Since the spring of 2018, Chris George has written a weekly news column on Canadian politics for the Niagara Independent. Below you will find the full index of his work.
News Commentary from 2024
Trump speaks. Trudeau zooms. Poilievre and premiers step up.
November 29, 2024 – It has been a revealing week of leadership in Ottawa. Monday evening President-elect Donald Trump posted on social media that on his first day in office America would […]
Trudeau Liberals out of touch with Canadians’ household reality
November 22, 2024 – For many Canadian households, this Christmas season may be the toughest – economically speaking – that they have ever had […]
Three realities of Canada-U.S. relations that signal trouble
November 15, 2024 – Reviewing the political rhetoric from Ottawa’s governing Liberals and the national punditry in the wake of President-Elect Donald Trump’s sensational electoral results south of the border […]
Trudeau Liberals “pollution cap” on country’s oil and gas sector impacts all
November 8, 2024 — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith baldly stated, “I’m pissed – I’m absolutely angry” responding to Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. […]
Bill C-293: Establishing a new authority in Canada for the next global pandemic
November 1, 2024 — Lost in the political mayhem on Parliament Hill, unbeknownst to Canadians, the Trudeau government has advanced a piece of legislation […]
Canadians paying the price for this Trudeau government
October 25, 2024 — The international news organization The Economist rarely publishes Canadian news – a fact that needs to be fully appreciated in order to understand the magnitude of the following […]
Justin Trudeau jumps the shark – again
October 18, 2024 — There was a tragicomical moment at the Justice Hogue inquiry on foreign interference this week when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau jumped the shark […]
October 11, 2024 – At a pro-Palestinian protest on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Monday, a rallying cry rang out, “Death to Canada.” In Vancouver: chants of “We are Hezbollah, […]
Chorus of experienced voices tell Canadians why our military must be supported
October 4, 2024 – The state of the Canadian Forces has been in the headline news since July, when Canadian PM Justin Trudeau attended the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meetings and was embarrassed […]
Few factor the compound effect of the carbon tax
September 27, 2024 – A regular reader of the Niagara Independent who contacted me insisted that Canadians need to better understand how devastating the Liberals carbon tax is to our way of life […]
Week one in Ottawa: more of the same, except worse, much costlier, and all about Quebec
September 20, 2024 – This first week that MPs were back on Parliament Hill proved as volatile as pundits and politicos thought it would be. It began with surprising by-election results. The week included bombshell revelations […]
MPs return to Ottawa and a parliamentary mosh pit
September 13, 2024 – For Canadians not mesmerized by the ongoing political soap opera south of the border, this week proved very entertaining in Canada’s national political theatre.
Trudeau remains silent on potentially treasonous parliamentarians
September 6, 2024 – It was on Monday, June 3 that Canadians learned that their parliamentarians were colluding in quid pro quo relationships with foreign governments and […]
Trudeau government’s policy record speaks volumes (part three)
August 30, 2024 – Here is the current state of 11 Trudeau government programs that indicate nothing less than mismanagement, sheer incompetence, or calculated deceit – or a combination thereof.
Trudeau government’s policy record speaks volumes (part two)
August 23, 2024 – The greatest impact on the policies of the Trudeau government, unquestionably, has been the Liberals’ personal and business relationships with […]
Trudeau government’s policy record speaks volumes (part one)
August 16, 2024 – Conventional wisdom suggests that governments defeat themselves. There is a shelf life of every administration because sooner or later […]
Canadians deserve answers regarding threats of terrorism
August 9, 2024 – It is unnerving to hear that two individuals were arrested this week for plotting a terrorist act in Toronto. This news comes as Canadians […]
This ideological Liberal government is failing Canadians
August 2, 2024 – Seymour Hersh, the American Pulitzer Prize investigative journalist, observed, “Is there anything more dangerous than an ideologue who doesn’t know […]
Trudeau Liberals leave Canadians to drown in a sea of red ink
July 26, 2024 – The Bank of Canada’s announcement this week shaving a quarter per cent off the country’s […]
American politics has changed the channel from Canada’s crises
July 19, 2024 – Treason. Immigration. Housing. These are real-time Canadian crises that we must not allow to be trumped.
Trudeau schooled on commitment at NATO meetings
July 12, 2024 – The 2024 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit this week was a serious and frank affair reflecting the world’s mounting […]
Another scandal as Trudeau government plays politics with diaspora
July 5, 2024 – There has been another scandal in the nation’s capital, this one involving Canada’s defence minister and his orders to the Canadian Forces […]
Westerners’ efforts bridging the east – west divide (Part 3 of 3)
June 28, 2024 – One of the last acts of the Trudeau government before recessing for the summer parliamentary break was to ensure […]
Conservatives’ efforts bridging the east – west divide (Part 2 of 3)
June 21, 2024 – We R CONSERVATIVE (WRC) is a federal registered non-profit political advocacy organization whose mission is raising awareness of the misdeeds of the governing Liberals and […]
Western conservatives’ efforts bridging the east-west divide (Part 1)
June 14, 2024 – As a progressive ideologue whose government is single-mindedly pursing a globalist’s climate policy agenda […]
Another week of the Trudeau government’s rot
June 7, 2024 – There were reports released of parliamentarians that are knowingly collaborating with foreign governments, Liberal-friendly companies being routinely contracted hundreds of millions of […]
Trudeau Liberals’ immigration policies purposefully altering Canada
May 31, 2024 – Canada’s Immigration Minister, Marc Miller, has commanded center stage in Ottawa over the past few weeks making a rash of new policy announcements […]
Will Canada sign the WHO Pandemic Treaty next week?
May 24, 2024 – Beginning Monday the international community gathers in Geneva, Switzerland at the 77th World Health Assembly, where […]
24 facts for 2024 that reflect Trudeau’s Canada: Part Two
May 17, 2024 – Here are 24 facts for 2024 (part 2) that reflect the state of the country, that is Canada after eight-and-a-half years of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister […]
Twenty-four facts for 2024 that reflect Trudeau’s Canada
May 10, 2024 – Here are 24 facts for 2024 (part 1) that reflect the state of the country, that is Canada after eight-and-a-half years of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister […]
The Trudeau Liberals’ circus act is burying serious issues
May 3, 2024 – Exchanges in Parliament’s main theatre, the House of Commons, devolved this week into a mayhem more suited for under a circus big top […]
Canadians need to be aware of the WHO Pandemic Treaty
April 26, 2024 – Canadians can be excused for not knowing about the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Pandemic Treaty […]
The Trudeau Liberals’ 2024 “scorched earth” budget
April 19, 2024 – A scorched earth approach refers to an intent to deliberately destroy everything as one retreats, so that your advancing opponent is […]
O Canada, we (do not!) stand on guard for thee
April 12, 2024 – One of the most important duties of any federal government is to provide adequate national defence for the protection […]
Liberal and NDP MPs feathering their nests before facing the public
April 5, 2024 – The backbench MP now makes three-and-a-half times more than the average Canadian. Cabinet ministers make more than five times, and the Prime Minister eight times that of the average Canadian […]
Canada’s economic decline is about to get serious for all of us
March 29, 2024 – Recently published economic statistics and analysis have disclosed that the country’s current economy and the future prosperity of Canadians are not promising […]
Political rhetoric aside, Liberals’ carbon tax is just another tax
March 22, 2024 – Canadians are mere weeks away from the federal government once again hiking the carbon tax on gas pump prices and home heating fuel
March 15, 2024 – This week, Canadians were treated to Canada’s own version of “March Madness,” the political frenzy created when 39 federal cabinet ministers fan out over the country […]
The on-going cover-up concerning the Winnipeg and Wuhan labs
March 8, 2024 – What was once only suspected and labeled as a racism-fueled conspiracy theory by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has now become “most probable” given the facts […]
Access to primary care is a priority concern for Canadians
March 1, 2024 – The federal government must step up to provide its fair share of money to resuscitate Canada’s public health care system […]
Liberal-NDP electoral reform legislation for the 2025 election – watch for it
February 23, 2024 – The political backrooms of the Liberals and NDPs are currently negotiating these measures behind closed doors. Their intent is to introduce electoral reform legislation […]
News commentary from February 16th onward also appears
in the By George Journal substack platform.
