Commentary
To serve up a mangled metaphor that fits our topsy-turvy times, the tide might be turning on self-identified progressivism’s long march through the institutions.
Certainly, in the bigger picture, recent events signal more than a sea change of political seasons evident in indicators such as this week’s polling numbers showing Prime Minister Trudeau’s bottomless fall from the updrafts of wingéd power’s pinnacle (OK, OK, I’ll stop).
True, close to half of Canadians surveyed in a Postmedia-Léger poll said the PM should resign before the next election (49 percent) or offered only the back-handed “support” of saying they didn’t know what he should do (21 percent). More than 60 percent of those who participated in the online survey, conducted between June 30 and July 3, said the younger Trudeau has been a divisive force in Canada. Fifty-five percent disapprove of his performance, 32 percent strongly and 23 percent somewhat. A mere 17 percent—about one in six Canadians—think he’s made the country a better place….