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Post-referendum tinderbox has turned into a pile of damp hay
Quebec is re-engaging on the national scene on terms that closely mirror the constitutional accord whose failure sparked its two-decade estrangement.
If Ontario was serious, it would draft constitutional amendment to abolish Senate
Under the Constitution, the power to initiate a discussion to reform Canada's parliamentary institutions does not rest exclusively with the federal government.
Conservatives put national media in their crosshairs
There's an emerging narrative designed to place the Parliamentary media squarely in the Conservative crosshairs recently vacated by Michael Ignatieff's Liberals.
This Parliamenet has a sunnier disposition than previous one
It's a mood enhanced by the fact that for the first time in two decades, the priority of the vast majority of Quebec's MPs is not to demonstrate that Canada is a failed federation.
Prime Minister has unique opportunity to alleviate Quebec's estrangement from federal institutions
As counterintuitive as it may seem, that starts with preserving part of the Bloc Québécois' legacy in federal politics.
Could be a long, long time before Liberals make it out of woods
Relegated to the wilderness on May 2, the Liberals don't even seem to be able to agree they need a compass.
Populist right and populist left to be going head to head for first time
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be returning to the Commons later this spring in control of the two Houses of Parliament for the first time. Depending on the scope of his ambitions, such free rein with the levers of power could prove more risky for his
Liberal election campaign like watching a plane crash, in slow motion
'The end of the world' was how one shaken lifelong Liberal insider described his party's slide to third place behind the NDP last week. Throughout its distinguished history, the Liberal Party of Canada has never been further from power than official oppos
This generation of politicians has reversed a fundamental tenet of democratic life
It used to be that Parliament was meant to tend to the issues that mattered most to voters. But now voters are being called upon to tend—through their votes—to the issues that matter most to Parliamentarians.
Unknowns driving both opposition parties toward a spring election
If the March 22 budget does trigger an election, the Liberals and the NDP will go into a spring campaign facing a headwind. They would then have five short weeks to turn the tide—a feat they have consistently failed to begin to accomplish so far.
On Harper's watch, francophone Quebecers more disengaged than ever
As things stand today a PQ government would drag Quebecers into another referendum at the peril of its sovereigntist option.
Libs join NDP on habitual treadmill to nowhere, antithesis of a moral victory
If NDP and Liberal leaders Jack Layton and Michael Ignatieff had taken the advice of their elder statesmen and looked for a way to pool forces earlier this year, the result of their joint efforts would likely be doing better in the polls than their separa
The 24/7 news offers less rather than more in extensive Parliamentary reporting today
The demands of feeding a round-the-clock information beast usually favour bite-size news to the detriment of meaty debates that need more time-consuming media ministrations to be properly digested.
If PM wants to go to polls in first half of 2011, he may have to take matters into own hands
There is precious little in last Monday's results to give the NDP and the Liberals much incentive to defeat the next Conservative budget.
Conservative-friendly island in a sea of Quebec hostility self-defeating exercise for government
It is a major distraction from the bigger game the Prime Minister is after.
Conservative-friendly island in a sea of Quebec hostility self-defeating exercise for government
It is a major distraction from the bigger game the Prime Minister is after.
Conservative-friendly island in a sea of Quebec hostility self-defeating exercise for government
It is a major distraction from the bigger game the Prime Minister is after.
Ignatieff and Rae outmanoeuvre themselves
Since Prime Minister Stephen Harper came to office almost five years ago he has twice outmanoeuvred the opposition and secured Parliamentary approval for extensions to Canada's combat mission in Kandahar against long odds.
Conservative leadership head-hunters will come knocking on Prentice's corporate door one day
If the Red Tories are going to use the next leadership campaign to try to regain some of their lost influence, that task may be more easily advanced from outside the ranks of the government than from within.
The left decisively lost lock on Toronto mayor's office
It could take some time for the pendulum to swing back its way.
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