This is another weekly 2025 federal election edition of Doorstep Postings, the political column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. (Stay tuned for more reporting on hot riding races, and conversations on The CJN Daily podcast with Ellin Bessner.)

We haven’t seen any rivers turning to blood, plagues of locusts, or staffs turning to snakes this election cycle— but the story of this election campaign might be more popular than the one we’re supposed to tell when it comes to table talk at Passover seders in Canada.

After all, just this week, we had the guy currently leading the race engage in a Pharaoh-esque double reversal on the topic of whether Israel is engineering a genocide in Gaza.

The moment where the crowd goes from groaning with disgust at the heckler’s demand to cheering for their leader when he decided to apparently flip foreign policy on the fly seems as close as we’re going to get to what the atmosphere in the palace was like those many years ago in Egypt when the king’s officials struggled to rationalize a change of heart by their monarch. Was it a gaffe or mask slip? I’d like to say we’ll never know, but if things don’t turn around soon, we well might.

.@MarkJCarney knows Canadians want a real arms embargo, not just empty words. The

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