Kelly McParland: Trudeau is blind to his own divisive politics

For someone who spends so much time emoting on his personal views and feelings, Justin Trudeau seems to have astoundingly little sense of himself.

“One of the things we were most focused on in 2015, after 10 years of a government that played regional politics, pitting Canadians against Canadians, was to bring Canadians together … Yet we find ourselves more polarized, more divided in this election than in 2015,” he said. “I wonder how, or if, I could have made sure we were pulling Canadians together?”

It’s astonishing that the Liberal leader could have expressed such a personal dilemma after having devoted great parts of his campaign to denouncing two Canadians he holds in particular contempt: former prime minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Doug Ford. I doubt there’s a day that’s passed since the writ was dropped that Trudeau didn’t heap assault after assault on the pair, some of it justified, much of it the product of Liberal war-room fantasizing.

It’s an approach he has followed throughout his government’s time in office. Trudeau’s is an absolutist, zero-sum world, in which you either defend to the death “a woman’s right to choose” or you’re not worthy of calling yourself Liberal. The possibility that honest, respectable Canadians might harbour some sense that unborn children might also deserve a modicum of consideration is treated as evidence of raging misogyny.

And the National Post to theirs.

Didn’t we listen ad nauseam to Scheer and his crew constantly trashing the Liberals?

Trudeau be like: I'm very disappointed that my opponents, who are all ultra far right fascist Nazis, decided to be so divisive.

And what commentary has been in the National Post that has been otherwise?None! Totally biased! No objectivity here! No lessons to be learned here!!! Such a disappointment.

Your news is open to only conservative views and blind to anything liberal.

This rag is a joke.

I like Christy Clarks idea of taking Trudeaus passport away so that he can’t embarrass Canada on the world stage anymore.

He's a card carrying International Socialist. So, duh!

Blind, or deliberate? Either means he must be defeated.

Stupid joke!

This is a horrid article with no evidence of its claims. How nakedly partisan can you be before your readers stop subscribing....

I don't understand the ad hominem agenda, Scheer has never been close in personal popularity?

I would suggest unfollowing all PostMedia accounts until after the election. No one is becoming better informed by their leaked electoral propaganda strategy .

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