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Toxic fallout from SNC-Lavalin scandal causing ‘enduring’ damage to Trudeau’s brand, but don’t count Liberals out just yet, say pollsters
By Abbas Rana April 8, 2019
'The biggest problem they’ve got is that they’re really getting hurt in places where they need to win to make up seats where they were probably going to lose,' says Darrell Bricker.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses the Liberal caucus at an emergency meeting on April 2, 2019 to announce the spectacular expulsion of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from the Liberal caucus after more than two months of controversy. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
The toxic fallout from the SNC-Lavalin affair has shaken the government to its core, but it’s still not a foregone conclusion the Liberals will lose the next election because the issue alone is not enough for the opposition parties to win in October and opponents will have to prove they are a government in waiting and have an attractive vision for the future, say pollsters.
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