How the party leaders stack up, as campaign machines rev up for 2019

Singh should spend the summer shaking off negative fatalism, Scheer must delicately manage kissing up to Quebec, and Trudeau channelling Harper may be a good thing.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will be spending the summer laying the groundwork for the 2019 election. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

June 27, 2018

OTTAWA—Summer is upon us. Members of Parliament have returned to their ridings to kiss babies and shake hands wherever they can. Ottawa will feel a bit like a ghost town between now and mid-September until the elected officials return when they will begin the big push to the 2019 election. Throug...

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