Don’t write off the NDP, ditch the talking points: lessons from Election 43

For most of the campaign, Trudeau and Scheer were painful to watch and listen to. Talking point, after talking point targeting different segments of voters. Political marketing is killing originality and neutering personality.

While Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, right, and his competent campaign manager Hamish Marshall deserve credit for holding Justin Trudeau, left, to a minority, it is time for Conservatives to take some risks, embrace big ideas, be counter-intuitive, writes Tim Powers. The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia and Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

October 23, 2019

OTTAWA—Now seems like as good a time as any to talk about lessons learned from Election 43. But first, breathe a big sigh of relief it is finally over, and perhaps, for a brief period, there will be a respite from politicians demeaning each other. In no particular order here, we go: Don't write ...

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