Liberals need to ramp up vaccinations, detail recovery plans in ‘most important budget of a generation’ to regain lost political capital, say politicos

Liberals should bring the pandemic under control as soon as possible, or the opposition parties will have an opening to raise serious questions about the government’s competence, says pollster Greg Lyle of Innovative Research.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured Feb. 16, 2021, on Parliament Hill. The Liberal government is losing its support in public opinion polls because of the recent disruption to the vaccine rollout.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

February 22, 2021

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals need to ramp up the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to stem the loss of public goodwill for the government and should outline the specific details of the recovery phase in the upcoming federal budget, which will be the “most important budget of a generation,�...

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