It’s the smear election

Drive-by smears disguised as news, and substance evasion by most candidates, but the PM, in particular, suggest that the decisive feature of this election may be low voter turnout.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, top left, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Prime Minister and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May have all been put under the spotlight by dirt dug up, on them or their candidates, by their opponent's campaign staff and volunteers.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, photograph courtesy of Justin Trudeau's Twitter

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

October 7, 2019

HALIFAX—What an absurd election campaign this has been. For a week, the game was how many nominated candidates could be picked off for undisclosed skeletons in their past. For a while there, it seemed like Curly, Larry, and Moe were doing the vetting. Hardly anyone was fit to run. For another we...

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