It’s simple and fashionable for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to demonize a vaccine protest when it comes from a mob of horn-blaring barbarians on the parliamentary gate.
However when the pushback towards his incendiary ‘fringe’ label for this raging riot of the unvaccinated erupts inside his tightly muzzled caucus, it’s time to place down the matches and let cooler minds prevail within the Prime Minister’s Workplace.
MP Joel Lightbound, a peaceful, credible, considerate third-term Liberal from Quebec, gave Trudeau a large political migraine Tuesday when he declared he was talking for a lot of timid Liberals who imagine it’s time to heal a vaccine mandates rift which has divided households, traumatized faculty kids and stranded travellers.
Lightbound seemed past the swastikas and Accomplice flags of the occupation to see truckers fronting for actual people who find themselves struggling to deal with vaccine calls for and extreme restrictions.
So he bravely (and crazily) spoke out towards Trudeau’s politics of vaccination division and stigmatization Tuesday at appreciable threat to his future in caucus and sure demise to any cupboard aspirations.
However Trudeau was listening to none of it as he confronted his first Query Interval this week.
When Lightbound’s devastating observations had been thrown at him, Trudeau delivered the identical alphabet soup of scripted strains he’s been reciting for 2 years with no trace he would rethink any softening of any positions.
Now, simply to be clear, there’s no level in governments speaking to Freedom Convoy management with their weird plan to overthrow this democracy and substitute it with unelected leaders rejecting all COVID-control mandates.
That is meant as a press release of truth, not an insult to convoy leaders and their seditious mandate manifesto, however they’re out of their collective minds and have forfeited any proper to grownup negotiation.
However for the essential trucker angered at a cross-border vaccination requirement rooted in optics over epidemiology, whereas dealing with a possible Trudeau authorities plan to demand vaccination for truckers crossing provincial boundaries, it’s time Trudeau urged a compromise to assist finish the standoff.
At little or no threat of unleashing a wave of truck-imported coronavirus, Trudeau may scuttle plans to ban unvaccinated truckers from driving between provinces and promise to safe U.S. approval to finish the worldwide border vaccination requirement by month’s finish.
That will permit nearly all of truckers fronting the nationwide capital blockade to retreat with mission-accomplished dignity, leaving solely the piggybacking anarchists behind for well-deserved ridicule and doable arrest.
In a world the place many international locations and most provinces are transferring rapidly to ease restrictions, one thing even Canada’s chief public well being officer is advocating within the close to time period, Prime Minister Trudeau must cease marginalizing the unvaccinated and acknowledge the collateral harm so many restrictions are having on Canadians.
The case counts are dropping, the hospital-overcrowding disaster has eased and but Canada, one of the vital vaccinated international locations on the planet, stays one of the vital restrictive for the unvaccinated AND triple-vaccinated.
Alas, change beneath duress received’t attraction to Justin Trudeau. The optics of him standing as much as the offended mob are simply too irresistible, significantly when the Conservatives so helpfully align themselves with truckers as guardians of the fallacy.
That is Trudeau attempting to channel his father, the prime minister who defiantly confronted down a mob of stone-throwing Quebec separatists throughout a St-Jean Baptiste Day parade. There’s one notable distinction, after all. Justin Trudeau vanished right into a COVID-19 lockdown and stayed silent for greater than every week because the truckers rolled in.
Others look to this as Justin Trudeau’s just-watch-me second. Once more, there’s a fairly stark distinction together with his father, who deployed the navy and dropped the warfare measures act on Quebec terrorists whereas Trudeau the Son vows to do . . . nicely . . . nothing.
However because the world seems on incredulously at this uncharacteristic show of Canadian revolt, which is beginning to unfold with alarming velocity, maybe there's something from his father which may assist ease the present turmoil.
It’s clearly time for somewhat extra Simply Society tolerance and loads much less Justin Society antagonism.
That’s the underside line…..
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with media as he arrives for Query Interval, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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