It’s not about manners

Dialling back the diatribes, reversing the relentless slide of politics into a permanent effort to game public opinion, and opening up to counsel from beyond one’s tribe should not be so hard. It might even prove to be politically popular.

The same challenges exist in Ottawa as a legacy of the heavy-boots-Harper approach to politics. Sadly, too much of the excessive spin and ‘announcement-itis' has been picked up, perhaps even accelerated, by the Trudeau team, writes Robin Sears. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROBIN V. SEARS

July 9, 2018

OTTAWA—Imagine a new boss came into your workplace and introduced a "straight talk" policy enabling vicious and demeaning exchanges between colleagues. Or, as a gift of a new marriage, a partner joins your family who is similarly inclined to indulge nasty and insulting exchanges as "truth-telling....

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