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Understanding Stephen Harper
HARPER Edited by Teresa Healy www.policyalternatives.ca Photo: Hanson/THE Tom CANADIAN PRESS Understanding Stephen Harper The long view Steve Patten CANAdIANs Need to understand the political and ideological tem- perament of politicians like Stephen Harper — men and women who aspire to political leadership. While we can gain important insights by reviewing the Harper gov- ernment’s policies and record since the 2006 election, it is also essential that we step back and take a longer view, considering Stephen Harper’s two decades of political involvement prior to winning the country’s highest political office. What does Harper’s long record of engagement in conservative politics tell us about his political character? This chapter is organized around a series of questions about Stephen Harper’s political and ideological character. Is he really, as his support- ers claim, “the smartest guy in the room”? To what extent is he a con- servative ideologue versus being a political pragmatist? What type of conservatism does he embrace? What does the company he keeps tell us about his political character? I will argue that Stephen Harper is an economic conservative whose early political motivations were deeply ideological. While his keen sense of strategic pragmatism has allowed him to make peace with both conservative populism and the tradition- alism of social conservatism, he continues to marginalize red toryism within the Canadian conservative family. He surrounds himself with Governance 25 like-minded conservatives and retains a long-held desire to transform Canada in his conservative image. The smartest guy in the room, or the most strategic? When Stephen Harper first came to the attention of political observers, it was as one of the leading “thinkers” behind the fledgling Reform Party of Canada. -
Libya: Why Are We Involved
Libya: Why Are We Involved A Policy Update Paper By Derek Burney CDFAI Senior Research Fellow And Senior Strategic Advisor to Ogilvy Renault LLP March, 2011 Prepared for the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute 1600, 530 – 8th Avenue S.W., Calgary, AB T2P 3S8 www.cdfai.org © Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute Other Publications Written For Or Assisted By: The Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute Operations Security and the Public’s Need to Know Sharon Hobson March, 2011 The Panda Bear Readies to Meet the Polar Bear: China Debates and Formulates Foreign Policy Towards Arctic Affairs and Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty David Curtis Wright March, 2011 ‘Now For the Hard Part’: A User’s Guide to Renewing the Canadian-American Partnership Colin Robertson February, 2011 Canada’s International Policy Statement Five Years Later Andrew Godefroy November, 2010 The ‘Dirty Oil’ Card and Canadian Foreign Policy Paul Chastko October, 2010 China’s Strategic Behaviour Elinor Sloan June, 2010 Reinventing CIDA Barry Carin and Gordon Smith May, 2010 Security in an Uncertain World: A Canadian Perspective on NATO’s New Strategic Concept Paul Chapin, et al March, 2010 The Newly Emerging Arctic Security Environment Rob Huebert March, 2010 Whatever Happened to Peacekeeping? The Future of a Tradition Jocelyn Coulon and Michel Liégeois March, 2010 Democracies and Small Wars Barry Cooper December, 2009 Beneath the Radar: Change or Transformation in the Canada-US North American Defence Relationship James Fergusson December, 2009 The Canada First Defence Strategy – One Year Later George Macdonald October, 2009 Measuring Effectiveness in Complex Operations: What is Good Enough? Sarah Meharg October, 2009 “Connecting the Dots” and the Canadian Counter-Terrorism Effort – Steady Progress or Technical, Bureaucratic, Legal and Political Failure? Eric Lerhe March, 2009 Canada-U.S. -
BACKBENCHERS So in Election Here’S to You, Mr
