Politics, potatoes and T-shirts

Maybe next year, the Liberals will have a T-shirt, emblazoned with a dreamy looking potato with Trudeau’s trademark hair style, over the words: ‘Our Prime Minister is Spud-tacular!’

For instance, when our prime minister recently visited China, the Liberal International Trade Minister, Chrystia Freeland, pictured in this file photo, declared the trip a success basically because the Chinese had bestowed upon Trudeau the nickname, ‘Little Potato,’ writes Gerry Nicholls. The Hill Times photograph Steve Gerecke

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

September 19, 2016

OAKVILLE, ONT.—This is the month the federal Liberals will make a gut-wrenchingly difficult decision. And no, I’m not talking about a decision related to foreign policy or to democratic reform or to the deficit; I mean the Liberals face the daunting task of choosing a new design for their offic...

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