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Ken Schultz's avatar

Mr. Wells, Sir, as always, I commend your thoughtful commentary.

From my perspective, you have concluded with a wonderful sentence that perfectly summarizes your column, "The question facing parliamentarians now is to work on solutions instead of trying to win arguments."

The problem with that wonderful conclusion, of course, is that not one single Member of Parliament will read it and change their behavior to conform with that logical conclusion.

Not one.

Woe is us. Broken? Really, who knows, but it sure feels like it.

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JM's avatar

“pragmatism informed by a sense that Parliament can be something more than an endless pissing match” perfectly sums up what is wrong with every level of government, currently. Until partisans become loyal to all Canadians, not just their select few, nothing will change. Until serious and qualified people step up with a sense of duty and public service, instead of partisanship and 4-year election cycles, we will continue to circle the drain.

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