Interesting times, especially given the news cycle would normally be quietening down. I was at a classical music piano recital not long ago and there was this protracted, painful episode where someone spent 10 whole minutes slowly unwrapping a candy. Likely thinking that, by doing this as slowly as possible, people wouldn't hear. But in fact they made it worse because the protracted crinkling outperformed the piano for a ridiculously long time, and successfully diverted attention. In this case the PMO is dragging out the bad news side of the story, gifting journalists with a steady, endless supply of high-profile but negative material and keeping every naysaying eye on the PMO long-term. A leadership vote a year ago would have been swift, surgical and clean, and the odds of more positive coverage would be higher with an election date inevitably close at hand. For more than a year, or even longer, journalists could have been covering a fresh new Liberal face and party staring down Trump, pulling together Premiers, reinvigorating the economy, whatever... Freeland's resignation, although likely a mortal blow to JT, probably comes too late - the 'story' has become too much a 'thing'.