Another scandal – perhaps “the last nail in the coffin”
February 16, 2024 – Canadian historians often cite Sir John A. Macdonald’s government as being the country’s most scandalous administration […]
The latest political numbers out of Ottawa
February 9, 2024 – This scribe has long held that Justin Trudeau will take the opportunity of Feb. 29, 2024, to repeat his father’s exit from the Prime Minister’s Office […]
Liberals putting lipstick on “a very ugly carbon tax pig”
February 2, 2024 – Still, the defiant way Trudeau and his ministers lashed out at the Conservatives this week suggests there is no moving the Liberals on providing carbon tax relief […]
The WEF casts a long shadow across Canada
January 26, 2024 – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is regularly feted by the WEF as a vanguard global leader of progressive initiatives […]
Trudeau government’s policies exacerbating Canadians’ affordability crisis
January 19, 2024 – After eight years of the Trudeau Liberal government managing the Canadian economy, Canadians are in the throes of a cost-of-living crisis […]
The number one issue for Canadians in 2024: The unaffordable cost of living
January 12, 2024 – There is a pervasive worry about the unaffordable cost of living. The bromides offered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the governing Liberals provide no relief […]
Trudeau’s and Poilievre’s mudslinging to be caked on in 2024
January 5, 2024 – Through 2024 Canadians are sure to hear countless fighting words from both Poilievre and Trudeau in anticipation of their forthcoming election contest […]
News Commentary from 2023
Top Three Stories of 2023 from the Nation’s Capital
December 29, 2023 – From concerns about Chinese Communist Party influence to record-breaking immigration numbers and Canadians’ declining standard of living […]
This nation is now “irrelevant” in world affairs: Deconstructing Canada (part 6)
December 22, 2023 – Canada has seemingly become a personification of its Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. It is insufferably egotistical […]
Sabotaging natural resources development: Deconstructing Canada (part 5)
December 15, 2023 – To understand the Trudeau government’s natural resources development approach, one must first know that Justin Trudeau and a core group of his ministers and senior staff […]
Trudeau’s degradation of Parliament: Deconstructing Canada (part 4)
December 8, 2023 – An Angus Reid poll reveals growing disillusionment among Canadians towards parliamentary proceedings, with 54% viewing MPs’ work as ‘posturing’ and 46% deeming it ‘useless’ […]
Trudeau’s perversion of justice: Deconstructing Canada (part 3)
December 5, 2023 – Justice in a post-national state is at the behest of the country’s Leader. Not that the country’s legal system has yet devolved into a totalitarian chokehold on justice, but […]
Robbing From Future Canadians: Deconstructing Canada (part 2)
November 24, 2023 – Perhaps there is no greater harm done by Justin Trudeau and his eight years as Prime Minister than robbing future generations of […]
Justin Trudeau’s eight-year record: Deconstructing Canada (part 1)
November 17, 2023 – Canadian PM Justin Trudeau faces mounting public discontent as poll numbers plummet and international controversies escalate, triggering widespread calls for his resignation […]
Liberals’ carbon tax is an oppressive, ineffectual tax
November 10, 2023 – If anything, the events of the past two weeks have revealed the Liberals’ carbon tax is a political ploy and not a tool to fight climate change as they claim it […]
There’s a lot to unpack with the Liberals’ immigration plans
November 3, 2023 – Immigration Minister Marc Miller was centre stage in Ottawa this week announcing the government’s new immigration targets for the next three years […]
CCP’s undue influence in Canada remains the elephant in the room
October 27, 2023 – “China’s goal is not to replicate the crude imperialism of the European, or even the American, type, but to create vassal states — subordinate countries that rule themselves but are expected to kowtow on command.” […]
A plea to a debt ladened government on behalf of strained Canadians
October 20, 2023 – In an open letter to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland this week, the Business Council of Canada took the extraordinary step to make a public plea to the federal government to resist making any new spending promises […]
Of the celebrations for Hamas in Canada
October 13, 2023 – This proved to be a week of many revelations for Canadians, prompting many to question the character of our country and its citizenry […]
Talking turkey this Thanksgiving weekend
October 6, 2023 – Top of mind for many Canadians this holiday weekend will certainly be the abysmal state of the economy and the soaring cost of living […]
A Labour Day 2023 snapshot of the working Canadian
September 1, 2023 – As Canadians enter the holiday weekend, many are financially stressed and worried about what the fall will bring for their household […]
PM and Liberals misinform with divisive rhetoric and ingenuine arguments
August 25, 2023 – PM Justin Trudeau (left) and former cabinet minister Catherine McKenna (right) were both out front of the Liberals’ recent offensive using ingenuine arguments that were deliberately confusing the facts and misinforming Canadians […]
Here’s the Canadian news you have likely missed
August 18, 2023 – Canadians can be forgiven if they missed the latest news about the country’s state of economic and […]
Canadians’ midsummer night’s nightmare: part two
August 11, 2023 – Over the past several months, finance minister Chrystia Freeland’s refrain in regard to the economy has been: “The reality is that Canada is a fantastic country and Canada is doing really well.” […]
Canadians’ midsummer night’s nightmare: part one
August 4, 2023 – Thanks in no small part to the polices of the current government, led by PM Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, all is not well on Canada’s economic front […]
About CBC and Justin Trudeau, and students and transgenderism
July 28, 2023 – Somehow, someway in the past few years, the proper respect for individuals making personal choices about sex has become a debate about […]
Canadians responding to blockbuster film ‘Sound of Freedom’
July 21, 2023 – It is a summer scorcher: Sound of Freedom. One doesn’t have a pulse if unmoved by this “must-see” film […]
WEF’s intrusive agenda being debated in many countries, though Canada remains an exception
July 14, 2023 – Although it is not openly explained to Canadians, the Trudeau government is diligently introducing policies and programs authored by the World Economic Forum […]
Canadians now feeling the heat from the Trudeau government’s fiscal failings
July 7, 2023 – With much of central Canada under a heat warning this week, many of us are now feeling the heat of the summer. However […]
Trudeau erasing Canadian history to achieve his post-national vision
June 30, 2023 – Since taking power in 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his allies have systematically sought to, at best, minimize and, at worst, expunge everything that makes Canada a unique and laudable nation […]
The case for a full-blown investigation of the Trudeau government’s relations with China: part two
June 23, 2023 – There are multiple ways the country’s independence has been potentially compromised by Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) undue influence […]
The case for a full-blown investigation of the Trudeau government’s relations with China: part one
June 16, 2023 – Below is a countdown of five critical issues in a series of 10 which, taken together, establish a case for why Canadians must demand a thorough investigation of the relationship between the Trudeau government and the CCP […]
The Conservatives’ China policy (in stark contrast to the Liberals’)
June 9, 2023 – When it comes to dealing with the issues of CCP influence in Canada, there is no ambiguity in the Conservatives policy approach. This is a marked difference to the political powerplays that the Liberals are currently orchestrating […]
