Andrew Scheer
faces a delicate task:
scoop up the admirers
of Stephen Harper, Doug Ford,
Kellie Leitch and Maxime Bernier
while insisting
he is nothing like Harper, Ford,
Leitch or Bernier.
Justin Trudeau’s task
is rather simple:
tell voters
he is nothing like the Justin
they have seen thus far.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)