Topic:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper promises he will use his new majority to govern on behalf of all Canadians, not just the 40 per cent who voted for him. Assuming he intends to do what he says, what could he do to reassure the 60 per cent who supported candidates and parties on the left of the Tories?
This is a tale of two political scandals. Both strike at the heart of our democracy.
Whenever federal and provincial heads of government gather, the seating at the head of the table is the same. The prime minister sits in the centre with the premier of Ontario on his right and the premier of Quebec on his left.
They called it the "Phoney War" - or, in German, "der Sitzkrieg" (the "sitting war") - that period between the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the beginning of the Battle of France in the spring of 1940. The two sides dug in and nothing much happened, on the land in Europe at least.
Rupert Murdoch and Conrad Black make for an interesting study in media power. They are similar, yet quite different.
It was quite a night! The new Parliament is going to be a very different place.
As the Ontario election heads into its second week, the issues are emerging. Health care (quality, availability and wait times), job creation, taxes, hydro rates, gasoline prices, and university tuitions are all pocketbook issues that resonate province-wide.
Start with the New Democratic Party. Its “orange surge” of recent days — leading to fevered speculation that it would supplant the Bloc Québécois as number 1 in Quebec and the Liberals as number 2 in Ottawa — has been the most arresting development in an otherwise listless election campaign.
We are going to talk today about Stephen Harper and his abuse of Parliament, but kindly bear with me for a moment.
Harper seeks to calm Duffy affair.