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Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Former Liberal aide Zita Astravas was called to the foreign-interference inquiry to explain the mysterious 54-day delay before a politically sensitive CSIS warrant application was approved. [...]

Her answers went round in circles, they referred back to previous responses, and if anything, the mystery is bigger now, Former Liberal aide Zita Astravas was called to the https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/foreign-interference/ inquiry to explain the mysterious 54-day delay before a politically sensitive CSIS warrant application was approved. She did anything but. [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Things went missing in Bill Blair's office in the spring of 2021. Important things. Mr. Blair was, after all, the public safety minister, responsible for the [...]

A gap of nearly eight weeks, leaving CSIS agents waiting before the then-public safety minister signed off, has gone unexplained, despite questions at the foreign-interference public inquiry, Things went missing in Bill Blair’s office in the spring of 2021. Important things. Mr. Blair was, after all, the public safety minister, responsible for the intelligence agencies, the RCMP [...]

Trudeau is trying various ways to unlock the barriers voters have built up. His advisers hope to displace the sour image of him that has grown in voters’ minds, There’s a reason why Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign puts out social-media ads with middle-aged men saying they will vote for her. And why Justin Trudeau keeps appearing on hour-long podcasts. [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff There's a reason why Kamala Harris's presidential campaign puts out social-media ads with middleaged men saying they will vote for her. And why Justin Trudeau keeps [...]

The little that the Conservative Leader has said about dental and daycare programs has shifted, and it’s worth looking at the details, Nine months ago, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told a television interviewer that if he were prime minister, he would not cut Liberal child care and dental care programs. Or so [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Nine months ago, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told a television interviewer that if he were prime minister, he would not cut Liberal child-care and dental-care programs. [...]

Justin Trudeau already looks too far gone to rebuild his standing with the public in a way that would make him a credible salesperson for economic hope in the next election campaign, Interest rates are falling. Inflation is back down to the target level. Wages have finally caught up, on average, to the price increases of recent years. In some cities, landlords [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Interest rates are falling. Inflation is back down to the target level. Wages have finally caught up, on average, to the price increases of recent years. [...]

Conservative leader Poilievre brought a non-confidence vote to the House on Wednesday, For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, subscribe to The Decibel on your favourite podcast app or platform: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pocket Casts [...]

The meeting between the two long-serving leaders is an opportunity to draw focus away from domestic politics, The last time French President Emmanuel Macron came to Canada to visit Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was six years ago, when the two were seen as fresh centre-left leaders working [...]

Trudeau once walked on a wave of popularity. Now he’s used as a prop by unpopular politicians while others calculate how much they can extract, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs’s approval ratings are the lowest of any premier in Confederation, according to the Angus Reid Institute. When he launched his re-election campaign Thursday, Mr. Higgs [...]

Blanchet flatly rejects Tories’ non-confidence motion, seeks Liberal support for Old Age Security reform, Yves-François Blanchet wasn’t worried that there wasn’t much time for his press conference. “Five minutes?” the Bloc Québécois Leader said. “That’s plenty of time.” “The question is simple. The answer [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Yves-François Blanchet wasn't worried that there wasn't much time for his press conference. "Five minutes?" the Bloc Québécois Leader said. "That's plenty of time." "The question [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff T-here was, almost in passing, an allusion to reflecting on things. But the word that set the tone for Justin Trudeau's reaction to yet another gut-punch [...]

When way behind in the polls and defeated twice on your own political turf, the people are saying they want something different, and Trudeau doesn’t want to hear it, There was, almost in passing, an allusion to reflecting on things. But the word that set the tone for Justin Trudeau’s reaction to yet another gut-punch by-election loss was “continue.” [...]

Trudeau has taken up so much space at the top of Canadian politics over the past decade that it’s hard to turn attention way. The dynamics of a shaky Parliament will often be about his survival, There were two sides to the speech Pierre Poilievre gave in front Conservative caucus on Sunday, one in each official language. For the first 11 minutes, Mr. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/pierre-poilievre/ spoke in [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff There were two sides to the speech Pierre Poilievre gave in front Conservative caucus on Sunday, one in each official language. For the first 11 minutes, [...]

The best chance for the Liberal Party is to make it to a spring budget, but it will have to survive potential non-confidence votes before then, The minority Liberals are now on their own in Parliament. Or, at least, they will be one day. The real question is when. The death of the Liberal-NDP supply-and-confidence agreement [...]

There are always comings and goings among political staffers, to be sure. But there sure seem to be a lot of goings right now, The campaign director quit. Five https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-five-chiefs-of-staff-set-to-leave-the-trudeau-government/ are leaving. A Liberal fundraiser was appointed to the Senate. A https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-seamus-o-regan-labour-minister-ottawa-resignation/ and another is thinking about it. Justin Trudeau insists he’s not going [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff The campaign director quit. Five chiefs of staff to cabinet ministers are leaving. A Liberal fundraiser was appointed to the Senate. A senior minister quit and [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Jagmeet Singh's advisers must have scripted a line for him to repeat every time a reporter asked his reason for pulling out of the NDP's deal [...]

