Happy Canada Day

I hope that this email reaches you all as you are getting ready for the first long weekend of the summer - hopefully, one that you can enjoy with your family and friends. With the images of burning police cars from the G20 summit fading into the rear view mirror (that is if our media […]

Posted on June 30th, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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Federal MP’s recess for the summer

As they head back to their ridings for the summer BBQ circuit, one has to really wonder what has been accomplished in the spring session of Parliament. Continued debate over the Afghan detainee documents seemed to be the dominating theme, along with the exhorbitant costs of the G8 and G20 summits. Let’s hope that federal […]

Posted on June 18th, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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Kudos to British Columbia Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom for putting taxpayers first!

It is not all that often that we see a politician who has a high profile cabinet post in a majority government do the right thing and stand up for his constiuents. Such is the case in this regard and you can read some background on this here.
Blair Lekstrom is one of those rare politicians, […]

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by NCC Staff in President's Blog
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Prime Minister Jack Layton? Not a Chance!!

There is a great deal of noise right now about a potential coalition of the Liberals and the NDP. That’s right - even more posturing in ths fight against the big bad Harper government. You can read an article here to get some background on this.
From my vantage point, there are too many over-sized egos […]

Posted on June 9th, 2010 by NCC Staff in NCC Blog
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G8 and G20 Security Cost Boondoggle

I am sure you have been reading about the skyrocketing costs of security for the upcoming G8 Summit in Huntsville and the G20 Summit in Toronto. If not you can read an article about this here.
Downtown Toronto will be turned into a 3-metre high wired war zone for lack of better terminology. People working within […]

Posted on June 1st, 2010 by NCC Staff in President's Blog
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