Davis Legree

1 week ago | ipolitics.ca | Davis Legree

NewsIn today’s Battleground Breakdown, we travel to Edmonton Centre and explore how vote-splitting could benefit the Conservatives in Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s hometown. Welcome to iPolitics’ Battleground Breakdown. Throughout the federal election campaign, we’ll be profiling 10 key ridings from across the country that could determine which party forms the next government.

2 weeks ago | ipolitics.ca | Davis Legree

As the 2025 federal election narrows to a perceived two-party race between the Liberals and Conservatives, new polling suggests Canadians don’t feel the NDP are addressing what many believe will be the ballot box question for voters. A recent report from the North Poll, spearheaded by Alex Kohut, formerly a pollster in Justin Trudeau’s Prime Minister’s Office, found most Canadians do not believe Jagmeet Singh’s party is focused on U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada.

2 weeks ago | ipolitics.ca | Davis Legree

NewsIn today’s Battleground Breakdown, we head to northern Saskatchewan and explore why the Liberals like their chances in Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River, one of Canada’s most remote ridings. Welcome to iPolitics’ Battleground Breakdown. Throughout the federal election campaign, we’ll be profiling 10 key ridings from across the country that could determine which party forms the next government.

2 weeks ago | ipolitics.ca | Davis Legree

Whether Mark Carney’s Liberals or Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives win the upcoming federal election, there’s little doubt as to what it will mean for Canada’s public service. Both political leaders have promised to cut the number of federal public servants and orchestrate a course correction after the bureaucracy ballooned under former prime minister Justin Trudeau. In the five years before Trudeau came into power, the number of civil servants fell by more than nine per cent.

2 weeks ago | old.ipolitics.ca | Davis Legree

There’s a noticeable difference when Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre talks about immigration policy, compared to Liberal Leader Mark Carney. Poilievre uses the Trudeau administration’s high-immigration policy as a jumping off point to attack the Liberal brand. The Liberals, he says, have single-handedly ruined the Canadian immigration system, which was previously the envy of the world.