The NDP Leader is attempting to re-create Layton’s 2011 Orange Wave, to leap-frog the Liberals and position the New Democrats as the main party on the left, Jagmeet Singh’s advisers must have scripted a line for him to repeat every time a reporter asked his reason for pulling out of the https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ndp-supply-confidence-agreement-liberals/, and he repeated it doggedly. [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Now the teetering begins. The exhausted, embattled Liberal government just eked through another listless summer. The Prime Minister's Office has been telling Liberals for two years [...]

Justin Trudeau leads an unstable government following Jagmeet Singh’s decision to pull out of the supply-and-confidence agreement, Now the teetering begins. The exhausted, embattled Liberal government just eked through another listless summer. The Prime Minister’s Office has been telling Liberals for two years there’s lots of time [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff There was a burning question for Diane Daly, a civil servant who worked on the ArriveCan app project. But when she appeared before a Commons committee [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff What is immigration for? Canada seems to be confused by that question. Right now, the country's immigration system is digging out of a hole created by [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Let's look at the conundrum Marc Miller faces. The Immigration Minister must choose between bad policy and disaster. Mr. Miller announced in March that the government [...]

The Conservative Leader is undermining his own credibility by asserting that a secret Liberal government memo revealed hidden plans to legalize hard drugs, Canadians can see why drug policy has become a big political issue. The opioids epidemic is tragic and visible. People suffering from life-altering addiction can be seen in numbers on [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Canadians can see why drug policy has become a big political issue. The opioids epidemic is tragic and visible. People suffering from life-altering addiction can be [...]

The same issue that caused political turmoil in Britain, France and Canada, the cost of living, is weighing down Kamala Harris’s campaign from the start, Vice-President https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/kamala-harris/ has the nomination all but wrapped up and the donors are back. She has a good chance of mobilizing key segments of the Democrats’ base. Charli XCX says [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Vice-President Kamala Harris has the nomination all but wrapped up and the donors are back. She has a good chance of mobilizing key segments of the [...]

Liberals have been calling for urgent action for the past 4 weeks. But Justin Trudeau is laying low for a while, You might not know much about Steven MacKinnon, but for the past six months, his job in the House of Commons has been to take the questions the Prime Minister [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff The signal has been sent to the world: Don't count on us. In a second Donald Trump presidency, the U.S. won't believe in enduring alliances. Mr. [...]

In Canada, as in the U.S, big political parties find themselves without a lever to change who’s in charge, Who does Justin Trudeau listen to? Who can tap him on the shoulder and tell him it might be time to go? That’s a question that came up among Liberals [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Who does Justin Trudeau listen to? Who can tap him on the shoulder and tell him it might be time to go? That's a question that [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Uh-oh. The Prime Minister says he has full confidence in his finance minister. Sounds like Chrystia Freeland is dangling at the end of a thread. You [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Doug Ford was right on top of it. After only a weekend of Ontario's liquor-board strike, he had made a video pointing folks to stores where [...]

There was a theme to the Prime Minister’s answers, but nothing at all about the question of his own future as party leader, Justin Trudeau looked like a million bucks in a white shirt and a bright blue blazer as he made a funding announcement in his own Montreal riding in his usual [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Justin Trudeau looked like a million bucks in a white shirt and a bright blue blazer as he made a funding announcement in his own Montreal [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff This is a period of Liberal reflection, we are now told by Justin Trudeau himself. That is naturally needed to digest his party's gut-punch byelection loss [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY, CAMPBELL CLARK OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office declined to comment Sunday on a letter signed by several MPs calling for an immediate inperson national caucus [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Eleven months ago, Justin Trudeau decided to press the reset button. Perhaps you don't remember? It was the day when he announced a revamped cabinet, with [...]

We don’t really know how the Conservative leader would the economic principles at the core of his politics into the world of geopolitical subsidy wars, Once Canada poured tens of billions of dollars into electric-vehicle subsidies, it was inevitable that, one day, this country would build a tariff wall to keep out China’s EVs. The [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Two party leaders read the same secret report and gave the country what sounded like vastly different assessments. But Green Party Leader Elizabeth May didn't see [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Are there traitors in the House? Jagmeet Singh says there are. The NDP Leader used that word. He had read the secret, unredacted version of the [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Elizabeth May is the leader of a tiny two-person faction tucked away in the corner of the House of Commons, and she added something invaluable to [...]

If we don’t want denunciations based on spies’ suspicions and politicians’ power games, then there’d better be some kind of standard set first, Who should be named as a collaborator with foreign states interfering in Canada’s democracy? If an MP is known with certainty to be acting in secret with a foreign power [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Who should be named as a collaborator with foreign states interfering in Canada's democracy? If an MP is known with certainty to be acting in secret [...]