OttawaThe inevitable Hitler comparisonYou know, when I wrote the other day that questioning someone’s patriotism was roughly equivalent to comparing them to Hitler, I...
OttawaAnother vacation well earnedIt’s been 168 days since the spring session of Canada’s 39th Parliament was adjourned. In that stretch of over five months, the...
OttawaMichael Chong Maverick WatchA question asked by the Conservative MP in the final moments of debate in the House today. "Mr. Speaker, in light of the events...
Ottawa’A lot of fear and anger and hatred’As noted previously, there have been moments in the House this week when the rhetoric and language felt, very...
OttawaThe past and future tenseCBC tonight referred to an essay—Our Benign Dictatorship—authored in 1996 by Stephen Harper and Tom Flanagan that refers...
OttawaFrank Valeriote Maverick Watch"I believe in working toward a solution, not working toward a coalition ... I am not, frankly, anticipating moving into...
OttawaMichael Chong Maverick Watch"We misread the situation." The enigmatic Conservative MP manages to make what is, to my knowledge, the only public, on-the-record...
Ottawa’Democratic right’"And the Opposition does not have the democratic right to impose a coalition with the separatists they promised voters would never...