Paul Wells

Paul Wells: How badly do things have to go for a government-appointed panel to shut down because it got no usable data and no help from the minister?

Paul Wells: The Conservatives need to remake their movement for a new era. Is their new leader the person to do it?

Paul Wells: What would English Canada’s most-read columnist have said about the Prime Minister’s current predicament? Everything, and nothing.

Paul Wells: The PM is permitting his finance minister—the supposed incarnation of his government’s fiscal credibility—to be set up. It does not bode well.

Paul Wells: The Prime Minister and his chief of staff laid out their arguments for how to defend this honker. There were just a few problems.

Tired, wired and operating with the fail-safes turned off, team Trudeau made a big mistake. And it had an awfully familiar feel to it.

Paul Wells: An unprecedented avalanche of public contempt got the fake inquiry turned into a real one. The question remains, what was Ottawa thinking?

Paul Wells: Everyone was demanding a public inquiry. What we got was something zero people asked for—a toothless, rickety review panel.

Paul Wells: At first, it was ’imminent’. Then it was ’in the coming days’. Now it’s just ’next steps.’ Are governments even capable of following through?

Paul Wells: Unless we understand how the government decided to team up with WE, we can’t be sure such things won’t happen again