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The political nightmare Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing in the Lavscam scandal ought to remind Ontario Premier Doug Ford about a basic lesson in politics.

Don’t hand your political adversaries a club to beat you with by doing stupid stuff.

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Trudeau and his minions were stupid to let the SNC-Lavalin file get away from them.

This as they tried to pressure then-attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, to drop the criminal prosecution of the company for alleged bribery, in favour of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, as a favour to the giant Quebec engineering and construction company.

Regardless of whether this was legal — and Wilson-Raybould herself testified before the Commons justice committee she doesn’t think Trudeau and Co. broke the law — what’s wounding Trudeau, perhaps mortally, is that most Canadians have concluded that what happened doesn’t pass the smell test, according to the polls.