The troops, Brexit and health care: three ways fed politics touched us this week
OTTAWA — The political class was sent reeling again this week with the shock — now sickeningly familiar — of another apparent terrorist attack, this time in Nice, France. Sorrow quickly turned to despair for the state of international relations.
The attack came during a week of soul-searching in Canada’s defence community over the country’s appropriate role in this new world order — where terrorists hide amongst civilians, and where social inequities undermine global stability.
Canadian policy-makers also wrestled this week with the fallout of Brexit and its effects on the Canadian economy.
And domestically, while some of our challenges may seem petty at a time of such ugly global fissures, the positioning of federal and provincial politicians this week on funding health care — the part of government that matters most to people — will eventually have a material effect on everyday life in Canada.