While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Ken Boessenkool.
In December 2004 I was sitting in the Official Opposition Leader’s Office and the holder of that office, Stephen Harper, walked in. We were working on an election platform because we expected Paul Martin to spring an election quickly after Peter MacKay and Harper merged their respective parties into the Conservative Party of Canada.
Canadian electoral politics became like Western Canadian electoral politics this week, by moving from a three-party to a two-party system. Across Western Canada, the NDP competes for power with various centre-right parties. Those centre-right parties evolve and reconstitute themselves to remain electorally competitive across four very different provinces.
There’s a rarely acknowledged reality about climate policy that goes a long way to explaining why conservative parties spend less time focusing on climate issues. And that reality? The environment is a luxury good. There are macro and micro implications to this. The macro implication is that rich and growing countries are better placed to address the environment and climate...