Pierre's Massive Challenge: To Come Off As Caesar's Wife.

As you know, I don't advise the CPC or Pierre. But right now, IMHO, Pierre is on the wrong track. His attitude comes off as if he wanted an election yesterday. And that is a big mistake. Why? At least a plurality if not a majority of Canadians are all about political fairness: they want to see the new Liberal leader get his or her feet wet and his or her bearings in the House of Commons before the government is inevitably defeated. So...timing is everything: it's not Pierre or Jagmeet's appraisal of time that counts. It's not my appraisal either. What counts and will inevitably be the ballot question is this: did the opposition parties give the new Prime Minister enough time to make a good start at his or her job? Each voting Canadian will come to a conclusion about that and then they will vote accordingly.

Pierre has to stay determined to get to an election ASAP but he also needs to be somewhat detached from an inevitable result not necessarily on his timetable. Hence the reference to Caesar's wife. If the CPC and the other parties are seen as fair throughout this process, none of those parties will lose a seat or go down in their percentage of support in the polls. However, if the CPC comes off as having pulled the rug out from under the new PM, that will have a considerable negative effect in Eastern, Atlantic Canada and BC. To do that is to help the Liberals be even more competitive in the next election that they deserve to be. So, play it smart and cool Pierre. Otherwise, the CPC will very quickly come to regret adopting any other approach in Parliament.