We are all desperate. We have had an overabundance of Covid-19 news for the past two years. It has not gone away. Even the federal election in October last year failed to take the pandemic off the front pages. And you would think Toronto never had snow before, the way the media got so excited about more than 30 centimetres of the stuff the other day. We are all desperate for something different.
And that is why the good news the other day was in a heading from the Globe and Mail. The Globe headline writer started off saying the following: “NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh supports vaccination,” which I am sure came as no surprise to the 90 per cent of Globe readers who might be aware of Mr. Singh. The head continued on to add: “but is concerned about Quebec’s proposed tax on the unvaccinated.”
Wow, that makes three major party leaders all agreeing on something. Not that they want to do anything about it. Canadians should all be pleased that they are concerned. Mr. O’Toole even included that he was all in favour of respecting provincial jurisdiction. And as for Mr. Trudeau, we all know that he not only respects provincial jurisdiction but he seems afraid of it.
These three spineless politicians do not want to annoy any voters in Quebec. Far be it for them to point out the foolishness of Quebec premier Legault to suggest such an obvious contravention of the Canada Health Act. If this is just his way of trying to frighten anti-vaxxers into getting the jabs, maybe the feds are just giving him a little support.
But a little support is too much when Legault returns their support with insults. Even Mr. O’Toole and his conservatives must wonder about premier Legault’s influence when he was supporting them in the 2021 federal election. They ended up with the same number of Quebec seats in the House of Commons as they held before the election.
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