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12/2009
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CNEWS December 4, 2009 By Elizabeth Thompson - SUN MEDIA Read Full Article. '...Liberal critic Martha Hall Findlay said the government is interpreting the act too widely. “The irony here is that this is legislation that was established specifically so that examples of wrongdoing could be disclosed and it is being used to hide information.”...'
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The Canadian Press Saturday December 5th, 2009 By DEAN BEEBY ... Paradis has said whistleblower legislation that was passed in 2005, the Public Service Disclosure Protection Act, prevents him disclosing any probe information. The legislation is partly intended to safeguard the identity of public servants who come forward with allegations of wrongdoing. But Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay, who has been pressing the Conservatives for details, says the government can't hide behind the statute. "The act is not a tool for a blanket refusal to disclose information," she said Friday... Read Full Article.
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The Winnipeg Free Press December 8, 2009 By: Bruce Cheadle, THE CANADIAN PRESS Taxpayers are being asked to pay an extra $1.7 million this fiscal year to help bolster Stephen Harper's communications support services - just as the Prime Minister's Office begins distributing government videos of Harper to the news media... Read Full Article. ...According to information provided to Liberal MP Martha Hall-Findlay, by PCO, $270,000 of the total is overtime pay owed to harried technical support staff, including videographers. The Privy Council Office already has an archive of more than 300 videos of Harper dating back to his first months in power, according to an Access to Information request by The Canadian Press. The video archive list includes everything from a Harper message to CTV anchor Lloyd Robertson on Oct. 27, 2006, to a speech at a Conservative party barbecue in August 2008 and the prime minister's historic address last Dec. 4 after his precedent-setting prorogation of Parliament in the face of a confidence crisis...
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CD98.9 - Norfolks Perfect Music Mix December 16, 2009 Posted by: Adam Liefl 'The Federal Opposition Critic for Public Works and Governmental Services says it shouldn't have
taken six months for the Harper government to admit they only spent $230 million on stimulus
instead of the promised billions. Member of the Standing House Committee on Government
Operations, an Associate Member of the Finance Committee and a member of the Leader's Advisory
Committee on Economic Strategy, Martha Hall Findlay, spoke to a group of Liberal's last night in
Renton. Hall Findlay says the federal Liberals agreed to the stimulus money in the last budget
because it was stimulus. Hall Findlay told the group she'd like to see a government that understands
the need for economic prosperity because you need that prosperity to do the things that sometimes
cost more money such as education, help for seniors and universal day care.'
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Northern News December 18, 2009 'Prime Minister Stephen Harper's refusal to release information to MPs probing the transfer of Afghan detainees is "very scary" and needs to be challenged, the Liberal critic for public works has charged. "If we just let it go, we'll be doing ourselves real harm," MP Martha Hall Findlay told a gathering of Liberals at The Greens at Renton last night. Findlay spoke at length about the problems the opposition faces in getting "full disclosure" on the Canadian military's role in handing over to the Afghanistan government detainees who allegedly were later mistreated...' Read Full Article.
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Macleans.ca Dec 24, 2009 by Mitchel Raphael 
(Left to right) MPs Navdeep Bains, Mark Holland, Martha Hall Findlay, Mario Silva, Gerard Kennedy and former MP Omar Alghabra.
11/2009
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Mcleans.ca Nov 3, 2009 by Mitchel Raphael Sustainable Development Technology Canada put on a fierce reception in 200 West Block. Finally, someone had the smarts to bring along a DJ and serve good food. Below, Minister of Natural Resources Lisa Raitt (centre). 
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THE OTTAWA CITIZEN NOVEMBER 4, 2009 BY KATHRYN MAY Read Full Article. ...Opposition MPs shook their heads in disbelief. Liberal MP Martha Hall-Findlay said she was "astounded" because the Conservatives advertising campaign had the "look and feel" of party advertising, which only confused the image of party and government in the eyes of Canadians "to benefit the party."...
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Macleans.ca Nov 5, 2009 by Mitchel Raphael After Toronto Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay made a fuss about “partisan” images of the Prime Minister all over government websites, the pictures suddenly disappeared. Later, in the House, wanting to make a point of the Conservatives suddenly trying to mask the blatant advertising, she asked why “someone” had “removed dozens of photos of the Prime Minister from the website for the economic action plan.” The response came from Transport Minister John Baird: “While the Liberal party is trolling the Internet looking for pictures of the Prime Minister, it is this Conservative government that is working hard to create jobs to inspire more hope.” The next day Baird came over to Hall Findlay with a signed picture of Stephen Harper. The PM had inscribed it: “To Martha, I heard you’re looking for a photo!”
