"Canadian politics is never too far removed from its U.S. equivalent, but there have indeed been an awful lot of Liberal actions in recent months that don’t really make any sense unless you consider the Liberals' desire to score points with a U.S. audience

or a Canadian audience who watches too much CNN"

CONSTANTLY PRETENDING THAT ABORTION IS UNDER THREAT

It’s hard to think of a Western country that has more thoroughly cowed its anti-abortion movement than Canada. There are no laws whatsoever governing abortion in Canada; a fact that makes us an outlier even among the abortion libertine nations of Europe. Despite this, the consistent public position of the Conservative Party of Canada ever since its 2004 founding has been that whatever their personal thoughts on the matter, they will never introduce legislation to disrupt the status quo.

Of the six people running for Conservative leader right now, five of them (including the two front-runners) have publicly promised not to touch abortion with a 10-metre pole. The Conservative leader in the last federal election said he was “pro-choice.” Even Canada’s leading far-right option, the People’s Party of Canada, has promised not to legislate abortion.

In the face of all this, Trudeau has consistently campaigned on the notion that Canadian abortion access is somehow at risk like it is in select U.S. states. The Liberals’ 2021 platform said that “Conservatives want to roll back abortion access.” And when news leaked that the U.S. Supreme Court was poised to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision barring state-level bans on abortion, it only took a few hours for Trudeau to respond with a tweet that “every woman in Canada has a right to a safe and legal abortion.”

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