Paul Wells

Paul Wells: Soon enough the forced bonhomie will fade, but the CityNews debate was no one’s last chance

However you cut the numbers—by region, demographics or voter enthusiasm—the PCs remain in command

Just as the Ontario election campaign is set to begin, dramatic new poll results show Conservatives first and NDP second, with room to grow.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff spoke candidly on gender equality, the India trip and the voters disappointed on electoral reforms

Paul Wells: Ads making bogus threats about health care cuts are part of a long tradition. And they usually come from a party that’s about to lose.

Paul Wells: Under the Trudeau Liberals, Canada could end up an environmental basket case and a lousy oil merchant. And both sides in the pipeline wars may end up even angrier.

Wells: Party politics is all about taking one for the team. You don’t agree with everything. You suck it up. The tradeoff is that party harmony is a necessary condition of effectively contending for power.

Paul Wells: Hooking Trans Mountain up to the taxpayer hose is not the same as providing generalized investor confidence

Paul Wells: A curious new book from Stéphane Dion’s former advisor offers—along with some real gossip—insight into Trudeau as a foreign-policy PM

Paul Wells: The natural resources minister says ’all options are on the table,’ but what exactly is the Liberal government going to do?