LaPresse reports that Liberal MP Joel Lightbound [Louis-Hébert] will oppose mandatory vaccination policies at a 10:15 news conference…
Bumped — “There are others who feel as I do”…
Lightbound taking shots at Trudeau:
“When it comes to the broader demonstrations we've seen in Ottawa and Quebec City and all across the country, I will abstain from the kind of generalizations that were heard these last few days,”, Quebec Liberal MP Joël Lightbound said.
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) February 8, 2022
CPAC Live.
The federal government needs to quickly offer a road map for the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, according to Quebec Liberal MP Joël Lightbound, citing mental health concerns from pediatricians and the parents of depressed children, and the inability of many to earn a living from a “MacBook at their cottage.”
Lightbound, MP for Louis-Hébert, chair of the industry committee and the Quebec Liberal caucus, and a former parliamentary secretary to the finance minister, said the Liberal government has changed in policy and in tone since last year’s election campaign and appears unwilling to adapt to the evolution of the pandemic.
“Now the approach stigmatizes people and divides people,” he told reporters this morning, pointing to the loosening of restrictions in European countries with lower vaccination rates than Canada.
Lightbound said he raised his concerns in caucus to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but owes it to constituents to publicly voice his concerns. He said other Liberal MPs share his concerns and that the party has historically been “open for dissent and different opinions.”
Lightbound wants the federal government to: provide “quantifiable parameters” for current measures such as the threshold for hospitalization publish studies and scientific advice underpinning current measures start negotiating with the provinces on the Canada Health Transfer, calling the federal position “hard to understand” in terms of the timing of negotiations
Lightbound also said demonstrators causing disruption and gridlock in Ottawa need to move, but their concerns need to be addressed.
Trudeau is going to suffer the nuisance of a dozen cuts (rather than the death of a thousand that the Cons like to apply to their leaders). It’s the Green Party that sets the standard in leader-demolition. It’s the one thing they actually do well.
Liberals never go as far as you would like when rocking the boat, but something’s happening anyway.
JT only leads with the permission of the hidden hand anyway, if the hidden hand swats him, Freeland could pop up in that role quite easily. Do we gain anything? Probably not, she’s just a different kind of awful.
Well, I sent the bugger an “attaboy” email.
I hope whatever bit him is contagious.
I don’t have an ear for political cockroaches at the moment. I want the most of them arrested.