The Political Failure That Is Trudeau

His chances of winning are dwindling, despite the deflections, obvious obfuscations and attacks.

His deliberate placement into power was fuelled by the Laurentian elite's skewed memories of Justin's wife-beating dad and his near-destruction of the West.

Justin can blame no one but himself for his political and moral failures in the past four years.

But narcissists never accept blame:

The most important factor to consider before voting, which the government has desperately ignored, is its own conduct. This regime has banned Liberal candidates of pro-life views even if they believe in the right to an abortion. (This is the personal view of Andrew Scheer.) They made pro-abortion views a pre-condition to some categories of government-sponsored summer employment. The prime minister lied to Canadians over the SNC-Lavalin affair and was excoriated by the non-partisan ethics commissioner Mario Dion (traditionally a cause of ineligibility to continue in office). And this government falsely prosecuted the former vice chief of the defence staff, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, over a policy difference. It is the time-honoured practice to retire or move senior military personnel with whom the government has a deep disagreement. It is unheard-of in this country to prosecute such a person for a crime the government had no reason to believe was committed, and to attempt to prevail by denying the defendant the means assured to members of the military to pay for proper counsel pending adjudication. It was the most disgraceful single abuse of power by the federal government at least since Diefenbaker falsely implied that the governor of the Bank of Canada, James E. Coyne, had wrongfully increased his pension (in 1959).

 
Also - we need to knight Rex Murphy or something. We just have to:

I think we’re all glad that the suspense over the coveted electoral benediction of Barack Obama is over. It’s been a question that has had many Canadians on “pins and needles” (whatever that strange idiom really means) for weeks. Would it be for Singh, or May, or Bernier, or Scheer? Who could tell?

Or, and this was an outsider’s bet, would it be for the fellow who came to earth on third base, blinded by his self-confessed “white-privileged” existence, with a taste for blackface when he was a mere urchin of 29? Certainly the consensus was that the most highly regarded, even reverenced, progressive in the whole world, would fret a little at tossing the manna of his approval on so déclassé a performer.

But hey, this is politics, and what’s a little boot polish between friends, as long as they are united under the glorious banner of global warming. ...

The only mosquito in the face cream, is of course, St. Greta of the Frowns and Glares, more familiarly known as Greta of Green Fables. She sees Trudeau as a climate slacker. He’s a pipeline buyer, which according to the Thunberg gospellers, makes the angels of the troposphere weep in shame and anger. To young Greta, such is her passion, not to be living in an unfurnished cave, tweeting via smoke signal, and travelling only as the wind lists, means you are a pagan/heretic — and even worse, you may be an adult. ...

To put this in the plainest terms, this is not the time to be poking Albertans with a stick. They’ve had quite enough from the environmental fanatics, and from Ottawa. They have been wound up to the max by the righteous of every political party dumping on the industry and the workers who have been such a boost to Canada’s economy and well-being.

If we get a mixed result on Monday, and it turns out the price of a coalition is a string of anti-oil, anti-Alberta commitments — mark it down, the threat of separatism will no longer have to depend solely on the various fortunes of the Bloc Québécois. The stir out West will be something that not even sweet words from a foreign president or the always charming sermons from the Littlest Scold will avert.

Perhaps Alberta Premier Jason Kenney should conduct his own social experiment and cut off any gas/oil out east. Watch as the pious adherents to the Church of Green struggle to replace that precious fuel and the revenue it brings with whatever they can cobble together from unwilling participants in eastern Canada and the US which will no doubt gouge its Canadian detractors.

Winter is coming.