Language politics return to Canada

Justin Trudeau not speaking English during a town hall in Quebec is less of a political problem than Conservative leadership candidate O'Leary not being able to speak French.

Justin Trudeau's team calculated that, in the long term, risking the ire of Quebec anglophones is less dangerous than appearing too English in Quebec.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

January 23, 2017

OTTAWA—The politics of language and the language of politics are as Canadian as hockey. Last week, the Liberals and Conservatives were both facing heat on Quebec’s hot-button language issue. Prime Minister Justin T...

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