From votes of non-confidence to charges of foreign interference, it seems clear that politicians are playing their own games, not ours

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Is it just me or is Ottawa making even less sense than usual?

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Canadians are tired of Justin Trudeau. The polls agree. Yet Singh refuses to give Canadians a chance to send the prime minister on to a new chapter of his lived experience by voting non-confidence in his government and forcing a federal election. According to Singh, this would be playing “Pierre Poilievre’s game.”

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Poilievre also believes Canadians are tired of Trudeau and would like to see him gone, as the polls confirm. Yet acting on that widespread sentiment among Canadians would be “Poilievre’s game,” and not “Canadians’ game,” because the person who Canadians are most likely to vote for to succeed Trudeau is Poilievre, whom Singh can’t abide — in part because he is not Singh. The NDP leader, in his wisdom, won’t permit Canadians to commit that error.

Which means Canadians must play “Singh’s game.” They can’t give effect to their fatigue with the prime minister but must put up with him for an indeterminate number of months not exceeding 12........

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