— Musings —08.29.2022 06:48 AM
Help wanted: a leader
@JustinTrudeau hires an anti-Semite, and doesn’t apologize for doing so. @PierrePoilievre meets with a white supremacist, and doesn’t apologize for doing so. Canada deserves better than these two jerks. #cdnpoli #lpc #cpc
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 29, 2022
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologises all the time … for things that *other* people did or failed to do. And those “apologies” are all of them quite “sincere”. But so far as I can tell, they are invariably calculated to foster social division and exacerbate political tension, preferably with subtlety and plausible deniability.
Meanwhile, as we all saw with Blackfacegate and @$$grabgate, if Justin Trudeau ever does apologise for something that he himself has done, his face and his voice are full of little tells that he is, at the end of the day, just an acting instructor playing a role, and he doesn’t mean a single word of it: he just wants it, whatever scandal it is, to go away ASAP.
Justin Trudeau’s real personality in a nut-shell: genuine accountability is simply beneath his dignity.
You’re right that he’s absolutely shitastic at taking responsibility and apologizing for his own behaviour and he should’ve resigned long ago.
But to say his apologies to other groups, (ie such as LGBT govt employees who were fired just for being gay), is “invariably calculated to foster social division and exacerbate tension” is pure hyperbolic bullshit, and the only ones feeling that they’re divisive are assholes who are glad those mistakes were made in the first place. So if these types of apologies make you angry, too fucking bad, it’s on you that you suddenly feel divided from society.
Again, he’s a douchebro who needs to go, but your hot take is completely off base.
+1
Thank you, Derek.
So impressive, words fail me.
On the heels of the Cass Report, instead of announcing a similar investigation to assess what may be also happening in Canada, JT doubles down. JT only cares about virtue-signaling.
Sure, they should both apologize – but they are hardly equivalent situations.
Trudeau actually appoints an organization to an anti-racism role when a key person in that organization is a raging racist. Which could have been discovered by a child doing a Google search.
Pollievre shook the hand of a guy who was at a rally, amongst hundreds of other attendees who were there.
The other thing about Trudeau and his ridiculous anti-racism project is that this is EXACTLY what happens when government department become form over substance. Much ink was spilled when the mission statement of the anti-racism project. All the best buzzwords and cliches of the left. If you repeated those back to the Liberals, that’s all you needed. Doesn’t matter who you employ, or whether you are actually qualified for the job.
*…when government departments become form over substance…”
“…much ink was spilled with the mission statement…”
Sheesh, Monday typos.
Come on Canada, are any of you and I mean any of you actually surprised?
We get the leaders we so richly deserve in this country particularly when we go out of our way to make excuses for one or several of them.
Of course, Jagmeet will STILL have his back. Fucking pathetic.
Canada, more than any other nation in all of history, has the government it most truly deserves.
What are your thoughts on Andrew MacDougall column in the Ottawa Citizen? https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/macdougall-poilievres-plan-use-his-enemies-hysteria-to-his-electoral-advantage
Perhaps Pollievre is playing by his own rules instead of those set by the Liberals and the media.
I thought it was not very good.
Warren,
MacDougall needs to stop sniffing that Poilièvre glue before it renders his mind truly senseless.
And after the swan dive, MacDougall will conveniently forget his column and pray like hell that the post-Poilièvre leader never saw or heard about it. End of story.
I think MacDougall, living after all as he does (and has for quite awhile) in the UK, doesn’t quite truly have his finger on the pulse of Canadians. Female voters in particular (and more than enough overall) are going to feel revulsion when they see campaign ads of PP hangin’ with the convoy bros in contrast to overworked exhausted nurses on the front line. I wish I owned an ad agency. I’m a little shocked that the Conservatives are living in such a bubble.
Doug,
Yeah, right. With that Byrne playbook what could possibly go wrong? LOL. Maybe Harper in 2015?
Collective CPC suicide here we come! I will toast our fools on election night with that champagne and then burst out laughing. Idiots: first Scheer, then O’Toole and now Poilièvre. Ah yes, Einstein’s classic definition of insanity awfully hard at work…without different results. No kidding.
I think it’s the NDPs turn. They’re actually pushing policies that help people and make Canada a better place to live. You can’t trust the Liberals to do the right thing all the time and the Conservatives? Well, as everyone knows, Tory times are tough times. No thanks.
