By Sunday, 400,000 adherents of the Justin Party (formerly the Liberal Party of Canada) are expected to have voted to select the next prime minister of Canada.
No matter that 300,000 of these were just recently signed up as people seriously interested in politics only since the incumbent, Justin Trudeau, forced from office by a populace fed up with his expensive, ineffective, and corrupt government, announced his intention to resign.
Such a slap-dash approach to such a serious and consequential responsibility as choosing a prime minister would be unheard of, and certainly not tolerated, in the Liberal Party of even a few years ago. But that is how the system exists now, after it has been changed to its very core by Trudeau and his cronies.
Paying for membership in the party? Riding associations that matter? A volunteer Liberal Party executive elected by card-carrying Liberals from coast-to-coast-to-coast? A Party that held the leader and cabinet accountable?
Impossible! That might cause those in the Prime Ministers Office (PMO) to doubt their omnipotence.
Just imagine if those fresh-faced lawyers in short pants in the PMO had had to seriously second think whether they should try to force a principled and learned Attorney-General of Canada to illegally interfere with the prosecution of a rich and well-connected company, simply because that prosecution might hurt “re-election chances.”
Just imagine if someone of stature and good sense had told Justin that it was really, really bad judgement to fly his whole troupe to the Aga Khan’s island, pretending that they were “close friends.”
Or what if someone had the guts to tell the PM that his carbon tax was inflicting untold pain upon Canadian workers who were just trying to get to work, and keep their families warm, and that it was not accomplishing anything in his “fight against climate change?”
This government might have avoided major disasters which brought its very ability to make the simplest, principled decisions into serious doubt.
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The party used to be the very last bastion to cause a government and PM to think twice, but that has not been the case for some years now.
Yes, some readers will be thinking that that is also the task of the caucus made up of government MPs, but this caucus was rendered supine by Justin and his/Mark Carney’s cronies years ago.
But given that this is the new Justin Party system in place, pollsters and columnists claiming the secret confidence of government insiders are absolutely certain that Carney will be chosen.
For some folks who would vote Liberal no matter what, even if that meant endorsing, for example, the terrors of Hamas, the choice of Carney makes perfect sense.
A slick, smooth talker with no experience in elected positions of responsibility, espousing carbon taxes and liberty-curtailing government regulations with the now-discredited goal of stopping global warming in its tracks, promising Quebeckers that he will not support a national pipeline to bring Canadian gas and oil to our eastern provinces, touting his connections to the elites of the world, and promising to get “things done” because he knows how the “world works.” Why, it sounds just like Justin of a decade ago.
And look how Canadians voted him in as PM for three elections. What could be better?
The elite power brokers of Montreal and Ottawa and Toronto (sometimes the latter are included) are thrilled to be given another opportunity to run their fiefdom called Canada.
Same woke, elitist policies, with a fresh face that Canadians have not come yet to despise.
Even his heavyweight advisers are the same ones who have told Justin what to do for the past 10 years.
But here comes the burning question: Why would these 400,000 vote for the same loser politics?
Do they not see that virtually every Canadian has a deep-seated, almost visceral, complaint about the direction Canada has been led over the past decade?
Whether it be the economy being forced to stall in the name of climate activism, or our immigration system being dismantled for the sake of a “post-nationalist “society, or a burgeoning government bureaucracy to keep tabs on all of us who are not “true believers” — the list of areas that the average working Canadian thinks this government has screwed up is tremendously long.
So if the 400,000 wish to prove to Canada how Ottawa-centric is their thinking, then they will elect Carney to continue on with this Trudeau government direction.
If they are smart, they won’t.