Rex Murphy: To flip a very famous phrase, now is the summer of our discontent.
Toronto — always yearning to be a world-renowned city, but not in this way — has had its main airport deemed the “world’s worst.” The government of (what should be) a great country is buying lawn chairs for citizens stranded in endless lines waiting for passports. A democracy-minded woman from Medicine Hat is sitting in an Ottawa jail over highly technical “breach of bail’ conditions while volatile offenders wander freely outside in the summer air. Inquiries into possible interference in a massive police investigation and the first-time invocation of the Emergencies Act are stumbling along with questionable effectiveness.
And as a recent National Post editorial noted, Justin Trudeau, in the face of all this, has been floating around the country like a butterfly, flitting in and out of one venue after another, but of course exempted by virtue of his status and the government jet from the tribulations, anxieties and turmoil of our now famous Pearson holding-port.
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