DND and CAF ‘exempt’ from further spending cuts, says Blair after department was asked to find $900-million a year in savings
Feds looking to find $15.8-billion in savings through ‘Refocus Government Spending’ initiative as pressure mounts for Canada to boost defence spending.
Parliament is a gong-show, MPs care more about their political parties
Real change will occur only if parliamentary reform is an election issue. It will force party leaders to unite to address emergent crises.
Poilievre takes aim at Housing Accelerator Fund despite representing a city that’s already received $44-million from it
A quarter of the federal fund to speed up housing development has already been dispensed to municipalities, First Nations, and Quebec.
Housing advocates wary of funding plan after praising Poilievre’s GST pledge
Scrapping Liberal funding for housing projects to pay for a tax cut on some new homes ‘doesn’t make a lot of sense,’ says Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness head.
Good morning, Prime Minister Poilievre—here is your agenda
What would the early days of a Poilievre-led government look like? Andrew Caddell sketches it out.
Conservative filibuster costing millions of dollars, say NDP and Green MPs
The impasse in Parliament is now in its fourth week as Conservatives continue to demand the feds release unreacted SDTC documents to RCMP.
The security clearance process: an explainer from ex-CSIS director Ward Elcock
As politicians politick over Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre not having a security clearance, former CSIS director Ward Elcock breaks down the process.
Security clearance politicking reflects a minority Parliament on its ‘last legs’: observers
Many of the questions during an emergency debate on India’s alleged interference in Canadian politics turned instead to Poilievre’s refusal to seek a security clearance.
India interference allegations exposing who’s not ride-or-die for Canada
There are too many ops in the Canadian media and the political class, and they need to be flushed out into the septic tank of national betrayal.
Voters don’t want likable, they want change and results, say pollsters
When Canadians go to the polls, they aren’t comparing politicians to perfection, they’re comparing them to their opponents, says pollster Nik Nanos.
