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Le Dauphin...Justin Trudeau: Exclusive Article by Las (Canada)
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11-7-15 9:07 AM EST: Former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and the young Dauphin Justin Trudeau
Well, it's official. Yesterday Justin Trudeau was sworn in as Canada's 23rd Prime Minister. Trudeau's father, Pierre Elliot Trudeau was Canada's 15th Prime Minister when he was sworn in back in April 1968. The swearing in ceremony was conducted at Rideau Hall, the residence of the Queen's representative, the Governor General. Outside were hordes of screaming and enthusiastic Obamaesque devotees crowded under a jumbotron for the occasion. Contrast this to the sober and understated swearing in for Stephen Harper when he first became Prime Minister in 2006.
Having just recovered after two weeks from the brutal molestation and rape of everything reasonable and fair in Canadian politics, I ran across a quote from Bill Whittle that jumped out at me. When I first heard it I initially thought he was talking about Justin Trudeau. Whittle said this:
"he is the ascended wet dream image of every progressive reporter and editor and publisher and any of these other idol worshiping adolescent girls that make up what was once the proud profession of newspaper men and he's walking kryptonite to spineless gutless ... cowards ..." (quote from Bill Whittle)
https://youtu.be/mvEhSkRG9f8
Whittle was talking about Barack Obama of course. But he could easily have been talking about Canada's new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Le Dauphin.
Rather than getting into the weeds about what Trudeau thinks, or the lack thereof, it may be instructive to take a look at the nature and characteristics of some of the forces and influences that have propelled Trudeau to the top. For our purposes we'll look at three of the main ones. The primary influencing factor is Justin's father, former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. The second vehicle propelling him to power is the old Liberal Party infrastructure, namely the Liberal Parties of Canada and of Ontario. The liberalism emanating from these parties is an indication of the kinds of corruption and extreme liberal notions that we can expect from Trudeau. Liberal Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is a provincial Premier who actively campaigned on Trudeau's behalf and against Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It was an unprecedented action. But Liberals simply don't care anymore. They don't care about ethics or morality; they don't care about precedent or propriety. The third vehicle propelling Trudeau to power is probably the most important: the establishment media.
Justin Trudeau is the first son of Canada's former Liberal Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau. While Trudeau senior was a man of intellectual weight and presence, contrary to popular Liberal mythology, he was one of Canada's worst Prime Ministers. As in every personality cult, Pierre Trudeau is perceived by Canada's Liberals as a demigod. But his record is a disaster from which Canada has yet to recover. Trudeau senior was even perceived as a buffoon by some International leaders. There is a famous photograph of Trudeau mocking Queen Elizabeth behind her back with a clownish pirouette.
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau piled up massive federal debt (it grew tenfold during his tenure) which fell on the back of Conservative Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney. Mulroney was forced to deal with Trudeau's debt through a goods and services tax which still haunts Canadians whenever they make a purchase with their hard earned dollars. Trudeau senior, like all Liberals of his bent, held a clichéd 1960's contempt for America. Richard Nixon is famously said to have called Trudeau "an asshole" and a "son of a bitch". Yet, at a state dinner in Ottawa in 1972, when Trudeau junior was just a few months old, Nixon toasted the baby's arrival and joked that he would one day become Prime Minister. This is the now famous "Nixon Prophecy".
Trudeau senior was responsible for dragging Canada into a constitutional crisis to cement his legacy at repatriating Canada's Constitution from Westminster. His obsession with Quebec not only alienated the country, his obsession with Quebec and the French language sought to strip Canada of every vestige to its British heritage and roots. Quebec would remain French, but the rest of Canada would be transformed into a multicultural mosaic. Trudeau's multiculturalism was enshrined in Section 27 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Canada's Charter, attached to the newly repatriated Constitution, is packed with a number of liberal projects including greater recognition of the French language, aboriginal rights and multiculturalism. And the Trudeau constitution has lead to an egregious and litigious human rights industry by judicial elites through judicial activism and powerful appointed judges. This is the Constitution so admired by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a 2012 interview for Egyptian Television where she denigrated her own US Constitution and envisioned the Canadian Constitution as a model for emulation. Pierre Trudeau sought to cement his legacy with a made-in-Canada Constitution. The constitutional wrangling had the added benefit of political diversion while Canada was undergoing a Trudeau inspired stagflation.
