While Andrew Scheer survived the Conservative’s first caucus after losing the recent election, he shouldn’t lead the Conservative Party in the next round. The Liberals staggered into the recent campaign with damaging baggage, and the Conservatives had victory for the taking. But, Scheer failed to deliver. Canada has ended up weaker, more divided and more in debt.
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were very vulnerable after the SNC Lavalin and Vice-Admiral Norman affairs exposed their true character. And, in Trudeau’s bullying of Jody Wilson-Raybould, he proved neither a feminist nor a student of the law. The grubbiness that his inner circle displayed through backroom shenanigans made all of Trudeau’s high talk of doing politics differently laughable.
Even before his chicanery, Canadians and foreign leaders ‘enjoyed’ a belly-laugh over Trudeau’s Mr. Dressup India ad-venture. Trudeau’s immature blackface antics alone should have made him a political corpse. Canadians were ready to replace a Prime Minister who embarrassed them on the world stage while breaking major Liberal 2015 election promises.
To the Liberal’s rescue came indications that Scheer was neither up to the task nor the straight shooter he first seemed to be. The bare fact that he had not mentioned his dual citizenship until forced showed a serious lack of judgment. And, news, late in the campaign, that Warren Kinsella’s pit bull firm had been hired by the Conservatives to smear Maxime Bernier (Scheer won the party’s leadership over Bernier by the narrowest of margins) was a serious embarrassment suggesting Scheer accepted the same sort of grubby tactics that he enthusiastically accused Trudeau of.
These actions and his short pre-politics c.v. among other evasions convinced too many voters that Scheer was not Prime Minister material.
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