Just how does the prime minister plan to pull the country together, absent any cogs from a restive West? The degree to which this prime minister slings focus-grouped confections around is a hangover from his first government that he could really do without. Would Trudeau really threaten another election if, for example, the opposition pushed to include a judicial inquiry into the SNC-Lavalin scandal, as Scheer has suggested? “You can raise the bar on what politics is like in this country,” the speech implores. Andrew MacDougall is a London-based communications consultant and ex-director of communications to former prime minister Stephen Harper.

Source: National Post December 07, 2019 03:48 UTC