The fun thing about Ottawa is that it’s a town where people will swear with a straight face that they’re not thinking about a thing they are definitely thinking about, which is also the thing everyone is talking about.
This week, that thing is snap-election speculation.
It all depends on whether Xi decides the time is right.
It’s been reported that Premier Doug Ford has told Mark Carney that the prime minister could seize the moment to turn his minority government into a clear majority. The premier should know.
When Ford stood next to Windsor’s Ambassador Bridge a year ago to announce a snap election, he declared it was necessary to get a stronger mandate to protect Ontario. He promised to “fight” against the Trump administration’s tariff threats, adding, “We’ll also be ready to do whatever is necessary to stand up for and protect Ontario, our workers, businesses, communities.”
The Supreme Court of Canada annulled the results of a closely contested riding from last spring’s election on Friday.
The Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne was initially declared for the Bloc Québécois until a judicial recount found the Liberals had won the seat by one vote.
But Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, the Bloc candidate, called on the courts to annul the results and call a new election after CBC News reported that a voter had their mail-in ballot returned to them due to a misprint on the return envelope.
The CBC can’t seem to bring itself to say that the Liberal is tossed and a byelection will now have to take place.
When Stephen Harper was Prime Minister I wrote many columns warning about the influence that right wing Americans had on his political operation, and I spent many dreary hours trying to trace his connections south of the border.
I now wonder if that was time well spent because, since the second election of Donald Trump, it has become clear that whatever influence the Republicans had on Harper’s world view, he was always as dedicated to Canadian sovereignty as a prime minister should be.
This guy is almost always wrong, so get ready for a spring vote.
Elections, like the flu, can sneak up on you.
They may also be contagious. Not even one year since both men won their own elections, Mark Carney and Doug Ford have reportedly been chatting about another federal election this year.
According to The Globe and Mail, citing multiple anonymous sources, the Ontario premier has told the prime minister that he could seize the moment to turn his minority government into clear majority.
Liberals and Conservatives are working out a path that could keep the government in power, sources tell CBC News, while Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to downplay the likelihood of a spring election.
Asked on Monday whether an election was coming, Carney demurred.
“It’s time to do a lot more work. We’ve got a lot of work to do,” he told CBC News on his way into West Block.
But behind the scenes, Liberals and Conservatives have been working on potential deals that could end a parliamentary gridlock and potentially avoid a second federal election in 12 months, three senior Liberal and Conservative sources said.
Someone is lying. Sorry misinformed.
LILLEY: Carney is asking Ford for election advice because Poilievre won’t
Conservatives angry over prime minister and premier talking about an early election should be asking why their leader isn’t doing the same
Going to an early election worked for Doug Ford, will it work for Mark Carney? The two have been talking about this issue with Carney asking questions and Ford offering up his opinions in conversations over the past several weeks.
The whole co-operation initiative was obviously a distasteful task to Pierre Poilievre, one that circumstances and strategists have foisted upon him. When he went to meet Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday to talk about it, his opposite number appeared equally sincere.
This was a week when talk of co-operation seemed to be breaking out all over Ottawa. But the two main adversaries in federal politics were really playing cat and mouse.
As Conservatives celebrate the 20th anniversary of Stephen Harper’s first election victory this week, there’s a lot of chatter about what Pierre Poilievre can learn from his success.
In 2006, Mr. Harper captured 36 per cent of the popular vote, and won. In 2025, Mr. Poilievre was a far better vote-getter, earning 41 per cent of the popular vote – and lost. Those totals would appear to indicate there’s not much to gain in the way of lessons.
Canadians are virtually evenly split on how they believe MPs hoping to cross the floor should handle it, new data from Nanos Research finds.
According to the numbers, a third of Canadians — 33 per cent — believe MPs planning to cross the floor should resign their seat and trigger a byelection, running on the mandate of the party they hope to join.
OTTAWA—Fresh off a decisive leadership victory, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are seeking to present themselves as doers — not obstructors.
“It’s with hope and humility that I accept the endorsement of grassroots Conservatives at our party convention,” Poilievre said in a social media video Monday.
“The message from our convention is that Canadians want to turn hope into results.”
Oh really?
OTTAWA — Three contenders to be the federal NDP’s next leader say they’re not giving up on the party’s traditional blue-collar base, after multiple speakers at the recent Conservative national convention touted the party’s electoral gains on their turf.
The Conservatives fell short of winning last year’s election but picked up 10 seats in NDP-held ridings, a moral victory some speakers played up to convention-goers.
The NDP is the party of out of touch cranks who despise the working class that rejected their nonsense.
From axing the carbon tax to tightening immigration, boosting defence spending and backing pipelines, is it possible that a Conservative government is what Canadians actually want, but too many Liberals have trained themselves, like Pavlov’s dogs, to reflexively salivate hatred at the mere words “Conservative?” or “Poilievre?”
OTTAWA – Political analysts say the federal Conservatives and leader Pierre Poilievre have momentum coming off a unifying convention in Calgary but the party still has a hill to climb in Parliament to one-up Prime Minster Mark Carney and the Liberals.
The Conservatives wrapped up their three-day national convention on Saturday touting party unity. Poilievre easily passed his mandatory leadership review with 87.4 per cent support from delegates.
Pollster Nik Nanos said Poilievre’s result was “quite striking.”
Pierre Poilievre sailed through his leadership review Friday evening winning an 87.4 per cent endorsement from delegates to the Conservative Party of Canada convention in Calgary.
But that was hardly a surprise, nor was it the most significant number of the Conservative leader’s week.
OTTAWA — As Pierre Poilievre departed his party’s convention armed with the backing of delegates to lead the federal Conservatives into the next election, senior party figures say getting ready for that contest will be the next challenge.
Poilievre secured 87.4 per cent of support from the more than 2,500 delegates who descended on Calgary for the party’s three-day convention, with his leadership review on Friday night as the main focus of the gathering.
