Scheer’s lame duck problem

Despite all the negative news stories and negative punditry, Andrew Scheer has it within his power to look less like a lame duck and more like a soaring eagle.
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, pictured Nov. 6, 2019, speaking with reporters after his caucus met in the West Block on Parliament Hill.
OAKVILLE, ONT.—Recently, while attending a luncheon in Toronto, I made a bit of a political faux pas. You see, the guy sitting next to me at my table just happened to be an executive with Canada’s Conservative Party, so just to make small talk I asked him something like, “Do you think any Con...

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