Ron MacLean has become an avatar of the Trudeau-era sensibility: inauthentic, performative, and mostly concerned with moral posturing. Maybe it's time for him to go.
My latest for @TheHubCanada.
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- If reports are accurate that Sean Fraser is immediately stepping down from Cabinet, we can anticipate a dedicated effort to try to spin a narrative about his political legacy. But the damage that his policy choices have done to Canada's immigration policy cannot be overstated.
- “Canada’s lowest tax jurisdiction (Alberta) has a higher tax rate than the United States’ highest tax jurisdiction (California). No matter where top talent lives in Canada, they face a higher tax rate than they would in any U.S. state.” — @trevortombe
- Don Cherry is the peoples' nominee for the Order of Canada. His ongoing exclusion despite his significant cultural contribution to Canada speaks to the persistent gap between the Laurentian elite and the rest of us. My latest for @TheHubCanada.
- The silly online outrage about Pierre Poilievre’s “biological clock” comment says more about his critics than him. The issue of delayed family formation is one that’s top of mind for a lot of younger Canadians and should be for policymakers too. Research for @cardusca by
- As I’ve said, among the biggest problems with the news media subsidies—including Canadian Periodical Fund—is that my tax dollars are redistributed to outlets that I consciously reject as a consumer. If @cultmtl wants to publish ghoulish articles, fill your boots. But I shouldn’t"Charlie Kirk died as he lived: propagating hateful myths about marginalized groups in our society. He was a profiteer and architect of America’s increasingly violent culture war. You reap what you sow." To Hell With Charlie Kirk cultmtl.com/2025/09/to-hel…
- “In one year, Canada took in as many immigrants, relative to the size of its population, as the United States during the four years of the Joe Biden administration. And that Biden-era immigration surge was the biggest in U.S. history, topping the peak of arrivals at Ellis Island.@tonykeller1: How Canada built, then broke, the world’s best immigration system thehub.ca/2025/11/01/how…
- Justin Trudeau ducks his last fight Trudeau leaves office as he has lived his life: careless of the consequences for others. A spoiled rich kid, a narcissist, and a foolish dreamer, he couldn’t even exit without making a new mess for his party to clean up. As I write this, the‘The most ill-timed curtain call in Canadian political history’: @howardanglin, @trevortombe, @EricDLombardi, @ShimookaR, @Pagmenzies, @JordanLeichnitz react to Justin Trudeau’s dramatic resignation. Full article here: thehub.ca/2025/01/07/the…
- One of the chief reasons that Conservatives have a tendency to be skeptical about the mainstream media is that the prevailing political narratives often seem so discordant from their own experiences and interpretations. This story is a good example. During Stephen Harper’sThe meeting between the wider caucus and the prime minister was scheduled to last 30 minutes, but went on for two hours, according to Liberal MPs. By @abbas_rana1 #cdnpoli buff.ly/461zsnL (subs)
- I suspect that non-conservatives are a bit surprised by the magnitude of the reaction to the Carney government’s factum on the notwithstanding clause. That’s mainly because I think liberals and progressives don’t quite understand how much the past decade or two of judicial
- One of the reasons why I’m a conservative is because I believe that order is a precondition for freedom and I worry that progressives are too indifferent to order. Privatizing a tennis match because of public disorder is a first order failure of citizens and authorities alike.Davis Cup tie between Canada and Israel will be closed to public as a safety precaution theglobeandmail.com/sports/tennis/…
- I can't speak for everyone of course but for me the issue isn't even the forest ban per se. It's the total indifference to its rights infringement. The whole conversation seems to amount to forest fires are bad and stopping them is good and ergo any state intervention alongHow the hell did the right to walk in the woods of Nova Scotia during a forest fire emergency get elevated into the right's latest cultural obsession? Why the sudden and universal vehemence on this, of all issues? Was there a meeting somewhere? A memo circulated?
- A major category error of Canadian politics is the tendency to treat the Assembly of First Nations as a governance body capable of acting as a nation-to-nation interlocutor. In reality, the AFN is a dysfunctional (and government-funded) lobbying organization. Its incentivesWhy First Nations are clashing with Ontario and Ottawa over bills aimed at speeding up megaprojects theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
