This may be almost a months old news to many of you, but I’m trying to get caught back up on politics here. I saw this article written by former NDP leader Tom Mulcair for CTV, and I have to say, I’m enjoying hate-reading it. The guy is a malicious soyboy, if ever there was one.
CTV:
Justin Trudeau has just pulled off the type of move that has kept his Liberals in power for most of confederation. After voters handed Trudeau his second minority, Jagmeet Singh’s NDP has offered to effectively give him a majority up until the next scheduled election, in 2025.
Quite a coup.
The average Canadian, who is not an ardent Conservative partisan, probably breathed a sigh of relief.
Tom Mulcair’s “average Canadian.”
Imagine thinking that the “average Canadian,” gives a single fuck about which of the three major shill parties makes what coalition deal. Like, we’re all sitting there collectively “breathing out a sigh of relief,” because, what? Because Jagmeet Singh and Joffrey Trudeau have yet another coalition government where they can just do whatever their donors want.
But I mean, they could have done that without a coalition government. Never forget that when Jagmeet Singh proposes labeling the Proud Boys a terrorist organization that every single conservative voted in favour of that. Literally every single one.
In fact, I’ll be writing up on that later today, because it is absolutely enraging.
On the Liberal side, the answer is easy. They get a full mandate and control 100% of government with less than ⅓ of Canadians’ votes.
For the NDP, they get a couple of concrete things they’ll be able to point to at the next election like dental care for kids (promised for this year) and anti-scab legislation in federally-regulated industries. That last one is huge from a labour point of view. Trudeau somehow forgot to mention it during his news conference.
Dental care for kids is a fine policy. The same is true for scab labour stuff. But considering that this is coming from the NDP, and the biggest scab labour is migrants, I highly doubt this will be in the effective in the slightest. It is fundamentally opposed to their agenda.
Most of the document is aspirational and speaks of intentions. They’ll be “continuing progress towards”…pharmacare.
On climate change the Liberals promise to keep “advancing measures to achieve significant emissions reductions…” and “continuing to find ways to further accelerate the trajectory…” . There’s no promise to meet our obligations under the Paris Accord.
There we go. I was getting a bit worried that the NDP and Liberals might stop being complete corporate whores doing trivially debunked opposition to Bezosism. I mean sure, they support trillion dollar multinationals engaging in mass censorship of the peasants. And sure, they support deca-billion multinational pharmaceuticals pushing Q4 revenue earnings in hot new expanding markets. But to the extent that they might do some trivial things here or there, like child dental care, that has me a bit worried. They might start being seen as real opposition.
So it’s reassuring to see them retreat into vague promises and aspirations. Although the ones on global warming catastrophism might actually get upheld, because those are all random grifts. The conservatives would also be supporting those.
As Canada’s commissioner of the environment and sustainable development has pointed out, under the Liberals we’ve had the worst record in the G7. That’s something that Singh also pointed to in the last election campaign so it’s surprising to see this weak language on such a key issue.
Imagine being such a fake politician that you’re not even holding Trudeau to the grifts. Like, nobody actually gives a fuck about “muh global warming.” Al Gore goes and tells everyone about sea levels rising forty feet in the next two decades or whatever, and then buys oceanfront property.
On something as cut and dry as ending subsidies to the oil and gas sectors, the only commitment is to “develop a plan to phase-out public financing of the fossil fuel sector”. Why wait? It’s a long-standing promise and a commitment Canada has already made internationally. They could do nothing over the next three years and still theoretically respect this weak stipulation.
They have a commitment to, at some point in the future, starting to think about developing a plan for how they’re going to… not give oil and gas corporations your tax dollars.
I mean as far as campaign promises go, I think that’s one they’re going to keep.
In assessing what was actually concurred in, it’s worth noting that Trudeau and Singh don’t appear to have actually signed a formal agreement. Both put out press releases talking about the deal. Neither appears to have wanted to sign a common document setting it out or, for that matter, show up at the same news conference.
Translation: Jagmeet Singh is so fake, that he barely asks for anything, and doesn’t even demand that Trudeau put it in writing. He’s cynically calculated that most Canadians are so disgusted with federal politics, that this is the bare minimum he needs to do to be seen as the economic voice of the common man, since the Liberals and Conservatives are just 100% open corporate shills.
