Trudeau over promises and under performs on Indigenous file

By handling protests against the Coastal GasLink pipeline the way he has, Trudeau has brought down a double whammy on his government.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Feb. 21, 2020. When the PM’s support for this project is viewed against his purchase of the Kinder Morgan Pipeline and support for the Trans Mountain project, it makes what Trudeau said at the Paris Climate Conference look like an egregious exercise of necessary hypocrisy, writes Michael Harris. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

March 2, 2020

HALIFAX—I never thought the Boys Scouts of America would file for bankruptcy. I never thought I’d see a U.S. president make Richard Nixon, Lance Armstrong, and P.T. Barnum look like truth angels. I never thought I’d see a drop-dead brilliant country like Japan dump radioactive heavy-water fr...

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