In politics, you have to know when to fold them

Carolyn Bennett should just tender her resignation from cabinet now. Saving a minister shouldn’t be the immediate priority now of Crown-Indigenous relations in Canada.

In this tale of two ministers, Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna, left, demonstrates how it’s better to bow out before the clock runs out, something, Tim Powers writes, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett should be considering.The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia and Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

June 30, 2021

OTTAWA—A tale of two ministers. Carolyn Bennett, the minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, who refuses to step down over an ill-timed and offensive comment she made to a former colleague, and Catherine McKenna, the minister of infrastructure who called time on her own career. In my time in Otta...

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