Sep 13 2021 — Chris Selley — National Post — Conservatives may caricature Justin Trudeau as a vain narcissist who’s far too enamoured of his own voice. No one would deny that he likes the microphone. But Trudeau’s daily press conferences are far more a group effort than Erin O’Toole’s. Local candidates usually introduce Trudeau: Caroline Desrochers in La Prairie on Sunday, Sven Spengemann in […]
Sep 13 2021 — John Ivison — National Post — The Liberals seem to have picked up some Liberal-Conservative switchers but there probably aren’t many more of those. The prize is progressive voters in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, where Trudeau is heading
Sep 13 2021 — Tyler Dawson — National Post — Cross-country protests rejecting vaccine passports and COVID-19 public health measures are planned for Monday, a series of demonstrations by a group that features among its organizers two Ontario nurses who travelled to Washington on the day of the infamous Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol building.
Sep 10 2021 — John Ivison — National Post — Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland joined in a warm-up for local kids at a soccer dome on Friday, quite literally reaching for a parachute. It would be going too far to torture the metaphor any further by suggesting the Liberals are in freefall but there is a sense of urgency about the campaign, post English […]
Sep 9 2021 — Tasha Kheiriddin — National Post — “Dangerous.” It’s a word not often bandied about in political discourse, unless something really serious is at stake: fundamental freedoms, human rights, or life and death situations. Yet it was the word that Quebec Premier Francois Legault reached for when weighing in on the current federal election — and he used it to describe three […]
Sep 9 2021 — Christopher Nardi — National Post — Erin O’Toole’s momentum seems to have stalled as Conservative and Liberal support is at a deadlock just hours before the second French debate of this federal election, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll.
Sep 8 2021 — John Milloy — National Post — In a new book, John Milloy discusses how Catholicism has become toxic in Canadian politics and how the faithful can re-engage with a pluralistic society.
Sep 7 2021 — Tasha Kheiriddin — National Post — In two weeks, Canada will have a new government. Until last week, that government promised to look a lot like the old government: a Liberal minority, possibly a majority, but Liberal nonetheless. Then, something curious happened. The Liberals made a series of missteps, from manipulating a video to defending a candidate accused of sexual impropriety. […]
Sep 7 2021 — John Ivison — National Post — What does Justin Trudeau do for an encore? Much of his media availability in Welland, Ont., on Monday was devoted to belittling Erin O’Toole. It is a sign of how rattled the Liberals are that Trudeau invoked the trifecta of progressive hobgoblins — anti-vaxxers, anti-choicers and climate deniers, all of whom, Trudeau claims, are pulling […]
Sep 5 2021 — John Ivison — National Post — The Liberal Party is trying to put doubts in the minds of the jury, as voters ponder the prospect of Prime Minister Erin O’Toole. Those efforts were helped in no small part by the Conservative leader himself on Saturday. O’Toole was in Coquitlam to announce his plan to get vaccination levels up to 90 per […]
Sep 3 2021 — John Ivison — National Post — Erin O’Toole emerged from the first French language debate with his lunch money and dignity intact, which has not always been the case for anglophone Conservative leaders. Andrew Scheer never recovered from being bullied in the 2019 TVA debate and Conservative fortunes in the province nose-dived as a result.
Sep 3 2021 — Chris Selley — National Post — It would be churlish, and incorrect, to say that the most interesting thing about Thursday night’s French-language debate on TVA was the lack of any discussion on abortion. But … wow. For at least as long as the Conservative Party of Canada has existed, never mind the leader of the day’s pledges never to touch […]
Sep 2 2021 — Christopher Ragan — National Post — The Conservatives are asking the federal Ethics Commissioner to investigate “troubling” ties between Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, including the fact he was still a member of one of the organization’s governing bodies while prime minister.
Sep 2 2021 — National Post — Trudeau may find himself in real trouble on Sept. 20, after a new poll has found that majority of Canadians may vote for a political party other than the Liberals. The Maru Public Opinion survey found that 73 per cent of Canadians polled are open to voting for a party to run the country other […]
Sep 1 2021 — John Ivison — National Post — There was a sense of relief in the Conservative camp when the Liberal platform finally landed on Wednesday. One senior official said there were concerns about reports the Liberals were still looking for “big ideas”. Last week, my Radio Canada colleague Louis Blouin said Justin Trudeau was calling for ideas with “more juice” for his […]