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There have been a rash of columns lately across the nation cautioning Justin Trudeau and the Liberals not to assume a majority is in the bag if they call an early election.

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Of course, nothing in politics is certain. But if Liberal supporters cant be pried away from their party over the SNC-Lavalin scandal, in which their party leader openly tried to undermine the justice system; if they cant see through Trudeaus blackface antics or his corruption in the WE Charities or his economic incompetence and fiscal ineptitude, what gives the Conservatives, NDP and Bloc any hope they might use the pandemic, for instance, to demonstrate how unfit Trudeau is to govern?

There are currently 10 major vaccines being used around the world to combat COVID.

This week the Economist magazine surveyed over 150 countries to see which of those vaccines were most acceptable to their health authorities for incoming international travellers. In other words, which travellers did not have to quarantine upon arrival based on which vaccine they had received.

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Perhaps a little surprisingly, AstraZeneca was No. 1, followed closely by Pfizer and Moderna.

What potion was No. 10?

CanSino, the Chinese vaccine Trudeau wanted Canadians to put all their faith in.

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CanSino is so ineffective, even countries that took it from China to inoculate their own populations wont accept it from international travellers.

Of course, Trudeau insists he wasnt trying to put all Canadas vaccine eggs in the CanSino basket. (CanSino, by the way, is affiliated with the Chinese military.)

As recently as last month, the PM was spinning this elaborate web about how he was working on getting us reputable vaccines long before the CanSino deal fell through. And he is such a ditz, he may well remember it that way.

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But the truth is, among Western nations Canada was very slow getting vaccines because for months Trudeau kept holding onto his nave belief that the Chinese government would come through for him.

My statement immediately above is anti-Communist, not anti-Chinese racism. But Liberal spin doctors know all they have to do to make Liberal voters forget their own governments total incapability is claim their opponents are racist liars and presto instant loyalty to the Liberal brand.

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Let me give you a hypothetical about how that works.

Theresa Tam, the chief public health doctor in Canada, is an alarmist far too alarmist to be in charge of deciding when we need lockdowns and when we can be freed again. Yet if Conservative Leader Erin OToole were to say that, the Liberals would immediately insist he was an anti-science, anti-vaxxer who was also an anti-Asian bigot.

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And being weak, OToole would crumble and beg forgiveness, thereby proving the Liberal slurs were accurate.

Much of the Canadian media, too, would fall in behind the Liberals in such accusations.

Thats what the Liberals opponents are up against in any election, but particularly one now when so many progressive voters remain scared stiff about COVID. Theyre not looking at the waning pandemic rationally, so they are especially prone to irrational tactics from the Liberal war room.

The Conservatives should go after the Liberals over the pandemic and over the loss of jobs and over historic, massive deficits and climate change, the destruction of the energy sector, the Liberals fake commitment to women and Indigenous Canadians, and a host of other touchy subjects.

But OToole believes the path to power lies in copying the Liberals issue for issue, but promising simply to implement the Libs policy book better.

Margaret Thatcher used to have a term for Conservatives like OToole: she called them wets.

They abandon their base rather than be criticized by progressive, elite voices, but in the process they gain no new swing votes.

That assures the Liberals a win.

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