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  Senators - Detailed Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Born in Lebanon, Mac Harb graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Science and an M.A. in Engineering.
Harb was elected to the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre.
Harb was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade from December 1993 until 1995.
www.parl.gc.ca /common/senmemb/senate/isenator_det.asp?senator_id=2756&sortord=N&Language=E&M=M   (134 words)

  
  Mac Harb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mac Harb (born November 10, 1953) is a Canadian Senator and former Member of Parliament.
Harb was born in Chaat, Lebanon and immigrated to Canada to study at the University of Ottawa.
Harb was elected to Ottawa City Council in 1985 and served as deputy mayor in 1987 and 1988.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mac_Harb   (194 words)

  
 The Brandon Sun: Online Edition
Harb doesn’t think voting is a right, but in fact a responsibility.
Harb thinks the problem is that there is no tangible consequence if people don’t vote.
Heck, Harb is even a part of that — he got whisked from his Ottawa Centre seat to Liberal heaven in the Senate last year to give a seat to Prime Minister Paul Martin’s good buddy Richard Maloney.
www.brandonsun.com /story.php?story_id=6330   (830 words)

  
 Ottawa Centre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The riding was subsequently won by Liberal Mac Harb in the 1988 election who held it until 2003 when he was appointed to the Senate.
The riding was left vacant by Prime Minster Paul Martin until the 2004 election when Ed Broadbent, a former leader of the NDP, defeated Liberal Richard Mahoney, a high-profile corporate lobbyist and long-time ally of former Prime Minister Paul Martin.
The seat was vacated in September 2003 when Liberal incumbent Mac Harb received his long-awaited patronage appointment to the Canadian Senate from outgoing Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ottawa_Centre   (898 words)

  
 Liberal Senators - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mac Harb won a fourth term as the MP for Ottawa Centre in 2000.
Harb has maintained a busy parliamentary schedule, serving as chair of the House of Commons Sub-Committee on International Trade, Trade Disputes and Investment as well as on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
Harb served as Councillor for the City of Ottawa and the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton from 1985 to 1988 and Deputy Mayor for the City of Ottawa from 1987 to 1988.
www.liberal.parl.gc.ca /sen_bio_en.asp?MemberID=69   (202 words)

  
 Mac Harb is a Mac Daddy Pimp
Lets see if Mac Harb changes his mind after he gets hooked on heroin, then has to whore his manflower / love hole to a 300lb copycat of Jeffrey Dahmer for 30 dollars so he can get his next hit.
Mac Harb would like to have prostitution and brothels legalized much like the Germans did in 2002.
P.S: Mac Harb thinks there are human clones Link walking around, and that homeless people should be rounded into ghetto’s, and that forced voting should be implemented, therefore increasing liberal party votes.
www.gnn.tv /B06391   (939 words)

  
 CNEW: - Bawdy check
Scott was enraged at Ottawa-Centre Liberal MP Mac Harb's attempt this past week through a private member's bill to give cities the power to license and regulate brothels.
Harb hopes such a measure would reduce street-level prostitution, eliminate pimps and improve health standards for those in the trade.
Harb, meanwhile, has said the bill also seeks to improve health standards for those in the trade.
www.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Law/2003/03/09/pf-39861.html   (470 words)

  
 Mac Harb says he’s not going anywhere
“Mac Harb is a fantastic guy and a well-rounded MP for Ottawa Centre,” she said.
Harb says if proof is needed that he is not going anywhere, people should look at his record in the Commons.
School bus safety was the main reason Harb started his seat-belt campaign, but as the legislation took shape it grew to include all vehicles on the road.
www.carleton.ca /ctown/archiv/97to04/nov1299/news1.htm   (580 words)

  
 yayacanada.com/News4
Mac, if that's his real name, has been blessed with loyal and imaginative assistants who deserve at least as grand awards as he unashamedly accepts.
Mac won't show, of course, but hopefuls will be awed and amused by the sheer creativity of a whole new batch of excuses.
How comforting for Mac, though, that even if the Liberal party is decimated in the next election, he will continue as always to have a well-paid job for which he doesn't need to show up.
yayacanada.com /News4.html   (3487 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Chretien appoints MP, 2 others, to Senate seats
Harb, who is the first ever Lebanese-Canadian senator, called it an honour to serve his adopted country.
Harb's nomination sets up a potential fight for the nomination in Ottawa-Centre that would seem like a sequel to the long-running feud between Chretien and Paul Martin.
Harb will be joined by New Brunswick Lt.-Gov. Marilyn Trenholme Counsell, 69, a doctor and former provincial cabinet minister responsible for families.
ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1063157926495_41/?hub=Canada   (582 words)

