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 [...]
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 [...]
Sunday, March 28, 2010 marked the final day of the federal Liberal’s Canada at 150 policy conference in Montreal. While it’s still early and many pundits are mulling over whether the weekend can be called a success for the Liberal Party, some poor Liberal staffer in Ottawa is likely going to have to right up a report on the positive and negative aspects of Canada at 150. Perhaps the following could help.
Ah, the photo-op. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it makes sense why every politician worth their weight in gold knows how to make the most of a photo-op. The premise seems so simple, to create a situation which gets your face and message out into the media by way of a [...]
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