A fall election has few benefits, so don’t hold your breath for its call

If the return to school is a mighty mess and wave two of the virus hits with force in the fall, the Liberals might get a mighty smack in the chops from a tired, angry, disheartened public.

Forcing an election now, when there is so much multi-layered anxiety in the land, would look like a self-interested ploy and Canadians may punish whoever they feel put their interests ahead of them, writes Tim Powers.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

September 2, 2020

OTTAWA—Making predictions is often a fool’s errand. But, being a fool, I am prepared to make the leap. There will be no election this fall. Especially one perpetrated by confidence motions stemming from the Sept. 23 speech from the throne. Let me lay out two caveats, though. The first: unless t...

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