All Things Trudeau, Chapter 2

[The Green Barbarian]

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[The Green Barbarian]

Sabrina Maddeaux: Lacklustre Liberal throne speech promises to worsen economic problems

It’s difficult to imagine a less-inspiring throne speech. By their very nature, these occasions aren’t exactly the most lively of events, but Governor General Mary May Simon’s version was downright painful. Delivered in a stilted monotone, with her nose in a binder, it was almost as though Simon was reading the speech for the first time. She barely made it through the acronym “LGBTQ” when speaking to the long-awaited ban on conversion therapy. Fifth graders regularly deliver more engaging, articulate presentations.

Does this matter? After all, the throne speech is really about signalling the government’s priorities and goals, and how it’ll work to achieve them. When the delivery is this pitiful, I’d argue yes. As a largely symbolic figurehead –– a more dignified version of a mascot –– it matters whether you can inspire, or at the very least portray an air of competence, to a nervous and frustrated public. That she was not better prepared speaks volumes about just how seriously we should take the speech’s promises, and the government who stands behind them.

Now, to those promises. The 32-minute speech was more or less a retread of the Liberals’ major platform promises. There was a large focus on reconciliation, climate change, and ending the pandemic. There hasn’t been much change on any of these files since the election, and so there wasn’t an expectation to hear anything new.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/s ... d=msedgntp

[Pappywinkle]

Liberals promise to control pandemic, fight climate change and rebuild economy in throne speech

The Liberal government is promising to bring the pandemic to an end while building the economy, fighting climate change, rolling out new child care deals with the provinces and pursuing reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor general, unveiled those priorities today in a speech from the throne that pointed to progress in the relationship between the federal government and Indigenous peoples.

"Already, I have seen how Canadians are committed to reconciliation. Indigenous Peoples are reclaiming our history, stories, culture and language through action," Simon said In a speech delivered in English, French and Inuktitut.

"Non-Indigenous peoples are coming to understand and accept the true impact of the past and the pain suffered by generations of Indigenous Peoples. Together, they are walking the path toward reconciliation."

Simon said that, to strengthen that relationship, the federal government will take action on health care and climate change and get to the root of what took place at residential schools across the country.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/throne ... -1.6259615

[The Green Barbarian]

Justin Trudeau has a problem in Washington. Here’s why Joe Biden isn’t listening

WASHINGTON—When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the U.S. capital this week for the first time since President Joe Biden’s election, two remarkable timing coincidences illustrated the situation Canada faces in its dealings with its biggest and closest ally. You could say they outline the “state of the relationship” — which is a lead-in to the first coincidence.

The Canadian American Business Council, run by former diplomat Scotty Greenwood, hosts an annual “State of the Relationship” gala dinner in Washington that is as big a function for those who work on cross-border issues as exists. This year’s gala — at a ritzy hotel with an astounding view of the White House through its open windows — had been scheduled for Nov. 17 long before it was announced that the prime minister would be attending a White House summit the next day.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2021 ... ening.html

[Gone_Fishin]

These Trudeau supporters are really, really stupid.

Is it from all the weed they smoke, or is it just systemic stupidity in Liberal circles?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=950799322454456

[The Green Barbarian]

These Trudeau supporters are really, really stupid.

Is it from all the weed they smoke, or is it just systemic stupidity in Liberal circles?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=950799322454456

[Hurtlander]

These Trudeau supporters are really, really stupid.

Is it from all the weed they smoke, or is it just systemic stupidity in Liberal circles?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=950799322454456

[foenix]

These Trudeau supporters are really, really stupid.

Is it from all the weed they smoke, or is it just systemic stupidity in Liberal circles?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=950799322454456

.....what does that say for JT's opponents and their supporters that they couldn't manage to oust JT and the Liberals, yet.....AGAIN? That's I'm sure called systemic losing because they are either too stupid to realize they are stupid and keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. I'm not sure if weed will cause that kind of stupidity.

