Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: All eyes on the NDP
Awaiting the train wreck No offence, Conservatives, but all you did was win 24 more seats. Jack Layton’s Daddy Day Care is far more compelling. Thank you, Don Macpherson of the Montreal Gazette, for...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: Jack Layton’s not-so-secret agenda
WEEKEND ROUNDUP What you voted for The New Democrats’ Quebec policies were hiding in plain sight. For the edification of Jack Layton and anyone else who requires it, Stéphane Dion, writing in the...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: This is Harperland
Fixing Canada, one policy at a time The more Ottawa changes, the more it stays the same. The National Post‘s Kelly McParland thinks it’s amazing that Liberal party president Alf Apps can mount a podium...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: ‘Banning’ knives, and other non-solutions
A riot of their own Scenes from various societies hurtling towards oblivion — or something. The National Post‘s Brian Hutchinson tells the amazing tale of British Columbia’s gangster Bacon brothers,...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: No vacation, please. We’re Canadian
WEEKEND ROUNDUP Why can’t we have nice things? The Globe and Mail‘s John Ibbitson observes that basically no one takes less vacation than Canadians and Americans, and that we generally don’t even take...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: Another Liberal ‘shortcut to power’
Dance of the contrarians The Globe and Mail‘s Jeffrey Simpson takes issue with the idea that Jack Layton was a “visionary,” noting that while many more people joined his team in the last election than...
View ArticleNational Post editorial board: Thomas Mulcair’s not much of a federalist
Thomas Mulcair claims he’s a federalist. Nevertheless, the NDP leadership aspirant’s views on his province’s place within Canada are alarmingly Quebec-centric. True, his policies are similar to those...
View ArticleScott Stinson: Tory crime bill launches latest big federalism fight
Hands up, everyone who had Nov. 1 in the next-big-fight-about-federalism office pool. Speaking about the omnibus anti-crime bill before a House of Commons committee on Monday, Quebec’s justice minister...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: The limits of Canadian tolerance
WEEKEND ROUNDUP We can’t all get along Sheila Copps, writing in The Hill Times, spices up a bog-standard rant about Stephen Harper “reshap[ing] the image of Canada in his own neo-con likeness” with the...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: The beginning of the end of Medicare. Or not
Salvation through innovation The Ottawa Citizen‘s editorialists dismiss the complaints of Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, among others, with respect to the new health-care deal on offer from...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: Not so fast, Mr. Flaherty
So provincial We could pretend to understand securities regulation, but y’all would see right through us instantaneously. So we’ll just round up the reaction to Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling nixing...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: Stephen Harper and his ‘major’ plans
Psychoanalyzing a Prime Minister “If ever there was a case where a decentralist would say the federal government should butt out and let the province do its own thing, [Insite] was it,” Dan Gardner...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: The Rae/Mulcair axis must be defeated!
Knives blazing, guns thrusting Canadian politics begins to come to grips with the idea of Thomas Mulcair as Leader of the Official Opposition. Amidst all this talk of Thomas Mulcair trying to moderate...
View ArticleChris Selley: Thomas Mulcair is the smart federalist choice
One of the only circumstances in which you still hear old-school federalist sentiments is when left-wing Quebec nationalists make the news. Many of the old battles on bilingualism and special status...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: Guess who’s ‘unqualified to be prime minister’?
Questioning Mulcair “The emergence of a federalist Quebecer as official opposition leader, heading a party that holds the great majority of Quebec seats, is a welcome development,” the Montreal...
View ArticleJeff Jedras: Thomas Mulcair, ‘federalist champion’, opens opportunity for...
Since the election of former Quebec cabinet minister Thomas “Tom” Mulcair as leader of the NDP last month, much attention has been paid to the political situation in Quebec and the consensus seems to...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: Michael Ignatieff opens his mouth
Neither a politician nor a pundit be Maybe he can take up carpentry! On his Maclean’s blog, Martin Patriquin not very politely takes issue with some of Michael Ignatieff’s basic complaints about modern...
View ArticleChris Selley’s Full Pundit: The great Canadian sellout to Quebec
Federalism: Are we doing it wrong? In an excellent column in The Hill Times (reproduced here, gratis), Brian Lee Crowley argues that many of the things the Canadian federation has tolerated from and...
View ArticleConrad Black: Charest begins campaign with an edge over splintered, mediocre...
It has become a cliché to say that Quebec Premier Jean Charest is not popular, has not been especially effective, is facing serious criticism over a construction scandal, but should not be...
View ArticleMaxime Bernier: Quebec needs to embrace Canada
Since the provincial election, the media has devoted a lot of space to the uncertain future of the Parti Québécois. But there is a much more pressing and relevant matter to address, one that has...
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