Oct 10 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — The Trudeau government’s mandatory vaccine policy for federal civil servants is like its supposed mandatory hotel quarantine for international travellers last spring. By that, I mean it is tough talk that amounts to nothing. The vaccine policy exempts tens of thousands of civil servants and will do very little to protect Canadians from COVID-19.
Oct 3 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated that all federal civil servants will have be to vaccinated. He declared it one of his topic priorities. But missing from Trudeau’s announcement were an “Or else?” and a “When?”
Sep 26 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Should Erin O’Toole stay on as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada? After all, it was O’Toole and his closest advisers who decided all on their own (without authorization from caucus or members), to oversteer the party to the left without producing anything resembling an electoral breakthrough.
Sep 24 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — An oilman named Scobey Hartley, a trusted adviser of Ralph Klein’s, once told me Alberta wasn’t special because it is the land of opportunity (which it is), it’s special because it’s the land of second chances, and third.
Sep 16 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — This is going to be a mess. There are slightly fewer restrictions than during Alberta’s previous lockdowns. And more exemptions. But the balance is not intuitive. The approach is inconsistent. Most people will find it impossible to figure out what is and isn’t allowed under the re-imposed restrictions. And that complexity and arbitrariness will make […]
Aug 27 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — That didn’t take long. Usually it takes more than just 30 hours for Justin Trudeau to break a promise. He eventually ends up breaking most of his them – especially the big, consequential ones like electoral reform and clean water for First Nations. But a little over a day has to be something of a […]
Aug 22 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Since this time last year, the average house price in Greater Toronto has risen nearly 20% from $893,000 to well over $1 million — $1.7 million for a single-family detached inside Toronto proper. Even the average price of a high-rise condo of less than 500 sq ft (no yard, no separate bedroom) is about $600,000, […]
Aug 15 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Name the one Liberal initiative that Parliament has denied to Justin Trudeau and his party because they have a minority government. There isn’t one. Every time the minority Liberals have wanted an expansion of the already enormous federal budget, one of the other toady leftist parties has obliged by casting their lot with the Trudeau-ites.
Aug 8 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — I call it magic wand thinking; the idea that all a government has to do to replace fossil fuels with “green” alternatives is wave a magic wand (and a few trillion dollars) and – presto! – the world will have a low-carbon future.
Aug 1 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — There have been a rash of columns lately across the nation cautioning Justin Trudeau and the Liberals not to assume a majority is in the bag if they call an early election. Of course, nothing in politics is certain. But if Liberal supporters can’t be pried away from their party over the SNC-Lavalin scandal, in […]
Jul 18 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Thank god for the Canadian Senate. The Senate held up the Trudeau government’s obnoxious, anti-democratic Bill C-10 long enough that the legislation to regulate personal posts on the Internet failed to become law.
Jul 11 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Canadians don’t seem to like early elections, at least not those called just for the political advantage of a sitting government. I offer as exhibits David Peterson’s Liberals in Ontario in 1990 and Jim Prentice’s Tories in Alberta in 2015. In both cases, parties with strong majorities looked at the polls, thought they could increase […]
Jun 26 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — The Liberal government is suing the House of Commons and the Speaker to prevent MPs from getting their hands on documents pertaining to the firing of two scientists with connections to China from their jobs at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Lab. No one, not even the librarian of Parliament, can find an example of the cabinet […]
Jun 20 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — 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 […]
Jun 20 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — 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.