Politicians won’t be caught dead agreeing, even when there’s common ground

There's a tired, unproductive, inward-looking discourse that makes it hard to fix problems in this country, even universally acknowledged ones.
Politicians, like the new Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, might be more productive if they admitted they actually do agree on certain basic points, writes Susan Riley.

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