Some things are just a mystery.
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A lot of people comment on how low the federal Liberals are in the polls.
On Dec. 8, poll aggregator 338Canada.com showed the Conservatives at 43% and Liberals at 22%. That means almost one in four Canadians think voting for the Liberals under Justin Trudeau is worth it.
How is that possible?
Is it because they are turned off by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre? Fine. Understandable. Vote NDP. Vote Green or Bloc Quebecois.
It is popular in Canada to look down our noses at American politics and president-elect Donald Trump is one American so many people across the globe love to hate. But here in Canada, we hate Trudeau more.
A recent Spark Advocacy poll gauging Canadian feelings showed 33% approve of Trump, while only 31% approve of Trudeau. This from Canadians!
A graph of per-capita Gross Domestic Product, tracking from the mid-1990s, shows the U.S. and Canada tracking companionably together through the economy’s ups and downs, until 2015 when a gap appeared.
Since then, the gap has consistently widened. What catastrophic economic upheaval took place in 2015 that continues to exist today?
Maybe this is another time when correlation is not causation, but I am just suggesting budgets don’t balance themselves.
In August 2021 Trudeau said, “You’ll forgive me if I don’t think about monetary policy.”
Canadians can’t afford housing in large communities across the nation, grocery prices are exploding and have for a while now, our dollar is near 70¢ to the American dollar and yet, he is right. Nearly one in four do forgive him.
Do they all work for the federal government? You know, the government he expanded in personnel by 42% since 2015, while still managing to contract out work at a high clip? More people doing less work.
Does that impact inflation? Many would say it does but don’t ask him. He doesn’t think about it.
Foreign direct investment in Canada has cratered.
Trudeau’s government has made it harder to keep repeat offenders — using guns in the commission of their crimes — in jail without bail while his answer is to ban more guns in the hands of law-abiding people.
Law-abiding people would be more worried if they didn’t know that the result of the gun buy-back so far was $67 million spent and zero guns collected.
You can’t make this stuff up.
And the Ukrainians should not hold their breaths for incoming.
The Liberal record is one long list of outrageous misuse of money — think ArriveCAN app, scandals like WE and SNC-Lavalin, multiple ethics violations, Blackface and Mr. Dressup goes International, buying groceries by cancelling your Disney subscription, having the RCMP carry suitcases for illegals crossing the border, literally dumping refugees on the street in Toronto in the cold, telling veterans they were asking for too much, delayed COVID vaccines because of a secret deal with China and too much more to list here.
In the latest mayoral election in Toronto, a dog ran for office. An actual dog named Molly. She didn’t win.
In the next federal election, if she runs as a Liberal, she can count on garnering 22% of the vote.