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The Politic Nov. 5, 2009. By Richard Albert '“Not Left. Not Right. Moving Forward.” That is the slogan that greets all visitors to Martha Hall Findlay’s website. It’s easy to write off that greeting as mere political rhetoric, empty words, or, as we say in my native French, la langue de bois.
They may indeed be empty words when spoken by most politicians but they aren’t when spoken by Hall Findlay. (Or at least I would like to think they aren’t!)
Proof positive is the text of the interview that follows below. Hall Findlay, as you will read, appears genuinely interested both in inviting and engaging in constructive dialogue. Whether ideas trace their origin to the left or to the right does not seem to matter to her as much as whether those ideas can lead to better solutions to enduring problems.
Why can’t we have more people like her in Parliament?'
Read the full interview.
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TheStar.com November 09, 2009 Susan Delacourt Read Full Article. ..."This is one more example of abusing government resources to benefit the Conservative party," says Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay (Willowdale), who is in the midst of filing multiple official complaints to the Treasury Board and Elections Canada over the government's advertising and promotional practices. "This is another attempt to buy Canadians with their own, taxpayer money," she said...
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TheStart.ca November 12, 2009 Richard J. Brennan The Conservative government spent more than $3 million of taxpayers' money in September on an advertising campaign that amounted to little more than self-promotion, a Liberal critic says. The newspaper and web campaign, called Creating Jobs, didn't attempt to inform Canadians about how infrastructure stimulus spending was creating employment opportunities – only that the Conservatives declared it was, Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay (Willowdale) said Wednesday. "That offends me and it should offend all taxpayers," she said. Hall Findlay said she could understand if the money was spent educating Canadians about H1N1 flu, "but patting yourself on the back and making big pronouncements is not part of what taxpayers' money should be spent on." ... Read Full Article.
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Ottawa Citizen NOVEMBER 24, 2009 BY KATHRYN MAY ...Senior bureaucrats overseeing economic stimulus spending told MPs Tuesday they aren't tracking how many jobs are being created by projects that are supposed to kick-start Canada's economy. "The whole purpose of stimulus was to create jobs, and now we find out they aren't even collecting job numbers. We were dumbfounded when (we) heard this," said Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay. "You don't just spend money without any accountability and (without the ability) to track its impact and jobs created," she said. "Otherwise, the government could just write cheques to whoever they want." ... Read Full Article.
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THE OTTAWA CITIZEN NOVEMBER 27, 2009 BY KATHRYN MAY 'A Liberal MP questioned Thursday how parliament could approve millions in additional funding for Public Works and Government Services when it is denied information about an investigation underway at the department, which she said is shrouded in "unprecedented secrecy." Martha Hall Findlay asked Public Works officials at the Commons government operations committee to explain what was behind recent published reports that the department had called in investigators, but wouldn't say what it was all about. The committee was studying the department's supplementary estimates and quizzing senior bureaucrats about its request for an additional $168 million for 2009-2010. "Why are these investigations happening and why the secrecy and why aren't we being given more information about what's actually happening?" Hall Findlay asked.' ... Read Full Article.
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THE OTTAWA CITIZEN NOVEMBER 30, 2009 BY KATHRYN MAY 'The secrecy shrouding the mystery investigation at Public Works and Government Services is waving red flags that must be pursued, says Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay. Public Works and Government Services Minister Christian Paradis stepped in late Friday to quell speculation with a statement to "set the record straight" and confirm the investigation had nothing to do with the sale of real estate properties. Paradis, however, didn't say what the department was investigating. "If it doesn't have to do with the sale of federal properties, then what is being investigated and why all the secrecy?" said Hall Findlay. "So much secrecy still raises flags." ' ... Read Full Article.
10/2009
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Macleans.ca Oct 5, 2009 Aaron Wherry ..."Ms. Hall Findlay was unimpressed. “Mr. Speaker, I am not exactly sure who the President of the Treasury Board thinks actually pays for government spending if it is not the Canadian taxpayers,” she said, bewildered."... Read full article.
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TheStar.com October 08, 2009 Les Whittington "Accusing Prime Minister Stephen Harper of trying to buy Canadians with their own money, Liberal MPs today demanded that the Conservative government remove the current barrage of taxpayer-funded ads promoting the government's economic program. The Liberals say the Conservatives have broken ethical rules by spending $55.9 million on advertising to promote the Economic Action Plan set out in the Jan. 27 federal budget." ... Read full article.
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Macleans.ca Oct 9, 2009 Kady O'Malley ..."Martha Hall Findlay: Well, we’ve already seen there have been a number of reports of senior civil servants. In this particular circumstance, to disclose their names would be I think very, very troubling for them. So we want to make sure that we are in fact protecting them."... Read full article.
