Poilievre pitches ‘common-sense Canadian consensus’ at Canada Strong and Free conference, casts Trudeau as ‘illiberal’ outlier
In a keynote speech to the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference on April 11, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre detailed his ‘simple plan’ to cut taxes, housing prices, and crime.
Liberals, Conservatives, and NDP to argue new electoral reform bill should delay voter data court case
On March 20, the Liberal government tabled Bill C-65. Eight days later, the Liberal Party filed an application to adjourn the coming voter privacy trial with C-65 at the centre of its argument. That application will be heard on April 10.
Has Poilievre peaked too soon?
Thanks to their agreement with the New Democratic Party, the Liberals now have a year to aggressively sell its vision to Canadians. And that doesn’t involve an axe-the-tax.
Will Mr. Poilievre go to Washington? Former diplomats hope so
If Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives win the next election, the renewal of Canada’s North American trade deal will be an early hurdle he will have to overcome.
Pierre Poilievre should share more of his policy agenda
Speculation is precisely what happens when politicians use shibboleths and slogans as substitutes for detailed policy.
Polls show ‘across-the-board, generalized retreat’ from Liberals, says Coletto
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will ‘either walk up to the edge of the next election and run, or he’ll walk up to the edge of the next election and decide to retire,’ so until that time Liberals should focus on how to ‘get more competitive with the current prime minister,’ says former Martin-era Liberal PMO staffer Scott Reid.
Candidate pulls out of Tory Richmond Hill nomination race, citing shadow of foreign interference
Former Conservative nomination candidate Kaveh Shahrooz says he faced ‘significant foreign interference’ during his eight-day campaign to run in a Toronto riding.
Poilievre’s transparency promises fall short
Pierre Poilievre says he wants the federal information commissioner to take on Ottawa’s ‘gatekeepers.’ But he’s not offering to cut back on ATIP exemptions or exclusions. Nor is he promising changes to the many sentries whose special secrecy privileges prevent greater transparency and stymie good government.
Pollsters skeptical NDP would force an election over pharmacare
Meanwhile, former Liberal staffer Dan Arnold says the government has to decide whether it wants to invest big money into pharmacare versus its other policy priorities in advance of the next election.
Some Senators open to blocking government’s MAID legislation, while others say that’s ‘overstepping’
With a law already on the books that says an expansion of MAID will become legal on March 17, the Senate holds some leverage in the matter. If a bill does not pass both houses by that date, the sunset clause will expire.