Trudeau senior fancied himself an independent thinker and he certainly was. His brash self assurance rejected all ideas that did not comport with his own. Ready made or second hand ideas took a back seat to his intellectual novelties. In that sense, Trudeau was a consummate "progressive". Progressives flatter themselves on finding new ideas, reinventing things that don't need replacing, imagining unworkable solutions for non-existent problems. That was Trudeau. Canada would be shaped according to his imaginings. Trudeau put into practice "fundamental transformation". And Canada was crippled as a result. In a certain respect, Trudeau channeled his inner Donald Trump. While paying lip service to sitting MPs Trudeau quipped, "When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they're just nobodies." When Trudeau left office for the last time in 1984 he quipped to the media, "I regret I won't have you to kick around any more."
It is often said that Trudeau Senior never met a dictator he didn't like. He was a great friend to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Castro of course attended Trudeau's funeral in 2000 and was much loved by Justin as well. In 1977, Prime Minister Trudeau said "that in certain countries and at certain times a one-party state would be preferable ”I wouldn't be prepared to think I would be successful in arguing that for Canada at the present time, but such times might come, who knows?"
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/pierre-trudeaus-disastrous-record-is-finally-laid-out-for-all-to-see
Evidently the apple does not fall far from the tree. At a Liberal "women's only" fundraiser Justin Trudeau was asked what country he admired. China's basic dictatorship was his answer. Uncharacteristically, CTV made a very rare and critical news item from Trudeau's China comments:
https://youtu.be/l8wQrM5jTWc
Trudeau Senior certainly taught the younger Trudeau that Quebecers were de facto an expression of a superior culture in Canada and that the hayseed Albertans should never get power. It was the Quebec vote that entrenched Trudeau senior into power in Canada. He lost every fight outside of Quebec in the four federal elections he fought. Yet with the support of Quebec, he held onto power. It is the same Quebec vote that helped Trudeau Junior to such an overwhelming majority victory two weeks ago.
In an aside, it must be noted that part of the message of Justin Trudeau during the election was the "unfairness" of Canada's first past the post electoral system. Such a system, he and liberals in the media argued, elected Stephen Harper to a majority of seats with a minority of 39.6 percent of the popular vote. The only problem with this Liberal complaint is that Trudeau won his majority with a fractionally less popular vote of 39.47 percent. How did the media characterize the Trudeau win? "Trudeau Landslide!” Landslide? The media never called Harper’s 2011 election win a “landslide”.
During the election, "strategic voting" front groups suddenly sprang up all across Canada. They were an integral part of Harper's defeat in this election. These front groups interfered with Canada's election and were funded with outside American money from the Tides Foundation, Avaaz of New York, and the Rockerfeller Brothers Foundation. These groups pushing the proportional representation meme during the election have suddenly disappeared after their man got in. It's funny how that works!
The second influencing power around Justin Trudeau consists of the raw political power of Ontario's ruling Liberals. I focus mainly on the Ontario Liberals because they are an already existing Liberal government ruling in Canada for the last ten years. And Ontario's Liberals have kept the home fires burning while the federal Liberal party was in the wilderness the last nine years. There is a photo taken during the 2013 Gay Pride even in Toronto that places Trudeau squarely in the middle of the Liberal Party progressive legacy. It epitomizes everything Canadians can expect from a Justin Trudeau Prime Ministership. In the photo on the left is the former Deputy Education Minister for Ontario Ben Levin. To Levin's left is the then Liberal Member of Canada's Parliament, Justin Trudeau. To Trudeau's left is Kathleen Wynne, the freshly minted Liberal Party Premier of Ontario (akin to a US State Governor). To Wynne's left is the former New Democratic Party Premier of Ontario, Bob Rae. Rae switched parties to sit as interim Liberal leader in Federal Parliament.
Premier Bob Rae's tenure running Ontario twenty years ago was a disaster. His legacy saw the tripling of Ontario's debt which saddled Ontario with higher taxes and with the highest marginal tax rates in North America. Ontario saw higher unemployment, and the downgrading of Ontario's credit rating twice. Kathleen Wynne, the present Liberal Premier for Ontario, is slated to bring disaster on Ontario in much the same manner as Rae. She already has one credit downgrade under her belt in July of this year by Standard and Poor’s. Successive Ontario Liberal governments have not heeded the calls for spending control, Kathleen Wynne is continuing the Liberal legacy of her predecessor which has doubled Ontario's debt from the time when the Conservative's prudently ran finances for the Province.
