Poilievre voted best public speaker, most quotable, hardest-working, and biggest self-promoter in The Hill Times’ 29th Annual Politically Savvy Survey
And Housing Minister Sean Fraser, who was already picked as the Most Valuable Politician in 2023 in The Hill Times’ All Politics Poll in December, was voted best cabinet minister in 2024 in this survey.
‘People want change’: U.K. election results continue global push against incumbent governments, say politicos
Voters in the recent U.K. election overwhelmingly sought change, but the type of change desired remained fluid through the campaign, said former Canadian PMO staffer Tyler Meredith.
Liberals want Justin Trudeau to hang ’em up, but why should he start listening now?
If Justin Trudeau thinks he can pull the rope-a-dope on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre—like Muhammad Ali did to George Foreman in 1974— he’s got another thing coming.
Pedneault’s abrupt resignation leaves open question about possible successors to Elizabeth May, say strategists
Former federal Liberal adviser Andrew Steele says the Green Party’s co-leadership model is tricky due to ‘diluted accountability,’ and that Elizabeth May seems the only one capable of holding the party together.
Tanya Talaga to release new book, The Knowing
Plus, House delists MPs’ Hill office numbers from Commons website, Mercedes Stephenson talks about what it’s like for the media to fly on the PM’s plane, Doug Ford points the way to booze, and Rob Reiner says it’s time for Joe Biden to step down.
Trudeau should go big or go home
Whatever message the government is trying to send clearly isn’t breaking through, and the overwhelming appetite is for change.
The NDP’s timing problem
Ironically, Jagmeet Singh’s trendiness and hipness probably would have worked better had he been made NDP leader in the happier days of 2012 and Mulcair’s earnest, businesslike demeanour would probably make him more popular today. It just goes to show that, like in Machiavelli’s age, timing in politics matters.
Who will be left standing in an uncertain political moment?
What does any leader do when the public mood is ‘out with the old, in with the unthinkable’? And ‘old’ isn’t always a matter of years.
Houston to host Council of the Federation July 15-17 in Halifax
MONDAY, JULY 15 House Not Sitting—The House is on its summer break. It resumes sitting on Sept. 16, and will sit for four weeks from Sept. 16-Oct. 11, but will take Monday, Sept. 30, off. It breaks Oct. 14-18, and resumes sitting on Oct. 21. It sits Oct. 21-Nov. 9, and breaks on Nov. 11 […]
Why politicians have a hard time retiring
Trudeau’s tenure is brief but he needs to weigh his legacy against the risk of losing it all. Quite a balancing act.
