Conrad Black: As a public service, one more time, I suggest the Conservative road map to victory: attack the Liberal record of incompetence and hypocrisy with the vituperation it deserves and present alternatives that don’t break faith with conservative values but cannot be smeared again as the retrograde pieties of antediluvian political reactionaries. The government apparently imagines that it can be re-elected on its performance during the COVID-19 pandemic, even though it has been an unmitigated disgrace. Once we had even elemental information about the coronavirus, we should have devoted our attention to protecting the elderly and all of those with reduced immune systems. No schools or businesses should have been closed; some level of masking and social distancing was justified, but nothing remotely like the mighty self-inflicted wound the economy of the West generously took, which conferred an immense strategic victory on China. We aren’t even in the top 50 when it comes to the percentage of our population that has been vaccinated, trailing many relatively less developed countries and almost all our peers. We should have been rubbing the government’s nose in these failures for the last year. O’Toole shouldn’t be calling for a time-wasting commission to investigate the government’s COVID performance — he has the relevant facts and he is the commission.
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