  
 Launch of activities for National Non-Smoking Week
David and Mac have been very interested in a wide range of health care issues.
Mac often attends health-related events in the Ottawa area with me, and David has undertaken a major community outreach in his riding in relation to the future of health care.
It is fair to say that people in David's riding have been tracking the various reports including Kirby and Romanow, and have been very much involved in offering their views about a renewed health care system.
www.hc-sc.gc.ca /ahc-asc/minist/health-sante/speeches-discours/2003_01_22_e.html   (2303 words)

  
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This motion, as it reads, is really asking the House to ask the government to look at the possibility of recognizing multiple chemical sensitivities, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia as illnesses that have the capacity to cause disability.
Mac Harb: Yes, that possibility does exist, but it is not the primary aim of this motion.
Mac Harb: There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that you are absolutely quite right.
fm-cfs.ca /hansard.html   (699 words)

  
 The Manitoban Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Senator Mac Harb was in Winnipeg recently to discuss mandatory voting.
Harb sees the decline in voter turnout as a result of Canadians forgetting the importance of voting.
Harb is the first to admit that he does not have the perfect solution, which he said would be for everyone to “get off your rear end, go to the voting booth and vote.”
umanitoba.ca /manitoban/2005-2006/1102/1107.in.brief.php   (1764 words)

  
 winnipegsun.com - Tom Brodbeck - Fix the system first
Harb has tabled legislation in the Senate that would see people fined for not voting.
He argues it's not good for democracy for 61% of eligible voters to cast ballots, which was the turnout in the last federal election.
Countries like Switzerland -- a country Harb himself holds up as a symbol of democracy -- separate their executive from the federal legislature.
winnipegsun.com /News/Columnists/Brodbeck_Tom/2005/10/06/1250287.html   (612 words)

  
 Harb pushes guaranteed income   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Harb says he wants to see representatives of the federal and provincial governments meet in Ottawa to discuss the feasibility of a guaranteed annual income for all Canadians.
Harb plans to table a private members bill on the issue within the next few weeks.
Harb says the purpose of the conference is to have these concerns addressed and figure out how much the program would cost.
www.carleton.ca /ctown/archiv/97to04/mar1601/news1.htm   (386 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Harb
His candidacy isn'ta sure in thing in the riding, which was left vacant when Liberal MP Mac Harb was named to the Senate by Jean Chrétien.
In a separate development, Batroun MP Butros Harb called for “a transparent investigation into the air crash with delegates from the International Air...
Most likely, HARB would have to issue a recommendation on the structure, and the City Council would have to approve it, he said.
nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/H/Harb.shtml   (748 words)

  
 Open Canada's Post 1901 Census Records, Correspondence to/from Canadian Ministers of Parliament- The Global Gazette
Mac Harb, M.P. 08/11/2001 - email to MP Marc Harb from Muriel M. Davidson.
MP Mac Harb speaks to MP Jason Kenney's Motion M-160.
Mac Harb, MP 11/05/1999 - MP Mac Harb introduced to the House of Commons Bill C-312, a Private Member's Bill intended to allow access to Post 1901 Census records.
globalgenealogy.com /Census/Senator100.htm   (1543 words)

  
 The London Fog: Force = Democracy in Canada??
Mac Harb has tabled amendments to the Canada Elections Act that would require all eligible voters to cast ballots.
The odds of this happening are not all that good; Senator Harb spent most of his MP career as a backbencher and thus is more inclined to follow orders rather than be a leader and take the initiative, and this would hamper his ability to get an MP to listen to him.
Senator Harb should be aware that education, not legislation, is the key to public participation in democracy.
thelondonfog.blogspot.com /2004/12/force-democracy-in-canada.html   (2077 words)

  
 Welcome/Bienvenue . Bob Chiarelli for Mayor / pour Maire d'Ottawa . 2006
After teaching at Algonquin College, Mac began his career in politics as a member of Ottawa’s City Council from 1985 to 1988, serving as Deputy Mayor from 1987 to 1988.
Mac then made the move to federal politics when elected Ottawa Centre’s Member of Parliament in 1988.
In 2004, Mac was appointed into the Canadian Senate by Jean Chrétien and is a member of the Banking, Trade, and Commerce Committee and the Scrutiny of Regulations Committee.
bobchiarelli.com /mayor_of_ottawa/03_endorsements_e.html   (4879 words)