[Gone_Fishin]

Sabrina Maddeaux: Lacklustre Liberal throne speech promises to worsen economic problems

It’s difficult to imagine a less-inspiring throne speech. By their very nature, these occasions aren’t exactly the most lively of events, but Governor General Mary May Simon’s version was downright painful. Delivered in a stilted monotone, with her nose in a binder, it was almost as though Simon was reading the speech for the first time. She barely made it through the acronym “LGBTQ” when speaking to the long-awaited ban on conversion therapy. Fifth graders regularly deliver more engaging, articulate presentations.

Does this matter? After all, the throne speech is really about signalling the government’s priorities and goals, and how it’ll work to achieve them. When the delivery is this pitiful, I’d argue yes. As a largely symbolic figurehead –– a more dignified version of a mascot –– it matters whether you can inspire, or at the very least portray an air of competence, to a nervous and frustrated public. That she was not better prepared speaks volumes about just how seriously we should take the speech’s promises, and the government who stands behind them.

Now, to those promises. The 32-minute speech was more or less a retread of the Liberals’ major platform promises. There was a large focus on reconciliation, climate change, and ending the pandemic. There hasn’t been much change on any of these files since the election, and so there wasn’t an expectation to hear anything new.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/s ... d=msedgntp

Justin Trudeau's priorities don't include making life more affordable for mid- and low-income Canadians.

[foenix]

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[The Green Barbarian]

That's I'm sure called systemic losing because they are either too stupid to realize they are stupid and keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. I'm not sure if weed will cause that kind of stupidity.

Exactly - it's this stupidity that has cost Justin and his team of imbeciles two elections in a row right now. Good to see some Lib supporters waking up to this!

[nucksRnum1]

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Chris Selley: So much for Liberal ambition

Remember the Great Reset ? The theory, which reached its crescendo around a year ago, was that Justin Trudeau & Company planned to transform Canada’s society and economy, at the very least along dramatically more socialist lines — think Scandinavia — or, if you listened to the more bug-eyed prognosticators, into a totalitarian hellscape where private property is abolished and government snipers shoot vaccine darts at scurrying pedestrians.

Even at the Scandinavian end of the predictive spectrum, it was a preposterously ambitious goal to ascribe to muddle-along Trudeau — not to mention to Canadian voters, who do not generally evince a desire to pay vastly higher taxes. Tuesday’s throne speech, however, almost sounded like a retreat from the ambitions Liberals expressed during and before the election campaign.

In launching that campaign, Trudeau insisted it was “a really important moment in Canada’s history” — the most important federal vote since 1945. (Funnily enough, when you look back at the 1945 election, it wasn’t exactly a humdinger. The Liberal slogan under Mackenzie King was “keep building a new social order for Canada.” Few Canadians would be able to name the populist Manitoban agronomist who led the Tories, unsuccessfully, into battle.)

It wasn’t just the “most important” because Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives represented the forces of darkness, waiting to drag Canadian society back into the primordial swamps. Why would a very comfortable minority government indulge such terrifying ideas? The implication, at least, was that the Liberals had some kind of transformative new vision that needed approval from the electorate — perhaps not the Great Reset, but at least something like “build back better.”

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/c ... d=msedgntp

[Ace Storman]

These Trudeau supporters are really, really stupid.

Is it from all the weed they smoke, or is it just systemic stupidity in Liberal circles?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=950799322454456

Actually...its probably ALL of the above!

[nucksRnum1]

How is winning 3 elections and having power losing? In the next 2-4 years Liberal policy and mandates will be passed and implemented. Not regressive and authoritarian conservative ones. I don't really care about the wordplay and opposite games. It's juvenile and doesn't change the facts and reality. Trudeau is PM yet again. And Trudeau is making policy yet again. Trudeau is ensuring Canadians navigate the pandemic sensibly yet again. Trudeau is making foreign policy yet again. And thank god for this. Imagine how fractured and removed from reality Canada would be if the party of "no" and "opposite" were in power right now? Bad economic measures would be portrayed as good ones. Bad policies would be portrayed as good ones. Bad foreign policies would be portrayed as good ones. And the penchant for lies and obfuscation would be turned into fake news portraying journalists besides Rex as having an axe to grind. We are in the best place for Canadians right now.