Toppling Trudeau: be careful what you wish for

The Conservatives continue to politicize everything at their peril, from the proposed 988 suicide hotline, to the COVID-19 vaccine itself. Erin O’Toole’s partisanship goes hand-in-hand with an embarrassing insincerity. O’Toole isn’t going to win over many voters with his vintage performance of sucking and blowing on the issue of COVID-19.
Instead of telling Canadians what he thinks, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole tells them what he thinks might win their votes, writes Michael Harris.
HALIFAX—You can suspend the law of averages, but you can’t repeal it; if you play Russian Roulette long enough, there is always a Big Bang. And so it is with minority governments who bring on confidence votes, and dare the official opposition to trigger an election. Eventually, usually sooner t...

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