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The Peterborough Examiner Oct., 19 2009 Read full article. ..."Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay, also on the CTV panel session, said a "significant" pattern of abuse of tax dollars has emerged. "We are seeing millions of dollars spent on saying 'Aren't we, the government, the Harper government, wonderful.' And that's not what government money is supposed to be," she said. "That's not the Conservative Party's money, that's the Canadian taxpayers' money. They're trying to buy Canadians with their own money, and that is a very big problem.""
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The Record Oct., 22 2009 "Liberals send letters to ethics commissioner about 55 MPs ... ...“We are seeing millions of dollars spent on saying, ‘Aren’t we, the government, the Harper government, wonderful.’ And that’s not what government money is supposed to be,” Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay said. " Read full article.
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The Globe and Mail Oct. 29, 2009 Jane Taber "Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay says she is “hurt” by the Tory minister's tactics, arguing he “crossed a line” when he attacked her personal reputation in the Commons this week. She said that she and Mr. Baird are friends (were friends?), who never attacked each other personally during the cut-and-thrust of Question Period. But on Monday, in answering her accusations about unethical behaviour over the way the government conducts it advertising, he questioned her ethics by reading an e-mail from her office asking for donations to help her pay the debt from her unsuccessful leadership bid in 2006. Unable to respond to his attack as she was out of question time, she addressed it in the House the next day: The email, which was an invitation to her 50th birthday party last month, "was sent from my office that contained a solicitation which was improper. I stand here to personally apologize to the House for any improper use of parliamentary resources.” However, in a subsequent email to The Globe and Mail, she wrote that the solicitation “was a humourous throwaway at the end, as in ‘the best birthday present ever’ would either be a donation to help my debt or, recognizing political sensitivities for some, a donation to the Breast Cancer Foundation. (My little sister, of whom I’m really proud, has now survived twice.)” She ended her note with the fact that Mr. Baird attended her birthday party and was seen “having a good time.” “Maybe I should ask him which of the two ‘good causes’ he donated to,” she wrote."
09/2009
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Macleans.ca September 3, 2009 
Martha Hall Findlay (Liberal MP, Georgian Bay, Ont.) “Five generations of my family have been spending summers in the 30,000 islands of Georgian Bay for over a hundred years now. The cottage my kids and I now use was built in 1911. It’s beautiful, but old, which means it always needs work! This summer it was the roof—and my daughter Katie, her friend Ryan Benson and I were busy repairing and re-shingling. Many years ago I worked building houses to help pay for school; I find hammering nails to be a therapeutic change from politics in Ottawa.”
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Macleans.ca September 10, 2009 Toronto Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay recently turned 50. For her birthday she received a hand-painted canoe paddle from her son Patrick Findlay. Her daughter gave her a framed photo of her canoe at sunset, which she plans to hang in her Ottawa office. Hall Findlay spent two years refurbishing the canoe, which used to belong to her father, stripping it down and doing the repair work herself. She was able to take some time off this summer and paddle the canoe around Georgian Bay, among the Thirty Thousand Islands. It’s the one way she can relax, she told Capital Diary. “I have a terrible time sitting still,” says the Willowdale, Ont., MP. “In the canoe I am forced to do nothing but think.”
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Macleans.ca September 10, 2009 "Toronto Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay held a fundraiser in an old downtown Toronto bank vault that has been converted into an entertainment space." See full article. See photos.
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TorontoSun.com September 22, 2009 By BRUCE CHEADLE, THE CANADIAN PRESS 
"Government website is shown after a number of photos of Prime Minister Stephen Harper were removed. The government of Canada website set up to promote the Conservative economic action plan had a slightly different look Monday: more than 30 photos of Prime Minister Stephen Harper had been removed." Read full article.
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The Globe and Mail September 25, 2009 Ottawa — The Canadian Press 
"Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and MP Martha Hall Findlay take questions during a news conference in Ottawa on Sept. 25, 2009. Ignatieff pledges to ban use of any politician's name, image or voice in government advertising" Read full article.
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The Toronto Sun September 25, 2009 ELIZABETH THOMPSON, SUN MEDIA 
"Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff listens to Martha Hall Findlay as she responds to a question on partisan advertising during a news conference in Ottawa, Friday Sept. 25, 2009." (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld) Read full article.
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Canada.com September 25, 2009 BY ANDREW MAYEDA, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE 
"Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and MP Martha Hall Findlay speak at a news conference about the Conservative government's partisan advertising practices, vowing to ban all taxpayer-funded “politicized” advertising if they come to power." Read full article.
