They say leadership is causing something’s time to come. Starting a wave is way better than trying to catch one or, worse, swimming against the current.
Justin Trudeau caught a wave back in 2015. He was woke when woke was cool. He and his fellow travellers were all over global warming. Heck, just tax that nasty carbon.
Fiscal policy was boring stuff. The budget would balance itself.
Indigenous relations just needed a guy in a fringed jacket paddling a canoe.
It was as easy as being cool. Or, following in a family tradition, simply being cooler than Michael Ignatieff and Stephen Harper.
But that was then. It seems these days, Justin Trudeau, much like skinny jeans, has fallen out of fashion. Mr. Sunny Ways is heading into storm clouds.
It was bound to happen. Trudeau and his happy climate warriors were in fine shape when all it took to be cool was taking a meeting with Greta Thunberg. But, when the rubber hit the road, the climate scheming imploded under the weight of its hubris.
It seems no matter how the Liberals package it, Canadians are just not buying the notion that taxing their food and heating will have any impact on the climate. Go figure.
The same goes for the Aboriginal file. Great rhetoric and significant paddling skills can’t cover up the kind of leadership that tossed Jody Wilson-Raybould from the Liberal party.
The biggest blow was probably that business about the budget balancing itself. Trudeau is eight budgets into governing. He has grown the debt and deficit at a record pace and that legacy is chasing him hard.
Next year, the government will spend twice as much on paying interest as it does on defence. And that debt just keeps growing as the annual deficit adds more burden on the backs of Canadian taxpayers. That is decidedly uncool.
Those policy failures may be easier to fix than the eight-year decline in the once mighty Canadian public service. These days, the public service doesn’t seem to be able to do much of anything and it doesn’t seem to notice that it can’t.
Can’t make payroll. Can’t buy an app. Can’t buy ships, or planes or vaccines. Heck, it can’t even run an inquiry into buying an app or foreign interference or Trudeau’s assorted vacations.
Turns out governing is serious business. Who knew?
Wokesters might be many things, but they are decidedly not serious. Take, for instance, the recent decision of Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin. She ruled that the word ‘woman’ was confusing, preferring the term “person with a vagina.”
Seriously? I can assure the learned Justice that, after many years on the planet, I can with reasonable certainty identify a woman. But I am totally baffled how I would, without a significant violation of privacy, determine who has a vagina.
Woke is over. It was in fashion for a moment in a decidedly unserious time.
Justin Trudeau has exhausted his hour on the stage. Serious times call for something more than a faded rockstar from the woke era.
Now is a great time to get serious about climate mitigation, public service that serves the public, budgets balanced by governments with priorities, investment in a modern and focused military, and above all else, a government that knows when to leave people alone.
All of that might sound revolutionary — and it is. Think of it as a Common Sense Revolution.
SNOBELEN: Time for Common Sense to replace Trudeau’s wokester era
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They say leadership is causing something’s time to come. Starting a wave is way better than trying to catch one or, worse, swimming against the current.
Justin Trudeau caught a wave back in 2015. He was woke when woke was cool. He and his fellow travellers were all over global warming. Heck, just tax that nasty carbon.
Fiscal policy was boring stuff. The budget would balance itself.
Indigenous relations just needed a guy in a fringed jacket paddling a canoe.
It was as easy as being cool. Or, following in a family tradition, simply being cooler than Michael Ignatieff and Stephen Harper.
But that was then. It seems these days, Justin Trudeau, much like skinny jeans, has fallen out of fashion. Mr. Sunny Ways is heading into storm clouds.
It was bound to happen. Trudeau and his happy climate warriors were in fine........
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