Canadian company the Conservatives used to count leadership vote leads election tech industry on both sides of the border
In the seconds before the Conservative Party declared Andrew Scheer its new leader with a slim majority after a marathon 13 rounds and what would later emerge as a vote-counting controversy, election organizers offered gratitude for the company that tabulated the score. “Before the moment you’ve all been waiting for, there’s one other thank you […]
Parliament should rewrite voting law to regulate foreign money, says elections commissioner
Ottawa should rewrite voting legislation to scrap a limp, unenforceable provision that appears to prohibit non-Canadians from expressing views about how Canadians should vote, and instead put in place a new rule to limit undue influence of foreign funding, says Canada’s elections commissioner. Yves Côté told the House Procedure and House Affairs Committee on June 8 […]
Britain: ‘soft’ Brexit or no Brexit?
LONDON, U.K.—“We don’t know when Brexit talks start. We know when they must end,” tweeted Donald Tusk, former Polish prime minister and now president of the European Council. He doesn’t know when the talks will start because even now, a year after Britain’s referendum on leaving the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May doesn’t know […]
Conservatives miss out on post-leadership bounce with Scheer: poll
The newness of Andrew Scheer’s leadership of the Conservative Party alone isn’t making him a favourite to win the next election just yet and he’s got work to do familiarizing himself with voters if he’s going to challenge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2019, according to a new public opinion poll. The latest numbers from […]
Top Conservatives brief caucus on Scheer’s leadership vote numbers, MPs say they’re now satisfied, Bernier didn’t ask any questions
Conservative MPs say last week’s potentially explosive controversy around newly elected leader Andrew Scheer’s leadership vote numbers is no longer a problem after two top Conservatives briefed the national Conservative caucus on June 7. Conservative MPs also say Dustin Van Vugt, executive director of the Conservative Party, and Derek Vanstone, deputy chief returning officer for […]
Rejection of electoral reform may prove catastrophic for Trudeau and Liberals
Of Canada’s three major political parties—Liberal, Conservative, and the NDP—and two minor parties—the Bloc and the Green Party—only the Liberals don’t have a core support. The Conservatives are supported by right-leaning voters, the New Democrats have the support of a core of left-leaning progressive voters, the Bloc has the support of Quebec nationalists, and the […]
From policing to politics, government’s pot point man says public service is paramount
PARLIAMENT HILL—Bill Blair is still getting used to this whole politics thing. “I confess I’m probably not as politically oriented—and I mean big-P politically oriented—as many of my colleagues,” the Liberal MP for Scarborough Southwest, Ont., said in an interview last week from his office in the Wellington Building in downtown Ottawa. Mr. Blair is, […]
B.C. election: little immediate impact, but plenty of future political risk for federal Liberals, say pollsters
B.C. Liberal MPs are pushing back on claims that the province’s election is a blow to their local support, while pollsters suggest little immediate impact but plenty of future political risk for federal Liberals with a new provincial NDP-Green Party alliance. And while NDP MPs have pointed to the provincial election results as proof of […]
Scheer’s social conservatism obvious target, but Liberals to lay off new leader at onset: insiders
Liberal Party veterans say new Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s reputation as a social conservative is an obvious target for politicking from the Justin Trudeau government, but some say the party in power is likely to avoid being overly aggressive against the new leader for the time-being. Reasons include not being sure, exactly, what direction Mr. […]
B.C. Green-NDP alliance poses threat to federal Liberals on West Coast, warn opposition MPs
While the newly formed alliance between British Columbia’s NDP and Green Party has made Christy Clark’s days as premier likely numbered, Liberal opponents warn that the two main issues at play there also threaten the federal Liberal Party’s 17 seats in the province. “Both on pipelines and electoral reform, Justin Trudeau has been very offside […]
