Opposition parties need to up their foreign policy game

Opposition parties get stuck in the frame of personal attacks and reactionary scapegoating, rather than providing alternatives for hard policy questions.

Both NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, left, and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre want to increase their appeal to new Canadians voters. To do that, they will have to speak up and offer tangible foreign policy alternatives, writes Bhagwant Sandhu.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BHAGWANT SANDHU

February 1, 2023

OTTAWA—It is always easy to criticize the governing party. It controls all the political levers. One can even convince oneself that criticism of the ruling party is a form of civic duty, one’s moral responsibility for national citizenship, as it were. It is not so easy, ...

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