Aaron Wherry

Questions, complaints and combativeness as the 42nd Parliament gets to work

Even before the House of Commons can debate the options for electoral reform, it is arguing over how to choose. Is this a fight the Liberals want?

Geoff Regan, the newly elected Speaker of the House of Commons, talks about his new role and his hopes for maintaining a new tone in Parliament

Maryam Monsef, the rookie minister for democratic institutions, faces opposition indignation in her second question period

Justin Trudeau is suggesting a Prime Minister’s question period. But Tom Mulcair worries that will mean less accountability

That the Trudeau government might be more open than its predecessor is its least daunting commitment, but also the most fertile ground for complaint

Justin Trudeau has set himself up to be defined by his ambitions. The flip side of that could doom him. Aaron Wherry on change’s possibility

Geoff Regan is now the Speaker of the House. What impact will he have—or can he have—on how parliamentary work is done?

Justin Trudeau’s first controversy erupts—over taxpayer-funded child care in his own home

Justin Trudeau stirs the etiquette police with a two-handed handshake for British Prime Minister David Cameron

The important details of the federal Liberal government’s plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees

A day after Alberta announced new policies to fight climate change, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall strikes a more fretful tone