Ignorance and perpetual secrecy have crack-addict appeal for parties in power in Ottawa
Rarely is anyone wiser when authority is applied carelessly or with a wink and a nudge. That's how it was in the Liberal sponsorship scheme and is now in the Conservative rush to spend infrastructure billions.
OTTAWA—It's well-known that a healthy democracy needs oxygen, daylight and the not-so-gentle patter of constructive dissent. Less understood is that it can't thrive without space.
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