Lawrence Martin
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Foreign crises are getting in the way of the inevitable: Trudeau’s departure
The Justin Trudeau loyalists are digging in. There’s a “considerable cadre who want him to move on,” long-time Liberal MP...
The Liberals would do better if they replace their dead man walking
The past isn’t always prologue. There’s a widespread view that it wouldn’t be beneficial for the Liberals to change leaders...
For progressives, the Trudeau by-election and Biden debate disaster were blessings in disguise
The siren sounds. For progressives in Canada and the United States, it’s an emergency moment. They face the same dire...
What’s there to fear about Pierre Poilievre?
Canada has never had a federal Conservative or Liberal leader who fit the term “career politician” more precisely than Pierre...
It’s time for the Liberal Party to force Justin Trudeau’s hand
“One important thing I learned in politics,” said Herb Dhaliwal, the British Columbia Liberal who served in the cabinets of...
We’re trapped in a system where naysayers are in command
That was an attention grabber: The Angus Reid Institute put out an analysis last week saying the leaders of Canada’s...
A score-settling book by Brian Mulroney is being kept under wraps
In 2007, former prime minister Brian Mulroney published a mammoth memoir. At 1,121 pages, you could barely fit it in...
Justin Trudeau’s close friend Dominic LeBlanc wants his job
Behind the scenes, the plot thickens in regards to the future leadership of the Liberal Party. We need only to...
Trudeau shouldn’t reject Chrétien and Harper’s offer on 24 Sussex
The residence at 24 Sussex Drive is where more of this country’s history has been plotted than any other, where...
Forty years later, Pierre Trudeau’s walk in the snow still resonates
Parliament wasn’t sitting and it was quiet at the start of the last week of February in 1984. Pierre Trudeau...
Canada’s Liberals and America’s Democrats need to find the courage to stand up to their leaders
If they had their druthers, Democrats in the United States and Liberals in Canada would prefer candidates other than incumbents...
Is a Liberal resurgence possible under Trudeau?
We’ve reached a “new nadir,” says pollster Frank Graves, reflecting on his latest findings. “Canada’s outlook is the darkest and...
The Chrétien-Harper connection is a rare thing in our polarized times
The image leaped off the screen a couple of days ago. A photo of Stephen Harper and Jean Chrétien grinning...