  
 Welcome to NCCAR
Harb’s ability to succeed in his new responsibilities.
Harb was born in Lebanon and graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Science and an Master of Arts.
Harb recognizes the critical role of NGOs as one of the most essential means of securing peace.
www.nccar.ca /media_centre/harb.html   (227 words)

  
 EISC Holds Nowhere to Hide from Pollution Conference
MP Mac Harb brought participants up to date about his work to have the House of Commons pass Bill C416.
Harb noted that many MPs are very supportive of the bill.
Communications specialist Jay Kassirer spoke on the wide range of socio-economic impacts of environmental illnesses, from workplace productivity to family breakups to homelessness and suicide.
www.environmentalhealth.ca /w01EISC.html   (557 words)

  
 Fascist forced voting Bill S-22
I am vehemently opposed; this is my letter to Mac Harb, the Senator whose job is tucked away till 2028, ironically, without the need of people voting for him.
To Mac Harb Liberal MP: From Concerned Citizen.
I am a concerned citizen of Canada, and I feel the democracy of Canada is being violated with your attempt to pass Bill S-22.
www.guerrillanews.com /blogs/6430/Fascist_forced_voting_Bill_S_22?r=2   (1252 words)

  
 Turmel Political Press 1987-1989
Liberal candidate Mac Harb who supported the fringe candidates right to participate stormed out of the meeting.
Harb to avoid meeting some 250 to 300 Glebe residents who were here for this meeting.
Mac Harb walked out of the meeting after it voted 147-121 to keep out the independents.
www.cyberclass.net /turmel/prspol87.htm   (10792 words)

  
 Martin's formula for Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He argues some of the non-partisan personnel in government should be moved to parliamentary committees on a permanent basis to work with MPs to review legislation.
Martin's promises have not impressed Senator Mac Harb, one of Jean Chrétien's most loyal parliamentary foot soldiers.
Harb, referring to the voting gridlock that often bedevils Congress.
www.canada.com /national/features/transition/story.html?id=37912770-b28b-404a-a007-3972a3da3740   (1273 words)

  
 TaiwanHeadlines - Politics - TIER head callsf or Asia-Pacific free trade zone
Mac Harb, a parliamentarian from Canada, echoed Wu's comments.
Pointing out that it is advantageous for the Asia-Pacific economies to set up a free trade zone, he said that countries in the region, with 31 percent of the world's population, generate more than 23 percent of the global foreign trade.
However, he also issued a reminder that Asia-Pacific countries are facing three critical issues in their pursuit of continued economic development - namely an unhealthy financial system, a quickly emerging mainland China, and the United States' fast-growing trade deficit.
english.www.gov.tw /TaiwanHeadlines/index.jsp?categid=8&recordid=54949   (551 words)

  
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In general, Mac Harb was friendly, and passionately argued the rhetoric of globalization and free trade at every opportunity.
In the case of Mac Harb, we printed an article on his response to both inquiry letters on the MAI, in our community paper, the Centretown Buzz (also posted here).
We did not use Harb's second response to Cottam's letter in our meeting with him, and we should have, so we still need to use that written round in future meetings which build on Harb's written response.
www.flora.org /flora/archive/mai-not/mp-mtg.htm   (1289 words)

  
 Transcript of Guite's testimony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mac Harb: I think here we are moving away from the proper line of questioning.
We're trying to find out the administration of the public service in these three particular contracts, and if he were meeting the people here, there or somewhere else, I think he's entitled to ask the question.
Mac Harb: He was starting to abuse the witness.
www.canada.com /national/features/undersiege/story.html?id=e7d6147c-79d3-40de-a06b-5edba6b51a52   (9342 words)

  
 Ottawa Business Journal - News
Ottawa Centre MP Mac Harb says the city will get nowhere near $100 million.
Harb commends the City of Ottawa's decision to use money from the Strategic Infrastructure Fund.
It is my hope that we at the federal level will make an allocation in order to ensure this very, very important project proceeds," he said.
www.ottawabusinessjournal.com /277365385008547.php   (635 words)

  
 The Declarer (Floyd McWilliams' Blog)
Right in the midst of the Bill Sampson controversy, after a Canadian citizen was tortured and sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia, dozens of MPs, Senators and other government VIPs gorged themselves on Saudi hospitality at a big reception last night - and they were bending over backwards to avoid offending their generous hosts.
And worst of all, shame on newly-appointed Liberal Senator Mac Harb for mocking - yes, mocking - his countryman's allegations of torture:
Harb said at a reception hosted by Saudi Ambassador Mohammed Al-Hussaini to honour the oil kingdom's national day.
floyd.best.vwh.net /weblog/2003_09_21_archive.html   (1190 words)

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