Author: Peter Wrightwater

I don’t know quite what to make of this.From Brian Topp’s Globe and Mail Op-ed, "On Palestine, Harper and Nov.4":Mr. Rabin’s successors have failed to carry out his vision, perhaps because they lacked and continue to lack his strength. Perhaps because they have not yet had their fill of war, as he had. Or so some of their conduct would suggest – mirrored, tragically for the Palestinian people, by

So here we have Thomas Mulcair strutting about the political stage doing his rogue and peasant slave shtick – weighing his options, hesitating, grappling with his indecision. The whole performance has the air of an anguished soliloquy, right down to th…

The federal government plans to reintroduce legislation adding seats to Canada’s fastest growing provinces in a move expected to benefit the Conservatives in the 2015 election. While observers and opposition members concede that Ontario, Alberta, and B…

If you thought the exit of the Bloc Quebecois from the federal stage meant the humiliation card was put safely back in the deck, think again.The New Democrat’s democratic reform critic David Christopherson says supporting legislation that doesn’t guarantee Quebec 25% of the seats in the House of Commons would be "insulting" to Quebecers."We believe that Quebec should maintain the percentage of

After Sheila Copps appeared on the September 7th edition of Power and Politics, Evan Solomon assembled the Power Panel to discuss her view that Bob Rae should be able to run for the permanent leadership of the Liberal Party. Rob Silver was the first to…

check out this TV ad from the referendum campaign.

More bad news.Bob Rae speaks on the issue of guaranteeing Quebec 25% of the seats in the House of Commons during a press conference in August:"As the premier of Ontario, I was concerned about making sure that Ontario got its fair share in terms of seat distribution, but you can’t just do what’s good for you," he told reporters during a break from a four-day caucus meeting in Ottawa."You’ve got to

So here I am taking Brian Topp and New Democrats to task for parroting the views of the Bloc Quebecois on increasing Quebec’s seat count in the House of Commons to a 25% guarantee, when, to my astonishment, I discover that Interim Liberal Leader Bob Ra…

During his press conference on Monday, New Democrat leadership candidate Brian Topp invoked a non-existent resolution as justification for increasing the number of seats from Quebec in the House of Commons.Here’s what he said:[T]he second issue we must…

Yesterday, Brian Topp was asked for his views on the Harper Government’s plan to increase the number House seats for Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, while the number of seats allocated to Quebec would stay the same. Here’s what he had to say:*We…

Somewhere in a locked filing cabinet at the headquarters of the Liberal Party of Canada is a piece of paper with Bob Rae’s signature on it. And written on that piece paper is a promise, a solemn undertaking by Mr. Rae that "he will not seek the permanent leadership of the Party as part of the next leadership selection process." Mr. Rae agreed to sign the document as a condition for being

If you’re running to be president of a political party crippled by decades of leadership rivalries and factional infighting, it’s probably not the best idea to launch your campaign by reigniting those battles and opening up old wounds.The fact that She…

On Monday, a Hill Times article offered up this lead:

If the NDP honours Jack Layton’s dying wish to hold a leadership convention in January to select his successor—as a top party backroomer predicts will occur—the speedy time frame would severely…

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On August 6, Stephane Dion received the 2011 Couchiching Award for Leadership in Public Policy. The following is an excerpt from the speech Mr. Dion delivered at the event.

Fighting for a united and better Canada

So my prime reason for entering polit…

Former Prime Minister Paul Martin discusses the global economic crisis, the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating and what Canada needs to do now to ensure future prosperity, in this interview from Thursday’s edition of The Current.

On August 7, candidate for president of the Liberal Party, Ron Hartling tweeted this:

The opponents mentioned in the CKWS report are Mark Holland and Siobhan Coady.

According to Hartling then, either Holland or Coady, or both, will not be running fo…

So we have today in Ottawa a government that stands up for Canada only if it involves the military and matters of trade and money. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, if they had their way, would turn everything else over to the provinces. A…

Apologists for Nicole Turmel continue referring to her as someone who’s had a change of heart.

Brian Topp, president of the New Democratic Party, wrote last Thursday that "… if the unity of the country were the issue, then the recruitment of an articulate, effective, high-profile female Francophone Quebec labour leader to the cause of Canada would be widely celebrated — not subjected to

On July 27, I published a story regarding the Liberal online forum En Famille. In it I quoted Ron Hartling who’s running for President of the Liberal Party of Canada. The quote came from a post Hartling wrote for his website, in which he said:

As volu…