So Pierre Trudeau used to be PM of Canada. And Steven Page isn't happy about what's happened since he left? That's about as far as I've gotten. Can someone who understands Canadian politics explain, please?
@gravity_defiant No, this is not about P.E. Trudeau, Steven Page is just using this as an example. In 1984 the popularity of Trudeau was going downside and opinion polls showed the Liberals (the political party of Trudeau) were headed for defeat if Trudeau remained in office. On February 29 Trudeau announced he would not be a Prime Minister candidate for next election. He said he took this decision after a “long walk in the snow”. So, “Like Pierre Trudeau's walk out in the snow” is a figured way to ask “is it time to throw in the towel and stop...
@gravity_defiant No, this is not about P.E. Trudeau, Steven Page is just using this as an example. In 1984 the popularity of Trudeau was going downside and opinion polls showed the Liberals (the political party of Trudeau) were headed for defeat if Trudeau remained in office. On February 29 Trudeau announced he would not be a Prime Minister candidate for next election. He said he took this decision after a “long walk in the snow”. So, “Like Pierre Trudeau's walk out in the snow” is a figured way to ask “is it time to throw in the towel and stop this fight for a social democracy”? The social democracy is represented by a red rose, in our case the “a wilted rose”, which is the representation of the social democracy dying.
So Pierre Trudeau used to be PM of Canada. And Steven Page isn't happy about what's happened since he left? That's about as far as I've gotten. Can someone who understands Canadian politics explain, please?
@gravity_defiant No, this is not about P.E. Trudeau, Steven Page is just using this as an example. In 1984 the popularity of Trudeau was going downside and opinion polls showed the Liberals (the political party of Trudeau) were headed for defeat if Trudeau remained in office. On February 29 Trudeau announced he would not be a Prime Minister candidate for next election. He said he took this decision after a “long walk in the snow”. So, “Like Pierre Trudeau's walk out in the snow” is a figured way to ask “is it time to throw in the towel and stop...
@gravity_defiant No, this is not about P.E. Trudeau, Steven Page is just using this as an example. In 1984 the popularity of Trudeau was going downside and opinion polls showed the Liberals (the political party of Trudeau) were headed for defeat if Trudeau remained in office. On February 29 Trudeau announced he would not be a Prime Minister candidate for next election. He said he took this decision after a “long walk in the snow”. So, “Like Pierre Trudeau's walk out in the snow” is a figured way to ask “is it time to throw in the towel and stop this fight for a social democracy”? The social democracy is represented by a red rose, in our case the “a wilted rose”, which is the representation of the social democracy dying.