Will there be a federal election before next spring? In a word, no. Recent challenges for the Liberals, plus the selection of Erin O’Toole as the new Conservative leader, has ramped up speculation about a snap election. Liberals and Conservatives…

Ken Boessenkool and Dan Robertson have spent their lives advising Canadian political leaders. The economic impact of financial crisis of 2008-2009 still reverberates. The most consequential result of the financial crisis, however, was not economic but political. People blamed the elites for…

Ken Boessenkool is a Conservative activist. He has written political platforms for campaigns or leadership races in the federal Conservative Party, the B.C. Liberal Party, the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party and the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. 

The dust has finally settled following the 2015 federal election. A new government has been sworn in. Outgoing Parliamentarians have departed. A leadership race to select the permanent Official Opposition Leader will soon commence. A Speech from the Throne is…

The Conservative Party of Canada is now in the early stages of a leadership selection process.  This is the result of a number of factors, the most important of which is the desire by Conservatives — particularly Western Conservatives — to see…