Morning Update: Cabinet retreat begins in Montreal as Trudeau stakes hopes on a comeback

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Good morning, As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet gather for the start of a three-day retreat, the Liberal Party Leader will focus on uniting and motivating his team this week, in a bid to chart a comeback amid stubbornly low popularity and with just 12 months to go before an election year. The Liberals are looking to regroup after a rocky 2023 in which the party and the Prime Minister’s public opinion polling numbers slid dramatically against the Conservatives, and as the government’s own MPs said it was slow to respond to the affordability and housing crises that...