To err is human; to blame someone else is politics.
The House of Commons is back and the prime minister had barely cleared his throat before he turned the Opposition leader’s questions on housing and grocery affordability into a response about the Conservative party’s plan to “restrict access to abortion, deny the impact of climate change and put more assault weapons on our streets.”
Politicians looking to pass the buck have always kept the public alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of imaginary hobgoblins, as American journalist H.L. Mencken once put it.
