Missing in action: political maturity needed to address Canada’s complex challenges

We are at a time in Canada where we need political maturity more than ever. If we want to address so many of Canada’s opportunities and challenges, we are all going to have to up our game.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, pictured in the West Block on Feb. 18 speaking with media about Wet'suwet'en solidarity protests across Canada. The social-media appealing call to send in the cops to crack some heads that different Conservative politicians and some premiers have mimicked was no A-plus moment of leadership, writes Tim Powers.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

February 26, 2020

OTTAWA—Maybe I am now of a certain age where I find predictable political rhetoric tiresome. It is not like rhetoric is new—hello, Greek philosophers—or hasn't been used extensively before. Or perhaps the issue is rhetoric and its bedfellow, blind partisanship, just never seem to relent to all...

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