Good Sunday Morning!

I am back in Ottawa this morning to attend the State Funeral of Ed Broadbent. State Funerals are a rare honour and rarely held for an opposition leader. I knew Ed Broadbent quite well and am honoured that both Jonathan Pedneault and I will be able to attend together.   Continue reading The Transition To Co-leadership (January 28, 2024) →

Good Sunday Morning!

I have spent the week island hopping for my non-partisan MP community meetings. As you can imagine with the deep freeze followed by deep snow, all did not go off without a hitch. As one of my favourite Maritime expressions would have it, we were “storm-stayed” and had to reschedule Mayne Island. I will get back to Saanich Gulf Islands from Parliament for the Mayne gathering on February 2. Continue reading To Help Canada Heal (January 21, 2024) →

Good Sunday Morning!

For most of my readers we are having an unusually chilly morning. I woke up on Salt Spring Island after last night’s community meeting. My SSI hosts report that only one other time over the last twenty years has the thermometer recorded minus ten. Meanwhile a young friend of John’s daughter living at his Ashcroft place reports minus 32, and in our Sidney apartment the pipes have frozen. Continue reading We Face A Growing Attack (January 14, 2024) →

Good Sunday Morning!

I am gratefully and happily back home in British Columbia and looking forward to the round of community meetings scheduled for this month – first up is Saturna on Tuesday January 9. Continue reading The Circular Economy (January 7, 2024) →