News.

As I write this edition of the News column, a federal election campaign has just been called. Given the process of magazine production, printing, and mailing, you will probably be reading this column just before you mark your X. This being the case, I decided to provide a brief review of the work of the second session of Canada's 35th Parliament.

On the Parliamentary web site, http://www.parl.gc.ca, you can check the status of all government business. I checked the government bills listing, and found that from February 27, 1996 to April 25, 1997, there were 98 bills introduced by the government. Many of these are housekeeping bills, making certain that taxes are …