Geoffrey Stevens

Rt. Hon. Justin TrudeauPrime Minister of CanadaRideau Cottage1 Sussex DriveOttawa, ON  K1A 0A1 My Dear Prime Minister, Please forgive me for taking so long to come to your aid with my counsel. It is, as always, gratuitous, gratis, and worth every penny of it.  I speak for your legions of true […]

As I watched Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives brutalize former governor general David Johnston – a better man than they, in my view – coarsely cross-examining him like a hostile witness at a war crimes trial when he appeared before the Procedure and House Affairs Committee (PROC) last week, I was filled […]

In Ottawa, the town where dreams go to die, cynicism is the helium that fills the political balloon as it floats away, far beyond the concerns of ordinary people. The distance between the governors and the governed has never seemed greater. Last week, with COVID dropping off the chart of […]

Thirty minutes into his address to Parliament on Friday afternoon, Joe Biden was talking about the values shared by United States and Canada when he turned to one of those values, a commitment to gender equality. He was proud, he said, to note a historic achievement: for the first time, […]

No one in their right mind would have volunteered for the job of the “special rapporteur” to chart a path through the tangled web of accusations, leaked intelligence reports, public controversy and political partisanship that surrounds allegations that agents of the Chinese state interfered in the two most recent federal […]

“My challenge to members is to find their better angels and put away the anger and false indignation. Criticize by all means, but do it with respect and maybe even wit. Make Canadians proud of this House and the people in it.” – Marc Garneau, scientist, naval officer, astronaut and […]

Is the frenzy on Parliament Hill over foreign activity in election campaigns the fallout from a legitimate national security scandal – or is it, as I will contend, much ado about nearly nothing, another example of the political playacting and hyper-partisanship that has marked the House of Commons in recent […]

President Douglas Robert Ford, Jr. Pink Palace Queen’s Park Circle Toronto, Ontario  My Dear President Ford,        On behalf of the 1,912,057 enlightened citizens of Ontario who voted to give your Regressive Conservative party an overwhelming second majority government last June, I wish to assure you that – contrary to the […]

Is 2023 going to be 1947 all over again? Are we about to witness a return to extraterrestrial frenzy, official denial and coverup? Might Dawson City become the Roswell of the 21st century? Roswell is the small New Mexico town where, it was claimed, visitors from outer space made their North […]

Let’s step back for a moment and take a measured look at what has happened on Parliament Hill in the past two weeks. Imagine! For the first time in memory (in mine, at least), the party in power – a minority government, at that – has all of the opposition […]