.DonMartinCTV: Trudeau has a new retirement roadmap, now that Ardern's called it quits
On the far side of the planet a once-popular feminist prime minister, who battled violent Parliament-obstructing protests over pandemic policy, divided the population over its vaccination status, fought to green up resource industries and struggled with an economy inflating into recession, has called it quits just as an election year dawns with her polling numbers skidding downward.
Trudeau, if the scripted whispers from the prime minister’s staff reflect his actual thinking, seems disinclined to follow her example and plans to fight for a fourth mandate to reach ten years in office.pegging the Liberals seven points below the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre with Liberal popularity about to be severely tested by a green industry transition plan featuring hefty job losses in an economy starting to lose steam.
Which brings us back to Trudeau, who seems slightly burnt out himself by showing little enthusiasm for the job beyond funding announcements while avoiding premiers not to his liking and keeping his own ministers and Liberal MPs at a distance. It’s a devastating pull-back-the-curtain view of this PMO and it amplifies the image of Trudeau as an all-hat-no-cattle force of only-personality, a perception which will haunt him into the next election.
The risk for Trudeau is becoming another of the “many examples of politicians federally and provincially who have gone one too many elections and found themselves leaving not as a winner but as a loser,” Mar cautioned on CTV’s Power Play this week.With three elections won, Trudeau an above-average electoral record of victory.
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