We need some help here. I thought I had figured out that the word ‘woke’ just meant you had awakened to something. Now I hear that the new leader of the conservative party has complained that the Trudeau liberals are part of a ‘radical woke coalition’. I assume that he means the agreement between the new democrats and liberals to have some stability of government through these difficult times. It makes you wonder what is radical about the agreement? It is hardly the first time that the new democrats and liberals have cooperated in the interests of Canadians.
As a progressive liberal I like seeing Justin Trudeau kept on the left of the political spectrum. I have never been too sure just where he fell. In the last dozen years, I have been both for and against Trudeau. When I first met him, I found that he was more like his mother than his father. His love of acting was also obvious. He has this ability to turn the act on and off. It is like he has a switch somewhere on his person that just needs a quick flick. He was tireless at that first meeting when he went around the hundred or so people in the room satisfying their needs for selfies.
One thing I determined right away was that nobody was going to drag young Justin to the constitutional table. He seems to be afraid of the subject. Maybe he sees it as a failure of his father. Yet, his father’s legacy for Canadians is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Prime minister John Diefenbaker might have beaten Pierre Trudeau to the idea but it was Trudeau who had the Queen sign it and lock it up with the constitution.
We haven’t always had sunny days with Justin, but I really admired the way he popped in and out of Rideau Cottage during the dark days of the pandemic. He was communicating with Canadians in a very direct and helpful way. I might have likened it to a cuckoo popping in and out of a clock but I thought we needed to make light of something at the time.
But a radical woke coalition is not a lightener, even for Mr. Poilievre. The new conservative leader is really a mean little man who has no compassion for Canadians. He is no populist. He is the beloved of the trucker convoy people and they are just as ignorant and selfish.
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