Peter MacKay baffles Canadians with bizarre milk photo

"Today is World Milk Day," declared Pete. "I raise my glass to all the dairy farmers across Canada. The COVID-19 crisis has shown us the importance of their hard work."

MacKay's social media team also saw fit that the leadership candidate should don a milk moustache when he took the photo.

Maxime Bernier supporters saw this photograph as a cynical attempt to gain favour with the dairy cartel (whatever that may be) whilst progressives were simply baffled by the odd timing of the photo.

The latter of the two points, I would argue, is the most pertinent. Canada has been engulfed by plague, racial tension and mass-unemployment—yet MacKay was perfectly oblivious to all this on Monday evening.

Nevertheless, this recent social media screw-up follows a long line of similarly appaling posts. Among my favourites is when he told Canadians to "overcome diversity" (he meant to say adversity), and when he told the Conservative party to speed up the leadership election in the early days of the pandemic to a video of California.

In the early days of his leadership bid, MacKay's social media team also took great pleasure in creating epileptic fit-inducing videos.

2020 has been a sordid year, but at least Peter MacKay's social media team have been working round the clock to cheer up Canada's commentariat.