Prime Minister Trudeau gets a second chance

How that second chance is handled will go a long way towards revealing who Prime Minister Justin Trudeau really is—the guy we all hoped he was in 2015, or the one who let a lot of people down in the four years that followed.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured Oct. 23, 2019, after holding his first press conference since winning a minority government in Monday's election. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

October 28, 2019

HALIFAX—Dear Mr. Prime Minister, Congratulations on your election result; you still rule the roost. I would have said “election victory” except you didn’t have one; as Andrew Coyne put it, you just lost less than the other guys. David Suzuki effectively said the same thing: you didn’t wi...

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