The owners of GC Strategies are being summoned again to appear before the government operations committee amid the ArriveCan controversy. Wednesday’s passage of a Conservative motion came a day later than the party originally hoped for after debate around amendments stretched until the end of the allotted meeting time. Under the passed motion, GC Strategies … Read more
The business secretary has accused the Post Office chair she sacked of a ‘blatant attempt to seek revenge’ after he made explosive allegations about the governmentâs handling of the Horizon scandal. Kemi Badenoch launched an extended attack on Henry Staunton in the Commons on Monday. The furore began over the weekend after Staunton gave an … Read more
The Liberals have delayed expanding medical assistance in dying for mental illness until after the next election. But if Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wins, he says he will scrap the plan altogether. “We will revoke (an expansion) entirely,” Poilievre said at a news conference Thursday in Vancouver after the Trudeau government punted the move until … Read more
The Conservative Party has formally requested the public inquiry into foreign interference zero in on Iranian influence in Canada. “We want the commission to follow the evidence and make sure that we hear specifically from those repressed Iranian voices here,” said Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman on Wednesday. A day earlier, Conservative party lawyer Nando … Read more
The housing crisis, clean-tech tax credits and carbon pricing were front and centre in the House of Commons on Monday, as MPs picked up where they left off — both in substance and in tone — when they rose for the Christmas break in December. The Liberal government’s immediate focus is on debating and passing … Read more
When Michelle Mone sat down for an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg last month it was against the backdrop of serious allegations that she had been facing since 2020. Mone and her husband, the Isle of Man-based businessman Doug Barrowman, are the subjects of a long-running National Crime Agency investigation into allegations of bribery … Read more
