Not doing politics in the time of COVID-19: ‘the boundary of acceptable criticism just got a lot narrower’

'The public tolerance for outright partisanship or point-scoring will be extremely low right now,' former NDP MP Nathan Cullen says.

Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, left, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, and Green Party parliamentary leader Elizabeth May have stayed relatively muted in their criticism of the Canadian government's action plan to combat the Coronavirus crisis. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

March 23, 2020

With the country mired in a health crisis the likes of which hasn't been seen in Canada in 100 years, federal opposition parties have been remarkably supportive of the Liberal government, with little appetite among the Canadian public for parties to score political points at this time. Since the se...

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