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“The decisions your government makes right now will define the future your kids and grandkids will grow up in,” Trudeau declared, as he kicked off the Liberal campaign in August 2021.
“So in this pivotal, consequential moment, who wouldn’t want a say? Who wouldn’t want their chance to help decide where our country goes from here?”
Despite his highly-charged political rhetoric in 2021, today the Trudeau government seems paralyzed, out of gas and out of ideas, leading up to the resumption of Parliament on Monday following the summer break.
The Liberals are clearly preoccupied not with governing, but with their own survival, having done nothing to address widespread public disillusionment with their leader and their government over the summer.
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Trudeau hasn’t done the one thing that might re-energize his party — resign — thus kicking off a leadership race.
Despite Liberal MPs grumbling for months that Trudeau and the PMO need to change the channel ever since their shock byelection loss to the Conservatives in the previously safe Liberal riding of Toronto – St. Paul’s in June, nothing’s changed.
On Monday, the Liberals face another crucial byelection test in the Montreal riding of LaSalle-Emard-Verdum, another safe Liberal seat, at least up to now, with Trudeau already declaring he won’t resign no matter the outcome.
He’s declared that he “can’t wait” to trade blows with Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre starting on Monday, but that’s nothing new, nor is it a plan to come up with new policies.
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Apparently, Trudeau thinks appointing Mark Carney — long touted by some as the next Liberal leader— as an economic advisor will impress Canadians, when all it really does is show that Trudeau doesn’t have confidence in his own cabinet ministers to give him sound advice on the economy.
Trudeau and the Liberals appear to be hoping that a year from now, when the next election is expected, the economy will be in better shape and voters will credit them for the change.
Given the Conservatives’ double-digit lead in the polls over the Liberals for more than a year now, just hanging around doesn’t sound like much of a plan.
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