We desperately need to rethink how we conduct politics

Beyond the talking points, slanders and the incoherence of constant polling, voters don’t really know the people they are voting for because politicians never have to enter a forum where they have to think. 
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with reporters at Rideau Hall after he shuffled his cabinet on July 26, 2023.

HALIFAX—Last week’s federal cabinet shuffle made all the usual headlines, but raised another issue not often mentioned: the desperate need to rethink how we conduct politics. 

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