Andre Marin

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MARIN: Scheer's message lost in fog of war

Imagine being a Conservative donor and realizing that your hard-earned money to get the party elected had been used by Party leader Andrew Scheer to send his kids to private school?

December 14, 2019 Columnists

Leader of Canada's Conservatives Andrew Scheer takes part in television interviews while campaigns for the election in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Oct. 17, 2019. (REUTERS/Carlos Osorio)

MARIN: Trudeau's antics on world stage show he's same old drama teacher

Another international summit, another opportunity for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to mock U.S. President Donald Trump.

December 7, 2019 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump talks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the NATO summit in Watford, Britain, Dec. 4, 2019. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

MARIN: Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland like a bull in a china shop

From international affairs to intergovernmental affairs. From being global affairs Canada minister to deputy prime minister. Chrystia Freeland was the biggest winner in the recent federal cabinet shuffle.

November 23, 2019 Columnists

Chrystia Freeland poses with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after being sworn-in as Deputy Prime Minister as Trudeau's new cabinet is named at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Nov. 20, 2019. (REUTERS/Blair Gable)

MARIN: Empty apologies running rampant

The power of an apology was a popular notion about a decade ago. It would go a long way to help heal a poor wounded soul we were reassured.

November 16, 2019 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pauses after delivering an official apology to Inuit for the federal government's management of tuberculosis in the Arctic from the 1940s to the 1960s during an event in Iqaluit, Nunavut on Friday, March 8, 2019. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)

MARIN: Ford shows flexibility, but still they gripe

Author John H. Patterson once famously wrote: “Only fools and dead men don’t change their minds. Fools won’t and dead men can’t.”

November 9, 2019 Columnists

Premier Doug Ford attends question period in the Ontario legislature in Toronto on Tuesday October 29, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

MARIN: Can PM's new advisor Ann McLellan help quell western alienation?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a big problem brewing out west — specifically, he has no members of parliament elected from Alberta or Saskatchewan.

November 2, 2019 Columnists