High Stakes Election: The Liberals Bet the House on Carney’s ‘Faux Pas’ Popularity 

 The Liberal Party’s leadership race ended yesterday with Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada governor, winning the leadership by a stunning 85 percent of the vote. This coronation, however, wasn’t exactly the thrilling democratic process that many would hope for in a leadership race. Behind the scenes, the Trudeau

CBC’s Tone-Deaf Tour: How Marie-Philippe Bouchard Just Proved the Conservatives Right

 Marie-Philippe Bouchard, the newly minted president of the CBC, has wasted no time in demonstrating exactly why Canadians are questioning the legitimacy of their state broadcaster. In an astonishing display of political insensitivity, tone-deafness, and cluelessness, Bouchard has announced a taxpayer-funded national tour to push back against Conservative Leader Pierre

The Liberal Leadership Follies: PART DEUX “A Cast of Characters in Search of a Plot”

 The old adage, “A week is a long time in politics,” has never felt truer. In my previous exposé, The Liberal Leadership Contest Goes From the Race for the Rose to the Turd Blossom, I dissected how the Liberal leadership race devolved into something straight out of a reality TV

UOttawa Professor Promotes Political Violence

 It has become clear that the radical left in Canada is as committed to violence as groups like Diagonal—the ultimate boogieman of right-wing racist violence. The main difference is that the radical left academics are in the open, and their disturbing manifestations of presence are more tolerated. The pro-Palestinian protests

Can a Government Review of CBC Mandate Save English TV so it Matters to us again?

 CBC English TV mattered a lot to anyone alive in the sixties and seventies when comedy programs like Wayne and Shuster were must-watches in households across Canada, and the 11:00 p.m. news anchored by hosts like Eral Cameron and Stanley Burke dominated the airwaves. The seventies brought the popular The

Melissa Lantsman – A Woman of Consequence

 Melissa Lantsman has taken the House of Commons by storm. One of Parliament’s quickest-rising Conservative voices, she was elected MP for the Thornhill constituency in 2021 and appointed deputy opposition leader by Pierre Poilievre in 2022. Lantsman’s story is typical of someone who grew up interested in politics, but her

Tiff Macklem Awards Generous Bonuses While Canadians Struggle to Buy Groceries

 In 1984 former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney described the excesses of Liberal patronage of the day, saying, “There’s no whore like an old whore.” Almost 40 years later, there is no better line to perfectly describe the infuriating and deplorable information that has come to light showing Bank of Canada

Being seriously informed is the only way to save us from real political decline.

 Canadian Politics is facing a double whammy: A CPC leader who mistrusts journalists and believes in conspiracy theories, and growing distrust and reduced influence of journalists. The degradation of Canadian politics continues with the convincing crowning of Pierre Poilievre as the undisputed king of Canadian Conservatives. We now have a

“The Right Path” on a winding road.

 The Right Path: How Conservatives Can United, Inspire and Take Canada Forward Author: Tasha Kheiriddin Published by: Optimum Publishing International ISNB - 13: 9780888903310 The Conservative Party of Canada’s third leadership race in six years will be decided on September 10th. The winner of what has been, at times, a very nasty

Previewing a Trudeau-Poilievre fight to the finish

 If Poilievre wins the Conservative leadership race in September, and it looks like he might, we’ll be treated to a three-year war between him and Justin Trudeau before the next election. Despite the traditional media’s ridiculing of Poilievre’s more outlandish policies and claims, something is happening with this charismatic performer

Can the Tories bring competency back to government?

 After almost seven years of a Liberal government led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada has never been more divided. Mr. Trudeau clings to power with the support of barely 30 per cent of the electorate and has no support in Western Canada except for a few seats in B.C.

The five best MPs in the 43rd Canadian Parliament

 On election night in 2019, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals got 156 seats—14 short of the 170 needed for a majority in the 338-seat House of Commons. Canadian voters had decided that Justin Trudeau did not deserve a majority and that the Tories did not deserve to win. The total vote numbers told

The winnability factor—Charest, Poilievre, Ambrose are the early favourites in the Conservative leadership race

 The Conservative Party of Canada lost the 2019 election to a highly narcissistic Prime Minister who was found guilty of serious ethics violations twice in his first mandate, and who wore blackface on at least three occasions — as a young man and as an adult — including when he

Ottawa Life’s 2019 Election Outlook: Ottawa Carleton – MP Pierre Poilievre’s star still rising

 Carleton is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1968 and since 2015. It was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada from 1821 to 1840 and in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841

The Deep State: The Trudeau government, lobbyists and the legalization of corruption in Canada

 "There's no whore like an old whore" - Brian Mulroney on the Liberal Government in 1984 What many people outside of Ottawa don't understand is that there is a parallel system of government in Ottawa. This Deep State has more power than the elected MPs and ministers who are supposed to

Liberals Should Come Clean on Costs, Risks & Delays to New Hospital

 Last week’s Civic Campus drama shows what happens when politics overtakes reason in choosing a site for a future hospital. Twenty-five months ago the Civic Campus had a location that was studied, chosen, and approved: about six percent of the big open field right across the street from its current

Opinion: Canada needs business, not busybodies

 By Pierre Poilievre, MP Carleton If you are a federal politician looking for an escape hatch from Bombardier’s controversial request for a billion dollar federal bail-out, one of the company’s vice-presidents recently provided it. Rob Dewar said federal help would be “…an extra bonus that would be helpful but is very clearly

What You Need to Know About the Election

 On your marks, get set, go! The race is on. The federal election to determine Canada’s 42nd parliament and leader has begun. Set to end with the October 19 election, this campaign will be the longest in over a century (since 1872), running for a full 78 days. In Canada,

Give Pierre a Chance

 With new cabinet responsibilities, Pierre Poilievre has the opportunity to prove his worth The new minister responsible for the National Capital Commission isn’t without his critics. Pierre Poilievre, who has served as the minister of state for democratic reform since July 2013, has gained what seems like an unending supply

Fair Elections start with an independent Commissioner

 Elections law enforcement starts with a strong Commissioner, who has the independent authority to investigate offences. The Fair Elections Act empowers law enforcement by giving him sharper teeth, a longer reach and a freer hand. Sharper teeth means tougher penalties for existing offences which has received broad support from parliamentarians,

Political Power Brokers of the National Capital Region

 "It would not take long for a future tax-and-spend government to imperil the economic stability Canada enjoys": An Interview with Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre (Nepean-Carleton) As told to Harvey F. Chartrand Pierre Poilievre is the 34-year-old Minister of State (Democratic Reform) and four-term Conservative Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton. After

Auditor General Criticizes Outsourcing of Federal Public Service Jobs as Ottawa MPs Pierre Poilievre and John Baird Do Nothing

 By Gary Corbett The findings of Auditor General Michael Ferguson’s Fall 2012 Report, released on October 23, come as no surprise to the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), which represents over five thousand employees impacted by the government’s on–going dismantling of our nation’s public service infrastructure.