Like wise writers everywhere, it is great fun to drop the bomb in your last paragraph. Chantel Hébert did it the other day in the Toronto Star. In a story about liberal Marc Garneau’s decision to depart from Parliament, she sharply questioned Justin Trudeau’s judgement. Her last line was to ask “how can he think he is still fit to hold his current position?”
The truth is that he is not. The actor in young Trudeau hit his peak when giving pandemic updates in front of Rideau Cottage. If you can only carry on, as prime minister with the help of Jagmeet Singh, you are a sorry excuse for a leader. And with all the right-wing crap we are hearing from deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland these days, she certainly does not need to have any delusions.
We have already given over the extremes of the right-wing of politics to Pierre Poilievre’s partisans. And you can write “loser” on him. He has already broken every rule in the ‘Loyal Opposition’ playbook. It is just that while the word ‘oppose’ makes sense in the job, you are not there to betray the Canadian people. And betrayal is the only word for it.
To ask the prime minister to expose himself as an agent of another country is the same as asking when he stopped beating his wife. It is an inane and silly question. It makes no sense to the Canadian people. It is a selfish question. It serves no purpose other than to defame.
If you have some proof, use it, prove it. Don’t make these crazy charges unless you can prove them.
What Poilievre is giving us is nothing but a reprise of Donald Trump. This is the lie, cheat and steal school of politics. If Trudeau cannot handle a weasel such as Poilievre, he should get out of the way.
It should not be left to writers such as Chantal Hébert to ask the questions so indelicately of the prime minister as to when he is going to get out of the way and let some real leader take the reins of the liberal party?
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