How Justin Trudeau lost his grip

[SugarDaddy1]

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau could lose Canada’s next election because he’s just not as angry as the country he leads.

In the year since taking over Canada’s Conservatives, Pierre Poilievre has tapped grievance politics and assembled a coalition of populists, social conservatives and center-right moderates that would make him the favorite if a vote were held any time soon. Conservatives sit ahead of Trudeau’s Liberals with a 10-point lead.

Poilievre likes to repeat that “Canada is broken.” High inflation, runaway grocery prices, rising mortgage rates and a housing crisis help make the case. Canadians are worn out, anxious and mad. But it’s not just the politics of far-right fury that’s tripping up Trudeau. Fallout from the Israel-Hamas war is hitting hard in key swing ridings where the divisive issue has become a litmus test for the Liberals’ progressive agenda. The public mood continues to sour. And there’s no break in sight as the economy flirts with a recession.

At the same time, Trudeau’s picture-perfect marriage had unravelled. According to Abacus Data, Poilievre’s 10-point lead widened to 14 points after Conservatives launched a post-shuffle, national ad campaign starring Poilievre as a family man. The ads appeared days after Trudeau announced his separation from his wife of 18 years.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/10/justin-trudeau-election-politics-00134525

 

[Fuzzy1975]

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/10/justin-trudeau-election-politics-00134525

lol he'd have had to have a grip first, in order to lose it....*chuckles* another failed thread,give up suggarrr