Yet the regime responsible for these perfidies, flip-flops and stumbles enjoys 49.8-per-cent support, according to aggregator ThreeHundredEight.com — a whisker shy of an absolute majority. By comparison, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives at the peak of the popularity, in late 2011, topped out in the low 40s. Anyone more or less stable, a bale of hay or inert gas, can seem like Winston Churchill in comparison. Trudeau and his finance minister, Bill Morneau, have continued in this vein with their middle-class tax cut and bulked-up child benefit. Relatedly, there’s trade.

Source: National Post October 23, 2016 22:07 UTC