The Miracle Worker

by Eduardo del Buey

The Miracle Worker

Hallelujah!

He has appeared!

The miracle worker!

The Liberal leader who is making me reconsider my traditional centrist vote now that he has moved the Liberal Party further to the left than ever before and displayed an extraordinary level of incompetence!

His decisions to suspend GST for three months and send working Canadians $250 each smack of the kind of populism I had come to expect from a Latin American dictator.

It smacks of a short-term remedy suggested by a bunch of political copywriters rather than a well thought out plan developed by economists.

This decision contradicts what Mr. Trudeau said on Friday when he said to leave economics to the bankers – he would concentrate on Canadians.

Except no banker that I know of – nor reputable economist for that matter – appears to agree with this decision as being particularly useful to most Canadians.

Instead of restructuring the tax code to make it fairer, amending taxation on the old age pension so that elderly, retired Canadians on fixed incomes can deal with inflation, removing taxes from the purchase of new homes to both stimulate the economy and give young Canadians hope that one day they can own their own homes, he decided on a “bread and circuses” approach to throw a few billion dollars out there in the hope that this would reverse his rapidly sinking popularity.

So, there is Trudeau deciding once again on whim rather than sound analysis and good advice. Instead of policy, sound bites full of noise but little long-term positive impact.

It reflects well what he said in a media interview a year ago. He claimed that his government’s policies are excellent. The problem lay with how they were communicated.

I would argue that, with his party facing the possibility of coming in fourth in the next elections, both his actual policies and communications stink.

The same goes for his views on multiculturalism and Canadian values.

This past weekend, pro-terrorist Hamas supporters in Montreal burned businesses, cars, and buildings belonging to Concordia University and later at Montréal’s Palais de Congres. This has gone on continuously since the October 7^th Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, and I believe most Canadians are fed up with the Trudeau cabinet’s bromides rather than actions.

Instead of taking direct action to finally put an end to the rampage and lawlessness created by these Islamist groups and their supporters, Trudeau was seen dancing and handing out friendship bracelets at a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto.

I don’t blame him for taking his daughter to a concert and enjoying himself.

I do blame his for allowing virulent and violent antisemitism and frontal attacks on Canadian values to plague our streets for the past thirteen months.

He has allowed this to fester and grow under his watch and has shown no interest in addressing this threat through real actions.

I do blame him for not leaving the concert immediately after his staff informed him about developments in Montreal and thus show his strong opposition to the violence and destruction taking place in Canada’s second largest city.

I do blame him for preferring to act like a rock star instead of a leader in an ongoing crisis that threatens the very nature of Canadian society.

Nero fiddling while Montreal burns!

Trudeau has redefined Canada as a post-national state.

That may be his Canada, but, certainly, it is not mine.

I believe that Canadians have fundamental cultural and ethical values that have united generations but that this government is ignoring or, worse, trying to replace.

The Canadian values I proudly represented during my diplomatic career and that brought my parents and millions of others to our shores are in danger of dying due to the unvetted immigration of people who despise the democratic and social values in which most Canadians believe but that these immigrants actively seek to destroy .

The Canadian values I believe in would give us a leader and government who not only stood for those values but who takes an active daily interest in putting an end to these Islamofascist attacks. A leader who takes concrete steps to end this violence and uses his authority to sanction and deport those responsible rather than simply sit and let things take their course.

The Canadian values I believe in call for immigrants to assimilate to Canadian society rather than seek to transform Canada into a reflection of the dismal world they left behind.

Immigrants who hate Canada are free to leave whenever they want. There are many countries that practice the sharia law that they seek who would welcome them. But they should never be free to propagate hatred towards basic Canadian values and work to change Canada with violence and prejudice.

Assimilation has worked for past generations of immigrants and must continue to work for those to come if the Canada we know and value is to survive.

Out of control immigration is now paying largely negative dividends for Canadians as is a multicultural policy that is replacing traditional values with a vacuum that serves few.

The Canada I represented proudly always put Canadians and Canada first. All Canadians, and Canadian institutions.

Internationally, the Trudeau government is still funding the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) and the United Nations Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) despite ample proof that both organisations are deeply and directly involved in Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist activities.

The Trudeau government also cannot or will not properly vet refugees who come from Gaza and other venues in the Middle East – the source of many of the immigrants who today are burning our major cities and attacking Jews and Jewish institutions.

In addition, Trudeau’s penchant for environmental virtue signalling has impacted the energy industry that employs over 160,000 Canadians by preventing Canada from selling Liquid Natural Gas to the many countries who want to purchase it.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s $1 billion green slush fund is a subject of ongoing criticism in Ottawa as the Liberals have misappropriated funds for their own Party members. A government audit showed that of the 226 projects funded in the past six years for a total of $836 million, there were 186 conflicts of interest.

Further to this, Guilbeault himself is accused of taking $254 million to slip to his own company. And this is but the tip of the iceberg, as the Liberals are keeping any details of the government’s $8 billion Net Zero Accelerator Fund from the public. 

And so, Mr. Trudeau has become my miracle worker.

His main opponent and likely prime minister, Pierre Poilievre, is far from perfect.

And some of the provincial premiers who have misspent federal funding for health and education are themselves Conservatives and also stand for policies with which I disagree.

But, as CBC commentator Andrew Coyne recently observed, if you are going out, go out with dignity.

Instead, Mr. Trudeau’s political miracle has been to make Mr. Poilievre a palatable alternative to many Canadians who would otherwise find him an objectionable choice.

He leaves many centrist Canadians like me with no alternative but to vote for an unpalatable Conservative leader or not vote at all.

A miracle indeed!