Power today all about ‘celebritization’ of political leaders

Don Savoie says parties have lost their place, competition now between personalities, not parties and policies.

Today's federal political parties are less relevant because power is all about leaders, advisers, and winning elections, and not about ideas anymore, says University of Moncton professor Donald Savoie, one of the country's leading experts on government in his sensational new book, Power: Where...

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