Trip-wires and trap doors abound as Parliament resumes

A peek at the pitfalls facing politicos in this upcoming parliamentary session. Can politics ever be precisely predictable? Perhaps not, though there's sure to be a dog and pony show.

Should Erin O'Toole fall through the trap door in the coming months, Pierre Poilievre could be the one taking the reins. If that happens, 'the Conservatives are destined to become a somewhat larger, equally bellicose, version of the People’s Party of Canada, still docked far from majority territory,' writes Susan Riley. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

January 31, 2022

CHELSEA, QUE.—As MPs re-assemble today—another hybrid sitting, for now—there is only one safe, if very general, prediction about the session to come: no one will be happy. The Liberals will feel affronted and misunderstood, nit-picked to distraction by their inferiors. The Conservatives will ...

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