Trudeau and Wynne facing populist threats

Kathleen Wynne and Justin Trudeau need to take the populist threat seriously, because it’s real.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Ontario PC leader Doug Ford. The Ontario election is June 7 and Ms. Wynne is in the fight of her political life.
OAKVILLE, ONT.—One of today’s stark political realities is that any politician in the world who espouses a “centre-left” brand of socialism is a potential victim of a populist backlash. Indeed, in the last few years upstart populist parties, of both the right and left variety, have chewed m...

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