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Can a conservative ever trust a liberal? “Just because it’s a Liberal government in Ottawa, and a Liberal prime minister, doesn’t mean it has to be fractious,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tells me. With mutual respect, she says, “the sky’s the limit on what we can do.” Smith points to history: Alberta premier Ralph Klein, a Progressive Conservative at the...
Premier Danielle Smith walks a tightrope ahead of UCP AGM. Ahead of this weekend’s United Conservative Party (UCP) AGM, Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to sit down with Premier Danielle Smith to delineate a roadmap to pipelines, energy regulatory reform and carbon capture projects. One would expect genuine progress in these negotiations to take the wind out of separatists’...
"The energy sector has been demonized,” Whitecap Resources CEO laments, as Mark Carney's list of nation-building projects still contains no Alberta pipeline
Fen Hampson is a serious man; he thinks for a living. A marquee player in Canada’s foreign policy brain trust, he isn’t frivolous. His opinions are measured and deliberate. As director of Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in Ottawa — and now Chancellor’s Professor — he’s shaped generations of Canadian policymakers and diplomats. Today, he leads the...
Alberta’s new man in Washington, D.C., is Nathan Cooper, the 44-year-old former MLA from the rural heartland of the province. Nathan just wrapped up six years as Speaker of the Alberta legislature, an all-around nice fellow credited with keeping partisan shenanigans in the legislature to a minimum.
Ben Woodfinden, the 31-year-old former director of communications for Pierre Poilievre, understands the challenges faced by younger Canadians. Ten years of a Liberal-led, no-growth government, Ben laments, “means they live in a country that doesn’t work for them anymore.” They want change.
Ford's team was preparing for an early election for a year, 'with some knowledge that things could be disruptive with Trump,' says campaign director Kory Teneycke. “We are in a time of war. It may not be a shooting war, but it’s an economic war,” says Kory Teneycke, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s re-election campaign director. “It’s a trade war, and...
He's been an NDP leader and a Tory cabinet minister. Now Dominic Cardy hopes to drag Canadians into the middle, and knows he may well fail. “This is the most uphill of all uphill struggles, trying to break the two-party duopoly in Canada,” admits Dominic Cardy, newly crowned leader of the Canadian Future Party. The new party aims to occupy...
Former soldier Andrew Leslie was once a Liberal MP who advised Trudeau on defence. These days, he's talking to Pierre Poilievre’s 'receptive, aware and focused' team. Lt.-Gen. (ret’d) Andrew Leslie is keen to talk about the embarrassing state of Canadian military preparedness. Article content “The current prime minister of Canada is not serious about defence. Full stop. A large number...