National Post

Jan 5 2019 — Brian Platt — National Post — One of the longest-running national security cases in Canada has resulted in a massive civil lawsuit, as an Egyptian-born Toronto man is suing the federal government for repeatedly trying to deport him over alleged ties to the 1998 terrorist bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. The federal government first arrested Mahmoud Jaballah in 1999 through […]

Jan 5 2019 — Maura Forrest — National Post — NDP MP Charlie Angus is criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for shooting an end-of-year fundraising video in his office on Parliament Hill, in violation of rules that prevent MPs from using parliamentary resources to raise money. The video, posted to Trudeau’s Facebook page on Dec. 28, shows the prime minister in his Centre Block office, […]

Jan 4 2019 — Joe Oliver — National Post — An important question in this year’s federal election will be whether Canadians hold the Liberal government to account for consciously inflicting an economic calamity on an energy industry that sits on the third-largest proven oil reserves in the world. The answer depends on whether the public buys into climate-change alarmism. We recently heard from a […]

Jan 3 2019 — John Ivison — National Post — Justin Trudeau appears to have given up hope of reducing the flow of people crossing from the United States illegally to claim asylum, and is test-driving fresh rationalizations on why a migrant surge might not be such a bad thing. The new line from the Prime Minister is that the flow of asylum seekers may […]

Jan 3 2019 — David Pugliese — National Post — Canada has finalized a deal to buy 25 used fighter jets from Australia, the first of which are expected to be operating by this summer, says the top procurement official at the Department of National Defence. “The first two aircraft will be here this spring,” Pat Finn, assistant deputy minister for materiel at DND, told […]

Dec 31 2018 — National Post — The most important number in Canadian politics in 2019 may not be Justin Trudeau’s approval numbers or the horse race between the Liberals and the Conservatives. The number everyone in Ottawa is captivated by? The one showing the steady decline in support for the New Democratic Party in 2018. A recent Ipsos Reid poll shows […]

Dec 31 2018 — Jesse Snyder — National Post — In the last week of August 2015, with a federal election campaign underway regardless of whether Canadians were willing to interrupt their summer plans to pay attention, the Liberal Party — in third place in most polls and eager to set itself apart — announced a policy that diverged sharply from those of its opponents: […]

Dec 31 2018 — Jesse Snyder — National Post — There was a familiar ring to the announcement made by Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi in Calgary on Dec. 18, when he promised $1.6 billion in funding for the battered oil and gas sector. Among the loans and grants on offer was $100 million for “energy and economic diversification-related projects.” The source? The Strategic Innovation […]

Dec 28 2018 — Chris Selley — National Post — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s year-end press conference on Parliament Hill was dominated by questions about Sino-Canadian relations, in the wake of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s arrest in Vancouver. Asked why he wasn’t publicly demanding the release of Canadians detained in China, apparently in retaliation, he offered a fairly stunning bit of self-reflection.

Dec 27 2018 — National Post — It is a surefire rule of politics that at any given moment, somewhere in Canada a bozo is about to erupt. Just as a political campaign is looking to flip the script, or turn the corner, or recapture the narrative, some bozo will ruin it for them, prompting damage control, tearful apologies, or, in the […]

Dec 27 2018 — John Ivison — National Post — The age of disruption is spawning all kinds of unlikely political outcomes in previously stable democracies. Could one of them be a breakthrough for the Green Party of Canada in next year’s federal election? Elizabeth May’s party has flattered to deceive before, but a number of leading indicators suggest a resurgence in Green fortunes. While […]

Dec 22 2018 — Andrew Coyne — National Post — When Parliament rose for the winter recess last week, there were more than the usual fond last looks. For when members of Parliament and Senators return in late January, it will not be to the House of Commons or Senate chambers they have occupied for most of the past century. The Centre Block, which contains […]

Dec 21 2018 — John Ivison — National Post — Times have changed at Stornoway, the official residence of the leader of the opposition. For one thing, in the days of Stéphane Dion, Michael Ignatieff and Tom Mulcair, you wouldn’t enter the downstairs washroom to find a small boy’s pants strewn on the floor, where seven-year-old Henry Scheer left them. On this day his father, […]

Dec 19 2018 — Andrew Coyne — National Post — “It is time for Ottawa to shoulder its responsibilities,” argued an opinion piece in last Friday’s Financial Post, “by introducing a Charter of Economic Rights clarifying the vital rights of Canadians to sell their goods and services and exercise their trades and professions in every part of Canada.” The idea of federal legislation guaranteeing the […]

Dec 19 2018 — John Ivison — National Post — It was in July 2017 that Justin Trudeau graced the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, accompanied by the headline: “Why Can’t He Be Our President?” Fast forward 18 months and Canada’s golden boy prime minister has seen his approval rating fall below that of the much-maligned U.S. president, Donald Trump. Real Clear Politics has a […]