Kenney finds the new politics of personal destruction disturbing: cue the nasal coffee rockets

Jason Kenney, now appalled by the politics of personal destruction, spent his glory days running with the guys who perfected it.

United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney, pictured Aug. 23, 2018, at the Conservative policy convention in Halifax. Where was the new and genteel Kenney when he recently opined that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had 'the political depth of a finger bowl,' and couldn’t absorb 'a briefing note longer than a cocktail napkin,' writes Michael Harris. The Hill Times photograph by Samantha Wright Allen

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

January 28, 2019

HALIFAX—At one level, the latest tribulations of Jason Kenney are drop dead funny. Currently embroiled in an expenses dust-up, the leader of Alberta’s United Conservative Party had, in part, this to say about allegations that he fiddled his housing expenses while a Conservative cabinet minister...

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