Election direction: front-runners are shying away from bold ideas, harsh realities

From the so-called front-runners, there is no grand design, there are no bold ideas, there are no breakout candidates. What’s so important about this election is what we’re not talking about.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s response to questions on Bill 21 during the Sept. 12 Maclean's/CityTV debate was akin to the ubiquitous corporate employment equity statement that every job hunter is bombarded with, writes Erica Ifill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY AMY KISHEK, ERICA IFILL

September 18, 2019

OTTAWA—We’re a week into campaign season and we know one thing for sure: we’re not supposed to talk about some of the most glaring issues that influence the future course of this country. Election 43 has already been heralded as the ‘election about nothing,�...

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