Trudeau, O’Toole, Singh have some soul-searching to do in light election outcome

Voters delivered a Parliament that was virtually unchanged from the 2019 contest. As such, all the parties and their leaders, Liberals included, experienced at least some degree of disappointment.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, and Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole. After receiving such disheartening results, Canada's three major federal political party leaders must be asking themselves some tough questions about their campaign strategies, their platforms, even their own leadership, writes Wyatt James Schierman.The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY WYATT JAMES SCHIERMAN

October 6, 2021

Despite all their fervent campaigning, all the beseeching policy pledges to persuade undecided voters, all the millions of dollars poured into advertising, the electorate largely opted out of rewarding any of Canada’s political parties this election. Instead, voters...

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