If Jagmeet Singh wants to represent Canada internationally as PM, he ought to take positions that are good for the country and don’t just represent his personal views, says Conservative strategist Rachel Curran.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has been under fire for his associations with people or groups who support Sikh nationalism and separatism, including some who condone the use of violence. Mr. Singh has said he condemns violence to achieve political objectives. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
The NDP should have expected questions on leader Jagmeet Singh’s associations with Sikh nationalist or extremist groups, so it’s surprising his team took so long to mount a defence when the issue blew up in the past week, say political strategists.
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Apologizing for 'tensions' that became public over the last months, Julie Payette said that 'we all experience things differently, but we should always strive to do better, and be attentive to one another’s perceptions.'
The killing of Marylène Lévesque by a parolee in January 2020 was a ‘catastrophic failure, which is tantamount to a wrongful death,’ says prison watchdog Ivan Zinger.
Quebec is expected to once again be a key electoral battleground, spurred on by the Bloc Québécois’ resurgence in 2019, with multiple candidates already nominated in three target ridings.
He faced potential expulsion last year during the leadership race over comments he made that appeared to question whether chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam, who is of Asian descent, was a pawn of China.
'I hope that intelligence and security officials in Canada learned after what they saw in the U.S. and can make sure something like that does not happen here,' says Ottawa-turned-Washington correspondent Richard Madan.
‘The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, and domestic terrorism [is one] that we must confront and will defeat,’ said U.S. President Joe Biden in his first address.