Bob Rae

Hon. Bob Rae: Lawyer, Mediator, Speaker, Writer. Political Leader. Active on First Nations, Social Justice, Internat'l issues. Liberal. Toronto, Ontario

Nepal: Presidential and Parliamentary Systems Pt. 2

With the making of the American Constitution in 1787, the modern world was immediately presented with two potential models for governance: the presidential and the parliamentary. The United States and the United...

On 11 Jan 2010 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

Nepal: Presidential and Parliamentary Systems Pt. 1

Notes for Presentation to Conference on Nepali Constitution I have been active in Canadian politics, law, and public life for thirty years, have been the leader of the opposition and Premier (First Minister)...

On 10 Jan 2010 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

Visit to Alexandria

An early start to the day took us to Alexandria, which is on the Mediterranean. A moving day. We began by heading due west on the coast to El Alamein, where we stopped at the Commonwealth Cemetery....

On 08 Jan 2010 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

International Standards

The decision by Prime Minister Harper to miss any appearance at the United Nations the same week as the presence of senior leaders around the world, including President Barack Obama was a typical triumph...

On 25 Sep 2009 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

Refused Entry

Personal Statement by Hon Bob Rae PC, MP, on being refused entry into Sri Lanka at the Colombo Airport On the evening of Tuesday June 9, 2009 I arrived on a flight from Delhi to Colombo, Sri Lanka. I had successfully...

On 11 Jun 2009 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

Sri Lanka’s Tragedy

First thing in the morning these days I find the BBC website on my blackberry to find the latest on the tragic events in Sri Lanka. On a thin, 5 square mile strip of land on the northeast coast of the country...

On 01 May 2009 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

On Haiti

Haiti is a small country, taking up the western third of the island of Hispaniola, its geography a backwards “C”, with the capital Port au Prince at the lower west coast of the country. It...

On 07 Apr 2009 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

Washington Notes

I lived here fifty years ago (!) when Eisenhower was President, the Senators were in the last place in the American League and the kids in my third grade class made fun of me (among other reasons) because...

On 01 Mar 2009 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

Harperville

When I was a kid one of my favourite tv shows was Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” I remember one show where the passengers in a plane come through the sky only to discover that on their...

On 01 Sep 2008 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

Harpercrats vs. Diplomats

What was a poorly kept secret is now leaking all over Ottawa. When John Diefenbaker was elected he used to fulminate about “the Pearsonalities” in the East Block, then the offices of the old Department...

On 01 Apr 2008 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment


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