Trudeau’s got an inflation problem, whether or not he caused it

Trudeau's main weakness as a politician is his seeming inability to connect emotionally with Canadians on issues that exist outside his own personal ideological agenda—issues such as inflation.

It doesn’t matter if Justin Trudeau isn’t to blame for the onset of inflation, it doesn’t matter if it’s worse in other countries, it doesn’t matter if there’s no short-term, painless way to stop it; at the end of the day, all that matters is he’s the prime minister and the loonie ultimately stops at his desk, writes Gerry Nicholls.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

October 21, 2022

OAKVILLE, ONT.—If you want to know who’s going to win the next federal election, pay less attention to opinion polls and more attention to inflation reports. After all, inflation is to the popularity of incumbent governments what meat grinders are to baloney. Indeed, I’d argue that rising in...

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