Author: Cam Holmstrom

For a month the news has been filled with details about the SNC-Lavalin Scandal that has embroiled the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This hasn’t been a salacious scandal filled with sex, drugs and insanity like we might see elsewhere, which has led some to say that there is

With one week to go to the Federal Budget and everyone away on break, things promised to be quiet in Ottawa this week, even maybe around the SNC/PMO Scandal. Of course, on Wednesday the Opposition parties have forced another emergency meeting of the House of Commons Justice Committee to discuss

As we move fully into the second month of the SNC/PMO Scandal, I think that now would be a good time to look ahead and see where this all could lead. After the courts decision on Friday to deny SNC Lavalin’s attempt to overrule the prosecutors and force them to

Today I took the chance with a relatively quiet day to record Episode 4 of Season 1 of the Magpie Brûlé podcast. In this episode, I discuss the latest events in the SNC Lavalin/PMO scandal, the testimony heard before the House of Commons Justice Committee the past two weeks, the

One of the things that has been remarkable about the SNC/PMO Scandal has been the near steady flow of news and stories coming from it. For a month now, it’s felt like there has been something new that’s happened every, single day and there have been very few days that

Having worked in Parliament for nine years and now working literally across the street from it, it’s always interested in me how people perceive the place, the people elected there and how it works. The majority of what I hear from people usually isn’t good, as they perceive a hyper-partisan

Early this morning in the National Press Theatre, something happened that the Canadian public has been waiting for now for a while. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a press conference, at which he was expected to address the SNC-Lavalin scandal that’s embroiled his government for four weeks now. As I

Today I got the chance to talk more about everything that took place in the Justice Committee of the House of Commons. This time I joined CFRA’s Evan Solomon, along with Warren Kinsella and Melissa Lantsman to have a talk about Gerry Butts, Michael Wernick, what might come next and

So today has been a big day so far, with all the testimony before the House of Commons Justice committee, and it’s still not done yet. In between the two sessions of testimony, I got the chance to go on CFRA in Ottawa to talk about the SNC-Lavalin Scandal, the

This morning we heard some very long-awaited testimony from Prime Minister Trudeau’s former Principle Secretary Gerald Butts. Remember, he resigned seemingly forever ago because “he did nothing wrong” and to “not be a distraction”. Giving those reasons, you kind of expected the testimony of Jody Wilson-Raybould would have had Butts

Yesterday was a much bigger day than most of us expected. The resignation of Jane Philpott was something that many people simply didn’t see coming and had a huge effect on the course of this story. For the government, this was all kinds of bad and there is no way

Wow, for a supposed “nothingburger” of a story, the list of people resigning keeps growing at a fast rate. But folks, this is a big one that takes things to a whole new level: It grieves me to resign from a portfolio where I was at work to deliver an

It’s a Monday after a relatively quiet weekend, and I can’t help but think that no one is happier about that fact than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal caucus. After three weeks of seemingly unceasing new stories and details coming out in the SNC/PMO Scandal, this weekend seemed

Most weeks so far in 2019 haven’t been so good for New Democrats. We’ve had a lot of negatives to point to, and people have been down. It’s been a rough period to be on Team Orange, but this week was one when a big shoe was expected to drop

It’s Thursday night and while the House of Commons is going late into the night having an emergency debate on Jody Wilson-Raybould’s testimony yesterday and the PMO/SNC Scandal, news keeps breaking elsewhere. It would have been totally normal and justified to think that probably the most of the big news

Yesterday was a rare day in Canadian politics or in Canadian political scandals; it was a day that delivered on its promise, and then some. The testimony from Jody Wilson-Raybould was some of the most compelling words we’ve heard in a Parliamentary Committee in a long time. After three and

Today has been a wild day all around the world, between Michael Cohen’s testimony in Washington, Trump and Kim in Vietnam and the new tensions between India and Pakistan. There have been a lot of big things to take our attention, and rightfully so. But the biggest news that is

Well it’s now official and tomorrow is a day that we’ve been looking forward to ever since the SNC/PMO scandal kicked off three weeks ago. After the Prime Minister finally waived privilege yesterday and the Chair of the House of Commons Justice Committee agreed to her requests, Jody Wilson-Raybould will

Well the votes are counted, and we wake up this morning to a few more questions answered in the #cdnpoli scene then we went into yesterday with. Coming out of these results, this has all the feels of what I’d call an “Oprah result”, in that almost everyone who participated

So today is the big day, with by-elections taking place in York-Simcoe, Outremont and Burnaby South. This afternoon I got the chance to go on CFRA in Ottawa to talk about the races, the chances for Jagmeet Singh and the effect of Maxime Bernier’s party on the whole situation. You