Trudeau’s tumbleweed of tumult

Symbolically, a sense of losing is becoming a metaphor for the Liberal leader.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet in July and then gathered them in P.E.I. in mid-August, there were a lot of crocodile tears about listening and recognizing how tough it was for people. But his audience has moved past words and seems to be longing for action, writes Tim Powers.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

September 13, 2023

OTTAWA—The plight of the federal Liberals and the prime minister these days screams like a country music song. Loss, loss, and more loss. Maybe my interpretation of country music is limited, but the governing party and its leader are trapped in a lament.

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