It's not difficult to sow discord among Liberals. They're doing an excellent job themselves. Ideological parties have the glue of their core beliefs to hold them together in opposition and in power. But the only glue "mushy middle" parties like Canada's Liberals have is power itself. In a nation where two-thirds of the electorate leans to the centre-left, the Liberals' winning formula has always been to tilt to the left. The 1993 post-[Brian Mulroney] political meltdown robbed the Liberals of most of their left wing. Arising from the ashes of Mulroney's doomed Quebec-Alberta axis, the Bloc Québécois deprived the party of Wilfrid Laurier and Pierre Trudeau of much of its leftist oxygen. Previously, the Liberals could always count on a large contingent of progressive Quebec MPs to counter...
... embarked on a debilitating 10-month leadership race won by the candidate who began the convention...
...v. Alberta (Energy and Utilities Board) , 2006 SCC 4, [2006] ...R.B. Bennett, later to become leader of the opposition and Prime Minister:. … I do no...
It wasn't just a landslide. In Monday's provincial election in Alberta, Premier Ed Stelmach buried the opposition so deep you'd need a backhoe to find the survivors. Importantly for Stelmach himself, the result will silence his critics inside the party, especially those in Calgary who were readying another leadership race if he stumbled. Instead, he waltzed through the night, a feat all the more remarkable because his campaign machine seemed to limp along with two left feet for much of the past month. Stelmach, it turned out, was a much better candidate than his campaign. And in an odd way, it's a return to personality politics after Ralph Klein. People didn't embrace the Conservatives as much as they embraced Stelmach. They liked his low-key message of honesty and sincerity. Besides ...
... relationship between government and opposition. The analysis includes the role of the Speaker, le...Newfoundlanders needed political leadership, stability and vision. What they got was political... as with recent cases in British Columbia, Alberta, and New Brunswick, but unlike in some provinces t...
... to more than a dozen other communities in Alberta and British Columbia (8)--is looking to invest the... they encounter fierce political opposition. Opposition typically comes from public-employee u...'s Infrastructure Deficit." Municipal Leader. Winter. . National Round Table on the Environment...
...Moreover, the Opposition will now have a much more definite role in orderin... New Alberta Premier: New Energy Strategy . By Ethan Sinclair... Conservative (PC) Party elected their new leader and Alberta's new Premier, Alison Redford. The Pre...
Many Albertans are unhappy with the government and are crying out for something new. In fact, a recent public opinion poll by Leger Marketing found that 51 per cent of Calgarians wanted a change in government. For good ol' rootin'-tootin' Tory-loving Calgary, that is a huge shift in perspective. Yet... no matter how bad the public opinion polls are for Premier Ed Stelmach and the Conservatives, they're worse for the opposition. While 28 per cent of Albertans surveyed said Stelmach "would make the best premier for Alberta," only 16 liked Liberal Leader Kevin Taft and seven per cent said NDP Leader Brian Mason. Paul Hinman, leader of the Alberta Alliance Party, which recently changed its name to the Wildrose Alliance, got four per cent support, which might be pretty much zero when you fac...
... Canada because of the respondents opposition to his political views. They contend that the deci... right of Palestinians to elect their own leaders and, in that regard, respects the decision of Gaza...2: Baier v. Alberta , 2007 SCC 31, [2007] 2 S.C.R. 673 at para. 48. [8...
As a young Canadian who may witness a time when the Arctic melts and smog from the tar sands ends up in my backyard, I want to know exactly what our current government is going to do to prevent our environment from imploding. Short-term economic belt-tightening today is nothing compared to what my children and their children will face tomorrow if they cannot breathe the air or grow food. I don't want to play "Where's Rona?" when the questions get tough. I want a plan, targets and timelines. In the present civic election campaign, an important issue is being missed by candidates. This is the threatened status of the Canadian Wheat Board with its head office in Winnipeg. The Harper government is determined to change the status of the wheat board to just another marketer of prairie grain,...
... Stephen Harper's government in its Alberta-based ideological opposition to the wheat board's ... on, Sam Katz and all you would-be civic leaders: Pay attention and stand up for the wheat board an...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week declined an invitation from Opposition Leader Stéphane Dion to debate with him in Alberta the Liberals' carbon-tax proposal, or, as Mr. Dion likes to call it, his "Green Shift" policy. Since Mr. Harper and his Conservative government have been harshly critical of the idea, calling it a "crazy" concept and a program that would "screw" everybody across Canada, many Canadians might wonder why the prime minister would refuse the challenge. As confused and controversial as it is, climate change is the issue of the moment and the government's plans to combat it are, quite frankly, not so clear in the public mind as Mr. Dion's. This kind of hypocrisy surrounding the climate-change debate only confuses the issue and serves political agendas rather than p...
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