Anothony Housewater Embarrasses Mount-Royal

A bozo smile and an partisan heart...

"The riding is among the strongest Liberal ridings in the country. Réal Caouette, long-time leader of the Social Credit Party in Quebec, once said that a mailbox could win the Liberal nomination in Mount Royal and still win election just because it was red (the traditional colour of the Liberal Party). The Liberals have held the riding continuously since 1940, and have only been seriously threatened three times since then—in 1958, 1984 and 2011."

It's hard to watch a young politician with a seemingly bright future turn so quickly into a sad-sack partisan hack, especially when doing so in the unfamiliar spotlight thrust upon him by circumstances beyond his control and certainly beyond his ken.

Anthony Housefather is the nebbish member of Parliament for Montreal's largely, Jewish riding of Mount-Royal, where winning has little to do with talent and a lot to do with being Jewish and Liberal.
Up to now, Housefather was such an unknown that a renowned LCN French television talking head, Paul Larocque (the French news channel's Wolf Blitzer,) hilariously referred to him as Anthony House'water.' 

Housewater's Housefather's claim to Parliamentary fame is as a Jew, he represents one of the two Canadian ridings that are informally designated as "Jewish seats" where candidates of all major parties are customarily part of the chosen people.

Up to now, he has been toiling away in relative obscurity. But that all changed for Housefather as the unlucky Liberal sap who chairs the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, where he was thrust into the limelight in relation to the ongoing political fiasco that is embroiling the Liberal government concerning the Judy-Raybould Wilson affair.

To make a long story short, the Trudeau cabinet is accused of trying to influence the then Solicitor-General to interfere in an ongoing prosecution of Quebec's infamous engineering firm SNC-Lavalin. While we don't have the facts, as nobody is talking, the optics for the Trudeau government are not particularly good.
Trudeau demoted Raybould Wilson from a prestigious cabinet position with the opposition charging that he did so because she would not play ball and influence government prosecutors to go soft on punishment for the Quebec firm that seems to have been run with Mafia-like business ethics that had bribery as its preferred method of securing contracts.

At any rate, the usually boring and obscure committee, at the direction of Housefather, killed opposition demands that the principle players be brought before the committee to explain their part in the affair.

For this decision Housefather has forever branded himself a partisan party hack without scruples or morals, ready to do his part in burying the truth for political gain.

To make matters worse the buffoon novice put his foot in his mouth when he suggested that the ex-justice minister might have been dropped from the cabinet for her lack of French, a laughable suggestion that even Trudeau felt obligated to deny.

While Housefather apologized for the gaffe, the damage was done, not only to Trudeau but to his own political career where mistakes that embarrass the leader are never forgotten when cabinet choices are considered.

And so Housefather has turned himself into another Sheila Finestone a former Mount-Royal Liberal hack that distinguished herself by her irrelevance, toiling for years in the House of Commons in total obscurity.

With the Liberals down in the polls, it is actually possible that Mount-Royal goes Conservative if a quality candidate is offered. Housefather only managed a 7,000 vote majority over Robert Libman last time around and should the Trudeau scandal endure, Housefather will be hurt as the political hack who defended the indefensible.

Will Jewish voters vote blindly Liberal next time around?  Maybe, but I hope not.

Readers.... a note on an article in the Journal de Montreal by resident hater Richard Martineau who waxes eloquent once again over his favourite subject, "Les Autres"

Martineau was furious because;

"In Côte-Saint-Luc, the city council unanimously passed a resolution in which it declared that it would not respect the "illegitimate and unconstitutional" law of the Caquist government. The mayor has even said that his administration will never consider the dress or religious symbols its employees wear, even if they are in a position of authority! In other words, "F ** K you, Legault! "

The idea that a town council can pass a resolution that contradicts the law of the land infuriated him, especially when those towns are English.

"And I thought that Côte-Saint-Luc is part of Québec! Well, it seems no. It is an undivided republic, an enclave, a reservation, a city-state like the Vatican in Italy. What does it matter if government was elected democratically. Côte-Saint-Luc disrespects Québec and after the religious signs, what is going to be? Will they refuse to accept pre-K for four year olds or 21 years old for pot consumption, Bill 101?

Are municipal governments stronger than the provincial government now? And the little kings who sit in city halls, more powerful than the premier? And wait, this is just the beginning. The same reaction can be expected in Kirkland, Hampstead, Westmount, Pointe-Claire, Dollard-Des-Ormeaux, Dorval, Mount Royal, Beaconsfield ... In these cities, you see, we do not live in Quebec time, but Canada."

 I must say that his agony over the hated English resistance is somewhat comforting to me. His pain as they say, is my gain.

I only have one comment to make or better still a question for Mr. Maritineau.

When the city council of the City of Montreal voted a motion declaring itself a 'sanctuary city,' a motion which clearly contravenes Quebec's civil code, did he offer the same nasty opinion?