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‘Big Blue Machine’s long gone, but its methods that it brought in are continuing today,’ says Boyer

Dalton Camp and Norman Atkins altered the Canadian electoral landscape by introducing the most modern American electoral techniques in Canadian elections, says Patrick Boyer.

Negative advertising in politics is like “pouring vinegar into the soup that we all have to eat” and there is no solid evidence to prove that attack ads run by former prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives against former Liberal leaders Stéphane...

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