The government has a knack for turning allies into opponents

It should apply lessons from the assisted-death debacle to the looming electoral reform debate.

Liberal MP Rob Oliphant, co-chair of a parliamentary committee on doctor-assisted death, told the CBC earlier this month he won't vote for the government's assisted-death legislation as it stands. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

May 25, 2016

MONTREAL—Looking back on the debacle that attended the latest episode in the assisted-death debate in the House of Commons last week, it is easy to forget that Justin Trudeau’s government had a parliamentary consensus within its grasp when it set out to draft its now-contentious bill. Earlier t...

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