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On Oct. 21, 2014, the day before Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, everyone thought Liberal leader Justin Trudeau was headed for the prime minister’s office.

September’s compilation of opinion polls on threehundredeight.com showed Liberals with 38 per cent support, the Conservatives with 30 and the NDP with 22.

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This month, that website has a three-way tie — CPC 33, NDP 31, LPC 30.

Trudeau is facing a much tougher job now than he was on Oct. 21, and that’s partly because of his decision to vote for the Conservatives’ anti-terrorist legislation, C-51, which gives spies the power to violate Canadians’ charter rights without the kind of parliamentary oversight that all our allies have.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper introduced the bill at the end of January. Trudeau moved to support it within days.

“This bill can be improved,” he said. “But on the whole it does include measures that help keep Canadians safe.”