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Nov 29 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — With speculation on the rise that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will follow his father’s footsteps in the snow to a pre-election resignation, there was an interesting subplot to a bland news conference Tuesday. It took four cabinet ministers to deliver a rehashed how-great-they-art list of government accomplishments they insist are responsible for creating a low-debt, […]
Nov 21 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — It was the best of times during the worst of times for this besieged-from-every-direction Liberal government. It’s bi-annual work of fiscal fiction rolled out Tuesday as the fall update staged a desperate bid to reverse the Liberals’ downward spiral in the polls while trying to soften its drunken-sailor-spending image.
Nov 15 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — Getting inside Justin Trudeau’s head these days requires a vivid imagination. The prime minister’s bizarre statement on the Middle East war this week reflects a distorted view that human-shielded resistance by Hamas terrorists can be overcome with “maximum restraint” by Israel’s military.
Nov 1 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — It’s been 100+ hours of brutal aftermath since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau turned carbon pricing from a national principle into regional graft by lifting the tax on home heating oil and using free heat pumps(opens in a new tab) to buy back the Liberal loyalty of Atlantic Canada voters. On Tuesday, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre […]
Oct 27 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — Panic has set in. With this week’s flip-flop lifting carbon pricing for heating oil until 2027 (pushing increases beyond the next election) and a doubling of the rural tax rebate, the severely rattled Liberals are chipping away at the load-bearing wall beneath their environmental platform.
Oct 23 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — There’s a parallel Canadian universe that exists only on Justin Trudeau’s social media feed. It’s a place somewhere over the rainbow where unicorns graze on emerald green fields and a carefree population of politically correct citizens begin each day with a rousing hand-over-their-heart chorus of Kumbaya.
Oct 16 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — If there’s any fun to be had in contemplating a future with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, it’s what will change should he win a majority government. A major rewind in federal policies is already taking shape. This was foreshadowed ahead of last week’s surprising Supreme Court decision to declare big chunks of the federal Impact […]
Sep 29 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — In Justin Trudeau’s rapidly imploding world, everything sucks. In a rare moment of reality-reflecting candour, the usually-scripted prime minister said as much to the New York Times last week. “It really sucks right now. Like, everything sucks for people, even in Canada,” he told the editorial board. “People are mad . . . it’s a […]
Sep 19 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — On the bright side, Justin Trudeau got one promise right: Canada is back on the world stage. Sadly, it’s for all the wrong reasons after the prime minister accused the government of the world’s fifth largest economy of dispatching assassins to kill a Sikh separatist leader in broad daylight outside a Surrey, B.C. temple. The […]
Sep 14 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — Nice try, prime minister. But likely too little, too late and too transparently desperate to serve as a realistic government-salvage strategy. In a Hail Mary course correction designed to stop the Liberal death spiral, Justin Trudeau resurrected the ghost of rejected promises past, took notes from opposition ideas minutes before their release and delivered an […]
Sep 7 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — His pitch to voters doesn’t come from personal experience. Pierre Poilievre’s outreach to average Canadians struggling against inflation, seeking a decent paycheque from a steady job and owning an affordable abode are challenges the Conservative leader has never endured himself. Probably no other leader, including Justin Trudeau with his modest drama teacher resume, has landed […]
Aug 31 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — It’s time someone sat Justin Trudeau down for The Talk. It happens to the best of them, that moment in a prime minister’s reign when a top staffer, political ally or even a trusted family member finally tells them what they need to hear instead of what they want to hear. The Talk is invariably […]
Jun 20 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — On the bright side, there was no sign of Chinese interference. Voters in four byelections delivered status quo results on Monday that show, if you squint hard enough, that the severely tainted Liberal brand has staying power while the Conservatives aren’t resurging enough to threaten as a majority-government-in-waiting. So now, with the summer solstice dawning […]
May 30 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — She should’ve won big in a walk, leaving the NDP in her dust as the orange-is-the-fade-to-black party. But despite a booming economy and gushing bonanza of oil revenue, Danielle Smith eked out what was a squeaker win by Alberta’s usual landslide standards Monday and promptly declared she was a second coming of a Miracle on […]
May 23 2023 — Don Martin — CTV News — As the hour dragged on, his French language comprehension failed him, his answers drifted into long-winded rambles and he was forced onto the defensive as his once-impeccable character came under attack. At some point during that media release of his “special rapporteur” report on the merits of holding a public inquiry into foreign interference in […]