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During the Liberals’ Dec. 11 Christmas party just hours after Conservative MP Michael Ma crossed the floor to the government, soirée hosts James Maloney and Mona Fortier joked to ecstatic attendees that their favourite number was “172”. That’s the minimum number of MPs a party needs to get a simple majority in the House of Commons. With Ma’s crossing, the...
Canada’s largest public-sector union blasted the top government department as “hypocritical” for refusing to say how many of its employees received notice of a potential layoff weeks ago. The silence from the Privy Council Office (PCO) signals the government may not be forthcoming with public information as the majority of federal departments and agencies prepare to announce major layoffs in...
If there’s one person who won’t be receiving any Conservative MP Christmas cards, it’s Markham–Unionville MP Michael Ma. Article content In fact, if anything, Conservatives want the floor-crossing new Liberal MP to return a Christmas gift he already received.
Carney's first major step in resetting relations with India happened in June when he invited Narendra Modi to Canada
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s office says the federal government has “no intention” of repealing either the Online Streaming Act and the Online News Act. For now. “We are committed to supporting strong, independent newsrooms across the country,” Guilbeault’s director of communications Alisson Lévesque said in a statement first reported by Politico. “The federal government has no intention of repealing either...
Half of Canadians believe Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s chances of beating Prime Minister Mark Carney are poor at best even as Carney’s approval ratings show the first signs of slipping, according to a new Leger poll. “Mr. Poilievre still has work to do… to broaden his appeal to the greater electorate,” Leger executive vice-president Andrew Enns said in an interview...
Canadians are split on whether Canada should go into trade negotiations with the U.S. with elbows up or down when it comes to retaliatory tariffs, according to a new poll. Article content The Leger/Postmedia poll suggests that 45 per cent of Canadians still believe Canada’s position vis-à-vis U.S. President Donald Trump should be “elbows up.” That means that Canada should...
Republicans on an influential House committee are pushing top Trump administration officials to pressure Canada to kibosh its controversial Online Streaming Act, which they describe as a “major threat” to the trade relationship. In a July 31 letter obtained by National Post, 18 Republican members of Congress on the powerful House ways and means
After 10 years of constant growth, the federal government now says there are too many senior executives in the public service, slowing productivity and creating workplace conflicts. In an internal memo Wednesday obtained by National Post, the federal Chief Human Resources Officer Jacqueline Bogden is clear: there are more assistant deputy ministers (421) in the bureaucracy than permanent positions at that level (355).
Federally appointed judges say their $415,000 salary needs a $60,000 bump to keep the job attractive to top legal applicants. The government says: not in this economy. Since November, the federal government and the judiciary have been quietly but forcibly clashing in front of a quadrennial commission reviewing federally appointed judges’ compensation. At the centre of the battle is a...
The Liberal government is mulling arming the Canadian Coast Guard as it launches a significant reform of the civilian maritime agency to give it a bigger role in the country’s security apparatus. Article content The move is one of many significant changes that the Liberals are planning for the chronically underfunded Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) that Prime Minister Mark Carney...
National Post spoke with a half dozen current and former PMO officials, senior bureaucrats and caucus members. Days after the federal election, Prime Minister Mark Carney stepped into the National Press Theatre and did something Canadians hadn’t seen in nearly 10 years under Justin Trudeau: he started the press conference virtually on time. Carney’s punctuality was a stark contrast with...
'You have to acknowledge that it was the generally right message... because the Liberals stole multiple elements,' said Poilievre.
In December, Poilievre told Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley that he would defund the public broadcaster 'very quick.' Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre now says he doesn’t have a timeline for when he would defund the CBC despite promising in December to do it “very quick.” Questioned by National Post on Tuesday on whether the Conservatives would defund the CBC within...
Two-thirds of Canadians think Liberal leader Mark Carney should proactively reveal his business interests before election day, according to a new poll.
Conservative leader says he won't stop criticizing the incumbent government for its 'lost Liberal decade.' Pierre Poilievre says he disagrees with calls from some supporters for him to change his election strategy amid a Liberal surge in the polls, arguing that he should not stop talking about the “lost Liberal decade.” Monday morning, he poopooed any suggestion that he should...
Voters ages of 65 to 74 have turned out in the biggest numbers in every federal election since 2004. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his government would hold the retirement age at 65 and delay the mandatory RRSP withdrawal date by two years in a bid to attract baby boomer voters.
