New political order pits keepers against disrupters

The question which Andrew Coyne ignores is can a Keeper Conservative Party (or for that matter a Keeper NDP) take on a Keeper Liberal Party and win? Remember in a bipolar political world, if voters turn against the Keepers they will seek out the alternative: The Disrupters. Just ask Trump, just ask Rob Ford, just ask Brexit.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has placed the Liberals firmly in the Keeper camp. He wants to keep the global economic order intact, he wants to keep corporations happy with bailouts, he wants to keep our old electoral system. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

March 6, 2017

OAKVILLE, ONT.—I’ve never put our culture on a couch to study its psyche, but if I did, I bet the resulting diagnosis would be it suffers from “political bipolar disorder." Okay, I just made that malady up. But the point I’m trying to get across here is that the collective subconscious of ...

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