Twitter matters American political satirist Stephen Colbert, host of his and even more SPEAKER smash show The Colbert Report, BACKBENCHERS so in Election Here’s to you, Mr. Milliken. poked fun at Canadian House Speaker Peter politics last week. p. 2 Former NDP MP Wendy Lill Campaign 2011. p. 2 Milliken left the House of is the writer behind CBC Commons with a little Radio’s Backbenchers. more dignity. p. 8 COLBERT Heard on the Hill p. 2 TWITTER TWENTY-SECOND YEAR, NO. 1082 CANADA’S POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEWSWEEKLY MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2011 $4.00 Tories running ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2011 Lobbyists ‘pissed’ leaner war room, Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the hustings they can’t work on focused on election campaign, winning majority This campaign’s say it’s against their This election campaign’s war room Charter rights has 75 to 90 staffers, with the vast majority handling logistics of about one man Lobbying Commissioner Karen the Prime Minister’s tour. Shepherd tells lobbyists that working on a political By KRISTEN SHANE and how he’s run campaign advances private The Conservatives are running interests of public office holder. a leaner war room and a national campaign made up mostly of cam- the government By BEA VONGDOUANGCHANH paign veterans, some in new roles, whose goal is to persuade Canadi- Lobbyists are “frustrated” they ans to re-elect a “solid, stable Con- can’t work on the federal elec- servative government” to continue It’s a Harperendum, a tion campaign but vow to speak Canada’s economic recovery or risk out against a regulation that they a coalition government headed by national verdict on this think could be an unconstitutional Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff. -
THE BEST :BROADCAST BRIEFING in CANADA Thursday, June 1, 2006 Volume 14, Number 2 Page One of Three
THE BEST :BROADCAST BRIEFING IN CANADA Thursday, June 1, 2006 Volume 14, Number 2 Page One of Three DO NOT RETRANSMIT THIS ADIO: MOJO Sports Radio (CHMJ) Vancouver, owned by Corus, PUBLICATION BEYOND YOUR will see 14 people out of a job come this weekend. On Monday, June RECEPTION POINT R5, CHMJ begins airing continuous traffic reports during the day and the best of talk from sister station CKNW Vancouver at other times. Howard Christensen, Publisher Broadcast Dialogue New ID is AM730 Continuous Drive Time Traffic and the Best of Talk and 18 Turtle Path will also feature the Vancouver Whitecaps and Giants and Seattle Lagoon City ON L0K 1B0 Seahawks games. Among those out of work are CKNW Sports Director JP (705) 484-0752 [email protected] McConnell and MOJO personalities John McKeachie, Bob Marjanovich, www.broadcastdialogue.com Jeff Paterson and Blake Price. Seen as the 100% CANADIAN As dagger to MOJO’s heart Canada’s public was CHUM-owned Team 1040 Vancouver’s acquisition of broadcaster, CBC offers all Canadians Vancouver Canucks radio rights, owned for decades by broadcasting services CKNW. And earlier, Team 1040 took play-by-play rights to that reflect and celebrate our country’s diverse the BC Lions away from Corus... Y101 (CKBY-FM) Ottawa heritage, culture and stories. is in the midst of a three-day Radiothon – May 31 to June 2 SENIOR BROADCAST TECHNOLOGIST – for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). th This is the 8 annual Y101 Country Cares Challenge for Your primary role will be to ensure the CHEO and organizers say they expect to break the $1- maintenance of broadcasting equipment and million dollar mark at this year’s event.. -
The Federal State, Neoliberalism and the Left
The manner of governing of Stephen Harper’s Conservative The phenomenon of centralized decentralization was first government might be characterized as a paradox with a purpose. A observed with respect to the British experience with Thatcherism. sharp centralization of authority over decision-making and politi- It was observed that the power of the state was in fact becoming cal management – particularly to augment policing, warmaking increasingly concentrated – ‘free market, strong state for these and market-enhancing capacities – is accompanied by an equally iron times’ – at the centre of the state. This centralization of power focused policy agenda that seeks to hollow out the distributive was necessary, politically speaking, as a means to drive through capacities of the Canadian federal state in the executive branches. an agenda to restructure the