Imagery may not be everything in politics, but it’s an awful lot, especially for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s optics-obsessed government. And the image that comes to mind of the Trudeau government is that of the Ever Given, the giant container ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal and was stuck there for days.
It couldn’t go forward or backward. It couldn’t dislodge itself from the sand. Try as they might, tug boats couldn’t get it to move. The best they could do was push it to one side so it would stop blocking other ships with better navigators. It blamed the situation on conditions beyond its control (i.e., the weather.) The costs of its immobility were enormous.
If the Liberals aren’t stuck in sand, they must be stuck in something else. Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and Transport Minister Omar Alghabra are in a heated competition for the “hapless minister of the year” award. Over several days and several attempts, Mendicino couldn’t manage to give a coherent explanation for invoking the Emergencies Act to stop truckers from blowing horns and splashing in hot tubs in the vicinity of Parliament.
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