Are Justin Trudeau’s ‘sunny ways’ over?
Al Jazeera
Trudeau’s electoral gambit failed and that might be the beginning of the end for his premiership.
The days of Justin Trudeau’s “sunny ways” may be over.
The jejune Canadian prime minister’s cocky gambit to call an unnecessary election in the midst of a stubborn pandemic has proven to be a strategic miscalculation of blunt, historic proportions.
Like any vapid politician more interested in seizing a parochial political dividend than pursuing the national interest, Trudeau abandoned – faster than Usain Bolt dashed to Olympic gold – a flimsy pledge not to hold a national vote while a lethal virus gripped Canada.
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