Responding correctly to Ukraine in no way changes the vast collection of poor choices he's made from SNC, to National Indigenous People's Day, or his complete and total failure to address Ottawa's occupation. For me, there's no shine here. For the sake of his party, he needs to go.
Mr. Trudeau could have committed to increasing Canada's defense spending, the way Germany just did. But no, he will give no targets against which he could be held accountable.
Meanwhile, we have some 500 troops in Latvia and will increase that by 120. In case of real need, we could, perhaps, increase that by 3,500, but I suspect that would stretch our armed forces. By the way, out armed forces number some 65,000. What are the others doing?
When the truckers came to Ottawa, Mr. Trudeau and many of his Liberal MPs went into hiding, quite literally, because, you know, there might have been some "hard men" in the convoy. Contrast with the conduct of Mr. Zelenskyy and countless other Ukrainian leaders.
These are the stories that drive sane people nuts. (Ok. Maybe just me). Polls indicate that his numbers have bounced back with his version of crisis management. Who gets polled? Drama students? He has done little more than pose and glad-hand with our troops in Europe. Who could possibly fail at that? The contributions made were more or less in line with pretty much all of our allies. Did everyone polled forget just how ineffective he has been before this crisis? In a crisis that would directly affect Canada his leadership history has shown him to be completely incapable of rendering a positive outcome. Was the pollsters question “which Canadian political leader with great hair exhibits the best leadership abilities while wearing cool socks?”
Trudeau isn’t shining; he’s basking in his own reflection, as usual. This time he’s playing the part of serious, concerned prime minister, defender of democracy. Ha! If his ego and his ideology didn’t make him so dangerous he’d be a joke. I agree that at this point there’s not much we can do, but perhaps if this government hadn’t made such a concerted effort to cripple the oil and gas industry (not to mention pipelines), we’d be in a better position to help Europe at least.
Ah yes, Prime Minister Bobblehead. Ok so what has he actually done beyond taking photo-ops and bobbing his head in tune with the NATO song? What kind of arms can we be sending that are useful? We can't even arm our own troops properly.
Where are the Ukrainian refugees? What is the government doing to help farmers grow more wheat? Does he realize how much Natgas is used to make the fertilizer that the world won't be getting from Russia or Ukraine?
Which do you think can happen faster -- us becoming an gas/oil exporter to Europe and Asia or getting all our energy from renewables? When asked about helping with oil and gas Trudeau lectured on renewables. Sure that would be great (eventually) and we couldn't export in the short term but we could make it happen faster than renewables. And trading Russian oil for Saudi oil for our domestic consumption is just stupid.
Shine is the wrong word. He talks in platitudes and sounds like a robot. However he will come up short as he did with the rail blockades and the trucker protests. His weak cabinet is incapable of seeing ahead and making good policy because he has a simplistic view of any issue and he got rid of people who could think. What he is doing is only theatre.
This is not my idea of “shining”. We abandoned Afghans to whom we made guarantees - until I see some serious movement in our increasingly sclerotic system which assists refugees I remain unimpressed. He also refused to commit to increasing our defense spending (most of his answers to any questions put to him were the evasions we’ve come to expect here at home). Our military has pistols from the Second World War, and our PM is an unserious person in a serious situation.
The photo of him pretending to cry for the people of Ukraine made me want to hurl. It was classic Trudeau. Fake emotion with no substance. He literally makes my skin crawl. As to Canada’s military might - we couldn’t stop the Vietnamese navy from sailing up the St Lawrence let alone the Chinese. But I am sure progressives will take all the wrong lessons from this. The Great Green Military EV Reset or something.
I am amazed at the sheer hypocrisy of our Prime Minister after listening to his speech abroad. Him citing Thomas Mann, "The infinite dignity of each "individual" means no one should get left out of society." I almost laughed until I cried after his rant against the unvaccinated and his divisive and horrific behavior he created for his entirety of being in office. He only survives with group think.
To hear him say "This is also true for people who hold different political views." "We all need to commit to more listening and less shouting. Diversity of ideas helps us learn from one another.Talking with people who think differently than us is how we challenge ourselves, and challenging is how we grow." Thank god Garnett Genius has put forth a bill to add that there should be no Political discrimination held against Canadians in this country. We seem to be in need of protection due to his last attack on the "fringe minority" with "unacceptable views"! We are to all be treated equal unless you disagree with him and his ideology. Then prepare to be handled with full force attacks to bring you down.
For him to spew forth words that were created from his own utter failures, was the epitome of hypocrisy and his true need to the rule over his kingdom. How any Canadian can think him any form of a hero is beyond me. He is a crass and devout liar who feeds off his own hypocrisy and seeds fertile grounds to create civil war in his own country by pitting Canadians against Canadians. Vaccinated against unvaccinated, East against West, Liberals against Conservatives, victims against perpetrators, working class against the Laptop class. He is the king of division. Unbelievable! Yet his approval is rising for feeding into a war in Ukraine while aiding to have it continue. Diplomacy is all he can offer as we have little else but his pathetic words to send to Ukraine due to his lack of attention on protecting Canadians, let alone aiding any other country.
