OTTAWA, Ont. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces major headwinds.
Parliament returns Tuesday, though Trudeau will be in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, a pit stop after attending the queen’s funeral in London.
When the prime minister returns to the House on Thursday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will be across the aisle, a firebrand gifted at crafting messages for sizzling internet clips.
His chest-beating about freedom, rallying cries against “woke culture” and his use of persistent persuasion in an effort to convince people Ottawa is to blame for their problems has brought a new wave of members to his party. The attention has generated a >.
Inflation could also influence a key area of policy focus for the Trudeau government: climate change and the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Retooling and retrofitting the economy > is flush with cash in his reelection bid — he’s raised more than $52 million to date, including $13.6 million in the most recent fundraising quarter.
But Democratic donors have been slow to dig into their pockets for Arizona’s secretary of state race, where the GOP nominee is Mark Finchem, >, with Judi Hershman, an adviser to the independent counsel’s office. More damningly still, Starr had to resign in 2016 as president of Baylor University after it was reported that he had covered up a string of sexual assaults, including rapes, by members of his football team. One victim had even sent him an email, while he was president, informing him that she had been raped. “I honestly may have (seen it),” he said of her message. “I’m not denying that I saw it.” Her rapist was sentenced to 20 years.
Despite his essential role in the Clinton impeachment, Starr in 2020 not only defended President Donald Trump during his (first) impeachment trial, but somehow managed to summon the chutzpah to impugn the Democrats for bringing charges — never mind that the charges against Trump, for conspiring with a foreign government to compromise the 2020 election, were far graver than those against Clinton. “The Senate is being called to sit as the high court of impeachment all too frequently,” Starr piously lamented in Trump’s defense. “Indeed, we are living in what I think can aptly be described as the Age of Impeachment.”
Perhaps we are living in such an age. If so, the person most responsible for that sad state of affairs is none other than Ken Starr.
