Summer jobs program anti-abortion clause is a crock of Liberal nonsense

Can you imagine the outcry if Stephen Harper had pulled this stunt?

Employment Minister Patty Hajdu’s press secretary has said: ‘We are committed to ensuring that summer jobs for young Canadians funded by the Government of Canada take place in an environment that respects everybody’s rights.’ That’s a load of Liberal hooey, says Tim Powers. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

January 24, 2018

OTTAWA—When Justin Trudeau’s government was elected in late 2015, one of the things the then incoming prime minister signalled was there would be a change in tone and approach: a lot less smash-mouth wedge-type politics that typified the Harper era. So it has taken many by surprise to see the Ca...

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