The latest poll from Abacus Data has Justin Trudeau’s Liberals trailing the Conservatives by 16 percentage points, 25 to 41. That’s landslide territory for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party, right up there with John Diefenbaker’s 208-seat victory in 1958 and Brian Mulroney’s 211-seat record-breaker in 1984.
This isn’t an isolated poll. Opinion surveys have been trending in this deathly direction for the Liberals for many months. To borrow from auto-racing parlance, for Mr. Trudeau to call an election today would be the equivalent of “Gentlemen. Start your coffins!”
