http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca Blog of the Liberal Caucus in the Senate of Canada en-CA Juntos CMS marc.gendron@juntos.ca marc.gendron@juntos.ca Fri, 10 May 2013 15:29:35 GMT Bill C-279 is Private Member's Bill from the House of Commons introduced there by MP Randall Garrison, a member of the NDP. A Private Members’ Bill is a bill that is presented by any MP who is not in Cabinet. I am the Liberal lead in the Senate for C-279. I am very happy to have this role. http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/18659_rss http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/18659_rss Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:56:08 GMT Thank you for your letters on the recent changes to Canada’s cultural institutions. As Canada’s only Inuk Senator, I feel these changes at Library and Archives Canada, Parks Canada and the Museum of Civilization are of great concern to our Aboriginal population. http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/18468_rss http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/18468_rss Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:36:01 GMT I was struck by the observation that the Conservatives have not balanced a budget since 1896. And, while there is not really enough time with Conservative governments in Canada to compare, it is documented in the US that the stock market on average underperforms by 17 percentage points with Republican Presidents versus Democrat Presidents. http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/18172_rss http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/18172_rss Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:58:18 GMT Each year on International Women’s Day, I find myself thinking of the women in Canada who still don’t have a voice, in spite of the progress our nation has made in gender equality. I think about the hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women, whose stories are so rarely told, and whose strife garners so little public attention. http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/18164_rss http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/18164_rss Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:20:15 GMT A focus on three fundamental elements of a strong society, economy and country has been lost in this time of right wing ideology. http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/18105_rss http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/18105_rss Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:25:25 GMT I would like to thank my Senate colleagues for their work on Bill S-207 to Amend the Interpretation Act. Yesterday, this bill passed the committee stage at the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, and I am so very grateful to my fellow Senators for their hard work, and their spirit of cooperation. http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/18095_rss http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/18095_rss Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:54:40 GMT The third chapter of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights’ recent report, Cyberbullying Hurts: Respect for Rights in the Digital Age, explores how “bullying and cyberbullying have a devastating effect on the welfare of our children, are harmful to their development and their ability to take their place in society.” http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/17976_rss http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/17976_rss Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:33:09 GMT The economies that will dominate in the future will be those that embrace environmental challenge and see it as opportunity and not cost. http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/17945_rss http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/17945_rss Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:50:58 GMT Today I want to share a story that I came across in the news a few short days before Christmas. It’s a follow-up to the horrific van crash near Hampstead, Ontario that killed ten migrant workers and one Canadian last February. http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/17838_rss http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/17838_rss Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:49:18 GMT The second chapter of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights’ recent report, Cyberbullying Hurts: Respect for Rights in the Digital Age, paints a picture of cyberbullying, citing witness testimony on the definition of the phenomenon and the context in which it occurs. http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/17818_rss http://www.liberalsenateforum.ca/blog/17818_rss