When Speaker Greg Fergus tossed out Pierre Poilievre from the House last week, 'those of us who have experience as parliamentarians simply couldn't believe our eyes,' writes former NDP leader Tom Mulcair in his column for CTVNews.ca
When all hell broke loose in the House last week, those of us who have experience as parliamentarians simply couldn’t believe our eyes.for an Ontario Liberal colleague, there were many calls for him to resign. He had indeed egregiously breached the most basic rules requiring neutrality in the chair. He’d even made the video in his Parliamentary quarters, wearing his robes of office.
If anything, getting Poilievre turfed seemed to have been concerted and planned, not by Polievre, but by the Liberals in cahoots with their speaker. My vantage point into that desperate, full-bore Liberal effort to spin this against Poilievre came in the form of an early morning call from a senior Liberal minister. In my line of work, as an observer and analyst of the political scene, knowing and being able to speak with ministers is part and parcel of doing your job well.
Polls are being published showing which possible new Leaders have the most public favour. All of this against a backdrop of Trudeau still lagging 20 points behind with nothing to show for his mammoth pre-budget tour or from the budget itself. The writing may be on the wall, but it’s important to remember that Trudeau could still decide tomorrow to walk across the lawn from Rideau Cottage, where he lives, to Rideau Hall and ask Gov.-Gen. Mary Simon to call an election and she’d have no choice but to do so.Those senior Liberal organizers know it as well. The longer Trudeau dithers, the less likely there will be a push by frustrated potential successors to drink from a poisoned chalice.
As Poilievre sides with Smith on trans restrictions, former Conservative candidate says he's 'playing with fire' Quebec is looking at tightening the regulations around sperm donation in the province following the release of a documentary that revealed three men from the same family fathered hundreds of children.
U.S. federal highway safety investigators want Tesla to tell them how and why it developed the fix in a recall of more than two million vehicles equipped with the company's Autopilot partially automated driving system.India's envoy to Canada is scheduled to speak publicly today for the first time since the RCMP made arrests related to a homicide that has roiled tensions between the two countries.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered company reported that workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes.Experts say union workers are feeling increasingly emboldened to reject tentative agreements as they fight to join the ranks of those benefiting from the recent wave of wage gains.
Amid scientists' warnings that nations need to transition away from fossil fuels to limit climate change, Canadians are still lukewarm on electric vehicles, according to a study conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News.Drivers in Saskatchewan will now lose their licence for a week and their vehicle for a month if they are caught committing certain high-speed and dangerous offences on the road.'It looked so legit': Ontario man pays $7,700 for luxury villa found on Booking.
An Ontario man says he paid more than $7,700 for a luxury villa he found on a popular travel website -- but the listing was fake.The City of Toronto is investigating after a large number of dead fish were found floating in Grenadier Pond in High Park.An intense low pressure system of just 986 mb situated south of Saskatchewan will be the main weather maker in central and southern Alberta Tuesday.
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