Singh and Johnston continue to provide cover for Trudeau government
June 2, 2023 – Together, the NDP leader (pictured) and hand-picked special rapporteur continue to allow PM Trudeau to stay in power […]
David Johnston kicks the can a little further down the road
May 26, 2023 – Earlier this week, Johnston, former Governor General, current family friend of the Trudeaus, released his preliminary rapporteur report on Beijing’s interference into Canada’s internal affairs […]
It’s a degenerative progressivism that permeates Ottawa
April 21, 2023 – This week 155,000 federal public servants went out on strike for unrealistic wage increases and to further feather their nest of entitlements […]
The Trudeau government and Ottawa’s funny pages
April 14, 2023 – From the PM telling struggling Canadians to rack up debt on their credit cards to Public Service Alliance of Canada union members demanding outrageous salary hikes […]
The endless laughter in the Prime Minister’s Office
April 7, 2023 – The extravagance, arrogance, and disregard for basic ethics among Trudeau and his inner circle seem to only strengthen with the passing of the seasons […]
March 31, 2023 – Many of Canada’s top economic experts and business leaders seem to agree: the 2023 budget might prove to be this government’s worst attempt […]
The 2023 federal budget – a preview and checklist
March 24, 2023 – Next Tuesday, March 28, federal finance minister Chrystia Freeland will rise in the House of Commons to deliver the 2023 Federal Budget […]
World Health Organization and the global response to the next pandemic
March 17, 2023 – Earlier this month, the WHO reaffirmed its schedule for securing a global agreement that would reconstitute the international body and give it considerably more power and authority […]
March 10, 2023 – “This is a full-blown national security crisis. The ruling Liberals want us to pretend it’s not happening. The prime minister is obviously hiding something.” – Terry Glavin […]
The potential quid pro quos between Trudeau Liberals and the Chinese Communist Party (Part 2)
March 3, 2023 – To continue with the sordid details now becoming public about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ties with the Trudeau Liberals, this past week’s revelations had their intrigue […]
The Chinese Communist Party-sponsored Trudeau Liberal Party (Part 1)
February 24, 2023 – As recently released CSIS documents reveal, the CCP went to great lengths to influence the outcome of Canada’s two latest federal elections […]
The disconnect between Canadians and the Trudeau government
February 17, 2023 – PM Justin Trudeau addresses nursing students at Algonquin College, Feb. 10, 2023. As evidenced by his answer to a student at the event, Trudeau simply doesn’t appreciate […]
What is the total number immigrating to Canada?
February 10, 2023 – There’s no question that more and more immigrants are entering Canada through varying streams and schemes, legal or not […]
Questions persist about Justin Trudeau and his next act
February 3, 2023 – With Parliament returning Monday, the PM has resumed his role at centre stage. But what lies ahead for one of Canada’s finest political performers remains an enigma […]
It’s been one thing after another over the past six weeks
January 27, 2023 – With MPs set to return to work Monday, the following piece offers an overview of recent news on the federal front vacationing parliamentarians – and indeed some Canadians – may have missed […]
Repeated questions about the WEF go unanswered
January 20, 2023 – The World Economic Forum (WEF) held its 2023 general meeting this past week. Several of Canada’s most influential public officials and corporate actors were in Davos […]
Trudeau plays politics in advance of Alberta election
January 13, 2023 – It is becoming increasingly evident that PM Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberals have initiated a political powerplay to impact Alberta’s spring election […]
Canada’s ‘bang on’ clarions or ‘out of touch’ contrarians?
January 6, 2023 – A handful of media personalities and public figures like Rex Murphy (left) and Jordan Peterson (right) swim upstream from the country’s current leadership and subsidized talking heads […]
News Commentary from 2022
Three significant federal government issues to track in 2023
December 30, 2022 – With New Year’s Eve upon us, let’s consider three significant federal government issues that should be of utmost concern to Canadians in 2023 […]
Johnny Canuck’s requests of Santa Claus
December 23, 2022 – Johnny Canuck climbed up onto the knee of Santa Claus to ask him for a few Christmas wishes for the Canuck family […]
The forsaken promise of Canada’s oil and gas industry (part two)
December 16, 2022 – This is the second half of a two-part series on the country’s oil and gas sector […]
The forsaken promise of Canada’s oil and gas industry (part one)
December 9, 2022 – The world is currently in desperate need of the kind of clean, ethical oil and gas Canada is more than capable of supplying in abundance […]
Trudeau government’s fiscal approach is failing Canadians
December 2, 2022 – The enabling legislation for the government’s Fall Economic Statement was before the House of Commons Finance Committee this week […]
G20 nations (Canada included) are advancing vaccine passports and a global digital health ID program
November 25, 2022 – Last week in Bali the G20 nations agreed to continue establishing vaccine passports and introducing a global digital health ID […]
The Trudeau—Xi exchange: what was said and why
November 18, 2022 – The exchange between Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Chinese President Xi Jinping that was recorded Wednesday by the media pool at the G20 summit in Bali has […]
Again, Trudeau government refuses to pay “a fair share” for health care
November 11, 2022 – With the health ministers’ meetings in Vancouver this week, Canadians were once again treated to the gag made familiar by Charles Schulz’s beloved Peanuts […]
Canada’s foreign affairs policies shifting to reassure Americans
November 4, 2022 – The Trudeau government appears to be finally, just maybe getting the memo: the U.S. is Canada’s greatest ally […]
Ottawa: Nonsensical. Hypocritical. Disrespectful. Cynical.
October 28, 2022 – From a near-$400,000 hotel bill, to menstrual products in men’s washrooms, to the PM’s assertion that the Ukraine conflict is “absolutely accelerating” Canada’s energy transition, things in our Nation’s Capital continue to get beyond silly […]
Other disconcerting news from Ottawa: on drugs, assisted suicide, and asylum seekers
October 21, 2022 – The Nation’s Capital is the scene of an unprecedented public inquiry into the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergency Act […]
Greater transparency needed with federal government spending
October 14, 2022 – Three recent stories out of Ottawa, including the revelation that ArriveCan cost Canadians over $54 million, underscore an imperative for greater transparency […]
Canada’s subsidized mainstream media is not trusted
October 7, 2022 – Canada’s mainstream media (a.k.a. legacy media) outlets are floundering with an existential question of journalistic independence […]
Ottawa’s ‘sport’ has become a lot more entertaining
September 30, 2022 – With Pierre Poilievre now firmly in the Conservative saddle, the race for Canada’s next prime minister has become considerably more spectator-friendly […]
Trudeau government vs. Canada’s financial experts
September 24, 2022 – There is a consensus view from a chorus of financial experts that unbridled government spending will, despite the prime minister’s assurances, only stoke the inflationary flame […]
Three international issues that deserve full parliamentary attention
September 16, 2022 – While issues related to Canada’s economy will almost certainly take centre stage when parliamentarians return to Ottawa next week, it’s vital MPs pursue the facts pertaining to […]
Trudeau government to focus on the economy?