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Macleans.ca September 25, 2009 by Kady O'Malley Read full article. "... 10:18:58 AM CTV’s Roger Smith wants to know if he – and MHF – are saying that the government is breaking the rules, and if so, what they’re going to do about it. Unfortunately, there’s not much they *can* do about it, as far as ITQ can tell: TBS sets the guidelines; they don’t enforce them. MHF, however, has a better answer: the website – and possibly the ads as well – may violate the Code of Conduct for membes, as well as the Canada Elections Act rules on financing. They’re looking at several sorts of official complaints that they can make."
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CBC.ca September 25, 2009 "The Liberal Party accused the Conservatives on Friday of using taxpayer-funded money for political advertising and called on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end the practice." Read full article.
08/2009
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Bloomberg.com Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Canada lost three times as many jobs as economists expected last month, led by construction and tourism-related businesses, signaling the country’s recovery from a recession may be slow. ... Read full article. ...“Harper’s failure to get stimulus out the door is still costing Canadians jobs, with construction among the hardest hit sectors,” said Martha Hall Findlay, the Liberals’ critic for public works, in a statement.
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Digital Journal Posted Aug 8, 2009 by Andrew Moran In a new Statistics Canada report released Friday, Canada lost 44,500 jobs in July, which is triple the amount economists forecasted. Surveyed by Bloomberg, Economists projected 15,000 jobs would be lost. Construction and tourism-related businesses led the way in job loss... Read full article. ... Public officials have claimed that Prime Minister Harper’s stimulus has been rolling out too slow. Martha Hall Findlay, Liberal critics’ for Public Works, said in a statement, “Harper’s failure to get stimulus out the door is still costing Canadians jobs, with construction among the hardest hit sectors.”
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CityNews.ca 2009/08/14 | CityNews.ca Staff Read full article. The stimulus cash was announced seven months ago, meant to create jobs and jump-start the economy. But critics say the plan isn't working. "It's the middle of August now. We are well through the construction season," pointed out Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay.
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Simcoe.com, TheMirror.com, and AllistonHerald.com BY Laurie Watt August 20, 2009 
David Wahwahbiginojii shows Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay well water that he claims has been clouded by construction at the Site 41 landfill.
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SITE 41: MP Martha Hall Findlay on 'fact-finding mission' in Elmvale yesterday OrilliaPacket.com August 20, 2009 Posted By DOUGLAS GLYNN, SUN MEDIA Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay was urged yesterday to seek an environmental assessment (EA) of dump Site 41 by the federal ministry of the environment. "What we need is a federal EA because they will look at the cumulative impact; something the Ontario ministry of the environment has not done," she was told by Steve Ogden, a critic of the landfill and member of the Site 41community monitoring committee. Hall Findlay -- Opposition critic for public works and government services -- told more than 50 dump protesters that she was on "a fact-finding mission" to learn about the situation. She and Simcoe North federal Liberal candidate Steve Clark spent about an hour listening to Ogden, Anne Ritchie Nahuis and other protesters detail their concerns... Read full article.
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OrilliaPacket.com August 20, 2009 Posted By NATHAN TAYLOR, THE PACKET AND TIMES There's growing concern among small business owners about "what the government does from a fiscal perspective," says Martha Hall Findlay. The federal Liberal public works critic met yesterday with members of the local business community during a day-long visit to the Simcoe North riding. She heard concerns about access to credit, the country's "ballooning deficit" and its economic action plan. "We're calling it the economic inaction plan," she said during a stop at Brewery Bay Food Company in Orillia, where she met with local Liberal candidate Steve Clarke. "There is a big difference between making announcements and cutting a cheque." ... Read full article.
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Caledon Citizen and Orangeville Citizen August 21, 2009 By DAN PELTON Ms. Hall Findlay spoke at some length on Omar Khadr, 22, the Canadian citizen who is now the last Western prisoner held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba, based on allegations that as a 15-year-old he threw a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. The Harper government has refused to ask for his repatriation to Canada and this week asked the Supreme Court of Canada to hear an appeal against a Federal Court of Appeal ruling that it seek his return. She said Mr. Khadr may not be popular among many Canadians, but the federal government should view the issue "from the perspective of the tenets of Canadian justice." Mr. Khadr's is "just one of a half dozen cases where the government has picked and chosen who it treats as Canadian citizens," said Ms. Hall Findlay. "It doesn't mean much when you won't stand by Canadians just because you may not like them."... Read full article.
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Harvard Kennedy School August 25, 2009 provided by The Harvard Divinity School "The program is fantastic and provides summer internship support to selected participants. Hailing from Canada, I thought that a summer internship on Parliament Hill in Ottawa would be a great opportunity to re-engage with Canadian political system after four years of living in Cambridge. I contacted a really dynamic female Member of Parliament, Martha Hall Findlay, and we agreed that I would spend my summer working with her on a book project on women and politics in Canada. It has been a great experience. I have met and interviewed a former Prime Minister, a cabinet minister, and many prominent members of the Canadian Parliament and the media. It has been a wonderfully enlightening opportunity!" ... Read full article.
