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. 

Rewarding Gross Incompetence, Immorality, Egotism

"Now I have just spoken with Prime Minister Trudeau to congratulate him on winning the most seats —and my message tonight is that the strength of our democracy is not only measured by the ballots we cast, but also by how we move forward after their counting."

"And while tonight’s result isn’t what we wanted, I am also incredibly proud. Proud of our team, proud of our campaign, and proud of the bigger and stronger Conservative team that we will send to Ottawa. Now, there are still a number of really close races, so we don’t know for sure how many more Conservatives Canadians will send to Ottawa tonight, but what we do know is that after the 2015 election, when Justin Trudeau looked unstoppable, when all the pundits and experts said it was the beginning of another Trudeau dynasty, that he would have eight or even 12 years in power. But tonight, Conservatives have put Justin Trudeau on notice. And Mr. Trudeau, when your government falls, Conservatives will be ready and we will win."
Andrew Sheer, Leader, Official Opposition, Conservative Party of Canada, Parliament of Canada


So, it's over. And Canada's 43rd Parliament is slated to begin, returning Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to his second term, reduced from his 2015 election's majority to the current 2019's minority government. To people who voted in a majority Liberal government in 2015, viewing Justin Trudeau as a breath of fresh air, who just incidentally was telegenic, charismatic, youthful, inherited a famous name in Canadian politics and promised electoral reform, along with a more open government prepared to do the business of administering Canada fairly and honourably, and to bring civility to Parliament, he was their man.

During the 2015-6 honeymoon period they lavished love on their champion of women's rights, of LGBTQ2 rights, workers' rights, whose flashy style they just adored. Many may have been disappointed when Trudeau decided to ditch the electoral reform promise, and they shrugged when the enquiry into Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women went nowhere, and they lauded him when he made public apologies for episodes in Canadian history that occurred a century ago. They did a double take when theatrical-adoring Trudeau out-dressed Indians on the sub-continent when he visited and welcomed a convicted Sikh separatist who had attempted to murder a visiting Indian minister in Canada.

Revelations of his having groped a female news reporter in Vancouver before he entered politics was dismissed by him as people experiencing things 'differently', depending on gender, and ain't that just so? Who knew that this man had a streak of mean vengeance in him, other than former Admiral Mark Norman who was put through hell on Earth though he was second-in-command of the Canadian Armed Forces, when Trudeau decided he would ruin the man, charging him with having betrayed 'national secrets' by embarrassing Trudeau, with respect to commissioning a Naval supply ship Trudeau wanted to contract out to a rival shipyard.

But the revelations that the PMO under Trudeau's direction harassing and continually interfering with the decision of Jody Wilson-Raybould  with respect to the Prosecutor General refusing to give SNC Lavalin, an influential, Liberal-friendly Montreal engineering company, a free pass on charges relating to corrupt activities, removing her as Canada's Minister of Justice and Solicitor General for insubordination when he and his acolytes unethically interfered in the administration of justice, which was found by Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion to be illegal should have been grounds to voluntarily step down from office.

During the election campaign there were revelations, complete with incriminating photographs that Justin Trudeau relished the challenge of posing himself as other than what he is; a privileged-by-birth white elite, by dressing up in blackface at festive, celebratory events on at least three occasions. He excused his penchant for mockery and racism by blaming his privileged upbringing, and ceding that he had no idea at the time -- when he was 29 years old -- that what he was doing was racist, pure and simple.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is shown in a 2001 photo published in the yearbook of West Point Grey Academy, a private school where Trudeau was teaching at the time. (Time.com)

Anyone else would have paid the consequences for these and too many other acts of malfeasance that would have sunk anyone else. In fact, anyone else, would have been genuinely embarrassed by their own demonstrated stupidity and arrogance, apologized without reservation, and stepped aside from public office. Mr. Trudeau believes he can do no wrong, that anything he does that might be of questionable taste bordering on immoral or unethical or even worse, is to be overlooked in favour of acknowledging his exceptionality.

So exceptional that he saw fit to exclude church groups from submitting applications for summer employment for interns through a federal government summer grant-hiring program, if the groups in question would not, or could not attest that they would support a woman's right to abortion. This is the same man who took disallowed/illegal under parliamentary rules, gifts from wealthy patrons known to lobby government for special considerations and project funding. And was duly censored for so doing by the Parliamentary Ethics Commissioner.

This man has single-handedly alienated Western Canada, thanks to his commitment to his version of responsible environmentalism, where it is perfectly sane to import Saudi Arabian oil to Canada, a country that has its own vast oil resources, in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland. A vital oil industry resource is being forcibly neglected due to the disinterest of the Liberal government in opening up the oil fields to full extraction and refining, and shipping fossil fuels by pipeline to eastern Canada and to tidewater to be shipped abroad as a valuable and saleable resource.