Canada’s existential election has very quickly become unserious
I see that the new Age of Seriousness lasted for about five minutes. You recall: in light of the existential...
Andrew Coyne
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Enter Carney: The button-down central banker shows he’s not above a little Yankee-bashing and kneecapping his opponent
The advance word on Mark Carney’s entry into Canadian politics was that he would run as an aloof technocrat. While...
Donald Trump is trying to destroy Canada
“What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that will make it easier to...
Brace yourselves: whatever crazy, awful things Trump may have done to date, it’s only going to get worse
Skate to where the puck is going, not to where it’s been. That bit of trite wisdom, attributed to Wayne...
The democratic world will have to get along without America. It may even have to defend itself from it
I wonder if we have underestimated the gravity of the situation the democratic world faces. Even now, as the United...
No traitors in the House, but foreign interference, and the Liberals’ non-response to it, is still a serious concern
There is a technique of political argumentation that might be called opportunistic benchmarking. Broadly speaking it involves measuring yourself against...
The point is not to be different from the States. It’s to be better than them
Why Canada? Why the current configuration of nation-states on the continent of North America, and not some other? Why not...
With the country under attack, Trudeau leaves it to drift – for months
“I will always be motivated by what is in the best interests of Canadians,” Justin Trudeau declared, in announcing his...
The problem isn’t Trudeau; it’s that prime ministers have too much power
One way of looking at the crisis to which the Prime Minister has led his party, the government and the...
Freeland departs, after a heroic effort to hold the deficit to $62-billion
In fairness to the Prime Minister, who knew that if you spent three months undermining your own Finance Minister, refusing...
With Trudeau and his Finance Minister at war, it’s clear: this government is done
When Chrystia Freeland rises in the House Monday to deliver the Fall Economic Statement – if she does – the...
Poilievre fumbles the Trump crisis: a missed opportunity to show himself as a prime minister-in-waiting
That was quite the meeting at Mar-a-Lago. As our Steven Chase reports, they started in the Library Bar, beneath the...
Singapore’s traffic is no worse than Halifax’s. Toronto’s could be, too
Every day the traffic problem in Toronto seems to get a little worse. Because it is getting worse – measurably...
This is how Canada should deal with Donald Trump, irrational actor
The president-elect of the United States, in a late-night social-media outburst, has declared he would impose a 25-per-cent tariff on...
Trump’s election is a crisis like no other, not only for the U.S. but the world
Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled...
Liberal MPs lack the means – but mostly the courage – to take down their Leader
It was, by all accounts, a “robust” discussion at Wednesday’s Liberal caucus meeting. And not only robust, but “frank” and...
Our democracy is under attack. Do our leaders know it?
What’s it going to take? Just how badly must our national security be compromised before our political leaders start to...
This is not a diplomatic spat: it’s state terrorism, and Canada is right to call it out
To dispense with the obvious: No, Monday’s extraordinary statement by the RCMP – that agents of the government of India...
MPs are right to take a stand: the government must give Parliament the documents it demands
Two different forums of accountability, two very different outcomes. Over at the Foreign Interference Commission, chaired by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue...
A disastrous campaign has cost Trump almost none of his support
A commonplace of politics holds that “campaigns matter.” Whatever the polls may portend beforehand, they can change in the course...
Nice little news network you got there. Pity if anything should happen to it …
So apparently the boycott is off: Pierre Poilievre has announced he has lifted last week’s fatwa on Conservative MPs speaking...
The unity crisis that awaits us on the other side of the next election
In the election of 1958, the Conservatives under John Diefenbaker swept the country, winning 208 out of a total of...
The conservative defeat of carbon pricing is the defeat of economics – and of conservatism
They are writing the obituaries already for the carbon tax. With the federal NDP signalling it may drop its support...
Justin Trudeau partakes in that great Canadian tradition: refusing to quit as PM
I suppose it could have been worse for the Liberals. For example, their candidates in Monday’s by-elections might have ended...
After the deal: the NDP is exposed and the Liberals are stuck
So. Farewell then, supply and confidence agreement, maker of governments, binder of parties, precedent-setting pseudo-coalition. Or, if you prefer, anti-democratic...
In semi-defence of the Temporary Foreign Workers program
By now the consensus is ironclad. It stretches from the far right to the near left, from barstool philosophers to...
If Pierre Poilievre weren’t so unpleasant, he might get more of a hearing for his agenda. If he has one
With the Conservatives maintaining a roughly 15-point lead in the polls, some in the party are busy measuring – well...
Conservatives should have no difficulty voting for Harris
Among the roster of speakers at this year’s Democratic National Convention are several representatives of a demographic group not traditionally...
If you find yourself saying ‘Of course I’m opposed to violence, but’ – maybe just stop there
The worst of sins in modern politics – perhaps the only one remaining – is hypocrisy. Journalists love it, as...
The (re)education of Jordan Peterson
Polarizing psychologist Jordan Peterson now says he will attend the social media training he was ordered to undergo by his...
To fix social media, force the platforms to open themselves up to each other
Would we miss social media if it were gone? Is the world a better place for the smartphone having been...
Other countries have taken a clear stand on Venezuela. Why hasn’t Canada?
There have been few more blatant examples of election theft than the one Nicolás Maduro and his United Socialist Party...
Please stop helping us: the newspaper bailout is a comprehensive policy failure
It has been five years since the temporary, one-time federal bailout of the newspaper industry was supposed to have put...
A smarter Trump turns out to be a weaker force
Ever since Donald Trump arrived on the American political scene, in all his venomous ignorance, it has been the pastime...
Are we supposed to just sit and wait for Canada’s inevitable constitutional crisis?
One way or another, we are headed for a constitutional crisis: the only question is when, and on whose terms...
The Liberal ship is adrift. If the captain will not change course, will the crew?
One begins to long for the decisiveness and efficiency of the American political system. One day the president, behind in...
Do not remain calm. A second Trump presidency really will be that bad
No, it is not going to be okay. With a second Donald Trump presidency seeming more and more likely –...
Canada’s plan to meet its NATO targets is better late than never. Or is it?
Canada at NATO: A farce in three acts. Act One: As NATO leaders convened at last week’s summit in Washington...
Joe Biden won’t concede, but neither will his critics. Something has to give
“But those behind cried ‘Forward!’ And those before cried ‘Back!’ ” - Macaulay Joe Biden is not going. Hasn’t he...
First-past-the-post is not the defence against extremists we think it is
The headlines were pretty much unanimous after last week’s election in Britain. “Keir Starmer is new UK Prime Minister after...
Why does Justin Trudeau insist on staying on as Liberal Leader? To save democracy, of course
Still reeling from the Toronto-St. Paul’s by-election disaster, Justin Trudeau was asked why he should not take this as his...
The Supreme Court has just removed the last bar to Trump’s dictatorship
The past week has made it materially more likely that America will soon be living under a dictatorship. Because of...
In a country where immigrants are the majority, anti-immigration politics are obsolete
Among the less commented-on results of the Toronto-St. Paul’s by-election was the performance of the People’s Party of Canada, the...