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Incited by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, left, and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, right, Prairie residents have been encouraged to see the federal Liberals as a scapegoat for all their problems, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

October 30, 2019

OTTAWA—Apparently Doug Ford didn’t really mean it when he said in the summer that he would let voters in the federal election decide whether he would continue with Ontario’s costly, and likely futile, legal offensive against Ottawa’s carbon levy. Ford, who was shut out of the less-than-stel...

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