Hyper-partisanship diminishes voter choice

Ever-increasing partisanship weakens all parties and makes Parliament less effective, eroding democracy. If we don’t have strong parties with clear platforms, our choices are diminished.

In his final speech to the House of Commons on June 12, former Conservative leader Erin O'Toole said, “Instead of debating our national purpose in this chamber, too many of us are often chasing algorithms down a sinkhole of diversion and division.”The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHERRY MORAN

June 28, 2023

Growing up in a working-class family in our Canadian democracy, all of my life has been about choice.

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