The Enduring Vapidity Of The "Good-Deed Doers" And Canada's PM
How many minutes would it take for the Chinese and Russians to land in Canada’s North to seize the mineral, oil and water resources if AOC and the Squad convinced America to not defend their Northern partner from an attack? Ten? Five? Two?
How long would it take to do the same if Canada said, “Screw it” and let its airforce become the equivalent of a barnstorming show?
And how much diversion of federal resources to fatuous climate clambakes before the nation simply cannot afford to replace even a token resistance to invaders? These and many more pressing questions come to to mind while perusing the latest output from a collection of “celebrities” urging the government to scuttle purchase of new F-35 jets, because they’d “generate distrust and division”.
Among the luminaries conflating Indigenous cemeteries and climate change with jets are (you’ll never guess) Michael Ondaatje, Yann Martel and Gabor Maté, musicians Neil Young, Roger Waters, Sarah Harmer, Tegan and Sara, socialist Stephen Lewis, actress Daryl Hannah, environmentalists David Suzuki and Naomi Klein.
If we read their florid manifesto Canada’s military is too small to do much of anything against a mighty foe, so let’s prep the surrender flags, hike the carbon tax and welcome the CCP shock troops.
In their defence, Suzuki and Young have long been a payload short on the issues of peace and good government. Whether it is wrecking the economy to pal up with the eco-freaks of global governance or urging the UN to send a team of Syrian human-rights experts to study Canada’s Indigenous treatment they’ve at least been consistent.
They are, in the words of the Wizard of Oz, “phila... er, phila... er, yes, er, Good Deed Doers”. They believe the world is an herb garden, when the reality is that it’s more like a charnel house.
This hipster world government stuff goes back to Pete Seeger being duped by the Soviet Potemkin villages and, here in Canada, by the mass importation of wobbly leftism from draft dodgers and deserters during the Viet Nam War. Their embrace of radical partners in the world community has been a staple of NDP and Democratic policy for decades.
The Reagan interregnum jammed between Flower Power and the latest Neil Young preoccupation promised hope that sensible people might restore a peaceful co-existence based on strength, not patchouli oil. But, alas, we now see that in electing Skippy the Wonder PM, Canadians are once again in the land of denial over entitlement.
As we wrote in 2018, Canadians are serial ingrates for the Americans who protect their sovereignty. At the tip of this spear is the PM.
Justin Trudeau craved a career in theatre before politics intervened, and this call to disarm Canada makes him Shakespeare’s perfect fool in the hands of his showbiz idols. With the attention span of a puppy, he flits from shiny object to shiny object. For instance, while 48 Christian churches have been vandalized or destroyed in recent weeks Trudeau is instead hosting summits this week on combating anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
Meanwhile, his calls for Canada to “reset” in the wake of Covid-19 is typical of his preening for the global red-carpet crowd.
What makes this globalist leaning truly frightening— more so that the 1960s push for world government— is the capitulation of critical opinion in the wake of Covid-19. The weaponization of censorship and the policing of thought is being used to intimidate anyone dissenting from the loony orthodoxies proposed by the letter’s signatories. And its brazen goal of having taxpayers foot the bill for his diplomatic chef d’oeuvre
Taking its cue from the Biden administration (whose vapid spokeswoman brags openly about collaborating with social media sites like Facebook to muffle “misinformation” ) the Trudeau government has moved bills to create a permanent access for government in the private communications of citizens. Using the nebulous “hate speech” handle, the goal of C-10 is to create a mechanism for stifling scientific or economic debate while flattening what’s left of independent media.
This is passing with little notice— outside the Senate— from the Canadian voters as they are poised to— seemingly— hand Trudeau a majority. But then, Canada has long been a self-censoring place. No one goes full lockdown better than Canadians. It’s now Tik-Tok or bust for “all of us command”.
The Americans, however, who still have a faint whiff of liberty left in their politics, are alarmed that the WH press secretary would casually say they are picking out policy opponents on social media— the better for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc to expunge them. Despite a blistering counter-offensive from the Media Party, the 74 million who voted GOP in 2020 still want open and honest discussion.
Think of it, Donald Trump is banned from public speaking in social media because he questions, however factually, the validity of the 2020 presidential vote. Free speech and all that. But Iran’s Ayatollah can have unbridled access to Twitter to threaten Israel with complete destruction. Is this new “hate” speech?
Who are the new censors secreted in their lairs at Big Tech? They’re the Silicon Valley droids who take their marching orders from the luminaries now advising Canada to play down its defence capabilities and trust that no one will take advantage of its vulnerability. The reality they’re reflecting is Tegan & Sarah not Jefferson and Adams.
Meanwhile, in a story you couldn’t write if you tried, Biden has nominated media executive David L. Cohen, who served as a key spokesperson for Comcast as it sought government approval for various mergers (including the company’s acquisition of NBC Universal) as the next U.S. ambassador to Canada.
No doubt he and a re-elected PM will find much to discuss as they close out debate on all but the approved narratives. Maybe they can get old Neil to play Cortez The Killer at the opening of Parliament.
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author of Cap In Hand is also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, his new book Personal Account with Tony Comper is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx
