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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured last month in Ottawa, is about to embark on a tour to talk to average Canadians to nip small problems before they get big, Paul Wells argues.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY PAUL WELLS

January 11, 2017

OTTAWA—Somewhere in the sullen sandstone bunker of Ottawa's Langevin Block, somebody has finally pulled the populism alarm. You know the one. It says IN CASE OF ENTITLEMENT, BREAK GLASS. Beneath that inscription, in a smaller font, it says I MEAN, FEEL FREE TO WAIT A WHILE, BECAUSE ENTITLEMENT I...

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