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libMisleading, harassing phone calls? Instant-voters with no address? Not in my Canada. It’s time for the truth. That’s why yesterday in Question Period... read moreMar 13, 2012 2:00 pm | Ontario, Toronto Centre
July
- MPlibThe deep partisanship that has marked the crisis in the United States Congress has some lessons for Canadians. Polarisation is not the “new normal,”... read moreJul 29, 2011 8:40 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibAt Cafe Sinai in Scarborough a man stood up at the end of a hastily convened community meeting and said “Somalia is broken but we are still human... read moreJul 21, 2011 5:24 pm | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibThe full dimensions of the humanitarian crisis in the horn of Africa – in Somalia, Ethiopia and northern Kenya – are now becoming clear. ... read moreJul 21, 2011 2:33 pm | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibYesterday, a suspicious package was delivered to our constituency office in Toronto. The situation was resolved without incident or harm to any member... read moreJul 05, 2011 7:24 pm | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibI shall be participating in Pride events this week, including the parade on Sunday. The celebration of diversity and sexual identity is a great achievement... read moreJul 01, 2011 6:52 pm | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibFirst there is the land. We love Canada as a special place – each of us has such a favourite spot, a lake or a street corner, a mountain top or... read moreJul 01, 2011 6:48 pm | Ontario, Toronto Centre
June
- MPlibThe triumphalist tone of the Conservative meeting in Ottawa was to be expected. But Liberals should listen carefully to the strategy and language coming... read moreJun 11, 2011 8:19 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibI am writing with a desk piled high with calls to return, e-mails to answer, and decisions to make. One step at a time. The Liberal Party’s defeat... read moreJun 02, 2011 7:25 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
May
- MPlibDear Residents of Toronto Centre, I want to thank those who voted for me and our dynamic campaign team of volunteers in the May 2nd election in Toronto... read moreMay 08, 2011 9:13 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
April
- MPlibJoin us this evening at our campaign office at 876 Yonge Street to grab something to eat, get some TTC tokens from us, and head up to Downsview Station... read moreApr 27, 2011 10:06 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibDavid Frum’s extended time as a speechwriter and adviser to George Bush and the Republican Party may have sharpened his attack dog skills, but in... read moreApr 24, 2011 10:08 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibOne of the most moving and difficult assignments in my life was to look into the Air India bombing. I concluded that there was indeed a Canadian based... read moreApr 22, 2011 6:05 pm | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibTORONTO – Team Rae debuted our iPad canvassing system this week. Volunteers with iPad tablets canvassed neighbourhoods throughout downtown Toronto.... read moreApr 08, 2011 6:12 pm | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibThis election is all about choice. A choice about vision and policies, a choice about character, what we want our politics and government to be about. Liberals... read moreApr 02, 2011 12:19 pm | Ontario, Toronto Centre
March
- MPlibCanada can rightly take pride that its political leadership played a key role in the development and ratification of the Landmines Treaty. “The... read moreMar 11, 2011 8:08 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibThomas Jefferson remarked at the time of the American and French Revolutions that “democracy is an infectious idea”. The street demonstrations... read moreMar 10, 2011 6:36 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
February
- MPlibJack Layton’s meeting with Stephen Harper (a day after his apparently mock attack on PMO and Bev Oda) and his presentation of a list of four “requests” for “peace in our time” shows what a weak hand the NDP is really playing. What is this all about, really ? It’s about the NDP realising they have to fight their decline into marginalisation and irrelevance. It is sad to see the NDP abandon the fight for tax fairness without a whimper. NDP figures it is losing tax cuts issue to the Liberals, and so needs its own territory. As the Tom Lehrer song says “playing second fiddle’s a hard part I know, when they won’t even give you a bow”. So they give Harper a new shopping list. They think this puts them in the spotlight for the days leading up to the budget. They haven’t decided yet whether to defeat the budget, and in fact their caucus is divided. Some want to go now, some would much prefer to wait. If they do join in the opposition to the budget – because the Tories don’t play ball – they see a small victory. If the Tories play ball – they “win” (according to their theory). People will reward them for gaining concessions. But there is a fatal weakness