Rex Murphy: They have avoided any real debate on the troublesome COVID mandates and a host of other very pertinent issues. The country, for example, is getting its first substantial taste of inflation — the first signal that the prime minister’s gargantuan and furious spending over the last year and a half is not the painless panacea his team insisted it was.
There are grave interruptions in global supply chains and talk of impending shortages of familiar consumer goods. There are serious warnings of fuel and energy shortages. The ravages of COVID and its shutdown regimes have yet to be fully inventoried, but it is obvious there has been great damage, economic and psychological, to thousands and thousands of Canadians.
In other words, this is a time when Canada needs the presence and force of a full and determined Opposition. Yet what we have received is the opposite. It’s hard to think of a period when the Opposition party has been less engaged and less a factor in the national conversation.
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