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. Lightbound looked beyond the swastikas and Confederate flags of the occupation to see truckers fronting for real people who are struggling to cope with vaccine demands and excessive restrictions.
So he bravely (and crazily) spoke out against Trudeau’s politics of vaccination division and stigmatization Tuesday at considerable risk to his future in caucus and certain death to any cabinet aspirations.
But Trudeau was hearing none of it as he faced his first Question Period this week.
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. Now, just to be clear, there’s no point in governments talking to Freedom Convoy leadership with their bizarre plan to overthrow this democracy and replace it with unelected leaders rejecting all COVID-control mandates. This is meant as a statement of fact, not an insult to convoy leaders and their seditious mandate manifesto, but they’re out of their collective minds and have forfeited any right to adult negotiation.
Source:ctvnews.ca
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
