John Delacourt

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Bigger than Tariffs: The Trump Factor in the Homestretch

Bigger than Tariffs: The Trump Factor in the Homestretch

The comedian Robin Williams famously likened living in Canada to “living in a really nice apartment over a meth lab”, a line that was much funnier when the dealer down below didn’t get high on his own supply and suddenly start threatening to expand his operations into your home. Given this recent twist in our bilateral dynamic, the punditry plotline...

Getting Past ‘Thursday’: Team Carney Braces for the Battles Ahead

Getting Past ‘Thursday’: Team Carney Braces for the Battles Ahead

In one of his last press conferences, outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau was asked, by the Toronto Star’s Tonda MacCharles, how he would describe the trade dialogue with President Trump, given that, just the day before, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly characterized the bilateral conversation as a “psychodrama.” Trudeau played the pause and simply deadpanned “Thursday.” To go from the optimism...

The Democrats Conquered the Incumbency Curse. Can Canada’s Liberals do the Same?

The Democrats Conquered the Incumbency Curse. Can Canada’s Liberals do the Same?

It was just a few weeks ago that the prospects for progressive governments in North America were trending in a similar downward direction. And perilously so. If there were wake-up calls necessary for just how bad it might be for both President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau, both parties received them at full volume. Biden’s barely coherent June 2...

What Power Reveals: Trudeau 2015 vs. Trudeau 2025

What Power Reveals: Trudeau 2015 vs. Trudeau 2025

It persists as the central question on people’s minds when they think of the Liberals right now: will the Prime Minister stay or will he go? It has become a new ritual, two years on, that through the horse latitudes of December and our endless Januarys in Ottawa, this topic moves into the foreground with Trudeau’s first end-of-year interviews and...