Criticism is essential to politics—nastiness isn’t

Channelling anger is easy. Showing us more about how you would diffuse the anger and deliver good governance would be welcome.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre takes the built-in cantankerous critic role of his job to new dimensions, writes Tim Powers. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

May 24, 2023

OTTAWA—By the time you read this, the former governor general and current special rapporteur on alleged foreign interference in recent Canadian elections, David Johnston, will have given his interim verdict on what he sees as the next steps to address those challenges. My ...

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