The Conservative Party leader needs to emerge from the gathering as the undisputed party chieftain, projecting a sense of confidence and possessing a sensible battle plan for victory.

Maxime Bernier has been around the Canadian political game long enough to know that spawning a debate about ‘diversity’ is going to be a big kick in the groin to Andrew Scheer.

Party leader Jagmeet Singh needs to turn the page on this story before it gets printed because he can't be further written off for dead.

The Ontario premier likely welcomes the spectacle of politicians droning on about legal challenges, consultations, and this all being an affront to democracy. He will spin that as elites looking out for themselves.

He is winning fans in all spheres across Ottawa. If he is an uber partisan and small minded, it isn’t obvious.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford can’t please everyone. A good program should create an environment for students where asking questions and searching for information from a trusted, knowledgeable source is possible.

The Trudeau team needs to do some work on itself before it goes back to the people to seek their confidence.

Dig out from under the bullshit and bravado and help those who are struggling by being open about mental health.

Singh should spend the summer shaking off negative fatalism, Scheer must delicately manage kissing up to Quebec, and Trudeau channelling Harper may be a good thing.

Any political party is better with diverse voices in it. Some tension around policy is needed, particularly when you are in opposition, so ideas can be debated before they become platform planks.

He used his perceived assets to narrowcast to what the audience wanted to hear, especially on pocketbook issues.

The right and bold thing for Wynne to have done would have been to vacate her leadership long before this election.

Tories shouldn’t be popping champagne corks yet, but the fact they’re still bringing in bucks, at a decent spot in the polls, and not carving themselves up, is proof of Scheer’s steady hand.

Only the NDP can appeal to voters who want change and those afraid of Doug Ford at the same time.

With caucus-conduct controversies and concerns about his chances in the next election, it’s not a great time to be the NDP leader.

He demonstrated that nice guys can succeed, the importance of friendships even across party lines, and the key to job security is always keeping your community front and centre.

Neither he nor his opponent, Liberal Premier Dwight Ball, are your normal fire-breathing politician. But maybe that’s what Newfoundland and Labrador needs now.

Ontario Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne is trying to bait Doug Ford into acting like Donald Trump. But if he doesn’t, voters may sense her desperation and see through her self-interested motives.

What major pipeline or trade deal (of his own making) does he have to show during the first half of his government’s mandate? Not one.

Often in politics we write and talk about division, but Humboldt has shown us much about the power of unity and the common goal to go on.

Hopefully the small bump in the polls the Ontario Liberals received after tabling their budget isn’t a sign of the electorate’s collective amnesia.

Stephen Harper’s government muzzled scientists. Justin Trudeau’s government instead wants federal employees to be hand puppets mouthing the sanitized words of the master. They’re more alike than you might think.

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer is taking a page from Napoleon Bonaparte, who said: ‘never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.’

New Ontario PC leader Doug Ford has more discipline than his late brother and American President Donald Trump, to which he is often compared.