Up until six weeks ago, it looked like Justin Trudeau had fine-tuned his operation into election readiness for 2019. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers remarks at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on March 7, 2019. There’s an old joke about how “deputy minister shuffle” is the most inside-Ottawa story of all; of interest only within 50 metres of Parliament Hill. The prime minister was in Florida for most of the past week, but he did return for a day, to take care of some unspecified business, presumed to be budget-related. His hopes for getting past the SNC-Lavalin damage rest heavily on how well he handles each one of them in coming days.

Source: thestar March 14, 2019 19:52 UTC