Election 2019 campaign one of the most ‘uninspiring, disheartening, and dirtiest’ in 40 years, says Savoie

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says she has never seen an election where mudslinging overwhelmingly dominated the campaign, leaving little or no time for policy discussion.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, and People's Party Leader Maxime Bernier. The 40-day long 2019 election campaign ended Oct. 20. Don Savoie, one of the country's leading experts on government and politics, says that all party leaders engaged more in mudslinging than in debates over policies that affect the lives of Canadians on a daily basis. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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Election 2019 campaign one of the most ‘uninspiring, disheartening, and dirtiest’ in 40 years, says Savoie

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says she has never seen an election where mudslinging overwhelmingly dominated the campaign, leaving little or no time for policy discussion.

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