If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. That’s known as the “First Law of Holes,” and it’s wisdom the caucus colleagues of Conservative MP Jamil Jivani desperately need to familiarize him with before he digs any deeper into the political hole they’ve all found themselves in. 

It was bad enough that he decided to freelance a trip down to the White House, where he met his old friend, US Vice President JD Vance, and returned with assurances from US President Donald Trump that he “loves” Canadians just a few days before Trump threatened to arbitrarily close the new Gordie Howe Bridge in Windsor. The comments he made on a Breitbart (yes, that Breitbart) show might be even worse, at least as far as his political party’s fortunes are concerned: “We are shooting ourselves in the foot if we continue this anti-America … hissy fit, and this is the kind of reason I’m trying to talk into our government and some of the Liberals who have just gone way off the reservation on this.” 

This won’t help Canada’s Conservatives get themselves out of the hole they’ve spent the past 14 months digging. Their stubborn insistence on portraying the Liberal Party as a bigger threat to Canada’s future than Trump cost Pierre Poilievre an election........

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