Canada needs more people like Ed Lumley

Today’s political world is too full of hype and cheap shots, where soundbites masquerade as policy. As a minister, Ed Lumley always reached across the aisle and embodied a 'Team Canada' approach years before the term was coined.
Ed Lumley, left, pictured with Tom Axworthy in 2019, provides Canadians with achievements that are worth celebrating and a character worth emulating, write Kevin Lynch and Paul Deegan.

We have both had the good fortune to have known Ed Lumley as colleagues and friends for many years. In these days of hyper-partisanship and a political focus on the immediate, his enduring achievements are worth celebrating and his character is worth emulating.

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