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“#Justin Trudeau puts the pressure on premiers<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Politics Insider for Nov. 11: Trudeau gets stern with the premiers (but is it enough?), Remembrance Day marks a solemn anniversary and the feds are auctioning off a drug boat\n <\/div>\n
\n Welcome to a sneak peek of the\u00a0<\/em>Maclean\u2019s\u00a0Politics Insider\u00a0news<\/a>letter.\u00a0Sign up to get it delivered\u00a0straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau<\/strong> didn\u2019t call anyone out specifically, but the PM did subtweet some of his provincial counterparts<\/strong> at a press conference yesterday.\u00a0\u201cI would hope that no leader in our country is easing public health vigilance because they feel pressure not to shut down businesses or slow down our economy,\u201d he said. \u201cI urge premiers and mayors to do the right thing. Act now to protect public health.\u201d As the virus spreads<\/strong> in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta, the four premiers of those provinces have taken heat for mishandling the pandemic\u2019s second wave.<\/p>\n

A new\u00a0Leger poll<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that tracks first minister app<\/a>roval ratings illustrates a gradual erosion of support almost across the board since March. But two premiers, Alberta\u2019s\u00a0Jason Kenney<\/strong> and Manitoba\u2019s\u00a0Brian Pallister<\/strong>, have dropped significantly\u2014all the way to just 44 and 42 per cent approval, respectively, for COVID-19 response measures. Ontario\u2019s\u00a0Doug Ford<\/strong> hasn\u2019t yet seen his support fall away, even as cases consistently hit new daily highs.<\/p>\n

Time for a national response to COVID:<\/strong>\u00a0Scott Gilmore, writing in\u00a0Maclean\u2019s<\/em>, is exhausted by mixed messaging and buck-passing from one level of government to another. It\u2019s the PM\u2019s job to lead, he writes, so the PM should lead.<\/p>\n

Why are we doing so badly? You don\u2019t need a room full of epidemiologists to puzzle this out. Our Prime Minister mostly side-stepped responsibility<\/strong> and decided 10 different provincial premiers should manage a national pandemic. They in turn passed on responsibility to mayors and local health authorities. The result has been incompetence<\/strong>, chaos<\/strong> and death,<\/strong> with a Prime Minister who has decided it\u2019s all someone else\u2019s problem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Depending on your preferred horse-race pollster, Trudeau\u2019s Liberals are either statistically tied with<\/a>\u00a0Erin O\u2019Toole<\/strong>\u2018s Tories or eight points ahead. Angus Reid, which has the parties closer than Leger<\/strong>, also measured a six-point uptick in O\u2019Toole\u2019s favourability rating (to 36 per cent) and a nine-point increase in his unfavourables (to 40 per cent). The Leger poll shows a slim two-point Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois lead<\/strong> in Quebec over the Liberals (32-30).<\/p>\n

One more poll:<\/strong> Cardus, a \u201cfaith-based think tank\u201d in Ottawa, asked Angus Reid to take the nation\u2019s temperature on medical assistance in dying<\/strong>. The pollster found that two-thirds of respondents \u201care concerned expanded MAiD will lead to people with mental health issues like depression choosing death<\/strong> rather than dealing with the underlying causes of their condition.\u201d A similar proportion \u201cfear expanded MAiD will lead to people with disabilities or those who are elderly feeling more pressure to choose death in order to avoid being a burden<\/strong> on others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, scaled-down Remembrance Day<\/strong> ceremonies will sweep across Canada<\/a>\u00a0and mark the 75th anniversary<\/strong> of the end of the Second World War. Governor General<\/a>\u00a0Julie Payette<\/strong> will preside over the ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. She\u2019ll be joined by\u00a0Debbie Sullivan<\/strong>, the 2020 National Silver Cross Mother. Sullivan\u2019s son, Lt(N) Christopher Edward Saunders, was killed during a fire<\/a> on board HMCS Chicoutimi<\/strong> in 2004. She will place a wreath at the cenotaph on behalf of all mothers who\u2019ve lost children while they served in the Canadian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

Was he joking?<\/strong> Yesterday\u2019s talker was all about U.S. Secretary of State\u00a0Mike Pompeo<\/strong>, who told reporters he expects a \u201csmooth transition to a second Trump administration\u201d before smirking a little at his own comments. As the president continues to make unfounded claims of electoral fraud and instruct federal agencies to plan for another Trump budget<\/a>, his envoy to the world appeared to make light of the disputed election result. Meanwhile, president-elect Joe Biden spoke to more world leaders<\/a>. Was Pompeo joking? You be the judge<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This drug boat could be yours:<\/strong> Six years after the RCMP seized 30 kilograms of cocaine<\/a> off the west coast of Vancouver Island, the feds are auctioning off<\/strong> the 20-metre MV Cedar Spirit<\/em> that housed the narcotics until police responded to reports of \u201csuspicious activity.\u201d The\u00a0opening bid\u00a0is\u00a0$225,000<\/strong>, and a\u00a0393-image photo gallery<\/strong><\/a> offers a detailed look aboard the yacht\u2019s interior<\/a>. It also comes with a dishwasher<\/a>\u2014and\u00a0a BBQ<\/a>. There was, apparently, a copy<\/a> of a book named Confessions of a Boat Lover\u2019s Wife, Or, Is a Marriage Like this Worth Saving?<\/em> The fate of the yacht appears to have answered the titular question.
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