One of our daughters spotted this on Facebook. She sent it along – and I at first didn’t believe it was real.
Apparently it is. The link it goes to is here.
Personally, this ad struck me as sexist and stupid. I mean, does the CAF run ads asking young men similar kinds of stuff?
What do you think? Dumb move or clever marketing?
We do these Highly-Scientific™ Polls for fun, generally. But you want to know something that is sad – that is maddening and pathetic and repellant, too?
All of the quotes found in the poll below are real. They are actual statements made by Justin Trudeau or his fart-ctachers. They said those things.
As I always remind you, gentle reader, that hoary old Watergate-era maxim is as true now as it was then: it’s never the break-in, it’s always the cover-up. And the cover-up of #LavScam is in full effect. You only have to have watched that abortion of justice, at this week’s “Justice” Committee, to see it on display, in real time.
But it isn’t working. The Trudeau Party – because they’re not the Liberal Party, to many of us – have dropped five percentage points in a week. Another Liberal MP retired yesterday, and another one the day before that. I am hearing from Grits, all over, and they are disgusted by the racist, sexist, almost-certainly-illegal way in which Trudeau’s party dealt with Jody. And they plan to donate no time or money to the 2019 election effort – or even vote for another party.
Anyway. Here’s the poll. It’s funny and sad. Funny, because Trudeau has overseen the worst crisis communications effort since Watergate.
Sad, because all of these things were actually said.
#LavScam effect, in effect. Here.
The Conservatives appear to be chipping away at the Liberals’ chances of securing another majority in October, with Andrew Scheer’s party leading with 37 per cent in overall support among those surveyed, compared to the Grits at 32 per cent, a Campaign Research poll suggests. New Democrats, meanwhile, are still trailing considerably behind the other two parties at 14 per cent.
And check out this, from the Star,
Trudeau admits Wilson-Raybould challenged him on SNC-Lavalin
OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admits his former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould challenged her boss last fall to clarify if he was “directing” her to make a decision in the disputed bribery prosecution of SNC-Lavalin.
Trudeau refused Friday to say exactly what he told his former attorney general or whether he indicated his own preference to her.
“…Jody Wilson-Raybould asked me if I was directing her or going to direct her to take a particular decision and I of course said no, that it was her decision to make and I expected her to make it,” Trudeau told reporters Friday.
When asked if he had expressed a preference, and if it is possible Wilson-Raybould felt his comments as pressure, Trudeau declined a direct answer.
The #LavScam story changes yet again: now @JustinTrudeau is actually saying @Puglaas would still be AG if @scottbrison hadn’t left. Unbelievable. This is comms incompetence on a historic scale. #cdnpoli #lpc https://t.co/AM3rVaxFk2
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 15, 2019
It’s been going on for more than a week, now, and the outlines of it are already seen. Five ways in which it is leaving, and will leave, an impact:
Will Justin Trudeau lose the election? It’s too soon to tell. But the poll I’ve heard about suggests strongly the answer is this:
Yes.
Many guys will understand what I mean when I say this: your father is both a bit of light, and a bit of shadow, over your path through life.
Mine, T. Douglas Kinsella, MD, OC, would have been 87 years old today. So many years after we lost him, he remains a constant in our lives. He still illuminates some of the path. Without even being here, he still quietly persuades me to examine the choices I have made.
Me? I have made bad choices. I have been reckless and cruel with too many. I have not lived by the single rule he left us.
“Love people, and be honest,” he said to us, and I often feel I have done neither.
He saved many lives as a physician, and he won accolades, and he was a member of the Order of Canada. But for us – my brothers, my nephew he raised, my closest friends – he was the man we aspired to be. Not for the distinctions he received, but for how he was, in his soul.
He was unfailingly honest; he was kind to everyone he met. He married his high school sweetheart, and was with her every single day for 50 years, and my God how they loved each other. We would sit there at the kitchen table in Calgary or Kingston or Montreal, and we would listen to him. He’d listen to us, too, and persuade us to try and figure things out. There were some great times, around that table.
The best thing is having a father like that. The harder thing is knowing that you will never be like him.
I had a dream that he died in 9/11; I don’t know why, but I did. I woke up weeping, and remembered that I wasn’t a boy anymore, and that he has been gone for more than a decade. I don’t think he would like what his son has become. I mostly don’t.
So I put on my pants and shoes, and went out into the day, looking for what’s left of the path.
Happy birthday. I miss you.
Hearing a poll is coming.
Hearing that the pollster started fielding before #LavScam erupted.
Hearing the pollster was also in the field for two days afterwards – and caught plenty of the negative reactions Canadians are feeling.
Hearing that there has been a significant shift – and not in a good way for Justin Trudeau.
At all.
The male Cowardly Chair of the Justice Committee opining on the reason why Jody Wilson-Raybould was demoted.
Spoiler alert: the Cowardly Chair thinks it’s lack of French. Seriously. He says it, right at the 5:30 mark.
UPDATE: Anthony says I’m a liar, here. You decide. But I sense some folks are starting to get a bit, you know, nervous.
UPDATED AGAIN: He said it twice! Here he is saying the same crazy crap to Graham Richardson! Who’s the absolute liar now, pal?
A bit of next week’s Hill Times column:
The cowards included the House of Commons committee that professes to be all about “justice and human rights,” but doesn’t espouse either. Last week, the Liberal members of that committee actually voted to deny you the opportunity to testify about what you know in the metastasizing SNC-Lavalin obstruction of justice scandal. They did that, right out in the open. They voted, instead, to shield their political masters in Justin Trudeau’s office, and convene secret meetings.
These are their names: Anthony Housefather, the obsequious, sycophantic weakling who leads the committee. Ali Ehsassi, who is alleged to be a lawyer, and said this of the alleged obstruction of justice: “there is nothing to be concerned about.” Colin Fraser, who is thankfully quitting politics, and who also claims to have once practiced criminal law. A nonentity named Ron McKinnon, who actually said the committee shouldn’t invite any “random people” from PMO to testify – even though the Opposition had a decidedly non-random list, ready to go.
Oh, and Randy Boissonnault and Iqra Khalid. Those two, in particular, distinguished themselves as Nixonian exemplars. When this sordid, sickening affair grinds to its inevitable end, in a courtroom somewhere, it is Boissonnault and Khalid who will receive special commendations for unalloyed dishonesty and cowardice. Boissonnault, for saying out loud – like Donald Trump, who says it all the time and in what lawyers call “similar fact-situations” – that the whole affair is “a witch hunt.”
He said that, with a straight face.
Left: Donald Trump.
Right: Randy Boissonnault.