It's still too early to be definitive, but Justin Trudeau's mini-Benghazi testimony appears to have closed off the attention from the wee non-scandal, much to my surprise.
Early returns show a Liberal bounce-back. Nanos never had them tank the way others did, and Leger didn't juice their survey with push poll questions this time, though they're still keeping true to their roots by oversampling the Bloc.
The fun and interesting part is that same survey showed that Petey Mac-n-Cheese and Error O'Foole actually perform no better than Andy Pander did. See because, the Liberals may fuck up from time to time, but it's usually with good intentions because they don't hate people, like the Conservatives do.
Or as Frank Graves pointed out, like the Conservatives hate democracy.
As evidenced further by their virulent attacks on private citizens like Rob Silver and Margaret Trudeau.
Then, there's the Carney ride. Bill Morneau does seem to be en route to taking his own walk in the snow (or autumn leaves), and not only because of Charitygate but other points of disagreement. Charitygate just seems to have been the final push. Which poses the question of who might replace him. Might Justin go for the on-brand precedent-setter of having Chrystia Freeland be the first female finance minister, because it's 2020? Jean-Yves Duclos as a "safe bet" to shore up Quebec?
Or would Mark Carney run in a safe seat being opened up... only to compete against Skippy in the next election?
Reddit seems to have that same thought:
u/AltaLegal:
[His riding] was redistricted after 2011 and Pollievre has struggled to hold onto it since then. He only won by 3k and 5k against a relative nobody Liberal since then...
.... while outspending the relative nobody candidate massively (by more than the amount spend by all the other campaigns combined). It is a classic Red-Orange split vote riding with the combined NDP Liberal crushing him every election.
If Pollievre were up against Mark Carney he'd need a miracle to win. It is a highly educated riding... and it isn't rural, it is suburban.
Because if he did, and he won, well by God... I'd have no choice but to do the Carleton dance.
It'd be a big deal to run a star candidate against a Conservative chihuahua... but it's not unusual.
