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• Appeared in the article Spending on casual diplomacy for MPs and senators quietly cut by Ottawa

  Celine Hervieux-Payette to Berlin, Germany, on a last-minute trip with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and G20 members Nov. 6-8, 2011, according to a spending report tabled in the Senate last week. The JICis formally discouraging subcommittees from ... (more)

  11 days ago – National Post

• Appeared in the article Spending on casual diplomacy for MPs and senators quietly cut

  So it's impossible to know if someone stays at, say, the Savoy while at a conference in London — as International Development Minister Bev Oda did last year — or whether they made more economical choices. Expense forms for members of these groups ... (more)

  11 days ago – Canada.com

• Appeared in the article Spending on casual diplomacy for MPs and senators quietly cut

  "Nobody that I know has stayed at the Savoy," said NDP MP Denise Savoie, co-chair of the JIC. Where delegations stay overseas is mostly determined by the host country, which selects hotels for security reasons as well as proximity to the meeting site, ... (more)

  11 days ago – Calgary Herald

• Appeared in the article Spending on casual diplomacy for MPs and senators quietly cut

  "Nobody that I know has stayed at the Savoy," said NDP MP Denise Savoie, co-chair of the JIC. Where delegations stay overseas is mostly determined by the host country, which selects hotels for security reasons as well as proximity to the meeting site, ... (more)

  11 days ago – Montreal Gazette

• Appeared in the article Spending on casual diplomacy for MPs and senators quietly cut

  "Nobody that I know has stayed at the Savoy," said NDP MP Denise Savoie, co-chair of the JIC. Where delegations stay overseas is mostly determined by the host country, which selects hotels for security reasons as well as proximity to the meeting site, ... (more)

  11 days ago – Edmonton Journal

• Appeared in the article Senate ethics rules need to be tightened up, says Senate ethics officer

  "We need to have conflict of interest guidelines that have teeth," said NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay, Ont.). Last week, Mr. Angus singled out Saskatchewan Conservative Sen. Pamela Wallin as an example of lax conflict of interest ... (more)

  10 months ago – Hill Times (subscription)

• Appeared in the article Talk shops

  Canadians at the conference include Kim Campbell, who had a summer job as Prime Minister 18 years ago; Jeremy Kinsman, a retired diplomat who isn't really in this government's good books; and Senator Reynell Andreychuk, who chairs the Senate committee ... (more)

  10 months ago – Macleans.ca (blog)

• Appeared in the article MPs, Senators spend more than a quarter million dollars on trips abroad

  Conservative Senators Raynell Andreychuk (Saskatchewan) and Pierre-Claude Nolin (Quebec) were on the delegation, along with Liberal Nova Scotia Senators Jane Cordy and Joseph Day. Liberal MP David McGuinty (Ottawa South, Ont.) told The Hill Times he ... (more)

  11 months ago – Hill Times (subscription)

• Appeared in the article Bargains with Gadhafi: Should the world deal with the devil?

  Senator Raynell Andreychuk led a 2008 trade mission. Canadian ambassador Sandra McCardell quietly signed a 2009 memorandum of understanding on civilian nuclear co-operation, a step toward reopening the nuclear-materials trade. ... (more)

  about 1 year ago – Globe and Mail

• Appeared in the article Did business blind Canada to the realities in Libya?

  In October 2008, Conservative Senator Raynell Andreychuk flew to Tripoli with representatives from 10 small Canadian companies eager to explore oil and gas prospects in the Maghreb country. "It's a not a place for the faint-hearted," recalls Ms. ... (more)

  about 1 year ago – Embassy