Insight
Atlantic Canada Learns of Two New Premiers in Three Days
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador: In today’s surprising political news, Nova Scotia premier Stephen NcNeil has announced that he will be stepping away from public office. After 17 years as an elected official, McNeil announced that he will retire from public...
Respected Toronto Liberal MP Resigns to Run Simon Wiesenthal Center
Earlier this week, Ottawa political circles were greeted by the surprise news that two-term MP Michael Levitt had submitted his intention to resign as the representative for York Centre. First elected in 2015, Levitt quickly became a strong voice for Jewish Canadians...
Counsel Adds Political Veterans Rob Gilmour and Jess Georgakopoulos to its Public Affairs and Public Relations Teams
TORONTO, August 4, 2020 – Counsel Public Affairs is pleased to welcome Rob Gilmour and Jessica Georgakopoulos to its growing government relations and communications practices. “Coming to Counsel straight from their respective senior roles in the Ontario Progressive...
How the Federal Conservative Leadership Race is Shaping Up
Although many people wouldn’t know it, there is a Conservative leadership race underway. This race will determine the person who will replace Andrew Scheer and lead the Conservatives into the next election. While the current Liberal minority government is plagued by...
Morneau’s ‘Snapshot’ Points to Long Economic Recovery
“We took on debt so Canadians wouldn’t have to,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this morning, foreshadowing the $343 billion projected deficit revealed by Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s Economic and Fiscal Snapshot. This figure is 10 times higher than...
Ontario Delivers Unprecedented $17.5 Billion in Aid to Reinforce Health Care, Protect People and Jobs in COVID-19 Fight
With the entire world confronting the growing and far-reaching impact of COVID-19, today Ontario’s government laid out its much-anticipated economic and fiscal update. Consistent with its responses to date, the action plan announced today injects highly-targeted...
COMMENTARY – Devan Sommerville: Once again, we’re a nation at war – and together we can do it
Apologies if this sounds dramatic. You may have heard someone say that the COVID-19 pandemic is like a war. They're right. A world war is the only good comparison. Our economy is completely re-orienting itself to battle the pandemic. Entire industries will be...
Bob Lopinski’s take on the Ontario Liberal Leadership – Liberals no longer believe the path back to power has to be a six-year project.
The pundits said Doug Ford would never be Premier, Donald Trump couldn’t win the Republican nomination let alone the White House, Justin Trudeau would not survive SNC, and Joe Biden was finished. They also declared the Ontario Liberal Party dead. Reduced to a caucus...
Alberta government to focus on jobs, belt tightening
This budget, dubbed the Blueprint for Jobs, focuses on creating a low tax, red tape-free business climate. With a heavy emphasis on returning to balanced budgets there will be a 2.8 per cent spending reduction across government over the next four years, while...