This is the last post in my series Minority Reports: Politics and power in Canada, written for TheThunderbird.ca. As such, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at where we’ve been in order to analyze some of the stories we’ve been following and hopefully give you a sense of what [...]
Hey Harper, when your former boss said “the west wants in,” I think he was talking about the prairie populists, not the west coast hippies.
The Harper government’s latest budget (labelled the NDP budget by some commentators) projects an $85 billion deficit over the next five years and represents one of the largest annual spending increases [...]
I was very pleased about the outcome of the last federal election. The Conservatives increased their seat count and it appeared as though none of the opposition parties would have any incentive to force another election anytime soon.
“But didn’t you want a Conservative majority?” I was asked the next day, after expressing my approval of [...]
At the end of December, Prime Minister Stephen Harper filled 18 vacant seats in the Senate. This move was widely criticized because Harper had said the seats would remain vacant until the provinces put a system in place to elect senators. But is it possible that the Senate was designed to be ineffective? Is it [...]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty are in the unenviable position of trying to craft a budget that will make everyone happy, or at least not piss off too many of the wrong people. At the end of November, fiscal conservatives had good reason to be optimistic. In his economic update, Flaherty [...]
Canadians may be rightly confused about where their federal political parties sit on the ideological spectrum these days. Dion tried to move the Liberal party to the left. The coalition brought with it the possibility of uniting Canada’s left-wing parties, which would have brought the NDP slightly closer to the centre. However, Ignatieff now seems [...]
At the end of November 2008, Canada’s political system was thrown into disarray when the Liberals and NDP threatened to topple the minority Conservative government with a coalition that would be propped-up by the Bloc Quebecois. This proved to be an extremely polarizing issue for Canadians. For weeks the issue dominated the headlines and the [...]
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