Wacko Trudeau

 

Whatever else might be said, Poilievre and the Conservatives scored a rhetorical win when Speaker Greg Fergus expelled him from the House. “You can’t call Justin Trudeau wacko” immortalizes the idea that Trudeau is wacko. It might otherwise have been missed. And everyone now wants to make a point of calling him wacko, reinforcing it endlessly.

And even though it was the Speaker and not the PM who expelled Poilievre, it reinforces the idea that the current government wants to suppress dissent, and is subverting democratic institutions to do so.

I wonder if Poilievre is such a rhetorical genius that he planned this. If not, God is taking a hand in Canadian politics.