LILLEY: Brash Trudeau drops sunny ways for cold calculation

Justin Trudeau isn’t acting like a man who is down on his heels, whose government has been rocked by a scandal that cost him his finance minister. He’s not acting like a politician who has seen several officers of parliament launch investigations while the RCMP themselves look into the matter. At an announcement Friday about the production of N95 masks at a 3M plant in Ontario, Trudeau stood stridently facing questions from members of the media about the WE scandal. Pushing back against claims he had done anything wrong in proroguing Parliament and shutting down the committees investigating his government, the PM was essentially thumping his chest and daring all comers.-- More...