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Andrew Coyne

National Post

Toronto, ON, Canada

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  • National Post
  • The Chronicle Herald
  • The Montreal Gazette
  • Edmonton Journal
  • Financial Post

Past articles by Andrew:

Right Now: What conservatism ought to be

Andrew Coyne: Modernizing conservatism need not mean jettisoning its foundational principles, but applying them in new ways. Part of the Right Now series → Read More

Andrew Coyne: No point in Tories changing their leader if they don’t change their message

Scheer’s failings pale beside the party’s unwillingness or inability to come up with a coherent conservative message, relevant to the concerns of voters → Read More

Andrew Coyne: Sorry Albertchewan, cabinet ministers are supposed to be elected, not selected

Alberta not being represented in cabinet is only a problem if you accept the purpose of cabinet is to mirror the country, rather than govern it → Read More

ANDREW COYNE: The Liberals didn't win the 2019 federal election, they just lost less than the Conservatives

Can’t they both lose? I asked, irritably, in my last column. As it turned out, they both did. Never before have both major parties taken such a small share of the vote. Never before, in my memory, have both declined steadily and together → Read More

Andrew Coyne: The Liberals didn’t win the 2019 federal election, they just lost less than the Conservatives

The story of this election is likewise not of any surge in support for the Conservatives, but of the restlessness and rootlessness of voters on the left → Read More

Andrew Coyne: Can’t the Liberals and Conservatives both lose?

Yet, as incompetent, unethical and ruinous as the governments each would lead may be, the alternatives are worse → Read More

Coyne: Forget the 'positive' approach, now the campaign is down to a few days and fear

"We are down to the real election, in which the voters are urged to cast their ballots, not in favour of either, but strictly in fear of the alternative" → Read More

Andrew Coyne: How to fix the leaders’ debates. To start, we need more of them

Subjects could be explored at greater length. Leaders could develop a point. The media would stop treating them like prize-fights → Read More

Andrew Coyne: ‘Trudeau wasn’t as present, as dominating as a Prime Minister would be’

National Post columnist Andrew Coyne talks with Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about the big winners and losers of Monday night’s debate → Read More

Andrew Coyne: In a nothing election, it all comes down to Ontario

The point is not that the Tories can do it. The point is that without Ontario they cannot. Nowhere else offers the same potential gains → Read More

Andrew Coyne: Why permanent deficits, as found in the Liberal platform, are a bad idea

What’s significant isn’t the size of the deficits. It’s their permanence. Unlike in 2015, the party does not even pretend to commit to balancing the budget → Read More

Andrew Coyne: Why Canadians shouldn’t be smug about the political crises in U.S. and Britain

The difference may simply be that ours were able to get away with it. For we have our own reckless leader, who has taken liberties with the law → Read More

Andrew Coyne: With taxes, progressivity comes at a cost

How much extra progressivity is worth how much lost output is a question worth asking — but it should at least be asked → Read More

Andrew Coyne: How do you tell a Conservative from a Liberal? Ask an economist

The only difference between the parties is whether this bias to the expedient is dressed up as a philosophy and celebrated, or merely yielded to → Read More

Coyne: Federal leaders have capitulated on Quebec's Bill 21, and to our shame we let them

We have so hollowed out our national conscience over the years that we think nothing of selling out a persecuted minority, rather than take a stand → Read More

Coyne: Shouldn't every riding be a 'battleground'? Election-process problems

Isn’t every vote equal? Well, no, not under our current electoral system. → Read More

Andrew Coyne: The question of what is Trudeau hiding is not going to go away

The issues involved in the SNC-Lavalin affair are too important to be treated flippantly. This isn’t some question of policy on which people of goodwill can differ → Read More

Andrew Coyne: Trudeau is gaming the election debate system, just like Harper before him

What we are left with is a position that is every bit as cynical and self-serving as the one that preceded it, only with the added pretence of high principle → Read More

Andrew Coyne: Two parties, one choice, or is it two choices, one party?

Seldom have the choices between so stark, or the stakes so high. The two main parties, after all, could not be more different → Read More

Andrew Coyne: Why Singh says he won’t work with the Tories, and May says she will

Rather than a tactical blunder, Singh’s comment may simply be an attempt to position the party to advantage in the pre-election jockeying → Read More