Nine years ago this fall, the leaders of the three major federal parties at the time gathered on a stage in Toronto for a debate on foreign policy. The resulting discussion seems a bit quaint now.
The topics covered — Canada’s contribution to the fight against the Islamic State, a refugee crisis in Syria, the Conservative government’s anti-terror laws — were not exactly trifling. But India received only a glancing reference. Donald Trump, who had announced his candidacy for president of the United States four months earlier, wasn’t mentioned at all. Neither was China.
Literally and figuratively, it was a different time.
Sure was a different time, no one imagined Trudeau would turn out to be a political arsonist. A shitty PM?. Sure but not the crazy person he has revealed himself to be.
And the “accusations” against the Conservative party were not jaw-dropping when weighed against the extent of Liberal party perfidy.
Trudeau’s testimony was nothing more than a distraction to take the heat off his growing caucus mutiny.
