By some accounts, cancel culture and political correctness in general are on the wane after many years in the ascendency. Perhaps that explains in part how Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie has gotten away with keeping on a candidate whose cretinous pensées on social media seem like more than ample cause for defenestration.

By “gotten away with” I don’t mean Crombie is likely to perform well in Thursday’s election (barring now-almost-unfathomable developments, it’s a race with the NDP for distant second). Rather, that the media didn’t seem as interested as in years past. It’s not as though there was lots of other hot controversy to cover in this somnambulant campaign. And Crombie’s defence was almost as noteworthily weird as the naughty tweets: She implied it was almost offside for the Progressive Conservatives to highlight her candidates’ past remarks.