It's very easy to say that Justin Trudeau is developmentally retarded, that he was installed by greedy, wealthy Liberal supporters who pretended that his father's hey-day didn't destroy the country, that the Chinese have a friend in him and that everything is running so smoothly that Justin can take another month hiding in a taxpayer-funded cottage.
It is easy to say that.
It is also easy to say that Justin has nothing but contempt for the electorate who labour under the near-fatal misconception that keeping him installed will magically result in his plethora of mistakes righting themselves.
It is of the electorate I wish to speak.
Whether it is the most ovine follower or the craven lackey who knows which side his bread is buttered, it is the electorate that proves the most emotionally and intellectually stunted.
The signs were all there: his ineptitude, his stuttering, his love of a communist country, his casual greed, his huckleberry ignorance of social norms and why people have them, his unwillingness to lead, his glaring inability to lead - it was all out in the open. At this point, unimaginative and happily powerless and slovenly Canadians still back him not because of the printed money that is cart-wheeling them into Weimar Republic inflation but because they will have to admit their willful blindness kept this Peter Pan in power and that they are so deep in financial ruin and loss of sovereignty that backing a horse - any horse - is better than admitting their failure.
Well, own it, Canada, because this mess is all yours.
But I doth protest too much:
Remember when the Liberals refused to produce a budget because the situation was uncertain? Unless it was a flat-out lie, they literally didn’t realize the situation had been uncertain for past budgets, including during world wars, and past budget projections were usually fish-wrap within months. Instead they decided they could manage the nation’s finances brilliantly without a silly old budget. So our deficit is now like whatever man and we’re hoping some high schooler knows how many zeroes there are in a billion.
It’s not just the feds. I see where Iain Rankin, about to become Nova Scotia premier, claims his selection as provincial Liberal leader “is about what people want to see next. They want to see action on climate change. They want to see us continuing down the path of righting historic wrongs”. Yeah. As opposed to coping with the budgetary train wreck, the sluggish economy and this pesky coronavirus. Unless he thinks they’re under such control he also has time to change the weather and the past.
Didn’t someone warn repeatedly of a “crisis of governance” in Canada? Oh right. Me. For instance in the Ottawa Citizen Nov. 17, 2006, the National Post March 20 2015 and the Post again Feb. 7, 2018. And while I realize Cassandra didn’t get invited to a lot of parties, there comes a point where it matters who was right not just who sounded good.
It’s easy to get fatigued or numb. Remember, on COVID alone they destroyed PPE, sent much of the rest to China, called border closings racist and masks ineffective. Now they’re sitting on rapid tests, thrashing on the prescribed two-dose schedule, can’t administer what vaccines we do have, are paying more for less, and still boasting.
We live in a land of childish make-believe instead of coming to grips with the adult reality of human frailty and the irrevocable nature of some mistakes. It’s up to voters to wake up and shake the politicians awake on everything from health care to geopolitics.
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The Public Health Agency was so mismanaged it rejected an offer of masks from a major North American supplier eight days after the pandemic’s outbreak, records disclose. Even the Prime Minister’s Office questioned why the lead from Honeywell International Inc. was ignored: “Masks are not the top priority.”
But you can shove them in hotels against their will?:
The Department of National Defence yesterday said it had nothing to do with a federal notice that prompted rumours of “quarantine camps.” Enquiries from alarmed MPs were forwarded to the military, internal emails show: “This is the second time I’m seeing this topic come through an MP’s office.”
The WHO could easily be defunded and no one would miss it:
WHO investigators say COVID-19 virus unlikely to have leaked from Chinese lab
Taxes pay themselves - or so I'm told:
Most Canadians who received Employment Insurance or one of the federal government’s many COVID-19 financial aid benefits last year will have one full year to repay any 2020 tax debts interest-free, National Post has learned.
To wit:
Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough yesterday said auditors will have to “follow up” with Canadians who claimed to be jobless in applying for $2,000 pandemic relief cheques. The program went 240 percent over-budget. Qualtrough’s department earlier claimed checks were done upfront to confirm applications were legitimate: “It was not abandoning any checks and balances at the get-go.”
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The federal government paid more than 300,000 teenagers, many of them high schoolers, nearly $636 million in benefits over the course of the CERB program, according to documents from the Canada Revenue Agency.
“Canada’s announcement to ban all cruise sailings carrying 100 people or more travelling through Canadian waters, without so much as a courtesy conversation with the Alaska delegation,” said the angry U.S. Republican delegation to Congress, “is not only unexpected — it is unacceptable — and was certainly not a decision made with any consideration for Alaskans or our economy. We expect more from our Canadian allies.”
Well, we can say “Ouch.”
After No-Sail extensions in May and October 2020, the Canadian government’s new order extends the prohibition of cruise vessels in all Canadian waters through Feb. 1, 2022 as officials continue to “monitor the evolving COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it is having on the marine and tourism sectors.”
Also - this was suggested before but not done because, you know, "racist":
Beginning next week, anyone arriving in Canada at one of its many land borders will need to show a recent negative COVID-19 test.
Churches aren't super-spreaders of disease. Surely Canadian trash know this?:
British Columbia's provincial health officer and attorney general are asking for a court injunction ordering three churches to follow public health rules banning in-person religious services.
The application in B.C. Supreme Court comes after the churches filed a petition challenging the province's prohibition on the services, arguing the ban violates people's rights and freedoms. ...
B.C. has had over 65,000 positive COVID-19 cases to date, indicating that places of worship have not been a significant location of transmission, he added.
Because the surplus elderly all already dead:
The evidence is anecdotal and less-than-definitive, but experts say the limited amount of COVID-19 vaccination completed in Canada is already having a tangible, positive impact.
Outbreaks in long term care facilities have been stopped or prevented in the wake of residents receiving coronavirus shots, say doctors in British Columbia and Ontario.
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