There is only one cure for one-party rule, which inevitably leads to economic stagnation and political corruption: replacement of the ruling party by another.

So long as the Queen's representative is chosen by the prime minister, he will likely regard the post as a fancy patronage plum or a weapon of ideological and partisan war.

The Chretien government has painstakingly manoeuvred Canada into a result that backs the United States while ensuring that Canada can claim no thanks from the United States whatsoever.

Canada is a democracy, not an entirely healthy democracy, but a democracy all the same.

As countries modernize, they tend to leave brokerage parties behind. Very belatedly, that moment of maturity may now be arriving in Canada.

What do certain anti-American MPs know that the rest of Canada doesn't know?

There's a lot to learn from the Michaelle Jean story. Very little of it is pleasant. But almost all of it is important.

Aftertwelve years of the frozen selfishness of Jean Chretien / Paul Martin Liberal government in Canada, spring at last is in the air.