Liberals won’t retract their claws

Strategically speaking, the sooner the Liberals can put Andrew Scheer on the defensive, the sooner they can stick an unsavoury label on him, the sooner they can plant seeds of doubt in the minds of voters about him, the better.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, pictured on May 27 in Toronto shortly after getting elected leader of the party. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

June 12, 2017

OAKVILLE, ONT.—With his genial smile, cherubic face, and pleasant personality, it’s easy to think that newly elected Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer is genuinely likeable. Of course, anyone who does think that way about Scheer hasn’t been paying much attention to the Liberal Party’s...

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