A fellow looks around a room and can’t figure out who the fool is everyone’s laughing at. His lack of introspection is matched only by his desperation to remain in the limelight despite the cost. And he must fuel a staggering hubris that whispers only he knows the path of righteousness for Canada.
Cold war communists would have called him – a Useful Idiot.
On the other side of the room is a chap with similar delusions, but who finds himself with leverage over the fool. He revels in this juicy opportunity but is unaware of his own inflated ego and how a snippet of power has gone to his head. After all he too knows what is best for the average, hardworking Canadian despite not an iota of fiscal sense about him, but feels his fifteen minutes of fame ebbing.
And so goes the governing coalition of Justin and Jagmeet.
Readers of a certain age will remember one of the best commercials of the early 70s — for Life cereal…
What’s this stuff?
Some cereal – supposed to be good for you.
Did you try it?
I’m not gonna try it, you try it.
I’m not gonna try it.
Let’s get Mikey, ya. He won’t eat it – he hates everything.
…He likes it. Hey Mikey.
Well, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP had their Mikey epiphany a while back, realizing they can get Justin Trudeau to eat anything. And they have since been stuffing him full.
Why? Because they can, seems the only real answer.
How? Well, the Liberals care mostly for issues that pass through the prism of carbon reduction or DEI and have little else to guide them – domestically or internationally. Married with desperation to stay in power, this makes them as malleable as the useful idiots of communist lore.
They are either stunningly unaware or willingly being made the fools - at Canada’s expense.
Unnecessary universal dental care at a cost of $4.4B per year? | You bet. Just don’t make us face an election.
Universal pharmacare at a likely cost of $13B per year to kill a proverbial flea with a sledgehammer, and destined to be an epic cock-up in its enactment? | Oh, okay – but you gotta keep pretending we’re BFFs.
Support the Orwellian Bill C-372 to make fossil fuel advertising illegal - a bill so anti-democratic, anti-growth and anti-free speech it beggars imagination? | Hey, if it’s an anti-carbon thing then we “welcome” it – cause that’s our main schtick.
Call grocery executives to the carpet in a faux parade of blame-laying for an inflationary problem largely of the government’s making? | Absolutely – phew! Anything to take the pressure off us for a while.
Encourage the recent Joseph McCarthy-esque calls for more rooting out of capitalists and bigwigs by demanding the CEO of another private corporation, Bell this time, be dragged before the cameras to account for layoffs in that company – an issue miles away from any rightful government jurisdiction? | Hey, uh, I’m all in on this if it deflects more blame. But remember I talked tough on this a few weeks ago…“It’s a garbage decision from a corporation that should know better. So, yes, I’m pretty pissed off about what’s just happened.”
Meanwhile, shall we continue pretending Trudeau’s performative public accusation that India conducted a Tony Soprano-style hit on Canadian soil of a Sikh activist, did not have NDP fingerprints on it? By the way, how’s that investigation coming along since we blew up a relationship with the world’s second largest trading economy based on the qualifier-laden, “credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen”?
And how about the rotten cherry on top of this all - the NDP’s latest shameless display of power mongering with their boneheaded Palestine motion? Let’s start with the fact that Canada had no need to opine further on this issue, nor do we currently wield international cred for a resulting motion to matter. Nor were any concrete actions to come from this vote. Nope, it was all downside and zero upside - pure performance using a complicated and inflammatory geo-political issue for domestic political purposes, masquerading as principle. And none too smart in the doing.
Why? For the NDP to have another moment in the sun while increasing dissent in Liberal ranks - the very party they could neuter if they stopped watching the pension clock and ended their disingenuous support.
Surely the NDP recognize our government’s foreign policy is a shambles - driven by the utterly out-of-her-depth Ms. Joly and directed by a prime minister who is no Rhodes scholar. But rather than protect Canada’s interests, their natural reaction was to stoke the flames and further cripple our reputation with a motion that would have effectively validated Hamas, a terrorist organization.
How the vote unfolded during a wasted day in the House would make a high school students’ council blush as Joly rushed about like a frazzled schoolgirl pushed around by the NDP, the PMO, and whatever panic Trudeau was fueling in the background as his party faced an embarrassing public rift. All the while, NDP members on the floor of the House draped themselves in keffiyehs, the head scarf worn by demonstrators in support of Palestine and Hamas – children playing dress up in outfits they don’t fully understand.
It was like watching the Drama Club stage a coup on the governing Glee Club - except that it wasn’t innocent adolescent hijinks. Such things have consequences.
The entire process and subsequent motion further undermined the seriousness of our Parliament and causes yet more damage to our global credibility. And it again exposes the NDP and Liberals’ self-absorption as they play internecine political games, while serious issues abound over which these well-paid servants of the people should be labouring.
Canada must be governed by better than power-drunk idealists whipping a floundering government into doing anything to survive, while be damned the consequences and costs.
This farce must end.
On a light note - Happy Spring and Happy Easter.
Stay tuned and stay pragmatic.
Fantastic piece that paints a picture of just how bad the current circus is. The only promising news is dragging this farce out until a 2025 election codifies just how far JT and JS are going to get their party’s arses booted. Very well written … oh … and Happy Easter. 🐣