September 9, 2022 – Don’t believe the hype. Nothing coming out of the federal government’s cabinet retreat in B.C. will actually address the myriad economic issues […]
The last of the summer snippets
September 2, 2022 – From Omar Alghabra to Melanie Joly, Trudeau’s incompetent cabinet should have Canadians seriously worried about the country’s future […]
August 26, 2022 – Herein are more “summertime snippets,” presented with the requisite warning to read no further if you wish to […]
Summertime snippets: ICYMI news
August 19, 2022 – In case you missed it, the federal government under Justin Trudeau continues to blow through your tax dollars to enlarge bureaucracy, fund foreign entities, and […]
Trudeau government’s green plan is hurting Canadians and failing the global community
August 12, 2022 – The irony was not lost to many Canadians (and even mainstream media) that PM Justin Trudeau was jetting across the country to deliver his dire warnings about climate change […]
The public health care system is Canada’s Gordian Knot
August 5, 2022 – On July 15, a B.C. Court of Appeal delivered a decision that tightens the country’s Gordian Knot: our revered public health care system […]
A fitting proverb: a fish rots from the head down
July 29, 2022 – With a growing number of inconveniences and increased financial stresses in daily living, there are more Canadians realizing our federal government’s […]
Trudeau’s and Freeland’s fiscal management is no laughing matter
July 22, 2022 – There is a political meme circulating these days of PM Justin Trudeau and Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland […]
Woke activists are intently, purposefully rewriting Canadian history
July 15, 2022 – When reflecting on Canadian history these days it seems to be, at best, an exercise of self-flagellation and, at worst, the expunging […]
The ‘Woke’, the Trudeau Liberals, and Canadian politics
July 8, 2022 – At every opportunity, the Trudeau Liberals are enabling the woke to further divide Canadians and create an unbridgeable chasm […]
Lament for our post-national state
July 1, 2022 – From his earliest revelations about wanting to transform this country into a post-national state, PM Justin Trudeau and his enablers have been on a mission […]
Bad government begets bad public policy
June 24, 2022 – From online censorship, to expansion of assisted suicide, to the prolonged abandonment of our Afghan allies, the Trudeau Liberals – in partnership with the NDP […]
The cost of the Trudeau government’s green agenda
March 18, 2022 – There is a growing number of experts and financial analysts who are summarizing that the Trudeau government’s green agenda is costing Canadians dearly […]
Our Canadian emperor is exposed in Europe
March 11, 2022 – There is a Hans Christian Andersen folktale entitled The Emperor’s New Clothes about a foolhardy leader who parades through town to everyone’s embarrassment […]
The WEF and the Liberals’ agenda for Canada
March 4, 2022 – The two appear to be in lockstep, and it’s no wonder. According to the World Economic Forum’s founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab […]
Canadians’ roller coaster ride with the country’s financial institutions
February 25, 2022 – The most troubling aspect of the Trudeau government’s unprecedented action to invoke the Emergencies Act […]
It’s all ugly, and the PM has made it worse
February 18, 2022 – Hardly bringing the trucker protest to a swift and peaceful conclusion, Trudeau’s recent invocation of the Emergencies Act has only created more cause for concern […]
Canada’s unaccountable federal government
February 11, 2022 – It has become all too commonplace in Ottawa for governing politicians and federal bureaucrats to purposefully obfuscate and prolong public disclosure of government expenditures […]
A fast and furious week in Ottawa politics
February 4, 2022 – It was a fast and furious week in our nation’s capital. With Parliament Hill besieged by the Freedom Convoy protest […]
Trudeau Liberals sow seeds of division in denigrating Freedom Convoy
January 28, 2022 – PM Justin Trudeau, in responding to this outpouring of support for the truckers, was quick to dismiss the truckers and their supporters as “small fringe minority” […]
Inconvenient facts of the Trudeau government’s green agenda
January 21, 2022 – The federal government has Canada (a.k.a. the Great White North) in fervid pursuit to meet international climate change commitments and to achieve a “net-zero emissions economy” […]
An anxiousness concerning PM Justin Trudeau and his divisiveness
January 14, 2022 – In a Hill Times front page story this week EKOS Research pollster Frank Graves mused that Canadians’ view of their prospects entering a new year was “unsurprisingly quite dark” […]
Time for the federal government to address Canada’s health care crisis
January 7, 2022 – The COVID pandemic has exposed a growing crisis in Canada’s public health care system. Although the delivery of health services is a provincial responsibility […]
News Commentary from 2021
Three federal news stories from the year that was, and three predictions for the year yet to be
December 31, 2021 – Michael Kovrig embraces his wife Vina Nadjibulla after arriving at Pearson International Airport in September. The release of Kovrig and Michael Spavor […]
With its holiday deceptions, Trudeau government is Canada’s ‘Grinch’
December 24, 2021 – We all know the holiday classic “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”. The conniving malcontent creature muses in the opening scene […]
Minister Freeland fueling an inflation fire in a house that is burning down
December 17, 2021 – The Trudeau government’s lack of fiscal discipline, spurred on in no small part by Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland […]
‘Justinflation’ and Chrystia Freeland’s WEF agenda suggest hard times ahead
December 10, 2021 – Recently released data informs Canadians that “Justinflation” is here for a while – and a new report this week reveals just how much more financial pain will be […]
‘Justinflation’ and its impact on Canadians
December 3, 2021 – Recall PM Justin Trudeau’s candid admission on the election campaign hustings, “When I think about the biggest, most important economic policy that this government […]
Canada’s dysfunctional parliamentary circus is back at it
November 26, 2021 – Liberal MP Anthony Rota is ceremonially escorted by PM Justin Trudeau and Conservative leader Erin O’Toole to the speaker’s chair after being elected Speaker […]
The incredible costs of Trudeau’s carbon taxes
November 19, 2021 – PM Justin Trudeau used his two minutes on the world stage at the United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP26) to urge […]
The cost of Canada’s promises made at the U.N. Climate Change Summit
November 12, 2021 – For two weeks the world has been absorbed with the rhetoric and grand announcements from the planeloads of global elites and environmental experts […]
Environment Minister Steven “Canadians must go faster” Guilbeault
November 5, 2021 – PM Justin Trudeau’s selection of Steven Guilbeault as Minister of Environment and Climate Change has sent a clear signal […]
The dirty secrets of Canada’s ‘green’ agenda – that the government would rather not talk about
October 29, 2021 – PM Justin Trudeau and his Canadian delegation are currently on route to participate in the summit and tout Canada’s many alleged environment achievements […]
Canada’s relations with Communist China hurt our international reputation
October 22, 2021 – In the past month there have been headlines in Europe about the Communist China government’s extensive, undue influence on Canada […]
Ottawa has become a theatre of the absurd
October 19, 2021 – There is really no other way to describe Ottawa these days but as a theatre of the absurd. At centre-stage we have our dramatic PM Justin Trudeau […]
The ‘AUKUS’ announcement and Canada
October 15, 2021 – A significant new global alliance – involving our country’s traditionally closest allies was announced […]
Trudeau government moving quickly to regulate the internet
October 8, 2021 – The Liberal campaign platform contained pledges to act within 100 days of the election […]
The things we learn – after the vote
October 1, 2021 – It was just days after Canadians voted and, remarkably, three news stories surfaced that shone new light on past clandestine activities of the Trudeau government […]
Canada’s 44th federal election – by the numbers
September 24, 2021 – Political pundits referenced titles of popular movies and TV shows in an attempt to make sense of […]
Three factors to watch for on election night
September 17, 2021 – Justin Trudeau’s “vanity election” is coming to an end. […]
Trudeau’s unscripted responses reveal what to expect with a renewed mandate
September 10, 2021 – Like all politicians, Justin Trudeau reveals more about what he is thinking when he breaks away from his prepared notes and teleprompter […]
Canadians have been ill-served by Justin Trudeau’s pandemic politics
August 20, 2021 – In a gushing self-congratulatory press statement released the last week of July, PM Justin Trudeau exclaimed that the federal government’s hard work […]
Stephen Harper reappears in CBC headlines – the election is near
August 6, 2021 – Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper made CBC headline news regarding a wide-ranging podcast interview he did earlier in July in Texas for an American production […]
Trudeau is systematically dismembering Canada: part five
July 30, 2021 – In PM Justin Trudeau’s first appearance on the international stage, he blurted out, “We’re back.” This exclamation was to suggest Canada was […]
Justin Trudeau is systematically dismembering Canada: part four
