W h hen I arrived in Ottawa in 1974", re-flects Dr. Bruce Halliday, the62-year-old MP for the
Ontario riding of Oxford," there were nine physicians in the House of Commons. Today, in a …

Du uring last fall's election campaign, political pundits didn't expect medicare to be a hot
issue because Kim Campbell was hell-bent on talking about the deficit and Jean Chretien …

Everything in America takes place on a larger scale, and this includes the workings of the
democratic process, so that the presidential electoral campaign is drawn out to a 12-months …

THE British Medical Association decided at the Annual Representative Meeting in July last
to support the candi. dature, in the forthcoming election of four direct repre-sentatives for …

ACTING IN the dual capacity of a general prac-titioner and a member of parliament
representing a rural riding in Alberta, I would like to place before the profession some …

5. A" grant in aid" to help to defray elected members' living expeoses in London-say ios. a
day during the session to be considered, and to be an admitted charge against the …

It is a parliamentary tradition that a newly selected speaker will put upa mock fight as he is
escorted to his chair in the House of Commons. The reason, of course, is that there was a …

The present number of physicians in the United States Congress is ten. Lawyers are 303, or
about 70 per cent.(See Appendix A.) The present is a good time to discuss this, as a …

The latest piece of entertainment to come out of the Parliamentary question period concerns
the methods used by bureaucrats to run their international conferences. The facts were …

A lthough Canada now has 295 ridings, the coming federal elec-tion will be decided in
about 50 of them-marginal or swing ridingsscattered across the country. The candidates …