The flag issue is a pressing and emotional one but it is short-term. Perhaps somebody should tell Erin it is possible to take on more than one issue at a time. Instead, O’Toole is avoiding the issue at all costs and is focused on the issue of Canada’s flags being lowered while Remembrance Day approaches.
A thoughtful and strong rebuttal to Trudeau’s short-sighted emissions cap could have established O’Toole as an opposition leader willing to take on a debate with Canada’s interest in mind. Trudeau’s act of international virtue signalling at the expense of the West’s oil and gas sector provided O’Toole with an opportunity to demonstrate some leadership and backbone. What is surprising is federal Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s complete silence. To see Justin carrying on his father’s legacy of assailing Western Canada’s energy sector is not shocking at all, or at least it shouldn’t be. Justin Trudeau sees the prairies as nothing more than a fly-over country that bores him as he looks out the window of his Challenger jet en route to a solemn beach vacation. When Western yokels became upset, he responded by literally giving Western protesters the middle finger when he later passed through the region. Pierre Trudeau castrated the oil and gas sector with his National Energy Program back in the 1980s. The Trudeau family’s disdain for the West is well established.