The new centre-left alliance of Liberals and New Democrats faced its first hurdle last Thursday when Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland presented her 2022 budget. The as-yet unbaptized governing entity (for some reason, it hasn’t embraced my suggestion to […]
Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh have two reasons to be over the moon about the marriage they forged with their “Supply and Confidence Agreement” of March 22. First: the pact brings precedented benefits to each partner in the Ottawa’s new […]
The news from the operating room on Parliament Hill – that surgeons had succeeded in stitching the Liberal and New Democratic parties together, hip to hip – caused a stir in political circles last week. “God Help Us,” tweeted interim […]
He is the most celebrated and closely watched leader in the world today – an improbable hero, a champion of democracy, in a time when democratic principles and institutions seem to be under attack everywhere. Not only is he rallying […]
Who Jean Charest? Is he the saviour of the Conservative Party of Canada – the unifier that the party, having lost its way, needs to guide it back to the path to power? Or is he the wedge that will […]
While the eyes of the world are focused on Vladimir Putin as he swallows Ukraine, political business goes on as normally as possible in national capitals. In Washington last week, it was President Joe Biden’s maiden State of the Union […]
The Emergencies Act has come and gone, and now the inquests begin. Three questions: First question: Did the trucker-inspired protests over vaccine mandates that swelled into a national movement with demonstrations across the country calling for the restoration of democratic […]
As the FLQ crisis wound down at the end of 1970, members of Parliament were sure of one thing – they had to get rid of the War Measures Act. A valuable tool in two world wars, the venerable WMA […]
