Trudeau has to choose a clear path forward GlobePolitics
For Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seen here on March 5, 2020, the lesson of early 2020 was that being seen dealing with a crisis is good, and not being seen dealing with one is bad.It has been a crisis of crises. The coronavirus, which threatens lives and the economy. Rail blockades. Before that, fears of a Middle East war and the downing of an airliner carrying 85 Canadian citizens and permanent residents.
But there’s no evidence the PM has checked out. He has handled lots of crises in 2020. The evidence suggests something else: his trouble picking a path forward, and moving on. Some things have changed visibly, including Mr. Trudeau’s beard, and his tendency to say less and have ministers say more. There’s an effort to be more business-like. But Trudeau 2.0 is still enigmatic.
The Incident Response Group is just a pre-organized set-up for ad hoc meetings with a shifting cast of characters, but it became the venue for Mr. Trudeau’s response. The committee became a PR tool, too, highlighted to show the government it was on the job. And until Mr. Trudeau marred his own PR by being photographed smiling at Iran’s foreign minister, it was going smoothly.
The blockades crisis led to an agreement with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs his government doesn’t want to talk about. Mr. Trudeau hasn’t said much about what happens to reconciliation now.
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