Canada’s prime minister has no good answer to the question of why it was necessary to hold an election during a fourth wave of the pandemic
BY CANADIAN STANDARDS, the election campaign was the ugliest in many years. Protests dogged the candidates of the main parties. Loutishness went “beyond the typical uptick” for federal elections, said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It came especially from anti-vaccine activists. This month someone threw gravel at Justin Trudeau, the Liberal prime minister, who says that vaccinations should be mandatory for federal employees and on aeroplanes and trains.
Many Canadians who pugnaciously oppose what they see as Mr Trudeau’s smug progressivism opted for the populist People’s Party. It tripled its share of the vote, to 5%, though it failed to win any seats. Mr O’Toole insists he will stay on as the Conservatives’ leader. He will now have to figure out how to win back voters who hate vaccines and political correctness, without alienating centrists.
He will press on with the government activism that characterised his first six years in office. The government will continue with plans to make child care available to families for C$10 a day within five years and to reduce Canada’s greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 by 40-45% from levels in 2005. The Conservatives would have scaled back the government’s ambitions in both areas.
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