All in all, there’s a significant public appetite for parties wanting to work together

When Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh announced their confidence and supply agreement, they were replicating a similar Liberal-New Democratic minority government move a half century ago.

New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh, pictured on Nov. 14, 2019, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa at his West Block office. In a minority, there is always an open question about when the government might fall, but this has been replaced by a road map of aggressive social programs that will dominate public discourse, writes Sheila Copps. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

March 28, 2022

OTTAWA—There is a reason we say history repeats itself. Because it does. We only have to watch the unfolding despotic massacre in the Ukraine to see a repetition of the slow-moving Second World War commitment by the Allies. Just last week, politicians finally acknowledged what the world has witn...

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