Tweet My latest appearance on CTV’s Power Play with Don Martin, discussing the government’s new law which permits dual citizenships to be stripped of Cdn citizenship if they commit treason or terrorist offences.  It was recently reported that the government was seeking to expel one of the “Toronto 18”, Saad Gaya, a Canadian-born man of Pakistani ...

Tweet Here’s an interview I did with Evan Solomon, host of Everything is Political, on recent comments by Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau that the party which returns the most number of MPs has the default right to govern (note that each put the matter a little differently). Link

Tweet Seems like a million years ago, but in August all we were talking about was Duffy!  Here’s an interview I did during the last day of the trial. Link

Tweet My latest interview with Don Martin was on a campaign announcement by Stephen Harper to enact a new criminal offence – that would prohibit travel to places that are “ground zero” for terrorist activities. Apologies if this link eventually goes behind Bell’s paywall.

Tweet My latest op ed, in the Ottawa Citizen, is called “Gaming the Constitution”.  Excerpt below. Link “In some ways, our political system is mysterious. Based on centuries of tradition, it features written constitutional rules against a background of unwritten expectations. Politicians accept an obligation to follow conventions even in the absence of specific external ...

Tweet Although the writ hasn’t dropped (speculation is that it will be much earlier than usual, in mid-August) everyone is gearing up for a federal election on October 19, 2015. In the meantime, parties, commentators and the media are canvassing various issues.  Last week I did a number of interviews, a pace I expect to ...