There is much reporting about the backstabbing and dysfunction within Justin Trudeau’s government and endless “will he, won’t he” speculation about whether the Prime Minister will resign. But one question is conspicuously absent from the conversation: Who is looking out for Canada’s interests?
It is not the current government, which is in such turmoil that it is barely breathing, let alone governing. Its fall budget, masquerading as an economic statement, was basically dead on bizarre arrival, tabled minister-less and loveless in the House. Its lifespan is measured in weeks from when Parliament resumes, given the public statements of the Conservatives, NDP and Bloc Québécois to vote no-confidence. The Liberals’ prospects in the election that will ensue, according to the polls, are somewhere between bleak and Armageddon.
