I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre in… - Judy LaMarsh

Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.

It will be, I suppose, a foolhardy Government that tries to push through legislation making knowledge of both official languages one of the qualifications for election to the House of Commons or appointment to the Senate, but maybe it will have to come to this as a price we must pay for equality of the two great language groups of our founding fathers.

I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.