Canadian politicians can learn from Truss’ rapid rise and fall

It’s not about intellectual outsmarting or witty one-liners, it is about keeping it real and earning your basic paycheque.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets then-British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, at COP26 in November 2021. Just before resigning her post, Truss was still touting herself as 'a fighter, not a quitter,' self-characterizations reducing her to a caricature: strident, superficial, and predictable, writes Bhagwant Sandhu. U.K. Government photograph by Karwai Tang

Opinion

BY BHAGWANT SANDHU

October 26, 2022

OTTAWA—Aside from the perfunctory nod to our “shared history, values, and traditions,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Sept. 6 stat...

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