Joe Oliver: The walls are closing in on Justin Trudeau
financialpost.comAmong the myriad problems Justin Trudeau is confronting, two have an immediacy that must be especially troubling. One is political, the other economic.
The political problem is the miraculous improvement in presidential prospects for the Democratic Party since its power brokers, who had shamelessly insisted until the very end how “sharp” Joe Biden was, finally confronted reality and threw him under the bus. Their motivation was not patriotic concern (though that’s their story and they’re sticking with it). The disastrous June 27th debate merely revealed what everyone in contact with the president already knew and what 70 per cent of Americans had been telling pollsters for months: Biden’s obvious cognitive and physical decline made him incapable of serving four more years in office. The bus only arrived, however, once polls began to show he was certain to lose to a Republican they viscerally despise and fear.
Now Kamala Harris, reinvented by her party and the mainstream media from a hopeless drag on Biden’s electoral prospects into a candidate with apparently unstoppable momentum, has opened up a lead over Trump in several battleground states. Still, given her personal and policy vulnerabilities, probably the only one who can beat Donald Trump is Donald Trump, which he might well do if he sticks to personal invective and grievance, rather than Harris’ vulnerabilities — which are her and her running-mate’s woke, left-leaning track records, as well as the Biden administration’s failures on the border, inflation, taxes, jobs, crime and resource development, as well as its weak response to provocations by Iran, China and Russia.
The parallel with our situation is obvious but not exact. Unlike Joe Biden, the prime minister is
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