Liberals, Conservatives, and NDP to argue new electoral reform bill should delay voter data court case
On March 20, the Liberal government tabled Bill C-65. Eight days later, the Liberal Party filed an application to adjourn the coming voter privacy trial with C-65 at the centre of its argument. That application will be heard on April 10.
B.C. Liberal MP Dhaliwal’s House motion could set a ‘dangerous precedent’ and cause ‘irreparable damage to Canada-India relations,’ says fellow Liberal Arya
Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal says his motion isn’t targeting any one religion, ethnicity, culture, or country, but is aimed to protect Canadians of all backgrounds from foreign intimidation.
‘Up to Canadians to judge’: Liberal-NDP deal holds two years on, as sweeping elections bill introduced
If Bill C-65 passes, the chief electoral officer must report on ways to implement a three-day voting period, and on the feasibility of allowing electors to cast their vote at any polling station in their riding by 2029.
Liberals ‘between the devil and the deep blue sea’ on carbon tax and caucus fissures on Mid-East war, say political players
Without pausing the upcoming carbon price increase on April 1, it’s hard to find a way to get the Liberals out of their public support slump, says pollster Greg Lyle.
Polls show ‘across-the-board, generalized retreat’ from Liberals, says Coletto
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will ‘either walk up to the edge of the next election and run, or he’ll walk up to the edge of the next election and decide to retire,’ so until that time Liberals should focus on how to ‘get more competitive with the current prime minister,’ says former Martin-era Liberal PMO staffer Scott Reid.
Pharmacare a ‘housekeeping measure’ for Liberals, while NDP seeks to ‘tell everybody’ about much needed parliamentary win: Nanos
The Liberals’ relative silence on pharmacare in recent days while NDP leader Jagmeet Singh went on the talk show circuit may be an effort to not ‘give too much oxygen’ to a story that could help their partner in the supply-and-confidence deal, said pollster Nik Nanos.
Pollsters skeptical NDP would force an election over pharmacare
Meanwhile, former Liberal staffer Dan Arnold says the government has to decide whether it wants to invest big money into pharmacare versus its other policy priorities in advance of the next election.
Some Senators open to blocking government’s MAID legislation, while others say that’s ‘overstepping’
With a law already on the books that says an expansion of MAID will become legal on March 17, the Senate holds some leverage in the matter. If a bill does not pass both houses by that date, the sunset clause will expire.
In the ‘game of margins,’ gender identity issue could become Trudeau’s ‘Achilles heel’ in next election, say political players
Political insiders say the gender identity and trans rights issue may not be a defining one in the next election, but it could dampen the enthusiasm of some minority communities, such as Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Chinese, and Eastern European immigrant communities that tend to be socially conservative, and that have previously voted for the Liberals.
After talking to Ontarians for six months, Yasir Naqvi has advice for his fellow federal Liberals
Liberal MP Yasir Naqvi says all Canadians want to feel hopeful right now. And hope is about the future, not the past.