July 23, 2021 – The globalists and environmental activists in the government of Justin Trudeau have been methodically deconstructing Canada’s natural resources sector and […]
Justin Trudeau is systematically dismembering Canada: part three
July 16, 2021 – Justin Trudeau’s flagrant disrespect for Parliament and Canada’s parliamentary traditions is purposefully creating a constitutional fog in the country […]
Justin Trudeau is systematically dismembering Canada: part two
July 9, 2021 – The Trudeau government’s scandalous record with respect to our country’s courts and rule of law has greatly undermined both the independence and impartiality of the Canadian judiciary […]
Justin Trudeau is systematically dismembering Canada: part one
July 2, 2021 – From day one, Justin Trudeau has had designs to evolve Canada into a post-national state. On November 10, 2015, when Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister […]
There are no proud Canadians in Justin Trudeau’s post-national state
June 25, 2021 – Oh Canada, is there anything left of our country and its history for us to celebrate? Does it not seem that, in reading news headlines, Canadians’ new national sport is self-flagellation? […]
Justin Trudeau’s Communist China gambit
June 18, 2021 – It is increasingly evident that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Communist China gambit has Canadians paying dearly for his naivety […]
The importance of Canada’s oil and gas industry: part two
June 11, 2021 – Calgary-based TC Energy Corp announced this week that it is terminating the Keystone XL pipeline project. Gone is the promise of the daily export of 830,000 barrels of Canadian crude […]
The importance of Canada’s oil and gas industry: part one
June 4, 2021 – This week Statistics Canada reported that the country registered its first quarterly surplus in 13 years as a direct result of surging commodity exports […]
The 2021 federal budget set to impact Canadians for decades
May 28, 2021 – In the House of Commons this week MPs debated second reading of Bill C-30, the legislation that will enact the Trudeau government’s 2021 federal budget […]
Quebec’s nationalistic interests – the tail wagging the dog
May 21, 2021 – The Province of Quebec’s expressions of self-interests have once again exploded onto the federal political scene. Premier Francois Legault pronounced his intention to rewrite […]
Trudeau government is adrift – and rudderless
May 14, 2021 – One cannot look at the news from Ottawa these days without wondering whether our Canadian ship of state is adrift – and rudderless […]
Forget WE, SNC-Lavalin, and Blackface: Trudeau’s most serious scandal to date
April 30, 2021 – Diane Francis, opinion columnist for the Financial Post, pulled no punches this week when she stated the “pandemic failure is Trudeau’s biggest scandal yet” […]
No new funds for health care amid health crisis
April 23, 2021 – This week’s federal budget has been characterized as “the calling card for “spendoholics” – a political document that has money for everybody and everything – except for […]
Three strikes against Liberals’ new green plan
April 16, 2021 – If this were a game of baseball, PM Justin Trudeau would not get to first base with his government’s approach to establishing a responsible – and sustainable – environment policy […]
Canadians will get to vote on the carbon tax – Part 2
April 9, 2021 – PM Justin Trudeau explains the carbon tax thus: “The principle is straightforward: a carbon price establishes how much businesses and households need to pay for their pollution […]
Canadians will get to vote on the carbon tax – Part 1
April 2, 2021 – The federal government once again hiked the carbon tax on April 1st as per its publicized schedule of annual tax increases. Recall this time last year during the height of the pandemic crisis […]
A few questions on transparency in advance of the federal budget
March 26, 2021 – What caused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do such an abrupt about-face? One week he was stating repeatedly that the government would not deliver a budget in March or April and then […]
It’s time to discuss Canada’s Arctic policy
March 19, 2021 – Decisions about the federal government’s Arctic policy are long overdue. With recent activities in the Arctic by Russia and China, it has become critical that […]
The failed federal COVID response
March 12, 2021 – Canadians commemorated the one year anniversary of the global coronavirus pandemic this week. Monday marked a year since […]
Is the Trudeau Government “the worst Canadian government ever?”
March 5, 2021 – To Canadians, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he does not want an election, yet to his Liberal campaign team he confides “it looks like” there will be a Spring vote […]
MP Baldinelli: Liberals playing politics with gun legislation
February 26, 2021 – “The Government’s gun legislation will not reduce gun crimes,” states MP Tony Baldinelli. The Niagara Falls MP is not alone in this frank assessment […]
The Ties that Bind the Trudeau Liberals to Communist China
February 19, 2021 – Canada-China relations dominated the news in the Nation’s Capital this week – more accurately, Canada’s many questionable dealings with the Chinese Communist Party […]
Where is Chrystia Freeland’s priority?
February 12, 2021 – In Ottawa she is referred to as the “Minister of Everything.” As Deputy PM, Chrystia Freeland is at the very centre of all policy decisions in the Trudeau Government […]
Chrystia Freeland: We have a mandate to tax carbon
February 5, 2021 – “Our government has put a price on pollution across the country, a carbon price. We fought the 2019 election on that decision, and we were re-elected […]
MPs trying to get to the bottom of why Canada has no vaccines
January 29, 2021 – This week marked the one year anniversary of the first COVID-19 case diagnosed in Canada. Through the year, Canada recorded more than 750,000 cases […]
“Let’s stick to the facts… Canada has NO vaccines.”
January 22, 2021 – Heather Forsyth, former provincial minister in Alberta, summed up the country’s current dire predicament: “Let’s stick to the facts. We are in the middle of a global pandemic […]
Canada’s immigration about to increase to record level
January 15, 2021 – Canada will welcome a record number of immigrants in 2021 – perhaps the largest number in our country’s history […]
Federal government proving to be very taxing
January 8, 2021 – The Trudeau Liberals’ “budgets balance themselves” approach to government equates to increased taxes for Canadians. Since first elected in 2015 […]
A preview of PM Trudeau’s 2021 federal election
January 1, 2021 – In his year-end messages, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau coyly suggested on a number of occasions, “We might have an election.” Then he quickly adds […]
News Commentary from 2020
December 25, 2020 – With apologies to Charles Dickins and the wondrous legacy of The Christmas Carol, here is a modern day story of the spirit Jacob Marley, who last evening visited a weary Canadian […]
Trudeau’s zealous pursuits deny Canadians better health care
December 22, 2020 – It is a fact that the Canadian government is the only government in the world to raise taxes during the pandemic. On April 1, as Canadians were coping with […]
2020’s Top Ten news stories in federal politics (Part 2)
December 18, 2020 – In no particular order, here are the remaining “Top Ten” federal political stories that mattered the most to Canadians in 2020 […]
The Trudeau Government and its (U.N.) green agenda
December 15, 2020 – At an Ottawa press conference on Friday, PM Justin Trudeau unveiled more of the government’s green agenda by providing details of a schedule of carbon tax hikes […]
2020’s top ten news stories in federal politics – Part 1
December 11, 2020 – The House of Commons will rise this week for the MPs’ holiday recess. This is an appropriate time to look back at what was an extraordinary year […]
The Trudeau Government’s extraordinary Christmas present
December 4, 2020 – On Monday, Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland presented Canadians with a Christmas present, the Government’s economic statement […]
Trudeau’s Environmental Agenda: repeated promises and plans of plans
November 27, 2020 – This week it was reported that PM Justin Trudeau was fooled by a prank caller pretending to be Greta Thunberg […]
PM Trudeau Implementing “The Great Reset” In Canada
November 20, 2020 – PM Justin Trudeau has now openly referred to his federal government’s post-COVID-19 economic policies as complying with “The Great Reset” […]
Canadian PM and U.S. president-elect ready to “build back better” together
November 13, 2020 – The final votes in the U.S. election have yet to be re-counted and a globalists’ green agenda has been vaulted to priority status by president-elect Joe Biden […]
PM Trudeau has us questioning what constitutes “free speech”
November 10, 2020 – PM Justin Trudeau’s recent garble on the issue of free speech would have gone unnoticed had it not been for his public shaming by Quebec Premier Francois Legault […]
November 6, 2020 – For months Canadians have had an insatiable fascination with the United States election. Canucks have been mesmerized by the political slugfest and media circus […]
Revealing national COVID-19 statistics
October 30, 2020 – Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam released the annual report of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) this week providing statistics on fatalities […]
It is time for Canadians to take stock of the country’s fiscal mess
October 23, 2020 – Though no date has been announced, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is to provide Canadians with a fall economic update in the coming weeks […]
PM Trudeau continues to dodge the WE scandal – but for how long?
