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Politics stands still for no one. Events never stop coming. What was an issue yesterday almost certainly won’t be tomorrow.
Despite all that, there was Pierre Poilievre this week, standing at a podium bearing the slogan: AXE THE TAX ELECTION. Just below that, it said the same thing, in French.
The precise date that the Conservative leader launched his vaunted “Axe The Tax” campaign is lost in the mists of the time. CTV tells us it started in June 2023. Whatever the case, this much is true: the world has changed, pretty dramatically, since June 2023.
Oct. 7 and the war in Gaza hadn’t even started; a ceasefire was in place with Hamas. Ukraine had commenced a counteroffensive against Russia, and the results were looking promising. California was experiencing a deluge of rain. Donald Trump was viewed unfavourably, or very unfavourably, by half of Americans. The Canadian dollar was worth 75 cents (U.S.). And, while Poilievre was ahead of the Trudeau Liberals, his lead was a fraction of what it is now: just seven points. Almost the margin of........