.AGMacDougall: Will a failing Trudeau take the risk of a fall election? via ottawacitizen
Some would say it’s too late. Having limped to re-election with a measly 32.4 per cent of the vote, Trudeau has entered his third term with little of the verve of his first. This is a government going through the motions. As ever, it is more concerned with the optics of governing rather than the execution of government. Just ask RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki.
Not that Trudeau has put forward much in the way of plans. And what plans he does have are co-created with the even spendier NDP. A policy of profligacy risks worsening inflation at a time when Canadians cannot afford for it to get worse. Things are already bad enough. As any incumbent will tell you, the joy of incumbency is in controlling the timetable; the Liberals can either fight now, when things are grim, or later, when things are likely to be worse, possibly much worse. Going early would also play to Trudeau’s sense of history. Winning a fourth election in a row? Harper couldn’t do it. Nor could Trudeau 1.0.
Just how divided that party is, however, remains open to interpretation. The current schmozzle over Patrick Brown’s expulsion from the leadership race could mean something, or it could mean nothing. We’ll get an indication come September but one suspects most current members of the Conservative Party are, above all, sick and tired of losing. Having failed three times to spear Trudeau at the polls, the membership reckons Poilievre is an Ahab capable of vanquishing the Tories’ Moby Dick.
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