Tag: Peter Van Loan

Developer With Links to Fake Parents’ Group Lobbied Ford Government Following Anti-Teacher Attack Ads

Published February 21, 2020 New

Developer hired a former Harper minister to lobby Ford government over land-use planning and a ‘proposed highway’ on their land

Watch Conservatives mount courageous defence of their right to talk gibberish

Published September 30, 2014

Peter Van Loan is a freedom fighter. The Conservative government’s House Leader on Monday offered a spirited defence of the right to dodge legitimate questions with off-topic answers during debate of an NDP motion to empower the Speaker to clamp down on irrelevant answers during Question Period. “This change would affect responses to oral questions, […]

Conservatives: MP should be lauded for retracting voter fraud fib

Published February 25, 2014

The Conservative government is lauding one of their own MPs after he fabricated a story about voter fraud to justify tough voter identification rules in their proposed election act. Government House leader Peter Van Loan rose in the House of Commons Tuesday to defend caucus colleague Brad Butt against charges that he acted in contempt […]

Why is Cabinet playing dodgeball with the Senate mess?

Published November 28, 2013

Have you noticed that senior Cabinet ministers no longer stand up to take Senate questions from the leader of the opposition during Question Period when Prime Minister Stephen Harper isn’t in the House of Commons? Conservative strategists may be questioning that decision on Thursday after Paul Calandra’s bizarre performance in the House of Commons. The […]

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