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The Emergencies Act could prove to be a turning point for Justin Trudeau, much as the War Measures Act was for his father five decades earlier. Let’s start with the first Trudeau. Pierre was a middle-aged academic and lawyer, not widely known beyond Montreal’s intellectual left when he was elected […]
“The responsibility of the prime minister is to make the tough calls to keep people safe.” – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testifying at the Public Order Emergency Commission, Nov. 25, 2022. No one, surely, would dispute that statement. And no one would disagree, as the prime minister – the final […]
By Simon J. Kiss, Jason Roy and Matthew R. Arp One of the more important dynamics of modern elections is the phenomenon of the “ballot question”. Parties, journalists and voters wrangle over what an election is “about”. The reason so much is at stake in this question is because voters […]
While negotiators for the province and the Canadian Union of Public Employees were still struggling on Sunday to patch together an agreement to head off an Ontario-wide closure of elementary schools this morning, a question needed to be asked: Why? Is there no intelligent leadership at Queen’s Park? Are there […]
Moderate voters, the folks who inhabit the broad middle of the political spectrum, have not had a lot to cheer about recently. In Europe, they have watched as political influence has shifted from the centre to the right and far-right in country after country. In the United States, the moderate […]
As voters across the United States go to the polls in tomorrow’s midterm elections, attention will be focused on two politicians whose names are not on ballots in any of the 50 states. They are Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Will they or won’t they be candidates for president in […]
The daily hearings of the Public Order Emergency Commission in Ottawa are offering the country a fascinating look at the challenges and perils of decision-making in a time of perceived crisis, as Judge Paul Rouleau and his staff peel away the layers of confusion, contradiction and misinformation that surrounded the […]
It would never have occurred, the kerfuffle that’s going on in Ottawa this fall, all the finger-pointing, buck-passing and blame-evading, if the truckers and their 18-wheelers had staged their protest a couple of decades ago – in, let’s say, October 1970, when an earlier Trudeau confronted the kidnappers and murderers […]
