On Feb. 29, 1984, Pierre Trudeau famously took a walk in the snow that, he explained the next day, inspired him to announce that he was leaving politics for good.
Last February, on the 40th anniversary of that poetic moment, there was some speculation that Justin Trudeau might take his own walk in the snow and announce he was stepping down.
He was way down in the polls and Canadians had clearly started to signal a desire for change. But drama teacher Trudeau was not going to exit stage right without chewing the scenery one last time.
In the light of the spectacular failure of his final act on the political stage, I bet he wishes he had.
The curtain didn’t just come down after the Chrystia Freeland debacle; it crashed down on the stage that Trudeau and his formidable chief of staff, Katie Telford, …