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Promise Kept
When Jack Layton promised that “I will create more jobs” during the campaign, many scoffed at him. Turns out he was right. In addition to their rookie MPs learning the ropes, one significant challenge facing the NDP will be the number of rookie staffers who run their offices. After all, many of the types of […]
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Rae of Light
As I said all along, this is really the best solution to the Liberals’ search for an interim leader. Rae is an outstanding communicator and will keep the party relevant during the search for a younger, permanent leader: Bob Rae won’t run for permanent Liberal leadership Bob Rae has decided he won’t take a third […]
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Welcome Back
For those who thought the new Stephen Harper, free from the shackles of minority government, would be any different from the old Stephen Harper, think again: Harper appoints three defeated candidates to Senate Prime Minister Stephen Harper has appointed three losing Conservative candidates to the Senate — including two former senators who had stepped down […]
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The New Cabinet
Before we look at the new Cabinet, the answer to the question on everyone’s mind: No, Maxime Bernier didn’t bring a date to the swearing in. With that out of the way, a look at the new puppets in the Stephen Harper Theater: Robert Douglas Nicholson: Minister of Justice and Attorney General of CanadaMarjory LeBreton: […]
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Killing the Subsidy
Shortly after the 2008 election, Stephen Harper caught everyone off guard with his plan to kill the per-vote subsidy political parties get. The backlash was intense, and this was seen as part of Stephen Harper’s Machiavellian plan to kill the Liberals. After this election, no one will be surprised when Harper decides to kill the […]
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Election Post-Mortem: The Conservatives
Previously: NDP, Bloc, Liberals, Greens A lot has been written over the past two weeks about the election that was, but nearly all of it has been about Jack Layton’s victory. This may be a bit unfair to the election’s actual winner, so let’s pause for a moment to reflect on what Stephen Harper accomplished […]
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Week in Review
I’ve been outside the country for the past week (prepare the attack ads). While they say a week is a long time in politics, it doesn’t look like I missed much. After all… 1. The Liberals are still searching for an interim leader. Perhaps we should just name an interim interim leader, while the search […]
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Election Post Mortem: The NDP
I don’t have much to add to the post-election discussion on the NDP’s past, present, and future, as most of the key points have already been beaten to death. But it’s worth a moment to pause and appreciate what Jack Layton accomplished last Monday. Layton inherited a party with 13 seats in the House of […]
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Meanwhile, in Alberta
I’ll be doing a social media session at the Alberta Liberal Party’s “Politics Re imagined” convention on the weekend of May 28th, in Calgary. You can register here.
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Election Post-Mortem: The Bloc
I was tempted to just post a snide comment along the lines of “don’t let the door hit you on the way out” and leave it at that for the Bloc post-mortem. But their collapse may very well be the most sudden and shocking in the history of Canadian politics, so it deserves more than […]