October 16, 2020 – In the 2002 Steven Spielberg movie Catch Me If You Can, the lead character Frank, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, successfully performs a string of cons worth millions of dollars […]
Federal Government will need to introduce a list of new tax measures
October 9, 2020 – Next week the Trudeau Government will set a record for having gone the longest in Canadian Parliamentary history without presenting a federal budget […]
Canadian prairie provinces’ future prosperity put on track with A2A rail
October 2, 2020 – One week after the Trudeau Government’s Throne Speech ignored the economic distress of the oil and gas (and agriculture) industries of western Canada […]
Trudeau is prepared to give everything to everyone (except the dollars needed for health care)
September 25, 2020 – Wednesday, with pomp and ceremony, Governor General Julie Payette presented the Trudeau Government’s Speech from the Throne. The GG took 55 minutes to […]
A primer on the Trudeau Liberals’ Green Energy Plan
September 18, 2020 – PM Justin Trudeau and a cadre of his senior ministers have not missed an opportunity in the past three months to forecast the launch of the Liberals’ Green Energy Plan […]
What is to become of the unanswered questions?
September 11, 2020 – Proroguing Parliament was a diversionary political tactic to turn the page on a scandal-laden script that had Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government on the defense […]
The consequential fiscal facts on Canada’s economy
September 4, 2020 – In a CBC interview this week, PM Justin Trudeau said, “We are asking Canadians to embark on an entirely different direction as a government […]
Trudeau and Freeland “Moving Canada towards full-blown Socialism”
August 28, 2020 – PM Justin Trudeau has revealed to Canadians that when the shuttered Parliament reopens on September 23 his government will deliver a Throne Speech […]
A Pivotal Week for the Trudeau Liberals’ Green Agenda
August 21, 2020 – Canada’s drama-teacher-turned-Prime-Minister provided plenty of theatrics this week by first switching Finance Ministers and then bringing the curtain down on Parliament […]
The Trudeau Government’s horrible week of scandalous stories
August 14, 2020 – Though he was hiding away at an undisclosed summer holiday rental on Georgian Bay, this week proved particularly bad for PM Justin Trudeau as a steady stream of stories emerged […]
Morneau will leave an unenviable record as Finance Minister
August 7, 2020 – If rumours come to be true, federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau will soon fall on his sword as the fall-guy for the Prime Minister and his Liberal insiders […]
George Soros casts a long shadow across Canada (Part 4)
July 31, 2020 – You could be a roughneck 100 kms outside of Fort McMurray, a Wet’suwet’en Nation member employed by Coastal GasLink, or even a backbench Liberal MP […]
George Soros and his Canadian Chess Game (Part 3)
July 24, 2020 – The United Nations (U.N.) representative of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea made news headlines last August when he critically assessed the actions of George Soros […]
The core beliefs and aspirations of George Soros (Part 2)
July 17, 2020 – What are George Soros’ core philosophical beliefs; what are the man’s mental constructs that motivate and drive him? What is Soros’ view of the world and […]
Introducing George Soros (Part 1)
July 10, 2020 – Who exactly is George Soros? Is he a billionaire investor and philanthropist or a Machiavellian globalist bent on creating discord? […]
The staggering costs of the Government’s response to the pandemic
July 3, 2020 – It has been referred to as Canadians’ “second war” – what will be our collective efforts to survive the ensuing national economic crisis brought about by government’s response […]
Lament for (what once was) a Nation
June 26, 2020 – Back in October 2015, the newly-elected Justin Trudeau’s seemingly obtuse comments on the country he was about to lead are now understood as a foreshadowing of his debasement […]
Canada’s Shuttered Parliament and the Challenge to Our Democracy
June 19, 2020 – Canada’s federal Parliament has sat for a mere 40 days in almost 12 months. This week MPs suspended the House of Commons and they will not be back in Ottawa […]
Foreign investments prompt concerns for national security
June 12, 2020 – In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and as Canadians brace for the impending economic crisis, concerns about Canadian companies being sold to foreign investors […]
Trudeau’s Coveted United Nations Security Council Seat
June 5, 2020 – On June 21st we will know whether “Canada is back” sitting in one of the two available seats at the United Nations Security Council table […]
Butts is Back to Have Canada “Build Back Better” (Part 2)
May 29, 2020 – Gerald Butts has resurfaced in Ottawa as a member of the Task Force for a Resilient Recovery. This is a group that has tasked itself to review the Resilient Recovery Framework document […]
Butts is Back to Help Shape the Liberal Government’s Green Policies (Part 1)
May 22, 2020 – The understated announcement of the “Task Force for a Resilient Recovery” went largely undetected by national media and political pundits […]
Optimistically Canadians will have a $252 Billion deficit this year and more Than $1 Trillion debt
May 15, 2020 – A budget deficit of $252 billion this year and a national debt of more than $1 trillion? But then, who is counting? […]
A Spotlight on Canada-China Relations (Part 3)
May 8, 2020 – In responding to the unfolding crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the glare of the spotlight on Canada-China relations has illuminated the Liberal Party’s affairs […]
A Spotlight on Canada-China Relations (Part 2)
May 1, 2020 – The last column explored three current irritants in Canada-China diplomacy: the prolonged captivity of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor […]
A Spotlight on Canada-China Relations (Part 1)
April 24, 2020 – First came the open letter to the world signed by more than one hundred senior political figures and China experts describing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) subversive role […]
Mounting Condemnation for CCP Misleading the World on Coronavirus
April 17, 2020 – Canadian lawyer Irwin Cotler was at the centre of this week’s international media maelstrom that openly criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for […]
Canadians Will Need to Brace for the “Second War”
April 10, 2020 – In one of his daily addresses to the Nation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded to questions about the country’s economic well being by stating that his government had […]
In the middle of Canada’s coronavirus crisis – a carbon tax hike?
April 3, 2020 – This week the federal government raised its carbon tax 50 percent on gas prices and home fuel. Imposing this tax increase at a time when Canadians are facing […]
Liberal’s Machiavellian Power Grab “Defeated”
March 27, 2020 – Partisan politics at any time is ugly, but during a national crisis partisan politics can be detestable. With the Liberal Government’s attempted end-run around Parliament this week […]
Kudos for the Federal Government’s $87 Billion Relief Package
March 20, 2020 – Canadians had been hearing for days from their political leaders, “we have your back,” “we’re all in this together,” and “nobody will be left behind.” Then on Wednesday […]
$213 Billion of Canadian Resource Projects Lost
March 12, 2020 – Our history documents that Canada was founded on the development of its natural resources. Canadians today enjoy their standard of living as a direct result of […]
Father and Son Trudeau, and Canada Then and Now
March 6, 2020 – Former Timiskaming MP John MacDougall remembers the overwhelming feeling of relief on February 29, 1984, the day when PM Trudeau took his walk in the snow […]
Whither Canada, a True North Strong and Free?
