Politics Insider for April 18: Kenney fallout, vanishing women premiers and watching P.E.I.
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In B.C. they’re waiting to see if the taps will indeed be turned to off. B.C. Premier John Horgan said he had a cordial phone call with Kenney on Wednesday, and has cast Kenney’s threat—a retaliatory move should B.C. try to block the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in court—as “hyperbolic.
Trudeau has no choice now but to forget about “sunny ways” and start swinging, going after Kenney and Ford as remorselessly as they are going after him. The outcome of the next election depends on whether Trudeau is able to attack the hostile premiers, painting them as white supremacist, sexist knuckle draggers scheming with Andrew Scheer to turn Canada into a dystopia from The Handmaid’s Tale.
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