Lessons learned from a nasty, unpredictable campaign

There was plenty of failure to go around, as 42 days ago, there were certain presumptions. This was by far the most confusing and disillusioning election of them all.

When the campaign began, it seemed Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent missteps would give Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s boy-next-door image an advantage, writes Andrew Caddell.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

October 23, 2019

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—Anyone who has worked in government or international organizations knows the drill: once an event is over or a crisis has passed, there is a call for “lessons learned” in a formal post-mortem exercise, or through memoranda, identifying failures or omissions. Invariably, such ...

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