The carbon tax has become Canada’s biggest political wedge issue. Adding to the scorn heaped on the Trudeau government’s plan to price pollution by Conservative politicians, last week Alberta’s NDP Premier Rachel Notley joined the chorus, throwing the federal carbon...
July 12, 2018 – A summer session of the Ontario Legislature kicked off today with a short Speech from the Throne laying out the priorities of Premier Ford’s government, which stayed true to his campaign promises. Delivered by Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth...
June 29, 2018 – Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford was sworn in today as Ontario’s 26th Premier, along with his new – and smaller – Cabinet. Premier Ford unveiled his Cabinet at a swearing-in ceremony inside the Legislature. In a symbolic end to nearly...
The Results After an exciting campaign with unprecedented twists, the Ontario PC Party led by Doug Ford has won a majority government for the first time in 19 years. With Doug Ford at the helm, the PC party won more than 75 of the 124 seats in the Ontario Legislature...
Last Week’s Highlights Following a campaign re-launch that failed to achieve lift-off, and virtually no positive movement in the polls, Kathleen Wynne made the unprecedented move of conceding that there was no foreseeable way for her party to win the election....