Welcome to parliamentary pickleball, where the blame flies back and forth

This dynamic, this blame game, is not new to our politics, but it has never seemed this ridiculous.

The back-and-forth in Question Period between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre doesn’t get a single house built or toxic tailings pond leaks stopped, writes Susan Riley.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade.

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

May 15, 2023

CHELSEA, QUE.— If the Liberal government capitulates, accommodates, or—to use carefully neutral language—merely responds to opposition complaints about a given policy or incident, who wins? Is the winner the government for listening and fixing the problem, the oppositi...

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