Senators Meredith, Beyak textbook examples of communications gone wrong: Powers

If Conrad Black is practically the only one who will man the barricades on their behalf, they should just wave the surrender flag now and do us all a favour.

Independent Senator Don Meredith and Conservative Senator Lynn Beyak were both taking heat last week for perceived misdeeds. Their responses dug them deeper into a hole, argues Tim Powers.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia, and photo courtesy of the Senate of Canada

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

March 22, 2017

OTTAWA—For a second week in a row, my focus is going to be on the Senate. Not for some of the good work they have done recently on challenging bills that have come from the House of Commons or initiating reform to end genetic discrimination. No, instead it is to look at two bad apples whose lame a...

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