What counts with voters?

If policy ever counted for much, it certainly is not the case in the era of QAnon and wall-to-wall misinformation.

Ontario voters returned Doug Ford, left, as premier last year, despite his track record, while according to the polls, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now increasingly unpopular, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 8, 2023

OTTAWA—Politics may never have been about policy as much as personalities and image (when they finally get to the ballot box, people after all tend to vote on the basis of which candidate they generally feel good about). And if policy ever counted for much, it certainly is...

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