Electoral reform would help Parliament: Wilfred Day
Re: “Parliament’s in a pickle,” (The Hill Times, Dec. 26). In Chelsea Nash’s interview with Jonathan Malloy, a scholar of Canadian political institutions and author of The Paradox of Parliament, Malloy said, “what makes Canada relatively unique, even among Westminster model Parliaments, is the incredible importance of regionalism in this country. Amid all the other […]
‘Liberal MPs are going to do everything they can to win’: Grits trying to get a head start in long-shot Durham, Ont., byelection
After the writ is dropped for the Durham, Ont., byelection, Ontario Liberal MPs will be going in regularly after work hours to help out their candidate and raise funds, says Ontario Liberal caucus chair and Liberal MP Michael Coteau.
‘Bad news across the board for Trudeau’: Conservatives would win 217 seats if an election held today, according to new Innovative Research poll
In the leadership attributes, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is trailing Pierre Poilievre by a double-digit margin, says Innovative Research president Greg Lyle. ‘It is very rare to see an opposition leader win on things like competence. That normally falls to the prime minister. So he’s in deep trouble.’
Policy improvements, not dismantling work of past governments, the best way forward for any new prime minister, says Ibbitson
If Pierre Poilievre becomes prime minister at the next election, a key test for his success and populism will be if he keeps the interest of the little guy at heart as John Diefenbaker did, says Globe and Mail writer-at-large and author John Ibbitson.
It could be a ‘bloodbath for the Liberals’ if polls hold up until next election, say political strategists and insiders
With recent polling highs, the Conservatives could go after safe Liberal and NDP ridings, says Dan Robertson, a former senior Tory strategist. The party could also start their target riding list with the 34 swing ridings that it held in the 2011 election, but which became Liberal in 2015, and largely stayed red in 2019 and 2021.
Liberals join social media skirmish as attacks on Poilievre target battleground Ontario
In new ads, the governing party has accused the Conservative leader of ‘importing far-right American-style politics here to Canada’.
Where MPs crow, and men and women thunder: a postcard from Question Time Down Under
Looking for ways to make Canada’s Question Period more dignified? Don’t look to Australia.
With voting only 12 days away, Ontario Liberal leadership candidates making last-ditch efforts to gain advantage over rivals
If none of the four candidates win on the first ballot, the deal between the Yasir Naqvi and Nathaniel Erskine-Smith campaigns could prove critical in the outcome of the Ontario Liberal leadership race, says Frank Graves, president of Ekos Research.
‘The party wants this riding very badly’: at least 22 candidates consider run for Tory nomination in Liberal-held riding of Pickering-Uxbridge, Ont.
The Greater Toronto Area riding is a target for the Conservatives in the next election, say potential candidates Anthony Yacub and Raveenie Rajasingham.
‘Politicians work in a fishbowl environment:’ MPs should talk about scaling back the role of officers of Parliament, says Savoie
It’s the job of Parliament to hold parliamentarians to account, not officers of Parliament, says Donald Savoie. He also says cabinet minsters should be allowed to hire their own chiefs of staff, social media is destroying the credibility of parliamentary institutions, and politicians need to put a plug in the personal insults. Democracy is at stake.
