For more than a year, pollsters have reported that a plurality of - TopicsExpress

Whitby Oshawa NDP Riding Association

For more than a year, pollsters have reported that a plurality of Canadians see Trudeau as the prime minister-in-waiting. But the Liberal performance they were given to watch this week was more reflective of a third-place opposition party than of an aspiring government. While the Conservatives and the NDP both made substantive cases for and against Canada taking on a combat role against the Islamic State (IS), the Liberals never really got beyond their leader’s initial contention that the government had failed to make a case for war. Trudeau himself seemed determined to play second string, first by delegating the lead Liberal role in the House of Commons debate to foreign affairs critic Marc Garneau and then by dispensing with the presentation of an alternative of his own to the government’s plan.

Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 22:39:27 +0000

For more than a year, pollsters have reported that a plurality of - TopicsExpress

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