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People are still angry about grocery prices and the NDP wants to be seen leading a crackdown, Jagmeet Singh did his best to look into the TV camera and deliver an ultimatum to grocery-chain companies: “Lower your prices. Or else.” On Tuesday, the NDP Leader told reporters [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Jagmeet Singh did his best to look into the TV camera and deliver an ultimatum to grocery-chain companies: 'Lower your prices. Or else.' On Tuesday, the [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Witting. That's the word in the latest report on foreign interference that changes things. In the latest review, we don't just see cases of messing with [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff When a tanker called the Dubai Angel steamed away from Burnaby, B.C., with the first shipment of crude pumped through the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline, it [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff If you want your government officials to be on the ball when it comes to foreign interference, it might help if they could make a list, [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff For a textbook example of political debate unglued from real-world concerns, it's hard to do better than Tuesday's Question Period. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland crowed that [...]

Greg Fergus’s tenure as Speaker of the House of Commons has been a series of unfortunate events, Accidents happen. Last December, when Greg Fergus, the Speaker of the House of Commons, wanted to record a tribute for his old buddy, John Fraser, who was leaving his post [...]

Abortion is one of the holy trinity of explosive issues that the Liberals lob at the Conservatives in every election campaign, but usually they wait until late in the writ period before they reach for those weapons, It seems a little early for the kitchen sink. But Justin Trudeau and his Liberals saw an opportunity, however slim, to attack Conservatives on abortion – and they grasped at [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff There's an old joke that political strategists sometimes tell about two campers who see a bear moving toward them. One of them stops to put on [...]

The system of nomination races for major parties, Liberal and Conservative, is pretend democracy, When former columnist Sabrina Maddeaux announced last week that she was suspending her campaign for a Conservative Party nomination in the riding of Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill because of a https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ex-columnist-once-touted-as-a-rising-conservative-star-drops-out-of/ [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff It's 2024, and Justin Trudeau's Liberal government has tabled the foreign-interference bill that would have been so useful in 2019. A new offence for foreign interference, [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff The Leader of the Opposition really wanted to call the Prime Minister a wacko. Or at least he didn't want to take it back. That's what [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Mark Carney might be setting the stage to run for the Liberal leadership after the next election. Or he might be auditioning for a role as [...]

The early polls since the budget was brought down don’t show any movement – in fact, they show the Tory lead growing, The bad polls are weighing down the Liberals, so they have decided to shed some weight: They aim to cut the Conservatives’ lead by five percentage points by July. Like [...]

It was the RCMP that provided new developments to fuel MPs’ questions, forcing Mr. Firth to confirm he is being investigated, The last time someone was called before the bar of the House of Commons to answer MPs’ inquiries, it was to demand that a man named R.C. Miller explain how [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff The last time someone was called before the bar of the House of Commons to answer MPs' inquiries, it was to demand that a man named [...]

Listen to Justin Trudeau talk about how national security briefings happen and you might end up being a little unclear on the actual protocol, So, how does the Prime Minister hear about intelligence again? It’s not from reading. There are a lot of documents, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/justin-trudeau/ told the https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/foreign-interference/ Commission on Wednesday, but if you [...]

Testimony by Trudeau’s senior staffers at Foreign Interference Commission raise more worrisome questions, When a series of reports on intelligence about foreign interference started to appear in news media last year, Canadians tried to put them into context. Inside the Prime Minister’s Office, [...]

Han Dong says he wasn’t involved in organizing the busload of students and didn’t know anything about documents that indicated, falsely, that they lived in Don Valley North, When Han Dong wanted to run for Parliament in Toronto, the first step was for him to win a Liberal nomination. And part of his campaign strategy was asking international [...]

The angst of families is palpable, and they are giving Mr. Trudeau’s Liberals the cold shoulder, Before the last federal election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government spent billions to hand out a $500 precampaign bonus cheque to Old Age Security recipients and increased payments to those [...]

One columnist’s misreading of a recent court judgment kicked off public condemnations and outrage, The outrage spread quickly. Why would the Supreme Court of Canada rule that the word “woman” is confusing – and that the phrase “person with a vagina” should be used [...]

Shaking the ArriveCan tree has made a lot of other things fall out – and the world of government contracting looks a lot like a place where the system is made for gaming, We haven’t got to the bottom of the ArriveCan debacle, but it sure has drawn out a host of other problems inside government. The mystery of how the bill got [...]

The NDP leader bungled a pitch for a provincial buy-in to the national program, In his moment of purported triumph, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/jagmeet-singh/ managed to bungle things. The NDP Leader was celebrating the deal with Prime Minister https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/justin-trudeau/ government to launch a mini-pharmacare program that would [...]

Spending has defined the Trudeau government’s budgets since 2016, but there is no economic reason to run deficits right now, In the making of Liberal budgets, there is always room for more. That isn’t just a byproduct of the budget process, it’s the point. There has to be more spending [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff In the making of Liberal budgets, there is always room for more. That isn't just a byproduct of the budget process, it's the point. There has [...]

It’s a long way from full pharmacare – but the compromise was made more in practice than in principle, The Liberal-NDP agreement on national, universal, single-payer pharmacare has a peculiar quirk: It was struck even though the two parties don’t agree on national, universal, single-payer pharmacare. The package unveiled [...]

