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    Default Justin Trudeau and the pandemic

    Although I mostly don't agree with much of his politics, and there are one or two false starts, I think he is mostly doing a good job during the pandemic. His briefings seem pretty good for the most part. I'd give him an A or an A+ on his pandemic response.

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    Here's a couple of links to columnists who would appear to rather disagree (that's aside from Trudeau using the crisis politically, for grabbing power, and for sneaking in a [badly flawed] gun control bill while parliament is lame, so as to fool urban voters into re-electing the liberals) - it's true though that the feds pretty well stayed out of the way of the provinces since health care is to a large extent their ball:

    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Gunter: Political correctness got in the way of a swift covid-19 response:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...id-19-response

    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Goldstein: Big government failed in covid-19 pandemic:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...id-19-pandemic
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    The power grab which he was suitably rebuked for was not a shining moment. The gun bill is not a good thing but consistent with his election promises. As they say, elections have consequences. Neither of those articles are indictments of Trudeau and his personal handling of the Covid response. I think once his wife was infected he understood the severity of the situation and has acted correctly, even putting political correctness aside and instituting travel bans. Just because we don't agree with him politically doesn't mean that we shouldn't praise him when he does something right. He is our Prime Minister even if we didn't vote for him or his party. He deserves our respect on that basis alone. A plurality of Canadians did vote for his party in our first past the post free for all.

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    I'm far from sure he deserves an 'A' for his handling of the crisis - in other words, I'm not sure he's done much right, so why should I praise/respect him. The politically correct revisionists have taken down signs of respect to Sir John A., and he was a PM, too. After some of his personal and political failures (hopefully largely unnecessary to restate), I wonder if Justin should get schools or airports named after him later on. Thanks to a largely left-wing media/nation, he may get more named after him than Harper will, which could gall many. Aside from all that, there's the federal carbon tax hike that was also snuck in, and which was extra-unfortunately introduced during the big financial squeeze of this covid-19 crisis. Not to mention that the travel banning (and unwelcoming of border crossers from the US) was done only partially at best.

    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Furey: Trudeau refuses to scrap carbon tax hike during covid-19 crisis:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ovid-19-crisis

    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Lilley: Trudeau does to domestic flights what he refused to do to international ones:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...rnational-ones

    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Malcolm: Mixed messaging about our borders:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ut-our-borders
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    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Lilley: Another Trudeau mistake that cost Canada big on covid-19:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ig-on-covid-19
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    edmontonsun.com/opinion/columnists/Lilley: Departures show big problems with Trudeau's covid-19 response:

    https://edmontonsun.com/opinion/colu...covid-response
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    Contrary to Trudeau, Canada can still make vaccines, but not the ones leading to stopping covid-19:

    https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pm...vaccine-orders

    nationalpost.com/opinion/John Ivison: Federal liberals not inoculated from vaccine criticism as questions over rollout mount:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/joh...-rollout-mount

    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Kinsella: Trudeau's government dropped the ball with Canada's vaccine plan [he may face similar fate to Jimmy Carter's]:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...s-vaccine-plan

    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Lilley: Trudeau fumbles on vaccines while telling Canadians to look toward finish line:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...rd-finish-line

    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Lilley: Trudeau tries to spin his government's lack of detail on covid-19 vaccines:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...il-on-vaccines

    Vaccine approved for use in Britain by next week:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55145696
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    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Kinsella: Federal liberals' vaccine 'process' the stuff of electoral defeats:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ctoral-defeats

    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Lilley: Canadians won't be fully vaccinated for more than a year, military document says:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...-document-says
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    Mistakes were made, no doubt.

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    torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Lilley: Covid is coming through the borders that Trudeau left open:

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...deau-left-open

    theglobeandmail.com/canada/article: Canadian snowbirds older than 70 could receive vaccine in Florida in weeks:

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...ne-in-florida/

    theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/23/Taiwan imposes new regulations after first covid-19 case since April:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...se-since-april

    ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/Slow vaccine-rollout across Canada draws criticism, anger:

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...nger-1.5246911

    Conservatives slam federal vaccine-rollout plan that prioritizes some federal prisoners first [ahead of Grandmas]:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cov...ners-1.5863435
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