He’s optimistic. Canada can realize its full potential. He will fight to the end.

Justin Trudeau hammers his chorus. He will remain here despite the drop in support for voting intentions.

You’re staying, but for how long? The shortest possible time if he’s hoping for the unlikely feat of a fourth term.

This is the purpose of the massive reshuffle of his Council of Ministers this summer, this preparatory meeting for a return to politics. Give your new skin time for spring.

The form and substance

The shape, of course, is all these new faces within the cabinet that are geared much more to the electoral map than merit or talent.

Hot county, targeted ethnic community, welcome to the company.

It’s cruel, but it’s the sad reality of political communitarianism in Canada in 2024.

Except that after eight years in power, form is no longer enough.

The trendy stockings, the carefully staged photos, the knee on the floor in full demonstration Black lives matterLet’s say Justin Trudeau was walking through the garden.

It will therefore be necessary to convince voters that he can once again take an interest in their concrete, even glaring problems.

And that means finding a way to convince him that he’s not responsible for the worsening of the living conditions of this middle class he’s courted so much. Convince him that his government is not running out of ideas.

At the elections!

So what is needed is a simple, effective, and promising plan to rally the skeptics. The elaboration of this great plan will start this week accompanied by his ministers.

Putting him at the center of a new budget in the spring would give him one last chance to risk a hasty election just in time before his government is too exhausted.

This is by no means a guarantee of his re-election. But it’s the only card he has left.