Poilievre’s potential problem
So, what’s the problem with this, you ask? The problem is the ‘power people’ will inevitably clash with the true-blue conservative ideologues who form the party’s core.
Staff shakeup in Energy and Resources Minister Wilkinson’s shop
Along with a new addition, Kyle Harrietha’s promotion to chief of staff in late March led to a couple of other director-level promotions in the minister’s office.
Poilievre’s narrative ‘not resonating’ in Quebec, but observers say that won’t hurt a Conservative path to victory
If Quebecers see a change in government to the Conservatives as ‘inevitable’ in the next federal campaign, they may prefer to send a contingent of Bloc MPs to Ottawa, says pollster David Coletto.
BOIE approves new security funding, expanded MP-protection programs
Altogether, the Board of Internal Economy gave the nod to new funding totalling almost $24.6-million related to security earlier this spring.
Time to get serious about ‘silly’ season
After a six-sitting-day respite from the Hill, MPs have returned for the final House of Commons push before the summer adjournment. This scheduled five-week run at the end of the spring sitting is a dicey proposition in any session of Parliament, but prospects are particularly fraught this time around given it’s the latter days of […]
House Canada-China Committee looking to interrogate officials and parliamentarians who visited China
The five officials and parliamentarians invited to appear before the committee are among the first high-level Canadian visitors to China since the relationship with Beijing cooled dramatically.
Never-changing playlist of political hits growing stale
Thoughtful, solution-based policy will be hard to find amid the main players’ established routine of combat.
The housing crisis and the municipal heritage of Canadian nationalism
There’s a paradoxical relation between continental geography and municipal culture in defining Canada: the capacity for being a multi-national federation is linked to a national culture rooted in municipal loyalties.
O’Regan names acting comms head, hires new issues manager
Jane Deeks has left Labour and Seniors Minister Seamus O’Regan’s shop to join Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office as director of digital communications.
New funds for Translation Bureau largely aimed at existing efforts to tackle federal interpretation shortfall
Interpretation capacity issues already brewing pre-pandemic have constrained parliamentary work since the shift to hybrid work following the onset of COVID-19.
