Nov 24 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — Canadians will be getting COVID vaccinations after Americans, Justin Trudeau has admitted, and by the time that happens, no one will be able to blame Donald Trump. The prime minister has had to tell Canadians a lot of hard truths through this pandemic.
Nov 17 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto.com — Doug Ford couldn’t have been clearer on Monday about how Ontario will be voting with its wallet in future. “We’re changing the scorecard,” the premier announced. “We’re going to worry about the people of Ontario, not worry about the rest of the world. We’re worrying about the people of Ontario and creating jobs here.” Ford […]
Nov 14 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — No formal instruction manual exists for Joe Biden as he contends with Donald Trump’s refusal to concede defeat. But the president-elect appears to be using a tactical playbook that has worked for Canada in its standoffs with Trump over the past four years. It’s a strategy with three basic rules: Don’t engage Trump directly, don’t […]
Nov 12 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — The great furor over the poppy ban at Whole Foods lasted less than one news cycle last week, thanks to the full-throated outrage from political leaders all over Canada. Imagine how long Quebec’s secularism bill — which bans a lot more than poppy-wearing — would have lasted with similar shock and condemnation from those same […]
Nov 9 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — updateArticle was updated 9 hrs ago Canadians who were shocked by the election of Donald Trump in 2016 have been comforting themselves since then with two thoughts: it can’t happen again and it can’t happen here. It didn’t happen again; not quite. But the fact that Trump gained more votes in 2020 than he did […]
Nov 7 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — Justin Trudeau was named in the international press on Saturday as the one of the quickest world leaders to issue congratulations to U.S. president-elect Joe Biden. Trudeau had no immediate plans to call outgoing president Donald Trump on Saturday, his office said. Which would make sense, given that you can’t say “sorry you lost” to […]
Nov 4 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — Justin Trudeau’s government came up with a motto, of sorts, when Donald Trump was threatening to tear apart free trade between Canada and the United States: “Hope for the best and plan for the worst.” That motto carried Canada into the U.S election on Tuesday as Trump faced his reckoning with the electorate. Canada learned […]
Nov 2 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — updateArticle was updated 13 mins ago During its heyday in the early 2000s, “The West Wing” was required viewing for political junkies in Canada. With the big U.S. vote looming Tuesday, the TV show’s 2020 reunion special is worth Canadians getting hooked again too — maybe while waiting for the polls to close. Long before […]
Oct 30 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — There are lots of reasons Canadians should be reflecting this week about the imposition of the War Measures Act back in 1970. The Bloc Québécois’ demand for an apology isn’t one of them. It is true, as New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh observed this week, that a pandemic seems like an odd time to […]
Oct 28 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s unexpected election victory in 2016, Justin Trudeau and his Liberals went out looking for a vaccine against populism. Four years later, an antidote has been found, in the unlikely form of a global pandemic.
Oct 27 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — This COVID pandemic has been rewarding governments in power by giving them more power — a trend that will be put to its biggest-yet test next week in the United States. Justin Trudeau must be feeling decidedly ambivalent about the whole phenomenon. If it holds in Canada, it would be good for Trudeau’s Liberal government. […]
Oct 21 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — No time for an election, no time for each other. That, in a nutshell, is what we have learned about the state of federal politics after a puzzling few days of brinksmanship on Parliament Hill.
Oct 19 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — Why, in the middle of the second wave of COVID-19, would anyone care about two Toronto by-elections? It’s a good question, but there are in fact a number of reasons to see next week’s votes in Toronto Centre and York Centre as significant political events in a very tumultuous year. They may not rattle the […]
Oct 15 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Toronto Star — Getting politicians to talk wouldn’t seem like much of a challenge. Getting women politicians to talk, however, is not as easy as one might assume. A new book is out this fall, provocatively titled “Whipped,” exploring how political parties in Canada keep their MPs and partisans in line. But along the way to discovering how […]
Oct 13 2020 — Susan Delacourt — Inside Halton — Everything about Erin O’Toole’s plan for his first 100 days as Conservative leader would make sense if Canada wasn’t going through a second wave of COVID-19. Fundraising tours by the new leader and a doubling-down on the WE Charity controversy were among the plans rolled out by the Conservatives for the immediate, post-Thanksgiving future. It […]