It is the one question the Liberal leader won’t answer because the answer would doom his campaign in the election he made the decision to call.

He could not run on the campaign slogan: “I called it because it’s (August) 2021, and pandemic or no pandemic, Delta variant or no Delta variant, I saw a pretty good chance of sneaking a majority and Hey, I’m in charge and if I want to call a two-year-premature election because my chances at the polls look really good, who’s going to stop me?” Bit wordy, I agree, but the campaign ninjas of the PMO might have whittled it down.

Now in the last days of this transparent farce we have stepped-up diatribes against the “anti-vaxxers.” And much talk on the urgent need for “mandatory vaccinations.”

A long time before, virtually eons ago — as far back as May of this same year — Trudeau, in one of his most fervent utterances about the “kind of country we are,” declared, “We’re not a country that makes vaccination mandatory.”

We are not a country that makes vaccination mandatory. Pretty clear and without qualification. But of course when he made that statement he was a prime minister, and not in an unnecessary and burdensome election he himself called.

However, being in an election, turning on a dime and going full tilt in the completely opposite direction is a perfect example of the consistency, straight-forwardness and courage we expect from a prime minister. And we must also bring to mind that in May there wasn’t any need to use the COVID crisis, with its vaccination protocols, as a “wedge issue.”

For is it not written in the Book of Canadian Politics, Liberal edition, and I quote, “In a election where the result is in doubt, it is not only permissible, but an act of honour, when in need of a wedge issue, to completely and diametrically reverse the strongest commitment you have ever publicly made, stand on your head or assume some impossible yoga position — in public if necessary — in order to blister your opponent.”

No space for a segue here, just noting that former U.S. president Barack Obama, from the battle-scarred territory of Martha’s Vineyard, has issued an advisory that he wants all Canadians to vote for Justin Trudeau. Deo gratias, Barack. We needed that.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-sorry-obama-but-trudeau-shouldnt-win