Trudeau has poor record as PM
Dear editor: Congratulations are in order to Justin Trudeau for doing so many firsts in his term as Prime Minister:
• The first sitting prime minister to be found in breach of ethics — not just once but twice.
• Retaining the Finance Minister who was fined for failing to disclose his private corporation to Canada’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner (perhaps ethics is no longer a “Liberal Canadian value”).
• Creating a political outrage in India and at home by Canadian Liberal ministers allegedly being involved as active supporters of a Sikh separatist movement. It reminded us of Charles De Gaulle “Vive le Quebec Libre,” which took two or three generations to forget the meddling by France in Canada’s national affairs.
• Pitting injured and retired military personnel against the government of Canada by insulting injured vets and breaking election disability and pension promises made to them.
• Paying a convicted terrorist, Omar Khadr, $10.5 million on a whim when the Supreme Court awarded him no funds in his claim for damages.
• Without facts, instantly claiming justice was not the outcome in a jury trial of Gerald Stanley, pitting Indigenous’ and Caucasian’s interpretation and perceptions, further dividing the country.
• Inaction resulting in the Trans Mountain Pipeline sitting waiting to start, but dividing B.C. and Alberta, over the environmentalists’ dream of killing pipelines and resource-based provinces’ aspirations.
• Letting black and other ethnic groups’ rights fall on deaf ears, while putting Indigenous rights ahead of all others.
• Promising clean water, housing, education and opportunity to First Nations while delivering none of these; yet spending more in staff and consultants in the bloated, bureaucratic, Indigenous files.
• Putting the economic future of our grandchildren into such deep debt through huge annual deficits, they will never see an end to the growth of government debt.
• Committing billions in funding for dubious international programs in corrupt organizations and countries just so you can say — “Canada is back”.
Mr. Trudeau, you have failed Canada in so many ways, but your base, the well-funded, vocal, social media savvy, liberal left and alt-left keep your image polished with pleasing selfies and news clips. Remember, “Nero fiddled while Rome burned” – that is the direction you are steering our great country, congratulations.
Doug Waines West Kelowna