07/2009
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Courier Herald July 08, 2009 BY SHAWN MCNAMARA 
Twelve former GBSS principals watch GB Idol runners up Sydney Raeburn-Bell and Cristina Kelly perform at Saturday’s opening ceremonies held in the GBSS gym. Read full article.
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Winnipeg Sun By ELIZABETH THOMPSON 16th July 2009 The Conservative government is using taxpayer dollars to pay for advertising designed to boost their political fortunes, the Liberals charged yesterday... Read full article. ...In some cases, the money appears to be wasted, said Liberal critic Martha Hall Findlay. For example, why should the government buy ads to promote their tax-free savings account when banks are already advertising it. Why buy ads to promote the home renovation tax credit when 85% of Canadians already know about it.
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Macleans.com Jul 27, 2009 by Aaron Wherry ...One other way of looking at this: what precisely is the model for female political leadership in Canada? Who would you tell a 25-year-old women thinking of getting into politics to model herself after? Sheila Copps? Audrey McLaughlin? Alexa McDonough? Kim Campbell? Anne McLellan? Belinda Stronach? Better yet, limit your options to the current Parliament. There are a dozen compelling options—Martha Hall Findlay, Lisa Raitt, Diane Finley, Megan Leslie, Libby Davies, Marlene Jennings, Olivia Chow, Kirsty Duncan, Siobhan Coady... Read full article.
06/2009
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OttawaSun.com 5th June 2009 By ELIZABETH THOMPSON "These were valuable cultural artifacts that were loaned to the Canadian people and then sold off at a fire sale." Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay used the silver sale to question the government's plans to sell off other federal assets. "Selling royal family assets that we don't even own, at barely 5% of what they are they are worth, is not an auspicious start." Read full article.
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PDDnet.com June 7, 2009 By Bruce Cheadle Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office made a verbal deal with a former White House press secretary for American media help — then drew up the contracts later, according to documents obtained by The Canadian Press... Read full article. Martha Hall-Findlay, Liberal critic for public works and government services, said the PMO shortcut smacks of a double standard. "How do the regular oversight rules work if something is done on an oral basis and only confirmed after the fact?" said the Toronto MP. The Conservatives, she said, have "a pattern of making stuff up as you go along. You play by the rules until it's inconvenient to do so."
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PDDnet.com June 11, 2009 By Jennifer Ditchburn The president of Colombia clashed with NDP and Bloc Quebecois MPs, who questioned the South American country's human-rights record. Alvaro Uribe lived up to his reputation for passionate outbursts, occasionally raising his voice and waving an arm when responding to tough questions Thursday at the House of Commons trade committee... Read full article. ... "As a Canadian, as a person, I believe that where there are legitimate efforts to improve human rights, we should be supporting them," said Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay.
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Macleans.ca June 25, 2009 by Mitchel Raphael 
Martha at the Stornoway Garden Party. Michael Ignatieff held his first media garden party at Stornoway since becoming Liberal leader. The Etobicoke Youth Jazz Orchestra from his Toronto riding provided the music.
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Macleans.ca June 25, 2009 By: Mitchel Raphael Full article here. What’s Martha Hall Findlay wearing? Toronto Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay was spotted wearing a sealskin ribbon she got from the government of Nunavut. Her Liberal colleague Anthony Rota, who has the fur industry promotion organization Fur Harvesters Auction in his northern Ontario riding, says he plans to get similar ribbons for all the Liberal MPs. 
05/2009
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Reuters May 14, 2009 Read full article. "We're in the middle of May and we still don't have shovels in the ground. The whole purpose of this was to take advantage of this construction season," said opposition Liberal Member of Parliament Martha Hall Findlay. She was speaking at a House of Commons committee and addressing Conservative Transport Minister John Baird, who is responsible for billions of dollars of infrastructure spending set aside for the budget year that started on April 1.
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Macleans.ca May 14, 2009 by Mitchel Raphael 
Justin Trudeau sees Martha Hall Findlay going sleeveless. So he goes sleeveless too. See more photos here.
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TheStar.com May 14, 2009 By ALLAN WOODS, BRUCE CAMPION-SMITH Read full article. ...Months after the federal budget was passed, the Conservatives have yet to deliver the money, said Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay, who accused the government of announcing and re-announcing projects with no concrete results to show for it. "The budget was approved months ago . . . the key here is that this money simply has not flowed and we are not seeing shovels in the ground and announcements do not pay wages," she said at a committee that grilled Transport and Infrastructure Minister John Baird. "The purpose . . . of the stimulus money was to get people back to work . . . We're in the middle of May and we still don't have shovels in the ground," she told the Commons' committee on government operations and estimates...
