Trudeau’s Return

He’s alive, and has been seen on the road to Ottawa. Eight months after he lost a federal election, and two months after he renounced politics forever, Pierre Trudeau is about to win big. Compared with the six-year timing in Richard Nixon’s recovery from a self-dug political sepulchre, Trudeau’s resurrection is closer to the original model.

The polls have been showing a twenty-point lead for the Liberals over Joe Clark’s desperate Tories. If that margin holds when Canadians go to the polls February 18, Trudeau will lead a majority government in the next Parliament, based on a clean sweep of Quebec, a large majority in Ontario, a narrow win in the Maritimes, and a modest pickup out West.

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He’s alive, and has been seen on the road to Ottawa. Eight months after he lost a federal election, and two months after he renounced politics forever, Pierre Trudeau is about to win big. Compared with the six-year timing in Richard Nixon’s recovery from a self-dug political sepulchre, Trudeau’s resurrection is closer to the original model.

The polls have been showing a twenty-point lead for the Liberals over Joe Clark’s desperate Tories. If that margin holds when Canadians go to the polls February 18, Trudeau will lead a majority government in the next Parliament, based on a clean sweep of Quebec, a large majority in Ontario, a narrow win in the Maritimes, and a modest pickup out West.