Hate sells, but it doesn’t sell democracy

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It may be a little rich for politicians who specialize in division to disavow the traitorous and misogynistic claims of an Albertan couple attacking Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

September 5, 2022

OTTAWA—Former energy minister Marc Lalonde used to be accompanied by armed guards when he visited Alberta back in 1980. As the minister responsible for the introduction of the National Energy Program, he and then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau were hated by many Albertans. “Let the eastern bast...

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