Conservatives shouldn’t back Trudeau against Trump
An open letter to conservative leaders across Canada: I want to begin by saying thank you for your service. Also, congratulations on winning in Ontario – now that we live in the Year of Our Ford, 2018, we can breathe easier. But I’m hearing rumours that in a rush for positive media exposure and the votes that might come with it, you’ve suddenly taken up arms with our least favorite drama teacher, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The short version is “ya done goofed,” unless of course you’re Maxime Bernier, who was for free trade and ending all subsidies before it was cool – his tune hasn’t changed, and the new tariffs are just more fuel for his followers’ fire. What you have fumbled is the opportunity to deal the final blow to Mr. Trudeau’s political career and leave the weapon free of your fingerprints, wielded by a man the media has made revolting to Canadians.
You’ve missed the perfect crime. Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, PM John Diefenbaker found himself at odds with an American president, JFK, regarding some trade issues as well as missile defence. Our Tory opted to refuse the Democrat, even using nationalist language about Canadian sovereignty; Kennedy proceeded to help end Diefenbaker’s career and greatly support all Liberal electoral efforts: this cozy arrangement is still alive today, just Google “David Axelrod” and then try not to weep.
Before I hear objections about “Canadian jobs,” I thought we all understood how the free market works? Subsidization of anything from airplanes and automobiles to cheddar and milk are sins against the most rudimentary understandings of market capitalism, and they actually harm Canadians more than they prevent “foreign predatory capital,” or whatever silly excuse is in vogue today.
Copious evidence of this was cited in the 2017 Tory federal leadership race.
Again, I ask you, do you not understand what’s happening here?
Or are you just too stupid to grasp that the animal cunning shown by Mr. T down South is being parrotted by Mr. T up North, and now you’re the dupes?
Economic nationalism goes hand in hand with populism and sudden changes of political opinion: after getting bashed by the media for months, Trump is changing the topic. Isn’t there someone up here who’d like to distract us from his failings too?
So a golden opportunity presents itself to end the Trudeau dynasty and the silly party they turned into a utopian nullity with Democrat money, as well as to finally destroy the oligarchs that drain Canadian coffers while stifling innovation in agriculture and aerospace. Your answer? To martyr yourselves on the altar of the de facto ruling party of Canada and support a man who would send all of you and your families for Stalinist “re-education” without a second thought.
Do you ever wonder why we come in second so often? It’s because we’ve become too comfortable with losing nobly over fighting dirty to win.
To be clear, we wouldn’t have to stoop as low as the left in this country to make up lost ground: but the glaring hypocrisies – even crimes – our opposites commit regularly are allowed to go by without so much as a two minute feature on the news. Between that and our lack of a coherent policy narrative, how can voters elect us?
We don’t truck with the Liberal Party of Canada, be it the crafty but empty-headed leader, or his narrative – like the Soviets, it is an empire of lies.
Some subtle tweets, and keeping to your knitting was all that was in order; now, you are complicit with whatever is to come, and the prime minister will certainly find a way to pass the blame. You’ve joined the circus, the ringmasters are both egoists, and one of them is acutely interested in “accidentally” feeding you to his pet lions.
Put another way, we may well live in the Year of Our Ford. But if Tories’ keep up helping Liberals get re-elected, we’ll be making the sign of the T for our own God Emperor – in Ottawa.
What you have fumbled is the opportunity to deal the final blow to Mr. Trudeau’s political career...