Who should know what at core of opposition leaders’ refusal to look at top-secret annex
It should be an opposition caucus member, but not the leader, that looks at the classified annex, says former Tory staffer Andrew House.
Is Justin Trudeau planning a snap election?
A summer campaign could avoid a Conservative pivot and allow the Liberals to portray Pierre Poilievre as a man who is always ‘putting the country down.’
On foreign interference, Poilievre wants to stir up scandal without knowing the facts
As Jagmeet Singh considers Pierre Poilievre’s call to force a public inquiry, he must ask whether protecting democracy is the Conservatives’ main motivation.
Pollsters say Poilievre leadership kicked Conservative ‘fundraising juggernaut’ into overdrive, but don’t discount Liberals
‘They should feel good but not confident’: pollster Nik Nanos says Conservatives can’t take ‘soft’ Liberal fundraising numbers for granted.
Welcome to parliamentary pickleball, where the blame flies back and forth
This dynamic, this blame game, is not new to our politics, but it has never seemed this ridiculous.
Poilievre should beware of tying himself to Musk
In reaching out to Elon Musk, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre left the impression he’s trashing Canadian broadcasters while aligning himself with a billionaire who has turned the social media world upside down.
‘More about reaction than action’: Tory strategists say Poilievre’s CBC attacks are ‘vintage Pierre,’ red meat for base
‘[Poilievre] thinks this is a winning issue, and when he puts it out on social media, he’s seeing in the response that a lot of people are agreeing with him,’ says Summa Strategies’ Daniel Perry.
Trump’s brand of politics by personal attack is creeping into our national conversation
The public dialogue is not so much a contest of ideas between political parties, as it has traditionally been, but a kind of cage fight of the Texas death-match variety. Apart from being distressingly Trumpian, the approach taken by the Conservative Party is totally unnecessary.