February 28, 2020 – “This is a serious existential crisis for this country.” Harrie Vredenburg, Professor of Global Energy at the University of Calgary’s School of Business, assesses […]
Trudeau Liberals Undermine Canada’s Independent Judiciary (Again)
February 21, 2020 – St Catharines MP Chris Bittle was one of a handful of Liberal backbenchers caught feeding names into the Justice Minister’s office […]
Trudeau’s cabinet is dancing around approval of Alberta’s Teck Frontier project
February 14, 2020 – In the last few weeks the federal government has stepped into a lively tango with Albertans over the fate of the natural resource development project Teck Frontier […]
Federal Government continues corporate welfare spending spree
February 7, 2020 – Many Canadians feel the federal government should not be in the business of doling out corporate welfare cheques. From an economic standpoint, it is most often money down the drain […]
Why obfuscate the facts about the Wuhan Coronavirus?
January 31, 2020 – During Parliament’s first week back to business, Canadian news media were not focused on the MPs’ theatre, but rather on the breaking international story of a spreading […]
Canadians Sinking In a Quagmire of Debt
January 24, 2020 – Delivering continuous deficit budgets is like spinning your wheels in mud; it’s inevitable that you will eventually get stuck […]
Brace yourself. It’s Going to Be a Very Taxing Winter
January 17, 2020 – Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau forewarned Canadians this week about the Liberals’ first budget of this minority Parliament. […]
News Commentary from 2019
10 MPs to Watch in the 43rd Parliament (Part 2: Opposition MPs)
December 13, 2019 – There are a few key MPs whose performances in the 43rd Parliament will have a direct impact on their respective Party’s fortunes in the next election […]
10 MPs to Watch in the 43rd Parliament (Part 1: The Liberals)
December 6, 2019 – Parliament resumed this week, however it will not be until the last week of January, after a Christmas break, that MPs will actually get down to their substantive business […]
The 401 Liberals in the Prime Minister’s Office
November 29, 2019 – As mentioned in last week’s column, National Post columnist John Ivison punted aside the list of newly appointed cabinet ministers with his insightful commentary […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet of 36
November 22, 2019 – With all the traditional pomp and ceremony, PM Justin Trudeau this week announced his Cabinet to guide the minority government in the 43rd Parliament […]
The Great Canadian Standoff: The West vs Quebec Interests
November 15, 2019 – The federal parliament convenes on Dec. 5 and there is great trepidation across the country as the next act in “The Great Canadian Standoff” is about to begin {…]
The Dirty Secret of Coal Exports from the Port of Vancouver
November 8, 2019 – It is perhaps our country’s dirtiest secret – the export of Canadian and American coal through the Port of Vancouver […]
Quebec’s Pipeline Politics And Canadian Energy Resource Development
November 1, 2019 – On election night, Bloc Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet repeated a message he had asserted throughout the campaign that he obstinately opposes the construction of any new pipeline […]
Interesting Facts from the Election Entrails
October 25, 2019 – For politicos and pundits, inspecting and dissecting the results of a vote provides endless hours of amusement. Canada’s 43rd general election results have not disappointed […]
Progressives vs. Traditionalists Checklist on Economic Issues
October 18, 2019 – As Canadians brace themselves for Monday’s vote results, we have learned a great deal about ourselves through this federal election campaign […]
What of Canada’s Economic Future?
October 11, 2019 – It remains to be seen whether the country’s economy and pocketbook issues will be the determining ballot box question this election. Judging from the little attention […]
Nonsense in Our Politics of Climate Change
October 4, 2019 – Climate change (a.k.a. global warming) is one of the key issues on the federal campaign trail — and three of the major parties are posturing to frame it as the 2019 ballot box question […]
The election topic no Leader wants to discuss
September 27, 2019 – Can any discussion about immigration and refugees take place in Canada today without the person who raises the topic being labelled a racist, bigoted, white-privileged, or […]
September 20, 2019 – American publication Time Magazine first broke the story with a shocking photo of Justin Trudeau in blackface wearing a turban, with one of his hands placed across a woman’s chest […]
Are Justin Trudeau and His PMO Insiders Above the Law?
September 13, 2019 – The dark clouds of the SNC-Lavalin scandal rolled in once again, the day the Prime Minister officially called the federal election […]
A Labour Day Election Campaign Snapshot
September 6, 2019 – On the eve of the call of the Canadian federal election, here is a snapshot of polling numbers and trends on voter intention […]
Liberals campaigning without mention of PM Justin Trudeau
August 30, 2019 – In 2015 the Liberals successful election campaign was energized with the images of Justin Trudeau. Indeed, many unknown Liberal candidates rode the Leaders’ popularity […]
There’s Much to be Concerned About with Canadian Media
August 23, 2019 – Can Canadians trust their media regarding its coverage of national politics? Based on a string of events over the past few months this is a legitimate and worrying question […]
Prime Minister Attempting to Defuse Ethic Commissioner’s Findings
August 16, 2019 – It was an explosive spectacle this week when Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion made public his findings on the conduct of the Prime Minister and his Office […]
Will the Increased Tax Burden Become A Ballot Box Question?
August 9, 2019 – The Fraser Institute published its annual tax study recently and it shows the tax burden on Canadians has risen again through the past year […]
The return of Gerald Butts and the question for Canadian voters
August 2, 2019 – As surmised in the February 22, 2019 Niagara Independent column, “There’s much more to this Gerald Butts story.” And it now appears […]
Liberals Casting the Conservative Voters as “the Uneducated”
July 12, 2019 – Perhaps this news item did not register beyond Ottawa’s political corridors and the national press corps, but to those in the epicenter of national politics […]
July 5, 2019 – Over the next three and a half months leading up to the election, this column will periodically review the polling numbers and voter intention trends by way of a snapshot […]
Closing Down Canada’s Oil and Gas Industries (Part 2 of 2)
June 28, 2019 – The Liberal Government has passed Bill C-69, which revamps the federal environmental assessment process for major resource projects, and Bill C-48, which places a moratorium […]
Closing Down Canada’s Oil and Gas Industries (Part 1 of 2)
June 25, 2019 – In the dying days of this 42nd Parliament of Canada, the Trudeau Government has passed two major pieces of legislation that could possibly sound the death knell for […]
Parting Comments from MP Rob Nicholson (Part 2)
June 21, 2019 – Niagara Falls MP Rob Nicholson will not seek reelection in October. Having recently announced he will not seek re-election this October […]
Parting Comments from MP Rob Nicholson
June 14, 2019 – Rob Nicholson is the longest serving MP in the Conservative caucus, having first been elected 35 years ago in the 1984 federal election […]
The MMIWG Final Report and the Impact of the “G” Word
June 7, 2019 – The final report of the National Inquiry Into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) was made public this week […]
May 31, 2019 – Catherine McKenna, Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister, had a Twitter moment this week. She tweeted out a candid video of herself – then deleted it […]
Funding news agencies, censoring social media and re-electing the Trudeau Government
May 24, 2019 – What will “freedom of the press” mean in his country if two media-related initiatives recently announcement by the Trudeau government be implemented? […]
What the Norman Scandal Means for Canada’s Justice System
May 17, 2019 – Now what? For years Vice-Admiral Mark Norman was stuck in a legal quagmire that sullied his reputation, dishonouring his career and character […]
Norman’s Trial Now Shifts to Court of Public Opinion
May 10, 2019 – The headlines were damaging to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Government: “Norman case collapses” and “Mark Norman’s Vindication” […]
The Possible Greening of Canada
May 3, 2019 – Having just walked down the aisle a week prior, newlywed Elizabeth May reentered the House of Commons this week with a new spring in her step […]
Whither the Canadian Middle Class?
