Licia Corbella: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government says it wants to “follow the money” behind the anti-vaccine mandate trucker protest movement, particularly the foreign money financing the illegal blockades.
However, instead of using extraordinary emergency powers to look into the obvious money laundering taking place in Vancouver and Toronto, Trudeau wants to go after truckers he calls racists, misogynists and a whole list of other “ists” because they don’t want to get vaccinated and because they’re not the type of people who vote for him. His divisive rhetoric and unscientific COVID-19 measures (bringing in the cross-border trucker vaccine mandate on Jan. 15, for instance, even as the rest of the world was lifting theirs based on science) is what caused this mess to begin with.
As mentioned in my Tuesday column, foreign money directed to third parties has skewed election results in favour of the federal Liberals since at least 2015. Yves Cote, commissioner of Elections Canada, says it’s a problem. So does CSIS. But little if anything is ever done about these serious issues.
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