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Trudeau shuffles cabinet
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced cabinet changes Wednesday morning.
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National Column: Trump is right about Canada’s spending
I am speaking specifically about this country’s financial contribution to NATO, the international alliance formed after the Second World War, constructed around the principle of collective defence. Article 5 of the establishing charter declares that “an attack on one is an attack on all.” […]
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National Column: Feminist PM has painted himself into a corner
Still, a teacher at the time and didn’t have politics on the brain, unless it was an ambition held close to the vest.
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National Column: Nationalism is being forced on Trudeau
Like his father, Pierre, Justin Trudeau is an internationalist. Pierre Trudeau found the nationalism of his native Quebec narrow and confining. And he was never entirely comfortable with the economic nationalists in his own Liberal Party.
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National Column: Trump won’t compromise; time to try something else
Justin Trudeau’s government has ruled out replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement with a bilateral Canada-U. S. deal. It’s the right decision. It is being made for the wrong reasons.
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National Column: Tariffs a death knell to NAFTA
When it comes to the North American Free Trade Agreement, Justin Trudeau faces a stark choice.
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National Column: Trudeau’s NAFTA talk draws line in the sand
By any measure, the past week will go down as the defining one in Justin Trudeau’s current term of office. […]
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National Column: Young Liberals may taste defeat for first time
Reason suggests Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland does not seriously think Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals are headed for a “triumph” on June 7. Justin Trudeau’s go-to minister on the Canada/U.S. file predicted a big Liberal election victory at a GTA rally on Thursday. […]
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Morinville joins AUMA support for Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project
Morinville is a signatory in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA). […]
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National Column: Pipeline impasse as big as ever
A month after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped in to resolve the impasse between British
Columbia and Alberta over the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, his government has little to show for its efforts. […]
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National Column: Climate change fights heat up
It is not just pipelines that Canada has a hard time getting done. Putting money where the country’s mouth is on climate change is turning out to be at least as hard.
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National Column: Liberals reach left, Tories should worry
Parsing a blind copy of the weekend’s Liberal resolutions, one would be forgiven for confusing it with an embryonic NDP election platform. […]
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National Column: Pipeline debate hasn’t hurt PM – yet
It is rare that a single issue costs a federal ruling party its re-election. Based on the latest poll to measure the impact of the ongoing pipeline crisis on the political fortunes of its various protagonists, the fate of the Trans Mountain expansion is unlikely to alone determine that of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in next year’s federal election.
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National Column: Can the PM move Mountains?
Notwithstanding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to double down on the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, the plan faces the same hurdles today as it did before he hauled the feuding premiers of Alberta and British Columbia to Parliament Hill for a Sunday meeting.
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National Column: Singh’s seat run could be lethal remedy
With pressure mounting on Jagmeet Singh to enter the House of Commons at the earliest opportunity, the rookie NDP leader is apparently seriously considering a run for Thomas Mulcair’s soon-to-be-vacant Outremont seat. […]
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National Column: Few options for peace on the Mountain
In the increasingly fiery debate over the planned expansion of the Alberta/B.C. Trans Mountain pipeline, there is no mystery about the conflicting end games of the three governments embroiled in the dispute. […]