Here’s a thought: what if Justin Trudeau never runs again?

But in this season of political speculation, I think there is another possibility worth thinking about. Rather than calling a snap and unnecessary election, a move that cost former Ontario premier David Peterson his job in 1990, what if Justin Trudeau never runs again? What if he retires from public life, and the party goes into the next election with a new leader at the helm—as both the Greens and Conservatives will?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured May 7, 2020, at his daily press briefing in Ottawa, 'is literally coming to the rescue of everyone in the country, handing out billions in federal funding designed to keep things together until a vaccine for COVID-19 is developed, and an economic comeback is possible. By comparison, his humanity in public makes Donald Trump look like a deranged honey-badger,' writes Michael Harris. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Michael Harris

May 11, 2020

HALIFAX—Before Justin Trudeau became PM, when Gerald Butts was still riding shotgun for the hottest political penny stock in Canada, when the Liberals had only 33 seats in the House of Commons, and it looked like it would take dynamite to dislodge Stephen Harper from power, I had a private talk wi...

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