economy, defeat the trade unions, This simultaneous centralization and decentralization is a key fea- and erode the welfare state. The Thatcher-era Conservatives under- ture of the process of state restructuring under neoliberalism. stood that state power was a necessary element to restructure the state itself and its relations with different aspects of civil society. It is not a matter of bypassing or weakening the state in fa- vour of markets in general, but a change in the form of the state: This process had its origins in Canada under Brian Mulroney’s the executive of the state is strengthened relative to parliaments Conservative government of the 1980s (although the Liberal gov- and participative bodies; state economic apparatuses facilitating ernment’s of Pierre Trudeau first brought neoliberalism to Canada the internationalization of capital and market processes to bolster and began administrative restructuring in the last years of his capital accumulation are given policy precedence over administration). -
Valuation Issues in Applying Fraudulent Transfer Law to Leveraged Buyouts Alemante G
College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Faculty Publications Faculty and Deans 1991 Valuation Issues in Applying Fraudulent Transfer Law to Leveraged Buyouts Alemante G. Selassie William & Mary Law School Repository Citation Selassie, Alemante G., "Valuation Issues in Applying Fraudulent Transfer Law to Leveraged Buyouts" (1991). Faculty Publications. 256. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/256 Copyright c 1991 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs VALUATION ISSUES IN APPLYING FRAUDULENT TRANSFER LAW TO LEVERAGED BUYOUTSt ALEMANTE G. SELASSIE* INTRODUCTION A leveraged buyout1 ("LBO") is a purchase transaction in which an acquiring entity purchases a business ("Target") largely through t Copyright© 1991 Alemante G. Selassie. * Assistant Professor of Law, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary. LL.B. 1969, Haile Selassie I University; J.D. 1984, University of Wisconsin Law School. I would like to thank jayne Barnard, Charles Koch, and Elmer Schaefer for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of the article. I am especially indebted to Ingrid Hillinger for her many valuable comments, editorial assistance, and her abiding faith and interest in the project. Any errors are, of course, mine. Special thanks are also due to Della Harris, Sherry Thomas, and Nancy McDonough for typing numerous revisions. Above all, I would like to thank my wife, Askale, who, as always, gave deeply of herself to carry on through· this work. 1 In the typical leveraged buyout ("LBO"), the acquiring entity, a group of investors and managers, forms a wholly owned shell corporation. -
Department Stores on Sale: an Antitrust Quandary Mark D
Georgia State University Law Review Volume 26 Article 1 Issue 2 Winter 2009 March 2012 Department Stores on Sale: An Antitrust Quandary Mark D. Bauer Follow this and additional works at: https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Mark D. Bauer, Department Stores on Sale: An Antitrust Quandary, 26 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (2012). Available at: https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol26/iss2/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications at Reading Room. It has been accepted for inclusion in Georgia State University Law Review by an authorized editor of Reading Room. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Bauer: Department Stores on Sale: An Antitrust Quandary DEPARTMENT STORES ON SALE: AN ANTITRUST QUANDARY Mark D. BauerBauer*• INTRODUCTION Department stores occupy a unique role in American society. With memories of trips to see Santa Claus, Christmas window displays, holiday parades or Fourth of July fIreworks,fireworks, department storesstores- particularly the old downtown stores-are often more likely to courthouse.' engender civic pride than a city hall building or a courthouse. I Department store companies have traditionally been among the strongest contributors to local civic charities, such as museums or symphonies. In many towns, the department store is the primary downtown activity generator and an important focus of urban renewal plans. The closing of a department store is generally considered a devastating blow to a downtown, or even to a suburban shopping mall. Many people feel connected to and vested in their hometown department store. -
