Mar 24 2019 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — House of Commons committees have to be reformed. They have to be made fully independent. Opposition committee members have to have the authority to call witnesses whether the government majority approves or not. We saw what a partisan farce a Commons committee could be when the Liberal majority on the Justice committee voted last week […]
Mar 24 2019 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — The reason why the Lavscam scandal continues to erode public support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government was clearly on display at a Town Hall meeting in Thunder Bay Friday evening. It’s because Trudeau seems incapable of giving straight answers about it. Trudeau was asked two simple, direct questions, in sequence, by one of the […]
Mar 24 2019 — Jim Warren — Sun Media — There is a full-on mutiny happening on the good ship S.S. Liberal and it’s about time its captain, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, started to address it for what it is or he could get tossed overboard. Trudeau and the Prime Minister’s Office should ensure Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott speak and disclose every piece of […]
Mar 21 2019 — Lisa Raitt — Sun Media — Over the course of the SNC-Lavalin affair, Justin Trudeau’s feminist credentials have been seriously challenged — and rightly so. Every time the Prime Minister has had the opportunity to do the right thing and support the women in his caucus who are speaking truth to power – he fails. Let’s look at the facts. Last […]
Mar 19 2019 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — So how did it come to this? How did we come to have a prime minister who isn’t really a prime minister so much as he plays one on TV? For whom the clear meaning of words means nothing? Who flip-flops with every passing fad? Who, everyone knew — when his university buddy Gerald Butts […]
Mar 17 2019 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — Liberals condemning Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer for not adequately denouncing the terrorist attack on Muslims at prayer in New Zealand by a suspected white supremacist would be more convincing if they weren’t so inadequate at denouncing Islamist terrorism themselves.
Mar 10 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — It was only a matter of time until it came to this. Not Lavscam per se. But something like it. Something that had the same basic nuts and bolts to the story: Senior figures in the Trudeau government publicly pushing back against the PM, derailing his agenda and creating a crisis in confidence.
Mar 10 2019 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — If Justin Trudeau’s own (ex) cabinet ministers — Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott — don’t trust him to respect the rule of law, how can we trust him on anything? How can we trust him when he says the carbon tax he’s imposing on Ontario April 1 will make 80% of households richer through rebates?
Mar 2 2019 — Andre Marin — Sun Media — On the same day former lawyer Michael Cohen was testifying before the U.S. Congress that he was the U.S. President’s fixer, having to act as a mender but doing so on what he described as “mob-style code language,” rather than direct orders or instructions, we had our former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould testifying about being […]
Mar 2 2019 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — So, as it turns out, the Conservative campaign ad in the 2015 federal election was correct. Justin Trudeau wasn’t ready. And now, we’re reaping the whirlwind. We’re learning that electing a prime minister who would not have become prime minister, given the thinness of his resume, were his last name not “Trudeau,” has real-world consequences.
Mar 2 2019 — Jim Warren — Sun Media — Watching the players in Ottawa deal with the SNC-Lavalin issue, I’d say a pox on all their houses – the government, the opposition and the media. The Prime Minister’s Office and the Privy Council Office have handled it badly. The Official Opposition have handled it badly. The media have covered it badly. All of it […]
Mar 1 2019 — Sun Media — The suspected ISIS member known as ‘Jihadi Jack’ was days away from being welcomed into Canada when the U.S. and U.K. torpedoed the move, a British politician claims. Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle told Channel 4 that Jack Letts — whose father is Canadian — was to be smuggled out of Syria and brought here.
Feb 27 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — How on earth would he spin it? Forget spin. How on earth can he survive this? After watching Jody Wilson-Raybould’s calm, composed, lengthy and detailed damning testimony against Justin Trudeau, it was hard to imagine the PM would have anything to say in response besides staring at the cameras like a deer in the headlights. […]
Feb 26 2019 — Gerry Nicholls — Sun Media — The Clerk of the Privy Council’s recent controversial testimony before a Parliamentary committee will be remembered, I predict, as the official end of Canada’s “Sunny Ways” era. It’s easy to see why this might be so. After all, the Clerk, Michael Wernick, told the committee investigating the SNC-Lavalin scandal: “I am deeply concerned about my […]
Feb 24 2019 — Andre Marin — Sun Media — Weird, bizarre and partisan is how I’d describe Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick’s testimony at the House of Commons justice committee looking into the SNC-Lavallin affair. His opening statement had absolutely nothing to do with the matter before the committee.