Will we ever get out from under Trudeaupian pieties?

Vincent J. Curtis

29 Nov 21

RE: Tories should have backed hybrid parliament.  Hamilton Spectator editorial 29 Nov 21.

We now know that climate change causes a loss of critical thinking capacity in some humans, and that progressivism is a kind of brain-wasting disease.  It therefore comes as no surprise that the Spectator would editorialize against a return to normal and in favor of Trudeaupian pieties – even if they impinge on press access.

Everyone in or near the House of Commons is supposed to be vaccinated, or have a current proof of being COVID-free.  Practically all members of the House are under 70 years old.  Except for one’s desk-mate, everyone in the House is separated by at least one metre from each other (the European standard distance for social distancing).  Yet, everyone is supposed to pretend that death from infection lurks around the next corner.  Everyone is expected to wear a conformity mask, and most do wear the proven-useless cloth masks.  Despite all these precautions, the House is supposed to have hybrid sittings?  Why?

Most especially, what does this foretell for getting out from under COVID mandates?  When can we return to normal?  What does it take to get to normal?  Normal is quite possible for everyone under 70, if you look at the data. (Sorry, I forgot.  Looking at data requires the use of critical thinking.)

Trudeau achieves several things by holding a hybrid House.  First, it keeps the criticism muted and controllable.  It is a further demonstration of the great concern we all ought to have over COVID, he being the leader of that concern.  Lastly, it is a demonstration of sheer power.  Meanwhile, parliament offers no drama to write about.

If the Spectator were as rational about its interests as the editors demand Erin O’Toole be of his, the Spec would editorialize against hybrid sittings.  But does the cause of progressivism outweigh the interests of the press?  And by that I mean the business interests, of people buying papers to learn more of the latest scandal?  Or, are the interests of Justin Trudeau and the Liberal party the rational interests that editors of the Spec hold ahead of the business interests of the paper?

I understand the Left’s interest in The Cause, The Cause, The Cause.  But are the business interests of the press that far behind The Cause in the thinking of the editors?

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