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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
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
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
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
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
Yet, as incompetent, unethical and ruinous as the governments each would lead may be, the alternatives are worse → Read More
"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
Subjects could be explored at greater length. Leaders could develop a point. The media would stop treating them like prize-fights → Read More
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
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
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
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
How much extra progressivity is worth how much lost output is a question worth asking — but it should at least be asked → Read More
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
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
Isn’t every vote equal? Well, no, not under our current electoral system. → Read More
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
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
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
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