CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon's riding assistant should be "shown the door" for "disgraceful" and "unacceptable" comments she made to an Algonquin constituent, Liberal leader Stéphane Dion said Friday.
CityNews: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
An aide to Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon comes under fire for a racist remark made during a meeting with Aboriginal leaders this week.
Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Apparently, Wendy "Never Right Girl" Sullivan’s doppelganger works for Lawrence Cannon (emphasis gleefully added). The office of a Conservative MP and cabinet minister has issued an apology to Algonquins in his western Quebec riding after his personal assistant allegedly made remarks that could be considered racist. The comments allegedly made by Darlene Lannigan came at the launch of the re-election...
Cherniak on Politics (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Now an assistant to Lawrence Cannon is demanding that natives not show up drunk to his office ? Surely nobody should show up drunk to a meeting, but I suspect there was much more of a discriminatory tone to this particular comment. As most people know, racists have been accusing Aboriginal Canadians of being drunkards for years. Indeed, the only law ever struck down by the Bill of Rights was actually...
Cowboys for Social Responsibility (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Manitoba MP and political czar Vic Toews - Winnipeg Sun, September 15, 2008 ... new proposal for a Blue Bombers stadium is "worthy of very serious consideration" ... Quebec MP and Infrastructure Minister Lawrence Cannon, Halifax Chronicle-Herald, September 9, 2008 We are not in that business. I’ve said No to Winnipeg. I’m not going to go and fund football stadiums for the CFL.
Conservative Party of Canada (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, the Conservative candidate in the Pontiac riding, spoke to the media to present the Bloc’s pathetic legislative record in Ottawa.
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
I havenât really been following the election much over the past week, so apologies if youâve already seen this video of Jason Kenny in the Conservative âwar roomâ at the beginning of last week trotting out a pack of lies (âfact checkâ here) while Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon looks on awkwardly. Itâs hard to believe [...]
Conservative Party of Canada (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Today, the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister and Conservative candidate in Pontiac, launched new television ads to air in Quebec starting September 14, 2008.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Sept. 5, 2008) - The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, on behalf of the Honourable Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today announced federal funding to carry out work at five fishing harbours in Quebec.
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
So if you’ve been reading around the news and the blogs, you know that the Conservative government and Lawrence Cannon conveniently announced that they’d be soon building a new bridge in the St Lambert riding, which by the way has a byelection in a couple of weeks. St. Lambert is a BQ held riding from 2004, [...]
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
The federal government is serious about replacing Montreal's Champlain bridge and believes a new bridge could save between $10 million and $30 million in annual maintenance costs, Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon said in Montreal Monday.
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
On Friday, August 8th Barriere Lake community members and supporters gathered at Deputy Minister Michael Wernick's house. After appeals to their federal representative, Minister Lawrence Cannon, and protests at the offices of Indian Affairs were ignored, the community felt they were left with no choice. *Photo taken by Charles Mostoller
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been knocked for not giving the country a sense of direction, for visionlessly plotting and plodding, politics being his only purpose.Not true. Something has been taking shape - and it just took further form with pledges from Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon on the dispersal of federal powers.
CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
"Quebeckers are overwhelmingly tired of the battle between those who say they are federalists and those who say they are sovereigntists. Quebeckers are nationalist, Quebeckers are autonomist, and our political formation is fully responsive to those desires." -Lawrence Cannon Thoughts ?
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
"Ottawa's autonomy talk empty rhetoric: critics."Rumblings abounding in the federation today about Lawrence Cannon's ambiguous "autonomy" talk and what it would practically mean for provinces and the federal government and their relationship. The problem at this stage is that no one really knows what the heck Cannon is talking about. But the inklings of decentralization and weakening of the federal...
