Lamenting Canada’s political jungle

As part of its efforts to squash 'foreign voices,' the federal government might also squash Canadian voices. Home-grown Canadian organizations, with Canadian goals and Canadian agendas, may be also be silenced. And that would be wrong.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government will soon announce tough new rules on political financing and transparency. Translation: the election gag law is going to get even gaggier, writes Gerry Nicholls. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

March 19, 2018

OAKVILLE, ONT.—Former chief electoral officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley once told the media, “It took us 40 years of scandal (and) sweat to come to a regime where we had the best in the world for control of money in politics. Now we are back in the jungle.” What did he mean by that? Well, that w...

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