As Canadians continue to call for a more sustainable energy policy and respect for the environment, it’s disconcerting to see the extent to which the oil lobby has penetrated into Justin Trudeau’s inner circle. ...
“[W]hen you start to compromise your principles, you’re through.”
– Justin Trudeau, February 22, 2014
The reviews are in, and the Liberal backroom deals of Monday aren’t looking so good: ...
Justin Trudeau says he’s impressed by Eve Adams’ commitment to public services. But what did the Liberal leader have to say about Eve Adams when allegations about her behavior towards a riding association emerged less than a year ago? ...
A floor-crossing is always a betrayal of voters, and an exercise in old-school politics. But today’s defection of a cast-off Conservative to the Trudeau Liberals raises the bar on political hypocrisy. ...
After raising expectations he would make a concrete proposal on the environment, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau failed to present a real plan for fighting climate change, making polluters pay for the pollution they create, or for properly balancing the environment and the economy. ...
Today Peter McKay was at the Economic Club of Canada boasting about his Government’s “tough on crime” agenda. But can Conservatives really claim credit for reducing crime? ...
“Mr. Speaker, the word ‘flip-flop’ gets overused sometimes, but in the case of the Liberal Party and Iraq, we have seen so many flip-flops, five of them actually, we have had to coin a new word, the ‘fifth-flop’.” ...
Now that Canadian Forces on the ground have been engaged in combat with enemy forces in Iraq, Justin Trudeau has an interesting take on things. Last week the Department of National Defence revealed that Canadian soldiers who are participating in an “advise and assist” role have in fact been engaging in direct fire and directing the dropping of bombs. ...
More confused messages today from the Conservatives on Canada’s role in the war in Iraq. The Chief of Defence Staff now says that Canadian participation at the front lines assisting in targeting was always part of the mission, even though he denied that would be happening in October. ...
Perhaps tired of criticism that he has no plans, the Liberal leader attempted to roll out two ideas on the future of manufacturing in Southern Ontario in two days – never mind that they are directly contradictory. ...
Pierre Poilievre likes to talk about respecting the taxpayer, but he doesn’t seem to think Canadians have a right to know how he’s spending their money. ...
As the Liberal retreat comes to a close, they’ve managed to come up with just one new policy proposal: making pension plans pay for infrastructure. ...
“Open Data is about offering Government data in useful machine-readable formats to enable citizens, the private sector, and non-government organizations to leverage it in innovative and value-added ways.” ...
Yesterday the Prime Minister’s Office assured journalists that despite Canadian Forces being involved in combat in Iraq, they were still not on a “combat mission”. ...
Not only are NDP governments the best fiscal managers, according to Finance Canada statistics, the evidence shows that New Democrat governments also do the best when it comes to tackling unemployment. ...
"Our Government is the most transparent government in Canadian history”
- Tony Clement, December 19, 2012
How are Conservatives really doing? According to the most recent Access to Information Act Bulletin, last year: ...
Justin Trudeau’s brain trust certainly got awfully excited by the NDP caucus meetings last week – making things up and engaging in negative attacks. ...
The Conservatives are kicking off 2015 by continuing one of the Liberal Party’s great traditions: promising a more open government, but instead governing in the same old secretive style, breaking all their promises to fix the Access to Information Act. ...
The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) recently caught up with Leona Aglukkaq, Conservative Minister of the Environment and MP for Nunavut. ...
@ErinOTooleMP After some initial meetings I spent my 1st day as MVA calling & listening to leading veterans organizations starting with the @RCL_DC ...
@kenneyjason: Great to see the creation of 54,000 full time #jobs last month
– Twitter, January 9, 2015
Woot indeed Minister! But if Jason Kenney took the trouble to read the whole Statistics Canada report, he would have learned that these new jobs were more than offset by 58,000 jobs lost. ...
Before he was Prime Minister, Stephen Harper painted himself as a proponent of small government and a defender of austerity:
“I tend to come from the small government end of conservatism.” ...
VETS OFFICE CLOSURES
After the dismal performance of Julian Fantino – noted for his heartless comments about veterans offices simply being administrative points of contact as he closed down Veterans Affairs offices across the country, no one can question the fact it was time for a fresh face ready to change things. ...