Terence,
They’ll never win unless they get a new leader and stop serially sucking off any Liberal leader they can find. That’s pretty much it.
Warren,
This Poilièvre steamroller is absolute insanity: he had the support of 60% of party supporters in April, 55% in May-June and 45% in August-September.
I’d call that a descending triangle and this is the guy who’s supposed to win “big” and take the party to Nirvana in the next election??? Not a fucking chance.
I hope you are right, but the problem is party “supporters” aren’t always party members. Pierre signed up 300k of those, who will vote for him.
Steve,
The party has decided on assured political suicide so it makes absolutely no difference whether PP wins on the first or second ballot, though win he most assuredly will. Ditto for percentages: whether he gets 50, 60 or even 70% that will in no way change the ultimate election outcome. We get royally creamed in the election whether we face HimselfTM or anyone else…
Source of those numbers?
Martin,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Conservative_Party_of_Canada_leadership_election
331 is a pretty small sample size. I would not take that 44% to the bank. PP is being underpolled IMO. I have been consistent in my support of him and the reaction to that position by my friends has gone all the way from horror to acceptance. But it is still not something they will share out loud with their Laurentian Elite friends. Since I couldn’t care less what people think, I don’t have that problem. And the 30 year olds also could not care less what we all think and they are not not included in those polling numbers.
PP is brilliant, funny and effective in committee(a smiling assassin basically-Carney and Morneau-look it up) even with all the limitations of that environment but who watches HOC committee work. Assuming he wins the leadership, those skills will soon be unleashed in both QP and on the election trail. At a minimum, it will be fun to watch.
Martin,
I’ve been in agreement that Pierre has passed his Skippy days but I don’t like his non-replies on who he accidentally ends up being photographed with. But then it’s not Byrne who’s capable of giving him the right answer…I get photographed with lots of people and don’t know many or most of them is NOT the correct answer. When the candidate finds out that he was photographed with a neo-Nazis or some other type of nut, he should denounce that person, at minimum and immediately distance himself from those types. Has Pierre done that? If he has, I’m not aware of it.
As for you not giving a damn what other people think: right on! Welcome to the club. I personally couldn’t give a shit what people think of me or my positions.
Ronald, the new people PP is attracting to the fold are not paying attention to the MSM’s hysterical attempts to paint him as a Nazi. Their way of life is at stake. I have been saying for years that the MSM and the CBC, in particular, need to be basically treated as the enemy. It looks like that will finally happen. At a minimum, he will ignore them a la Ford in the last election. It is behind a paywall but Coyne(another guy who did not understand the concept of a binary choice in 2015 so I quote him with hesitation) but on the weekend he discussed the “coming confrontation over government intervention in the media”.
His concluding paragraph.
“So the next election campaign will be something of a test. Will Mr. Poilievre fully commit his party to the principle that the state has no place in the newsrooms of the nation?”
We can only hope.
“And if he does, will the media punish him for it?”
Of course and, on point, it has already started and people like you are smart enough not to buy it.
And, a music reference, before I was any kind of political animal I had already figured out that the CRTC and Cancon were trying to control what I was listening to and have always been behind getting rid of those organizations. The fact they still exist in this day and age is beyond laughable.
From the article:
“So Prime Minister Poilievre would be right to sweep away, or at least drastically curtail, the lot – not only the latest intrusions, but also the ancien régime: end Cancon rules, shut down the CRTC, and take both public and private media organizations off the subsidy hookah.”
Again, we can only hope.
Harper should have done all of this when he had his majority. 2015 would have been no worse and all that did was delay the fight.
Well, politicians are politicians first, last and always — and they have hordes of so-called qualified candidates clamouring for GIC and other appointments, so why wouldn’t they like Harper and Trudeau allow all of them to pig out at the government trough?
My own experience with GIC appointments showed me how “unqualified” I truly was in comparison with political incompetents who were serially appointed and reappointed by Harper. And yes, one local lawyer was among those and he’s so incompetent, it boggles the mind as to how he’s still a Barreau of Quebec member. But like they say, that’s politics and all parties are exactly the same in this respect and THAT will never, ever, change.