Reality threatens Liberal honeymoon, but it isn’t over yet

There is still considerable goodwill towards this prime minister, but, like the refugee flow, it clearly 'cannot be sustained indefinitely.'

Justin Trudeau mishandled a delicate issue last week when he tried to explain why unemployed oil sector workers in Edmonton are not eligible for enriched EI benefits, while their colleagues in Calgary are. Sounding more like Harper than the Care Bear, Trudeau said it was a matter of 'cold, hard mathematics.'The Hill Times photograph Jake Wright

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

April 4, 2016

GATINEAU, QUE.—The Liberal government avoided a damaging rift with one of its friendliest constituencies—Canadians who have enthusiastically rallied to sponsor Syrian refugees—by suddenly reversing course last week. Hundreds of private groups, with apartments furnished and ready, were disappo...

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