Oct 21 2017 — Tom Blackwell — National Post — It’s the Russia controversy that President Donald Trump and his supporters would love the world to focus on, and it centres largely around a Toronto-based mining company. The 2010 sale of Uranium One to Russian interests — and unproven allegations that Canadian donations to the Clinton Foundation eased its approval in the States — suddenly […]
Oct 20 2017 — National Post — The deeper Bill Morneau digs himself into the hole he is now in, the more one understands how he got there. Either the minister is genuinely unaware of the basic requirements of public office, or he imagines his audience to be. Either way, it does not fill one with confidence. To hear the minister tell […]
Oct 20 2017 — Richard Warnica — National Post — It’s hard to imagine how it came to this so quickly. It was after all a humiliating scene — Bill Morneau, business leader, Bay Street man and star political recruit, blinking mutely in a pasta joint in Stouffville, Ont., his actions under attack, his morals under question, his mouth cemented shut. Morneau, the Finance Minister, […]
Oct 20 2017 — Colby Cosh — National Post — A colleague told me the other day that I should write a column about Finance Minister Bill Morneau — basically, because no columnist should pass up a chance to face wash some politician for ineptitude or deviousness. This struck me as a strong argument. But my response was that I would never dream of treating […]
Oct 20 2017 — Marie-Danielle Smith — National Post — Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing Justin Trudeau’s government of playing “unconstructive political games” with its newly-adopted Magnitsky law. During a question-and-answer period at a conference in Sochi, Russia Thursday, Putin alleged events leading to the adoption of the law are part of a conspiracy to “blow up more anti-Russian hysteria,” according to a transcript […]
Oct 19 2017 — John Ivison — National Post — Donald Savoie, the eminent governance expert, once called the House of Commons’ Board of Internal Economy “the most secretive committee that has ever existed — secretive even to its own MPs.” No longer. Fulfilling a Liberal campaign promise, the House’s governing body, which is chaired by the Speaker and comprises members of all recognized parties, […]
Oct 19 2017 — Marie-Danielle Smith — National Post — Parliamentarians are turning yet another page in the seemingly unending story of the short piece of legislation that would change a few words of the national anthem. In the saga’s latest development, the bill’s Senate sponsor, Independent Sen. Frances Lankin, is publicly challenging Conservative leader Andrew Scheer to help end a Tory filibuster — and […]
Oct 19 2017 — Maura Forrest — National Post — Forty-four BlackBerrys, 70 computers and one $40 clock were among the items stolen from the federal government last year. In total, Ottawa lost $6.8 million in property due to theft and other offences in the 2016-17 fiscal year, according to public accounts released this month, and another $24 million in accidental losses and damage to […]
Oct 19 2017 — John Ivison — National Post — What an exercise in futility. The Liberals have had small businesspeople throughout the land reaching for their torches and pitchforks over proposals to clamp down on tax avoidance. This insurrection forced the government to lower its ambitions and add the sweetener of a tax cut. The end result is that most small businesses will be […]
Oct 19 2017 — Brian Platt — National Post — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making a personal pitch to Amazon to open its second headquarters north of the border, marketing Canada’s cities as “progressive, confident and natural homes” for the company. The deadline to submit bids to Amazon ended Wednesday at midnight, and Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary are all expected to be […]
Oct 18 2017 — Andrew Coyne — National Post — The usual claque of critics could be heard jeering at Bombardier’s “sale” of 50.01 per cent of its CSeries passenger jet project to Airbus, its European aerospace rival. Some found fault with the sale price — zero — for a majority interest in a plane that has cost US$6 billion (so far) to develop, a […]
Oct 18 2017 — Marni Soupcoff — National Post — The Quebec government is apparently not in agreement with Ms. Christie. If Bill 62 (which passed Wednesday) is anything to go by, the province’s Liberal leaders think a person’s face is, if not the window to his soul exactly, then at least something that the government needs to look at every time it is providing […]
Oct 18 2017 — Marie-Danielle Smith — National Post — So what’s Stéphane Dion up to these days? The former foreign minister was shuffled across the pond to Europe this spring for a dual role that had everyone confused: ambassador to Germany, but also ambassador — no, wait, “special envoy” — to the European Union. After the news broke that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was […]
Oct 17 2017 — Christie Blatchford — National Post — In the exquisitely even-handed manner that is his trademark and in his usual careful language, Ontario’s former top public servant Tuesday called former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty a big fat liar. Peter Wallace was being cross-examined by Brian Gover, lawyer for former McGuinty chief of staff David Livingston. Livingston and his former deputy, Laura Miller, […]
Oct 17 2017 — Jen Gerson — National Post — No doubt you will have noticed your social media feeds filled with it, the simple little status update: #MeToo. The meme, an admission of sexual assault and harassment, has proliferated in recent days as the Harvey Weinstein scandal continues to unfold. Although the experiences range from groping and peeping to abuse of power and rape, […]