Election fever around Parliament Hill is beginning to heat up and it is becoming increasingly likely that at some point over the next 3-4 months a federal election will be called. Parliament Hill, on the eve of the summer recess, is rife with this fever as speculation of elections, mergers, and coalitions is now the [...]
With the news this morning that an Angus Reid poll found that a Liberal-NDP coalition government headed by Jack Layton would defeat the Tories by 43 – 37 per cent, I got to thinking about what a Layton prime ministership would look like. A cursory stroll through their election platform shows that an NDP-led government will do [...]
The leaves have fallen, the snow has blown, the flowers have blossomed and the heat waves are back. What better time to take a look back at the year-that-was at Queen’s Park as the legislature prepares to recess for yet another summer. Here are but a few points of reflection – in numbers – from [...]
We can all appreciate a great headline and a catchy lead to a media story. Yesterday’s coverage of the latest protest at Queen’s Park against the HST provided some clever examples, some harking back to the Grease era. My favourites: HST Protest Gets Physical: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/05/19/con-hst-protest.html Protesters worked up over HST http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/05/19/fintess-hst.html Pumped-up gym [...]
Here’s the problem for the Liberal Party of Canada: “The economy expanded at the fastest pace in three years in January, led by manufacturing, wholesaling and construction. That followed fourth-quarter growth of 5 percent that exceeded the Bank of Canada’s 3.3 percent estimate”, according to current media reports. Nobody saw this one coming, not even [...]
My colleague Meagan has put forward an excellent post about Question Period in the House of Commons and how it has become a daily shouting match instead of a manner for the government and opposition to exchange information. I agree wholeheartedly with Meagan that question period has become a distraction and that the negative attention [...]
