Guess Who Doesn't Believe A Word Trudeau's Authorities Tell Them Anymore?

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[UPDATE] The death of Queen Elizabeth II at age 96 is a reminder of values of competence and stoicism that have seemingly evaporated in the age of self awareness and self pity. Bear it in mind with this previously written column.

A Parole Board of Canada decision dated Feb. 1 found that Myles Sanderson would “not present an undue risk,” and freeing him would “contribute to the protection of society”… Sanderson was the subject of a massive police manhunt after 11 people were killed and 19 injured on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Sask. He later died in police custody, taking the mystery of his rampage with him.

The grim carnage in Saskatchewan is a tragic bookend to Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Commission looking into how a 51-year-old with a record of violence acquired a replica police vehicle, semi-automatic weapons and carried out 22 murders over 13 hours on April 18-19, 2020. In that horrific event, hapless RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki admitted, “I don’t think we were what you wanted us to be or what you needed us to be.”

Hey, mistakes happen. But disasters take planning. At least, that’s what most Canadians are probably thinking these days about the bumbling performance of their authority figures in the years since Covid-19 crept into the lexicon. Just ask Ottawans how they feel about their police performance when the Trucker Convoy came to town. Not good, huh?

Whether it’s the police, the parole board, health authorities or the public-education apparatus, the resolute Canadian faith in their elected officials and experts has taken a pounding the past three years. While the usual diehards will still wear any mask, have any drug injected into them, many more have flipped an internal switch. Nerves are fraying. Voices are being raised at politicians. Bricks are being thrown. Bricks? 

According to the Toronto Star, “Death threats, racist taunts, brick throwing: How a rising tide of toxic abuse is battering Toronto city hall. City officials say over the past two years there’s been an escalation in abuse and threats far beyond the usual heated exchanges.”

In part, the tension has been ratcheted by the lockdown isolation suffered grimly by many Canadians— to no appreciable benefit— and the handy redress to social media to air their grievances or to pound on politicians, police, airline officials and school board officials. The Covid hotels, the barred restaurants  and the closed golf courses were but a few of the civil liberties tromped by Trudeau and his NDP allies. 

(The fatigue is not exclusive to Canada, of course. In Germany, the political elite gambled on renewable energy to replace fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Bad gamble. The Ukrainian war and the unreliability of solar/ wind now have German citizens— well, all Europeans— facing a winter of freezing discontent while the plutocrats who smirked at Trump scramble for a new scapegoat.)

The balance of credibility in society is a delicate instrument. Which is why the tin-eared ramblings of the prime minister this past week— 90 percent compliance with new experimental drugs every three months this winter OR ELSE he’ll impose new mandates and restrictions— is so unfortunate (and so predictable). If the private jet-setting squib were looking to create civil unrest— a real possibility considering his WEF loyalties— he couldn’t find a better way to invite challenges to his legitimacy. 

In Justin Trudeau’s playhouse they are still playing Reset Monopoly, oblivious to the impact utopian politics is having on his fellow citizens. As such he’ll likely be the last to know that, yes, some will still take any witches’ brew he concocts with Big Pharma. But the rest of the nation has evolved in a different direction.

Canadians are now inclined to reject his advice simply because it comes from him and his band of lockdown legionnaires. He’s wasted his political capital with parents who want their kids in school or small business owners who want their employees to return unmasked to the office. 

Such is the failure of his Rideau Cottage authority that most people no longer fear the viruses headed their way. They know that healthy people under the age of 60 are 99.98 percent unlikely to die of this Covid. They know children are likewise highly unlikely to get or spread the virus. They know the failed omnipotent promises of previously mandated drugs. “All will be well after one. No, two. Okay, two and a booster. Alright, three or four tops. One booster every three months…”

They’re willing to accept bad cold or flu symptoms so they can have a sane life. And yet the prime minister forges ahead as if his word is enough to make it so. It takes a special form of cognitive dissonance to interfere with RCMP investigations for political purposes but then hold yourself up as an even-handed warrior for justice. Just ask Jody Wilson Raybould how that worked against her. 

Unless Trudeau is dreaming of a snap election this fall based on The Science and Canadian people’s fear of the Covid narrative he created. In that case, prepare for Media Party psy-ops and allusions to Nazis. Just don’t expect the cops to come to your rescue. 

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft YearsIn NHL History, , his new book with his son Evan, was voted the eighth best professional hockey book of by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted seventh best, and is available via http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx