Marc Richardson: Conciliatory discourse seems to belong to another era

After John Ciaccia’s death last Tuesday, the tributes that poured in illustrated just how different this era is from the one in which he worked. A former Quebec cabinet minister, Ciaccia is perhaps best remembered as the government negotiator during the Oka Crisis; most telling, he was respected by those on both sides of the conflict.There was a similar sentiment when Warren Allmand died in late 2016. As a federal Liberal MP representing Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Allmand developed a