‘With or without you’: policy sovereignty in a Trumpian world
If we are to achieve the ambition Mark Carney laid out so eloquently and clearly for Canada to set out its own path as a middle-power, we also need to start asking ourselves questions about risks to our policy sovereignty. Donald Trump’s newest threat to put a 100 per cent tariff on all Canadian imports if Canada makes a trade deal with China is such a threat to Canada’s policy sovereignty.
Amid election speculation and Liberals’ rise in polls, Poilievre’s Conservatives congregate in Calgary for high-stakes leadership review
Pierre Poilievre will get a ‘resounding’ endorsement in the leadership review, says Conservative MP and convention co-MC Stephanie Kusie.
MPs celebrate canola tariff relief, but national security, pork, remain opposition concerns with China
Just because the tariff has been reduced today, ‘doesn’t mean it’s not going to come back,’ said Conservative MP Dan Mazier, whose Manitoba riding of Riding Mountain grows the most canola in Canada.
Canada’s correctional service is beyond reform
The Correctional Service of Canada is chronically resistant to any semblance of reform, despite its well-documented and glaring failures. That might not seem to matter for Canadians who have never experienced federal incarceration, but it is creating a massive public safety problem.
Energy Minister Hodgson names new press secretary, director
Speaking of press secretaries, Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski added Soraya Lemur to her team last fall.
Time to close the U.S. arms export loophole
Prime Minister Mark Carney talks about pragmatic principles, but Canada’s weapons exports to the United States tell a different story.
MPs eye support for expat voters as PROC study on special ballot challenges wraps
Committee members say they’re looking at changes to improve special ballot voting processes, including for voters living abroad who cast ballots in record numbers in the April 2025 election.
Bravo to Carney for speaking the truth
The prime minister dared suggest the Plains of Abraham is the symbolic cradle of Canada. And he was right to do so.
Canada-U.S. relations heading into uncharted territory
PM Mark Carney’s takedown of the president in the world spotlight, while popular, has added profound new uncertainties to the entire Ottawa-Washington matrix.
Housing Minister Robertson ‘well regarded’ for municipal background, but needs a vision for housing, say sector experts
Canada is still nowhere near the level needed to make housing affordable for the middle class, and despite Robertson’s municipal bonafides, the federal plan is still not well defined, say observers and critics.
