Liberals maintain double-digit lead despite Khadr payout, proposed tax reforms: poll
PARLIAMENT HILL—The governing Liberals opened the fall session of Parliament with a healthy 12-point lead over the Conservatives, maintaining robust advantages in vote-rich Ontario and Quebec, while flirting with supermajority numbers in Atlantic Canada, a new public opinion poll suggests. The latest survey from Campaign Research, conducted between Sept. 8-11 and released first to The […]
It’s show time: fall sitting critical for Trudeau to start delivering results, say political players
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet will have to try to achieve all their top agenda items between now and the next federal budget, after which the unofficial pre-electoral activities will start and everything the government does will be seen through the prism of political opportunism, say Liberal insiders. “Starting next February, they’re going […]
Trudeau vs. Singh? NDP frontrunner’s ‘dynamism’ makes him party’s best hope in 2019, say supporters
By the numbers, Jagmeet Singh is the front-runner in the current federal NDP leadership race. The 38-year-old Ontario MPP, who recently served as deputy leader of the provincial New Democrats, has reportedly signed up more new members (47,000), received more endorsements from former and current NDP federal and provincial politicians (27), and raised more money […]
Hacker, faker, liar, spy
In normal times, a comment from the world’s pre-eminent spy novelist about the state of our politics wouldn’t seem so noteworthy. But when John le Carré took time away from promoting his new book at the Royal Festival Hall in London, U.K., last week to say, “Something truly, seriously bad is happening,” it stood out […]
Feds need to sell closing of tax loopholes better
The Liberal government claims to be making another move toward creating a level playing field between the wealthy and everyone else. This time it involves closing loopholes that allow professionals to lighten their tax load by registering themselves as corporations. On the surface, the plan seems consistent with the Liberals’ general motto of helping the […]
A lesson from Kenya
If there were any doubt remaining after the 2016 U.S. presidential election about the status of election outcomes as high-value corruption targets, the death of Chris Msando is worth considering. Msando, whose mutilated body was found in the woods outside Nairobi more than a week before the Aug. 8 presidential election in Kenya, was neither […]
OLO deputy chief of staff’s father seeking Conservative nomination in Lebel’s old riding
Former Roberval, Que., city councillor and father of opposition leader’s office deputy chief of staff Marc-André Leclerc, is seeking the Conservative Party nomination in the Quebec riding of Lac-Saint-Jean, recently vacated by outgoing MP and former cabinet minister Denis Lebel. Rémy Leclerc, a political organizer and volunteer for Mr. Lebel’s federal political campaigns, was not […]
Liberals remain top choice of voters, Conservatives showing little movement in second: poll
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals remain firmly in top spot in the federal horse race, with Andrew Scheer unable to move numbers ahead for the Conservatives, and the NDP flirting with lows not seen in almost a decade, according to a new poll from Forum Research. The latest numbers, from polling conducted between Aug. 16-17 and shared […]
Liberals confident about Quebec riding vacated by Lebel, despite no victories there since 1980
The Liberals are confident about their chances of replacing the recently departed Conservative MP Denis Lebel in the riding of Lac-Saint-Jean, Que., despite not having won a seat there in 37 years and finishing third in the 2015 election. Liberals are saying that because of the party’s impressive performance nationally in 2015 and Prime Minister […]
The concerning e-volution of Canadian elections
Twenty-first century life has devolved into a predicted dystopia as “the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end,” to quote George Orwell’s 1984. Online visits to Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and most every other company or service facilitates data collection being used […]
