Canada’s major political parties have a leadership problem. We have to face facts folks: Trudeau of the not-a-party liberals is a hypocrite; O’Toole of the mainly western conservatives cannot get his party to back him; and Singh of the new democrats is taking his party nowhere. None of these three is the right answer to rebuilding our economy after the pandemic. Canadians do not seem to like them or trust them.
Prime minister Justin Trudeau obviously learned nothing about leadership from his famous father. And how he thinks he can talk the environmentalist talk while building a second pipeline for highly polluting bitumen across the Rockies, is an affront to every conscientious Canadian.
And to make matters worse, he is destroying the liberal party in Canada. He uses the so-called supporters on the liberal list as a convenient ATM to fund operations, totally centered on and controlled by his prime minister’s office (PMO). He uses elitist methods to make bad choices for appointments to the governor general and lieutenant governor positions, the senate, government agencies, commissions and the judiciary. And you can only hope that he has finished making badly thought-through decisions.
The conservatives have a different problem in that they are not in the least interested in going where their current leader thinks they should go. He wants to convince people that a conservative government would be a reasonable one, taking a middle of the road position. He even thinks the conservatives should embrace carbon taxes and environmentalism. Fat chance of that after his letdown by the virtual conservative convention last weekend.
With three provincial governments hoping for a ruling from the supreme court this week on the provinces claim that Ottawa did not have the authority to put in a carbon tax, his timing was terrible. While many think the court will rule against the provinces, stranger things have happened.
I would tell you about the two other party leaders but I do not know very much about them. And that is the same for most Canadians.
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