Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press. He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. 11, 2022.Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. The Liberals briefly considered cancelling the retreat but are pressing ahead, though with expectations for less fun and more reflection. Trudeau is likely to give the caucus a similar speech to the one he delivered to his cabinet at its retreat last week, attempting to energize them all despite facing massive challenges at home and abroad.īut he will also use his remarks to pay homage to the late Queen Elizabeth II, who he had known since childhood and expressed clear fondness for both before and after her death on Sept. He will focus intensely on the cost of living crisis the Liberals have yet to tackle directly.Īnd Liberal MPs are coming to this retreat fresh off a summer barbecue circuit where many got earfuls about everything from a collapsing health care system and closed emergency rooms to financial struggles to buy food or pay the rent. Poilievre will go hard at the Liberals for bad management - expect to see him reuse his victory speech line about Canadians not wanting a government that runs their lives, but just one that can run a passport office. Instead, he ended up with almost exactly the same minority outcome as he achieved in 2019.Īnd the post-COVID-19 recovery era, in a world rocked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is providing plenty of tricky ground to navigate for a government some are seeing as tired and lacklustre after seven years in office. The Liberals are about a year out from the last election, which Trudeau called believing he could win back a majority mandate. “Whether it’s promoting volatile cryptocurrency to ‘opt out of inflation,’ wanting to weaken our gun controls, promising to make pollution free again, opposing support for the middle class, or allowing his caucus to bring forward anti-abortion legislation, the new Conservative leader is proposing dangerous ideas that would risk our economy, our health, and our safety," the two MPs said. In a written statement issued with Montreal MP Rachel Bendayan, LeBlanc called Poilievre "reckless" and tried to stoke internal Conservative division by saying even some Tories call the new leader's ideas "highly questionable" and "irresponsible." Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, one of the Liberals assigned to attend the Conservative leadership event in person Saturday, issued the first salvo at a Poilievre-led Conservative caucus minutes after the winner was declared. Gerretsen made the post from the road, where he was documenting a drive from his home to St. Kingston and The Islands MP Mark Gerretsen, one of the more hyper-partisan Liberal MPs on Twitter, posted an emoji of a smiley face after Poilievre's win was announced. They're characterizing him as more polarizing, more right-wing and more easy to paint into an extremist partisan corner than former Quebec Premier Jean Charest, who finished a distant second in the leadership race. Publicly, however, some Liberals are celebrating Poilievre's win. Andrews, N.B., this week.ĭespite murmurs throughout the leadership contest that a Poilievre victory would split his party, the Liberals in charge have privately said they are preparing to go to battle against a united, single Conservative party. Privately, many Liberals are clearly aware of that challenge, and responding to Poilievre's more bombastic style will be a key part of many discussions in St. The Liberals will also now be looking across the aisle at a new face in the chair of what will be referred to as "His Majesty's loyal opposition."Ĭonservative MP Pierre Poilievre decisively won his party's leadership contest on Saturday evening and is expected to pose the biggest challenge to the Liberals and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since the 2015 election brought them to power. That return will be to a different House of Commons, and not only because it now has King Charles III as the head of state. OTTAWA - Federal Liberal MPs will descend on a coastal resort town in New Brunswick on Sunday for a planning session before Parliament returns from its summer break.
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