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…

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…

Humility If anyone tells you what is going to happen, don’t believe them. That’s what we have been saying for weeks and what were saying on US election night. We were told it would be close. It was not. We…

There is a dumb way to transition to an industrial-only carbon price, and a couple of smart ways. The Liberals chose the dumb way. Veteran political columnist Paul Wells’ second rule of politics reads as follows: If everyone in Ottawa…