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“Winners want the ball.” “Leaders play to the final whistle.” “Quitters never win, and winners never quit.” There’s a long list of sports metaphors and idioms—combined with the nerdy political ones like “polls go up and polls go down”—to justify a political leader’s refusal to call it quits long after they should. The temptation to use them is even stronger when talking about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau .
Prorogation’s been done, and so has an early election call. Recruiting the support of the NDP worked for a while, but as Trudeau hints at playing games with pharmacare, he’s getting close to giving NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh the excuse many on his team have been looking for to walk away. More than that, by staying on the ice long after his shift should have been over, Trudeau is coughing up the puck to Singh and the NDP.
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