THE LATEST | CANADAJohn Ivison/National Post: The latest polls are starting to show a seductive spread in his favour — both in the horse race, and as far as whom Canadians consider best prime minister.
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There will be advisers and MPs close to Carney urging him to contrive the conditions to call a spring election. A stable majority would appear to be a foregone conclusion.
Except, that is not how it has turned out on previous occasions when the Liberals went to voters with the proposition: “We are brilliant at running the country as a minority government, but we’d be even more brilliant if we had a majority.”…