Wow! Why does Trudeau inspire such vitriol from comments? I have generally seen some very thoughtful comments to articles in The Line but not today. It reminds me of 2015 when Conservatives labelled Liberals as suffering from Harper Derangement Syndrome. Same tone.
Beyond Trudeau (who is simply a figurehead at this point) there is no evidence of any serious policy consideration in cabinet.
I fear that the gov't lacks the will to make any hard decisions, and will attempt to fund all its existing priorities (reconciliation, climate change, Covid, etc.) and add new ones to the pile (primarily health and defense related). Rebuilding our armed forces and getting serious about national security is going to cost a fortune. The most likely scenario is that Anand loses the fight at cabinet and defense gets window-dressing and hopeful promises only, knowing that, as always, the Americans will defend us.
However, the government track record is one of promising to spend immense sums but being unable to actually spend more than a fraction of what is promised. So whatever gets promised in the budget is probably meaningless anyway.
I agree with you on this, Matt… I’m no fan of Trudeau the Younger, but he’s done ok on this file. I can only imagine what we could get done with a REAL PM 😁… I’d be very curious to see what Ms Freeland would be doing…
A friend of mine is a Paramedic in Ottawa. After the 2nd day of protests, they had to demand police escort on every call downtown, because they were getting rocks thrown at them.
According to that friend, in the first 4 days of the protest: there were 2 stabbings, 1 shooting, the staff of a soup kitchen were assaulted, and of course the attempted arson of an apartment building that you seem to have overlooked.
I have 6 other friends who live in the affected area, all reported being threatened and accosted by protesters.
A friend of mine at Health Canada told me that the area's hospital workers were ordered to wear "civilian" clothes to work for the duration of the protest, over fears they would be assaulted.
As for the PM: I personally saw the protesters waving effigies of him being lynched. Any cop who lets the PM get within a mile of that isn't doing his job.
I want to know why we're wasting our thoughts on Canada's most selfish people when the doctors and nurses who have worn themselves out trying to save us can't even get a word in.
Responding correctly to Ukraine in no way changes the vast collection of poor choices he's made from SNC, to National Indigenous People's Day, or his complete and total failure to address Ottawa's occupation. For me, there's no shine here. For the sake of his party, he needs to go.
Mr. Trudeau could have committed to increasing Canada's defense spending, the way Germany just did. But no, he will give no targets against which he could be held accountable.
Meanwhile, we have some 500 troops in Latvia and will increase that by 120. In case of real need, we could, perhaps, increase that by 3,500, but I suspect that would stretch our armed forces. By the way, out armed forces number some 65,000. What are the others doing?
When the truckers came to Ottawa, Mr. Trudeau and many of his Liberal MPs went into hiding, quite literally, because, you know, there might have been some "hard men" in the convoy. Contrast with the conduct of Mr. Zelenskyy and countless other Ukrainian leaders.
These are the stories that drive sane people nuts. (Ok. Maybe just me). Polls indicate that his numbers have bounced back with his version of crisis management. Who gets polled? Drama students? He has done little more than pose and glad-hand with our troops in Europe. Who could possibly fail at that? The contributions made were more or less in line with pretty much all of our allies. Did everyone polled forget just how ineffective he has been before this crisis? In a crisis that would directly affect Canada his leadership history has shown him to be completely incapable of rendering a positive outcome. Was the pollsters question “which Canadian political leader with great hair exhibits the best leadership abilities while wearing cool socks?”
Trudeau isn’t shining; he’s basking in his own reflection, as usual. This time he’s playing the part of serious, concerned prime minister, defender of democracy. Ha! If his ego and his ideology didn’t make him so dangerous he’d be a joke. I agree that at this point there’s not much we can do, but perhaps if this government hadn’t made such a concerted effort to cripple the oil and gas industry (not to mention pipelines), we’d be in a better position to help Europe at least.
Ah yes, Prime Minister Bobblehead. Ok so what has he actually done beyond taking photo-ops and bobbing his head in tune with the NATO song? What kind of arms can we be sending that are useful? We can't even arm our own troops properly.
Where are the Ukrainian refugees? What is the government doing to help farmers grow more wheat? Does he realize how much Natgas is used to make the fertilizer that the world won't be getting from Russia or Ukraine?
Which do you think can happen faster -- us becoming an gas/oil exporter to Europe and Asia or getting all our energy from renewables? When asked about helping with oil and gas Trudeau lectured on renewables. Sure that would be great (eventually) and we couldn't export in the short term but we could make it happen faster than renewables. And trading Russian oil for Saudi oil for our domestic consumption is just stupid.
