Separatists Loving Canada's Bill 21 Opposition

If anything cost Justin Trudeau his majority in the last election, it wasn't Conservative leader Andrew Scheer's bumbling and disconnect with the electorate, it was the ROC's loud and vocal opposition to Quebec's Bill 21, the secular bill, which propelled the Bloc Quebecois back into Parliament with renewed numbers, thus robbing Trudeau of another majority government.

Canada's entitled liberal left did not understand, nor fathom that Bill 21 enjoys broad support in Quebec and that attacking the bill would only propel Quebec's fickle fence-sitting voters into choosing to embrace the Bloc for no other reason but to provide a countervailing political force vis-a-vis Bill 21.
Make no mistake, Canada's prodigious liberal left's righteous and indignant opposition to Bill 21 and its attack on the Quebec government and its constituency led to our minority Parliament, for better or worse.

For myself, I cannot say that I'm dissatisfied with the comeuppance of Canada's liberal left over the issue, particularly the politicians and media who led the vociferous opposition to Quebec's Bill 21, all to no avail.
They are destined to fume and fustigate for years to come over Quebec's refusal to knuckle under to their liberal agenda, dumfounded that their demand for the repeal of the hated law falls on deaf ears in Quebec despite using every weapon in the liberal book, including shaming. humiliating, lecturing and uncontrolled hectoring.

Yesterday the city of Toronto added its two cents by piling on in opposition to Bill 21.

In its motion, Toronto council said it is opposed to the law and endorses an initiative proposed by Calgary city council that asks the Canadian Coalition of Municipalities Against Racism and Discrimination “to create a nationwide campaign that highlights the harmful widespread impacts of Bill 21 on social cohesion and inclusion in Canada.”
Toronto also called on the federal government “to unequivocally condemn and challenge Quebec’s Bill 21.” Link

 Ha! Ha!
For Quebec nationalists and separatists in Quebec, Toronto's opposition and blustering is sweet music to their ears.
Quebec is immune to this intimidation for a variety of reasons, but largely because taking orders or advice from the ROC is the last thing it is interested in doing. In fact, piquing the nose of the perceived smug and superior liberal Anglos in the ROC over the issue is the cherry topping the Bill 21 sundae.
As can be clearly seen by the desperate and toothless remedy proposed, there is nothing to be done politically (at least nothing Trudeau would dare) and so the reality is that Toronto's pain is Quebec's gain as the saying goes.
Quebecers are thoroughly enjoying the pain Bill 21 has inflicted on the ROC and the more Canada howls, the more Quebec remains steadfast and resolute.

For Canada's majorly left-leaning politicians and journalists, Quebec's refusal to knuckle under is all the more galling because of the left's prevailing belief that not only is theirs the only truth, but those who share a different opinion are dead-wrong, stupid, out of touch and inconsequential.

You would think that given the overwhelming unanimous rejection of Bill 21 by politicians and journalists in ROC, it would represent a massive rejection of Bill 22 by Canadians.
But alas it is no so.
Despite calling the law evil, racist unconstitutional and every 




Canada's liberal-minded are in the majority in this country, which is to say that they outnumber conservative-minded folks by a margin of about 65% to 35%. This is just a fact.

And so they control the media, the elected governments and the policies that govern Canada and have done so for decades.
This liberal dominance was broken up by the reign of Stephen Harper who's Conservative government was created by the serendipitous split in liberal vote between the Liberals and the NDP..
That being said, Harper did little to promote a real conservative agenda but rather acted to curb the excesses of wanton liberalism.

With the rise of Justin Trudeau, liberalism has run rampant, the hallmark of which is an overwhelming sense of entitlement and righteousness.
This is the part of liberalism that is most distressing, the dogmatic and fanatical belief that liberalism is the only legitimate political agenda.

Those who oppose the liberal agenda on gay and transgender rights, unbridled defecit spending, abortion, affirmative action for women in the workforce and climate activism are portrayed as regressive, deniers and other pejoratives coined by liberals to paint those who oppose their agenda as evil and regressive.

