• Stephanie Levitz, Marieke Walsh

Liberal MPs left a meeting with the Prime Minister divided on Justin Trudeau’s leadership but saying they are all united in stopping the Conservatives from forming government.“The Liberal Party is strong and united,” a smiling Mr. Trudeau said as he departed Wednesday’s lengthy caucus meeting, one that saw him on the hot seat as MPs gave voice to mounting frustrations about the party’s future — and whether he was the right one to lead it.

• 2024-10-23
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh, Robert Fife

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been told he can’t win the next election and should quit before he’s defeated. Several MPs and former cabinet ministers have publicly called for his exit, including veteran Quebec Liberal MP Alexandra Mendès at this week’s caucus retreat in Nanaimo, B.C.

• 2024-09-15
• — The Globe and Mail

• Robert Fife, Marieke Walsh

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is contending with an exodus of senior staff just as the minority Liberals are returning to a precarious position in the House of Commons, having lost the automatic support of the New Democratic Party. Five of his 38 ministers are losing their chiefs of staff in quick succession with several already gone, including the top advisers at Global Affairs, Heritage, Environment, National Revenue, and Mental Health and Addictions, according to six Liberal sources who each confirmed some of the names of those leaving.

• 2024-09-09
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is on track for another record-setting fundraising year, amassing more than $20-million from donors in the first half of 2024 and far outpacing the results of the Liberals and NDP.According to the latest quarterly fundraising numbers, released by Elections Canada on Wednesday, the Conservatives raised $9.8-million between April and June, bringing their total this year to $20.5-million.

• 2024-07-31
• — The Globe and Mail

• Robert Fife, Marieke Walsh

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has been trying for years to recruit former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney to the federal cabinet but stopped short of saying he would like him to replace Chrystia Freeland as finance minister.The Globe and Mail reported Thursday that senior officials in the Prime Minister’s Office are concerned about Ms. Freeland’s effectiveness in selling the government’s economic message and discussed at one point the possibility of reaching out to Mr. Carney to serve as finance minister.

• 2024-07-11
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh, Sean Silcoff, Marie Woolf

Pressure continues to mount on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reconsider his future as leader, as he is receiving a marked lack of support from three senior Liberals in the wake of this week’s shocking loss in a Toronto by-election. On Thursday, The Globe and Mail spoke with a current federal minister, a recently ousted cabinet colleague and a former premier about Mr. Trudeau’s position atop the Liberal Party.

• 2024-06-28
• — The Globe and Mail

• Bill Curry, Kristy Kirkup, Marieke Walsh

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing calls from two Chrétien-era Liberal cabinet ministers to step down as party leader, with the former MPs pointing to this week’s midtown Toronto by-election defeat as further evidence of a strong desire for change among Canadian voters.Wayne Easter said in an interview Wednesday that Mr. Trudeau and his team of senior advisers in the Prime Minister’s Office need to make some hard decisions in light of the party’s surprise loss to the Conservatives in the former Liberal stronghold of Toronto-St. Paul’s.

• 2024-06-27
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the only federal party leader foregoing access to a classified national security and intelligence watchdog’s report that says the country’s intelligence services believe some parliamentarians are “semi-witting or witting” participants in foreign-interference efforts.Mr. Poilievre has resisted offers from the government since last year to get his security clearance in order to see classified versions of intelligence on foreign interference. Concerns around the issue have intensified amid the bombshell allegations contained in the unclassified version of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) report released last week. The report said a number of federal politicians, whom it declined to identify, are collaborating with countries such as India and China.

• 2024-06-12
• — The Globe and Mail

• Steven Chase, Marieke Walsh

Former CSIS director Richard Fadden says Canada can’t allow allegations that parliamentarians are colluding with foreign powers to remain unresolved.He recommends federal party leaders all request classified briefings to see if they can learn the names of those federal politicians that a security watchdog report said are collaborating with foreign governments for their own benefit.

• 2024-06-08
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday defended withholding secret cabinet documents requested by the commissioner leading the foreign interference inquiry, arguing his government has already shared enough information with Justice Marie-Josée Hogue. The Foreign Interference Commission disagrees and has said it is in discussions with the government about the application of redactions covering about nine per cent of the cabinet documents provided to the inquiry and an undisclosed number of oth

• 2024-05-30
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh

A day after declining to put any limits on how the Conservatives would use the notwithstanding clause if they form government, the party now says Leader Pierre Poilievre would only use the tool to override Charter-protected rights when it comes to matters of criminal justice.

• 2024-05-03
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh

The federal government did not put an adequate focus on fostering economic growth in its recent budget, according to former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, who is often touted as a potential future Liberal leader.The minority Liberals are trailing the Conservatives by double digits in public-opinion polls, and in a speech delivered this week, Mr. Carney carved out some daylight between him and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with veiled criticisms of the budget.Mr. Carney warned of the risks of “constant s

• 2024-04-25
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh

The federal Liberals expected upwards of 80 of their backbench MPs to vote with the NDP last week on a motion that included a call to recognize a Palestinian state, according to sources with knowledge of the deliberations, prompting a scramble to convince New Democrats to accept amendments and avoid exposing deep divisions in the governing party. But while there were intense negotiations between the Liberals and the NDP, several sources said the government ultimately dodged the looming embarrassment only because Muslim and Palestinian groups urged the New Democrats to make concessions. Those groups did so, the sources added, in order to ensure the opposition day motion, proposed by the NDP in response to the Israel-Hamas war, would pass in the House of Commons.

• 2024-03-27
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh

On the first business day after Pierre Poilievre’s election as Conservative Leader, the senior staff of a lobbying firm run by his top adviser established a second company housed out of the same office, with many of the same staff – but dropping the name Jenni Byrne.Ms. Byrne is one of the most powerful Conservative operatives in the country. She attends Conservative caucus meetings and is directly involved in the party’s strategy and election planning. She is also CEO and minority shareholder of Jenni Byrne + Associates, a government and public relations firm.

• 2024-03-21
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh, Kristy Kirkup

The federal government is strongly considering covering the costs of birth control as part of its negotiations with the NDP on new pharmacare legislation, according to sources with direct knowledge of the secret talks. Three sources told The Globe and Mail that the possible birth control funding is in addition to coverage for diabetes medications, which is also being discussed. The Globe reported in December that drugs to treat the chronic disease could be covered under a deal.

• 2024-02-14
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday his party’s deal to prop up the minority Liberals will be off if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government doesn’t meet the deadline to introduce long-promised pharmacare legislation. However, the New Democrat wouldn’t rule out still supporting the government on confidence votes, such as the budget, even if the two parties no longer have a formal deal.

• 2024-02-06
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh, Emma Graney

The federal government expects to unveil its long-delayed oil and gas sector emissions cap during climate talks starting Thursday, underscoring Canada’s position that fossil fuels can still be part of the clean transition as long as their emissions are cut. Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault set out the expectations for the global gathering, dubbed COP28, on Parliament Hill Wednesday, just before departing for the summit. He also said methane and zero-emissions vehicle regulations could be released at the gathering. But he cautioned it could take to the end of the year to release all three policies.

• 2023-11-30
• — The Globe and Mail

• Marieke Walsh

Former Bank of Canada governor and card-carrying Liberal, Mark Carney, says he hasn’t ruled out a future run for the party’s leadership. Mr. Carney, who has also served at the top of the Bank of England and is currently the chair of Brookfield Asset Management and the United Nations special envoy on climate action, has long been considered a contender for the Liberal leadership.

• 2023-11-02
• — The Globe and Mail