Maybe, just maybe, Canadians are getting tired of slogans and trash-talk

A return to reasoned debate, where leaders answer each other’s points, rather than trade insults, would do a lot to restore our tired democracy.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, left, Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. Canadians will soon be voting in a federal election, but will they get the chance to cast an informed vote, or merely support the party that most successfully denigrates its rival, writes Michael Harris.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

February 3, 2025

HALIFAX—It has been 14 years since Justin Trudeau called then-Conservative MP Peter Kent “a piece of shit” in the House of Commons.

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