If 2015 election ballot question on economy, security, Tories have good chance of winning: Manning
If the upcoming election is run on the economy and national security, the Conservative Party will have a good chance at winning, says Preston Manning. “All the polling that we do and others too, indicate the economy, the economy, the economy as the big worry. People express it differently. For some people it’s jobs, some […]
Liberal Party holds contested nominations with three or more candidates in 37 ridings, Tories hold 11
PARLIAMENT HILL—The Liberal Party under leader Justin Trudeau has generated a wave of competition for its election candidate nominations from coast to coast, outdistancing both the Conservatives and the NDP in terms of the number and proportion of contested ridings in cities that have become bellwethers for the 2015 general election. The Liberals had elected […]
Trudeau’s inevitability slipped 15 points, and that’s a lot
TORONTO—You’re the incumbent, you’re smart, you’ve got plenty of experience, but you can’t get ahead in the polls. So what do you do? You call for a series of leaders’ debates, that’s what you do. Stephen Harper, however much he disdains the mainstream media, knows one media truism to be irrefutable: politicians are rarely felled […]
Election 2015 shaping up to be a two-party race
OTTAWA—Multiple mid-winter polls place the ruling Conservatives and the third place Liberals in a dead heat. Most of the analysis has been focused on putative frontrunners. But the slow slide of the New Democratic Party in the same polls is also very relevant. After all, their first stint as the official opposition was supposed to […]
Who will win the next federal election: Tough Guy, Fun Guy or Compassion Guy?
OAKVILLE, ONT.—The art of political communication (and it is an art not a science) can be summed up thusly: make the complex seem simple. Or, to put it another way, any idea or concept you’re promoting as a politician, no matter how complicated it may be in theory, must in practice be boiled down to […]
High-profile Conservatives consider run in Nepean, but Harder accuses Poilievre of meddling
With John Baird’s stunning exit from politics earlier this month, a number of high-profile Conservatives are considering running for the party’s nomination, but some are complaining publicly that the new federal regional minister responsible for Ottawa, Pierre Poilievre, is discouraging them because he has a preferred candidate. Mr. Baird, who was the minister of Foreign […]
Adams attends first Liberal caucus meeting, colleagues put on brave face among signs of discontent
PARLIAMENT HILL—Liberal MPs put up an enthusiastic front Wednesday to welcome longtime former Conservative Eve Adams to the party’s fold amid signs of discontent with party leader Justin Trudeau’s unilateral decision to bring her into the caucus following her failed attempts to get an election nomination with the Conservative Party. Though Ms. Adams (Mississauga-Brampton South, […]
NDP best hope to get country back from grim reaper
POWELL RIVER, B.C.—Anyone who really wants to get the country back from the grim reaper now in charge of Canada would look to the NDP as their best hope. Anyone who knows this nation’s political history is aware the NDP is the only party that is not completely in the pocket of big business and […]
Trudeau’s chief of staff held teleconference with Liberal MPs 15 minutes before Adams’ floor-crossing news conference Monday
PARLIAMENT HILL—Liberal MPs learned only 15 minutes prior to party leader Justin Trudeau’s Ottawa news conference Monday that he was set to announce former Conservative MP Eve Adams was joining his caucus and would seek nomination as a Liberal candidate for the 2015 election, The Hill Times has learned. Mr. Trudeau’s chief of staff, Cyrus […]
Adams exploring Eglinton-Lawrence, Finance Minister Oliver’s riding
PARLIAMENT HILL—All but three of the 14 federal ridings in the west Toronto region where former Conservative MP Eve Adams was expected to run as a newly-minted Liberal have already nominated their candidates for the 2015 election. And the leading contender for nomination in one of the three ridings still to elect a candidate—essentially […]