It is this, more than the policies that is so galling.


wrong and inconsequential

A poll commissioned by CBC News earlier this year found 65 per cent of all Canadians said they agreed with the statement "we have gone too far in accommodating every group in society" -- a view held most strongly in Alberta and Quebec. link


Smug and superior

One Way or Another... Trudeau is Toast

Even praying won't help Justin Trudeau

For those who supported and continue to support the lofty goals of the 2015 Trudeau Liberals, it's a disappointing fall from grace and a nasty betrayal of trust, the failure of the Liberal government to deliver on what it promised landing squarely on the shoulders of Justin Trudeau.

Gaff after gaff has taken its toll on the now dufus Trudeau who can no longer lecture us from the moral high ground over his pet issues like the environment, feminism, equality and climate change.

Gone is his moral superiority that resonated with Canadians in the last election, the disappointment palpable and the betrayal agonizing.
Regardless of what happens, a Liberal or Conservative minority government, Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister or opposition leader is untenable.
While Justin may remain firmly ensconced in his fantasy world, those around him are looking past his tenure as leader with some already planning leadership bids when he inevitably gets dumped.

Make no mistake, although Trudeau has through his actions betrayed those goals and demonstrated that he's a fraud, the Liberal party platform still resonates with enough Canadians that should the Liberals have dumped Trudeau and gone with a new leader they'd have won this election in a cakewalk.
That's right a cakewalk.

I daresay that the Liberal party brain trust would be more than happy to see a Conservative minority government that could be overthrown at will, rather than muddle on in a minority government position led by a completely damaged and discredited Prime Minister Trudeau.

As Trudeau faces his mortality as Prime Minister he is becoming more and more unhinged, making claims and promises that even his most loyal supporters understand to be desperate measures.

His recent warnings that the environment would be the biggest loser under a Conservative government is laughable as if he himself has actually made progress in lowering Canada's emissions.
But my favourite idiotic promise is that he would commit to planting two billion trees to combat climate change.
If as Trudeau promises, the two billion new trees will have a significant impact on our carbon footprint, what of the 320 billion trees that exist in Canada already?

That's right Canada already has 320 billion trees.
In fact, Canada's forests are so large and bountiful that they completely obliterate our carbon footprint and then some. But that fact will  be discussed in another post.

As for the Conservatives, Scheer has demonstrated that he hasn't got the right stuff and aside from traditional Conservative voters, he hasn't moved the needle through a lacklustre campaign and a personality that evokes mediocrity.

The NDP have destroyed themselves with the likeable Jagmeet Singh, whose strong and measured opinions and policies are overshadowed by his turban.
While progressives west of the Quebec border have no problem with the turban, in Quebec and parts to the east,it is toxic.

And then there is Trudeau's position on Quebec's new secularism law that forbids religious displays (read: Muslim) in some government positions.  Trudeau has softly hinted that he may intervene against the law without ever committing to do so, an ambiguous position meant to play to everyone, but in reality, satisfying no one.
This one policy pronouncement has sealed the fate of a potential Liberal majority government by raising the ire of the hitherto silent Quebec nationalist movement. The issue was tailor-made for the Bloc Quebecois and has given new life to the idea that Quebec needs the party to defend its interests in Ottawa. The shift in voter intentions in Quebec is legendary and the rise of the Bloc as a counter to the dastardly multiculturalist Trudeau has caught fire with those Quebec voters who dislike and fear Muslims and Anglophones.
If the Conservatives win a minority they will be propped up by the Bloc with Scheer surely promising Quebec nationalists what he must in order to assure its support.
While it will serve Conservatives in the short run, the appeasement of the Bloc will play out badly in English Canada and be perceived as a naked deal with the devil.

While the destruction of Justin Trudeau will play out, one way or another over the next months, Liberal planners are hoping for sooner than later, so that they can get back to ruling Canada in a majority government in the next election, perhaps a year to eighteen months ahead.

As for predictions here are mine.

• The Bloc Quebecois will sweep virtually all the ridings outside the greater Montreal and Quebec regions which represent about 35 seats.
• The NDP will be lucky to save two seats in Quebec, the unlikely Ruth Ellen Brosseau and Alexandre Boulerice the best hopes.
• The Conservatives will win about ten or fewer seats in Quebec and the Liberal the rest.
• Nationally. the Conservative will win about ten seats more than the Liberals but not enough for a majority government.
• The NDP will win nationally less than than 20 seats and the Greens, well who cares about the Greens
• Look for a defacto coalition government between the Conservatives and the Bloc, which will be opposed by a defacto coalition between the Liberals and the NDP.
• The Conservative government will last less than eighteen months.

