Allan Gregg is a principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group.

Why pollsters didn’t see Trump coming

Another election, another occasion to ask the same question: Why did no one see this coming?

The polls suggested an American presidential election outcome that was very different than the one that transpired. In fact, as Real Clear Politics has pointed out, only four of the last 67 nationwide polls conducted towards the end of the campaign had Trump leading.


1984 in 2012 – The assault on reason

In his speech, Allan Gregg suggested the Harper government has put Canada on a course for an Orwellian future. “Understanding the world or explaining phenomena through superstition, dogma and orthodoxy – instead of facts and reason – invariably leads to some very ugly and uncivilized behaviour.”