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What can new polling tell us about the health of Canadian democracy?
Despite widespread concern about declining levels of trust, Canadian analytics firm Environics finds that overall levels of trust in many of the institutional pillars of this country's democracy — elections, the prime minister, Parliament, the Supreme Court — have been relatively stable over the last 10 to 15 years.
Carney announces shuffle of deputy ministers
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a large shuffle of deputy ministers and senior public servants in a shake-up at the top of the public service that has been long expected around Ottawa.
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Is there a wrong way to gain a parliamentary majority?
Pierre Poilievre says Mark Carney is "trying to manipulate his way through backroom deals" to get a majority. Mark Carney says he's "comfortable commanding the confidence of the House of Commons." These duelling interpretations raise a useful question of civics.
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Another floor-crossing bookends a transformational year in Canadian politics
To illustrate the incredible upheaval that federal politics has experienced over the last 12 months, one could do worse than to simply look at the last two Liberal caucus Christmas parties.
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Who won this week's parliamentary pipeline game? Maybe no one
When the Conservatives tabled a motion asking the House of Commons to "take note" of the memorandum of understanding signed between the federal and Alberta governments and express its support for a pipeline, they presumably hoped, one way or another, to make trouble for the Liberal government. But for now it is unclear how much anyone's interests were actually advanced by this week's game of pipeline chicken.
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Can Carney still put together a credible climate plan? Does it matter?
If Mark Carney's first nine months as prime minister have revealed a difference of opinion over how the federal government should go about fighting climate change, he now has to prove that his approach can put Canada on a credible path to net-zero emissions by 2050.
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The Carney-Smith agreement surely won't make pipelines 'boring again'
Guilbeault's resignation — the rare cabinet resignation due to a disagreement over government policy — both adds to and underlines the test of national and political leadership that Mark Carney signed up for when he put his signature on that memorandum.
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Nobody wants an election. MPs almost voted to have one anyway
Taken together, this week's events might simply underline that MPs — and Canada's political culture writ large — are still figuring out this whole minority Parliament thing.
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Is Mark Carney's budget a Progressive Conservative budget?
Attempting perhaps to turn a story about his own leadership into a story about whether the media have unfairly focused on Conservative dissent, Pierre Poilievre challenged reporters to pay as much attention to criticism levelled against the federal budget by Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith.
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Two Conservative backbenchers steal the show on budget week
It can be easy for long stretches to forget about most of the 343 democratically elected members of the House of Commons. But then, every so often, someone who is not the prime minister, the finance minister or the leader of the Opposition does something to steal the headlines.