Anthony Housefather's History of Dirty Campaign Tricks.

News item:

Quebec Liberal volunteer caught disposing of 

Conservative campaign literature

"A volunteer helping out with the re-election campaign of Quebec Liberal Anthony Housefather was caught disposing of Conservative literature out on the campaign trail.
The incident was witnessed by a Conservative volunteer who happened to be canvassing the same apartment building in Côte Saint-Luc, Que., on Sept. 25. 
Documents shared with CBC News show that the witness claims Housefather was campaigning with several volunteers at the time of the incident.

The Liberals deny the MP himself did anything wrong. Housefather was photographed in the building with his campaign team at the time. A spokesperson for Housefather confirmed a volunteer has been spoken to about this issue.  "Mr. Housefather had no involvement in this incident," spokesperson Daniel Gans wrote in an email, adding the candidate has "addressed the matter directly with the volunteer involved in the incident."  "Moving forward, and in order to prevent this kind of behaviour, Mr. Housefather will be taking steps to ensure all individuals participating in his campaign understand that this behaviour is not acceptable in any way."CBC

Something about the above article piqued my memory.
I checked my email archive for a correspondence I had received from a contact, a person whom I have great respect for and someone who has been a valuable and credible source in the past.
Back in February of this year, he wrote to me about Anthony Housefather and how the Mount-Royal Liberal member of Parliament was caught red-handed destroying campaign posters of the opposing NO camp, way back in 1992 during the referendum on the Charlottetown Accord.

Now I never wrote about it because it was a long time ago when Housefather was a college student and youthful indiscretions can be pardoned. But if the behaviour is repeated, especially when one has become an elected Member of the Canadian Parliament official it begs the questions as to whether the behaviour represents a disturbing pattern.

Here is the story as I've been told;

"Did you know that, in a strange but very possible way, the only reason Anthony Housefather is an MP today is because of the kindness of one {redacted} (yes, THAT {redacted}; we used to be best friends)? Let me explain.{redacted} and I worked on the "No" side in the 1992 Charlottetown Referendum campaign. We were putting up posters around NDG/Cote St. Luc for several hours and an MUCTC bus driver came along in his bus, saw us, and informed us that he saw a young male taking down our posters. He said that if we liked, he would act as a witness to identify the young man if we wanted to press charges. Well, you guessed it: that young man -- whom we then searched out and came upon -- was none other than one Anthony Housefather, then attending undergraduate McGill. We not only confronted him but saw him engaged in the dastardly deed as well. I then discussed with {redacted} whether he wanted to press charges (I, like the bus driver, was willing to) and he declined. I daresay that if {redacted} wanted to proceed with the charges, it is very possible that (1) Housefather would have been convicted; and (2) because of the conviction, he wouldn't have been accepted into McGill Law School; and (3) he never would have become mayor or MP. So in a very weird way, Housefather may have {redacted} to thank for his political career."

I contacted the other party mentioned in the post, who grew tremendously uncomfortable with my questions about the incident.
Clearly a Trudeau supporter, he refused to confirm the story, but interestingly when I told him that I would not run the story if he denied it happened, he refused to say that the story was untrue. Perhaps his loyalty wouldn't allow him to confirm the story but his honesty did not allow him to deny it.
He hemmed and hawed and tried to change the subject but when the question was put to him point blank, he just refused to say yes or no.
I have the Facebook Messenger exchange to prove it.

I wrote Anthony Housefather via his Parliamentary email for comment but he refused to answer at all.
Now a few more details have come to my attention.
The incident happened in Cote-Saint-Luc in the afternoon near Cavendish and Cote Saint Luc Road and other than the bus driver and the two campaign workers involved there is another witness.

And so Housefather's pious affirmation that he hadn't anything to do with his volunteer's dirty trick sounds a bit suspect, considering Housefather was guilty of the exact same offence way back when.
Perhaps its time for a healthy dose of the truth.

Since Housefather has chosen to ignore this lowly blogster, perhaps a higher profile reporter could put the question to him.
After all, constituents have a right to know who their MP is exactly.

