Canada would be seen as a “banana republic” if it scrapped a $15-billion deal to sell armed vehicles to Saudi Arabia, Justin Trudeau says.
“People have to know that when you sign a deal with Canada, a change in governments won’t immediately scrap the jobs and benefits coming from it,” the prime minister said in an interview in his office in Parliament’s Centre Block. “Because we’re not a banana republic.” […]
PM busy rebuilding relationships by Paul Wells The federal government plans “big announcements in coming weeks,” in Toronto and elsewhere, […]
Deadlines can focus the mind and sharpen our work. For some, however, the ticking of the deadline clock can overwhelm the substance of our work.
This week, the Liberal government is expected to hand in its homework on two pieces of legislation that were expedited by deadlines imposed by the Supreme Court of Canada. […]
Among Justin Trudeau’s commitments, few are as time-sensitive as his promise to have a new voting system in place for the 2019 federal election.
And so, as the weeks turned into months and eventually into more than half a year without any action from the new government, questions arose as to how committed the Liberals were to a promise they had made when they were twice-removed from power. […]
Perhaps it was the impatience of youth.
More likely, it was the impatience of a First Nations generation meeting a prime minister who has raised expectations sky high. […]
Sometimes you’ve got to be pissed off.
Justin Trudeau got there this week as his response to terrorism continues its remarkable evolution. […]
For all the talk about a new activist federal era, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first budget largely picks up where Paul Martin left off – at least when it comes to spending priorities.
Improving the terms of the relationship between Canada and its indigenous people was front and centre on the former Liberal prime minister’s radar. At the time of its defeat in 2006, the Martin government was about to start implementing the Kelowna Accord. […]
Welcome to the era of deficits and dreams.
Some of the dreams are deferred, but the deficits seem cast in stone. […]
OTTAWA-When Canada lost its bid for a United Nations Security Council seat to Portugal in 2010 it was widely seen as a humiliation, an embarrassment, the dagger through the heart of Stephen Harper’s foreign policy. […]
We want to be liked; we want to be appreciated, but most of all we want to be noticed.
Sometimes we crave it so much we appear a little bit needy. In reality, though, it is not needy, it is necessary. […]
Justin Trudeau is about to be the man of the moment in Washington.
But official Washington’s attention span is notoriously fickle and the prime minister’s challenge will be to parlay the South Lawn pomp and the red carpet into enduring Canadian influence after Barack Obama leaves the White House.
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Next week’s White House state dinner will be the first such soiree in 19 years in which the guest of honour is a Canadian prime minister.
But it will be the first such dinner in memory in which the Canadian prime minister will be the subject of fascination by official Washington. […]
It was merely a matter of time before someone in Justin Trudeau’s picture-perfect, properly balanced cabinet – a collection of the celebrated, the cerebral and the politically untested – was going to have to show their mettle with their finger stuck in a light socket. […]
It seemed like a political master stroke last July when Justin Trudeau and his inner circle decided to turn political convention upside down and run “modest” budget deficits.
The pledge helped Trudeau break from the pack and in hindsight it was not only a smart political move but a prudent fiscal decision. […]
Over his first three months in power, Justin Trudeau has undone many of Stephen Harper’s policies but until this week, he had not cancelled one that enjoyed more popular support than the Liberal alternative. […]
When he landed in Alberta for two days of meetings this week, Justin Trudeau had a number of options.
I suppose he could have charismatically willed the price of oil back up to $100 per barrel. […]
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