Trudeau’s decline in popularity is self-inflicted

Canadians care about whether their political leaders can be trusted to say what they mean and mean what they say.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his end-of-sitting press conference in Ottawa last week. Chantal Hébert writes that Trudeau only has himself to blame for declining popularity.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

July 3, 2017

As Justin Trudeau's government approaches mid-mandate, he remains the most popular government leader in the country. But that says as much, if not more, about the lacklustre standing of the current set of premiers as about the staying power of the popularity of the prime minister. In three of the f...

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