Election is the time to derail Trudeau’s crazy train

It is August. Three years ago, the last writ dropped for our friends in Ottawa. And when Parliament resumes in autumn, the steam whistles of all political parties will begin blasting each other and enticing the voters to step up on their platform. The next 12 months will feel about 365 days too long, as the temperature of Canadian federal politics increases to the critical level necessary to gain steam and turn our old democratic wheels until our next stop down the track.

I confess I fear this journey. Candidly, I am uncertain we can come back from where conductor Justin Trudeau has taken us over his first term and I am convinced that even worse destinations gleam in his ego-glazed eyes. I can only assume after all these failures that Hell’s fires were confused for “sunny his merry band of Cabineteers.

the counterpoint, is there anyone left in this country who actually knows what federal, provincial, and local jurisdictions are? It’s not a rhetorical question – I’m asking as one voter to another: is your government delivering on the nuts and bolts of peace and order?

How are the roads, or our internal and external trade relationships, or the call waiting times when you’re just trying to get hold of the public service?

Has anything improved at all? We’re in trouble.

Of course, it’s never been about the issues since the first euphemism for war was ever invented. Yet in our current era, anything but the issues for which governments are actually accountable gets first priority.

And you, voter, regardless of your background, need to see through this, or you are complicit with the problem – that issue has not changed either.

Rainbow flags on Parliament Hill aren’t going to ameliorate the anymore than acknowledging unceded territory and renaming parks is going to bring clean water to reserves.

It’s cute that we’re sending our soldiers for “peacekeeping” again, until we recall the abhorrent behavior of “allied forces” in Mali or the outdated equipment we’re toting along.

And how’s that social license going?

Carbon taxes will result in pipelines – right?

Furthermore: why does a country as rich in human and natural resources as ours have six of our provinces on the equalization dole, including the two biggest by population and area? We are separated from every failed state by an ocean or half a continent, yet we have a migrant crisis in the midst of our largest city – how?

Why is our dear leader antagonizing our closest trading partner; did he think snubbing a man who lives for conflict was a “sunny ways” idea?

Is everything Trudeau the Second’s fault? No.

- strophically under delivered and it ought to be all the media talks about.

Instead, the mainstream outlets are discussing bans on already prohibited guns, sidestepping accusations of his sexual harassment and still not looking into why a known terrorist came to his event in India.

stupid pills at press conferences or are they actively covering for their darling child?

Trudeau’s legacy can be summed up in the following true story: upon coming to power, he wanted a reset with First Nations in Canada.

Trudeau took the recently renamed Aboriginal Affairs (2011) and split it into three different departments, renaming the original Indigenous Affairs in 2015. After two name changes in four years, different governments, and a complete reorganization, the document I just received has what at the top?

Indian Affairs.

You can be polite, or you can be honest, but for the love of Canada, don’t excuse our prime minister’s failings.

We the voters have 12 months to think about what to do with our latest “sunny ways” malaise and the conductor who got us here.

Until Election 2019, the only phrase that ought to be repeating in the back of our heads is we’re “going off the rails on a crazy train.”