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Grudging Credit I have to admit that Paul did a fairly good job at the inquiry today. I wasn’t wowed by his performance like I was by Chretien on Tuesday (everyone I’ve talked to, even people who hate Chretien, agree the golf ball stunt was one of the all-time great performances of political theater) but […]

Gossip Mongers I do love Pierre Bourque’s site, but at times the “breaking news” insider rumours of his can be a bit over the top (“Bernard Lord ready to run!!!”). According to his latest update, “persons close to Prime Minister Paul Martin are looking for ways to put the kibosh on the long-running Gomery Adscam […]

Ballsy Performance Wow. People have underestimated Jean Chretien his entire career. His success has been written off to weak opposition. But, love him or hate him, everyone who watched him today saw why he’s one of the most successful politicians in Canada’s history. Regardless of what you think of the guy, it’s impossible not to […]

The Next Chief? The domination of the Liberal Party in the 20th century has been remarkable. It’s obviously not just a series of a flukes or the fact that John A MacDonald hung Louis Riel. Since the Great Depression, the Conservatives have had only two breaks from Liberal rule (or, as they say in Alberta, […]

Gomery Pyle? Or a pile of… I haven’t commented much of the Gomery inquiry so far on this site, mainly since Warren’s written enough on it for the entire blogsphere combined over the past month. So I’m just going to rapid fire out a few comments: 1. I’ve read a lot of opinions from people […]

Trimming Government Fat This story caught my eye, if only because it was one of the policies debated, and defeated on the final day at the Liberal convention last weekend. This is the type of thing I’ve been in favour of for a long time. I really believe the tax code should be modified to […]

Water is Good The Liberal Party of Canada in Alberta wrapped held its convention this weekend. I’ve been going to these things for a long time and this one was one of the most interesting in years because of the intense policy debate. The convention went off very smoothly so I tip my virtual blogger’s […]

The French Invasion Day 1 of the Liberal Party’s Alberta convention is in the books and it’s become apparent that Same Sex Marriage will be the hot topic du jour. The president of the party’s Alberta wing gave a passionate speech defending charter rights and urging Liberals to vote forward the pro-SSM policy resolution (well, […]

The Practice An alert reader sent me an e-mail clarifying yesterday’s post. He quite rightly pointed out that Chris Kiebermanis was represented by Kevin Feehan, who is a very good lawyer, and very Liberal lawyer. So, you can strike that point from my argument. I still feel the CRO is better suited to decide what […]