Recall Parliament and debate Canada’s response to the U.S. tariffs

This is an opinion column. Canadians deserve accountability at this critical moment.

Recall Parliament. Canadians are facing a threat to our standard of living in a way that the country has not seen in almost one hundred years. This is not the time for Canada’s Parliament to be prorogued.

Justin Trudeau and his Liberal backroom operatives are governing without a mandate. Trudeau and his wallflower cabinet ministers are charting a course for the country without debating the merits of alternative approaches – and, more disturbingly, without engaging Canadians and sharing much of their behind-closed doors deliberations (assuming there are substantive deliberations taking place). This is the Liberal operatives dictating policy as they see fit, without due process, much like they did through the COVID pandemic when Trudeau would emerge daily from Rideau Cottage to pronounce the government’s next initiative.

Consider that through January the Trudeau Liberals have been deliberately agitating President Donald Trump and the new American administration. Instead of working with U.…