This week’s Liberal revival plan from a minister who might not survive 48 hours
Eight months ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s strategists set an internal goal: gain five percentage points in opinion polls come...
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Tensions in Team Liberal over finances held hostage to political desperation
You could see how things got awkward. The Prime Minister’s Office insisted on a GST holiday to buy votes and...
The return of Trump has Poilievre talking about a crackdown beyond the U.S. border
The election of Donald Trump has Pierre Poilievre talking about a crackdown, but it’s not just about security at the...
A Mar-a-Lago coup with a value as unpredictable as Trump’s tweets
It’s surprising that Justin Trudeau was able to mount a second charm offensive with Donald Trump, eight years after the...
Trudeau isn’t going to muster a Team Canada to take on Trump’s tariffs this time
Justin Trudeau is talking about Team Canada again. Premiers met with the Prime Minister, virtually, to talk about Donald Trump’s...
Canada’s politicians rush to panic in a call to cut Mexico loose
It took just two weeks after Donald Trump was elected U.S. president again before some of Canada’s political leaders figured...
Why Justin Trudeau can’t open the door Canadians have locked
There’s a reason why Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign puts out social-media ads with middle-aged men saying they will vote for...
Poilievre moving down a sliding scale toward admitting he’ll cut some Liberal social programs
Nine months ago, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told a television interviewer that if he were prime minister, he would not...
Brighter signs on affordability just as Liberals run out of time
Interest rates are falling. Inflation is back down to the target level. Wages have finally caught up, on average, to...
Everyone is running against Trudeau except Liberals who are running away
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs’s approval ratings are the lowest of any premier in Confederation, according to the Angus Reid...
Justin Trudeau says he’s staying, but his government acts like time is almost up
The campaign director quit. Five chiefs of staff to cabinet ministers are leaving. A Liberal fundraiser was appointed to the...
Pierre Poilievre takes real ideas about the drug crisis and wraps them in nonsense
Canadians can see why drug policy has become a big political issue. The opioids epidemic is tragic and visible. People...
A cunning plan to leave the Finance Minister dangling by a thread
Uh-oh. The Prime Minister says he has full confidence in his finance minister. Sounds like Chrystia Freeland is dangling at...
When Liberals talk about Poilievre, Trudeau drowns out the sound
A year ago, the Liberal plan to fight the 2025 election was based on making Canadians fear Pierre Poilievre. Now...
Justin Trudeau’s leadership troubles aren’t going away
This is a period of Liberal reflection, we are now told by Justin Trudeau himself. That is naturally needed to...
Trudeau’s office declines to comment on letter from Liberal MPs requesting national caucus meeting
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office declined to comment Sunday on a letter signed by several MPs calling for an immediate...
‘Witting’ involvement changes the nature of foreign interference
Witting. That’s the word in the latest report on foreign interference that changes things. In the latest review, we don’t...
Rishi Sunak’s lesson for Justin Trudeau
For a textbook example of political debate unglued from real-world concerns, it’s hard to do better than Tuesday’s Question Period...
The Liberals lob their last-minute weapon 17 months from an election
It seems a little early for the kitchen sink. But Justin Trudeau and his Liberals saw an opportunity, however slim...
A nomination system that’s not worth defending
When former columnist Sabrina Maddeaux announced last week that she was suspending her campaign for a Conservative Party nomination in...
The Liberals’ delays on foreign interference carry profound costs
It’s 2024, and Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has tabled the foreign-interference bill that would have been so useful in 2019...
When will Mark Carney run?
Mark Carney might be setting the stage to run for the Liberal leadership after the next election. Or he might...
More than a year into ArriveCan mess, the government runs to catch up to its procurement problem
For a year, the Liberal government stood around flat-footed while revelations about the ArriveCan app spread into an indictment of...
Pointe-Claire demonstrates the nonsense in Poilievre’s housing formula
Pierre Poilievre held a press event in a shopping-mall parking lot in Montréal’s West Island railing about big-city bureaucrats blocking...
On ArriveCan, Conservatives switch from prosecution to defence
In the long, strange series of hearings into the ArriveCan app, one of the most peculiar twists is that Conservative...
What would Pierre do? That’s the big Canadian political question of 2024
Pierre Poilievre stood in front of his cheering Conservative MPs on Sunday, rhetorically pummelling Justin Trudeau and revelling in his...
A verdict on Trudeau’s biggest call, and a millstone around his neck
It didn’t take long for Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland to troop out to say the federal government will appeal...
Pressed on Ukraine trade deal, Poilievre tells tales
While Pierre Poilievre claims that the new, updated Canada-Ukraine free-trade agreement would force Ukraine to adopt a carbon tax, there...
All Justin Trudeau needs is a little luck and a time machine
It’s true, as Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the Commons last week, that heating oil is different. It is...