On the 10th anniversary of his winning the party leadership, a battered yet battle-tested prime minister is governing in the face of stubborn speculation about his political future. Those close to him say Trudeau remains committed to the political vision that propelled him to office and saved the Liberals from ruin in 2015.
Trudeau’s Liberals would have a tough time beating the Conservatives, led by notorious partisan scrapper Pierre Poilievre, if an election were held today.
What happens next may well define this Liberal prime minister’s place in Canadian history, not to mention his party’s place in federal politics, after a decade in which he has already left his indelible, Trudeau-esque mark. Questions swirled about the future of what was once deemed Canada’s “natural governing party.” Was there room for a centrist political organ in a more polarized, post-recession country? Should it merge with the now-stronger New Democratic Party? Was this the dawn of an era of Conservative domination?
“Clearly the trust in, the confidence in, the party … wasn’t resonating anymore with Canadians,” said Anna Gainey, another Trudeau ally who would become party president from 2014“Somehow the party lost touch with people and what people needed and wanted and hoped for,” she said. “When he came in, that vision and that unifying force and factor — at a time where things were pretty bleak — immediately provided an uplift to the party,” said Azam Ishmael, a senior Liberal official who has been the party’s national director since 2016.all Liberal members of the Red Chamber from the party’s caucus amidst a roiling scandal over Senate expenses.
Surveying the walls of his office, Downe pointed out photos of Liberal giants of yore: here Lester B. Pearson, there Jean Chrétien, for whom Downe worked as chief of staff when he was prime minister. Downe said the current prime minister pales in comparison to this pantheon of the party’s greats. Trudeau’s popularity has also fallen since his post-2015 honeymoon, said David Coletto, chief executive officer of the polling firm Abacus Data. The trend really started after the SNC-Lavalin affair in 2018, he said, when then-justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould — another one of Trudeau’s star recruits in 2015 — accused the prime minister and top officials of inappropriately pressuring her to intervene in a prosecution against the company.
Because of this, the party should no longer always place him “front and centre” for all of its policies and announcements, Bains said.
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