Call it the great deception – the federal Liberals suddenly claiming they’ve seen the light on all of the mistakes they’ve made in governing Canada for almost a decade.

Throughout the ongoing Liberal leadership race, the candidates have been tacitly admitting that on major issue after major issue, their outgoing boss, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, was wrong and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was right.

The Liberals will never acknowledge this, of course, even though their political strategy heading into the next federal election is obvious.

Their plan is to anoint self-proclaimed “outsider” (insert laughter here) Mark Carney as leader and campaign hoping Canadians will buy their claim they’ve had an epiphany on the issues that drove their public support down to near record low levels.

This while promising to do better if they’re given a fourth electoral mandate.

It might even work, if voters are easily deceived and by the fact that the wave of patriotism sparked across the country by U.S. President Donald Trump’s bizarre attacks on Canada helps the Liberals as the incumbent government more than Poilievre and the opposition Conservatives, who risk being accused of disloyalty for doing their job, which is to critically question government policies.

Never mind that the best indicator of future performance is past........

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