Another farce on Bill Blair’s watch
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?
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Paul Wells
Maclean’s senior writer Paul Wells writes about politics across Canada and abroad. Except sometimes he ignores politics and writes about music or something else.
Erin O’Toole and the search for a new Canadian centre
Paul Wells: The Conservatives need to remake their movement for a new era. Is their new leader the person to do it?
Unlocking the mystery of Dr. Foth
Paul Wells: What would English Canada’s most-read columnist have said about the Prime Minister’s current predicament? Everything, and nothing.
Bill Morneau, melting away
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.
The Trudeau WE testimony: What, you wanted a micromanager?
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.
The obvious lessons Justin Trudeau keeps failing to learn
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.
The Nova Scotia inquiry: Maybe next time, listen first
Paul Wells: An unprecedented avalanche of public contempt got the fake inquiry turned into a real one. The question remains, what was Ottawa thinking?
The Nova Scotia shooting ’review’ and the deafness of government
Paul Wells: Everyone was demanding a public inquiry. What we got was something zero people asked for—a toothless, rickety review panel.
The Nova Scotia shooting inquiry: Three months later, there isn’t one
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?
Who makes the decisions in Justin Trudeau’s Ottawa?
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