Susan Delacourt is an Ottawa-based political author and columnist who has been working on Parliament Hill for nearly 30 years. She is a frequent political panellist on national television and author of four books.
When 2017 got under way, Canadian politics-watchers were keen to see how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would find common ground with President Donald Trump.
Not long before he won the 2006 election, Stephen Harper talked about how Conservatives’ power would be held in check by all the Liberal-laden institutions in Ottawa. A decade later, with Liberals in power, those same institutions — and more — are in the midst of a major changing of the guard.
