Today’s editorial is our message to the federal Liberal caucus in Ottawa.
For months now, you have forced Canadians to endure your daily psychodrama about whether you want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign or continue to lead your party into the next election.
It’s been excruciating. You sound like nails on a chalkboard.
You call yourselves the natural governing party of Canada, but these days, you sound as if you’re losing it.
Our view is that you’re going to get smoked in the next election, whether Trudeau leads you or not.
That said, it’s his choice — you don’t have a method to force him out, so rather than advising him on what to do, we have some advice for you.
It comes from Oliver Cromwell’s speech dismissing the Rump parliament in London, England in April 1653 and you should all consider it seriously — or at least those of you who haven’t already decided that, based on what’s coming, you’d prefer to spend more time with family.
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Ready? Here we go.
“It is high time … to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue and defiled by your practice of every vice.
“Ye are a factious crew and enemies to all good government.
“Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches …
“Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
“Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man (or woman) amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
“Have you not defiled this sacred place … by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
“Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation.
“You (who) were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
“Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House …
“I command ye therefore … to depart immediately out of this place.
“Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone … and lock up the doors.
“In the name of God, go!”
We trust we have made ourselves clear.