TRUDEAU'S DISCARDING OF DEMOCRACY

   Too bad our PM is less concerned about the competing interests of social distancing and Canada’s most precious attribute — our democracy. If he can remain shoulder to shoulder at a crowded protest on Parliament Hill, then surely every objection to reopening parliament — where social distancing can be implemented — has been rendered moot by his actions.
   A new report by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute called COVID’s Collateral Contagion: Why Faking Parliament is No Way to Govern in a Crisis, makes an impassioned case for why Parliament should immediately resume.
   Christian Leuprecht, the report’s author and an MLI Munk Senior Fellow, says the extraordinary measures employed by the minority Liberal government demonstrate “unprecedented disregard for parliamentary convention.”
  “Canada’s government has not only capitalized on the virus to limit democratic debate on measures it has implemented, but also effectively put the very ability of Parliament to carry out its functions up for debate wholesale,” states Leuprecht, who is the Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome.