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FOR MY PARTY—the Conservative Party of Canada—2025 was an annus horribilis. We suffered a string of strategic missteps, failed to break through to voters on the issues that dominated the national conversation, and paid the price in both public confidence and political momentum. I won’t revisit every episode here, but we must acknowledge the reality of a very difficult year...
Prime Minister Carney delivered a very good speech this week in Davos and Canadians should be proud of it. His speech was well received at home and abroad for both its content and its measured delivery. I know this personally because I have heard from friends from inside and outside of Canada. In fact, I was in Mexico for a...
IN RECENT YEARS, Canada has conducted major Arctic exercises to reinforce its sovereignty over the North. Those operations tend to reveal the same fragility: specialized equipment dependent on foreign manufacturers and logistics chains stretched across borders and oceans. The flag may be Canadian. The infrastructure, often, is not.
ONE CHESTNUT I remember from my time as a cadet at the Royal Military College of Canada in the ’90s comes from Sun Tzu, the Chinese military strategist credited with writing The Art of War: “Know yourself and you will win all battles.”
WHEN I WALKED into the cabinet room in the Centre Block of Parliament for my first cabinet meeting in 2015, I remember feeling a mixed sense of excitement and trepidation. This moment was the culmination of several years of hard work for me as the member of Parliament for Durham, but it was also the result of several decades of...
I started my Substack account a year ago to be part of longer-form discussions of serious issues facing Canada at a time when the rise of social media and decline in traditional media have combined to shorten attention spans and reduce serious coverage of the issues. I was inspired by the great work done by many people on this platform...
I started my Substack account a year ago to be part of longer-form discussions of serious issues facing Canada at a time when the rise of social media and decline in traditional media have combined to shorten attention spans and reduce serious coverage of the issues. I was inspired by the great work done by many people on this platform...
I ended 2022 with a series of essays on issues that I thought were important to follow throughout the new year. They were not really put forward as ‘predictions for the new year’, but were issues that I personally believed were worth highlighting so Canadians could understand why I thought they mattered. Before I outline the issues that I think...
I ended 2022 with a series of essays on issues that I thought were important to follow throughout the new year. They were not really put forward as ‘predictions for the new year’, but were issues that I personally believed were worth highlighting so Canadians could understand why I thought they mattered. Before I outline the issues that I think...
