The Conservative leader is distilling Canadian politics down to a purer liquor. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
, the former leader of a front group for the Tamil Tigers in Canada, photographed with Trudeau at a by-election event. The federal government’s hiring of the clearly anti-semitic Laith Marouf to produce anti-racism content — and the government’s decision to stall for weeks after the gaffe came to their attention — continues to boggle the national mind.Article content
And it’s not as though there’s a statute of limitations on bringing up politicians’ past scandals — or if there is, it’s certainly not the three-and-a-half years since the blackface incidents came to light, or even the 20-odd years since Trudeau swanned into a West Point Grey Academy gala dressed up as Aladdin,We judge politicians on their whole records as public human beings, as we should.
Needless to say, when next the writ drops, the Liberals will not defer to Poilievre’s recent full-throated support for same-sex marriage, or to his pledge to vote against any abortion-related private member’s bills and ensure they don’t become law. They will cast him as yet another evil so-con come to take away your rights: to abortion, to marriage, who knows what else? Poilievre will do the same basic thing in reverse.
That is absolutely not the election campaign Canada needs — yet another pitched battle over small differences. But it’s the one we will get regardless. It’s the one we always get, and probably will always get until long after everyone reading this column is dead. Maybe it’s better that politicians drop the last of the pleasantries and fight, in public, like the partisan animals they so clearly are.
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