It’s easy and popular for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to demonize a vaccine protest when it comes from a mob of horn-blaring barbarians at the parliamentary gate.

But when the pushback against his incendiary ‘fringe’ label for this raging rebellion of the unvaccinated erupts inside his tightly muzzled caucus, it’s time to put down the matches and let cooler minds prevail in the Prime Minister’s Office.

MP Joel Lightbound, a calm, credible, thoughtful third-term Liberal from Quebec, gave Trudeau a massive political migraine Tuesday when he declared he was speaking for many timid Liberals who believe it’s time to heal a vaccine mandates rift which has divided families, traumatized school children and stranded travellers.

When Lightbound’s devastating observations were thrown at him, Trudeau delivered the same alphabet soup of scripted lines he’s been reciting for two years with no hint he would reconsider any softening of any positions.

At very little risk of unleashing a wave of truck-imported coronavirus, Trudeau could scuttle plans to ban unvaccinated truckers from driving between provinces and promise to secure U.S. approval to end the international border vaccination requirement by month’s end.

That would allow the majority of truckers fronting the national capital blockade to retreat with mission-accomplished dignity, leaving only the piggybacking anarchists behind for well-deserved ridicule and possible arrest.

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