A reminder to PM Harper’s federal government: all politics is local

It's a little-known fact that Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon is the only person in the federal Cabinet with any local elected experience–that's three per cent of the Cabinet.

The great Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the late Tip O'Neil once said that "all politics is local."

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