A trickle of PR won’t douse the Liberals’ flaming poll numbers

No one should write off Justin Trudeau or the Liberal Party, but neither should the Liberals be so naïve as to just dismiss recent data or think a simple change of tone will make things better.

Publicly released research from different national data firms over the last six-plus weeks have shown Pierre Poilievre’s, left, Conservatives with healthy support over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

August 30, 2023

OTTAWA—Attention Liberal Party of Canada: you are in the midst of a five-alarm fire. Recent public opinion polls suggest you are burning up. Neither a highly publicized cabinet shuffle nor a cabinet retreat in Atlantic Canada where housing was the focus—yet not one polic...

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