Conservatives bow to Chinese pressure and ratify FIPA behind closed doors OTTAWA , ON – Bruce Hyer, MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North and Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada denounced Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s unprecedented move to ratify the Canada-China Foreign Investment [Read more]
Conservatives bow to Chinese pressure and ratify FIPA behind closed doors OTTAWA, ON – Ever since September 2012, when news of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Hu Jintao of China witnessing the signing of the Canada-China Investment Agreement in Vladivostok Russia, Green Party MPs Bruce Hyer [Read more]
Thunder Bay–Superior North MP applauds provincial support for sustainable resource development that keeps value-added jobs in Canada THUNDER BAY – Bruce Hyer, MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North, is applauding the premiers for adding their voices to the call for a national energy strategy. The [Read more]
Predictable cabinet decision on Enbridge project launches the fight to stop pipelines, tankers on the BC Coast OTTAWA, ON – Today’s unsurprising federal Cabinet decision to approve Enbridge’s pipeline proposal means that the fight to stop this risky project is just beginning. Today [Read more]
Green Party caucus doubles with Thunder Bay-Superior North MP’s membership THUNDER BAY, ON – Bruce Hyer, Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay-Superior North, will sit as the second Green Party MP in the House of Commons. “Becoming a Green Party MP will allow me to maintain my independence and [Read more]
MP Bruce Hyer joins other Canadians to ‘walk a mile in their shoes’ in remote fly-in reserve THUNDER BAY, ON — MP Bruce Hyer joined 25 other Canadians today flying to Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI), a remote First Nation community 600 km north of Thunder Bay. The initiative, started by KI [Read more]
“National Dream Renewed” Initiative Pushes for Return of Passenger Rail to Thunder Bay THUNDER BAY, ON – Thunder Bay–Superior North MP Bruce Hyer and Greg Gormick, Project Facilitator for Transport Action’s National Dream Renewed campaign, released Hyer’s Independent Members’ [Read more]
Abuses of confidence to end with restriction on PM’s ability to declare matters of confidence OTTAWA, ON — The Prime Minister’s prerogative to declare any vote a matter of confidence is an excessive power open to abuse and must be reformed, contends Bruce Hyer, Independent MP for Thunder [Read more]
Estimates introduced in House of Commons show 62% reduction from 2011-2012 OTTAWA, ON — Budget Estimates tabled in Parliament by the Harper Government show a drastic budget reduction in the country’s passenger rail operator, cuts that will inevitably impact passenger rail service coast to [Read more]
Canada’s nuclear industry is getting close to setting a final storage site for some 50,000 tonnes of accumulated nuclear waste. This is a decision that will have a major impact on Northwestern Ontario. Most people may not know that regardless of the location that’s chosen, people in [Read more]
The $15 billion takeover of Nexen Inc., one of Canada’s largest oil & gas companies involved in the oil sands, by Chinese state-owned China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) has been in the news a lot lately. Many in Canada’s corporate sector have rightly noted that Canada must [Read more]
Before this year’s omnibus budget was passed, Conservative Member of Parliament David Wilks discussed it with his constituents. They were upset with many of the clauses, and Wilks explained that, even though he agreed with many of their concerns, it was impossible for him to vote against the [Read more]
As Canadians, we are blessed with vast natural resources. We have the ability to be a global energy leader, if we are smart in investing in and developing our resources. Being smart doesn’t just mean digging minerals out of the ground and shipping them abroad. It means getting the maximum out of [Read more]
The development of the Alberta oil sands is a hot topic. The Harper Conservatives have promoted Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline ever since it was proposed in 2006. It is supposed to carry raw bitumen – the tar-like product of the oil sands – from Alberta to Kitimat, on the rugged [Read more]
With technology advancing at a rapid pace, balancing security with the public’s privacy rights has become a real challenge. The Harper Government’s Bill C-30, which pushes for new Internet surveillance capabilities, caused a big backlash from the Canadian public – especially after people [Read more]
