Introduction + overview The Liberal Government’s cabinet was sworn in just over 14 months ago promoting diversity, gender parity and proportional geographic coverage. Today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reshaped the government’s front bench. The recently announced cabinet shuffle is intended to refresh, refocus and refine the government’s policy agenda. The shuffle allowed the prime minister … Read more

This article was originally published in The Globe and Mail on January 7, 2017. Five decades ago, at the U.S. presidential retreat of Camp David, an enraged Lyndon Johnson unleashed a tirade on our prime minister, Lester Pearson, for his (mild) public criticism of the U.S. war in Vietnam. Our ambassador feared “a climax of … Read more