Who says that Canadians will not contribute millions of dollars to stupidity? It was a treat the other day to read Althia Raj’s column in the Toronto Star on the so-called “freedom convoy” of truckers and their maybe supporter conservative leader Erin O’Toole. It proves to me that the measure of another person’s intelligence is how much they seem to agree with you. Obviously, Althia Raj is brilliant.
Those truckers are—or were—Mr. O’Toole’s people. Yet, like that fisherman named Peter, in the New Testament of the King James Bible, he denies them. Raj reports that in the eight times he was asked where he stands on the ‘Freedom Convoy’ he gave no straight answer. Another four times, he was asked the simple question: “Will you meet with the truckers of the Freedom Convoy.” Raj tells us that O’Toole would not answer.
O’Toole sticks to his mealy-mouthed position that everyone needs to be vaccinated but not forced to be vaccinated.
By continuing to be confused in his direction, O’Toole keeps on sending the more rabid conservative voters over to Maxime Bernier’s people’s party. It is not the he is not desperate for their votes but he doesn’t want to be identified with them. Some leader!
Raj is kind when she says the conservative leader just lacks clarity. The way he can flip-flop on issues leaves most Canadians lost as to where he stands.
She points out that O’Toole probably understands that these truckers might give cover to far more unsavoury elements who will use them for less innocent objectives than not just against being vaccinated. The last such truckers convoy seemed to contain elements of misogynists and racists. And, who knows who is riding this pony.
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