With Trump left behind and COVID easing, Trudeau can soon test his standing and vision with voters

If, as expected, Trudeau manages to prompt a fall election, the Liberals are in a position to argue Canadians have gotten past COVID and are ready to take a leap into a more environmentally attuned and innovative future

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, was present in Britain on the weekend as G7 leaders and others—European Council President Charles Michel, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel—turned the lights on again after wandering around for years in the confused darkness cast by Donald Trump, writes Les Whittington.No. 10 Downing Street photograph by Simon Dawson

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

June 16, 2021

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau evaded the Trump menace and is now on the verge of politically surviving the worst public health crisis in a century. Taken together, those developments likely signal an attempt sooner than later by the Liberals to try to reclaim the parliamentary majority forf...

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