Making Canada Great Again

Making Canada Great Again:  The Courage of Andrew Scheer

Canadian politics has taken a disturbingly dark turn recently with both a federal scandal brewing while at the same time western anger roils over in a deja vu installment, from a conservative point of view, of why do all liberals hate us?  Canada has seemly taken a page out of the American play book of mud-slinging dirty politics and sadly seems quite adept and comfortable with the experience.

The situation is extremely complex, has historical, social and economic roots and feeds on fear and mistrust.

Canada is an odd country in that as best as it can, at a federal level, through equalization payments, it tries to roughly balance the huge differences between the have and have not provinces. For those provinces that receive transfer payments it is a significant assist to their economy, to those that pay the theory is they can best afford it.  Simple and so Canadian!

Add to the mix eastern provinces and cities who block a pipeline essential to western economic prosperity while still collecting transfer payments, this tends to create more anger than good will.  The pot starts to boil.

We also have political and economic systems that are more successful planning for the short term and fairly dismal at long term planning. Image, if you can,  a campaign based on promises based on solving problems that we will face in decades rather than months or years.

Such campaigns based on long term issues would not fire the imagination, voting turn out would be low. Apathy would soar.  Issues would involve boring topics like global warming, ecology, extinctions, alternative, energies, population growth, Mars settlement patterns, blah, blah, blah. How totally irrelevant to our every day lives.  This could only have possible meaning to say people like our children, or possibly their children.  How can we possible plan for future generations when we are so busy satisfying short term greed and destroying the planet in the moment.  I think its all about priorities.  Ours are pretty clear.

Then don't get me started on the whole anti vaxer, republican science and I have my rights movement that tends to divide conservatives from liberal thought who do not grasp science and tends to include people who are entitled, self-centered and selfish.  They may also believe the Earth is flat.

So when the West wants action on a pipe line and liberals and other dreamers are talking about “carbon free” in 2050 no one is listening while the liberal prime minister is seemingly protecting the jobs of a French/Canadian based, anti oil, transfer receiving province, things get even a tad more heated.

What’s needed to calm things down of course is a road rally with yellow vests, complete with xenophobic rhetoric and anti immigration, muslim hating slogans.  Aim the trucks, vests, jargon, rhetoric and “roll over liberals all along the way to Ottawa.

There Andrew Scheer, who clearly lacks the political wisdom and personal courage to separate the real issues from the fear and paranoia is successfully able to lead Canada into a Trump-like frenzy of political confusion in which members of the far right merrily ride along denouncing open borders, threatening the Prime Minister, jolly in their monologue of hate and fear busy “Making Canada Great Again.”

Did I miss anything?  Eh?