Today’s tonic: “It's time, Justin” By Max Fawcett

Today’s tonic: “It's time, Justin” by Max Fawcett.

I have to agree there seems no tinkering that will save Justin Trudeau from calamitous defeat and the country from the catastrophes the petulant, quick to scorn, narrow-minded Pierre Poilievre will enact.  

I’d put my hopes in either Mark Carney or possibly Anita Anand to turn things around for the Liberals.  The Liberals need much more than superficial change.  They need a fundamental change to a leader and a government that is more mature, honest, detail oriented and fighting on all cylinders to combat the country’s challenges.  

I’m happy to share this link to Max Fawcett’s latest.  Here are some excerpts below:

“The guy who has been their biggest asset for as long as he’s been on the ballot has become, slowly and now surely, their biggest albatross. As Abacus Data pointed out back in August, their routine polling hasn’t seen any change in how people feel about Trudeau, with more than twice as many Canadians (58 per cent) having a negative view of him than a positive one (25 per cent). For the mathematically challenged, that puts his personal (un)popularity at a staggering -33.

“The Liberals can continue to tinker at the edges here, whether it’s adding Mark Carney as a special advisor or doing another cabinet shuffle, and they can hope that the continued decline of inflation and interest rates makes Canadians less angry than they are today. If they’re lucky, they’ll be able to hold onto half of their 154-member caucus. 

“But if I was in that caucus and at that retreat, that wouldn’t be nearly good enough for me. I’d thank the Prime Minister for his service, tell him to enjoy the highly lucrative speaker circuit that so clearly awaits and get to work on choosing a new leader. Maybe that’s Chrystia Freeland. Maybe that’s Anita Anand. And maybe it’s even Mark Carney. It just can’t be Justin Trudeau.”