‘The 2015 election campaign is now officially underway, set to be 11-weeks long. What do you think of the long campaign?’
Cory Hann Conservative strategist “It’s clear that both the Liberals and NDP have been on the campaign trail for much of the summer. Members of both opposition parties have indicated their enthusiasm for starting the campaign. We think it’s best the campaigning happen under set rules that apply equally to all parties. It’s also appropriate […]
Politics This Morning Election 2015: Hearts all the rage
In what could be considered the first gaffe of the election campaign, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said yesterday in Regina, Sask., that his government, if elected, would “grow the economy, not from the top down the way Mr. Harper wants to, but from the heart outwards.” The Conservative Party jumped on the comment, sending out […]
Tory Senators make $27.8-million worth of funding announcements weeks prior to election call
PARLIAMENT HILL—Despite Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s condemnations of the unelected Senate and the recent scandals over Senator expenses, his government assigned six Conservative Senators to announce $27.8-million worth of federal handouts across the Atlantic provinces in a three-week period prior to the Prime Minister’s election call on Aug. 2, records of the last-minute spending announcements […]
Politics This Morning Election 2015: Wright takes the stand
It’s day 11 of the federal election campaign, and all eyes will be on the Mike Duffy trial, which resumes today in Ottawa court after a two-month recess. Former PMO chief of staff Nigel Wright will be in the witness box for a highly-anticipated testimony regarding the $90,000 he gave to suspended Sen. Duffy in […]
Politics This Morning Election 2015: Conservatives start campaign’s second week talking security
As attention is set to return this week to the Senate expenses scandal with former PMO chief of staff Nigel Wright’s long-awaited testimony at Senator Mike Duffy’s trial on Wednesday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper kept the focus Monday on the Conservative sweet spot—security. Mr. Harper (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) started the second week of the […]
Star witness Wright’s testimony to return national focus back to Senate scandal, yet again
The effect of one of the most important events of the current election campaign will start to unfold in the Ontario Court of Justice on Aug. 12 in Ottawa when the Crown’s star witness, Nigel Wright, former chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, takes the stand at Sen. Mike Duffy’s criminal trial. Once […]
The people in Conservative Party’s Ottawa war room
The Conservative Party’s national campaign director Jenni Byrne, working alongside national campaign chairman Guy Giorno, is in charge of the party’s election war room located in the same Albert Street office building as the party’s main national headquarters. Kory Teneycke, the former communications director to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and a former Sun News executive, […]
In election 2015, Quebec voters to hold ‘referendum’ on Mulcair’s New Democrats
The federal election in Quebec is shaping up as a kind of a referendum on the NDP as the Conservatives aim to win back some New Democrat-held seats. Pollsters said the 2011 election, in which the formerly third-placed New Democrats surged into official opposition with the election of 59 MPs of 75 in Quebec, was […]
New Democrats making gains in 45 Liberal Party two-way races, says pollster Lyle
Conservatives have an overwhelming financial advantage over the other national parties, but the unprecedented length of the 11-week election campaign carries its own pitfalls for all parties as unexpected events are “almost guaranteed” and, according to an online poll, the NDP is likely to make gains in 45 seats where the Liberals won with either […]
Tories announced $14-billion in spending in six weeks before election call, 670 announcements
Cabinet ministers, backbenchers, and Senators announced $14.09-billion in federal government spending between June 23 when the House rose and Aug. 2 when the federal election was called, according to the 670 announcements. The department that made the most spending announcements was Infrastructure Canada, followed by Western Economic Diversification, and then the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, […]
