Mechanistic politics, on display this election, are wearing people down

We now have mixed generations of leaders and political activists who are masters in political marketing, audience segmentation, and voter targeting. Many are feeling we are lesser for it.

Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, pictured after the Oct. 7 English-language debate. In a time when the world is going through significant change and turbulence, our leaders are throwing around coupons for consumers and running away as fast as they can from anything approaching a big idea or brave concept, writes Tim Powers.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

October 16, 2019

OTTAWA—So, we have come through the Thanksgiving weekend. Has the Canadian political landscape changed as a consequence of all those conversations people were predicting were going to happen during the holiday? First of all, I find it kind of comical to afford such influence to something as tradi...

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