Insider political views from Patrick Gossage

Former press secretary to Pierre Trudeau, author, blogger, performance coach

Welcome to my Place

Feel free to look around. Lots to entertain you, inform you on Canadian politics, and help you to be a better speaker.

My political insights come from my experiences:


served as Press Secretary with Prime Minister

Pierre Trudeau

one of Canada’s most highly respected public relations practitioners

40 years of experience in broadcasting, politics and communications

regular political panelist on CBC Newsworld’s “Politics” with appearances on TVO, BNN, CP24, CBC Television and Radio, Canada AM, AM 640 and Zoomer radio

columnist and book reviewer for the Toronto Star,

The Globe and Mail, Policy Options, and Politics


weekly broadcasts on SiriusXM Canada Talks

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Close to the Charisma

Close to the Charisma provides first-hand observations of the Trudeau years. Gossage's diary--his impressions of the media people, politicians and backroom operators he worked with every day--provides a remarkable portrait of the period. 


“What makes it fun to read is its emotion and honesty” Stevie Cameron, Globe and Mail 

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The Father Pat Stories

The Father Pat Stories are about a good man’s adventures with God, women, politics, the world, the flesh and even the devil.


“[Gossage's] canoeing scenes are first-rate and as delicately realized as any of Hemingway's shoreline settings. From his canoe, Father Pat stares at a natural world that resonates with the presence of The Divine. It is an association that recalls the work of 19th century British Jesuit poet Gerald Manley Hopkins, who also felt God's presence in as small an object as the beating of a bird's wing.” Toronto Star 

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Slow Love

Slow Love is a tribute to the power and endurance of both human love and our love for dogs, and the love that they return.


“Good people, good dogs, and lasting love. What more could you ask??” Katherine Govier, Canadian novelist.


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Latest Articles

By Patrick Gossage 14 May, 2024
I write poetry as well as commentary, and penned this for my older friends who remember a time when Ottawa politics was much more civilized. Could we bring reasonable discourse back to Ottawa?
By Patrick Gossage 22 Apr, 2024
The rather dismissive attitude shown by the Prime Minister and his staff towards Chinese interference in our democracy at their appearance before the ongoing public inquiry at least is consistent with his dismissive attitude over the years. Fourteen years ago the warnings by of the then new head of CSIS Richard Fadden were ignored.
By Patrick Gossage 26 Mar, 2024
Many Torontonians feel a sense of responsibility to our fellow citizens who suffer from homelessness. They make and serve them meals, give them clothing, and often just talk to them and make them feel less ignored and misunderstood. They also discover that those who don’t have a roof over their heads and carry all they own in a knapsack are not druggies, losers or mad people but a cross section of ordinary folks who have fallen on hard times. For them the housing crisis is a joke. They just want food and a bed in a room with a toilet and shower nearby.

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The Love Stories Of A Woman, Two Men, Their Dogs And Two Wolves by Patrick Gossage

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