Commentary
Apparently it’s grand being a Liberal in Canada. You’re the best, you know it, and you want the world to see you dance before your own tabernacle. Which might not be the best approach just now.
It doubtless seems weird to emerge from the heady atmosphere of the Shaw Centre to a lecture on political tactics from me, of all people. Ditto on humility. But according to the Angus Reid “tracker,” Trudeau’s net approval rating is now minus 20 so those sunny ways aren’t casting much warmth.
Obviously I don’t expect the party or its leader to share my philosophical or political views entirely. But could the adults in the room not see, after a string of scandals, divisive rhetoric, and this ghastly Chinese electoral meddling debacle, that what the party needed at its national convention was “Still progressive, but older and wiser,” not “Only enemies could criticize our brilliant leader”?…