Expect ‘ugly’ and ‘intense’ election campaign in the fall, fuelled by anger, say Liberal and NDP MPs

Liberal and NDP MPs predict the next election campaign to be particularly nasty, but Conservative MP Peter Kent says every election campaign is nasty.

Liberal and NDP MPs are predicting that protesters, especially Yellow Vest protesters, pictured Feb. 19, 2019 on the Hill, will try to disrupt political rallies during the next election campaign.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

May 6, 2019

With the upcoming election campaign expected to officially start in about four months, Liberal and NDP MPs are warning that it will be ugly and disruptive and predict that racist elements or “political forces that operate and are fuelled by anger” will use disruptive tactics in the October elect...

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