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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to a survey just published by the Angus Reid Institute, is more popular than he’s ever been. He should enjoy this while it lasts. That is to say until Monday, when MPs return to the House of Commons for the fall sitting of Parliament. After that, all bets are off.

It’s been a year, almost, since the Liberal landslide. And though the tone in Ottawa has changed, the bedrock of government policy hasn’t, much, with the notable exception of a law regulating assisted dying. Now comes the time to implement, defer, back off or compromise on the rest of the Liberal platform. Not all of it will get done. Not all of it can get done, given the sweeping ambition of the reforms proposed.

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A key measure of Trudeau’s success, therefore, will be how skillfully he manages the coming wave of disappointments. It’s not impossible to succeed in this. Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin pulled off something similar in 1994, prepping the country for deficit-busting pain, which was a far cry from the expansive platform on which they’d campaigned in 1993. But they had the advantage of a national fiscal crisis, forcing their hand. Also, Chrétien never vowed to lasso the moon. Trudeau has.