Hurrelmann: Canadian politicians should prepare for Brexit, not use it as a partisan wedge issue

When the release of a draft “withdrawal agreement” between the United Kingdom and the European Union plunged the British government into chaos in recent days, Canadian federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer felt compelled to remind Canadians that he had been an early advocate of Brexit. In a June 2016 opinion piece in the National Post, Scheer had presented Brexit as a chance to rescue “British political traditions” from “the dictates of EU bureaucrats in Brussel