Erin O' Toole has been pounding the Trudeau government's response to the COVID pandemic. Chantal Hebert writes:
For more than a week, the Conservatives in the House of Commons have been accusing the ruling Liberals of fiddling while the rest of the world has pre-emptively been procuring vaccines.
For now, a variety of independent sources have contradicted the Conservatives’ assertion that once vaccines are available Canada will find itself relegated to the back of the line.
It would not be the first time the Conservatives, on O’Toole’s nascent watch, have overreached in their critique of Trudeau’s pandemic management.
Their current offensive mirrors an earlier one — in September — that saw O’Toole accuse the Liberals of having missed the bus on the procurement of rapid tests.
It has now been weeks since thousands of those tests were distributed to the provinces and for a variety of reasons that have little to do with the timing of the federal delivery most have yet to put them to use.
O' Toole's problem is that his fellow Conservatives are not acting on testing and vaccination:
While O’Toole and his leading critics were on the vaccine barricades this week, one of his former leadership rivals was publicizing a petition replete with misleading information about their alleged perils.
In the Commons, the Conservative leader repeatedly accused the Liberals of putting the lives of Canadians and the health of the economy at risk by allegedly dragging their feet on deploying vaccines.
But outside the House, O’Toole had little but evasions to offer about Ontario MP Derek Sloan’s role in spreading anti-vaccine falsehoods.
Mr. O'Toole is trying to present himself as the new Stephen Harper. It's clear though that he's the new Andrew Scheer. And, even if he were the new Harper, O'Toole would clearly be misunderstanding the moment.
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