Traduction de «last election knew full well that the bottom had fallen » (Anglais → Français) :

The Prime Minister in the last election knew full well that the bottom had fallen out of his campaign and that the Liberals were in big trouble politically.
Avant les dernières élections, le premier ministre savait très bien que sa campagne électorale était en train de s'écrouler et que les libéraux éprouvaient de grosses difficultés politiquement.

The gist of the question was why the Prime Minister ran an election in 2011 when he knew full well what the costs of the F-35 program would be, when he knew that the numbers that were presented to the cabinet were very similar to what the PBO had arrived at and what the Auditor General subsequently arrived at.
Grosso modo, j'ai demandé au premier ministre pourquoi il a déclenché des élections en 2011 alors qu'il savait très bien quel serait le coût du programme des F-35 et qu'il savait que les chiffres présentés au Cabinet ressemblaient beaucoup à ceux qu'avaient calculés le directeur parlementaire du budget, puis le vérificateur général.

In one case, the bill finally died on the order paper because the Prime Minister, in 2008, in violation of his own fixed election act, went to the Governor General and asked the Governor General to table the election writ and in so doing knew full well that this bill, that was going to revive these two provisions that this hon. colleague of the Conservatives who just spoke talked about how it is so essential, so important, was going to die on the order paper, knew as well that it had been sitting on the order paper waiting for the government to move second reading so that debate could actually begin.
Dans un cas, le projet de loi est finalement mort au Feuilleton parce que le premier ministre, enfreignant sa propre loi sur les élections à date fixe, a demandé en 2008 à la Gouverneure générale de déclencher des élections. Ce faisant, il savait très bien que ce projet de loi, qui aurait donné vie aux deux dispositions que la députée conservatrice qui vient tout juste de parler juge si essentielles et importantes, allait mourir au Feuilleton.