Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s dismissal of inmates as unworthy of vaccinations is part of a troubling trend in politics where elected officials ignore solid evidence and policy advice and instead manipulate our emotions in a cheap attempt to gain votes, writes Ian Gauthier.
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