Trudeau The Lame Duck

I'm not sure of the effect of the latest Trudeau scandal will have on the federal election as voters are a lot less disturbed than the media would have us believe.
Voters have proven over and over again that foibles count less than agenda as Donald Trump has proven with his resilient popularity despite his many moral and ethical failings.

As for the blackface brouhaha, the media has in fact blown up the scandal as if it was the end of the world.
I'm not so sure it is.

Canada is largely a liberal country with the Conservatives generally winning power when the NDP and Liberals split the liberal vote, but the reality is that substantially more Canadians fall on the left-hand side of the political spectrum than the right.

It remains amusing and somewhat sad that the political undoing of Trudeau may (and I repeat 'may') be undone by something so stupid as wearing blackface twenty and thirty years ago.
Like Al Capone whose many crimes went unpunished, it was simple tax evasion that finally sent him to jail for eleven years, ending his lifelong criminal career.

I fully expect this scandal to peter out, but not without repercussions for the Trudeau brand and his holier-than-thou political persona.

For Canadian voters, the alternative is the uninteresting and decidedly bland Andrew Scheer, who has impressed nobody with his anyone-but-Trudeau campaign strategy, a man without morals or even a plan, destined to be a caretaker if elected.

Perhaps that's a good thing considering the damage the Trudeau Liberals have wreaked upon the Canadian pocketbook with massive and unnecessary deficits used to buy voter loyalty, something that Canadians should be ashamed of for accepting.

But Andrew Scheer's election to the Conservative leadership was predicated on a fraud, whereby Canada's dairy industry bought up thousands of phoney memberships in order to support him at the convention in return for his commitment to retain the cartel status of the dairy industry in Canada.
That cynical and fraudulent support led him to a razor-thin victory, something he had the chutzpah to gloat over in his victory speech, guzzling a carton of milk at the podium in tribute.

So the choice for Canadians this election is grim.

A lame-duck Prime Minister Trudeau whose bread and butter feminine/environment/apology game plan is destroyed or a Prime Minister Scheer who has proven that before even getting into power, he will unabashedly play ball with the powerful special interests.
As for the NDP, their numbers are about to be returned to the also-ran status, the party stupidly dumping Thomas Mulcair in the deluded belief that they were a stone's throw from power. Mulcair was, in fact, the best that it was going to get and replacing him with turban-clad Jagmeet Singh ensured that the NDP's power base in Quebec would be destroyed.
As for the Greens, they remain a protest vote for the radical granolas, and while they will pick up votes from the NDP, they are destined to their traditional role of filling a couple of Parliamentary opposition seats in useless and sad ignominy.

Which leaves the only politician who tells it like he actually sees it, Maxime Bernier, who has attacked all that the majority of Canadians hold sacred.
His branding of the saintly, useful idiot Greta Thunberg as unbalanced was perhaps a death blow to his campaign for legitimacy. But he voices concerns that a minority of Canadians hold but are too afraid to say out loud.
His position on immigration, climate, coddled Quebec and big government may be a lot more important than the media will admit, branding him 'Mad Max' for his heretical beliefs that run counter to liberal media bias.

At any rate, if Trudeau gets elected it will be a subdued and diminished leader that will take us forward.
There will be no more moralistic preaching, no more holier-than-thou pronouncements and no more pseudo-feminism or radical environmentalism.
The bread and butter of the Trudeau persona will be forever changed and it remains to be seen exactly what it will be.

On the international scene, Trudeau is a diminished and mortally wounded leader, seen as a fraud, particularly in the United Staes which views blackface as an unpardonable sin.

The newly-minted NBC late-night talk-show hosted by Toronto's Scarborough's own Lilly Singh dumped Trudeau unceremoniously from an appearance, something that augers poorly for the future where Trudeau's golden boy image is forever destroyed.
In light of the blackface scandal, he is seen as a pompous moralistic fraud whose comeuppance is well-deserved.
The mocking is devastating.
I saw a photo  of Trump and Trudeau shaking hands which was mockingly captioned as "Trump still keeping company with white supremacists." Ha! Ha!

While voters may not punish Trudeau at the polls, the legacy of the blackface incident will haunt his political future.
Just one future protester in blackface at a Trudeau campaign rally will be enough to destroy the moment. The blackface tool will be exploited mercilessly by his enemies and opponents.

