FELDSTED -- In place of a new parliament with strong and feisty parties greeting us in 2020, we will have a collection of the walking wounded
'An enterprising sort could make a fortune selling overripe tomatoes and weeks old eggs ...' Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that the House of Commons will resume sitting December 5 th . Without further changes, the House will recess for Christmas on Friday, December 13 th and will not return until January 27 th , 2020. That is 7 working days of the first 97 following the election. The Liberals are hiding from the opposition instead of exercising the “mandate” Trudeau has been bragging about. They took a shellacking, losing 20 seats and were not elected on their policies or record. Trudeau ran for office based on not being Rob Ford in Ontario and not being a Canadian in Quebec (he claims to be a Quebecer!). This was an election only the Conservatives could lose, and they did. They were invisible for much of the pre-writ campaign and failed to define themselves prior to the writ drop. When Andrew Scheer was challenged on moral values, he w...