Expanding exports to the rest of the world unlike anything Canada has tried to before
No previous prime minister has spent so much time in meeting world leaders, nor done so much so quickly. Yet spending this time is necessary. Personal connections matter and commitments at the top increase the probability, but don’t guarantee, that results will follow. The next steps will be a crucial.
Alberta MOU still a ‘good deal’ say Liberal MPs, despite loss of ‘star factor’ in Quebec with Guilbeault’s resignation
Green Leader Elizabeth May says the Liberals’ situation in Quebec ‘is very much changed’ by the departure of longtime environmentalist and cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault.
‘Disappointing but not surprising’: PBO forecasts Canada to fall short of 2030 emissions target
The Canadian Climate Institute is calling the budget watchdog’s analysis ‘optimistic,’ and projects Canada will miss the target by a greater margin.
With even Conservatives conspiring to pass Carney’s budget, PM turns attention to the wider world
The prime minister is engaged in a series of strikingly ambitious undertakings from leveraging Canada’s status as a global middle power to launching a new post-NAFTA economy at home.
True representation of constituents requires MPs to take principled positions even if it risks caucus expulsion or floor crossing, says Bill Casey
MPs are in the House of Commons to represent their constituents, and if they believe their party’s positions run counter to those interests, they should speak up, even if it means leaving the party or being kicked out, says former Conservative-turned-Liberal MP Bill Casey.
Most Liberals believe Poilievre’s their ticket to remain in government
While current popular support trends remain close between the two parties, Mark Carney’s personal popularity is in the stratosphere relative to Pierre Poilievre’s.
Blanchard defends Carney’s ethics screen as a ‘rigorous process’
‘When Canadians hear that the prime minister has divested, I think what they expect is that there’s been a sale of those controlled assets,’ Conservative MP Michael Barrett told the committee.
NDP environment critic pans Carney’s commitment to Paris targets, but May says she has ‘confidence’ feds will soon release climate policy
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s commitment to meeting Canada’s Paris Agreement targets comes only days after the second round of projects being referred to the Major Projects Office was announced, one of which is an LNG project.
Carney walks a timid line on climate instead of full speed ahead
The longer Prime Minister Mark Carney tries to play both sides of the street—and this game has been going on for decades—the farther behind we fall, environmentally and economically. He must know that.
New list of major projects is good, but the hard part will be actually getting them done
This is a problem across Canadian society. We have become so risk averse and conflict averse that we’ve geared shockingly large percentages of our state institutions into being effectively machines that can only say ‘no’.
