Foreign Affairs Minister Freeland promotes Vincent Garneau as her new chief of staff, Broadhurst exits for top job at Liberal HQ
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is starting off this week with a new chief of staff at the helm in her office, replacing Jeremy Broadhurst who has now officially exited to join Liberal headquarters as the party’s 2019 campaign director. In turn, Vincent Garneau has been promoted from his previous role as director of policy […]
Scheer takes a page from Trudeau’s playbook with policy rollout, say pollsters and politicos
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer is using the same strategy employed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prior to the last election, say pollsters and politicos, by rolling out policy speeches on key topics well in advance of the election campaign. Mr. Scheer (Regina-Qu’Appelle, Sask.) kicked off a series of planned speeches on policy with an […]
The Conservative vision for China needs more clarity
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer is taking to the stage, splashing out his vision for the country under a Tory government. Is it a long time coming, or landing at just the right time? Who knows—people’s memories and attention spans are short, so six months before an election may be entirely sufficient to start introducing […]
Trying to derail serious climate change action will someday be viewed as the crime it is
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer kept joking at the press gallery dinner the other night about the persistent questions about his party’s lack of a climate-change plan six months before a federal election. Yes, yes, it’s coming, he chuckled. This while newly elected Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, now considered the leader of the right-wing “opposition” to […]
The sad state of Canada’s left wing
OAKVILLE, ONT.—According to recent media reports, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer supposedly blundered when he secretly met not too long ago with oil company executives to plot a grand strategy aimed at ousting the Liberals from power. Why was that meeting seen as a blunder? Well, in ordinary times, such a move would certainly cause […]
Conservatives’ first-quarter haul breaks ceiling, but Liberals say grassroots support ‘strong’
The Conservatives’ record-breaking haul for the first quarter of $8-million puts them far ahead of the pack, and has them outpacing the Liberals by more than double—a sign that some strategists say suggests the Tories’ base is in far better shape than the governing party’s as the next federal election approaches. “What’s worrying [for the […]
Removal of Conservative candidate Khattra from Dufferin-Caledon leaves ‘a mess,’ unclear how the party will choose new candidate: Conservative MP Tilson
The Conservative Party is stuck with a “mess” in Dufferin-Caledon, and it’s not clear what process it will use to find a new candidate there after it rejected the nomination last week of Harzadan Khattra, following complaints of irregularities in the March 19 nomination contest that he won to represent the Tories in the Ontario […]
Public service grew again in 2018, rebounding from Harper-era cuts
The size of the federal public service grew again in 2018, continuing a trend under Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, and rebounding from cuts made under former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper. Since Mr. Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) became prime minister in 2015, the public service has grown from 257,034 to 273,571 in 2018, with the biggest […]
There’s more to Jason Kenney than he allows to meet the eye
OTTAWA—By the time you read this column, Jason Kenney is likely to be the premier-elect of Alberta. Barring yet another Alberta surprise, Kenney will take the national stage again, this time as a first minister. A lot has already been written about how that will impact federal political dynamics for both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau […]
Kenney readies for Tuesday’s election with a little help from his friend, Stephen Harper
As United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney prepares for Alberta’s April 16 election, he is doing so with the assistance of former prime minister Stephen Harper. Mr. Harper sent out a fundraising email on the UCP’s behalf in the in the closing days of the election. “I’ve made a donation, and I hope you can […]
