Never overestimate a politician’s ability to read the room

I, like many others, am angry that in the middle of a delta variant wave of COVID-19, we are being forced to cut our summer short because of the prime minister’s selfishness. Hopefully we don’t lose lives because of it.

Herein lies the problem for the Liberals: even if they promise us exactly what we want, can we trust them to deliver? The greatest predicter of future behaviour is past behaviour and the Liberals’ past behaviour indicates that we can’t, writes Erica Ifill. Photograph courtesy of Twitter/JustinTrudeau

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

September 8, 2021

OTTAWA—Are we there yet? We are into the fourth week of an election no one asked for, that has no logical reason for occurring, except that the party in power wants more power. This is a power-grab election, which has no...

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