‘Pack your bags’: this Parliament is headed for the exit

The debate now is not whether the Liberals would lose an election held tomorrow, but whether they would be wiped out à la Conservatives in 1993.

The chances of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal minority surviving very much longer have gone from iffy to something approaching zero, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

October 9, 2024

OTTAWA—“Pack your bags,” as we used to say in the Ottawa press gallery when it became clear that a government was about to be ousted, and all concerned would soon be climbing on the campaign buses.

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