Painful to watch Kenney, Clement support Brexit

Weren’t these guys members of the cabinet that championed the Canada-Europe trade agreement?

Possible Conservative leadership contenders Jason Kenney, left, and Tony Clement in their approach to Brexit appear to be looking backwards not forwards, writes Tim Powers.The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright and Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

June 29, 2016

OTTAWA—Watching some Canadian Conservative party “would-be” leadership candidates prostrate themselves to be on the winning side of the post-Brexit-vote debate has been painful. How are these possible candidates—supposedly avowed free-traders, and members of the cabinet that pushed to finish...

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