The SNC-Lavalin scandal’s forgotten victim

Why waste your vote in a protest, conservatives will ask themselves, when your side now has a chance to win the game. So odds are now good that conservatives who don’t like Scheer will now likely hold their noses and vote for him.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and People's Party Leader Maxime Bernier. If polls continue to favour Mr. Scheer, it means Bernier will now have a much harder time raising donations, he’ll now have a much harder time attracting candidates and volunteers, most importantly he’ll now have a much harder time winning votes, writes Gerry Nicholls. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

April 29, 2019

OAKVILLE, ONT.—Whenever a juicy scandal ricochets throughout a political ecosystem it can sometimes inflict severe collateral damage on innocent bystanders. For instance, while the SNC-Lavalin affair has definitely hurt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s brand, it has also at the same time undermi...

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