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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer speaks to United We Roll protesters on Parliament Hill on Feb. 19. His Senator, David Tkachuk, told the same crowd of truckers to ‘roll over every Liberal left in the country.’ The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

February 27, 2019

OTTAWA—To get a glimpse of the state of politics in 2019, it isn’t necessary to witness the months of violence and vandalism in Paris or the plots in the United States by would-be killers intent on murdering prominent members of an opposing party. Just take a look at Conservative Senator David...

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