Inside Politics I
Harper’s bare-knuckled handling of Ontario renders federalism more dysfunctional
One side sees government activism as a vice while the other views it as a virtue. It will not lead to the breakup of the country, but the conflict has the potential to seriously distort the practice of federalism, says columnist Chantal Hébert.
OTTAWA—There is more to the war of words between the Liberal government of Dalton McGuinty and the Conservative regime of Stephen Harper than a passing disagreement over corporate taxes or a reciprocal partisan attempt to set the other up to take the fall for a prolonged economic slump.
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