The ‘truck tax’ that has been a centrepiece of Conservative Party of Canada fundraising in recent days would be a perfect political prop but for one thing — it’s not a government policy.Jason Kenney made this blue pickup truck a symbol of his campaign during Alberta’s provincial election in 2019. Now, he and other prominent…
Children across the UK are beginning to return to school this week after the summer holidays. But sadly, the threat of Covid-19 spreading and mutating within our communities is still high. It just seems absurd that the Government is sending our kids into a potential coronavirus crisis – it feels like they are ignoring…
The Conservatives have released a costing breakdown of their platform commitments that says a government headed by Erin O’Toole would deliver $51 billion in new spending over the next five years with no return to budgetary balance before then.Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole holds a copy of his party’s recovery plan as he campaigns in August…
As campaigning federal politicians fan out across the country for traditional meet-and-greet events, Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives are focusing on ‘virtual’ town hall events. The party’s national campaign director says it’s how most election campaigns will operate in the future.Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole takes part in a virtual telephone town hall meeting with voters in Newfoundland…
The Conservatives’ proposal for a one month “holiday” on paying GST in retail stores received a lukewarm response from a group representing small businesses Tuesday.Conservative Party of Canada Leader Erin O’Toole at a news conference in a downtown Toronto hotel on Aug. 17, 2021. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s platform proposal to implement a GST…
The Conservative Party of Canada today released its full 160-page election platform — an ambitious agenda that promises billions of dollars in new spending to prop up an economy ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic.Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole Leader, left, smiles while answering a reporter’s question during a news conference in Levis, Que., Saturday, Aug. 14,…
The Conservatives are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to fire Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, arguing he’s lost the confidence of the Armed Forces over the military sexual misconduct crisis.The Conservatives are calling on Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan to step down over his handling of the military’s sexual misconduct crisis. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)The Conservatives are calling on…
The federal Conservatives laid down a political marker today by calling on the prime minister to fire his top adviser over how his government handled the sexual misconduct crisis in the military.Right: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Left: Trudeau’s Chief of Staff Katie Telford. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)The federal Conservatives laid down a political marker today by calling on the…
He has been the most high-profile face among the Conservative Party’s front bench critics — needling Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and her predecessor, Bill Morneau, about the state of the economy and the country’s balance sheet while blasting the Liberal government on ethical foibles like the WE Charity scandal.Conservative Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre is being shuffled from his party’s…
The federal Conservatives are calling for a parliamentary committee probe of the Liberal government’s plan to refit a National Research Council facility in Montreal to start producing a COVID-19 vaccine.A researcher works in a lab operated by Chinese vaccine maker CanSino Biologics in Tianjin, China in November 2018. A collaboration between CanSino and the National Research…