OTTAWA—It is always easy to criticize the governing party. It controls all the political levers. One can even convince oneself that criticism of the ruling party is a form of civic duty, one’s moral responsibility for national citizenship, as it were. It is not so easy, however, to dump on the opposition parties.

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