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National Column: This need not be a curse for Trudeau
by Chantal Hebert Until this week, Justin Trudeau was as much in command of his government’s agenda as a majority […]
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National Column: Pipeline may be Trudeau’s kryptonite
by Chantal Hebert Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Vancouver on Monday adding what is presumably the next-to-last piece to […]
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National Column: Amid economic gloom, a bet on infrastructure
That sea of troubles, it just keeps rising. The floodwaters of uncertainty turned the English Channel into a gulf between Britain and Europe. They may yet sink Hillary Clinton. The $6 billion a year that Bill Morneau set aside for – wait for it – a rainy day have already vanished beneath the waves. […]
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National Column: Liberals are taking a gamble by reversing election promises
What’s a government to do when promises start to unravel? We’re about to find out.
The Trudeau Liberals’ 2015 platform took quite a knocking this month. Electoral reform? Not if Canadians don’t want it, says Justin Trudeau, while continuing to resist the obvious mechanism – a referendum – for finding out whether they do. More generosity on health care? […]
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National Column: One year on: Promises, what promises?
Much celebration – for the most part justified – is attending the first anniversary of Justin Trudeau’s election victory. Twelve months later, polls elicit no buyer’s remorse. Many voters who did not support Trudeau last year are on balance happy he won. […]
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National Column: Chasing trillions to build billions in infrastructure
Justin Trudeau had been prime minister for barely two months when he made his first visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, a gaudy alpine day camp for zillionaires and Hollywood’s we-have-all-the-answers set. The skepticism that attended the young prime minister’s late nights with Bono and Kevin Spacey was healthy and natural.
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The key issues that divide others, unite us
by Chantal Hebert Looking back on the year since voters handed Justin Trudeau a majority mandate it is impossible to […]
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National Column: Trudeau’s Liberal government remains oddly Harperesque
When Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won last year’s election, many Canadians were ecstatic.
Compared to outgoing prime minister Stephen Harper, Trudeau seemed – to these voters at least – a breath of fresh air. […]
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National Column: What pipeline approval tells us about the Liberals
As Liberal leader and subsequently as prime minister, Justin Trudeau has talked in the abstract of the need to secure a social licence prior to undertaking any major energy project. Until this week, no one was sure what he actually meant by that. […]
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National Columns: We are sorry
Two of Trudeau’s top aides expensed $207,000 for moving from Toronto to Ottawa. Now, after two days on the defensive, Katie Telford and Gerald Butts say they’ll pay some of it back. […]
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National Column: PM lacks strong message
If one were to rate a prime ministerial news conference based on its shock value, the one Justin Trudeau gave on the occasion of his return to the House of Commons for the fall session of Parliament on Wednesday would not be worth grading. […]
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National Column: Cabinet committees hint at a cabinet shuffle
In the bad old days of the Soviet Union, Western intelligence agencies used to grab at the tiniest details to figure out, in the absence of reliable information, who was up or down in Moscow. Seating orders on reviewing stands at May Day parades. The placement of articles in Pravda. Musical choices on state radio. Any scrap or tidbit.
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National Column: Cabinet retreat is a chance to learn
Summer ends for the Liberals this weekend. On Sunday and Monday, the cabinet meets in Sudbury for a two-day retreat. Thursday and Friday the full Liberal caucus will be in Saguenay, north of Quebec City, for two days of meetings to prepare for the autumn sitting of Parliament. Four days after that, Justin Trudeau leaves for eight days in China, a trip his office views as a high priority. […]
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How will PM tackle terror? Just watch him
So far on terrorism, Justin Trudeau is more or less the prime minister Stephen Harper told us he would be.
On the very day Trudeau became leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, in April 2013, he sat in Ottawa for an interview with Peter Mansbridge of the CBC. Two bombers had just detonated their home-brew contraptions at the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding hundreds. […]
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National Column: Enough shirtless Trudeau pics: Time for work
But enough of summer silly-season stories. Justin Trudeau’s biggest problem isn’t that he has spent August wearing only half his clothes. It’s that Canada has spent 2016 wearing only half its economic growth.
Fixing the latter challenge will be way harder than throwing on a shirt. […]
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National Column: The Trudeau Interview: Last of Five Parts
“One more,” Justin Trudeau’s communications director said.
She was letting me know my interview with the prime minister, in his office on the third floor of Parliament’s Centre Block, was about to end. […]