Okay Justin, you wanted him. You got him. Now what the hell are you going to do with him? The guy is no liberal. He is your Liberal candidate in Scarborough-Southwest. In case you have forgotten, he is former Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair. He could represent all that is wrong in the Liberal Party of Canada.
Maybe Bill Blair is the perfect successor to Tom Wappel. Wappel was the Campaign Life Member of Parliament from that part of Scarborough from 1997 to 2008. He hid behind the guise of being a Liberal. He is the only educated person we have ever heard of who considered homosexuality a choice and religion genetic.
Blair must have approved of Tom Wappel’s law and order stands. Some of Wappel’s proposals were a bit draconian but he could never match what Blair’s cops were doing during Stephen Harper’s G-20 in Toronto. Blair introduced “kettling” into the Canadian lexicon. And when challenged on his actions on that infamous weekend, he had only the Nuremberg defence.
And thinking about that, Canadians hardly need another cop in parliament after the experience of Julian Fantino. Could you imagine Blair on the committee that a new Prime Minister Trudeau picks to supposedly “fix” Harper’s bitter pill of Security Bill C-51. Blair’s bullies could then turn carding into an advanced science across Canada to develop secret dossiers on all Canadians. Blair would make sure that the Security forces were beefed up and well funded to do their job controlling Canadians.
We need to think long and hard about why Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau had his caucus support Security Bill C-51. This is certainly not the kind of bill his father would have supported. It is certainly not the type of bill real liberals can support. It could likely be the most serious mistake young Trudeau has made since becoming Liberal Party leader.
And a real liberal can only feel sorry for the liberals in Scarborough-Southwest electoral district. They have been sold on a bad candidate by the party leader’s people. While a real liberal sometimes has to hold his or her nose to vote for their local Liberal candidate, there are more serious times when you would rather spoil your ballot. With Bill Blair, this is one of those more serious times.
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