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All in all, Canada has survived nearly three years of the Trudeau Liberals tolerably well. Peace reigns. The economy is OK if not spectacular. There have been several acute embarrassments but none that qualifies as a major scandal.

Many Liberals might think the record plenty good enough to support a vigorous run for re-election. They could be right, though a campaign slogan along the lines of “Gee, things haven’t gotten a whole lot worse” isn’t exactly inspiring. The best bet for Trudeau strategists is that voters can by lulled into yawning their way through the party’s bid for four more years. If nothing goes wrong in the meantime.

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That’s a significant risk, considering the challenges the Trudeauites face, and their singular failure to solve many of them. The government’s problem is that it lacks accomplishments. It promised high and delivered low. Of its major pledges — a balanced budget, electoral reform, reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians, progress on climate change, better relations with the provinces, a return to peacekeeping, a new, less partisan Senate — the Liberals are batting about .100.