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Interprovincial battles over booze have been a long-standing feature of the Canadian federation. Most famously, in 2018, the Supreme Court upheld a fine against New Brunswicker Gérard Comeau, who had brought alcoholic beverages from Quebec into his home province. The high court ruled that the Constitution doesn’t guarantee free trade between provinces in every circumstance.
Conservative firebrand Ted Morton meant to publish a book detailing his life in politics more than five years ago. But if he had stuck to that original schedule, he thinks it would have been a much more depressing read. Why so dour? Dr. Morton – the political science professor turned provincial politician – wanted to reflect on the ups and...
Danielle Smith is famous for her ability to pack a room with supporters in small-town Alberta. She won her party’s leadership two years ago with votes from the most conservative parts of the province. Yet, it’s not all sunshine and roses as the Premier marches toward a crucial test: the United Conservative Party’s leadership review. Even the popular, anti-establishment Ms...
In a country where Saskatchewan refuses to collect carbon taxes for home heating, and Ontario’s Doug Ford asks “what the guy is smoking” when he talks about the Prime Minister’s policies, it feels like a return to a more genteel era to fight about something as old-school as equalization. In 2024, it’s not just conservative Alberta voices lamenting the hypocrisy...
There is a triumphant mood in this bursting-at-the-seams Stampede city. The weather is hot, and the midway itself has never looked more jam-packed. Attendance numbers could surpass any other year, similar to the province’s population numbers. On the roads, there are Ontario and British Columbia license plates everywhere, as interprovincial migration into Alberta continues at a blistering pace – a...
Naheed Nenshi gets a lot of applause from Alberta NDP audiences these days. However, when he called United Conservative Party MLAs the ”monkeys on the other side” at a leadership debate earlier this month, there were murmurs and grumbling. Mr. Nenshi’s quip about decorum during question period in the legislature was too ugly to be many New Democrats’ cup of...
It’s clear that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith feels the wind is at her back. This is on display in a series of policy choices this spring, including her government’s assertion of power over municipalities through its reviled Bill 20. But it also shows in her United Conservative Party’s push to appoint a person who once sought the UCP nomination to...
There was a time, just earlier this year, when Premier Scott Moe’s government acknowledged it was breaking the law. Now, that messaging has drastically changed. Mr. Moe’s governing Saskatchewan Party decided not to collect or remit carbon levies on home heating owed to Ottawa. It was an act of protest, because the federal Liberals exempted home heating oil from carbon...
Danielle Smith has long promised to be the most combative of Premiers. She has lived up to those words, perhaps especially so in legislation introduced this month, the Provincial Priorities Act (Bill 18), which would allow her government to say a pre-emptive yea or nay to every funding deal Ottawa makes in Alberta. There is a long list of downsides...
One of the best things Justin Trudeau could do to show how wrong the premiers are on carbon pricing is call a meeting and put it all out in the open. Yes, he should absolutely make them explain what they would enact as climate policies, and ask for detailed plans. Like Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, provincial leaders have been playing...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the federal Liberal government will be annihilated unless it pauses its carbon price increase in April. That’s not totally correct. If the Trudeau Liberal government is annihilated in the next election, on an economic matter, it will be on carbon pricing but also broader, continuing inflation worries. And also concern about Canada’s GDP slumping on...
After weeks of speculation, Naheed Nenshi has today officially entered the race to be the next Alberta NDP leader, even as he insists this isn’t the road he thought he would take just a few months ago. As Calgary’s high-profile mayor for 11 years, he avoided any entanglement with party politics. But he says he cannot abide by a Danielle...
Saskatchewan is breaking the law. Ottawa is digging in. And instead of months of fireworks on carbon pricing, expect a federal-provincial stalemate of epic proportions to set in – an impasse that won’t halt a grinding decline of political support for the current Liberal version of carbon taxes in Canada.
Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange isn’t totally wrong when she says the national pharmacare deal is a politically motivated plan to keep the supply-and-confidence agreement alive, and stave off the threat of a federal election unwanted by both the NDP and the low-in-the-polls Liberals.
