OTTAWA — A controversial government survey designed to gauge public appetite on reforming the electoral system has concluded that two-thirds of Canadians are satisfied with this country’s democracy.

The findings indicate, however, that while 17 per cent are “very satisfied” with the state of Canada’s democracy, half the respondents are...

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he “misspoke” when told an Ontario audience earlier this month that the oilsands need to be phased out.

“I misspoke. I said something the way I shouldn’t have said it,” Trudeau told journalists Tuesday after a cabinet meeting in Calgary. But then, the...

OTTAWA — Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Lemieux is lashing out at what he calls “chronic political correctness,” saying Canadians shouldn’t be forced to refer to transgender individuals with gender-neutral pronouns or face fines and other penalties.

“Freedom of speech in Canada is under attack,” Lemieux said in a news release...

OTTAWA — Robert Fox, the New Democratic Party’s new national director, doesn’t gloss over the party’s challenges.

A past executive director of Oxfam Canada who wasn’t even an NDP member until he took the job leading the party in September, Fox offers a refreshing change from the usual political spin.

OTTAWA — He is the candidate many New Democrats hope will take the federal leap — a bright light who represents the future of the party, and a leader who could potentially compete against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, say supporters.

Outside of the Greater Toronto Area and NDP circles, however,...

OTTAWA — Government House Leader Bardish Chagger says she didn’t mean to imply the House of Commons is not the appropriate venue for opposition MPs to ask questions about the Liberals’ so-called cash-for-access fundraising.

In an interview with The Huffington Post Canada published Tuesday, Chagger...

OTTAWA — The House of Commons is no place to discuss party matters such as the Liberals’ so-called cash-for-access fundraisers, Government House Leader Bardish Chagger told The Huffington Post Canada in a year-end interview.

“You know, in that place [the House of Commons] is not where we talk about, I...

OTTAWA — Quebec’s health minister says the Trudeau government is holding the provinces hostage by offering a surprise last-minute “take-it-or-leave-it” health-care deal that offers less cash than the Liberals pledged during last year’s election campaign.

“Everything came out of the blue,” Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette told...

OTTAWA — Liberal cabinet ministers, parliamentary secretaries and MPs might like to ask Santa if they can keep their portfolios or get a promotion. The Huffington Post Canada has learned a winter shuffle is being contemplated.

Last December, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed his 35 parliamentary secretaries — 23...

OTTAWA — Eight years ago, 18 senators were appointed to the upper chamber after promising Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper they would support his Senate reform agenda — including eight-year term limits.

On Tuesday, New Brunswick Senator John Wallace became the first person to say he feels bound by that...

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the beheading of two Canadian hostages in the Philippines was his biggest regret of the year.

“If I had to pick a low point for me personally last year, it was the deaths of two Canadians by the Abu Sayyaf group in the...

OTTAWA — Celebrity businessman Kevin O’Leary unofficially launched his bid for the Conservative leadership Monday, promising that the next election will be an “ugly fight” against Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.

“2019 is not an election, it is an exorcism,” O’Leary told approximately 30 Tory MPs who gathered to hear his...

OTTAWA — A veteran Conservative MP asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday to fire Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef, suggesting that she is bungling her job.

Longtime Saskatchewan MP Tom Lukiwski asked Monsef if she realized that the reason she and the government are being ridiculed is because their...

OTTAWA — Canadian Heritage spent $15,000 last year asking tourists on Parliament Hill if they liked the Christmas lights.

The survey from Quorus Consulting Group was conducted on Dec. 2 — the first day of the event, which was marked by newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s presence and live...

OTTAWA — Sparks flew Tuesday after Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong accused a rival of race-baiting and another of standing idly by while demonstrators chanted “lock her up” about Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.

Chong used his closing statement at the Conservatives’ second leadership debate in Moncton to warn against...

OTTAWA — The Liberal government rejected an offer by the Conservative party Tuesday to rejig the House of Commons schedule to allow Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to spend more time in the chamber answering the opposition’s questions.

“[I]t it would be disrespectful to the work of all MPs if we...

OTTAWA — Conservative leadership candidate Andrew Scheer exaggerated a cute story of sleeping at his parents’ home while working in Ottawa, his office said Monday after The Huffington Post Canada raised questions about potential discrepancies in his expense claims.

In an interview with CPAC in 2010, host Catherine...

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau missed more question periods than he attended during his first year in office — skipping 58 per cent of the daily sessions where MPs try to hold the government’s feet to the fire, an analysis by The Huffington Post Canada shows.

The Liberal...

Something remarkable happened Thursday.

The opposition parties -- the Conservatives, the New Democrats, the Bloc Québécois, the Green -- stood together and offered the Liberal government a road map to achieve their promise of making the 2015 election the last held under...

OTTAWA — Federal Liberal MPs in the Greater Vancouver area are gearing up for the potential backlash from electors angry that Justin Trudeau’s government agreed to approve the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Vancouver Quadra MP Joyce Murray sent an email to 11,000 of her constituents Tuesday night...