Inside Politics I

Fixed election date hurting sound policy-making

When all is said and done the side effects of the remedy of a fixed-date election law are turning out be more harmful to sound policy-making than the ills it was meant to cure.

If Jean Chrétien were still prime minister, Canada would likely have gone to the polls as the country was coming together after the Parliament Hill shooting and on the heels of a fiscal update that promised a balanced federal budget and imminent tax cuts for ...

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