Speaker Milliken has scheduled a big party next Monday for all the MPs, several dozen Commons pages and a couple of hundred members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery at his official country residence in nearby Kingsmere. Even Health Minister Allan Rock is getting into the party mood. He is planning a big barbecue, possibly as early as this weekend for his political aides, departmental officials, the news media, some of his leadership campaign workers, and several hundred of his closest friends. With everybody partying, it's surprising that they can still get legislation passed in the Commons this week. But, then again, the legislation that everybody is talking about this week in Ottawa is a new 20 per cent pay raise for all MPs.
Nobody's too busy to miss out on that vote.
She even called her daughter Mila after then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's beloved wife. Prime Minister Kim Campbell dropped her like a hot potato. Jacques says today that she did nothing wrong it was all Kim Campbell's fault for not standing up for her. Jacques was not out on a day pass. In fact, she never served a day in jail.