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RSS FeedsSusan Delacourt: Justin Trudeau is still prime minister. But this time, the job will be much different
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

22 october 2019 13:00:22

 
Susan Delacourt: Justin Trudeau is still prime minister. But this time, the job will be much different
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


Justin Trudeau is still prime minister, but mixed with relief for the ruling Liberals will be the knowledge that his job will have to fundamentally change in his second term. The election has been bruising, the past year has been humbling, and the election has exposed new fissures in the federation. Moreover, taking on the job as a minority prime minister will call upon entirely different skills than Trudeau has exhibited so far as a leader. Just last week, Trudeau acknowledged he has a rebuilding job to do in this country, when he was asked about regrets in his first term in office. “We find ourselves more polarized, more divided in this election than in 2015. I wonder how, or if, I could have made sure we were pulling Canadians together?” he said.The work starts in Ottawa — not a place where this politician, born at 24 Sussex Dr., has ever seemed to feel at home. But Trudeau is going to have to learn to tolerate the House of Commons in a way he hasn’t displayed before, either in opposition or in government. The power he now holds rests in a minority chamber, where every vote could matter. Trudeau cannot count on getting his way, either on big budgets or the smallest bills. Minority prime ministers are far less free to travel the world on extended trips or even skip out of Ottawa to do town-hall meetings around the country, as Trudeau has been so fond of doing. Trudeau’s status as a global celebrity, well cultivated in his early years of being prime minister, is almost irrelevant in a job that requires him to pay minute detail to domestic issues. Put it this way: being on the cover of Vanity Fair will matter a lot less after the 2019 election than it did in 2015. Trudeau will have to learn the art of making deals with his opponents in the chamber — some of the same characters he’s spent the past six weeks condemning as seriously wrong and misguided. He’s going to have to forge a real relationship with New Democrat ...


 
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