It cost $610 million for Canadians to show Justin Trudeau that a national pandemic is no time to call an election.
The Liberal line in forcing Monday’s vote was that, with big decisions lying ahead, Canadians deserved a say in their future. Even though voters had made clear their view in 2019 when they reduced the Liberals to a minority government, Trudeau wanted to hear it again. So voters repeated themselves. After 36 days of campaigning — much of it ugly, divisive and demeaning — voters returned a Parliament that will be almost identical to the one Trudeau discarded. They’ll have to build a lot of windmills to make up for the emissions wasted on this baby.
