Politics

December 30th 2024 - Archive - The Line

This year, I’m grateful to Trudeau and Singh for two-tier health care

This year, I’m grateful to Trudeau and Singh for two-tier health care

Instead of making the Canadian dental program look more like Canadian public health care, why don’t we do the reverse — move health care to the dental-plan model? Every year at Christmas time, The Line runs a series of articles…

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November 18th 2024 - Politics - The Line

Doug Ford sure looks like a conservative!

Doug Ford sure looks like a conservative!

A Conservative by any other metric would spend so sweet. A number of important conservative and other commentators have lamented Ontario’s departure from conservatism. Doug Ford, these folks argue, is not conservative. A key clue to Ford’s lack of conservative…

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November 7th 2024 - Politics -

Humility

Humility

Humility If anyone tells you what is going to happen, don’t believe them. That’s what we have been saying for weeks and what were saying on US election night. We were told it would be close. It was not. We…

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November 9th 2023 - Archive - The Line

The carbon tax is dead. Long live the carbon tax

The carbon tax is dead. Long live the carbon tax

There is a dumb way to transition to an industrial-only carbon price, and a couple of smart ways. The Liberals chose the dumb way. Veteran political columnist Paul Wells’ second rule of politics reads as follows: If everyone in Ottawa…

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October 25th 2023 - Politics - The Line

Poilievre doesn’t want to just win. He wants to win big

Poilievre doesn’t want to just win. He wants to win big

What the CPC’s stance on the sale of a bank tells us about the potential next prime minister of Canada Some old-school conservatives (and Conservatives) might have been surprised when Pierre Poilievre recently asked Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to halt…

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