I paid scant attention to the winner, Andrew Scheer, during the race, and now am hastening to take his measure. I can recommend one safe policy position that Scheer should support: equal shared parenting (ESP) as the legal default following parental separations. In Brown’s view, the courts have a tendency to overlook their own line of reasoning when it comes to custody disputes between separated parents. A revived legislative effort to promote ESP would help to ensure both parents’ rights are respected in family law disputes. It is more accurate to say that in the majority of such cases the state “takes away” children from their fathers.

Source: National Post May 31, 2017 15:00 UTC