Monsef is burning bridges with the electoral reform file

There is not yet a match for Paul Calandra on the Liberal side in the House of Commons but these days Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef is auditioning aggressively for the role.

By offering asinine answers to questions that resonate well beyond the opposition benches of the Commons, Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef, centre, has so far succeeded in burning bridges where she should have been building some.The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Münster

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

May 23, 2016

In parliamentary politics, little is more self-defeating than a minister who consistently insults the intelligence of his or her critics. Sooner or later the approach inevitably backfires. For a case in point one only needs to look at the last Parliament. Former GTA MP Paul Calandra rose to fame i...

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