Justin Trudeau controls the Liberal Party top to bottom, upside down and sideways, a long-time Liberal caucus member told me this week. No Liberal leader has had such ironclad dominance since his father, Pierre Trudeau.
We recall the unity wars with John Turner, Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, and the party’s distress under Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff. There’s discontent with Justin Trudeau today, owing to the party’s falling support numbers. But not like those times.
