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Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff It is fitting that U.S. President Joe Biden will be in Canada this week because his economic policy will be here next week. The big question [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff U.S. President Joe Biden wants to talk about Ukraine, global competition with China, continental defence, hemispheric migration and Haiti. Justin Trudeau wants to push Canada's interests [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Now we know CSIS reported that Chinese diplomats discussed ways to interfere in Vancouver's mayoral election last year, and hoped to groom friendly local politicians who [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Volkswagen has just chosen to build an electric-vehicle battery plant in St. Thomas, Ont., because the federal government offered them large subsidies. How much money? Ottawa [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff For years, Canada has wanted the United States to change a key border agreement in order to shut down irregular border crossings, notably Quebec's Roxham Road, [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Imagine for a moment what would happen if Canada's auto industry was sucked away into the United States. Tens of thousands of jobs and a big [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff When the word came that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was going to make an announcement about foreign interference in Canadian elections, speculation mounted about what new [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff There were, before an important vote on a public inquiry, a number of officials who came to the Commons procedure committee with caveats. There are lots [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff If there was ever an action with a message, it was Google's decision to block Canadian news sites for some people searching the internet. It came [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Let's hold all our politicians to one simple rule about Roxham Road: Don't tell us what you want to do about it. Tell us how you [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff We now know the Canadian Security Intelligence Service found there was an organized Chinese-government effort to interfere in Canada's election in 2021. What we don't know [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Appropriate. The word appears 100 times in just the executive summary of Justice Paul Rouleau's report on the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act, because [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Ontario Premier Doug Ford hosted a party at his house where land developers brought cash gifts for his soon-to-be-married daughter. Wow. That's a real problem. Let's [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff It was smart for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to quickly announce that he would honour the healthfunding proposal Justin Trudeau put forward on Tuesday. It showed [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff To open the federal government's long-awaited proposal on health care funding was to know what it feels like to be a provincial premier. Ottawa was pledging [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Get it over with already. Get that federal-provincial health care deal done. Then get on to fixing the system so Canadians get better care. The federal-provincial [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Justin Trudeau told us he was roaring into 2023 to 'meet the moment' but lately his Liberals have been regrouping, retreating and running around in circles. [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff The Conservatives had so much there in front of them. All the opposition did. They were reviewing the growing mountain of government contracts issued to consultants, [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Sometimes, politicians in power can start to talk like their officials, or the people they talk to over and over again. Maybe that's why Canadians who [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Pierre Poilievre's speech to the Conservative caucus last week was an assertion that Justin Trudeau was spreading suffering throughout the land. Mr. Trudeau told his caucus [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff The Bank of Canada's former deputy governor, Carolyn Wilkins, went to Hamilton last week to do a presentation for Liberal cabinet ministers, and she must have [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff The good news is that the feds and the provinces are getting close to a deal on funding health care, and the biggest reason that's good [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff It seemed pretty bad. A column three months ago criticized Ottawa for its handling of the ArriveCan app, which included paying hefty commissions to a two-person [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Nearly every question NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh gets these days is about what it would take to make him defeat Justin Trudeau's government. His party has [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff A few months ago, Justin Trudeau's surrogates started to spread the word he will run again in the next election. But there is still time for [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff After all this time, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has finally applied real pressure on Justin Trudeau to make a deal on health care funding. He did [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Transport Minister Omar Alghabra is a nice guy and that's a liability at a moment when people want him to be mean. The holiday travel disruptions [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff It was nice that U.S. President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, tacked a Three Amigos summit with Justin Trudeau onto meetings [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff All those promises. For a few years, Justin Trudeau's government seemed to be weighed down by inertia and events. Some decisions kept getting put off for [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff It seems like everyone is giving NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh advice these days, but it turns out he's doing fine. Or at least, as well as [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff You don't have to look at opinion polls too long to see wide support for gun restrictions among Canadians. It should be hard for the Liberals [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Trade Minister Mary Ng stood up in the House of Commons and apologized for steering a contract to a friend. 'I take full responsibility for my [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff The bad news is that we are still at the liar's-poker stage of federal-provincial negotiations on health care. That's the part where everybody bluffs and bluffs [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Just 10 days ago, the Government of Canada was telling us in its new Indo-Pacific strategy that it is now taking a 'cleareyed' approach to China, [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff It was nice of Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet to lean in to give Alberta Premier Danielle Smith some props for Alberta's sovereignty act. Or sort [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff The good thing about Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy is that there actually is one, an important thing for a country whose recent foreign policy has been mostly [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff If there was any thought that Justin Trudeau would crack under lawyers' grilling at a public inquiry, the confident Prime Minister killed it. He gave assertive [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff When Justin Trudeau testifies today, he will be looking to answer the politician's questions about the federal government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act. What the [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff When is something that is not a threat to national security actually a threat to national security? That is becoming an important question at the inquiry [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff The United States keeps asking Canada to lead a military mission to Haiti, and Ottawa keeps saying maybe. What the Canadian government doesn't want to say [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff One of the great quirks of geopolitical fate in 2022 was that the Russian invasion of Ukraine solidified the Western alliance that Vladimir Putin hates so [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff In conversations with provincial and federal politicians and officials about the stalled talks about health care funding, one phrase is often repeated: We don't want to [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff There is no real substantive reason why the Premier of Ontario can't testify before the inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act, but, as a [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff The meeting of health ministers that opens Monday night in Vancouver is of crucial importance to the country, but the participants themselves don't seem to realize [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff The meeting of health ministers that opens Monday night in Vancouver is of crucial importance to the country, but the participants themselves don't seem to realize [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was talking a lot about fiscal responsibility in the days before the Fall Economic Statement, but that message was muddled by her [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff When Ontario Premier Doug Ford fielded questions about why he wasn't testifying before the public inquiry looking into the use of the Emergencies Act to break [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff There are two guys working from home on the outskirts of Ottawa who have racked up millions of dollars in commissions by winning government IT contracts [...]