Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Odds are stacked against the governing Liberals, making some MPs “nervous” and “uneasy” about the next election, but caucus members are vowing to go all-in against the federal Conservatives led by Pierre Poilievre.

“We’ve got a year to turn it around. [It] means that the campaign is going to matter,” said four-term Liberal MP Sean Casey (Charlottetown, P.E.I.) in an interview with The Hill Times. “It means that people are completely disengaged. It means that we’re long in the tooth, and the political pendulum is swinging against us. … We can’t give up, and I owe it to the people I represent, we owe it to Canadians to keep plugging, to keep a positive message, and to keep working. I mean, I don’t know what the hell else you can do.”

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau is running out of time.

He has trailed in polls by double digits for nearly a year, and the outlook for the once popular prime minister is so grim that some old guard Liberals have been grumbling that maybe he should just step down and give someone else a shot.

After testifying in the SNC-Lavalin affair, Butts had been lick­ing his wounds and reconnecting with his family after the brutally long hours he had worked in the PMO. His wife, Jodi, joked she should send Jody Wilson-Raybould a present to thank her for engineering her hus­band’s exit from politics. But on a trip to Tuscany to celebrate their twen­tieth anniversary, he told her he thought he should go back for the 2019 campaign. She reluctantly agreed. “You know what? If you don’t go back and they lose, you’re going to blame yourself for the rest of your life. So just go do it. But you’ve got to promise me on election night it’s all over.”

A good way to understand what drives Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a book written almost three decades ago by the great American conservative thinker Thomas Sowell titled, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.

It wasn’t nice.

“Mr. Speaker, the Conservative leader is wearing more makeup than I am today,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said of Pierre Poilievre earlier this week in question period.

Her words were not technically as “unparliamentary,” as when the opposition leader called the prime minister “a wacko” or when Poilievre said “WTF” in the House, and then tried to convince the speaker he meant “where’s the funds?” — an acronym the Conservative party is now using to sell T-shirts.

But Speaker Greg Fergus reprimanded Freeland: “We do not comment on the appearance of members.”