Quite The Achievement, Justin Trudeau!

"If the frustration and alienation in Alberta continues to mount, it will pose a very serious challenge to national unity."
"This relationship needs some good faith from Ottawa, and if it doesn't get that I feel that alienation is going to go in a very problematic direction."
"We're not going to get one inch closer to a pipeline by closing in on ourselves as a landlocked jurisdiction."
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney

"The path our federal government has been on the last four years has divided our nation."
"Last night's[Monday, October 21] election results showed the sense of frustration and alienation in
Saskatchewan is now greater than it has been at any point in my lifetime."
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe

"Canadians woke up this morning to a more divided country."
"Tonight, Conservatives have put Justin Trudeau on notice, and Mr. Trudeau, when your government falls, Conservatives will be there and we will win."
Conservative Party of Canada Leader Andrew Scheer

"I've heard your frustration and I want to be there to support you."
"To those who did not vote for us, know that we will work every single day for you, we will govern for everyone."
"Regardless of how you cast your ballot, ours is a team that will fight for all Canadians ... To Canadians in Alberta and Saskatchewan know that you are an essential part of our great country."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking in Ottawa Wednesday

"I want to congratulate the prime minister on his re-election."

"Our government hopes the federal government will join us in making life easier and more affordable for Ontarians and Canadians alike."

"Ontarians need and expect our governments to work with our municipal partners to build new and needed hospital infrastructure, create long-term care beds for our aging population, address gridlock and congestion on our roads and to build affordable housing for young people and families."

Ontario Premier Doug Ford

The Ontario Premier was the principal dragon that Justin Trudeau repeatedly invoked on the campaign trail, whipping out his blunt-edged sword to slay the man in his promises to the voters of Ontario that he would save them from -- the services-cutting slashes of the provincial Conservative government. Premier Ford distinguished himself with the grace of his congratulatory message to the returning prime minister, after having absented himself during the course of the campaign, not wishing to distract from the potential fortunes of the federal Conservative Party which Trudeau repeatedly linked to Premier Ford's.

In stark contrast, the man whose warped policies and vapid, continual invocations of Conservative malice against the electorate, distinguished himself yet again, as a master of deception and ill manners when he deliberately upstaged second-place Andrew Scheer and the Conservative Party of Canada, during Mr. Scheer's concession speech, a gracious yet stern message of acceptance. Just as Mr. Scheer began his opening remarks Prime Minister Justin Trudeau launched into his victory speech, belying honourable tradition, another first of its kind in Canada.

This was, in any event, a first-ever federal election in Canada, its 43th, and nastiest on record for the low level of its efforts to discredit opposition. Although the Liberals managed to save themselves by achieving a minority government, after losing 27 seats of their previous majority government, it was the Conservatives who actually won the popular vote, not the Liberals. The Conservative Party of Canada swept the western provinces, while the Liberals took major cities like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

After four years in office, an inauspicious time for Canada internally and globally, Justin Trudeau, teetering on the bare edge of a minority government has suddenly sobered, stating that regardless of how any Canadians vote, he's their man, he'll look to their interests, he has respect for all Canadians irrespective of their political allegiance though they were the objects of his sneering contempt for four years. This isn't quite 'sunny ways' Trudeau who had four years to demonstrate to all of Canada that he administered the affairs of the country with equal regard to all its component parts, and who failed miserably, and not because he made the attempt.

With an overall turnout vote among the electorate of around 60 percent, one in five Canadians eligible to vote decided to give the Liberal Party and its leader a second four-year mandate. If the second time around even barely resembles the first, a complete shambles in every metric that counts, there will be nothing left of this country to govern, its confederated cohesiveness lost to history. He heard the nation's frustrations loud and clear the past four years, and did nothing to mediate or remediate. His agenda failed to respect the population's concerns.

Now that the West is grumbling about a possible 'Wexit' and expressing its frustration over federal efforts to contain its natural resource aspirations through a slow death due to neglect and pretense, and petty, harmful legislation, and Quebec is once again flirting with the separatist Bloc Quebecois, the country after the most wretched election campaign in its history is shattered. An Angus Reid poll found 72 percent of Western Canadians back in January believe they are not "treated fairly" by Ottawa, and that belief is well grounded.

He can now say "Let's work hard to keep our country together", but what is it worth? It's a reiteration of the very same statement heard in 2015. Canada is at yet another crossroads, one where Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet has made it clear that his party is interested in only one thing: Quebec. The rest of Canada is entirely irrelevant to their interests other than that they will not tolerate an oil pipeline bringing Alberta crude through the province. 

"If what is proposed is good for Quebec, you can count on us". But if not, "the Bloc will stand in the way"; presumably of any other province asserting an advantage not shared by Quebec, while Quebec continues to placidly feel entitled to vacuum up the major share of the federal taxation distribution system of "equalization" payments, primarily provided through tax transfers emanating from Alberta. As far as cynicism goes, the Bloc is now the third leading party in Parliament, an alienated separatist enclave, for whom Confederation is a trivial thing to be dismissed.