Conservatives believe the cost of living and crime to be top issues, but also a rising sense of national pride, which Poilievre wants to capture. “Canada First” is Pierre Poilievre’s new pitch to Canadians. But it also represents the firsts the Conservative leader himself has been navigating in the past few weeks. It’s the first time as leader that he...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office confirmed he acquired tickets to see Taylor Swift in Toronto directly from the company managing her Eras Tour, but is keeping quiet about the exact price he paid, saying only that he paid in full.
A federal Liberal candidate in B.C. who publicly identified as Indigenous for years says she now plans to apply for Metis citizenship after a local Metis society publicly questioned her heritage claims. In a statement provided by a Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) spokesperson, Madison Fleischer, the party’s candidate in the Cloverdale—Langley City byelection, said she is in the process...
Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault says his shifting claims from being “non-status adoptive Cree” to recently stating his adoptive mother is “status Métis” are a “reflection of his family exploring their own history” and not him claiming Indigenous status. Boissonnault’s spokesperson Alice Hansen sent National Post a statement Tuesday offering new details about the minister’s changing stories about his adoptive family’s...
Conservatives and New Democrats say federal Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault must answer questions about why a company that belonged to him said it was Indigenous-owned while bidding on federal contracts. “It’s highly suspicious at best. But at worst, it’s fraud,” Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett told the Commons ethics committee Thursday. His colleague Michael Cooper said Boissonneault has “no place...
Support for federal New Democrats in B.C. and the Prairies is dropping at a “concerning” rate for leader Jagmeet Singh, a new poll suggests, despite recent gains by his provincial counterparts in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The Postmedia-Leger poll finds that the NDP’s popularity has dropped two percentage points nationally, to 15 per cent, since the last poll on Sept. 30.
Outgoing CBC President Catherine Tait spent $6,000 — including staying at a $1,000-per-night hotel — for just under five days at the Paris Olympics, an expense observers say is sure to raise eyebrows but is ultimately justifiable. According to a copy of Tait’s calendar obtained via an access-to-information request, Tait was in Paris from July 25 to 29. She arrived...
A newly unsealed indictment into charges filed by the U.S. Justice Department against a government of India employee for allegedly planning to assassinate a Sikh activist in New York City reveals multiple ties between the foiled plot and the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia. On Thursday, the department announced charges against 39-year-old Vikash Yadav, who remains at...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says several current and former Conservative parliamentarians are either engaged in foreign interference or at high risk of being targeted by a foreign government and lambasted Conservative leader for refusing to get security clearance. Trudeau dropped the bombshell revelation during his testimony to the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference (PIFI) Wednesday.
Chief Justice Richard Wagner says Rideau Hall’s employees were “very unhappy” because they had “suffered a lot” for years by the time he temporarily replaced former governor general Julie Payette, who resigned for presiding over a “toxic” workplace. “There are 150 employees at Rideau Hall. They were people who, I must say, were very unhappy because there had been very...
Irwin Cotler, the former Liberal cabinet minister and former MP for Mount Royal, says he recommended his successor Anthony Housefather resign from his party’s caucus and sit as an Independent this spring as he prepares to face a “formidable” Conservative opponent next election.
32% of respondents say their opinion of Singh and the NDP is worse since 2022 when the deal was signed, while just 20% say they think better of the party and its leader now. Just four out of 10 Canadians think the deal between the Liberals and the NDP to keep the Trudeau government in power has been a good...
The Liberals’ stunning defeat in the Toronto—St-Paul’s byelection this week could be just the beginning of a year of pain for the party: several more byelections are expected; all of them could happen before 2024 is over.
The federal government called “misleading” an intelligence oversight committee’s assertion this week that it was barred from accessing all or part of 1,000 documents during its review into foreign interference due to “cabinet confidence.”
A judge rejected a request by two federal officials to block an internal investigation into allegations they committed “serious misconduct” relating to government contracting and the ArriveCan app.
Quebec-based Davie shipyard is suing the federal government to prevent it from releasing a single word of the agreement that made it eligible for billions of dollars in potential federal shipbuilding contracts. In April, flanked by a bevy of shipyard workers and federal and provincial politicians, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held an upbeat press conference to announce that Chantier Davie...