Canada’s first NDP prime minister

Dear Editor:

Hopefully the Liberals will lose a nonconfidence vote after Parliament reconvenes on Sept. 23. We need a general election to clear the air and decide the way ahead in these troubled and uncertain times. Unfortunately, the fix is probably already in.

Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet postures about a non-confidence vote, but the Bloc and the Conservatives don’t have enough seats to defeat the Liberals without support from the NDP.

It’s a sure bet that the NDP won’t go against the Liberals in a confidence vote. They’re broke and can’t afford another election campaign anytime soon. Besides, the NDP holds the balance of power to keep the Liberals afloat, so they can jimmy Trudeau into delivering their big, expensive plans for a guaranteed income scheme and universal pharmacare.

The NDP’s influence is disproportionate to their 24 seats and 16 percent of the popular vote. That’s a lot more power than they could ever hope have after a general election, so we can expect them to continue their role as Liberal enablers. It’s just a question of what price the Liberals are willing to pay for their support. As we’ve seen over the last five years, the Liberals’ credit card is limitless.

Justin Trudeau keeps prancing around claiming that the government took on a huge COVID debt load so that Canadians didn’t have to. But the government doesn’t have any debt or money, except what they borrow in our name or take from us in taxes. If Trudeau’s debt and spending rationalizations don’t make sense now, just wait until the NDP has their way with him.

Jagmeet Singh doesn’t need to find money for the NDP’s big spending ideas as long as he can arm twist Trudeau into borrowing it for him. It’s likely the table has already been set for this, thus making Trudeau Canada’s first NDP prime minister.

God knows what the Liberals are planning for our great leap forward to recover from COVID. We should expect a manifesto of frothy virtue signalling and more reckless, ideologically-driven spending with less wisdom and practicality than the lyrics of Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl.”

If we’re going to give this country over to full socialism, let’s have it done in an open general election where the choices are clear. It shouldn’t happen through the back door by the insidious manoeuvrings of a minority Liberal regime acting under the cover of a pandemic.

John Thompson

Kaleden