Will Scheer take one for the team?
OTTAWA—The main question about Andrew Scheer’s leadership is shifting from whether he can survive a party-wide review of his role in April, to whether he should quit now and let the Conservatives get on with choosing a new leader. Scheer turned in a middling campaign. He helped his party surpass the Liberals in the popular […]
Rookie Nunavut MP to push for greater focus on ‘basic human rights’ for Indigenous people in Ottawa
In a province that’s home to 14 million more people than Nunavut, the territory she represents, rookie NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq thought she would be able to fly under the radar in Ottawa. But since being elected on Oct. 21, Ms. Qaqqaq, who just turned 26, has been recognized around the capital city, including at the […]
Political leaders need to negotiate in good faith
With a strong minority government, negotiating will be the most essential skill for everyone. Every party needs to ponder how they’re going to get what’s needed to be done. Political players should pack up and put away their anger, frustration, dislike, and even hatred because these things won’t solve anything. Politicians should take baby steps, they […]
Western alienation is real, but Kenney, Moe grievances are about entitlement
OTTAWA—Never in the annals of history have white men been so oppressed and subjugated—or that’s what Jason Kenney and Scott Moe would have us believe. In fact, all over the world, we have been inundated by mainstream media about the care and support we must give our fallen white brothers. Two and a half weeks […]
Jason Kenney is shooting off his foot, not just his mouth
CHELSEA, QUE.—The major obstacle to Alberta’s future well-being at the moment is not Justin Trudeau. It is Jason Kenney. The Alberta premier’s belligerent and distorted attacks on “Ottawa,” and his deafness to the climate change concerns that influenced the outcome of the recent election, is winning him no friends in the rest of the country. […]
‘Albertans would consider it as betrayal’: Alberta Independent Senators shoot down suggestions of cabinet gig
Two Senators from Alberta poured cold water on the idea that a member of the Red Chamber should be chosen to represent their province at the cabinet table, in interviews with The Hill Times last week. “I don’t know that that’s the best idea for Alberta. I think we need all of our Senators from […]
Trudeau has many options to include Alberta and Saskatchewan in his government
OTTAWA—There are just so many options for the Trudeau government to reach out and involve the citizens of Alberta and Saskatchewan, but there is no single silver bullet. The conundrum is this: on the one hand, the two provinces just declined to elect a single Liberal MP from either province, in part, because they felt […]
The last of the ‘McGill Four’: outgoing MP Dubé on losing to Bloc leader Blanchet
When he noticed the Bloc Québécois surging in the polls, the NDP’s Matthew Dubé says he knew that he faced an “uphill battle” in holding onto his riding. “I arrived in a wave. I survived one, but two is a bit too much,” said the outgoing Quebec MP in for Beloeil-Chambly who lost to Bloc […]
Trudeau’s real job now: sparking national action on a post-carbon future
OTTAWA—Apparently Doug Ford didn’t really mean it when he said in the summer that he would let voters in the federal election decide whether he would continue with Ontario’s costly, and likely futile, legal offensive against Ottawa’s carbon levy. Ford, who was shut out of the less-than-stellar federal Conservative campaign, sounded a bit more co-operative […]
Did Justin Trudeau really wreck Alberta’s economy?
Western alienation has dominated much of the political discussion following the Oct. 21 federal election that brought the Liberals back to power with a minority government without a single seat in Alberta or Saskatchewan. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged it in his election night victory speech, and reporters grilled him about it in his first […]
