Morning North17:32Two veteran northern Ontario politicos focus on this wild time in Canadian politics
it is a wild time in Canadian politics, with a brand new prime minister, a federal election, and presumably a provincial election within the subsequent few months. Two retired political warriors from the north, Glenn Thibeault and Tony Clemen, joined us with their ideas on what would possibly occur subsequent.
The Liberal management race will not give sufficient time to rejuvenate a celebration that’s floundering within the polls, in line with Tony Clement, who served as a Conservative cupboard minister, each federally and provincially.
“Trudeau actually boxed them right into a nook,” Clement mentioned on a panel interview on CBC’s Morning North on Monday.
“If he had made his resolution 18 months in the past, then I believe you’d have a very attention-grabbing dialogue throughout the occasion whereas it’s governing, on the way forward for the occasion and the nation. However there’s simply no time for that now.”
Glenn Thibeault, who was an NDP MP for Sudbury earlier than withing to provincial politics, and changing into a Liberal cupboard minister underneath Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, mentioned within the panel dialogue that regardless of the present fortunes of the federal Liberals, election campaigns matter, and he feels quite a bit may change earlier than Canadians head to the polls.
Within the wide-ranging interview, each retired politicians mentioned their predictions for federal and provincial elections, together with the influence of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
