The parliamentary season was intense in Quebec. Chaotic return to school, health problems, PQ victory in Jean-Talon, decline in François Legault’s popularity, return of the 3e link, acrimonious negotiations with the public sector and tabling of the finances of an independent Quebec which even forced François Legault to play the role of Captain Canada.
Now, while our glasses are trained on Quebec, at the same time, there is chaos in Ottawa for Justin Trudeau.
The results of the latest Léger survey published on 1er last November are revealing: “Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives continue to gain popularity with 40% against 26% for Trudeau.” That’s a huge gap.
Last year, we were talking about the passport crisis and Chinese interference. Things were going so badly that the Prime Minister decided to do a cabinet reshuffle during the summer. The liberal team wanted to give themselves new momentum, to bounce back. We can say that the spring was slack, because they are struggling to catch their breath and the water is starting to seriously rise.
Liberals are counting on their goal
Unfortunately for the Liberal troops, the weeks go by and the Prime Minister cannot turn things around. Celebration of a Nazi soldier, diplomatic conflict with India, media crisis, and the latest blunder in the running, this idea of exempting citizens of the Maritimes from the carbon tax because they heat with oil.
No one is fooled, Trudeau wanted to give a thumbs up to his Maritime voters who are turning their backs on him. By creating an improvised and incoherent policy aimed at exempting the Maritimes from the carbon tax, this creates an obvious injustice for Western Canadians who heat with natural gas. This does not apply on a Canadian scale and it illustrates to what extent Justin Trudeau has lost his reflexes.
Will we witness the torture of gout
In principle, Justin Trudeau could have two years of government left before the next election. As he was elected in the minority, his fate depends on his alliance with the NDP which could well fall if the blunders continue. Ditto for Liberal MPs.