CANADIAN CASES on the LAW of TORTS Third Series/Troisi`Eme S´Erie Recueil De Jurisprudence Canadienne En Responsabilit´E Civile VOLUME 94 (Cited 94 C.C.L.T
CANADIAN CASES ON THE LAW OF TORTS Third Series/Troisi`eme s´erie Recueil de jurisprudence canadienne en responsabilit´e civile VOLUME 94 (Cited 94 C.C.L.T. (3d)) EDITOR-IN-CHIEF/REDACTEUR´ EN CHEF John Irvine, M.A., B.C.L. FACULTY OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA WINNIPEG, MANITOBA ASSOCIATE EDITOR/REDACTEUR´ ADJOINT Robert P. Kouri, B.A., L.L.L., M.C.L., D.C.L. FACULTE´ DE DROIT, UNIVERSITEDE´ SHERBROOKE SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC´ CARSWELL EDITORIAL STAFF/REDACTION´ DE CARSWELL Cheryl L. McPherson, B.A.(HONS.) Director, Primary Content Operations Susan Goodman, B.A., LL.B. Product Development Manager Jennifer Weinberger, B.A.(HONS.), J.D. Sharon Yale, LL.B., M.A. Supervisor, Legal Writing Supervisor, Legal Writing Anne Simpson, B.A., M.L.S., LL.B. Jim Fitch, B.A., LL.B. Senior Legal Writer Senior Legal Writer Dionne Brown Chambers, B.A., LL.B. Peggy Gibbons, B.A.(HONS.), LL.B. Senior Legal Writer Senior Legal Writer Barbara Roberts, B.A.(HONS.), LL.B. Natasha Major, B.A., LL.L. Senior Legal Writer Senior Legal Writer Martin-Fran¸cois Parent, LL.B., LL.M., Eden Nameri, B.A., LL.B. DEA (PARIS II) Legal Writer Bilingual Legal Writer Annie Chan, B.A. Content Editor CANADIAN CASES ON THE LAW OF TORTS, a national series of anno- Recueil de jurisprudence canadienne en responsabilit´e civile, une s´erie tated topical law reports, is published 12 times per year. Subscription rate nationale de recueils de jurisprudence sp´ecialis´ee et annot´ee, est publi´e 12 $368.00 per bound volume including parts. -
(SEP 2 5 1989 LJPRA R Acknowledgements
MIT LIBRARIES DUPL 1 3 9080 00589045 1 CANADIAN INVESTMENT IN THE U.S. REAL ESTATE MARKET by William Richard Evans H.B.A., Business Administration, The University of Western Ontario, Canada 1983 Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Real Estate Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology October, 1989 ( )William Richard Evans 1989 The author hereby grants to M.I.T. permission to reproduce and distribute publicy copies of this thesis document in whole or in part/. W Signature of author William Richard Evans Department of Architecture July 3/1, 1989 Certified by 34fsMcKellar Professor. Department of Architecture Thesis Supervisor Accepted by Michael Wheeler Chairman Interdepartmental Degree Program in Real Estate Development (SEP 2 5 1989 LJPRA R Acknowledgements This thesis represents the effort of a Canadian student possessing previous employment experience with one of the major Canadian developers referred to within this research. Research was conducted over a two-month period, durina which time the author spent considerable time interviewing in Canada. The Canadian real estate development industry, in aeneral, is extremely private and tightly controlled by a relatively small number of companies. Very little has been documented on the industry and therefore interviews were a critical component of this research effort. A variety of Canadian industry participants agreed to be interviewed and I thank them for their interest and cooperation. -
Shaping Commitment: Resolving Canada's Strategy Gap In
SHAPING COMMITMENT: RESolving Canada’S STRATEGY GAP IN AFGHANISTAN AND BEYOND Colonel D. Craig Hilton Canadian Army July 2007 Visit our website for other free publication downloads http://www.StrategicStudiesInstitute.army.mil/ To rate this publication click here. This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. As such, it is in the public domain, and under the provisions of Title 17, United States Code, Section 105, it may not be copyrighted. ***** The views expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. This report is cleared for public release; distribution is unlimited. ***** Comments pertaining to this report are invited and