‘Things are crumbling’: changing caucus landscape, external pressures spell bad news for Poilievre’s leadership review, say Conservatives

If the Liberals were to gain majority status amid the ongoing floor-crossing speculation, it would spell bad news for Pierre Poilievre’s leadership review, says Keith Beardsley, former deputy chief of staff to then-prime minister Stephen Harper.
No ‘serious negotiation’ with Liberals on budget, says Bloc MP Garon: ‘If the result is an election, what can we do?’

The party released six non-negotiable conditions for their support of the budget in October, but finance critic Jean-Denis says meetings with the Liberals were ‘mostly media stunts.’
Meeting feds’ ‘ambitious’ RCMP hiring pledge will require ‘imaginative’ ideas, says advisory board chair

The Liberals have pledged $1.7-billion to hire 1,000 RCMP personnel over the next four years as the force faces a vacancy rate of 7.7 per cent, representing more than 1,400 jobs outside of that hiring push.
How Bill Gates has shifted the politics of climate change

The environmental movement has suffered a loss.
Public service job cuts will be ‘compassionate’ and ‘civilized,’ with the impact on people ‘fairly minimal,’ say local Liberal MPs

Unions representing federal public servants are urging members to talk to their MPs about the impact of the thousands of job losses laid out in the Nov. 4 budget.
Fresh faces among Public Works Minister Lightbound’s 16-member team

Wilder Walker-Stewart has been elevated to the role of director of policy to Minister Lightbound, overseeing advisers Whitney McDiarmid and Kabisan Thanendran.
Budget 2025 and the perfection of managerial politics

Mark Carney’s first budget displays the prime minister’s administrative instincts: control the narrative, project calm, and preserve credibility in bond markets.
Party supporters ‘tapped out’ as post-election donation dip deepens with Grits and Tories deadlocked at $4M range in third quarter

Liberal strategist Dan Arnold says ‘money follows enthusiasm’ as waning donations contradict all parties’ election-ready posturing.
Doug Ford needs to be reined in

The Ontario premier’s pitch to poach Quebec doctors will be exploited by the separatists to undermine Quebecers’ sense of belonging to Canada.
Canada reacts to the budget

Plus, the Liberal benches gain an extra member, and the Supreme Court begins a hearing on whether MPs can limit their own free speech privilege.