Poilievre vs Trudeau- going through the motions in Canada's fumbilitis politics
The Liberals will prevail as long as they go through the motions and do as they are told. All others need not apply.
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Pierre Poilievre is most effective in the opposition where he hangs on the government’s pant leg with the tenacity of a pit bull on steroids. The question though: Does an effective opposition leader necessarily translate into a good prime minister ? Not necessarily so.
For starters Poilievre has a very thin resume on anything other than politics and a highly partisan one. He was Harper’s protege and still carries his bags. Harper called for a hard right “real” conservative to succeed Erin O’Toole and he got what he wanted.
There was great jubilation in Poilievre’s camp with his roaring 65% of the vote. This suggests his following may be a narrow based cult rather than representative of the party grass roots. Canadian politics has become very prone to cult followings led by opportunists and dilettantes rather than leaders who bring experience, proven competence and real acumen to their leadership.
During his leadership campaign he denounced O’Toole’s attempted shift to the center and the day announced after his support for the labor movement; showing but one more time Canada’s finest will say whatever necessary to win votes with little or no intention of following through after the election.
It is not encouraging to see any political party go through the number of one-shot leaders as has the CPC. It seems they just become political electoral cannon fodder as malcontents who really have nothing to offer voters and whose only objective is to win power in a failing democracy.
In a showdown election between Poilievre and Trudeau, the incumbent will win.
Why is this so? The answer is there, for all who choose to see it.
The Liberals will win because they are the country’s default party as we devolve into a single party state. When in doubt, and none of the party’s have anything but slogans and false promises to offer, voters park their votes in the center — and the country suffers accordingly from overdue parking permits.
Another reason we just go through the motions is our antiquated First Past The Post (FPTP) electoral system which is anti-democratic. It allows parties to form government with as little as 32% of the popular vote(as we have now). It also means a party can lose the popular vote and form government(as we have now). The incumbent prime minister has said he not will change the system(eg: make it more fair and democratic) and see his party lose its privileged position.
In the last two elections roughly 40% of Canadians did not vote. This leaves us a long way from representative and responsible government, also leaving accountability so utterly lacking it is no more more than a fart in a prairie wind windstorm.
Canada urgently needs a fair system of proportionate representation and this is unlikely to ever happen because FPTP serves the purpose of Liberal longevity leaving a crippled Canadian democracy in its wake.
The FPTP also keeps the NDP, the Greens and other aspiring parties on the margins where their very existence is a constant struggle. While the CPC and Liberals enjoy the trappings power. As for the Greens and NDP may they RIP.
Canada and the US are very much merged political landscapes and becoming more so all the time. The Liberal party of Canada is very much a subsidiary to Washington’s Democrats and the perceptive observer will see the two parties are very much joined at the hip.
Given the de facto merger of the two countries it really makes very little difference which party governs as governments on both sides of the border are in corporate capture which calls the shots on war and everything else.
The Liberals will prevail as long as they go through the motions and do as they are told. All others need not apply.
Most Canadians would agree Trudeau and his groupie Liberals have been in government eight years too long. The PM is an object of ridicule in the national media as well as the international stage. The media likes to prey on accident prone, ethically challenged political drones as it provides good infotainment.
Until such time as Canada adopts PR the CPC is just along for the ride. Poilievre’s vehement indignation directed at the Liberals will wear thin as a gambit for the keys to the PMO.
As for the pesky Chinese interfering in Canadian elections just doesn’t play well. What value does it have to interfere with a political system already broken. All this has the smell of a Canadian version of Russiagate which is a sordid story to tell. So too is the USA preparing for war against China so it serves the purpose of honing the knives of Sinophobia?
As Yves Engler suggests here there should be a broader look at who is influencing our federal government at a time when Western governments are very prone to serving the vested interests that control them and not much more.
As for an impartial public investigation into political influence peddling that opens a can of worms the Liberals will never allow as the one thing they are good at is dodging accountability.
This federal government’s fumbilitis will persist until further notice.
My beloved Canada is pale shadow of its former self. It’s wake up time folks.