Tuesday - October 20, 2015

Canada This Morning

Vox populi

Canada, through its 42nd general election, has decided to grant Justin Trudeau and his Liberal party a majority government for the next four years. I will not bemoan that the fact that neither he nor his party were my choice in this election, nor will I succumb to TDS (Trudeau Derangement Syndrome) - a (substitute Harper) malaise that swept the land when his - Trudeau’s - predecessor won a majority four years ago.

I will, instead, offer some observations and prognostications for the near future.

1. “Canada’s Broadcaster”, the CBC, will receive its promised $250 million funding restoration, bringing its annual grant from the people of Canada to $1.25 billion. This will be its reward for fellating Trudeau and his party for the last 79 days.

2. The “National Organization on the Status of Women” will also have its funding restored. They will resume ignoring how some cultures/religions “bag up” their women, thereby allowing the multicultural ethos to trump their mandate. The niqab will become as commonplace in citizenship swearing-in ceremonies as is the turban, thereby perpetuating Canada’s tradition of discarding its traditions.

3. Canada’s ties to Israel will weaken and its association with Fatah will strengthen, all the while completely ignoring Article 12 of Fatah’s constitution which states “Complete liberation of Palestine, and eradication of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural existence.”

4. Canada’s military will be gutted and possibly amalgamated (again). We will be told that this is in an effort to restore Canada’s “tradition” as peacekeepers and not warriors. The fact that this “tradition” has only existed since 1956 will be deemed irrelevant. This was the year that the US and UK maneuvered Lester B. Pearson into proposing a UN peacekeeping force in order to thwart the Suez Canal crisis.

5. Marijuana will be legalized. This is not a “bad” thing and was pretty much my major disagreement with Harper. The “War on Drugs” was lost long ago; it was a futile exercise that cost billions and did nothing more than ruin lives.

6. In an effort to appease its environmentalist base, the Liberals will gut the oil and pipeline industries. The revenues from these resources will be replaced by corporate and personal income tax increases, even with a projected initial $10 billion deficit in the first budget. Expect the GST/HST to rise as well.

7. “Blame Harper” will be the same mantra as kicked around by the US Democrats and their President in the first six years of his term whenever fundamental design flaws in their policies were brought to light.

8. Trudeau has stated that his first cabinet will be 50% female. This (lack of) chromosomal approach to governing will ensure that more qualified people are passed over in order to fulfill the promise. The selection of *anyone* for cabinet based upon sex or tint should be offensive to even those that preach “inclusiveness”. It is no different than choosing a “white male” because they are nothing more than that and to argue otherwise is nothing more than reverse sexism and reverse racism. It is an abhorrent notion brought to us by the self-loathing and must be discarded if we’re ever to move on in this country.

9. Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights act will be reinstated following its repeal in 2013. In part, the section stated it was illegal to communicate “...any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.” This section was used by a Calgary Imam (et.al.) in a suit against Macleans magazine (Mark Steyn) and the Western Standard (Ezra Levant) for their decision to publish the infamous “Mohammed cartoons”. The suit cost Macleans millions, ruined Levant, and the Imam’s legal fees were paid for by the Canadian taxpayer. Although the repeal was hailed as a victory for “free speech”, its reinstatement will herald a new Canadian “right”: the right not to be offended.

10. Just after the election, a friend posted “Harper will exit the Dictatorship (Conservative Party)”. Unfortunately, and under the Westminster form of government, the best Canadians can hope for is a benevolent dictatorship. The Prime Minister and his Privy Council direct caucus on how to vote in the Commons. In matters deemed “too important”, Parliament is bypassed altogether through the use of “Orders in Council”. The elder Trudeau was fond of this technique, passing, among others, an order to make it illegal to discuss or publish information about Canada’s involvement in a uranium cartel. All things considered, Harper paled in dictatorial comparison.

11. Government scientists will be “unmuzzled”. The term itself is a canard, in that scientists in the employ of the Federal Government were directed though “official channels”. The extent of such “muzzling”, however, will be the subject of debate for some time to come. I suspect that as soon as one or more scientist(s) opine anything different than the Liberal narrative, the reaction will be swift and severe.

12. From Macleans magazine: “During a testy phone call, Justin Trudeau dismissed David Suzuki’s views on the Liberal climate change policy as ‘sanctimonious crap,’ according to Suzuki. Suzuki revealed the contents of the conversation during an interview on SiriusXM’s Everything is Political with Evan Solomon. Suzuki says he fired back, calling Trudeau a ‘twerp.’” This falling out between the (now) Prime Minister and the showman may or may not be fleeting. Time will tell on this one, but be rest assured that Trudeau - like Obama - will end up funding bone-headed “alternative energy” schemes in an attempt to reduce Canada’s “carbon footprint”. Interesting that footprint… few people realize that if Canada had not bowed out of the Kyoto Accord and had stuck to its original 2020 goals, transportation in this country would have come to a complete halt by 2020. In the unlikely event that Trudeau gets Canada back on the bandwagon, it will most certainly make for an interesting election in 2019. The fact remains, though, that if it weren’t for fossil fuels, “there wouldn’t be a single tree or whale left on the planet”.

13. The TPP will remain largely unscathed during Trudeau’s reign. Any Economist worth his salt will tell you that non-restrictive trade is for the benefit of all, in spite of any short-term pain. There are levels of specificity that cannot be explored during the course of an election campaign, and the TPP is a prime example of that. Stumping politicians would never play outside their base by endorsing something the electorate knows precious little about - but think they do.

14. Trudeau will not touch bill C-51 (which the Liberals helped pass) - or at least to any great extent. “Snitch lines” smack of Soviet Russia, but until the enemy within is countered, who knows what the best approach is? Those that think the enemy isn’t here (or in Europe, for that matter) are displaying a stunning naïveté. Islam - radical or not - is an expansionist political movement disguised as a religion, and any number of “Co-exist” bumper stickers aren’t going to change that. Beneath all the hyperbole surrounding C-51, it had one crucial element that was conveniently overlooked by the “progressive” movement: the ability of the Government to revoke the Canadian portion of someone’s dual citizenship when that person was convicted of a terrorism offence. To me, that was a good thing.

In the end, history will judge us. You can judge me in four years - when I repost this - to see how much of this actually came true.

Posted by Somnambulist57     on 10/20/2015 at 11:20 AM   
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