Given current polling trends, if an election were to happen now, the Liberals would win the B.C. riding of Cloverdale-Langley City, says pollster Greg Lyle.
The best solution to fix party nomination election controversies is to let Elections Canada oversee the process.
When there’s no threat of an election on the horizon, political fundraising is tough.
Presented as a ‘security measure,’ Bill C-25 would scrap rules requiring parties to release advance notices for fundraising events and disclose the events’ locations, in what one critic says creates an ‘after-the-fact model of oversight.’
Marilyn Gladu, the fifth opposition MP to join the Carney Liberals, has been ‘rather outspoken’ about issues that may put her at odds with Trudeau-era Liberal MPs, says former Conservative staffer Ashton Arsenault.
A truly populist message of policies that would benefit the working class could reshuffle the Canadian political landscape.
So far, it seems the Conservatives are not exactly dismissing the polls like John Diefenbaker once did, nor are they talking about their own internal polls, but they are trying to make it clear that all the bad numbers splashing around the media aren’t causing them to panic.
The 45-page bill includes measures intended to rein in foreign election interference, outlaw dodgy political donations, rename electoral districts, and kneecap the Longest Ballot protest movement.
NDP strategist Tom Parkin says the party’s six-month leadership race has ‘stalled’ rebuilding efforts and left it ‘in a bit of a quagmire,’ but members are now ready to ‘pick the party up’ under a new leader.
PMO deputy chief of staff Andrée-Lyne Hallé and director of operations Angad Dhillon attend national caucus meetings every week to take notes for Prime Minister Mark Carney, say Liberal MPs.
Ex-parliamentarians who worked to move the needle forward and see the creation of a workplace harassment policy for MPs ‘ran out of time’ last Parliament, but hope their work isn’t lost.
But pollster Nik Nanos also says he thinks Iran is ‘the new wildcard’ in public opinion. He will be looking to see if it has changed Canadians’ perceptions of Prime Minister Mark Carney or if it’s led to more concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump’s actions.
Open, fair, and transparent nomination elections before every election cycle are a critical part of the democratic exercise. They force MPs to stay sharp in their work and in touch with their base of support.
These online media/advocacy influencers aren’t really like the media because they don’t provide balanced information, nor are they really like advocacy groups because they don’t seek to persuade the public. The upshot of all this is that political polarization increases, as everybody starts to see the other side as the enemy. This is not good for democracy.
The Liberals’ popularity tends to go up when people focus on Canada-U.S. relations, but the party loses points when affordability becomes the central issue, says pollster Greg Lyle.
Prior to the 1980s, federal cabinet ministers made do with a handful of staff, but that has jumped to between 15 and 25 exempt staffers over the last 40 years, says professor Donald Savoie.
Three Conservative sources, two of whom are former MPs, say a damning quote is making the rounds in their circles after a third Tory joined the Liberal caucus: ‘Pierre Poilievre has become the Justin Trudeau of the Conservative Party,’ says one former MP.
The Liberal, NDP, and Conservative parties say Parliament must assert its jurisdiction over regulating federal parties, as privacy and data advocates urge Senators to pull parts of the ‘privacy-busting bill’ C-4.
Two new polls by Ekos Research and Leger are suggesting that the Liberals are ahead of the Conservatives by nine to 15 points.
Pierre Poilievre will get a ‘resounding’ endorsement in the leadership review, says Conservative MP and convention co-MC Stephanie Kusie.
If traditional conservative voters, and others, are looking for an effective, intelligent and nimble centre-right leader, they already have one in Mark Carney. We’ll see how long this lasts.
Senior Conservative sources tell The Hill Times that current party president Stephen Barber and Christina Mitas have been strategizing and reaching out to potential supporters ahead of the national council election at the end of this month.
‘For a cartoonist, when the world burns we are at our most successful,’ says Michael de Adder, who rounds up his top picks of political cartoons for The Hill Times.
The test for the CAQ will be its ability to hang onto political relevance without the leadership of its founder, Quebec Premier François Legault, says former CAQ government staffer Antonine Yaccarini.
Will global dynamics further influence our ecosystem? What will bond us now, or divide us? These are weighty questions we can’t escape in 2026.
