Tag: Liberal Party of Canada
Alberta Politics: An election’s coming and the PM’s treading water – where’s a Russian to blame now that we need one?
It was a year ago Friday that the government of Canada declared Kirill Kalinin and three other Russian diplomats persona non grata and sent them packing for using, in the words of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, “their diplomatic status to undermine Canada’s security or interfere in our democracy.” Nobody bothered
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your #LavScam weekly roundup (and this is just a sample of a few papers, folks)
Rosie DiManno, Toronto Star: “THE LIBERALS HAVE ABANDONED THEIR MORAL PRINCIPLES…and it’s Justin Trudeau’s fault…It is dismaying to me, a political agnostic, that thuggery is now attached to the federal Liberal party. It is appalling to me, a feminist, that so many who claim to respect women, who call themselves
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest in the Sun: the Trudeau cult
Dear Liberals: This is an open letter to all of you. I want to start it by telling you why I became a lawyer. It was a movie, called The Oxbow Incident. It was a Western, released some 75 years ago, and it starred Henry Fonda. It was about how
Continue readingAlberta Politics: A generation of impulsive right-wing politicians ruins Preston Manning’s dream of ‘green capitalism’ – what’s next?
Let’s start with a pop quiz. Who said this? “One of the biggest issues will be the question of how much of current revenue from non-renewable resources should be saved and how those savings should be invested … so that, if the day ever comes that oil and gas isn’t
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The Jane Philpott interview: this is extraordinary
Paul Wells and Maclean’s have got the first interview with Jane Philpott – former Minister of Health, former Treasury Board President, former Minister of Indigenous Services – and it is incredible. From the very first time I met Jane, and spoke at her riding association many years ago, I believed
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: One way Canada can fight hate, right away
Talk is cheap. If the Trudeau government is serious about stopping the spread of hate, here’s something they can do this week. Will they? (Oh, and one Minister was looking at ways to bring back a version of section 13. Guess who she was?) The federal government’s words about combatting
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam legal: what it means now that PMO has lawyered up
The Globe and Mail has reported that Justin Trudeau and senior PMO staff have now retained independent legal counsel in #LavScam. I’ve helped organizations through legal/comms crises many times. I can tell you this is what this latest revelation means: • their ability to communicate openly about the file comes
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your morning #LavScam: March 14 edition
The Liberal majority on the “Justice” Committee again voted to prevent Jody Wilson-Raybould from speaking. It didn’t go over well. None of it has gone over well. •Toronto Sun Campaign Research poll: “As for Trudeau himself, Yufest says he now stands at just 29% approval compared to 58% who think
Continue readingAlberta Politics: What would Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May do in Rachel Notley’s shoes? Not the same thing as Alberta’s premier
What would have Elizabeth May have done in Rachel Notley’s shoes? The leader of the Green Party of Canada says she would have summoned up the memory of Peter Lougheed, founder of Alberta’s 44-year Progressive Conservative Dynasty, but not the way the province’s first NDP premier has. “I think that
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Ten things Trudeau did wrong at his #LavScam press conference
How bad was Justin Trudeau’s early-morning LavScam press conference? So bad CTV Your Morning’s Ben Mulroney asked aloud if the Liberal Prime Minister had made things worse for himself. So bad Bell Media radio host Evan Solomon called Trudeau’s statement “a word salad.” So bad I played a tape of
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Be careful what you wish for, Conservatives: Canadians may like a tougher Trudeau
Memo to Conservatives, New Democrats and others who are crowing about how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to have been revealed as a harsher and less cuddly politician than he has been thought to be till now: Be careful what you wish for. If Mr. Trudeau is revealed as a
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Deficit hawks fall silent in Washington but screech in Alberta and Canada – what gives?
It’s starting to feel like spring, the days are longer, and the deficit hawks, apparently, have all flown north for the summer. As a result, nowadays, the hawks’ angry shrieks are seldom heard in Washington! “The federal budget deficit is ballooning on President Trump’s watch and few in Washington seem
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Abacus Data #LavScam shorter version: #CPC up, @JustinTrudeau down
Our friends at Campaign Research are out with a national omnibus today, too, I believe. I suspect they are going to show the same thing (if not worse). Poll, methodology, etc. here.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The “feminist” PMO wouldn’t be stupid enough to force female Liberal MPs to publish identical “personal” message of support, would they?
Well, actually, they would be that stupid. They are that stupid. Spotted by my sharp-eyed pal Sean Craig: PMO told female Liberal MPs to post personal messages about what a swell feminist he is – presumably to offset this growing controversy. Except a couple of the MPs just did a
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your Saturday #LavScam roundup: Trudeau’s coddling of “ordinary evil”
National Observer: “…the most depressing spectacle of the entire affair is watching Justin Trudeau, a man who clearly aspires to greatness, debase himself and this nation, by begging, pushing, imploring Canada’s attorney general to let this company off the hook. Then effectively firing her when she wouldn’t comply, and allowing
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: “[Trudeau] was yelling. He was yelling that I didn’t appreciate him, that he’s given me so much.”
That’s a female Liberal MP talking about Justin Trudeau. The Globe and Mail just broke this incredible story. And, on International Women’s Day – on any day – it’s not a good look for the self-professed “feminist.” I guess he could agsin say that we should believe women when they
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your morning #LavScam: the Imposter has a bad, bad press conference
The Imposter’s non-apology apology didn’t go so well. A summary of the commentariat, below: John Ibbitson, Globe and Mail: “At Thursday morning’s news conference, an unrepentant Justin Trudeau described the political crisis that has consumed his government as a failure to communicate. It was not. This crisis is about his
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