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The London Free Press and Ottawa Sun May 15, 2009 By ALTHIA RAJ, NATIONAL BUREAU, SUN MEDIA Read full article. ...“Now that we are well into May, we have already missed a significant part of this year’s construction season,” said Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay. “How many projects have actually now put shovels to ground?” Baird refused to answer. The minister said there were a number of projects underway in B.C. and Nova Scotia, as well as a community centre in Huntsville, Ont., that is “getting going.” He promised a full list in June.
But Liberals say that’s not quick enough. The budget passed months ago to get stimulus cash out the door quickly, said Hall Findlay. “This money has not flowed,” she said...
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Macleans.ca May 20, 2009 by Mitchel Raphael 
Toronto Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay. She scored 2 of the 5 goals including the winning one. Hall Findlay was also voted MVP of the game on the MP side. See more photos.
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Macleans.ca May 21, 2009 by Mitchel Raphael 
When Justin Trudeau took on his Toronto Liberal colleague Martha Hall Findlay, he suggested she remove her jacket. When she did and it was revealed she was sleeveless underneath, Trudeau, who was already without a jacket and tie, stripped down to his sleeveless undershirt. Read full article.
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The Intelligencer May 24, 2009 By JEREMY ASHLEY Read full article. ...Hundreds of women from across the province are in Belleville for the annual general meeting of the Canadian Federation of University Women, an event that is also serving as a special forum entitled 'Women of Influence' for the organization... ...From the woman behind one of Prince Edward County's most successful wineries to the Wing Surgeon of CFB Trenton, Hennessy said the weekend will be highlighted by keynote speaker Martha Hall Findlay.
The Willowdale MP, who led a 10-month bid for the leadership of the Liberal party in 2006, is the critic for transport, infrastructure and communities for the Official Opposition...
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Macleans.ca May 28, 2009 by Mitchel Raphael The House of Commons pages once again took on MPs at their annual soccer match. Former Liberal leader Stéphane Dion assisted Edmonton Conservative Mike Lake in getting the first goal. (Dion was also a popular choice when it came to page requests for individual photos with the MPs.) In the end, the MPs were triumphant, winning 5 to 4. NDP MP Peter Stoffer once again played goalie. He is the MPs’ only goalie and had to be careful this year because last time he broke his hand. The referee for the game was Nicolas Desforges, who plays soccer himself and also works in the Parliament Hill gift shop. The MPs had one cheerleader, Liberal MP Alexandra Mendes. Two women also played. Usually the MPs are lucky if they have one female player. Winnipeg Tory Shelley Glover played her first match. Glover, a police officer on leave, coached soccer for many years. Toronto Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay, who played in last year’s match, returned and won MVP of the game. She scored two goals, including the winning goal in the last minutes of the game.
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Ottawa Business Journal May 29, 2009 By Peter Kovessy Read full article. ...While the budget does not attach any contain any numbers or asset sale targets, Toronto Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay said the government is committed to raising $10 billion in revenue over four years, including $2.1 billion this year. "That is an awful lot of assets that would need to be sold," said Ms. Hall Findlay during Thursday's committee meeting, where she repeatedly pressed Public Works officials to comment on which federal assets are being considered for the auction block...
04/2009
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TheWhig.com April 9, 2009 By ALTHIA RAJ The Conservative government is doling out more than $400 million over two years to fix crumbling federal infrastructure, spending money on everything from drinking fountains to bridge repairs... Read full article. ...Martha Hall Findlay, the Liberal party's public works critic, said the Conservatives set aside cash last year to fix federal buildings and should have acted sooner -- especially with mounting layoffs in the construction industry. "Why on earth has this type of spending taken so long?" she asked, adding the government doesn't need provincial or municipal approval to move ahead.
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The Hill Times April 13, 2009 By Harris MacLeod "When Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay stepped onto the red carpet at the 29th Annual Genie Awards in Ottawa, she had people wondering if she was pulling a Mrs. Robinson. But the Toronto MP was quick to explain to Party Central that the strapping young lad on her arm was her son, Patrick Findlay, who she brought as a last-minute date because the 23-year-old, still-tanned from a recent trip to South America, wants to get into acting."
