You know, a lot of people in the PQ probably thought they lost the last election solely because of Andre Boisclair. Perhaps the problems were far more deeply rooted than that, eh?

Just landing in my e-mail box… Dear Friends, Over the past few days I have been honoured by the incredible surge of support from all parts of our party for my candidacy for the leadership. The week ahead promises to be an exciting one and I wanted to share with you my thoughts as it […]

…Dion expected to resign this week, and the leadership race rumoured to be moved up. And here we thought all the political insanity had been prorogued until January, eh? As a LeBlanc supporter I’m obviously disappointed by this turn of events. I never expected Dominic to win, but felt he had a lot to bring […]

From Today’s Question Period: Craig Oliver: “Should you push the leadership race up so that you have a leader in place before that vote in January on the budget.” Michael Ignatieff: “Craig, I think there’s an emerging feeling in the caucus that given the importance of this vote in late January, it would be appropriate […]

With a pair of duelling rallies going on in downtown Toronto, I figured I would scout them out before doing a bit of Christmas shopping. Agree or disagree with them, seeing hundreds of people braving the cold to protest is a sign that democracy is alive an well in Canada (despite what people at both […]

Don’t worry – it won’t happen again. Truth be told, this is actually a fairly good article, I link to only because I did a frantic google search for the same sort of historical data a few weeks ago and came up empty, instead posting a much more modest analysis of the difficulties in governing […]

Now that we’ve taken a break from that horrifying experiment in parliamentary democracy, we can shift our attention back to another horrifying experiment in democracy – the Liberal Leadership Race. Some are now suggesting that this race should be sped up and I think that would be a mistake – we’re picking the man to […]

“When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid assent is frankly when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.” -Stephen Harper, 2005 Off the bat, I’ll say Stephen Harper should have faced the house and Michaelle Jean should have flat out refused his request to prorogue. This sets a very dangerous precedent […]

Martin hangs on as PM, shuts ParliamentTHE CANADIAN PRESSNovember 24th, 2005 OTTAWA – Prime Minister Paul Martin has won a stay of political execution – at least until February. Martin convinced Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean to suspend Parliament on Thursday, delaying a non-confidence vote scheduled for Monday that would have brought down his beleaguered minority […]

Liberal MP Derrick Lee, meanwhile, compared Harper’s move to suspend Parliament to the burning of the Reichstag in Germany by the Nazis.