TORONTO – A giudicare dall’atteggiamento assunto durante il Question Period alla Camera dei Comuni canadese (e dal conseguente dibattito tra i pochi “addetti ai lavori” scelti per informare il pubblico federale sul suo significato), il Paese potrebbe ritrovarsi a breve alle prese con le elezioni generali…
TORONTO – Judging by the posturing in Canada’s House of Commons Question Period (and consequent debate among the select few “insiders” chosen to inform the federal public about its meanings), the country may find itself in the throes of a general election in very short order. Anything is possible in a Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy. Members of Parliament are, strictly speaking, only advisors to the monarch. If the executive branch of that advisory group (Cabinet) cannot demonstrate that its advice – proposals and regulations for effective administration – do not have the support/confidence of the majority of his Majesty’s advisors, then His Majesty seeks different advisors. It is that simple.
TORONTO – Mi dispiace per il Ministro Calandra e per il modello di governance dei Provveditorati. Il Ministro Calandra, a giugno, ha chiesto e ottenuto l’autorizzazione a sciogliere diversi Provveditorati e a conferire alla sua persona [il governo] i loro poteri normativi e amministrativi…
TORONTO – Feel badly for Minister Calandra and for the governance model of local school boards. Minister Calandra, in June, sought and received authority to dissolve several school boards and to vest their regulatory and administrative authority in his [cabinet] person.
TORONTO – Ambassador Alessandro Cattaneo’s visit to New Brunswick, and, more specifically, his attendance at the 50th anniversary dinner of the Italian Club in Moncton (one of the three main urban centres of the province) brought back a first and most unexpected phone calls, when I was sworn in as Minister. I expected it might have been my mother…