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Macleans.ca April 16, 2009 By Mitchel Raphael 
"The glamorous Genie awards came to Ottawa for the first time. The host of the 29th annual awards, held at the Aviation Museum, was Dave Foley of Kids in the Hall fame. He was assured by actress Sarah Polley that there was no pressure on him: “The bar has not been set very high,” she joked. Ottawa Conservative MP Royal Galipeau brought his photographer son Paul Galipeau, and Toronto Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay brought her aspiring-actor son Patrick Findlay. The only other MPs in attendance were Ottawa NDP MP Paul Dewar and heritage critics Pablo Rodriguez (Liberal) and Carole Lavallée (Bloc). Marco Pecota, who was nominated for best animated short (The Facts in the Case of Mister Hallow), brought his son Nico Pecota, the most stylish guy at the event. Pecota senior runs Rue Morgue, a horror culture company housed in a converted Toronto funeral home that had Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy’s election campaign office next door for several weeks. The Kennedy Liberals were great neighbours, says Pecota, except that they left a pile of sign stakes outside his office with a note saying they were free for the taking. Pecota said it took a week to get rid of them. Perhaps it was a slow week for killing vampires."
03/2009
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TheStar.com March 06, 2009 By RICHARD J. BRENNAN Infrastructure Minister John Baird says critics will just have to trust the government to spend billions of taxpayers' dollars on economic stimulus wisely. Baird refused yesterday to give a parliamentary committee specifics on how the government plans to spend the $3 billion it says it needs right away to jump start the stalled economy. "You either have confidence in the government or you don't," Baird told Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay (Willowdale), who accused the minister of not having a clue where the money was going... Read full article.
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Macleans.ca March 12, 2009 by Mitchel Raphael The Writers’ Trust of Canada handed out their annual $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize honouring political writing excellence to James Orbinski for An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century at the annual Politics and the Pen gala dinner in the Fairmont Château Laurier ballroom. Politics and the Pen is one of Ottawa’s A-list events and brings out top politicians, including Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt and Transport Minister John Baird. 
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Original article from: The Globe and Mail DEREK DeCLOET March 14, 2009 Reid Bigland, the man trying to steer Chrysler Canada out of a financial ditch, wants you to know he doesn't think government aid is a free ride. Not at all. So he's happy to show up in Ottawa on a chilly winter day to answer questions, as he did this week, because, as he put it: "Obviously, you're not going to loan out a billion dollars on the back of a cigarette pack." Obviously. But how about $3-billion? We now know what the Great Automotive Bailout is going to cost. At least, we think we do. Chrysler's plea for $3-billion, when added to GM Canada's $7-billion, makes it $10-billion to help save the two companies, with the lion's share of the cost to be picked up by the feds. That's up from $4-billion a few months ago. You know the saying: A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. Even in Ottawa. Ten billion dollars would pay for more than half of Canada's annual defence budget. It's more than enough to provide six months of employment insurance benefits for each of the country's 1.4 million unemployed. It's roughly equal to the amount of income tax paid by all residents of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where there are no car plants. A $10-billion loan demands a pretty serious debate, in other words. What rationale exists for using the money to protect the jobs of auto workers who make $34 an hour instead of, say, spending it to feed poor kids (or, for that matter, investing it in a growth industry, like tech)? There's only one reason, and that's the prospect of a payoff. If Chrysler and GM can be saved in Canada, the jobs will stay and the companies might pay the money back. Just give us a few years, the companies say, and taxpayers will start getting a return, with 5 to 6 per cent interest. "We're not looking for free money," Mr. Bigland told a parliamentary committee. Chrysler is even pinpointing the year in which it will start to repay: 2012. A lot has to go right between now and then. The credit markets must thaw and it has to become easier to get a loan. American consumers, though still constrained by too much debt, have to start buying again. Most important, the Bailout Two have to make cars people want, and stop bleeding market share in the United States. (GM and Chrysler export more than 85 per cent of their Canadian production across the border.) The risks are large and real. But worry not, say the auto makers. We have good plans! We'll be viable! Behind the scenes, the companies say they are sharing copious amounts of information with both Ottawa and Queen's Park. Teams of civil servants are going over sales and profit projections, apparently. The problem is that it's not the civil servants' call. The bailout is a political decision and, in Ottawa at least, most MPs are in the dark on what the auto makers' plans look like. "Not being at the table means we do not have the information," says Martha Hall Findlay, a Liberal MP from Toronto. She has been trying to scrape together what data she can. On Wednesday night, after Mr. Bigland and Chrysler LLC president Thomas LaSorda made their pitch to the politicians - complete with threat to withdraw from Canada if they don't get the loan - Ms. Hall Findlay put her hand up. How much cash is Chrysler Canada burning right now, she wondered. "We don't break it out in that level of detail for Canada," Mr. Bigland answered. "It is a pretty intense burn rate." She tried again: If the government lends you this much money, how long would it last, given the current rate at which cash is flowing out of the company? She got nowhere. But that's no great surprise. The public portion of Chrysler Canada's submission to the feds and Ontario consists of a four-page letter. It could have been written - sorry, Mr. Bigland - on the back of a cigarette pack. GM Canada's letter is about 60 pages, but the substance is pretty thin. The company tells us that it uses 13 suppliers in Newmarket, Ont., but won't even say what its Canadian revenues are. "It's fluff," says one person in Ottawa who has studied the document. The auto makers' attitude is: We're private companies. The real detail, the financial stuff, is private. Well, it was. But when they come looking for $10-billion - about $600 for every person in Canada who pays income tax - they've turned their financial woes into a public problem. "This issue is huge," says Ms. Hall Findlay, and she's right: So huge that the public and Parliament shouldn't be making up their minds about it in a near-vacuum. "We're motivated to receive the money," Mr. Bigland told the committee. Yes - far more motivated that the average Canadian is to give it to them. Do Chrysler and GM want to halt the backlash against the bailout? Then enough of the platitudes and threats. Stop telling us you'll be viable. Prove it. ddecloet@globeandmail.com
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The Hill Times March 16, 2009 By Harris Macleod and Abbas Rana ...Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay (Willowdale, Ont.), who was the only woman who ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party in 2006 that didn't drop out of the race before the convention, said she is opposed to sticking with the one-third quota.
