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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, and Green Party Parliamentary Leader Elizabeth May. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GREG LYLE

August 3, 2020

VANCOUVER—If the loss of the UN Security Council vote marked the beginning of the end for the federal government’s COVID-19 rally, the WE controversy applied the coup de grâce. The federal government’s response to COVID enjoyed the support of half of Canadians when we started tracking in May...

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