Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may be bracing for an earful from his caucus when Liberal MPs gather in Nanaimo, B.C. today to plot their strategy for the coming election year.
It will be the first time he faces them as a group since MPs departed Ottawa in the spring.
Still stinging from a devastating byelection loss earlier this summer, the caucus is now also reeling from news that their national campaign director has resigned and the party can no longer count on the NDP to stave off an early election.
“They should be giving the prime minister a rough ride,” said strategist Ginny Roth, who served as director of communications for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s leadership campaign.
She’s skeptical they will, though.
Yeah, you’re probably right. These problems aren’t only Canadian problems, especially housing costs.
But in some ways Canada has gone into these issues a lot worse than we should have, and we have done a lot less to get past them than the level I want to hold a government accountable for.
For example, Canada has had the highest immigration growth in the G7 and it was almost double the average. Canada’s housing prices are number 2 in the OECD for price vs incomes.
Anger about immigration in Canada is actually relatively new, 2016 would see Trudeau’s first year, the election of Donald Trump (on his “We’re going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it” campaign), and Brexit passed. That year the economist wrote that Canada was strange in our open celebration of immigration.
Honestly this article is a great read about the sentiment of 2016 vs this one about sentiment today.
Since this thread is largely just my political thoughts, I at least still have some sympathy for Trudeau’s government, I still feel at the time when I voted for them, they were the clear right choice. This time I don’t feel there is one, it’s a messy time, and I worry we’ll pick easy answers without much weight behind them.