Minor House shakeup sees more than 40 new faces preparing to enter Parliament
The 2021 election results saw at least 44 fresh faces ready or projected to enter Parliament, including new Indigenous, women, and racialized candidates, according to preliminary results from Elections Canada. Overall, the election’s results did not change the makeup of the House by much. The Liberals and NDP both gained a total of one seat, […]
Veteran provincial politician Yasir Naqvi’s win keeps Ottawa Centre under federal Liberal banner
OTTAWA CENTRE, ONT.—Parliament Hill’s riding will remain red after federal newcomer Yasir Naqvi won it for the Liberals Monday night. Mr. Naqvi won Ottawa Centre, Ont., leading by a margin of 9.8 percentage points or 3,857 votes votes—with 81 per cent of the polls reporting—over NDP challenger Angella MacEwen. The riding, which was held by […]
Politics This Morning: Canadians re-elect Trudeau Liberals to form government; Green and People’s Party leaders fail to gain seats, hundreds of thousands of mail-in votes not yet counted
Good Tuesday morning, Just like that, the federal election is over. Well, almost. Even as Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was projected to form government, several ridings remained undecided with ballots still counting into the wee hours of the morning. Elections Canada previously warned, with the uptick in mail-in ballots, final results could take longer for […]
Trudeau Liberals return to preside over minority Parliament after mid-pandemic election
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have won a third term in government, seizing enough seats to sustain their minority in the House of Commons following an often raucous election campaign called during the COVID-19 pandemic that has dominated the lives of Canadians for over 18 months. As of press deadline on Sept. 21, the Liberals […]
‘It looks like nobody wanted an election and no one got what they wanted’: what pollsters, politicos, and reporters had to say about Election 44
Pollsters, reporters, and politicos took to Twitter on election night to talk about the long lineups at polling stations, to offer last-minute insights into the potential election outcome, and to weigh in on the early voting results in Atlantic Canada. At 10:26 p.m. the major networks declared Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had won the election […]
Fear, negativity dominated elxn#44 ads, say strategists
Positive messaging was quickly abandoned by the Liberals and Conservatives during this election campaign, which became one of the most negative in recent memory, say some political and advertising strategists. “This is one of the most negative campaigns I think we’ve seen in recent campaigns. In the final two weeks, most ads you’re seeing with […]
Elxn#44 will go down as the ‘backlash’ election against Trudeau Liberals, say politicos
The Sept. 20 federal election will be remembered as the “backlash” election, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took the country to the polls in the midst of the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic but failed to convince Canadians that he needed to do so. Canadians negative reaction to this decision dogged the Liberals throughout […]
Trudeau should have ignored Rebel News
OAKVILLE, ONT.—Given that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knows a thing or two about boxing, it makes me wonder why he recently made the tactical mistake of “punching down.” I’m referring to how he publicly and loudly attacked Rebel News, a far right-wing/populist website. In case you’re not up to date on the story, the drama […]
All party leaders should work together on the climate emergency: McNamara
Re: “English leaders’ debate had a few bright spots worth appreciating,” (The Hill Times, Sept. 13, editorial). One other bright spot during the English-language leaders’ debate was Green Party Leader Annamie Paul’s message to other leaders about working together to address the existential threat of climate change. Prior to the election call, the Intergovernmental Panel on […]
Once the election is over, the much harder work begins
TORONTO—Once the election is over, the much harder work begins. Promises are one thing, but successful implementation with promised results are quite another. High expectations without the capacity to deliver is the big risk. Both the Liberal and Conservative platforms promise to spend billions of dollars to create a Canadian version of the U.S. Defence […]
