Charest’s route to Conservative leader ‘very similar to the party’s path to victory,’ says Kheiriddin
As the Conservative Party leadership campaign shifts from membership sales to persuasion and mobilizing the vote, Jean Charest’s campaign says it will focus on following a path to victory that is “very similar” to the one the party must follow in a general election. With the campaign of Pierre Poilievre (Carleton, Ont.) declaring more than […]
‘Unfair’ to blame lone GAC official as ‘process failure’ led to Russian embassy visit, say analysts, former diplomats
With Canada’s prime minister and top diplomat denouncing a Global Affairs official’s participation in a national day event at the Russian Embassy, foreign affairs analysts say the singling out of the lone diplomat was “unfair.” The Globe and Mail reported June 12 that Global Affairs’ deputy chief protocol officer Yasemin Heinbecker attended the Russian Day […]
Riding rejig proposes tightening representation around Alberta’s growing cities
Three more electoral map proposals are out as part of Canada’s ongoing redistribution process, including for Alberta, where the addition of three new seats has led to a tightening of ridings around cities other than Edmonton and Calgary, with Red Deer, for one, set to get its own electoral district. The new boundaries really show […]
Reputation a real risk to justify Emergencies Act, say experts, but opposition decries lack of receipts
The threat to Canada’s reputation as a reliable trading partner was a key concern leading to the invocation of the Emergencies Act, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland recently told the joint committee examining the decision, saying the convoy protests posed a “real economic threat.” “It was clear to me that with each […]
Coming years will bring questions over limits of protest and assembly, says Liberal MP Anandasangaree
Amid a strong police response to land defenders in B.C. and after the slow-moving shutdown of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, the federal justice minister’s parliamentary secretary says there will be increased questions in the coming years about the limits of protest. “The question that we have to ponder with is: if there are, what […]
‘We will have another situation at some point’: politicians, experts eye fix to ‘disturbing’ security trends
National security experts, including the former national security and intelligence adviser to the prime minister, say increasing threats to politicians are “reflective, unfortunately, of the society we live in where we’ve seen this growing polarization.” “This is not something new, what we’ve been seeing over the last three or four months,” said Vincent Rigby, who […]
Liberals ‘foot dragging’ on access to information fix with mandatory parliamentary review two years late, say Conservatives
Two years after a Liberal law designated a parliamentary review of the Access of Information Act to start, no House or Senate committee has yet to launch an inquiry. When Bill C-58 passed in 2019, amending the Access to Information Act, it called for a review of the act by any committee of the House, […]
‘Massive reputational risk’: former Air Canada exec, strategists slam feds for sluggish response to expected travel surge in airports
Ongoing and highly-publicized delays in Canada’s international airports should have been foreseen by the federal government, according to a former Air Canada executive, and that the delays have set the stage for “massive reputational risk” for Canada as both a tourist destination and a connection hub for international travellers. “The federal government knew that crowds […]
Membership processing for Conservative leadership vote two to three weeks behind; Brown campaign calls Poilievre’s latest attack a ‘setup’
Amidst accusations that some of the Conservative leadership candidates broke the rules when signing up new members, the party is now two to three weeks behind processing the hundreds of thousands of new memberships. The Conservative Party will still stick to the stated deadlines and provide the preliminary membership list to all candidates by July […]
Liberals should define Poilievre juggernaut now, or risk losing next election, say top political strategists
With the presumed Conservative leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre widely expected to become party leader on Sept. 10, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals should start to define their future opponent now before he gets a chance to define himself, say top political players. “In our day and age, the velocity of politics is much faster than […]
