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Liddell Hastings

Liddell Hastings is a master's graduate from the University of Toronto in Canadian and comparative politics and has specialized in populist movements in the U.S. and U.K. with a focus on tracking opinion polls and partisanship.

Opinion | BY LIDDELL HASTINGS | September 16, 2021
People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier, pictured April 15, 2021, on the Hill with Ontario MPP Randy Hillier, after holding a press conference to protest provincial and federal restrictions in the fight against COVID-19. For all Canadians unexperienced in the timelines of Trump and Brexit: first people laugh, then they dismiss, then they underestimate, then before they can react, the populists win. People have already laughed at Bernier, egged him, and championed his demise after the 2019 election. So, after the 2021 election, will people still underestimate him? The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY LIDDELL HASTINGS | September 16, 2021
Opinion | BY LIDDELL HASTINGS | September 16, 2021
People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier, pictured April 15, 2021, on the Hill with Ontario MPP Randy Hillier, after holding a press conference to protest provincial and federal restrictions in the fight against COVID-19. For all Canadians unexperienced in the timelines of Trump and Brexit: first people laugh, then they dismiss, then they underestimate, then before they can react, the populists win. People have already laughed at Bernier, egged him, and championed his demise after the 2019 election. So, after the 2021 election, will people still underestimate him? The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade