Aug 10 2018 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — On Thursday, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said the current diplomatic spat between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Ottawa would not affect Saudi oil sales to Canada. Of course not. That’s money we pay them. Everything action they’ve take so far affects only money they send us. The Saudis aren’t stupid. We get […]
Jul 10 2018 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Up to this point, I have not thought Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be “fried” for his groping of a young reporter at a music festival in the B.C. interior nearly two decades ago. But that changed with his outrageous and infuriating remarks about the “Kokanee Grope” while attending the Calgary Stampede last week.
Mar 20 2018 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Justin Trudeau’s farcical trip to India was a disaster for him and the Liberals, but not because the Canadian delegation managed to get a former attempted murderer invited to an official Canadian reception in Mumbai. That was a major flub, for sure.
Nov 26 2017 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — There are some facets of the federal Liberal government’s national housing strategy, released in Toronto on Wednesday, that make a lot of sense. No, seriously. I am not currently in the Postmedia concussion protocol as I write this. Much of the housing strategy is the kind of feel-good gobbledygook we have come to expect from […]
Oct 18 2017 — Lorne Gunter — Postmedia — The news conference Monday at a pizzeria in Stouffville, Ont, at which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced a reduction in the federal small business tax rate, was both bizarre and insulting. First the insulting part. The announcement – that over the next 14 months the Liberal government will lower the […]
Oct 14 2017 — Lorne Gunter — Postmedia — Was the Trudeau government really blindsided by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) over the taxing of employee discounts, as they claim? The federal Liberals insist they never approved a CRA directive, revealed last weekend, to tax the face value of products and services employers give their workers at reduced rates. Does the owner of the […]
Oct 5 2017 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Almost the moment TransCanada announced Thursday it was ending its attempt to build the $15-billion Energy East Pipeline from Alberta to New Brunswick, the federal Liberal government began insisting this was purely a “business decision.” Don’t look at us, Trudeau government spokespeople insisted. World oil prices and all that, don’t ya know. Natural Resources Minister […]
Oct 5 2017 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — The Notley government’s proposed rules for legal pot sales in Alberta, released Wednesday, might just work. The key will be whether the NDP can be convinced to let private retailers sell weed, rather than selling it through government-owned stores run by bureaucrats and staffed by union members. The proposals deal with who may buy weed […]
Oct 4 2017 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Jagmeet Singh, the former criminal defence lawyer and Ontario MPP who was elected federal NDP leader on the weekend, is good news for the Tories and very bad news for Justin Trudeau and the Liberals. Trudeau, of course, has succeeded in Canadian politics largely because he has been seen as an agent of change. He […]
Mar 29 2017 — Lorne Gunter — Postmedia — Canadians have to wonder not only about the federal Liberals’ commitment to democratic reform, but about their understanding of democracy itself. For the second time in less than a year, the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is attempting to change the rules of Parliament to limit the opposition’s ability to hold the Liberals to […]
Mar 16 2017 — Lorne Gunter — Postmedia — Early on in Jason Kenney’s bid to unite the Alberta right, I predicted the beginning and the end of his project would be the easy parts. First Kenney would have to win the leadership of the provincial Tories. Then he would have to get Wildrose to agree to a merger, then win the leadership of […]
Feb 28 2017 — Lorne Gunter — Postmedia — In the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race – a.k.a Kevin-Come-Lately and the 13 Dwarfs – the most popular candidate isn’t even running. Rona Ambrose, the very able Edmonton-area MP who has been the party’s interim leader since former Prime Minister Stephen Harper stepped aside, is one of just two Conservatives for whom “don’t know” […]
Feb 26 2017 — Lorne Gunter — Postmedia — Several times this week I’ve been warned by supporters of M-103, the anti-Islamophobia motion being debated in Parliament, that if the motion fails even more Muslim youth will become radicalized. They will feel discriminated against in Canada and more likely to fall victim to the hateful propaganda of ISIS or other radical Muslims. Frankly, if […]
Feb 19 2017 — Lorne Gunter — Postmedia — For the most part, email and social media have been fantastic developments for keeping family, friends, citizens, colleagues, businesses and customers in touch, informed and connected – instantly. While apps such as Facebook and Twitter have hurt my business – newspapering – they have democratized the news, opening up information gathering and dissemination to nearly […]
Feb 14 2017 — Lorne Gunter — Postmedia — The last hurdle to Jason Kenney becoming leader of the provincial Progressive Conservatives seems to have evaporated over the weekend. The Tories’ Leadership Election Committee, which is (or was) mostly unfriendly to Kenney, voted to reject an appeal from Calgary lawyer Jeff Rath to have Kenney disqualified. Rath’s last-minute, desperation, Hail Mary – a multi-page […]