PMO must open up more about Boyle affair, Trudeau’s judgment rightly questioned

There is being empathetic, but there is also getting played by someone who shouldn’t be within spitting distance of the PM.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on Dec. 19, 2017, with Joshua Boyle, Mr. Boyle’s wife Caitlan Coleman, and their children, in his Hill office, as posted on the Boyles' Twitter account. Photograph courtesy of @BoylesVsWorld

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

January 10, 2018

OTTAWA—Who thought the Showtime hit drama Homeland was fiction? Because it seems we now have a copycat program playing out for real in Canada. Yes, the Joshua Boyle-Justin Trudeau meeting and the subsequent charges laid against Boyle have the feel of life imitating art. The oddity of Jos...

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