Michael Den Tandt
National Post
Ontario, Canada
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Opinion: How Canada can improve security if American democracy collapses
Breadcrumb Trail Links * NP Comment Opinion: How Canada can improve security if American democracy collapses Author of the article: Michael Den Tandt and Wesley Wark, Special to National Post Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., before breaking in on Jan. 6. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Article content By Michael Den Tandt and Wesley… → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: Donald Trump’s refugee ban pushes Canadian politicians to forge common front
The bottom line is, this is an outlandish scenario, in which there is no obvious path forward for Canada but the one the Liberals have chosen → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: Here are five ways Canada could benefit from a Trump presidency
Since this is happening regardless, and we Canucks didn’t get a vote in any case, it behooves us to pragmatically keep an eye out for potential opportunities → Read More
Canadian democracy at its best
Politics is dreadful everywhere and always, yes? Well, no — not entirely. There are still doings worth celebrating, particularly, these days, in Canada. → Read More
Trump-style nativism could spread to Canada
Is there a path to a Trumpist revolt in Canada? Judging from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s popularity, still at nosebleed levels, and the unimpressive flutter of nativism in the Conservative party, it wouldn’t seem so. → Read More
Trump lost the debate by every normal standard
Clever people everywhere — on Canadian Twitter, that is to say — believe Donald J. Trump imploded in his first televised presidential debate with Hillary Rodham Clinton. If that’s true, the next two outings should be a matter of mopping up. Clinton must have the White House in the bag. Hmm. → Read More
Liberals mulling moves on military file
Big moves are afoot on the federal military procurement file – and not a moment too soon. → Read More
Grits have no mandate to reform voting system
It is impossible, not to mention contradictory and hypocritical, to sell a program of democratic renewal that is not itself democratic. → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: Trudeau’s sunny Liberalism at risk of becoming just a mirror image of Harper’s bitter Conservatism
It would be a cruel irony indeed if, having defeated Harperism with a menu of sunny optimism, Justin Trudeau Liberalism became its mirror image → Read More
Den Tandt: Liberal government’s new pipeline hurdles show Trudeau feels untouchable after election win
Liberals apparently feel they can let whatever daylight had existed between them and the NDP on this file to vanish, while stiff-arming swing voters → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: Truth is, little will change in Canada’s anemic foreign policy
Canada is a middling power that chronically underspends on defence and foreign aid and tags along symbolically with its allies when doing so is politically convenient → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: Time for Liberals to stop the platitudes and start governing
On file after file, Liberal ministers appeared evasive. Their goal seems to be to avoid getting pinned to a direct answer on any issue, at all costs → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: La Loche shooting a reminder that Canada’s original sin against its aboriginal people remains untouched
It behooves us to ask why this horror already resonates differently than it would have had the shootings occurred at a school in Toronto or Montreal → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: U.S. won’t care about Canada until we get more serious about military affairs
It should be no surprise that Obama doesn’t bother much with this country. Nor will any future president, campaign rhetoric aside. We get what we’ve paid for → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: It’s not okay that Canada’s stepping back from the war between civilization and a program of genocide, slavery and mass rape
Of course, ISIL is not the Taliban of a decade ago. As I’ve argued previously, it’s worse → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: Mulcair’s critics should take another look at their leader
They have in Mulcair a leader who is smart, tough, principled and perfectly bilingual. I’m betting they’ll miss him when he’s gone → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: Where is the fury and resolve to fight back? Trudeau’s silence on terrorism is deafening
Trudeau's perceived instincts and judgment about foreign policy — especially as concerns the war against aterrorism — are his greatest weakness → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: Why fire-breathing Kevin O’Leary is a good fit for Conservative leader
Canadian politics needs more Kevin O’Leary. And I’m not even joking. O’Leary should run. His candidacy would do timorous Ottawa a world of good → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: Actually, Trudeau has never been tested — but he’s about to be
That’s because, simply, the global economy is misfiring, led by China, and the price of oil with it → Read More
Michael Den Tandt: One bureaucrat’s $26-billion sign-off on new Canadian naval fleet
A sole-source deal involving naval shipbuilding contracts was signed on behalf of the Canadian government by a single bureaucrat at the end of his tenure → Read More