Your Rancid, Conniving, Incompetent Government and You

Are Canadians walking back or did they have a political awakening?

The walking back thing:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to announce he was stepping down because Liberal MPs believed a different leader might prevent electoral annihilation. They were probably wrong.

The Liberals’ narcissistic internal squabbles have left Canada without a fully functioning federal government in a time of crisis.

While they argue over how Mr. Trudeau should be replaced and who should replace him, president-elect Donald Trump gets ready to impose punishing tariffs on Canadian exports, even as he vows to force Canada to accept annexation by the United States.

Who should be the next leader of the Liberal Party is not the question. The question is why the Liberals decided to abandon their governing responsibilities to pursue a leadership race during a national emergency

The voters are not likely to forgive them for it.

 

Oh, I think they will.

After all, it's taken nine years for them to figure that spending money that one does not have might be a bad idea.

Quite. 

 

NOW people are worried about foreign interference:

Last year the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) told the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) that nominations and leadership races were the “weakest links” in Canada’s democratic processes;  most vulnerable to manipulation by other countries such as China, Russia, Iran and India.

And while the leadership race rules released by the Liberals on Thursday make their current contest marginally less vulnerable, it will still prove very, very difficult to secure.

The Liberals use the American-style term “registered Liberal” rather than the more formal, Canadian word “member.”

That’s because they don’t charge a fee to sign up; not even a nominal $10 or $25 like the other parties.

Basically, anyone who puts their name on the party mailing list is a Liberal.

Party executives have promised to “screen out fraudulent sign-ups,” but how? They don’t require those signing up to upload a passport or driver’s licence for identification. So far, they aren’t even asking for the type of IDs that are allowed during elections, such as student cards and utility bills.

The Conservatives deal with the potential for fake sign-ups by charging a membership fee and then forbidding the use of cash or prepaid credit cards to cover the cost. No one with a wad of bills or a handful of no-name credit cards can enroll hundreds.

 

 

Entitled and so on:

Governor General Mary Simon and entourage billed nearly $37,000 in hotel charges to visit the Paris Paralympics last August, records show. The junket followed demands from MPs for greater scrutiny of Simon’s expenses that included silk jackets, limousine rides and gourmet meals: “The Governor General has shown a lack of respect for taxpayers.”

From the most "transparent" government in the country's history:

The Department of Foreign Affairs is censoring records detailing Canada’s hurried flight from Kabul in 2021. Staff in one memo confirmed Taliban terrorists confiscated diplomatic offices but would not “disclose further details due to security considerations.”

This would require Canadians to know, understand and appreciate their history.

They do not:

Canadians should honour John A. Macdonald as a national hero and be “unapologetic for our history,” Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre yesterday told reporters. Saturday marks the 210th anniversary of Macdonald’s birth: “We need to live out the dream that started with John A. Macdonald. Yes, I said John A. Macdonald.”

This Sir John A. Macdonald:

For one thing — we will be surprised. We’ll be surprised to see Macdonald promoting a new bill to extend the franchise to women property owners, decades before women would eventually come to have the vote in most western countries. Macdonald lowered voting qualifications for working-class men and wanted to give women the vote as well as Indigenous peoples who met the same property qualifications. When his Liberal opponents criticized his desire to include Indigenous peoples as voters, he argued that Indians were “just as fit, as far as intellect goes, as far as education goes, as far as having an interest in the prosperity of the country goes, as their white brethren.” To deny them the right to vote was an “injustice.” When the vote for status Indians in Eastern Canada finally passed, he called it “the greatest triumph of (his) life”

Sir John A. Macdonald is the reason why Canada's detractors on the left have something to hate.

Imagine forging an untamed land and keeping it together.

I guess it is easier to divide.

Also - the Narrative:

The federal Historic Sites and Monuments Board has cited eight Catholic charities as being complicit in “cultural genocide.” All eight were previously honoured for nationally significant works including aid to the poor: “It did not include a critical consideration of their relationship with Indigenous peoples.”