Bhagwant Sandhu is a retired director general from the federal government. Between 2002-21 he held senior roles in several departments, including Fisheries and Ocean Canada, Infrastructure Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat, and Public Works Canada. He has also held executive positions in the governments of Ontario and British Columbia.
The ballot’s immigration questions reveal the troubling tendency to scapegoat newcomers for problems politicians have failed to solve.
Ottawa should start treating regional actors as interconnected parts of a single strategic system, no longer realigning around Washington.
Navigating an increasingly multipolar world requires Canada to create institutional ties that extend beyond the usual Euro-Atlantic sphere.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is selling Canadians on AI sovereignty while selling investors on returns. Only one of those pitches comes with a public record.
The prime minister’s response to Canada-U.S. tensions is a legitimate act of economic self-defence. But the crisis footing is doing double duty: it lets the Liberals obscure the fact that they are making policy choices with winners and losers.
Despite his conciliatory trip to New York, for the Conservative leader, the politics of permanent confrontation is colliding with an electorate craving reassurance.
Canadians should ask what remains after drawing investor dollars, and what is exchanged: wealth we still own, or a bigger ledger built on corporate subsidies and asset sales?
Trump just showed Canada what happens when a deal is built on a promise. The lesson is to build the leverage to be able to walk away.
Sovereign wealth funds and pension giants are getting a seat at the table at the September event. Seniors, renters, and Indigenous groups are not.
Three vacant ridings look like routine housekeeping. Read against Prime Minister Mark Carney’s year and half in office, and they look like something else.
The Gordie Howe Bridge deal shows how it works with the Trump administration. Dairy, alcohol, and CUSMA are next—unless Ottawa changes its approach.
In naming a low-key MP to lead the Alberta file, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre can turn a referendum fight into a conversation about what holds us together.
The risk isn’t another pipeline. It’s Ottawa becoming a high-stakes player in an energy market it once regulated at arm’s length.
The outgoing Liberal MP spent a decade building the perfect profile for political power. The federal and provincial Liberal parties, however, had other plans.
The stability that once underpinned North American economic integration is giving way to permanent strategic uncertainty.
As Washington increases pressure on Havana, Ottawa’s reticence to engage on the topic is exposing the limits of Canada’s claims to principled internationalism.
