the sense that all people deserve basic fairness. And further, it seemed that all those things were within the grasp of government to deliver. But then as Aristide Briandsaid, "The
man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head."Jack
Harris, I'm sorry to say, never found his head. Nor did he ever find his calling as the leader of a provincial political party. When you look as his record as a political leader and contributor to provincial public affairs, the best one can say is that he always demonstratedpotential.
The problem was that he generally managed to perform way below his perceived potential. On occasion, he surprised us all with occasional flashes of true political competence worthy of his inflated reputation. More often he just disappointed us all. Let me give you just two examples:Read more »
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31 MAY 2019
MORE BEIGE THAN BEIGE #NLPOLI The Premier had a carefully rehearsed message when reporters asked him on Thursday why he had appointed everyone in cabinet back to their old portfolios despite an election that had reduced his party to a minority government. A cabinet of "experience, consistency, and stability," Dwight Ballcalled them.
He used the word "experienced" a couple of times and emphasised the word "stable" as he finished the answer to one question. You can find a bit of Ball's scrum with reporters at about the 42 minute mark of CBC's _Here and Now _broadcast. NTV'sstory
got the "stability" message loud and clear. The election result was a shock to many people. People can debate what it meant that voters didn't endorse any one party to have a majority in the legislature. Ball has a political problem even if he is in heavy denial about it but all the talk about experience and stability wasn't about dealing with a political problem. Voters aren't panicked by the minoritygovernment.
Ball was dealing with a financial problem. His plans depend heavily on the ability to borrow a couple of billions dollars to make his budget work. Ball will have a much harder time borrowing money if the bond-rating agencies take a dim view of his government's ability to manage public finances in the wake of the election.Read more »
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Restoring Power: The Section 92A Option #nlpoli One of the potentially most valuable revenue sources would be a new tax on electricity production that could yield upwards of $450 million...
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* 3 - The Dysfunctional House of Assembly * 4 - Elections and Voting * 5 - Government by Committee POLITICS, POLLS AND THE NEWS MEDIA * Playing the Numbers (2006) * The Media and the Message (2006) * The Perils of Polling (2006) * The Danny Brand (2006) * Welcome to the Echo Chamber (2011) * Politics, Polls and the News Media (2011) * The Polls in the 2011 Election * Handling the Undecideds (2011) * The Polls and the Local Media (2011) * Controversy, Accountability and Disclosure (2011)THE JM SERIES
* Analysis of Muskrat Falls (PUB) * Upper Churchill - an unexplored alternative * Labrador Mining and Muskrat Falls * The Simple Litmus Test * The Importance of Transparency* Demand and Costs
* The Water Management Agreement * Two Variants of the Interconnected Option * A Relapse of the Free Market Society * Muskrat Falls: delayed dividends plus more equity needed * UARB Decision - the potential impact to the Newfoundland ratepayer * If Nalcor got the peak load wrong * An estimate of electricity prices in Newfoundland and Labradorpost-Muskrat Falls
15 IDEAS (AND MORE) FOR A STRONGER NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR* Introduction
* Setting the Table (June 14) * Building the Fishery of the Future (June 15) * Strengthening the Treasury (June 16) * Making the Most of Our Energy Resources - Part I: Electricity Reform Potential (June 20) * Making the Most of Our Energy Resources - Part II: Oil and Gas in the Future (July 20) * Nurturing a democratic revolution (July 21) THE "OUTSIDE THE BOX" SERIES * Experience Counts (January 2005) * The Stunnel (February 2005) * The Independents (March 2005) * The Politics of History (July 2005) * Time (October 2005) * Up the Harbour and Down the Shore (June 2006) * he spoke. And rapidly drank a glass of water. (September 2006) KREMLINOLOGY: THE SERIES * Ottawa Kremlinology 01 : Connie Unease * Kremlinology 45: Verb Tense * Kremlinology 44: Optics 2 * Kremlinology 44: Optics * Kremlinology 43: We love the Leader! * Kremlinology 42: Dependency and the Loan Guarantee * Kremlinology 41: All politics is personal * Kremlinology 40: Word Search * Kremlinology 39: What Burke didn't say * Kremlinology 38: What they left out * Kremlinology 37: United in Differences * Kremlinology 36: Thinking with your ass * Kremlinology 35: Premier shows strain * Kremlinology 34: Enemy of my enemy and other weekend amusements * Kremlinology 33: Trouble at t'mill * Kremlinology 32: the St. Valentine's Day Massacre * Kremlinology 31; Auditor General's report on offshore board mysteriously vanishes * Kremlinology 30: The Vanishing 'Stache * Kremlinology 29: EasyBake Tories * Kremlinology 28: How will he go? * Kremlinology 27: Going negative early has its risks * Kremlinology 26: Magma Displacement * Kremlinology 24: The Whine List * Kremlinology 23: a little something for everyone * Kremlinology 22: House sitting and bills passed * Kremlinology 21: Tells * Kremlinology 20: Who will replace Danny? * Kremlinology 19: Ass-kissing has its rewards * Kremlinology 18: And that was W.A. Mozart with a little tunecalled Lacrimosa...
* Kremlinology 17: Woof! Woof! * Kremlinology 16: Deep Throat * Kremlinology 16 (Update): Deep T'roat * Kremlinology 15: as warm and fuzzy as your old blankie * Kremlinology 14: Dead Caterpillars * Kremlinology 13: The Seat by the Door * Kremlinology 12: Dead Caribou Edition * Kremlinology 11; Words that start with "p" and "o" * Kremlinology 10: Ah, to be a Tory in Gander in October when thedogs are fit to wag
* Kremlinology 09: By-elections * Kremlinology 08: Honestly, We're so f*cking sorry * Kremlinology 07: Desperate in the Straits * Kremlinology 06: The Curious Last Days of Paul Oram * Kremlinology 05: Hard to Swallow That * Kremlinology 04: There and Not There * Kremlinology 03: Gros Morne * Kremlinology 02: Patterns of Behaviour* Kremlinology
THE ELIZABETH TOWERS FIRE SCANDAL - SOPER INQUIRY (FIRST REPORT) * Introduction/Commission * The Elizabeth Towers Fire and Its Investigation * The Release of the Reports of the Investigation * The Question of Justification* Recommendations
CHANGE AND CHALLENGE: THE STRATEGIC ECONOMIC PLAN (1992)* Introduction
* 1. The Changes
* 2. The Challenges
* 3. Charting the course * 4. Creating a competitive edge (Part 1) * 4. Creating a competitive edge (Part 2) * 4. Creating a competitive edge (Part 3) * 4. Creating a competitive edge (Part 4) * 5. New opportunities for growth * 6. Enhancing our resource industries The Sir Robert Bond Papers is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada License.
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