Lt.-Gov. Dowdeswell using her bully pulpit to better society
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday, May 5, 2019.
In the cut and thrust of the increasingly divisive and polarizing way politics are being practiced today, one of the most worrisome developments is the loss of the bully pulpit.
In some ways an old-fashioned notion, today’s practitioners seem to have forgotten its power of moral suasion, to forge consensus, to truly lead.