How to navigate post-fact politics: skeptically, but attentively

Today’s politics is entirely personality and performances. The bickering plays out like an annoying soundtrack, and the temptation to tune it out can be overwhelming—and unwise. Politicians can invent and evade facts all they want. Climate change doesn’t care. But we should.

The oilsands in Fort McMurray, Alta. The delivery of federal climate measures has been so bungled and half-hearted that the fact-free enemies of climate action—various premiers, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre—are winning the communications war, writes Susan Riley.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

April 8, 2024

CHELSEA, QUE.—Anyone looking for evidence that we live in a post-policy, post-fact, increasingly incoherent political moment only needs to look at the war against the federal carbon tax. It isn’t just that it appears to be succeeding; worse, it is drowning out serious co...

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