Time for Liberals to reconnect with progressives

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney has been famously quoted to the effect that in politics 'you dance with the one that brung ya.' Looking to the budget and the current legislative sitting, the Liberals have to rediscover their progressive roots and message.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals were elected in 2015 on a wave of his star power and a promise of real change, luring progressive voters away from the NDP. But listening to them in recent weeks, you have to wonder if they've lost their progressive touch, writes Ken Polk. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KEN POLK

February 20, 2023

The Trudeau Liberals were elected in 2015 on a wave of Justin Trudeau’s star power and a promise of real change. Fundamentally, they lured progressive voters away from a New Democratic Party that, under then-leader Tom Mulcair, seemed more concerned with balancing the budg...

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