Saturday, May 25, 2013
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INSIDE POLITICS I
Harper's two missing ingredients to success in Quebec

Harper's stance on Martin government's package for Bombardier could make or break him


  
Bad blood between Canada's recent Prime Ministers

PMs more likely to speak through lawyers than across a podium of a goodwill tsunami mission


  
It's unlikely a federal election playoff before 2006

Between now and then, there is not a hint of a serious federal leadership contest


  
Canada's foreign policy has been in a holding pattern

Since 9/11, there's been no overall sense of how Canada sees itself adjusting in long term circumstances on the North American continent


  
Martin doesn't look like he'd win majority any time soon

In many provincial capitals, the PM is earning the reputation of a fair-weather friend


  
Martin is at mercy of Conservatives on missile defence

Political stakes too high for minority Libs to easily move on from a defeat on the issue


  
Bulging surplus a huge drain on country's democratic life

By low-balling budget surpluses, government has stifled discussion of shape of future


  
Keep an eye on seven in 38th Parliament

New Parliament marks beginning of permanent audition for four federal leaders


  
Quebec side deal a lightning rod for anti-Martin forces

Martin's approach to health accord was always bound to divide his own Liberal house


  
PM murky on medicare

Neither Martin nor Dosanjh has put much flesh on party campaign bones


  
PM Martin has many federal posts to fill

Martin could change face of patronage process, if he chooses


  
Ethical cloud hovers over PM's government

No amount of political tap dancing will allow Paul Martin to sidestep reality in election


  
Joe Clark should have known better

But because Clark is a former prime minister, he got away with his reductionist statement


  
PM poised to reinvent wheel set in motion by Chrétien

Martin has sent out many mixed signals over government's commitment to health care


  
Won't be a vote until fall

  
Martin government out of gas

  

HILL LIFE & PEOPLE SLIDESHOWS
Party Central: Raising money, saying thanks to the troops with Party Under the Stars May 21, 2013

The Hill Times photo by Jessica Bruno.
Hill Staffer Cheri Elliott founded her charity, To the Stan and Back, to raise money for soldiers returning from Afghanistan.
The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright.
Conservative MP and veteran fighter pilot Laurie Hawn and then-chief of defence staff General Walt Natynczyk at the 2011 party.
The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright.
Tory MPs Chris Alexander, Candice Bergen and Bob Dechert.
The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright.
Kenzie Potter, chief of staff to House Speaker Andrew Scheer.
The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay pictured at the 2011 party.

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