Don’t you feel those fresh election breezes from the Rock, flowing up the St. Lawrence River, across the Great Lakes, kissing the Prairies and cascading over the Rockies to say ‘hello’ to Vancouver Island? Maybe I am a sucker for elections but this one cannot be soon enough. My guess is that the election writ will be dropped sometime in the next three weeks. Justin Trudeau could have a lot to be thankful for by our October 11 Thanksgiving.
Regrettably, there is no space on the ballot for ‘None of the Above.’ You take what you can get in this wonderful country. If you do not vote, you are a damn fool. This is your opportunity to comment. Don’t miss the opportunity to vote and then bitch about what you get.
This election reminds me of that Hollywood movie Some Like It Hot and the wonderful closing line: ‘Nobody’s perfect.’ The Billie Wilder motto for the movie is believed to be “Fake it until you make it.” And, boy, does that ever apply to the upcoming election!
If you loved the way our prime minister would pop in and out of Rideau Cottage during the worst of the pandemic, you might be a masochist. Okay, the cottage is no cuckoo clock but you had to stop wondering when he would get a haircut.
My guess is that he has already got this election in the bag. He will still be an elitist, an actor and a pale imitation of his mother. His name is still his crutch. And you might have noticed that a plurality of Canadians are liberals.
I don’t think enough of us are mad at him. He might even run a better campaign this time. He had to learn something over the last couple years.
But then the other parties are also hopeless. That fool O’Toole on the right-hand side of the house has no idea where he is going or how to get there. He is engaged in the old Mackenzie King attempts to say one thing in one part of the country and something quite different in another. When he promises to move the federal government operations to Calgary from Ottawa, you will know he has gone too far.
I would like to say something nice about Jagmeet Singh and his policies but I keep waiting for someone in the NDP caucus to say something nice first.
And as for the Green Ms. Paul, her only problem is her party. She reminds me of the old Pink Floyd song High Hopes. She’s got ‘em.
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