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Political Corner: Political discourse should be focused on pandemic response, not opportunism

By: Connor Stephenson, Peak Associate The Hall & Oates song “Out of Touch” is definitely not a reference to a certain subset of 21st century Canadian politicians, as the song was originally released in the 1980s. But if we ignore the temporal incongruities, it definitely could have been. The rhetoric that is being deployed by some Canadian Conservative politicians to attack the Liberal government in general, and its handling of the pandemic response specifically, is definitely out of touch with our new reality.  A select few of Canada’s federal Conservative MPs have opted for a hyper-prejudice approach at a time that…

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