Sometimes, you’ve got to be pissed off

This is, in fact, a major testing of a prime minister barely six months into his job. The fate of a second Canadian being held, 50-year-old Robert Hall, hangs in the balance.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured in this file photo, is no longer above the fray and he has been forced to react with resolve he lacked in 2013. But the fate of Hall largely rests with him and there can be no tougher test of a prime minister's resolve than that.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM HARPER

May 2, 2016

Sometimes you've got to be pissed off. Justin Trudeau got there this week as his response to terrorism continues its remarkable evolution. The prime minister sounded legitimately angry over the horrible death of Canadian John Ridsdel at the hands of terrorists, and resolute in his statement that t...

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