What Was Andrea Horwath Thinking?
On May 2, 2014, Andrea Horwath, leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, announced that her party would vote against the Ontario budget tabled by the (Liberal) government. Before the…
Joel Klebanoff
Ford Happens
Yesterday (April 30, 2014), I thought that the most exciting political news of the day was the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) laboriously…
Canada’s Tuned-Out Electorate
Many Canadians don’t give a damn about what goes on in Ottawa. (I’m using “Ottawa” as a euphemism for Parliament and the government rather than the city. You probably figured…
Adversaries Versus Enemies
In Fire and Ashes, the book he published after leaving politics, Michael Ignatieff writes of the difference between adversaries and enemies. He suggests that in politics you should have adversaries…