April 26, 2019 – It is a group that politicians like to promote as the focus of their attention, the targeted benefactors of their support initiatives. Yet, Canada’s middle class is not only decreasing in numbers […]
PM provides an ugly prelude to expected election rhetoric
April 19, 2019 – PM Justin Trudeau was having great fun addressing his supporters at the Liberal Party of Canada convention in Mississauga last weekend […]
Questions Persist About The Federal Liberals’ Carbon Tax
April 12, 2019 – On April 1 the Trudeau government implemented its carbon tax that imposes a $20 tax on every tonne of carbon emissions from any fossil fuel. This tax is scheduled to increase […]
The Other Woman – Jane Philpott
April 5, 2019 – She was argumentatively the most able of all Trudeau cabinet ministers. Yet the remarkable drama that unfolded between the Prime Minister and his former Attorney General […]
The Tale of Two Regions – Our Canadian Paradox
March 29, 2019 – Last week, the Government of Quebec heralded a budget with a $2.5 billion surplus and featuring increased spending in health care and education. On the other end of our country […]
The Federal Budget Has Not Balanced Itself
March 22, 2019 – It was described in many different ways. The Liberals characterized their fourth federal budget delivered this past Tuesday as […]
This Federal Government Has a Spending Problem
March 15, 2019 – Finance Minister Bill Morneau will be delivering his fourth federal government budget next Wednesday, March 19. Given the news that the government ran a budgetary surplus […]
A Federal Government Lurching from Crisis to Crisis
March 8, 2019 – While Canadians bear witness to all of the sordid details of the Jody Wilson-Raybould / Gerald Butts / Justin Trudeau / SNC-Lavalin scandal (a.k.a. LavScam), our federal government is […]
What to Make of Gerald Butts’ Resignation From the PMO
February 22, 2019 – The resignation of PM Justin Trudeau’s Principal Secretary Gerald Butts has sent shockwaves through the corridors of power in Ottawa […]
Four Surprising Twists to the Jody Wilson-Raybould Story
February 15, 2019 – A week is a long time in politics. For Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) staff this past week probably felt like an eternity […]
On Working Canadians and Their Taxes
February 8, 2019 – Here is an excerpt from Ottawa’s Hansard, an official verbatim record of what was said in the House of Commons on Tuesday, February 5th. […]
Opening Salvos of the Leaders’ Campaign Rhetoric
February 1, 2019 – This week MPs returned to Ottawa and to the last Parliamentary Session before the fall federal election. All eyes were on PM Justin Trudeau and […]
The Government’s “Made-in-Canada” Recession
January 25, 2019 – This week there was a stark news item from a well-respected financial firm that Canadians must brace for harder economic times […]
Appointment of new Rural Minister is an election gambit
January 18, 2019 – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle on Monday contained a surprise with his appointing of Nova Scotia MP Bernadette Jordan […]
Assessing what is ahead for Canadians
January 11, 2019 – To provide Canadians with a snap shot of our financial health as we head into the New Year, the Canadian public policy think tank Fraser Institute published a sober assessment […]
News Commentary From 2018
Cue the Pollsters and Political Pundits for 2019
December 21, 2018 – Come the New Year, all eyes will be on Ottawa as Canadians bear witness to a parade of politicians and pollsters, all positioning and pontificating […]
What is the UN Global Compact for Migration? (Part 2 of 2)
December 14, 2018 – What has the Canadian Government committed to in signing the UN Global Compact for Migration? The document reads […]
What is the UN Global Compact? (Part 1 of 2)
December 7, 2018 – The longer title to the “UN Global Compact” document is the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration […]
The Fall Economic Statement: “An Inadequate Response”
November 30, 2018 – For months leading up to the Liberals’ fall economic statement, Finance Minister Bill Morneau indicated his statement would respond to the recent U.S. corporate tax cuts […]
The Fall Economic Statement: Increased Spending. Deficits. Mounting Debt.
November 23, 2018 – In his fall economic statement, federal finance minister Bill Morneau mused: “We could have ignored the concerns of business leaders […]
Deja Vu in Ottawa: Is PM Trudeau’s Bill C-69 His Father’s NEP?
November 16, 2018 – Parliament Hill is seized with pipeline politics. Our country’s oil and gas sector is pitted against Ottawa’s bureaucracy […]
Canadians are Adrift on a Sea of Debt (Part 2 of 2)
November 9, 2018 – Recent government announcements and news reports have provided Canadians with an accounting of how much our Canadian governments are in debt […]
Serious Challenges as Canadians are Adrift on a Sea of Debt (Part 1 of 2)
November 2, 2018 – Interest rates are rising and many Canadians will begin to feel the pain. Last week the Bank of Canada hiked its key lending rate and major lending institutions followed suit […]
Legalization of Marijuana Leaves Canadians in a Haze
October 19, 2018 – As of Wednesday this week, Canadians can possess and share up to 30 grams of legal cannabis. We can legally buy it and we can grow up to four pot plants […]
The Trade Deal from America’s Perspective is: “A Win”
October 5, 2018 – Tuesday morning the CBC ran a headline story: “’Yay!’: How the Canadians won the argument that opened the door to a NAFTA deal” […]
Canadian Government Must Address Impact of U.S. Tax Cuts
September 28, 2018 – In December, U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a tax plan that effectively cuts America’s top corporate tax rate from 35 per cent to 20 per cent and […]
The Startling Opening Day of the Fall Session of Parliament
September 21, 2018 – Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill MP Leona Alleslev surprised everyone on the first day of the Fall Session of Parliament […]
2019 Election Rhetoric from this week’s National Caucus Meetings
September 14, 2018 – This week, the Liberal Caucus met in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan while the NDP Caucus hunkered down in Surrey BC. News out of both federal caucuses revealed […]
News from Ottawa (that you likely missed)
September 7, 2018 – Headline news from the Nation’s Capital through the summer focused on the fate of NAFTA and the evolving asylum seekers-border issues […]
MPs’ Summer Plans (Not What You Might Expect)
July 27, 2018 -When Members of Parliament recess for the summer, they don’t don shorts and sandals to hit a beach like quick-change artists […]
PM fine tunes his Cabinet with an “Election Shuffle”
July 20, 2018 – PM Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet yesterday, bringing five new ministers to the table and creating a new portfolio for border security […]
The Canada-U.S. Trade Talks Saga (Part Three)
July 20, 2018 – To recap the last six weeks: on June 1st, the U.S. imposed hefty levies on Canadian steel and aluminum imports, in response to China, South Korea and Vietnam dumping […]
The Canada-U.S. Trade Talks Saga (Part Two)
July 13, 2018 – Not all are supportive of the Trudeau Government’s trade negotiation tactics with the United States […]
The Canada-U.S. Trade Talks Saga (Part One)
July 6, 2018 – In Ottawa, there are two prevailing threads of thought on what has become the never-ending saga of the Canada-U.S. Trade Talks […]
The Inequity of Canada’s Equalization Payments
June 29, 2018 – As Parliament recessed for the summer, news leaked out that the Trudeau Government quietly renewed the current federal equalization formula for provinces through the year 2024 […]
The most poignant moment of Parliament’s Spring Session
June 22, 2018 – On Parliament Hill, time stood stand, or rather any sense of time was lost in the surreal tension of Wednesday, May 2. Members of Parliament were shocked. […]
Thursday’s vote was an affront to Canadian parliamentary tradition
June 15, 2018 – The rights of parliamentarians to oversee government spending dates back to 1215 and the signing of the Magna Carta. Since that agreement […]
For MPs, the Steady March to the 2019 Federal Election Begins this Summer
June 8, 2018 – There are only two weeks left in the House of Commons calendar before Members of Parliament break for their summer recess […]
