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Ford’s willingness to use a constitutional nuclear bomb won’t be forgotten

Would it have killed them to wait a little bit, and pass their law when an election wasn’t already underway? But desperate they were, writes columnist Warren Kinsella.

Opinion
BY WARREN KINSELLA
September 24, 2018

Opinion | BY WARREN KINSELLA | September 24, 2018

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