Jagmeet Singh will prop up Justin Trudeau a little longer to see pharmacare implemented, but pretty soon they are going to have to politically starting fighting each other, This week will mark the high-water mark for the Liberal-NDP deal, with framework legislation for pharmacare and coverage for a few key drugs, notably for birth control and diabetes. And [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff This week will mark the high-water mark for the Liberal-NDP deal, with framework legislation for pharmacare and coverage for a few key drugs, notably for birth [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff There is one message Canada's major political leaders want to send you about their opponent's internet policies: Be afraid. The only thing more dangerous than the [...]

The MPs at parliamentary committees are never getting to the bottom of ArriveCan, Thank goodness the Commons committee on government operations called for yet another investigation into ArriveCan. Heaven knows the committee’s own hearings are going around in circles. On Thursday, the committee [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Thank goodness the Commons committee on government operations called for yet another investigation into ArriveCan. Heaven knows the committee's own hearings are going around in circles. [...]

Even if all of the Conservative leader’s proposed policies did apply to Pointe-Claire, it would be bonkers. Its situation shows why his policy is a bad plan, Pierre Poilievre held a press event in a shopping-mall parking lot in Montréal’s West Island railing about big-city bureaucrats blocking the development of housing. The mall is near a soon-to-be-built [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Imagine it's 2026, and President Trump is calling Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre to collect. Canada hasn't paid its NATO bill. "Sir," Mr. Poilievre asks - [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff When the Auditor-General's news release starts with the words 'glaring disregard,' you know it won't be good news for the government. Still, it was hard to [...]

Singh needs to stop making unconvincing warnings that he is willing to pick a fight if Liberals don’t deliver and instead focus on communicating to Canadians what it is he’s fighting for, Twice this week, Jagmeet Singh has drawn a line in the sand. Unfortunately, the line is invisible. The https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/new-democratic-party/ Leader trooped out on Monday to tell reporters the Liberals had [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Twice this week, Jagmeet Singh has drawn a line in the sand. Unfortunately, the line is invisible. The NDP Leader trooped out on Monday to tell [...]

Tory MPs have enjoyed shooting off explosive questions during the hearings into the app. Now they’re firing in both directions, In the long, strange series of hearings into the ArriveCan app, one of the most peculiar twists is that Conservative MPs have switched sides from prosecution to defence. In November, [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff In the long, strange series of hearings into the ArriveCan app, one of the most peculiar twists is that Conservative MPs have switched sides from prosecution [...]

The Liberals should have known in 2019 that appointing Annette Verschuren as chair of Sustainable Development Technology Canada was the wrong thing to do. They did it anyway, If you were a government trying to pick someone to head the board for an agency whose job it is to hand out other people’s money, one criterion would have [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff If you were a government trying to pick someone to head the board for an agency whose job it is to hand out other people's money, [...]

Provinces and schools ignored the warnings for too long – that left no option apart from ripping the Band-Aid off, Canada’s universities and colleges sent an open letter to Immigration Minister Marc Miller this week about the cap he has imposed on new foreign students. The gist was this: Please [...]

You might think you already know, because he makes speeches with bold phrases that do seem paint a picture of a different future. Yet so much of the picture is unclear or full or gaps., Pierre Poilievre stood in front of his cheering Conservative MPs on Sunday, rhetorically pummelling Justin Trudeau and revelling in his status as the front-runner to be the next prime minister. [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Pierre Poilievre stood in front of his cheering Conservative MPs on Sunday, rhetorically pummelling Justin Trudeau and revelling in his status as the front-runner to be [...]

As a Liberal MP calls for a leadership review, there is not much time left for the party to possible select a new leader ahead of the 2025 election, Liberal MP Ken McDonald is the guy who thinks it’s time to call the fire department because he’s been smelling smoke for days. The Newfoundland MP has come out in [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff In Canada's big-money foreignstudent industry, bad schools were taking over from good ones. Many universities had become dependent on the higher tuitions they charge foreign students, [...]

The federal government has threatened to cap the number who get student visas unless provinces do something, and yet Ontario, the biggest culprit of the foreign student boom, still sits on its hands, For months now, federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller has been warning provinces that if they don’t rein in the boom in foreign students, Ottawa will have to do something. By [...]

Justin Trudeau’s pro-immigration Liberal government has messed up Canadian immigration egregiously while public support has tumbled, Updated: December 21, 2023 If Justin Trudeau is truly worried about Trump-style politics being imported into Canada, he should fix the massive policy failure that threatens to fuel it. That’s [...]

Some of the things that were once big news or big ideas were disappeared in 2023, Updated: December 26, 2023 Big plans. Big promises. And then … silence. In politics, things that are front and centre for months can slide out of view. Often, that’s because [...]

Byline: Campbell Clark; Staff The sharp end of global geopolitics used to be a comfortable distance away. Now it is getting closer to Canada. It's not just that the Northwest [...]

Canadians could see an interesting political debate in the next two years as the Conservatives focus on inflation and deficits, but avoid talking about whether they would cut social progams, Updated: December 13, 2023 If you tried to imagine the narrative arc of Canadian social policy, you might guess that the dental-care program announced this week marks the peak of [...]