Toronto Star

Why is O’Toole bothering with these MPs?

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O’Toole faces challenge, Nov. 16

The timid Tory torchbeare­r Erin O’Toole must have forgotten what the Anglo-Irish Edmund Burke, the father of Conservati­sm said: “Because half a dozen grasshoppe­rs under a fern make the field ring with their importunat­e chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitant­s of the field.”

Why does he bother with the fringe opinions of MPs who oppose mandated vaccinatio­n for themselves when more than 90 per cent of the electorate are in favour? Do these self-styled freedom fighters not realize that freedom is curtailed when it limits the freedom of others, such as not being infected with COVID-19 because of the follies of the vaccine-hesitant? Dr. Rodney Glynn-Morris, West Vancouver

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