‘Not a problem of communications, but operations’: Liberals showing signs of a government on ‘autopilot,’ say politicos

Voters may have been more receptive to the Liberals' slow delivery when the government was newly elected in 2015, but the Grits will need to recognize they've lost much of the benefit of the doubt in the minds of those who are now expecting 'words not deeds,' says Tory pundit Tim Powers.
The longer any government remains in power, the harder it becomes to maintain the continuity of institutional memory and discipline of a freshly elected one, says David Zussman.

With the first weeks of the fall sitting now in the rearview mirror, former senior civil servant David Zussman says the lack of refreshed cabinet instructions is simply the latest example of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s increasing failure to fully utilize his cabinet mi...

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