Canada's embattled prime minister gives Liberals a call to action: fight the Big Bad.
After weeks on the defensive over allegations he dropped the ball on foreign interference, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went on the offensive against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. | Justin Tang/ THE CANADIAN PRESSOTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took shots at his main opponent and confirmed he intends to lead the Liberals into the next election in a rah-rah speech aimed at firing up his party’s grassroots.
“Pierre Poilievre’s populism, his slogans and buzzwords, are not serious solutions to the serious challenges we’re facing,” he said. “Too woke!? Hey, Pierre Poilievre, it’s time for you to wake up,” Trudeau said, in a marked departure from theIntroduced by Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly, Trudeau addressed a packed room of delegates at his Liberal Party’s biennial convention in the heart of downtown Ottawa — not at all like an American political convention, but a sort of pro-forma event where the backroom conversations typically matter more than what happens on the floor.
And Parliament itself is a tricky balancing act. His party struck a bargain with the left-wing NDP to shore up its position in Canada’s minority Parliament, but that means the Liberals are not in full control of the agenda or when the next election might land. Trudeau’s father, Pierre Trudeau, did manage to win four, but after a decade of governing his fourth re-election bid ended in failure, with a defeat by Joe Clark’s Progressive Conservatives in 1979 before Trudeau staged a final comeback in 1980.
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