Shine is the wrong word. He talks in platitudes and sounds like a robot. However he will come up short as he did with the rail blockades and the trucker protests. His weak cabinet is incapable of seeing ahead and making good policy because he has a simplistic view of any issue and he got rid of people who could think. What he is doing is only theatre.
This is not my idea of “shining”. We abandoned Afghans to whom we made guarantees - until I see some serious movement in our increasingly sclerotic system which assists refugees I remain unimpressed. He also refused to commit to increasing our defense spending (most of his answers to any questions put to him were the evasions we’ve come to expect here at home). Our military has pistols from the Second World War, and our PM is an unserious person in a serious situation.
The photo of him pretending to cry for the people of Ukraine made me want to hurl. It was classic Trudeau. Fake emotion with no substance. He literally makes my skin crawl. As to Canada’s military might - we couldn’t stop the Vietnamese navy from sailing up the St Lawrence let alone the Chinese. But I am sure progressives will take all the wrong lessons from this. The Great Green Military EV Reset or something.
I am amazed at the sheer hypocrisy of our Prime Minister after listening to his speech abroad. Him citing Thomas Mann, "The infinite dignity of each "individual" means no one should get left out of society." I almost laughed until I cried after his rant against the unvaccinated and his divisive and horrific behavior he created for his entirety of being in office. He only survives with group think.
To hear him say "This is also true for people who hold different political views." "We all need to commit to more listening and less shouting. Diversity of ideas helps us learn from one another.Talking with people who think differently than us is how we challenge ourselves, and challenging is how we grow." Thank god Garnett Genius has put forth a bill to add that there should be no Political discrimination held against Canadians in this country. We seem to be in need of protection due to his last attack on the "fringe minority" with "unacceptable views"! We are to all be treated equal unless you disagree with him and his ideology. Then prepare to be handled with full force attacks to bring you down.
For him to spew forth words that were created from his own utter failures, was the epitome of hypocrisy and his true need to the rule over his kingdom. How any Canadian can think him any form of a hero is beyond me. He is a crass and devout liar who feeds off his own hypocrisy and seeds fertile grounds to create civil war in his own country by pitting Canadians against Canadians. Vaccinated against unvaccinated, East against West, Liberals against Conservatives, victims against perpetrators, working class against the Laptop class. He is the king of division. Unbelievable! Yet his approval is rising for feeding into a war in Ukraine while aiding to have it continue. Diplomacy is all he can offer as we have little else but his pathetic words to send to Ukraine due to his lack of attention on protecting Canadians, let alone aiding any other country.
Wow! Why does Trudeau inspire such vitriol from comments? I have generally seen some very thoughtful comments to articles in The Line but not today. It reminds me of 2015 when Conservatives labelled Liberals as suffering from Harper Derangement Syndrome. Same tone.
Beyond Trudeau (who is simply a figurehead at this point) there is no evidence of any serious policy consideration in cabinet.
I fear that the gov't lacks the will to make any hard decisions, and will attempt to fund all its existing priorities (reconciliation, climate change, Covid, etc.) and add new ones to the pile (primarily health and defense related). Rebuilding our armed forces and getting serious about national security is going to cost a fortune. The most likely scenario is that Anand loses the fight at cabinet and defense gets window-dressing and hopeful promises only, knowing that, as always, the Americans will defend us.
However, the government track record is one of promising to spend immense sums but being unable to actually spend more than a fraction of what is promised. So whatever gets promised in the budget is probably meaningless anyway.
Mmm? Damn with faint praise?
A fair assessment. I still will be very happy when JT takes his long overdue walk in the snow.
I agree with you on this, Matt… I’m no fan of Trudeau the Younger, but he’s done ok on this file. I can only imagine what we could get done with a REAL PM 😁… I’d be very curious to see what Ms Freeland would be doing…
A friend of mine is a Paramedic in Ottawa. After the 2nd day of protests, they had to demand police escort on every call downtown, because they were getting rocks thrown at them.
According to that friend, in the first 4 days of the protest: there were 2 stabbings, 1 shooting, the staff of a soup kitchen were assaulted, and of course the attempted arson of an apartment building that you seem to have overlooked.
I have 6 other friends who live in the affected area, all reported being threatened and accosted by protesters.
A friend of mine at Health Canada told me that the area's hospital workers were ordered to wear "civilian" clothes to work for the duration of the protest, over fears they would be assaulted.
As for the PM: I personally saw the protesters waving effigies of him being lynched. Any cop who lets the PM get within a mile of that isn't doing his job.
I want to know why we're wasting our thoughts on Canada's most selfish people when the doctors and nurses who have worn themselves out trying to save us can't even get a word in.
Matt, quit signing his praises. His response to this situation has been horrible as this brilliant reporter pointed out: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/matt-gurney-trudeau-has-perfected-the-art-of-not-answering-questions-and-our-allies-have-noticed/ar-AAV7O1h?ocid=msedgntp