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Davis Legree
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Reporter for iPolitics. Ketchup chip aficionado. Diehard Bruins fan. Greatest chunker of the golf ball to ever live.

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With Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia becoming the Speaker of the House of Commons, I think back to an interview I did with him in 2022 about his time chairing the environment committee and how he navigated increasingly hostile partisanship in Parliament #cdnpoli
May 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Poilievre says Carney signed a fake executive order to hide the carbon tax for 30 days, and the law remains in place. While the GGPPA remains in effect, Carney and cabinet passed an order in council last week bringing the backstop carbon price to $0 #cdnpoli
March 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We’re here at a steel plant in beautiful L’Original, Ont., where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to speak shortly. Earlier this morning, the Tories promised to kill the industrial carbon price if they win the next federal election #cdnpoli
March 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“People are saying he’s no shrinking violet. That’s absolutely true. If they think that he’s a nightmare, well, that’s in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it?" said one source, who worked closely with Mark Carney during his Bank of Canada governorship. #cdnpoli

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March 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
All signs still pointing to new Liberal Leader Mark Carney calling a snap election before Parliament returns from prorogation on March 24... #cdnpoli

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March 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
With the Liberals surging in Quebec and national unity on the rise across the country, Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet says his separatist party is fully prepared for the upcoming election. #cdnpoli

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March 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New Liberal Leader (and incoming prime minister) Mark Carney ends his victory speech with what has become a rallying cry across the country - “vive le Canada” #cdnpoli #LPC2025
March 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Liberal Party president Sachit Mehra is at the mic, where he’ll shortly announce who will become Canada’s next prime minister #cdnpoli #LPC2025
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Former prime minister and 91-year-old Jean Chrétien takes the stage, says Canada must consider going further in its response to U.S. tariffs through export tariffs on Canadian energy, potash, etc. #cdnpoli #lpcldr
March 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Calm before the storm… it’s a mostly empty room here at the Rogers Centre, where later this afternoon Liberals will pick their new leader and Canada’s next PM… staff are expecting a packed crowd of 3,000 people… festivities begin around 5 pm #cdnpoli #lpcldr
March 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Dust off your history books! Here's a weekend read from iPolitics, as we approach the end of the Liberal leadership race: www.ipolitics.ca/news/the-196...
March 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Kanata this morning to announce approximately $20 billion in childcare deals… for some reason I think most of the questions he’ll face won’t be about childcare… #cdnpoli
March 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Here for the start of the annual Indigenous-FPT meeting on MMIWG2S+, co-chaired by Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree… as you can see, the table is a little larger than your traditional FPT meeting #cdnpoli
January 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Gould’s officially in.

Despite losing out on the majority of endorsements from her caucus and cabinet colleagues, Government House Leader Karina Gould says she’s submitted her papers to run for the Liberal leadership and to become Canada’s next PM #cdnpoli
January 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks to reporters before today’s first ministers’ meeting, sporting a hat that reads ‘Canada is not for sale’ #cdnpoli
January 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Sudden new best friends Andrey Furey and Francois Legault chatting before today’s meeting between the premiers and the prime minister. Quebec and Newfoundland recently signed a historic deal over hydropower at Churchill Falls #cdnpoli
January 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Sudden new best friends Andrey Furey and Francois Legault chatting before today’s meeting between the premiers and the prime minister. Quebec and Newfoundland recently signed a historic deal over hydropower at Churchill Falls #cdnpoli
January 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The three northern premiers are scrumming before today’s first ministers’ meeting… NWT Premier R.J. Simpson says Canada needs to invest in infrastructure to reduce its economic reliance on the U.S. #cdnpoli
January 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will vote against the government’s proposed two-month GST pause, which is expected to come to a vote in the House of Commons tonight #cdnpoli
November 28, 2024 at 3:52 PM