Timing is everything – a truism in Canadian politics

TORONTO – It is also a saying that allows all prognosticators and political analysts to excuse away the mismatch between their explanations and the outcomes. In normal circumstances, “a plan” of commonly accepted goals and specific objectives is assessed against their timely achievements. Somewhere between the start and moments when the general public begins “to take stock”, the fog of smoke and mirrors of frantic activity and self aggrandizement begins to clear. 

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