Paul Fromm is the leader of Canada’s neo-Nazi movement. He’s endorsed the PPC.

Trump would be proud. Me, I think it’s fucking disgusting.
Crown corp. compiles actual #blacklist of "negative" reporters, by name. We always knew these existed. First time we've seen thru #cdnfoi. https://t.co/oRGxE14iZ0 #cdnpoli @cib_en @LarryTill #cdnmedia pic.twitter.com/3tba9VfA21
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) July 26, 2019
I am in the Yukon but was shocked to hear about the passing last night of my friend David Caplan. He was a genial, thoughtful man, and a great minister. My deepest condolences to his family, who are equally amazing people.
Way above Alberta, the final book in the @XPUNKBOOK triology is done! My 10th book! Dunno if it’s any good, but I’m so grateful to @dundurnpress – and to @SFHPunks @HotNasties @badreligion @Pennywise @bjornvf3 @AronYeomanson @ladurantaye @emmakinsella95 @lisakinsella! pic.twitter.com/CXRFE7U7s6
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 24, 2019
At Pearson, heading to Yukon, and the airline is refusing to permit me to board with my security rattlesnake. I intend to make a human rights complaint at the earliest opportunity.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 24, 2019
There are six “zones” on this flight West. When I told the person at the desk who I am, she said I was in “zone seven.”
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 24, 2019
I will be sitting near the guy who has been on a fishing trip for five days, without access to bathing facilities. Just watch. https://t.co/9GV75XAEoM
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 24, 2019
I am heading into the deepest Yukon woods for the next while. That sound you hear is @lisakinsella and all my @DaisyGrp colleagues celebrating the absence of my usual funny Wednesday-morning @krispykreme post.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 24, 2019
Things are going really well, I see.
Gerald Butts return means the return of these #LPC problems:
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 20, 2019
Kick me.
Here’s a little-known fact: The “kick me” sign — which is usually affixed to some hapless soul’s back or behind, for laughs — was apparently devised by merry-making Scots during the 16th Century.
They did it to celebrate April Fool’s. “Kick me” thereafter became so popular, it spread to the British Isles and then rest of the world.
And so, this week, the Liberal Party of Canada stuck a “kick me” sign to its collective keester, and invited all of us to do precisely that.
The occasion? Not April Fool’s, although it certainly felt like it could be. No, the “kick me” moment heralded the inauspicious return of Justin Trudeau’s former principal secretary, and his forever-BFF, Gerald Butts.
Butts showed up for some Liberal campaign meeting. People noticed.
Yes, that Gerald Butts. He of the SNC-Lavalin meta-scandal — the one who helped propel #LavScam into hashtag hagiography.
He — the one who told us a million times that he’s a coal miner’s son. Him, the one who also told the chief of staff to the Attorney-General of Canada that Trudeau’s cabal wanted to short-circuit the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, a Liberal Party donor.
Him, “Gerry,” who famously said of interfering in the coming corruption trial of SNC-Lavalin that “there is no solution here that does not involve some interference.”
Him. Gerald Butts. He’s back.
Now, before everyone starts reaching for the smelling salts, there is a passable pretext to justify the return of Butts. For one thing, he’s smarter than all of PMO put together. And, the wheels started to come off PMO the moment Butts left.
The Liberal Party commenced sliding precipitously in the polls. Patronage scandals sprouted up like weeds. And, of course, there was this stirring bit of oratory, which ranks up there with the Gettysburg Address: “We have recently switched to drinking water bottles out of water, when we have water bottles out of a plastic sorry away from plastic towards paper-like drink-box, water-bottle sorta things.”
So, on the one hand, it makes a bit of sense that Butts is back. But, on the other, it doesn’t at all.
Two reasons.
One, Butts — fairly or not — became the face of LavScam. And not in a good way. Former ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott came to embody decency, honesty and a belief in the independence of our prosecutorial system.
Butts, meanwhile, came to be seen as a guy who may have done something wrong. Why would he have resigned if that were not so?
LavScam hammered the Liberal Party in public opinion. It shredded Justin Trudeau’s promise of sunny ways. And it left his oft-made claims to be a feminist — to be the indigenous reconciler, to be the guy who’d bring back ethical government — in tatters after he expelled Wilson-Raybould and Philpott for having the temerity to speak up for the rule of law.
There’s a second reason why Gerald Butts’ return is dumb, dumb, dumb. And it’s that hoary old chestnut, Liberal arrogance.
“Liberal arrogance” has recurred so many times in Canadian politics, it practically deserves its own entry in Mel Hurtig’s Canadian Encyclopedia series. Liberal arrogance — that Grit belief that they alone know what is best for Canada, and are in fact synonymous with all that is good in Canada — is deadly.
Liberal arrogance has felled many a Liberal government. It is the greatest Grit weakness. And the return of Gerald Butts signals its unfortunate return, in marquee lights.
Butts is back. LavScam is back. Liberal arrogance is back.
Kick them: they deserve it.
My fave Bowie song, forever. Those chords!