Straws

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog ...

(Henry V, William Shakespeare) 




Watching any debate in this election is simply watching people talk over each for an hour. It's much better to get the highlights afterward.

Like this, for example:

The night’s most biting exchanges came between the two front-runners, especially when Scheer confronted Trudeau on the SNC-Lavalin affair.

“Mr. Trudeau, you are a phoney and fraud and you do not deserve to govern this country,” said Scheer, in his opening comments, which set the tone for his strategy on the night.

When it came time for Scheer to ask a question of any leader on the stage, he dramatically turned to Trudeau, drawing laughs from the crowd assembled at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que.

“When did you decide that the rules don’t apply to you?” said Scheer, before moving on to Trudeau’s initial denials about the SNC-Lavalin affair. “Those were all lies,” said Scheer.

Justin thought that he would be safe attending the one debate in which his bribed fan-girls would shield him and let him blame Harper ad nauseum but instead he gets piled on. It's fun to watch at times when one considers what a complete scumbag and snob Justin is but will the incessant pointing out what a complete fraud Justin is result in fewer votes for him?:

Scheer pointed out that he’d broken ethics rules twice, interfered with an ongoing criminal investigation (SNC-Lavalin and the full-court press Trudeau, a few of his key henchmen and staffers in the PCO and PMO, put on former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould) and asked, “When did you decide the rules don’t apply to you?”

Trudeau first had the gall to repeat his mantra from the height of the SNC imbroglio: “The role of the PM is to stand up for Canadian jobs.”

Scheer snapped, reminded him “you said the allegations in the Globe and Mail were false,” and Trudeau seriously responded, “They were false.”

No, sir, they weren’t.

Your own ethics commissioner said they were true. The evidence of several of those who testified at the Commons Justice Committee bolstered that this was in fact precisely what had happened to JWR.

So if there was a knockout punch Monday night, that was it, delivered by Trudeau unto Trudeau, always delicious to see.

He has learned nothing. He still believes he was right, and that, as Scheer said, the rules about prosecutorial independence and lobbying an AG, like so many other rules, don’t apply to him.

Trudeau looked grey, uncomfortable and sweaty from the outset, perhaps because he knew that without his script and a teleprompter, he’d be reaching into his bag of nose-stretchers and would stand revealed, as Scheer put it once during a question about defending Canadian interests and values on the world stage and mentioned Trudeau’s ghastly penchant for dress-up and blackface, and said in effect, no wonder he doesn’t remember how many times he put on blackface “because he’s always wearing a mask. You’re a phoney and a fraud and you don’t deserve to govern this country.”

(Sidebar: HA!)

Why this alone is not sufficient to remove Justin and the Liberals from office I will never know.




(Insert own toady comment here):

 

Disappointing that Scheer would bring up blackface to kick off a national debate without acknowledging real issues of systemic racism in Canada.  #leadersdebate2019

— Ahmed Hussen (@HonAhmedHussen) October 7, 2019

More people trust Scheer on immigration than they do the guy who laid out a welcome mat:

More Canadians trust Andrew Scheer to manage Canada’s immigration than Justin Trudeau, and more than half say the Liberals have been too soft on border issues, says new polling from the Angus Reid Institute.

According to the poll, released hours before Monday’s English leaders’ debate, 28 per cent of respondents believe Scheer is best placed to handle the immigration file, whereas 22 per cent believe that of Trudeau, and 18 per cent side with Jagmeet Singh, the New Democratic Party leader.

These numbers still indicate that Canadians are incapable of critical thought but whatever. They are what they are.