Canadian voters handed Canada’s early Tories a majority victory on this date in 1882. It was only the fifth time since Confederation that Canadian citizens had gone to the polls. There were 211 House seats up for grabs back then and Sir John A. and his supporters celebrated victories in 133 ridings. Edward Blake, leading […]

Premier Ford’s use of the constitutional hammer to squash his opponents’ ability to spend money to attack him is offensive. The imposition of limits on what “third parties” — anyone who is not a candidate or a party — can spend during and before an election were the creation of politicians of all parties to […]

Last week’s G7 summit in Cornwall was the very model of modern, multilateral politicking. Against the backdrop of sunny beaches and clear blue skies, leaders of some of the world’s largest economies walked and talked, posing together every step of the way. Pre-summit hopes had been in overdrive. Cornwall was, after all, the first such […]

You can forgive yourself if you’ve never heard of the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB); the largely useless, ultra-expensive federal government boondoggle set up by the Liberals to boost the economy by funding infrastructure projects – “green” projects preferred. Most people in the infrastructure industry have probably never heard of the CIB, or wish they hadn’t.

If former Green MP Jenica Atwin had tweeted the white supremacist slogan “the Jews will not replace us,” it’s a safe bet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would not have welcomed her into the Liberal Party of Canada. But because hers was the more politically acceptable tactic of describing Israel as an apartheid state, she was […]

The Green Party, it is well known, throbs with love for the planet, the trees and every thing that creepeth upon the earth. On the other hand, it has always seemed a little iffy about human beings, as if they were a kind of acne on the face of Gaia. More particularly, while the party […]

From the hospital bed where she is having a knee replacement, former leader Elizabeth May must be requiring extra medication to keep her blood pressure down as she watches her beloved Green Party implode. The threatened reign of successor Annamie Paul is the most bizarre, messy and unfortunate political drama among many raging on Parliament […]

Justin Trudeau is not the Green party leader’s biggest problem, though Annamie Paul is increasingly portraying him that way. Over two remarkable days this week, Paul has been putting Trudeau and the Liberals on the hook for the strife that’s imploding within her party. If nothing else, this is a definite break from the past, […]

Fri., June 18, 2021timer3 min. read Want to see outrage these days? Mention any issue that even smacks of racism or prejudice and you will see Canadians respond with anger and passion. Why has this energy not extended to Quebec’s Bill 21? If there ever was a law that flies in the face of everything […]

The way government House leader Pablo Rodriguez tells the story, life in a minority Parliament absolutely sucks. Not for the Liberals, mind you. Rather, for Canadians. “There’s one party in the House that … is using its minority to block the will of the majority in the House, and that is Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives,” Rodriguez […]