There’s no immediate federal election on the horizon in Canada, but it feels like a mean-spirited campaign is already in progress. Last week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was in Kitchener, Ont., where he spent nearly 30 minutes attacking the Prime Minister on issues ranging from the ArriveCan app scandal to the carbon tax to “screwing over the middle class.”
Alberta, Danielle Smith has just announced, has one last shot at getting it right. And by it, the Premier means turning the Heritage Savings Trust Fund into a behemoth financial asset – worth as much as $400-billion by 2050 – for “prosperity that will last long after our last barrel of oil has been produced.”
Charlie Angus might mean well. But the premise of the NDP MP’s private member’s bill – which would ban advertising from fossil-fuel producers – is absurd. It begins with the premise that targeting oil and natural-gas baddies can solve difficult environmental issues. And it is stunts like this that blight reasonable discussions about what to do about our deep entanglement...
The recall petition coming for Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek has a snowball’s chance in a chinook. More than 500,000 signatures from Calgary voters will be required to cut her term short. It’s doubtful the petitioner, businessman Landon Johnston, will meet the threshold by the April 4 deadline.
There’s a long list of worries about what a second term for Donald Trump could mean for the world: Rising authoritarianism, further protectionism, the continuing erosion of women’s rights, and more upheaval in geopolitics – just to name a few. Should Mr. Trump win in November, there’s also the question of how detrimental it will be to U.S. leadership on...
In the fall of 2022, pharmacy shelves were empty, respiratory disease cases were high, and Canadian parents everywhere were scrambling to find pain and fever relief medications for their children. Manufacturers couldn’t keep up with the demand.
When the U.K.’s Energy Efficiency and Green Finance Minister came to Canada on a recent trip, one of the most striking things he found about our exceedingly decentralized country is the dearth of cross-provincial electricity transactions. “We’re not part of the EU,” Martin Callanan, a former Brexit minister, said of his own country, which withdrew from the European Union four...
Dustin Duncan has retained a personal lawyer for the first time in his nearly 18-year political career. The Saskatchewan cabinet minister in charge of Crown corporations said he’s prepared to go to prison, or what he had called “carbon jail” – the most unlikely and extreme outcome in his government’s fight against Ottawa and the current unfairness of its carbon...
For a Premier who has said she wants the pandemic to be in the rear-view mirror, Danielle Smith sure lets a lot of holdover grudges from the depths of COVID-19 direct her decision-making now. Her government, for example, ousted chief medical officer of health Deena Hinshaw in late 2022. Some might also put the dismantling of the province’s centralized health...
Facing political headwinds that could end their time in government – but not dead yet – the federal Liberals are now confronting the housing issue with the glorious blast-from-the-past plan of standardized housing designs. At this juncture in the housing crisis, a collection of designs out of a catalogue couldn’t be more welcome reading material for 2024. Prefabricated homes can...
The Prime Minister told The Canadian Press that the Conservatives have unfairly but successfully scapegoated carbon pricing for why everything costs so much. But Justin Trudeau is better to look in the mirror as he examines Pierre Poilievre’s persuasiveness. Why is the Conservative Leader’s “Axe the Tax” mantra so potent? First, because people stretched by mortgage payments and grocery costs...
One deeply flawed federal policy on electricity was met this week by the nuclear option in Alberta’s political arsenal, the Sovereignty Act. It’s a showdown that didn’t need to be. The Clean Electricity Regulations flew under the radar for a long time but are probably the weakest in a suite of federal policies meant to reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions...
All politics moves in a grand circle, apparently. The person Albertans were most surprised to see on stage with Danielle Smith this month was Ed Stelmach, the former premier whose government, 15 years ago, created Alberta Health Services – which Ms. Smith is now dismantling.
The federal Liberals took another stab at helping on housing in the fall economic statement this week, with an end to income tax deductions for Airbnbs and other short-term rentals in some jurisdictions, and billions in low-cost loans to build rentals. These are common sense and low-hanging fruit measures. But they are still far too little to address the massive...