Justin Trudeau

Paul Wells: A Trump re-election would not have been the Trudeau crew’s preference, but at least it would have represented a continuation of a known set of hassles and trials

Scott Gilmore: You can’t be an effective national leader during a time of crises working from home over Zoom. It’s time to get organized, get down to work and get angry.

Andrew MacDougall: In the U.K., the most vociferous critics of Boris Johnson’s failures reside on his backbench. In Canada? Crickets on all fronts.

Tom Mulcair: There have been moments of brilliance in handling this crisis. But too often bad leadership and sniping have got in the way of good common sense.

Paul Wells: The response to the GG problem is a familiar one for the Trudeau government—nothing is a big, urgent problem until it hits the nightly news

Paul Wells: This is not only an ill of the Trudeau Liberals, it’s a widespread ill of our age—ignoring the boring, hard-to-fix work in favour of the new

Paul Wells: Dismiss the Prime Minister if you like, but the fact is that in the past year he had (and used) power on a scale nobody in the country could match

The new Transport Minister has spent years handling tough ’no-win’ assignments and juggling competing interests behind the scenes, say colleagues

Paul Wells: Industry is a good fit for the ambitious Champagne. Garneau will be a dignified presence in foreign affairs. And making an impact will be a huge task for either of them.

The past year has proven that you never know what’s coming. But these things, you can probably rule out…