His colleagues could see the writing on the wall, and again a sitting prime minister was deposed by his own party. However, his colleagues found him controlling and demanding, and took the rare step of deposing a sitting prime minister to get rid of him. Their fortunes sagged, and they eventually brought him back, only to decisively lose to the highly effective opposition leader. He alienated his colleagues with a similar controlling approach to Rudd, and alienated the public by breaking promises foolishly made during the election campaign. If that were the metric, then Canada had no justification for its actions in either of the world wars, Korea or Afghanistan.

Source: National Post July 08, 2016 19:07 UTC