It's An Election Year!

Justin, whether he likes it or not, is a public servant and, as such, should be compelled to participate in debates and be asked questions on foreign policy, the economy or even why he thought he should mimic black people three times and fail to disclose that to the public:

Organizers of a foreign-policy election debate that was scheduled for next Tuesday have cancelled the event because Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau won’t participate.

Rudyard Griffiths, chair of the Munk Debates, said no one had a bigger impact on Canada’s foreign policy over the last four years than Trudeau.

“Regrettably, the prime minister’s refusal to attend our debate has denied Canadians the only real opportunity they had this election to see his foreign policy record challenged in a substantive and sustained fashion,” Griffiths wrote in a statement.

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The pipeline’s future — or lack of it — could well come down to a Trudeau minority propped up by these ardent anti-pipeline parties.

After the Liberals gave the pipeline a second approval in February, Singh said:

“Once again, I am calling on the Trudeau government to abandon the Trans Mountain expansion, fully overhaul the NEB review process, and finally live up to its promises that its most important relationship is its relationship with Indigenous Peoples.”

And on Monday, Singh told the CBC’s Vassy Kapelos that any province objecting to any national project crossing its territory should have an absolute veto. If that happens, we might as well sell Canada for parts.

May, meanwhile, says the Greens would veto any pipeline, large or small, now and forever.
Anybody who doesn’t think the Liberals would slide away from the pipeline, even after spending $4.5 billion to buy it, fails to grasp their determination to stay in power.

Pipeline support in the Liberal caucus is uneasy enough even now. With a clutch of new MPs, it could be even weaker.

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I’m not offering Trudeau a pass here. If our society has lost its marbles on such matters, it’s in large part because people like him have been deliberately scattering them. And certainly if the Liberals had caught Andrew Scheer in blackface they’d have howled for his resignation, possibly effectively. But when it’s Selfie McSocks, they perform the rhetorical equivalent of photoshopping him back to white. Appalling.

Therein lies one of the problems with Justin's little minstrel shows.

That this and not the SNC-Lavalin scandal should be the thing to return him permanently to the supply list shows not only his moral and intellectual shallowness but that of Canadians, as well.


Also - at least Bernier would show up:

The four main party leaders were questioned Monday on whether they would support calls for Maxime Bernier to be removed from the televised federal election debates.

In order to hide from the fact that he is a moron and a closet bigot, Justin turns to what he knows best - smearing people:

Just days after finding himself cast into the depths of political embarrassment, Justin Trudeau was back at it this week, preaching to the unwashed from his perch on the peak of Mount Privilege.

His target was Doug Ford, the demon premier. Doug Ford, who’s going to take away your health care. Doug Ford, who doesn’t care about the sick or the elderly. Doug Ford, who has no time for children or the poor. Doug Ford, who can’t be trusted, unlike … um … uh … well, he just can’t be trusted!

If you wondered how the Liberal leader would ever live down those excruciating photos from a week ago, this is it: change the debate. Give people something else to talk about. Entice the gadfly media to write about something besides his judgment, his maturity or other stuff he’d rather not discuss. And just to nail it down, if they ask any more questions about “those pictures,” insist you’ve fully explained yourself and refuse to say anything more. Harrumph. Who invited you to my mountain anyway?

So now we once again have Justin Trudeau, moral crusader. Speaking in Hamilton, Ont., where he was supposed to be unveiling a sort-of pharmacare program — minus any details, timelines or cost estimates — he spent most of his time going after Ford, who just happens to be the person in charge of Ontario’s health-care system, that being a provincial responsibility. His message appeared to be that unloading a backhoe of insults on Ford would somehow make it easier to negotiate with the guy should the Liberal pharmacare plan ever come to be.

Perhaps people are concerned about Doug Ford but at least he didn't wear blackface and bribe the press to hide it.


Also - go ahead, teachers. Test parents' patience:

High school teachers and educational workers in Ontario turned up the pressure on the Progressive Conservative government on Tuesday as cracks continued to emerge in their contentious contract talks with the province.

The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation took the rare step of publicly releasing its bargaining proposals, saying it hopes the move will make negotiations more transparent.

Union president Harvey Bischof said the Tory government has not been bargaining in good faith and has used procedural delays to slow negotiations.

“This government has rigged the system from the outset,” he said. “They’ve had their thumb on the scale since before negotiations began. We’re going to take a different approach. One that puts transparency at the heart of our negotiations.”

Bischof said the union’s proposals include a request to roll back class size increases announced earlier this year and to link annual teacher pay raises to the consumer price index.

The proposals also include a request to examine e-learning before moving ahead with a plan to make students take online courses in order to graduate.

It's not like people are voting for him because he makes sense:

“He will reduce taxes, yes, but for the richest, not for ordinary people,” Singh said at a campaign stop in Bathurst, N.B.

The truth, however, is that the Conservatives are promising to lower personal income taxes for everyone who pays them.

The NDP did not respond to a request for comment asking which tax cuts Singh was referring to.

Just make it up. It sounds good on paper.