Five reasons Trudeau won't resign... and much more!

The Liberals have to dig deep and find a leader who is going to resuscitate the party's credibility.

Preface

Any comment on the current affordability crisis must be prefaced with the fact that neither politicians or the media are being candid with Canadians on the inflationary costs we are facing.

Canada is heavily in debt and printing money we don’t have to finance America’s wars. Wars drive inflation!! The same is happening on the US side of the border where America is the the world’s most indebted country and taking on more debt to wage war on the world and leaning on NATO member states like Canada to assume more debt.

Before WW l in Germany, they could go the bakery to buy bread with small change in their pocket. After the war they had to go with a wheel barrow of money and bring the bread home in their pocket. That is where we are heading. We are seeing what war and debt does to domestic economies.

Wars also interrupt and destroy supply chains, especially on food products where suppliers see their costs rising. To blame Canada’s grocery retailers wholly for the crisis is nonsense. They must pass on the increased prices of their suppliers. Are they using the crisis for profiteering? That must be determined by auditors.

The truth of the matter for Trudeau and Poilievre is that neither has the magic wand to solve the situation. The crisis is deeply embedded in how are economies are run and the ideologies controlling them. In this instance neoliberalism, the ideology few know about is a train wreck for Western economies.

Under neoliberalism the wealth of nations is skimmed off and goes directly to the one per cent . Neoliberalism has many definitions, one of most the apt is socialism for the very rich; and predatory capitalism for everybody else.

Russians and Chinese don’t want war. They see the economic disaster we have inflicted on ourselves and want nothing to do it. They didn’t spend the last half-century rebuilding their economies to see them destroyed by war. The incredulous West wages war on the world when it should be waging peace, prosperity and equilibrium for its societies.

For leaders like Biden, Trudeau, Scholz and others they are mere sacrificial pawns in a construct where they are no more than cheerleaders for a ruinous status quo. Whether they or go or stay matters not.

Until we win back democracy they are playing parlor games at our expense.

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In all the time I have followed Canadian politics I have never seen such livid public anger directed at a prime minister. This isn’t the first time as there was also his handling of the Freedom Convoy and his contempt for the public involved. His government has become more and more authoritarian. He is dabbling in issues the state has no place being, and he is too obviously the puppet to the vested interests controlling him.

He is mocked and snubbed by his international peers. He has just returned from a G- 20 conference in India, another fiasco, following an earlier one in India in 2018.

Habitually, he does not answer questions, he side steps issues and blames others for his own failures. His spin survival jargon is laced with bromides and platitudes that are just empty words. He is the compulsive virtue signaler and equivocator.

We cannot afford another election for many reasons. Most of all because the Conservatives have nothing to offer other than the vitriol they direct at the Liberals. This is not a swipe at the the CPC. It is the nature of Canadian politics where our two major parties are joined at hip— especially when our party system is in an advanced state of collapse and party identities and integrities have been destroyed by fifty years of neoliberalism.

The Liberals have to dig deep and find a leader who is going to resuscitate the party’s credibility. The deputy prime minister is not an option, nor is the Minister of Foreign Affairs . The Liberals need a well grounded worker bee leader who will kick ass as required. Anybody looking for celebrity need not apply. Their leader must actually lead after a eight year postponement of leadership.

Five reasons the the Prime Minister will not resign:

• It is the constitutional obligation of the caucus to remove the leader as necessary by a vote of non-confidence. Eight years in, and the caucus has failed to do so.

• The PM is not accountable to the public, but to the vested interests he serves and he has served them well.

• He is a narcissist where self-interest is his only interest. To resign would be an unbearable humiliation where it should be the act of a principled person.

• He is desperately marking time for another year plus when he can take off the mask and exit from politics.

• He is the corporatized Teflon man.

In 2012 Peter C. Newman published his book When The Gods Changed, The Death of Liberal Canada. It appears too many Liberals didn’t bother reading this important book. As John Ralston Saul noted in his The Unconscious Civilization our legislators need to catch up on their reading, especially history and political science. Canada is dying the death of colonial parochialism.

Members of parliament must be well informed citizens with informed opinion, not just dyed in the wool partisans warming the benches. They must be willing to challenge prevailing orthodoxies, and their leadership as necessary. The “pack mentality” where dissenting members are coerced into silence is ruinous to the democratic process and the well being of the nation.

Until such time as there is fundamental change and the re-democratization of our system, Canadian politics will continue to be a parody of what it should be. Where politicians(of every stripe) should be the pillars of our community, they are self-serving parasites— in the raging bonfires of their vanities.