Rex Murphy: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s opportunistic election call during a still-raging pandemic was shameful enough. Calling a needless election at almost the exact moment when Afghanistan’s nearly 40 million people succumbed to the Taliban’s vengeance pushes cynicism to atmospheric heights it has never before penetrated.
Up until Sunday, the election was going to hinge on pandemic politics. Throwing all other issues — the elephantine deficits, bypassing Parliament, hobbling committees, a total misread of the COVID crisis in the early months, the serial scandals, sexual and financial, the WE obscenity, Western discontent — all were to be reduced to a spurious and contrived debate about “mandatory” vaccinations.
Sunday turned that cold and careless strategy to dust. It’s about honour now — the honour of Canada.
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