Christmas is canceled. And it's worth pointing out just how badly Jason Kenney performed yesterday. The lockdown announcement was a real opportunity to show some empathy, to show that he was a real human being. Kenney was unable to demonstrate this.
Manitoba premier Brian Pallister was able to garnish a viral moment from a sympathetic press looking for something, anything resembling leadership but the only viral moment Kenney was able to garner was him getting flustered at a reporter's question.
People like to think of Jason Kenney as this political mastermind playing 5-D chess but the reality is he's kind of a dolt. His singular advantage is that he shows up to work everyday and puts in 8-10 hours of work which gives him the advantage over 95% of his competition.
Kenney's vaunted political instincts haven't amounted to a hill of beans over the past 9 months. Austerity doesn't work on the virus. It's not an opponent to crush in a dodgy leadership race.
Jason Kenney's practice of doing the bare minimum when it came to COVID restrictions means that hundreds of people will have died unnecessarily. The damage to our citizens, our healthcare workers and our economy is incalculable. All because Kenney listened to what the CFIB wanted
So we'll end with something we tweeted last night. While everything sucks right now you can take a tiny bit of comfort in the fact that based on how badly Kenney has mishandled this crisis he will never be prime minister.
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