The shine is off of Justin Trudeau and he pretty much has himself to blame.

As yet another poll shows Trudeau and his Liberals sliding, the PM continues to step in it, like he did on Wednesday night at a Liberal fundraiser.

A woman approached the stage as the PM was addressing the Liberal faithful at a reception for Laurier Club members, meaning people who had donated at least $1,500 to the Liberal Party.

“Prime Minister Trudeau, people of Grassy Narrows are suffering from mercury poisoning, you committed to addressing this issue, when will you keep that promise,” the woman said before security guards began to drag her away.

Trudeau’s response was nothing short of tone deaf.

“Thank you very much for your donation tonight. I really appreciate the donation to the Liberal Party of Canada,” he said.

So much for Sunny Ways.

Trudeau was elected on a promise of reconciliation with First Nations groups — he promised to fix this specific water problem that began back in the late ’60s and early ’70s, a time when his father was PM.

And yet when a woman asks him about it, he responds with thank-you for your donation.

The man that once seemingly could do no wrong with many voters, especially key demographics like women, like First Nations voters, with young people, now can’t seem to get it right.

He apologized on Thursday morning but it may be too late.

The latest poll from Angus Reid shows just how badly Trudeau is doing after weeks of mishandling the SNC-Lavalin file and weeks of blowing up his feminist image with attacks on two powerful women who quit his cabinet over matters of principle.

Nationally, the Conservatives lead the Liberals 37% to 28% in this latest survey.

While that number for Andrew Scheer and the Tories is the same as last month, Trudeau and the Grits are sliding. They have dropped three points.

The poll also shows people who voted Liberal in 2015 are looking elsewhere. Just 58% of those who said they had voted Liberal in the last election will do the same in October, while 13% say they will switch to the Conservatives, 11% to the NDP and 6% to the Greens.
Much of the support that Trudeau is dropping comes from women over the age of 35. While the Liberals hold a slight lead over the Conservatives with women, 31% to 29% support, that is down from 35% support among women for the Liberals last month.

The Conservatives already have a double-digit lead among men, with 46% saying they would vote for Scheer’s Tories compared to 25% for Trudeau’s Liberals.

The Liberals now trail the Conservatives in every region of the country except Quebec, where the two parties are in a statistical tie.

While SNC-Lavalin continues to dominate federal political news, there is a new battlefront about to open up.

On Monday, the carbon tax will kick in for Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick.

The Conservatives are already running radio ads reminding people that it will cost more money to fill the gas tank, heat their homes and buy groceries as a result of Trudeau’s carbon tax.

With motorists expected to see as much as a 10-cent-a-litre jump at the pumps, Trudeau can expect to see his voter support drop more as the Conservatives remind Canadians who it was that just made their lives more expensive.

Poor Justin must be wishing he was back in the sunny days and sunny ways of 2015.