Braid: Voters across Canada are fed up with stale governments. Liberals beware

Today's political poison is incumbency, also defined as being around too long and failing too often

In the days leading up to the B.C. election on Oct. 19, an astute friend in Vancouver made a point of asking everyone she met how they would vote, and why.

Almost to a person, she said, Conservatives were voting to get rid of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Yes, they thought their provincial vote would bring down a federal leader.

Trudeau wasn’t any part of that election, of course. B.C. doesn’t even have a provincial party with “Liberal” in the name, although it boasts the usual plethora of fringe parties.