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Paul Wells: In a week like this one, here’s something Ottawa can live without—a pointless gathering with an impossible agenda

By the end of the premiers’ conference, his coalition of the ’frustrated and alienated’ looked surprisingly shallow

Paul Wells: In Montreal, a glimpse of Trudeau federalism—everyone gets to ’agree to disagree’ and it’s enough to hold ’real substantive discussions.’ Easy.

When the premiers balked at a pan-Canadian tax on carbon, the Prime Minister was left to speak vaguely. Is a cohesive national plan even possible?

It’s easy for premiers to say No to a PM. But Justin Trudeau appears determined to hear them say Yes on a climate deal.

At their Vancouver meeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers put off a clear decision on the hardest part of a national climate change plan.

And with another pipeline spill, it’s hard to see how the newest provincial blueprint for an energy strategy will accomplish anything

They want to do more together. He wants to do less.

And both are threatening to haul the federal government into court over the national securities regulator?Okay, now we’ve got...

From the press gallery newswire this morning (emphasis added): From the meeting schedule sent out by the Canadian...