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Tuesday January 19, 2021

January 26, 2021 by Graeme MacKay

January 19, 2021

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Tuesday January 19, 2021

Canadian politicians have been scared straight by Donald Trump’s raging exit. Will it last?

Racism is definitely not a good trait for a politician. Nor is an inability to read the room. 

October 3, 2019

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet has been accused of both after his drive-by smear of new federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra. 

The most harsh condemnation came from Justin Trudeau on Friday, pronouncing himself incredulous that a party leader would wade into “insinuations” about Alghabra, who is a Muslim, after what everyone witnessed in Washington last week.

Blanchet, the prime minister said, was “playing dangerous games around intolerance and hate” when purporting to be asking mere questions about Alghabra and Islamic political activism.

Trudeau’s link to events in Washington reflects a larger phenomenon rattling through Canadian politics since the Jan. 6 siege of Capitol Hill.

How long it lasts is anyone’s guess, but that mob scene south of the border has prompted some soul-searching among political types in Canada too. 

Many of the ingredients of Donald Trump’s toxic political brand are now being vigorously disowned in Canada — almost at the same speed with which many Republicans are turning their back on the president in the U.S.

June 23, 2020

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has revived a policy of refusal to deal with the Rebel News outlet, which traffics in the same kind of far-right disinformation that feeds Trump’s angry base in the United States. The reassertion of this rule came after a dust-up over O’Toole’s office emailing answers to Rebel questions, which were touted as an exclusive interview. 

Two prominent Calgary women, meanwhile, both from the right of the political spectrum, have publicly denounced Twitter this week — slightly after Trump was banned from the medium, mind you, but in protest against the mob mentality it helps create. 

Danielle Smith, the former leader of Alberta’s Wild Rose party, declared she was walking away from her radio-host job and Twitter, saying: “I’ve had enough of the mob.” 

Meanwhile, Calgary MP Michelle Rempel Garner penned her own takedown of Twitter, describing it as the “biggest culprit of weaponized misinformation, hate, and the death of rational argument.” Rempel’s piece appeared in an online publication called The Line. 

November 12, 2018

Two other MPs, in that exact cross-partisan spirit, also wrote bluntly this week about how the poisonous politics around the Capitol Hill assault required active resistance in Canada. Liberal MP Anthony Housefather and Conservative MP Scott Aitchison collaborated on a National Post article headlined: “As Canadian MPs, we know our opponents are not our enemies. Let’s not become the U.S.” 

Now, it should be pointed out that a week is a long time in politics and the road to partisan hell is paved with good intentions to be collegial. All of these resolutions to absorb the lessons of Jan. 6 in the U.S. capital could vanish like other New Year’s resolutions — most likely within the first five minutes of Question Period when Parliament resumes later this month.

Right now, it looks like some Canadian politicians have been scared straight by Trump’s fiery exit in the U.S. But it’s not enough to denounce their rivals or Twitter or even Trump — the test of any new resolve will be in whether they’re willing to call out toxic politics when it happens in their own ranks. (Toronto Star) 

 

Posted in: Canada, USA Tagged: 2021-02, Anamie Paul, Canada, compare, contrast, Donald Trump, Doug Ford, Erin O’Toole, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, legacy, measure, politician, scale, USA, Yves-François Blanchet

RIP Jacques Parizeau

June 2, 2015 by Graeme MacKay

Jacques Parizeau, the Quebec nationalist former Premier has died at the age of 84. He served for many years in the cabinet of René Lévesque before eventually becoming leader of the Parti Québécois. In 1995, he led the Oui force of the sovereignty referendum and narrowly lost by a razor thin majority.

For any cartoonist he was an absolute joy to caricature. For me personally, Parizeau was at his prominence while I was honing my skills as an aspiring editorial cartoonist. Several caricatures I drew of him are seen below which were all drawn in the mid 1990’s. The final cartoon is from 2013.

By Graeme MacKayHamilton, Ontario, CanadaIllustrated between 1994-1997
Parizeau leading the People | by Graeme MacKay
Jacques Parizeau | by Graeme MacKay
Jacques Parizeau | by Graeme MacKay
By Graeme MacKayHamilton, Ontario, CanadaIllustrated between 1994-1997
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Posted in: Quebec Tagged: Canada, death, Jacques Parizeau, Obit, Parti Quebecois, politician, Quebec

Farewell Peter Mackay

May 29, 2015 by Graeme MacKay

The news is out that longtime Harper cabinet minister Peter Mackay is about to make his exit from federal politics. There is no shortage of editorial cartoons. His appearance goes way back beyond the last decade…

March 5, 2015
March 5, 2015
July 8, 2014
July 8, 2014
June 26, 2014
June 26, 2014
November 4, 2014
November 4, 2014
June 12, 2013
June 12, 2013

                        Tuesday February 3, 2015  Jim Flaherty

Posted in: Canada Tagged: gallery, government, Peter MacKay, politician, politics, resignation, retirement

Farewell John Baird

February 3, 2015 by Graeme MacKay

John Baird facesTuesday February 3, 2015

Foreign Minister John Baird confirmed Tuesday that he is resigning from his post and will not seek re-election later this year. He’s only 45, but he’s been in politics for what seems like an eternity. In actuality, he’s been in elected office for 20 years, serving in the cabinets of Ontario Premier Mike Harris, and federally with Stephen Harper, as Treasury Board President, Environment Minister, Transport Minister, followed by Foreign Affairs. He was dubbed “Harper’s pitbull”, a label which has stuck to him throughout his time in Ottawa characterizing his aggressive, gruff style, which has been thoroughly enjoyable for editorial cartoonists ever since. Some of my cartoons from the past 13 years: 

November 6, 2002
November 6, 2002
June 9, 2011
June 9, 2011
Friday, January 5, 2007
Wednesday November 6, 2002
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Thursday May 19, 2011
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
January 7, 2015
January 7, 2015
Posted in: Canada, Cartooning, Ontario Tagged: cabinet, Canada, environment, foreign affairs, John Baird, politician, resignation, tribute

Tuesday September 10, 2013

September 10, 2013 by Graeme MacKay

Tuesday September 10, 2013

By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Tuesday September 10, 2013

Peter Shurman fired as Tory finance critic over housing allowance

Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak has fired his finance critic, Thornhill MPP Peter Shurman, for taking a $20,719 housing allowance from taxpayers last year.

Shurman, a former talk radio host who represents a suburban riding bordering Toronto’s Steeles Ave., but moved to a $660,000 home in Niagara-on-the-Lake and claimed the allowance for an apartment near Queen’s Park where he stays while working at the legislature.

Hudak said in a statement Sunday night that controversy over the payout — which was not strictly against regulations — was becoming a distraction for his party and its message of respect for taxpayer dollars.

A source said Hudak’s meeting with Shurman to discuss the allowance Sunday turned into “a very heated exchange” with the leader asking his MPP to repay the housing allowance, which Shurman refused.

The source said Hudak was aware Shurman was moving to Niagara-on-the-Lake but did not know the Thornhill MPP was claiming the housing allowance.

Shurman declined to comment when asked about repayment.

The Conservatives — and in particular, Shurman, as finance critic — have been slamming the Liberal government for its $11.7-billion deficit and for spending $585 million to scrap power plants in Oakville and Mississauga before the 2011 election.

“While the current rules were followed, it is clear taxpayers hold elected officials to a higher standard and those rules need to be changed,” Hudak said Sunday after meeting with Shurman. (Source: Toronto Star)

Posted in: Ontario Tagged: allowance, entitlements, housing, integrity, MPP, Ontario, PC, Peter, politician, Shurman, taxpayers, Tory

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