"Personally I'm not a fan of quotas," Ms. Hall Findlay. "It's difficult for me as a woman to say that because there are a whole lot of people who feel strongly about quotas, but my focus is on getting more women to run period. I don't need a number to tell me that, and I don't need a number to tell me we don't have enough." ... Read full article.
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Macleans.ca Feb 5, 2009 by Aaron Wherry The Scene. Michael Ignatieff and Stephen Harper were debating the state of the aerospace industry. Suffice it to say, the Liberal leader feels the Prime Minister isn’t doing enough, while the Prime Minister feels the Liberal leader is being silly... Read full article. ...“Mr. Speaker, in announcing the public transit tax credit the Conservatives promised 220,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emission reductions,” Martha Hall Findlay noted. “Will the Minister of the Environment please confirm that after $635 million the results have been in fact negligible?”
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The Hill Times February 9, 2009 By Harris MacLeod ...Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay (Willowdale, Ont.), who ran against Mr. Dion for the Liberal leadership in 2006 and then threw her support behind him after she was eliminated, said she admires that he is still playing a role as a member of caucus, and as an MP. "It's been an incredible two, three years for him and for his family and the fact that he is still an active member of caucus, shows up, is doing everything he should be doing in terms of his representation of his constituents," Ms. Hall Findlay said. "It would have been a very exciting few years, but certainly in the latter part very challenging." ... Read full article. ...Ms. Hall Findlay praised Mr. Dion for bringing climate change more into the public discourse, but she said that for her the most impressive thing about him was that he was always a political gentleman. "Despite being beaten up with all of those attack ads for so long, and going through so much, Stéphane Dion's response was always to never descend to that level, his response always was to respond with respect and civility. Given the nature of politics that we've had in the last couple of years here we could use a whole lot more respect and civility in our political discourse and that needs to be a very big part of his legacy."
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The Record Feb. 23, 2009 By Stephen McDougall Two Liberal MPs are accusing the Conservative government of hiding information from the public by using the excuse it costs the taxpayer too much money to provide it to them. “The cost and fees the goverment departments are claiming are just attempts to sweep things under the rug and keep the public uninformed,” charged Martha Hall-Findlay, the party’s parliamentary critic for public works, on Saturday. “The government is determined to make sure things are not disclosed. They are saying that service is being improved by denying access.” ... Read full article.
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The Toronto Sun January 15, 2009 By PETER ZIMONJIC The federal government has poured cold water on a plan from Canada's cities to pay for hundreds of small-scale infrastructure projects by increasing the gas-tax transfer to municipalities... Read full article. ...Liberal infrastructure critic Martha Hall Findlay says the FCM plan meets the Liberal definition of an effective stimulus because it is targeted, timely and temporary. "Infrastructure has to be a significant part of any economic stimulus package, every body acknowledges that," said Findlay. "The municipalities know best what their infrastructure needs are. This is a step in the right direction."
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Globe and Mail January 19, 2009 By MARTHA HALL FINDLAY Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay on why her party must continue to push forward on environmental policies during the recession Read full article.
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La Presse Publié le 23 janvier 2009 Gilles Toupin Lire l'article complet. Le nouveau chef libéral, Michael Ignatieff, a procédé hier à la nomination d'une sorte de cabinet fantôme de la concorde, confiant des rôles de premier plan à ses anciens rivaux à la direction du parti, Bob Rae et Dominic LeBlanc... ...Martha Hall Findlay (Willowdale) est porte-parole chargée des travaux publics et des services gouvernementaux.
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