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Outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, pictured addressing media in the West Block on March 24. Amid COVID-19, the Leadership Election Organizing Committee of the Conservative Party of Canada should also move to delay their vote, writes Tim Powers. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

March 25, 2020

OTTAWA—COVID-19 may be the challenge of our time. One hopes its impact ends as quickly as it arrived, but none of us will be left untouched. It is unlike anything else we have experienced in most of our lifetimes. It is damn tough, but we are resilient and will get through it. I have yet to find ...

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