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A friend and fellow lobbyist recently wrote, in an eloquent defence of our line of work, that “Ottawa is a foreign country” to most Canadians — and certainly most people trying to make a go of it, building a business or running a canola farm. That sense of how foreign this town can seem rarely hits as hard as it...
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...
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...
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...
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...