If the “Summer of Pierre” has taught us one thing, it’s that when it comes to campaigning, leave the glasses on the sidelines. Clearly, that’s what’s behind the Conservatives’ huge bump in the polls.

The budget has a lot of lofty promises and ideas so it’s refreshing to see the government strive to achieve some of them.

It's clear that Patrick Brown has a real mess on his hands, and it can be hard to tell who’s controlling the narrative.

Hopefully we’ll have a definitive answer from the inquiry sooner rather than later.

If Blair or Trudeau are found to have crossed the line in their contacts with the RCMP, then perhaps it’s time for them to go too.

The government’s plan would probably be more well received if their communication improved and was a bit more straightforward.

The bill incorporates ideas from previous legislation that did not pass, and new ideas that were promised during the 2021 election campaign.

The best way to sum up this leadership debate is that it generated interest, but not hope. Here are all of our key takeaways.

We’re in for a long wait before we see the results of this inquiry, but it will be interesting to see what information will provided to the public.

This decision comes at an interesting time seeing as how the federal government just released their climate action plan in the 2022 federal budget.

The deficit has shrunk, while still remaining high, and all-in-all, the plan seems ambitious and focused on the long-term.

The plan is costed for $9.1 billion dollars and spells out how various economic sectors will be able to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

The agreement has supposedly been in the works since the 2021 election that saw the Liberals form their current minority government.

With a slew of announcements this week about who’s in and who’s out, the leadership race for the Conservative Party of Canada is taking form.

Perhaps the worst is behind us and we can finally begin to get back to normal.

If this was to be seen as a confidence vote, then the minority government led by Justin Trudeau will continue on with it's mandate to govern.