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With the stroke of Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Richard Wagner’s pen Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indefinitely changed Cornwall’s political landscape for the foreseeable future.
Former mayor, now Sen. Bernadette Clement, was appointed to Canada’s upper house in Parliament, her required resignation causing a crack in the local political landscape.
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Any assumptions on how the 2022 municipal elections might have shaped up have now been tossed out the window. Cornwall will have a new mayor within, at most, several months, and the path between now and then could upset the political landscape more than if Clement had run for re-election and been soundly defeated with the sort of margin she was elected to the job with in 2018.