, 04.29.2019 06:36 AM

100 days of #LavScam: Trudeau has defeated himself

One hundred days.

 

A lot can happen in 100 days.  Because, per the saying, a week can be a lifetime in politics.

 

One hundred or so days ago, Justin Trudeau fired Jody Wilson-Raybould.  One hundred days ago, the Liberal leader – the one who claimed to be feminist, the one who declared himself the champion of indigenous causes, and the ethical epitome – terminated Wilson-Raybould because she refused to do what he wanted her to.

 

Because she – a proud, smart, courageous indigenous woman – refused to interfere in the criminal prosecution of a sleazy Quebec company facing innumerable corruption charges.  Because she had the guts and the principles to say “no” to a bunch of men who wouldn’t take no for an answer.

 

In the 100 days that have gone by since January 14, 2019, everything has changed.  The guaranteed second Trudeau majority?  Gone.  Polls now say Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives are ahead – or way ahead.  Trudeau, meanwhile, is viscerally disliked pretty much everywhere outside of Quebec.

 

Hell, in Prince Edward Island’s just-finished election, Liberals told Trudeau to stay away, because his very name was dragging them down. The PEI Grits still finished a distant third, a rump, behind the Tories – and the Greens!

 

Out in Alberta, most observers agree that Jason Kenney won a majority – and Rachel Notley lost a majority – because the latter leader had gotten too close to Trudeau.  And because the former leader had done all he could to associate Notley with Trudeau.  (It worked.)

 

In the hundred days since Justin Trudeau politically lynched Jody Wilson-Raybould, plenty of other things have happened, too.

 

  • The Globe and Mail published a series of stories detailing Trudeau’s apparent efforts to obstruct justice to help out SBC-Lavalin.  Trudeau called the stories fake.  But all of the Globe’s stories turned out to be true.  Every word.
  • Trudeau insisted he didn’t fire Wilson-Raybould from the job she loved – from the job she was great at.  He said her continued presence in cabinet was proof.  A day later, Wilson-Raybould quit his cabinet.
  • The clowns on the Justice Committee refused to let Wilson-Raybould testify about LavScam.  After a tsunami of political blowback, they reversed themselves.  
  • But the committee’s Liberal trained seals – and Trudeau – refused to let Wilson-Raybould testify about what Trudeau said and did after that fateful cabinet shuffle.  When, sources tell me, Trudeau threatened recriminations, and promised rewards, when he spoke to his former Minister of Justice.
  • Trudeau’s best friend and principal secretary – and the Clerk of his Privy Council – are both implicated in the metastasizing LavScam scandal.  Both insisted they did nothing wrong.  But both abruptly resigned.
  • The Liberals defeated each and every Opposition attempt to get the truth.  At the Ethics Committee, in the Justice Committee, in the House of Commons: in vote after vote, the panicked Grits continued to coverup.  They continued to stonewall.
  • PMO trotted out obscure Liberal backbenchers and banshees to defame and demean Jody Wilson-Raybould and her ally, Jane Philpott – who had resigned cabinet because she could no longer go along with the Trudeaupian sleaze.  One PMO attack poodle, Sheila Copps, actually calls Wilson-Raybould and Philpott pus-filled “boils.”

 

And on, and on. A hundred days later – a hundred days after he made the insane decision to martyr Jody Wilson-Raybould – pollsters say Justin Trudeau is heading towards inevitable defeat.

 

Of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott?  The other parties are trying convince the pair to run for them.

 

Jody, polls say, is believed and supported by the vast majority of Canadians.  

 

And, one hundred fateful days later, Justin just isn’t.

 

6 Comments

  1. the real Sean says:

    60 days at least which should have been spent on setting leadership convention timelines, electing delegates, launching campaigns, re-energizing the base, giving people hope and inspiration. All wasted because PM Zoolander and his gang of incompetent scumbags refuse to accept reality.

    • Luke says:

      That’s approximately where I stand. From what I’m to understand, my Liberal MP is actually pretty good and useful, but he stood by caucus through all this so I can’t vote for him. Had Trudeau stepped aside, LPC could have possibly rescued this one vote anyway. Alas, I see no pathway to me voting red.

      • Warren says:

        Ditto. Nate Erskine Smith raised my hopes – then dashed them. He went along with the biggest coverup in recent Canadian history.

        • Wherever JWR and JP go, that’s where my vote will go.

          When they turfed those MPs, that killed the possibility of me voting Liberal. They knew yours truly and countless others would react that way — and they did it anyway because of a bunch of entitled maximum pension seekers. All caucus cares about is the $$$.

  2. Jack B says:

    Chretien during flooding in 97 didn’t really rub the west the wrong way from my recollection. So he threw a sandbag and took off. I don’t remember him shilling for a photo op, stopping work and ordering military to stand for a picture.

    My trouble with Chretien was never economics or the way he ran the country. He signed Kyoto but I dont remember him saying the oil industry had to be sacrificed. When he used stimulus to get the economy going many small town projects got built in Canada. You could see the money put to work, then he went after the deficit which I always loved. But I always had a problem with the professionalism of his communication which was severely lacking due to his accent and other language issues. I felt that made Canada look bad, but nothing compared to the destructive swath that Trudeau and his bandits have unleashed.

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