Ford’s cuts in social programs could be opening for federal Liberals to campaign against federal Conservatives in October, say Liberal MPs
Ontario Premier Doug Ford won last year’s provincial election with a thumping majority, but his recent controversial cuts to programs and services is fast making him a liability for the federal Conservatives, say Liberal MPs, who add they will make it an issue in the upcoming election campaign. “Are we campaigning against them? You’re damn […]
‘They should be nervous’: Liberals now focusing ‘completely’ on election readiness in regional, national caucus meetings
With only four months left before the fall election call and 75 per cent of the Grit caucus consisting of rookie MPs facing re-election for the first time, the Liberals have decided to focus “completely” on election readiness in all their weekly regional and national meetings until the House adjourns on June 21, MPs say. […]
Conservatives say they’re ‘confident’ Mark Norman will expose more Liberal wrongdoing
Peter MacKay says if Vice-Admiral Mark Norman speaks out about his ordeal, ‘I don’t think it will mean good things for the Liberal government.’
Canadians, and media should look at climate change claims carefully before election
Climate change will no doubt be an important issue in the coming election and the campaigning that leads up to it. The Liberals and NDP gave a preview of their campaigning in the House last week, each tabling a motion to declare a climate emergency. The Liberals, Greens, and New Democrats will each claim to […]
Like Clinton, Trudeau’s mess not entirely of his own making, writes U.S. observer
I am writing as a concerned American observer of the Canadian political situation. It appears to me that Canada is caught up in a troubling déjà vu of the Clinton-Trump matchup in 2016 that produced our own nightmare south of the 49th. In particular, a relentless media blitz focused almost entirely on the star liberal […]
If this week’s dumb shrieking battles are any sign, this election won’t be pretty
OTTAWA—The past week provided a sadly predictable look ahead at this fall’s federal election. Dynamism was eschewed for dumb shrieking battles that we have seen a million times before and ultimately advance nothing but the same old partisan pepper spray. Sprinkle in the silly and you get a feel for what is coming our way. […]
The Green Party has won a second House seat in Nanaimo-Ladysmith, B.C. What does this suggest for the federal election in October?
Cory Hann Conservative strategist “This is the 13th byelection this Parliament that the Conservative Party has increased its share of vote from 2015. We’re the only party that can say that. By contrast, the Liberals watched their share of the vote decline in more than a dozen of the byelections. Why? Canadians are starting to […]
Social media companies that violate new political ad rules, even inadvertently, will be fined, minister suggests
Canada has a new regime for online political ads heading into October’s election, but in an interview last week the minister responsible expressed some frustration with certain social media companies’ approach to the new system. Instead of agreeing to implement a registry of all campaign ads, as is required by the newly passed election-reform law […]
The step-by-step guide to legally manipulate the 2019 Canadian election
First, I feel obligated to say this is not serious advice, or intended as an operating manual, but it’s intended to demonstrate how easy it would be to manipulate the Canadian elections this year. Second, while I am associated with a political party, I would go under oath stating that I have not participated in […]
Canadian political parties are prime targets for hackers: here’s how to defend them
Last month, the Communications Security Establishment released an update to its cyber threat report, where it unambiguously states that Canada will face foreign cyber interference in the fall federal election. It also notes that foreign cyber interference “has become the most common type of cyber threat activity against democratic processes worldwide.” After the well-publicized Russian […]
