"Hardline conservatives are hostile to science, art, literature, history, foreign cultures, courtroom trials, criminal rehabilitation, spending on preparation for the future, and most of all, root causes, the things that one has to dig very deep to comprehend. It’s like a surgeon removing metastasized tumours without checking the site of the original cancer.
"Terrorism is the most complicated of tangles but trying to untangle it is a potential lifesaver."
Heather Mallick: Justin Trudeau digs deep on terrorism, Harper draws a cartoon (Toronto Star).