HOLDING TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT TO ACCOUNT

  Anthony Furey:  John Ivison writes in a recent column that a senior bureaucrat compared what was going on with the government to “a body rotting from the inside”. That sends about right. Yet many Canadians are probably still under the impression that Trudeau remains in top form and that it’s the Conservatives who are in crisis.
   How has this happened? Some will say it’s media bias that leans favourably to the Liberals. There’s a lot of truth to this. For decades now, Canadians have been exposed to the tired narratives that conservatives are about to become extinct and can’t possibly win the next election unless they do exactly what the most left-wing columnist at the Toronto Star instructs, or that they harbour villainous motives that must be incessantly pursued even when no evidence emerges.

   Let’s not entirely blame the news preferences of the general public though. The insiders shoulder blame as well. Politicos of all stripes are notorious for preferring campaigns (hypotheticals) over governance and policy (real life). If it was up to them, we’d be in endless leadership campaigns, by-elections and general elections and that’s all we’d ever discuss.