to this strategy. The first is that everyone can see through it – it simply papers over the split in their caucus, they’ve ceded the tax cut issue to the Liberals (big mistake) and if they support the Tories they’re done for because their base is fiercely anti-Harper. If they don’t support them no one will notice. They are playing a bad hand of cards. The bigger problem is the rotten nature of the Tory regime. The point is not to criticise Harper, or to play footsie with him, but to replace him. The only party that can do it is the Liberal Party. read moreFeb 21, 2011 8:41 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibThe events this past month show once again that the “end of history” has definitely not come upon us. The hundreds dead in Egypt, Libya,... read moreFeb 20, 2011 11:10 pm | Ontario, Toronto Centre
January
- MPlibEvents in Tunisia and Egypt have rocked the news as people try to understand what is happening. “No one expected it or predicted it”. That’s... read moreJan 26, 2011 7:58 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibThe Prime Minister’s Office thinks I’m disloyal to Canada for listening to the UAE’s side of the story on a simmering dispute that risks escalating... read moreJan 11, 2011 11:30 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibA small corner of the Arabian peninsula has recently been singled out by the Harper government for what Canadians have come to recognise as “the... read moreJan 10, 2011 10:41 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibAn early start to the day took us to Alexandria, which is on the Mediterranean. A moving day. We began by heading due west on the coast to El Alamein,... read moreJan 10, 2011 6:58 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibStephen Harper’s decision to shut down the Cabinet Committee on Afghanistan is short-sighted. A government that is fixated on spin wants to be... read moreJan 07, 2011 8:25 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
December
- MPlibCBC’s Power and Politics with Evan Soloman has nominated the Hon. Bob Rae as a 2010 Game Changer! Vote now! http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/12/06/f-politics-game-changers.html#socialcomments read moreDec 09, 2010 10:53 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibThe news that three people died in northern Manitoba from influenza is a challenge to our national conscience. Thirty more have been diagnosed, and some... read moreDec 06, 2010 6:04 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibCyperspace meets private candour. The Wikileaks phenomenon is met by bureaucratic “we don’t comment on unconfirmed reports”, which... read moreDec 03, 2010 8:22 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
November
- MPlibThe notion that all is fair in politics and war, and that every situation is only about tactics, partisan advantage and endless games of gotcha, seems... read moreNov 17, 2010 10:11 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
October
- MPlibOn a clear afternoon headed north from Charles de Gaulle airport to Vimy Ridge, signs all clearly marked for the Canadian memorial, we drove through a... read moreOct 12, 2010 6:40 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
September
- MPlibPakistan’s flood has not receded from large parts of the country, although the world’s media has begun losing interest. For North Americans... read moreSep 22, 2010 5:36 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibHave just spent several days in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, talking to people about the ceasefire agreement, the current political stalemate, and... read moreSep 22, 2010 5:34 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
August
- MPlibTwenty four years ago Brian Mulroney, newly elected Prime Minister, had this to say to the Toronto Star about 155 Tamils who came to Newfoundland in a... read moreAug 18, 2010 7:53 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibCanadians have been caught up in the drama of the arrival of a small boat with 500 people aboard. They have travelled for several months on the Pacific... read moreAug 16, 2010 9:06 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibThe strong endorsement by the people of a new Kenyan constitution is an important moment in the history of this great, and troubled country. When Kenya... read moreAug 06, 2010 7:11 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibNo doubt there are many Canadians whose eyes glaze over at our homegrown census scandal. What could be duller, and less consequential, than an argument... read moreAug 04, 2010 7:36 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
June
- MPlib“Time flies/Suns rise and shadows fall /Let it pass by/ Love reigns forever over all.” These are the words found at the Air India memorial... read moreJun 23, 2010 9:04 am | Ontario, Toronto Centre
- MPlibSomeone just posted me on facebook saying Libby Davies is entitled to free speech, and, besides, the Israelis are treating the Palestinians worse than... read moreJun 16, 2010 12:03 pm | Ontario, Toronto Centre
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