No moral high ground here

The Tories are often rightly criticised for ignoring inconvenient expert advice and knowledge in pursuit of their political objectives. This is decried by the opposition as crass pandering to the Tories’ political base. But the Liberals have no moral high ground to occupy on this issue. The past examples of them ignoring expert advice to pander to their own political base are many. Nor have they stopped doing so, as their position on e.g. Northern Gateway shows. Read the details in my latest column for the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia papers.