Mexico’s ambassador to Canada to speak at Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on March 25
MONDAY, MARCH 24 Air Canada President to Deliver Remarks—Michael Rousseau, president and CEO of Air Canada, will discuss the airline’s vision for the future at a lunch event hosted by the Canadian Club Toronto. Monday, March 24, at 11:45 a.m. ET at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto. Details: canadianclub.org. TUESDAY, MARCH 25 Mayor’s Breakfast—Goldy […]
The Liberal Constanza strategy: do the opposite of usual practice
The Liberals have done a 180-degree shift; they’ve ditched the politics of pizzazz and personality and replaced it with the politics of mundane political proficiency.
Don’t believe Trump rooting for Carney
One of Canada’s first financial moves under Mark Carney was to sell off American dollars in a Canadian government bond offering. Donald Trump has met his match.
Poilievre faces ‘balancing act’ between Conservative MAGA support and anti-Trump Canadian sentiment: ‘they’re definitely not going to do interviews talking about why they like Donald Trump’
A Conservative source told The Hill Times that ‘at least 75 per cent’ of Conservative MPs, most from Western Canada, ‘support the Republicans in the U.S.’ and have been ‘favourable’ to Donald Trump. But the source also noted that almost all Conservatives do not support Trump’s idea of annexing Canada as the 51st state.
Liberal lead ‘built on toothpicks and very dry sand’ as party’s fortunes tied to perceptions of Carney rather than policy, polls suggest
The Liberals’ voter pool is volatile and open to moving to other parties, says Abacus Data’s David Coletto, meaning the first impressions of Mark Carney must last until the election for the party to claim a fourth consecutive victory.
The annexation joke with legs
It is best to react to Donald Trump’s annexation bad joke with a pirouette; pivot to offer a bad joke in return. Trump encouraged his neighbour and pal Wayne Gretzky to run for prime minister. Mark Carney should encourage Gretzky to run for governor of Florida.
April could be the cruelest month for Poilievre
Pierre Poilievre has been spinning his wheels in a feckless attempt to transfer the enmity he so successfully encouraged against Justin Trudeau to Mark Carney. That will be a tough sell.
Surging in the polls, PM Carney calls general election for April 28
Thanks to the ongoing trade war with the U.S. fuelling their momentum, the Carney Liberals enter the campaign with the wind at their backs but things could change during the 37-day campaign, says Ipsos pollster Darrell Bricker.
Ford-Carney relationship could provide federal Liberals with crucial boost in Ontario, says Coletto
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s positive remarks about Prime Minister Mark Carney weaken Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s change narrative, says pollster Greg Lyle.
‘Don’t make us compare you to Elon Musk’: public sector unions want job security assurances from feds as election looms
Prime Minister Mark Carney promised during the leadership campaign to cap the size of the public service, and ‘review our spending with an emphasis on outcomes and technology to reduce inefficiencies.’
