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Aaron Wherry

Aaron Wherry covers the House of Commons and its 338 residents for Maclean’s.

Ottawa

’Stop the political games’

From January 30 through yesterday—a total of 23 sitting days for the House of Commons—eight different Conservative MPs have...

Cheer up, everybody

Industry Minister Tony Clement gave a speech yesterday too. And afterwards he was asked to comment on the state of the auto...

’A good start’

The Globe editorial board finds a more optimistic angle . It is the job of a leader not just to introduce policies, but to explain...

Antagonism

Adam Radwanski on the same section of the Prime Minister’s speech. For 90 per cent of today’s speech, Harper managed to stick to...

Stimulus for the mind

On the strength of one Canadian Press story , today’s speech by the Prime Minister in Brampton might already be the most highly...