Ken Boessenkool is a partner in the policy advisory firm Meredith Boessenkool and Phillips and was a senior campaign and policy adviser to Stephen Harper. Canadian electoral politics became like Western Canadian electoral politics this week, by moving from a…

The answer to that key question will determine our strategic response As Canada prepares to respond to President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, we need to pay less attention to what he says and more attention to what he does. We…

The United States supplies half of Canada’s fruit, nuts, and vegetables. A 25 percent tariff on those imports would increase the cost of those imported fruits, nuts, and vegetables by 25 percent in less than a month (to let supply…

Instead of making the Canadian dental program look more like Canadian public health care, why don’t we do the reverse — move health care to the dental-plan model? Every year at Christmas time, The Line runs a series of articles…

A Conservative by any other metric would spend so sweet. A number of important conservative and other commentators have lamented Ontario’s departure from conservatism. Doug Ford, these folks argue, is not conservative. A key clue to Ford’s lack of conservative…