For Liberals, it was a year of spinning their wheels

Trudeau and the economy are still giving the party a boost, but there's no guarantee it will carry them through the 2019 election.
The appeal of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured in Ottawa in October, might not be enough to carry the Liberals into a second mandate in 2019 after a mediocre start, writes Les Whittington.
OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have spent another year sort of getting a feel for governing. In many ways, it seems the government is still spinning its wheels at mid-term. That makes 2018 very much a make-or-break stage, as federal parties gear up for an election the following...

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