Spencer: Hurricane Irma and our duty to travellers

There was a reason Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland showed up at Pearson International Airport Monday to empathize with Canadians fleeing Hurricane Irma’s destruction. Just as there was also a reason that, while very sorry for their plight, she deliberately didn’t apologize for the government’s alleged laxness in helping these people get home.
Freeland’s first action was driven by the metaphorical political hurricane that threatened to accompany the returning Ca