The COVID meltdown finally catches up with Trudeau

Reversing the situation will take more political finesse and timely accomplishments than the Liberal government lately seems capable of.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s down-in-the-polls Liberals have belatedly began stepping up their response to problems, but there won’t likely to be quick resolutions, as the post-COVID crises are an intensification of decades-old economic fault lines, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

September 20, 2023

OTTAWA—With Parliament restarting, it’s clear that a series of deeply ingrained, long-simmering issues has solidified into a new national political calculus in the wake of COVID-19.

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