Scheer takes a page from Trudeau’s playbook with policy rollout, say pollsters and politicos

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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, pictured March 19, 2019, is starting to give voters an outline of how he would run the country differently than the Liberals have under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

May 13, 2019

Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer is using the same strategy employed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prior to the last election, say pollsters and politicos, by rolling out policy speeches on key topics well in advance of the election campaign.

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