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Party supporters gather outside the Canadian Museum of History ahead of the French-language leaders’ debate on Oct. 10. Canada is generating intense political fault lines that this election is unlikely to assuage, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

October 16, 2019

OTTAWA—Over five or six weeks of campaigning, most federal elections clarify themselves, providing a narrative, a key issue, or a consensus that shapes and defines the outcome on voting day. In 1980, Canadians turned against Joe Clark and his government’s decision to bring in a hefty gasoline l...

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