Conservatives can’t worry about media criticism as it holds Liberals to account

By promising to change their 'tone' after the election, the Conservatives have opened themselves up to criticism every time they go on the attack against the government.

Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose needs to realize that, as an opposition party, sometimes the Conservatives are going to sound negative when criticizing the government, writes Gerry Nicholls.Photograph by Jason Ransom

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

August 22, 2016

OAKVILLE, ONT.—I’m no constitutional expert, but I’m pretty certain that under our system of parliamentary government, the main job of an opposition party is, you know, to “oppose.”

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