Analysis: Poetry in motion? Canadian politics in 2023 deserves a few verses

By Shachi Kurl, President

Dec. 22, 2023 – Dear readers, at the end of a long year, here’s my gift to you: pure doggerel. Enjoy (or not):

‘Twas the night before Christmas and far from the Hill,

Canadians braced for winter’s long chill.

Stockings were hung, careworn and threadbare

Many households were struggling; not much would be there.

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MPs were home by now in their ridings

Bearing from leaders the best of glad tidings.

But clenched by the grips of generational inflation

A souring mood was defining the nation.

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“The PM?” they said, “a bit tired of him,”

Indeed, the polling all year has been grim.

Enough to send foe Poilievre o’er the moon

Though he should know that risks come with peaking too soon.

Read more from the article in the Ottawa Citizen here.
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