Liberals can bet opposition will target them on electoral reform
Re: “Trudeau’s 14-seat majority could ‘easily’ be reduced to minority ‘or worse’ in 2019, say opponents, but Liberals still 12 points ahead,” (The Hill Times, July 24, p. 1). As your front-page story details, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is far from guaranteed electoral success. Opposition parties will be heavily targeting the 14 Liberal ridings where […]
NDP MPs headed to Steel Town to attend caucus, get groove back, take in a Ti-Cats game
NDP MPs are gathering in Hamilton next month for their annual summer caucus retreat to plan their fall strategy and to raise the party’s profile in Steel Town, the working-class city where it lost some ground in the last federal election. “We have some representation already [in Hamilton], and there’s good NDP support, and my […]
Electoral reform still needed
Re: “Trudeau’s 14-seat majority could ‘easily’ be reduced to minority ‘or worse’ in 2019, say opponents, but Liberals still 12 points ahead” (The Hill Times, July 24, p. 1). It’s discouraging to think that under our current system, the difference between a majority and a minority rests with a few thousand voters in a handful of […]
Post-election blues, Mulcair, and long leadership race to blame for NDP 2016 donor woes: insiders
The dive in the NDP’s 2016 fundraising dollars after a disappointing election loss surprised no one, but some say the dip could have been levelled out with better strategy at the top: namely, someone other than Thomas Mulcair as interim leader, and a shorter campaign to replace him. The year of the election offered a […]
Why young people voted
VANCOUVER—In the recent British election—if you can believe the exit polls and a number of newly elected Labour MPs—young people came out and voted. But the millennials, aged 18 to 24, stayed home for the Brexit vote. Only 36 per cent of them voted then, versus 80 per cent of those over 65 who voted. […]
Ridings won by five per cent or less to be ‘battleground’ in next election, includes five cabinet ministers
The 70 federal ridings across the country won in 2015 by a margin of five per cent or less of the votes will be the “battleground ridings” in the 2019 election and all parties will target them in the lead-up to the next federal run, say MPs and a leading pollster. “I do expect that […]
Trudeau two-faced on electoral reform
Whatever your view is on electoral reform in Canada, the bigger issue is that a silver-tongued Justin Trudeau who asked for our trust, who promised us a government that would listen to Canadians, and who promised an end to draconian, austere governance, has just twisted the knife. That he betrayed us on Feb. 1 by […]
An old reason for electoral reform
Did the Pepin-Robarts Task Force on Canadian Unity not recommend, in 1979, to have electoral reform for federal elections with proportional representation? Could we have a better country with a simple electoral reform, with Prince Edward Island consenting to a reduction of two seats in the House of Commons and with, for example, 315 members […]
Trudeau’s decline in popularity is self-inflicted
As Justin Trudeau’s government approaches mid-mandate, he remains the most popular government leader in the country. But that says as much, if not more, about the lacklustre standing of the current set of premiers as about the staying power of the popularity of the prime minister. In three of the four larger provinces, for instance, […]
NDP ‘naive’ to conduct online leadership vote, warns expert, but party says it’s ‘confident’ in voting safeguards
The New Democratic Party says it’s confident in its choice to use online voting for the upcoming selection of its new leader, despite several recent reports asserting the vulnerability of internet elections, and provinces pulling away after studying the option. A pair of specialists in the field told The Hill Times, no matter the scale […]
