Aug 18 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — The latest developments in Lavscam are very bad indeed. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been found to have violated the Conflict of Interest Act. We’ve now gone from the realm of political messaging into the realm of lawbreaking. There are those engaged in wordplay about how this isn’t a real law and it doesn’t come […]
Aug 16 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Almost from the beginning of Lavscam it was clear that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a smug and dismissive attitude towards the whole affair. Back in February – when the news first broke that Trudeau improperly pressured the former Attorney General to reverse a decision to go ahead with prosecuting SNC-Lavalin – he shamelessly went […]
Jul 10 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — For the past few days political circles and talk radio have been unpacking a rude tirade by Ontario cabinet minister Lisa MacLeod aimed at Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk. MacLeod apparently approached Melnyk unprovoked at a Rolling Stones concert the other weekend, calling out: “Do you know who I am? I am your minister and […]
Jun 23 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Throughout the first half of the year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was against the ropes. He was hammered almost daily by first the China mess and then Lavscam and it even seemed – for a few days – that his political demise was imminent. A lot of that is gone now. Yes, Trudeau’s numbers dropped […]
Jun 2 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Whoddunit? What happened? Why’d it happen? It’s only natural that human beings will ask these questions if a shooting happens in their neighbourhood, a vehicle rams into pedestrians, or people in their city are arrested for having explosive devices. So natural that there are entire genres of books, movies and TV shows devoted to people […]
May 19 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Trudeau wins a majority government thanks to his personal popularity, as regular Canadians take to the streets to pose for photographs with him, swooning over his style. This is a description of Justin Trudeau and the 2015 election, right? Sure, but the same words equally apply to the original Trudeaumania – the 1968 election that […]
Apr 28 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — There’s something not quite right with society today — the way we interact with each other, the way we come together or don’t come together as a community. Pretty much everyone seems to feel this way – that there’s been a surge in anti-social behaviour — regardless of where they sit on the political spectrum […]
Apr 22 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — One of the more headline grabbing quotes out of the Mueller report is what U.S. President Donald Trump apparently said two years ago when he learned Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had appointed a special counsel in the first place. “This is the end of my presidency,” Trump said. “I’m f—ed.” There has been a […]
Apr 13 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — A funny thing happened in the Sun boardroom the other month. Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli stopped by to chat with the editorial board about the province’s finances and the budget that was at that time still being figured out. While we pressed him to tell us when they’d bring the books back to balance, […]
Apr 7 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — There’s one scene that I keep going back to these days. It takes place in Ottawa almost exactly six years ago. It’s the federal Liberal leadership event, the one that made Justin Trudeau party leader. Looking back now, you’d think it would have been a massive affair — the beginning of the rise of the […]
Mar 10 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — It was only a matter of time until it came to this. Not Lavscam per se. But something like it. Something that had the same basic nuts and bolts to the story: Senior figures in the Trudeau government publicly pushing back against the PM, derailing his agenda and creating a crisis in confidence.
Feb 27 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — How on earth would he spin it? Forget spin. How on earth can he survive this? After watching Jody Wilson-Raybould’s calm, composed, lengthy and detailed damning testimony against Justin Trudeau, it was hard to imagine the PM would have anything to say in response besides staring at the cameras like a deer in the headlights. […]
Jan 13 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Just the other day, I was out for lunch with a senior public policy advisor and the conversation to drifted to how odd it is that for decades successive Canadian governments have been so enamoured with cozying up to the Chinese leadership in Beijing. Then, right at that moment, a former senior cabinet minister walked […]
Dec 18 2018 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — In the immediate aftermath of the election of Donald Trump to the American presidency there was a sense of momentum in the air around populism. Will it happen here in Canada? Or elsewhere? And how soon? What form will it take? The Brexit vote had only just gone down a few months beforehand and European […]
Dec 12 2018 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Most of us would have taken the money and run. But not Omar Khadr. He’s back and asking for more. Last summer, when word got out that the government quietly gave the convicted killer $10.5 million, was the last time we had the Khadr debate. Now that Khadr is headed to an Edmonton courthouse on […]