Politics

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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September 19th 2023 - Politics - The Line

A successful convention is a key step on the path to victory

A successful convention is a key step on the path to victory

To win, you now need to plan, and run, a flawless campaign. One of the most underrated events of the rise of Stephen Harper to prime minister was the founding convention of the Conservative Party of Canada in March 2005….

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