The Globe and Mail - Lawrence Martin Columns

Bumbling Grits give Team Harper an economic free ride

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:29 EDT

Maybe the Liberals need Mr. Chrétien and Mr. Martin to speak out more on the economy.

Bumbling Grits give Team Harper an economic free ride

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

When it was announced that the governing Tories had registered a fiscal deficit for the first two months of the year, Liberals were practically dancing in the streets. Manna from heaven, they told me. The Conservatives were supposed to be the party of economic rectitude. Yet, they'd gone from a surplus of $2.8-billion from the same period a year earlier to $500-million in the red.

Harper's rift with Mulroney could haunt the Tories in Quebec

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

Brian Mulroney, the most electorally successful Tory prime minister since John A. Macdonald, is on the sidelines waiting for the public inquiry into his dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber to commence.

Harper's rift with Mulroney could haunt the Tories in Quebec

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:57 EDT

The most electorally successful Tory prime minister since John A. Macdonald finds himself stuck on the sidelines.

Cry us a river, Tories, but who wrote the book on chaos?

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

Oops. Maybe they forgot.Last year, the governing Conservatives prepared a secret handbook on how to disrupt parliamentary committees and create chaos. No mere pamphlet, the book ran to 200 pages.

Minority report: We have voted for a go-slow country

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:53 EDT

We're into the fifth straight year of minority governments first Liberal, then Conservative and the verdict is in. They hurt.

Minority report: We have voted for a go-slow country

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

We're into the fifth straight year of minority governments - first Liberal then Conservative - and the verdict is in. They hurt. They tend to corrode the system and the people in it. They sour the public on politics. They don't get much done.

The sale of the National Post would reverberate in political circles

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 03:18 EDT

If Liberals get their hands on it, down would go the Conservative Party's ideological promo sheet

The sale of the National Post would reverberate in political circles

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

With the purchase of the Southam newspaper chain and the creation in 1998 of the National Post, Conrad Black single-handedly changed the tenor of the debate in the country.