Paradoxically, a diminished Trudeau may be preferable to the puffed-up moralist and spendthrift of these past four years.
If we are destined to re-elect Trudeau, then the new version might well be more palatable than the last.

And so this election is the saddest of all in-memory where voters will undoubtedly hold their nose as they vote for whomever.

Quebec's Premier to Canada: "Show Me the Money!"

Legault promises zero equalization.."Go ahead, we're listening!"

For Quebec Premier Francois Legault, his staunch disdain for equalization payments from Ottawa that he so hated while opposition leader seems to have morphed into fierce attachment once he became leader of the province.
As Gomer Pyle used to say....
Surprise! Surprise!

It's a little comical and sad to see him tap dance around the issue, a stark contrast to his adamant opposition to the concept when he sat in opposition as leader of the CAQ.
It's the sort of cynical reversal of election promises that should have voters skeptical of any nonsense spewed by opposition leaders when they have nothing to lose.

But we already know that....

What is interesting is the fierce defence of the program made by the Premier in the face of devastating attacks on equalization launched by Alberta Premier Jason Kenny who has, in nicer words than Trump would use, portrayed Quebec as a loser, lazy deadbeat province which is spitting in Alberta's oil soup, strictly out of spite.
He has a point..

And so Mr. Legault's comic defence of equalization is sadder than funny or funnier than sad.
His biggest deflection is that Quebec deserves the money because it is a condition of confederation.

"On Sunday, Legault defended equalization against criticism from Alberta, saying the program was part of the “original deal” when Quebec entered Confederation in 1867.
Kenny pointed out that the first equalization system was introduced in 1957, and the principle of equalization was included in the Constitution in 1982." Link

As for which Premier has a better grasp of history, La Presse has come down firmly on the side of the Alberta Premier, quoting an expert;

La Presse  put the question to Jean-Thomas Bernard, professor in the economics department of the University of Ottawa. After checking, Mr Bernard said the Albertan Premier is right. 

How addicted attached is Quebec to the billions and billions Ottawa sends each year to shore up its lagging economy.?

Well, consider this...

The CAQ youth wing recently held its convention in Sherbrooke.

Like all youth wings of all political parties, the most radical and nonsensical resolutions are passed, motions that the big boys never adopt because they are just too radical or unrealistic.

But when it came to equalization, the youth wing could not bring itself to oppose it, claiming that there were too diverse opinions to form a motion.

Let's face it, equalization is like crack cocaine to Quebec, and the idea of its supply being cut off a frightening and unthinkable scenario, like an addict horrified that his dealer is leaving town

In truth, Quebec is ashamed of its beggar status and its need to take charity from other provinces, but it doesn't stop it from taking the cash sheepishly.
That is why all the Quebec nationalist journalists and commentators have remained eerily silent on the subject.
With the devastating verbal onslaught launched by Premier Kenney, you'd think that outraged reaction would be forthcoming from Quebec's finest Canada haters.
But alas there's not much to say in defence and so silence on the issue seems to reign.
The Bock-Cotés, Bombardiers, Legaults, Proulxs, Martineaus et al, continue to rail against the evil Muslim immigrants and the clear and present danger they remain, while willfully ignoring the issue of equalization.
It is called deflection.
Nobody in the nationalist camp is really interested in debating the issue or defending Quebec.

Yes, there is the fringe commentators over on vigile.net who argue that Quebec still gets a raw financial deal from Ottawa but their arguments play largely to the rabid sovereigntists who are willfully blind.

But let us state the obvious.

1. If equalization went the other way, with Quebec shipping billions of dollars of its wealth to Alberta, Quebec would have separated years ago.
2. If Canada stopped paying equalization payments to Quebec as Mr. Kenney suggests, Quebec would leave Canada in a huff. After all, what's the point of remaining in a loveless marriage if the money is cut off.

So consider this gentle reader.

Quebec remaining a part of Canada is dependant on one thing only.

Not language protections.

Not patriotism or attachment

Not history.

Nope, it is equalization, the glue that holds Quebec fast. 

Chew on that for while.

Aside from all the other fiscal benefits, Quebec receives from the rest of Canada, the $13 billion in direct equalization is the glue that binds Quebec to Canada.

The question that remains is not whether it is worth the money to Quebec to stay in Canada, but rather is it worth it to Canadians to keep paying to keep Quebec satisfied.

What say you?