Our year-end review on how politics changed Canada
The 2015 federal election campaign was the centre piece of a topsy-turvy political year that saw Canada's political scene turned upside down. As the year comes to a close, we gather a panel of savvy observers to share their thoughts on the year that was and what its legacy will be.
The year that was in Canadian politics is coming to an end.
And what a year it was.
Justin Trudeau carried his third-place Liberal Party back to power with a strong majority government, ending close to a decade of Stephen Harper's Conservative party rule.
And in Alberta, a similar upset came earlier this year as the NDP ended the provincial Tories' 4-decade long run.
Away from the ballot box, there was the trial of Mike Duffy, the Syrian refugee crisis, and the skidding price of oil – all shaking up this past year's politics.
Our political panel joined us to look back on it all.
- Jonathan Kay is Editor-in-Chief of The Walrus magazine. He was in Montreal.
- Susan Delacourt is a journalist with The Toronto Star and iPolitics. She was in Ottawa.
- Rita Trichur is a reporter with the Wall Street Journal's Canada Bureau. She was in Toronto.
This segment was produced by The Current's Howard Goldenthal.