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August 9, 2005

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator Ð August 9, 2005 Hamilton Hogtown The public relations campaign launched by Maple Leaf Foods over the last few weeks seems particularly intense especially since the giant processing company hasn't signed a deal with Hamilton to relocate its controversial Burlington facility. Hamilton is the preferred location for the $250 million facility.The offer by Maple Leaf Foods to politicians and media to tour its state-of-the-art processing facility in Brandon, Manitoba, and the whirlwind editorial interviews with area media is to counter negative opinions that have grown within the community that Maple Leaf Foods isn't the proper fit for what is an agricultural area. (Ancaster News) MeanwhileÉ Former federal revenue minister Stan Keyes has joined Canada's diplomatic corps. He was appointed consul general to Boston last week. He represented the riding of Hamilton-West in Parliament from 1988 until his defeat in the 2004 election. (Source: Hamilton Spectator) Canada, Hamilton, patronage, diplomacy, consul, Stan Keyes, Maple Leaf, pork processing, cured meats

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – August 9, 2005

Hamilton Hogtown

The public relations campaign launched by Maple Leaf Foods over the last few weeks seems particularly intense especially since the giant processing company hasn’t signed a deal with Hamilton to relocate its controversial Burlington facility. Hamilton is the preferred location for the $250 million facility.The offer by Maple Leaf Foods to politicians and media to tour its state-of-the-art processing facility in Brandon, Manitoba, and the whirlwind editorial interviews with area media is to counter negative opinions that have grown within the community that Maple Leaf Foods isn’t the proper fit for what is an agricultural area. (Ancaster News)

Meanwhile…

Former federal revenue minister Stan Keyes has joined Canada’s diplomatic corps. He was appointed consul general to Boston last week.

He represented the riding of Hamilton-West in Parliament from 1988 until his defeat in the 2004 election. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)

 

Wednesday October 23, 2002

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday October 23, 2002

PM accepts MacAulay resignation

Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay, after weeks of withering attacks over his penchant for political cronyism, resigned from cabinet yesterday — even though his boss didn’t want him to go.

Even as he accepted the resignation, Prime Minister Jean Chretien aggressively defended his former minister and set himself on a collision course with his ethics counsellor, Howard Wilson.

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Wilson found MacAulay had crossed an ethical line by lobbying an underling, RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli, for funding for a Charlottetown college run by the minister’s brother.

MacAulay, in a letter released with his resignation, said Wilson was “dead wrong” and Chretien agreed, making it clear he was prepared to ignore the findings of his ethics counsellor and keep MacAulay on his front bench.

“If Mr. MacAulay had not resigned, I’m telling you, I would have defended him,” Chretien said, after a swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall, which elevated P.E.I. backbencher Wayne Easter to the cabinet as solicitor general and political minister for the island.

By accepting MacAulay’s resignation, Chretien has now lost five senior ministers who have quit, been fired, or shuffled off to rewards under clouds in 2002. (CBC) 

 

Thursday August 5, 1999

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator Ð Thursday August 5, 1999 Governor-General Bob Rae? Former Ontario premier Bob Rae is the latest, and hottest, rumour in the governor general sweepstakes. The Toronto Star Wednesday reported Rae, 51, may leave his law practice to become Canada's next governor general, replacing Romeo LeBlanc. LeBlanc has been governor general since 1995. Earlier this year he asked Prime Minister Jean Chretien to replace him by the end of the year so he could end his term early. Rae, a former federal NDP MP, and Ontario's former NDP premier, works as a lawyer for Goodman Phillips Vineberg of Toronto. The newspaper reports that Rae recently deregistered from the lobbyists' registry, usually a sign that someone is preparing to accept a public appointment. (Source: CBC News) http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/will-rae-be-next-governor-general-1.180208 Canada, Ontario, Governor-General, GG, Bob Rae, appointment, patronage, constitutional, monarchy

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday August 5, 1999

Governor-General Bob Rae?

Former Ontario premier Bob Rae is the latest, and hottest, rumour in the governor general sweepstakes.

The Toronto Star Wednesday reported Rae, 51, may leave his law practice to become Canada’s next governor general, replacing Romeo LeBlanc.

By Graeme MacKay Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Illustrated between 1994-1997

Romeo LeBlanc

LeBlanc has been governor general since 1995. Earlier this year he asked Prime Minister Jean Chretien to replace him by the end of the year so he could end his term early.

Rae, a former federal NDP MP, and Ontario’s former NDP premier, works as a lawyer for Goodman Phillips Vineberg of Toronto.

The newspaper reports that Rae recently deregistered from the lobbyists’ registry, usually a sign that someone is preparing to accept a public appointment. (Source: CBC News)