Tim Harper, Opinion, The Toronto Star:Toews bears some of the responsibility for this toxic pall that hangs over the capital. He is a bombastic, partisan attack dog who moonlights as a minister of the Crown.
He, and too many of his cabinet colleagues, show no hesitation in questioning the patriotism of their critics in the Commons.
They accuse them of not supporting the troops if they question the F-35 purchase, accuse them of being an enemy of law-abiding Canadians if they question the gutting of the long gun registry data.
But Toews slithered under his own bar last week with his rejoinder to a Liberal critic, telling him if he didn’t back the government’s bill he would be backing child pornographers.
Even in the minister’s comic book world of white hats versus black hats, that comment was one of the most foolish ever uttered in this or any Parliamentary session in memory.
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