While it might seem a churlish comment to some, there is regrettably no honour for Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in the win in the Trinity-Spadina by-election. Running up to the vote on June 30, the Liberal Party ran television ads in which Justin talked about a ‘new way to do politics.’ Yet what we saw was the same old top-down, autocratic leadership that real liberals have been fighting against for the last 25 years.
Screw you Justin! You neither seem to listen nor learn. You talk in platitudes and bromides. You neither understand nor register your hypocrisy. With the walk-away win in Trinity-Spadina, you proved that any big yellow dog could have won the riding for the Liberal Party. Your choice was meaningless. Your political acumen was appalling.
The simple truth in that downtown Toronto riding was that the few people who got to the polls wanted to give the finger to Mr. Harper’s Conservatives. They gave it to them for their meanness and their bigotry. They could not trust the New Democrats to do the job for them. The provincial debacle of Andrea Horwath was too fresh and that man Mulcair from Ottawa was from another generation. What choice did they really have?
Winning by default is never as good as winning by design Mr. Trudeau. You were so busy screwing with that claque around you that you had no idea how badly you were doing for the party. This is not the path of the righteous. You played the fool.
Did you think you can get a pass on pipelines because of pandering to the west? You even confused your personally selected candidate with that hypocrisy. Your opponents did not know just how vulnerable you are on the subject. And do not think you can run between the raindrops. The angst continues to chafe.
What cost is there to this victory in Toronto? Is a lawsuit from a disgruntled candidate worth it? Is the growing distrust of your selected team to be your nemesis?
Do not kid yourself Justin into believing that real liberals do not think. You can hardly command respect by commanding people how to think. Liberals are hardly ideologues. You cannot model yourself after Stephen Harper.
Better you come to understanding the free spirit of your father and the reforms he brought about for the betterment of future generations of Canadians. For any ‘new way to do politics’ has to involve the old way: it still requires freedom.
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Copyright 2014 © Peter Lowry
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