should be forwarded to: Director, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 122 Forbes Ave, Carlisle, PA 17013-5244. ***** All Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) publications are available on the SSI homepage for electronic dissemination. Hard copies of this report also may be ordered from our homepage. SSI's homepage address is: www.StrategicStudies Institute.army.mil. ***** The Strategic Studies Institute publishes a monthly e-mail newsletter to update the national security community on the research of our analysts, recent and forthcoming publications, and upcoming conferences sponsored by the Institute. Each newsletter also provides a strategic commentary by one of our research analysts. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, please subscribe on our homepage at www.StrategicStudiesInstitute. army.mil/newsletter/. ISBN 1-58487-299-3 ii PREFACE The U.S. -
Asper Nation Other Books by Marc Edge
Asper Nation other books by marc edge Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vancouver’s Newspaper Monopoly Red Line, Blue Line, Bottom Line: How Push Came to Shove Between the National Hockey League and Its Players ASPER NATION Canada’s Most Dangerous Media Company Marc Edge NEW STAR BOOKS VANCOUVER 2007 new star books ltd. 107 — 3477 Commercial Street | Vancouver, bc v5n 4e8 | canada 1574 Gulf Rd., #1517 | Point Roberts, wa 98281 | usa www.NewStarBooks.com | [email protected] Copyright Marc Edge 2007. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written consent of the publisher or a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (access Copyright). Publication of this work is made possible by the support of the Canada Council, the Government of Canada through the Department of Cana- dian Heritage Book Publishing Industry Development Program, the British Columbia Arts Council, and the Province of British Columbia through the Book Publishing Tax Credit. Printed and bound in Canada by Marquis Printing, Cap-St-Ignace, QC First printing, October 2007 library and archives canada cataloguing in publication Edge, Marc, 1954– Asper nation : Canada’s most dangerous media company / Marc Edge. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-55420-032-0 1. CanWest Global Communications Corp. — History. 2. Asper, I.H., 1932–2003. I. Title. hd2810.12.c378d34 2007 384.5506'571 c2007–903983–9 For the Clarks – Lynda, Al, Laura, Spencer, and Chloe – and especially their hot tub, without which this book could never have been written. -
Court File No. CV-12-9667-00CL ONTARIO SUPERIOR COURT OF
Court File No. CV-12-9667-00CL ONTARIO SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE COMMERCIAL LIST IJ'l" THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES' CREDITORS ARRANGEMENT ACT, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-36, AS AMENDED AND IN THE MATTER OF A PLAN OF COMPROMISE OR ARRANGEMENT OF SINO-FOREST CORPORATION BRIEF OF AUTHORITIES OF SINO-FOREST CORPORATION (Motions Returnable October 9-10, 2012) BENNETT JONES LLP One First Canadian Place Suite 3400, P.O. Box 130 Toronto, Ontario M5X 1A4 Robert Staley (LSUC #27115J) Kevin Zych (LSUC #33129T) Derek J. Bell (LSUC #43420J) Raj Sahni (LSUC #42942U) Jonathan Bell (LSUC #55457P) Tel: 416-863-1200 Fax: 416-863-1716 Lawyers for the Applicant Index Court File No. CV-12-9667-00CL ONTARIO SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE COMMERCIAL LIST IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES’ CREDITORS ARRANGEMENT ACT, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-36, AS AMENDED AND IN THE MATTER OF A PLAN OF COMPROMISE OR ARRANGEMENT OF SINO-FOREST CORPORATION BRIEF OF AUTHORITIES OF SINO-FOREST CORPORATION INDEX Tab Document 1. Canadian Airlines Corp. (Re), [2000] A.J. No. 1692 (Q.B.) 2. Stelco Inc. (Re), [2005] O.J. No. 1171 (C.A.) 3. Chef Ready Foods Ltd. v. Hongkong Bank of Canada, [1990] B.C.J. No. 2384 (C.A.), Stelco Inc. (Re), [2005] O.J. No. 4733 (C.A.) 4. Timminco Ltd. (Re.), 2012 ONSC 2515 5. Campeau v. Olympia & York Developments Ltd., [1992] O.J. No. 1946 6. Timminco Re., 2012 ONSC 106 7. Order of Justice Morawetz dated May 8, 2012, CV-12-9667-00CL 8. Order of Morawetz dated May 14, 2012, CV-12-9667-00CL 9.