Conservatives deserve applause for China push, but call to move Olympics is misguided

The reality is this: the Olympic Games are not a lemonade stand. You can’t just move it to the other side of the street if you don’t like its location.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, pictured Feb. 18 during a press conference on his party's opposition day motion to have the House of Commons declare China's treatment of Uighur Muslims a genocide and call on the federal government to do the same. The Conservatives should be applauded for forcing the Trudeau government to take a harder line on China, writes Tim Powers.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

February 24, 2021

OTTAWA—Partisans of any party tend to be an unforgiving lot. And if they believe you are representing their party’s interest on television or in some public form, you better spill blood defending their chosen organization’s honour, or you will hear about it. Last week on CBC’s Power and...

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