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Quebec’s premier appears to want a federal election to take place sooner rather than later. In a brief statement to reporters at the National Assembly on Thursday, Legault expressed his disagreement with the Bloc Québécois’s decision to support Justin Trudeau’s Liberal minority government in a non-confidence motion that is expected next week. For months, Legault said, he’s…
Politics The Liberal government says it will slash the number of international student visas it issues by another 10 per cent. Liberal government to slash number of permits by 10 per cent Anja Karadeglija · The Canadian Press · Posted: Sep 18, 2024 1:41 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago Immigration, Refugees and…
In the summer of 1978, against his top political strategist’s advice, Pierre Trudeau called a full slate of byelections to fill 15 vacancies in the House of Commons, including seven seats the Liberals had won in the previous election. As recounted in John English’s Just Watch Me, the Liberal Party’s own pollster said the governing…
A New Democrat MP urged the House of Commons to put politics aside and find immediate policy solutions on Monday night, as legislators held an emergency debate following six incidents in just two weeks where First Nations people were killed by police. The first day of the fall parliamentary session saw MPs sit until midnight in Ottawa,…
If the Conservatives want to bring the Liberal government down over the carbon tax, they won’t have the help of the Bloc Québécois, one Quebec MP says. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been pressuring the other opposition parties to help him force a “carbon tax election” this fall. To do that, Poilievre would need both…
The need for affordable housing is a top priority for two Waterloo region MPs, as the fall sitting gets underway in the House of Commons. Green MP Mike Morrice, who represents Kitchener Centre, says while he’s heard “good rhetoric from the federal government” on the housing crisis, he will be spending his time getting them…
Organizations seeking city dollars shouldn’t be allowed to use taxpayer money to hire public relations firms to help sell requests for new money to the community, city politicians say. The London Police Services Board paid the high-profile PR firm Navigator $104,000 to make the unprecedented $672-million budget more palatable to the public and, ultimately, politicians. The information was…
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday announced changes to some mortgage rules as part of an effort to make housing more affordable, a critical political issue that has hurt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government. Freeland said the government was increasing the cap on insured mortgages to $1.5 million from $1 million earlier,…
Parliamentarians return for the fall sitting today after a heated summer drastically altered the dynamics in the House of Commons. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be leading an unstable minority government in the wake of last week’s announcement by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to end the supply-and-confidence agreement that had ensured the Liberal government’s survival for more…
Members of Parliament all receive the same base salary — $203,100 — but some spend much less time on their feet in the House of Commons than others. Using data provided by the House of Commons, Radio-Canada ranked all 338 MPs on the number of times they’ve spoken in the Commons or exercised their right to vote in the current session of Parliament. The amount of…
