TRUDEAU DRIVEN BY EGO.
When you waste your time with foolishness, irrational fads and pseudo-causes, when you continually diagnose your own country as a cauldron of racism and colonialism, tear down the statues of heroes and founders, virtue-signal at volume ten over your feminism, deride blue-collar workers, hail your greatest industry as a “planet destroyer,” it comes as no surprise that you pile on just one more silly, vain pretence, i.e., that suddenly everyone in Canada wants an election called in mid-august. During the very period, no less, when every citizen in the country has a stockpile of mouth-and-nose guards and are standing six-feet apart every time they go out to buy a loaf of bread and toilet tissue.
And it surely makes it really easy if these fantasies and posturings are what you think of as an actual political philosophy, to call an election two full years before there is the slightest need to do so, as the COVID plague still rages, new variants emerge. To top it all off, with sublime indifference, call the election on the day and hour Afghanistan, in which over 150 Canadian soldiers died, hundreds others were wounded, and an uncounted returned home to trauma and ingratitude, fell to the barbarous, cruel, fundamentalist Taliban.
And where presently the strongest support you are offering Canadians still trapped in Afghanistan, with their helpers and families, is a bulletin from foreign affairs to “wear Red” and head to the crowd-packed tumultuous Kabul airport shouting “I’m Canadian” only to be turned away by the forces from the U.K. who are actually there to go back. Canadian troops who are back home are weeping over the callousness and dishonour of the moment. But hey, we’ve got campaign videos to air and nasty things to say about Erin O’toole.
It would be nice to ask “what were you thinking?” but that would imply thought is a factor when Liberals get a thirst for a majority. And who really needs thought when a couple of pictures can fill that permanent void, a teddy bear here, a wave from the top steps of an empty campaign plane there. At election time thought is grossly overrated over tactics and guile.
Erin O’toole is not a genius campaigner, but that may not matter hardly at all once people register the gut-feeling there was absolutely no need to call an election, that calling it on the day the women and girls of Afghanistan were returned to the cruel and sadistic ministrations of the Taliban was extremely crass.
With these fog-patches of “thought” constituting your mental universe, and apparently a cloying certainty a majority would be airlifted (to use a nicely current verb) to you on a platter. Shut down Parliament for this garden-party of a useless election, and who cares what goes on in Afghanistan? Who cares that Alberta is still under pipeline embargo and extremely restless in Confederation? Who cares about 50 Christian churches being burnt or vandalized just weeks ago and hardly a whimper from you or your brilliant diversity worshipping cabinet? Who cares we have a nearly half-trillion dollar deficit and a 1.3 trillion dollar debt, if only you can get four years of a opposition-proof majority, to continue your careless, immature, unserious, woke and global-warming-hypnotized, every-day-a-new-day-to-apologize-for-canada rule.
Have you talked with Joe Biden yet? Presuming he’s currently in speech mode. And just what did Hillary Clinton have to offer by way of comfort and advice? Impeach Trump again? Contribute to her foundation?
Have you heard the British Parliament actually called an emergency session (hint) after the Afghan disaster so blindly and blandly executed by Joe Biden? The same Joe Biden who promised, like you did for Canada a long while ago, to bring “America back.” That was your slogan for Canada early on and it looks as if Biden has made just as much a success of it for his country as you did for ours.
The Brits returned to full session to pass a motion condemning the witlessness and carelessness of Joe Biden, and his decision to remove American troops from Afghanistan. They didn’t call it a She-vacuation. They called it “contemptible” and “shameful.” One Tory MP, obviously mincing his words, called it “catastrophic, cack-handed, cruel and humiliating … a watershed in the failure of the West.” And former prime minister Tony Blair thought that epic catalogue would be improved by adding “imbecilic.”
What’s your view? Do you agree with the Brits? Or do you hope to skate past the Afghanistan horror, and our unpreparedness, the plight of our stranded citizens and interpreter allies, because it might cast a slight gloom on some of the campaign meet and greet in Aurora or St. John’s?
Just a thought, do you plan a dedicated address to Canadian veterans of Afghanistan? Will this crisis have its own debate?
Taking all this, and so much more, into consideration, if one steps back a bit, the motivation for this election is clear: Ego, arrogance, hunger for applause and intellectual idleness.
I hear you want some Big New Idea for the election. Here’s one that will really catch on: “I didn’t really need to call an election at all. But it did offer an opportunity to put on something Red and yell Canada a lot.”