All bets are off in today’s policy-free political environment

Policies, or the specific actions of governments, seem less important than ever in an era when emotion and the demagoguery that taps into it overwhelm public discourse.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s success has to be seen as emblematic of the way politics has changed since 2015 when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put the Liberals back in power federally, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

May 3, 2023

OTTAWA—It’s not just that Ontario Premier Doug Ford didn’t bother to tell voters on the way to re-election last year that he planned to introduce a two-tier, partly privatized health-care system if returned to government. In the run-up to the election, the Progressive ...

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