2024-10-23
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It is a time of massive anxiety.
Justin Trudeau was talking about Canadians' economic outlook pitching the durability of his liberal project to a gathering of global progressives in Montreal last month.
People noticed the hike in their mortgages much more than they noticed the savings in their childcare,
he offered, perhaps implying that in doing so,
people failed to appreciate all he did for them.
A diagnosis of anxiety fits his own government, too.
Mr Trudeau and his party have traversed an arc from heroic,
too hapless during nine years in office and today are despised by many in Canada.
Polls suggest that less than a quarter of the electorate plans to vote for him.
With under a year to go until a general election,
Liberal Party members fear no plan exists to increase that share.
They have lost two by-elections in quick succession,
as well as the support of their governing partner, the New Democratic Party.
A letter has been circulating among Liberal MPs calling upon Mr Trudeau to resign.
Massive anxiety, indeed.