How much of the Trump factor are we going to see in this election?

It’s unclear how anti-vaccine politics, a counterintuitive issue that owes much of its prominence to Donald Trump’s refusal to face up to the reality of COVID, will ultimately play out with Canadian voters.

What we don’t know is whether these anti-vaxx political vandals are just more of the nutcases who have been staging occasional rallies against lockdowns for months or whether they are the leading edge of a shift by some Canadians to the more aggressive, manic public behaviour of Trumpish extremists, writes Les Whittington.Screenshot courtesy of CBC News

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

September 1, 2021

OTTAWA—The anti-vaxx crazies trying to disrupt Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s rallies have an all-too-familiar aura. Shouting “lock her up” at the Liberals’ Chrystia Freeland and “lock him up” at Trudeau, they are all too reminiscent of unruly, vile-mouthed white Trump cultists in the...

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