If you can’t decide between the leaders in this election, vote for your local candidate

In spite of the media focus on the leaders’ campaigns, we do not have a presidential system in this country. We elect a cabinet, not a king.

Local candidates, like incumbent Catherine McKenna and others running in Ottawa Centre, should be the driving force for voters disillusioned by federal party leaders, writes Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

October 16, 2019

OTTAWA—When I went to university in the 1970s, we relied on one key textbook for our fundamental political wisdom: The Canadian Political System, by Carleton professors Michael Whittington and Richard Van Loon. In its pages, one could find an enduring truth of the way Canadians made thei...

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